Handmade Bliss Rainbow Cat

Hello. Today on the Handmade Bliss Blog its my turn to offer some crafty inspiration using their products. I've made a tall card full of colour. 

The background is made using Brushos on watercolour card that I first painted raindrops with masking fluid. I've drawn a rainbow with pro markers. I've then drawn an umbrella and stamped my images, coloured with pro markers, cut out and arranged a little scene. The umbrella has on some of the smaller stamps used to give it its pattern. I've then used the same stamps around the edge. 

To finish I've embellished with sequins.

I've used 

Altenew Hennah Elements Stamps

Alley Way Sitting Pretty stamps 

Taylored Expressions Sequins Rainbow Bright.

Thanks for popping stopping by and please do visit Handmade Bliss. There's a challenge running anything goes. See you there.

I'm entering my card into the following challenges;
We Love 2 Create #9 anything goes  
PaperTake Weekly , anything goes optional no pattern paper.
Country View Challenges , May, Simply Scenic
I Love Pro Markers #268 anything goes
Tando Creative Colour challenge wk 1

Happy Crafting Luv Dawn

Handmade Bliss Anything Goes

Hello Crafty Friends, today is the launch of the brand new monthly challenges at Handmade Bliss.
This month we have a super easy theme, Anything Goes. So do pop over and check it out. See what you could win and how to enter. There's inspiration from the Design Team waiting for you and more ideas each week.

For my project, I've made a wall hanging. It started off as a piece of corrugated cardboard box. It's had layers of gesso, Decoart Crackle Paint and Media Misters to create the background. Then I've applied Grunge Paste through a homemade raindrop stencil. This has then been heat embossed with a mix of powders whilst paste wet and then highlights of more wow platinum sparkle powders added by using versamark ink and a paintbrush to get the powder where I wanted it.
Then the main event. Hand drawn Rainbow and an umbrella with stamped decoration and stamped flowers all coloured with Pro Markers and finished off with twine and sequins.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's what I used available at Handmade Bliss

 

 

Taylored Expressions Sequins, Rainbow Brights

Altenew Hennah Elements Stamp Set

 

 

 

 I am entering this into the following challenges;

We Love 2 Create with PAB challenge #9
Mixed Media World Challenge #2 bright colours
Sweet Stamping Challenge I can sing a rainbow

 



Suzi Blu pretty in pink Tag

Hi guys.
Here's a tag I made this week. I do love Suzi Blu stamps. The background is made up of various colours of acrylic paints flower stamp and Tando Harlequin mask. Stamps used are Unity Now and Always and Suzi Blu Be the Poem.
I've coloured the characters with Pro Markers and the flowers and butterflies are stamped on painted old book pages. The little tabs on the sides are but from the flowers. Some gems and buttons finish it off.
Thanks for visiting. Do check out my posts below including a Dt call.
Happy crafting
Luv Dawn

I'm linking this up to join in the following challenges;
Unity Stamps Friends With Flair
Inspired By Stamping #92 (colours, beige light brown, greenblue)
Papertake Weekly Anything Goes
Stamping Sensations April Challenge

Bright Love and Hearts

Hi everyone, here I've made a card to fit in with the challenges I'm entering it in to. I also made is as a card for my mum to show my love at Valentine's using bright colours that mum likes.

To make my card I've used the sketch from Unity challenge, turned 90 degrees. Used Unity Stamps KOM from September.

Coloured my focal images with Pro Markers. The hearts are from the middle of the bubble word stamp.

I had a try with the bokeh effect that is popping up blog wide. I've used distress inks, then splashed and sprayed water and left to dry. Then I've used Imagination Crafts Circles stencil with white pigment ink to make the bokeh effect. This stencil is perfect for recreating this look and saves punching or cutting circles to make a stencil.

The main background is more distress inks, stamped and splattered with paint and decorated with gems.

