You Need It For When?!!

I've been asked to make an 18th Birthday Party Photo Album for one of the staff at nursery (I feel really really old when they are that young!) and they need it by Thursday....!!

The brief is, pink, silver and black. So in need of some inspiration I've turned to a few current challenges, and so far I've completed 2 of the 18 (yes 18!) pages....

For the first, I've used the Sketch Girl sketch:

The same sketch is repeated as a mirror image on the reverse of the page. And for page 2 I've used the sketch from Moving Along With The Times:
I've used 300gsm smooth white card as the album base, doodled a line around the edges and for the printed papers I've used Pinkie Pops from Funky Fairy. The silver card is from my stash, and as luck would have it, I had 3 balls of what is technically termed fibres (wool) that matched the colours perfectly!

I've added markers as to where the photos should be placed just so it all looks right in the end.

So only another 16 pages - double sided - to go!! So watch out for more sketch challenges over the next 2 days! Good job I've booked tomorrow off work otherwise I'd really be burning the midnight oil!

• Printed papers: Pinkie Pops by Funky Fairy
• Dies: Spellbinder Nestabilities
• Everything else: My stash

Christening

A wonderful sketch once again over on Sketch Girl and I had the perfect occasion too!

We'd been invited to a Christening and of course I'd left it to the night before to make the card! I knew I wanted to use the Sizzix elephant and that was all! The papers are from Funky Daze and I've rounded the edges then inked them.

The letters are from my Cuttlebug Baby Face alphabet set and the cross is a Quickutz die.

• Backing papers: Funky Daze from Funky Hand
• Dies:
Cuttlebug Baby Face for the letters, Quickutz for the cross and Sizzix for the elephant

Another Fairy

I am really liking the simple sketches at the moment! And this one is no exception! It is the current sketch from Sketch Girl.

I've made this cute girly card as it is about time I made some! The digi image is part of a set that I bought from here and has been drawn by Gordon Fraser. The papers which I selected after I'd coloured the image - why I do that I don't know as it should be the other way round - are from Funky Daze. Mind you, all of Anice's papers are stunning so it wouldn't be too hard to find a match to anything that I've coloured!

Both the image and sentiment have been coloured with Promarkers (sets 5 and 6 arrived today - who-hoo!) and a little glitter glue. Wonderful images to colour as they seem so alive and vibrant!

• Backing papers: Funky Daze from Funky Hand
  
• Image and sentiment: Drawn by Gordon Frazer, bought from here and coloured with Promarkers
  

Alternative Easter Bunny

I do like a simple sketch - easy to think about and I don't have to do any faffing. However, I made the mistake of colouring the image first and then trying to hunt through my bits n bobs box for papers to match.... But I think I pulled it off!

This is the current Sketch Girl challenge:

Papers are from Funky Daze and they were just the right size for the card blank! I've layered the image and the centre panel onto black card so it stands out a bit more. The image is a freebie I got as part of the 50/50 Stamping Group and is from Bugaboo.


I've coloured it with felt tips with a little bit of sparkle here and there. It's a fab Easter Bunny, don't you think?! The black organza ribbon is from my stash. A little bit of corner rounding and some enthusiastic black inking (got a new black inkpad for the very purpose of inking edges!) and the card is complete!

• Backing papers: Funky Daze from Funky Hand
• Image: Bugaboo, coloured with felt tips and glitter
• Ribbon: My stash