A gift

Well I have been working hard on a sort of step by step project, and I dont see myself doing too many of this sort of thing, as waiting for things to dry isnt my strong point!!

This is actually a gift for one of my Aunts, as she is a huge Beatrix Potter fan, but she managed to hide it from most of the family for years, sorry Auntie Aileen your secrets out now!

here we go , heavy on photos:

So Mr McGregors Greenhouse, complete with Mr McGregor and flowers, and the Range. Both came from the Crafters Companion World of Beatrix Potter 3D builder disk. The flowers were made using Flowersoft for realism,

Hugs

Lou

Flowersoft Boy

Here's my second post for the day, another Flowersoft Image.....
You know what I completely forgot to say that I Flowersofted them didnt I?, well I did , if you look closely you can see it!
So I sat and coloured him in with my Promarkers.

This one is another reminder of those innocent days of childhood, I wasnt a fisher personally, never had the patience, but it's something that just screams "Yesterday" to me. 
So boy fishing..........okay a fish backing paper from my huge pad of K&Co papers, but it needed a little bit more, so I misted it with a blue mica spray, and dried it with my heat gun, impatient I know, but hey if Sheena can do it so can I!! But I also had to use my Ribbon Iron (Okay they're Hair Straighteners, you caught me!) to Flatten the paper again.
Then I mounted it onto some pearlescent white card, and drew an edge around the main image with a Cobalt Blue promarker after I had chomped the corners off.
Mounted the image onto the backing paper, so next up was a sentiment. Into MCS, got a colour folder, and stretched it to cover half a piece of 4x6" photo card, then chose the John Handy font for the greeting. I didnt want it to be black, so another added feature of the MCS program is the ability to change lettering to what ever you want, so I thought Grey, to match the water and the ribbon I wanted to use. In MCS you get an outline on the text and an inside, so you can have contrasting colours for added Umpf, but I chose the same shade for both, and it worked out really nicely.
So I used the Spellbinders Ornate Artisan Die with my Happy Cut, and then arranged the ribbon on the card, and added the sentiment. The finishing touch were the gems, 3 small in the gap at the top of the crossed ribbons, and 3 large ones at the bottom.
Now the more observant of you may have noticed that my watermark has changed. And is now diagonally across the image. There is a reason for this, and I will say right here that it hasnt happened to me yet, to my knowledge, but there is/are some unscrupulous people out there, who are taking images from Blog pages, and presenting them as their own work in Challenges, which is a shame. I feel very sorry for the person/people doing this, as they obviously are not very confident in their own abilities. So I have taken steps, to protect my work by moving my watermark, across the image so that it cant be cropped out. This site is also Copyrighted, and is there for inspiration, not duplication. If you use one of my adaptions, then please let me know, so I can pop over and have a look, I am not saying dont use it, but I dont want a company taking credit for something I have done!


Anyway, enough ranting!


Hope you like it, have fun, xxx


Lou

Flowersoft card

Well, afternoon, I have been away for a few days with a bad Burr, which sends pain up the back, and crafting is a no no at that point, but yesterday I knew I was getting over it, as I made one and a half cards, yippee!
Here's the one that I finished yesterday..........

When I went to the NEC last year, I picked up a goodie bag from the Flowersoft stand, and inside there was a selection of Printed images, ready for colouring.
Although it has taken me a while to get round to doing something with them, I sat down at the craft desk, and found myself colouring in yesterday. 
This is such a cute little image, though I must admit, I dont remember doing this myself, well not in the garden at least.
So out came the promarkers, and colouring occupied me for a while, but once I have done an image I dont really like to leave it sitting around for a while, so it had to be made into a card, before it vanished into my scraps tub, to be forgotten about, until I found it again.
So what to do with it now...........?
I was thinking about the predicted colours for this coming year, one of which is orange, of all things,  and as I had unwittingly coloured the rug in orange, I matted onto some orange card, then went hunting for a green background paper. I didnt want a dark green, as I wanted to contrast the greens, and actually found this in a collection of Christmas Papers from Dovecraft, Pepper and Friends.


So card base.............?
I am trying to use up products from a particular company, so I can get rid of them, their products maybe very good, but I dont like their ethics, and had some shaped card bases in my stash, so I routed one out.
I wanted some ribbon to add that little touch, and had some yellow and green Polka dot Organza in my stash, I must admit, that I thought I would never use it, with the combination of colours, but I think it suits this card.
So I carefully trimmed the paper to the shape of the card, removing the little slivers in each corner. then very carefully as its quite fiddly, fixed the ribbon in place, and then the paper to the card base. Next step was to slide the card under the ribbon and fix in place. For a sentiment I was struggling! Where to put it, as its quite a large image, and there isnt that much room on the card not being used. So unusual for me I just stamped direct to the corner of the Main image in orange, and I think it works.
Last but not least was to add the gems top and bottom. They were yellow gems, but I just coloured them with my Promarkers, to make them orange.


And that was it a complete card finished, when I havent crafted for about 4 days. Got a couple more to post, which I am just finishing, so will pop back later, and post some more,


Hugs to all, and thanks for stopping by, xx


Entered into the following Challenge:
Desmet Designs Colour Challenge Orange and green.




Lou