Thanks for looking and happy crafting

Challenges entering

Stampotique Designers challenge 182

Imagination Crafts Challenge February

Tando Creative Blog challenge week 3

Unity Stamps Be Inspired Challenge,FWF 

Lisa B Designs monthly challenge Inked Backgrounds

Two little girls

<p>I wanted to share a couple of pics, one is of my beautiful and clever Katie. Enjoying the nice weather on Saturday morning in our back yard. It has certainly been a busy and noisy weekend here in the HansonHeald household, we celebrated David's son birthday, so with five children about it has been an enjoyable bank holiday. Back to school tomorrow and I'm really lookin forward to seeing my mum and dad too. Everyone have a good week whatever you do and please do let me know how it's going.
The second is a stamped image I've coloured using the swalk range from crafters companion, and as leann is having a giveaway on her blog for the new range being launched on Tuesday night. I thought it was fitting to pay tribute to these gorgeous stamps, that are my all time favourite collection.
Here's the link http://leannchiverscraft.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/swalk-sweet-stuff-and-a-huge-prize/
Happy crafting
Luv dawn

Spring in mind...

Hellooo, I'd like to show a card I've made with a few challenges in mind. First I saw the kraftin Kimmie weekly challenge of spring then as if by magical coincide I read about letraset's competition on Facebook to create using only their limited edition spring pro markers. So the cogs starting turning and then along my blog visits saw some more challenges that I thought I could incorporate into my design. And here is the finished article.
The card is large at 8x8 inches
, which I love working with. Everything; from the stamped image to the ribbon, die cuts, paper doily, flowers, base card border is all coloured using this one set of lovely muted spring colours. Working with just one set did give me a challenge on the skin tone, but using two colours of budding rose and march hare and trial n error think I got it. By making sure I only used one layer of colour I achieved this skin tone, by adding and blending deepened the colour quite considerably deepens it so easy to get darker skin tones with just the two pens.
Spring wouldn't be spring to me without butterflies fluttering around, so I punched and coloured some and flittered around the card, doubling up on some to give more dimension to even out the balance of the flowers.
The flowers are done using spellbinders spiral blossom one and one full shape cut in half to get smaller versions. I then dabbed glue n seal on the edges and dipped them into creative expressions glass beads. Great texture and shine without it being too sparkly so it fits in more with the soft feel of the design.
Thanks for looking and I really do love seeing your comments. I'll be posting full details of the bumper prize giveaway for the May Card swap
Happy crafting
Luv Dawn x
I'm entering this into the following challenges
Joanna sheen flower power
passion for pro markers light & bright challenge
kraftin Kimmie springtime challenge
pan pastel springtime
Simonsaysstamp birthday challenge
bythecuteandgirly may-spring-is-in-air

Mono card and my lovely family

I made this card with the challenge in mind that I'd seen on touch twin markers. I knew straight away this Vilda stamp that I'd got from That Craft Place would do nicely. Going for a monochrome look as I wanted to further practice using just grey pro markers. For this image I used Ice greys 1-5 and cool greys 1-2 . I like to add colour around my whole image but didn't want it to blend it with the picture. So I used cool grey 1 and 2 and blender pen to do tiny dots all the way around. Two papers from DCWV stack adhered to a square card blank and a spellbinders border on the paper join finish the card. Now I did struggle with getting a decent photo of it, but I do hope you like it. I do hope I've offered some inspiration for you to go monochromatic, it can take a bit of planning sometimes but the results in my opinion always give a good end result. Do share your makes in the gallery on the website. I do enjoy lookin through as do others.
On a more personal note, today my Mum and Dad came and visited us. I do miss mum being so far away as we are very close. It makes seeing them both that extra special and we have so much to cram in, it's none stop. The boys enjoyed playing their new hobby of chess, with their Granddad and Katie thoroughly enjoyed playing play doh with Grandma. We all enjoyed treats too. And Katie's My Little Pony toy brought back happy memories. For the last few days all we've heard is 'is it today they're coming? ' from the boys. Mum and I fitted in plenty of crafty chat too and helped me send out the quick swap I hosted this past week. As they were leaving literally just setting off in the car, David came out as he'd been so busy doing chores and me n mum still gabbing all the way to the car that he'd not had the chance to say bye, mum got out the car, Dad stopped, literally in that order just so they could hug bye. It was like watching something out of a movie. Surreal. Maybe you had to be there to understand but think you get my gist. I'm missing them already, and the boys have asked grandma a few times 'when you comin again?' it's lovely for me as the children's mum to stand back and see all the love and interest we all have with each other. I can't wait to see them again, soon.There maybe little quiet in our household, and I wouldn't have it any other way. David may think differently lol. Thanks for reading my post and I'll be sharing some more cards this weekend. X
Happy crafting
Luv Dawn
I'm entering this into the following
TTC15 touch twin in the neighborhood challenge