Anything But Christmas!

The Charisma Cardz challenge is:

Anything But Christmas!

So I've made this football boy card. There are a few boys Birthday's coming up so thought I'd get my stocks to a reasonable level and also to use up some images I've already printed and papers too. Starting on my New Year Resolutions early (but how long they will last is another thing!)

The image is from Crafty Downloads and I've coloured it with felt tips and watercolour pencils. All the papers are from Now That's Funky and are left overs in my scrap box. The embellishment is from a pack of Dress It Up buttons that I bought last year in the sales but never got round to using them.

I've dotted a fine black line around some of the papers for a little more definition and also inked the edges.

• Backing papers: Now That's Funky from Funky Hand
• Image: Crafty Downloads digi image, coloured with felt tips and watercolour pencils
• Embellishment: From my stash
  

Train and Colours

The Digitial Ink challenge this week is a colour combination:

I've used a lovely Crafty Downloads image which I resized to fit my card. The blue backing paper is a digital download from A Work In Progress but I can't remember which collection, and the stripy one was a magazine freebie. And I've had that one ages too so can't remember where it is from - sorry!

I've coloured the image with felt tips plus a bit of white gel pen highlighting because the colours of the backing papers are so strong, I thought that watercolour pencils would be a little insipid. I've inked the edges of the papers with some really quite faded black ink which I refuse to throw away as I've found that by dropping a little coca cola on the pad it revives it enormously! The red grosgrain ribbon is from my stash.

I've had a real busy weekend this week. For a change. Hope to be able to show you some of the highlights of it some point over the next few days. Which, incidentally, is also going to be a busy one and I'm out nearly every night this week.....!

• Backing papers: Dark blue freebie from A Work In Progress, stripy one from a magazine
• Image: Crafty Downloads coloured with felt tips
• Ribbon: From my stash
  

Football

I'm falling into a good system for colouring images before I actually need them - take a selection of them to my Mum and Dads as I usually visit them with the boys on a Saturday, so whilst they play, I colour!

The theme at Charisma Cardz this week is:

Getting Sporty

I went with the typical male theme! All the backing papers are from the Papermania 6 x 6 pad 'For Him' which I've inked the edges with chestnut Whispers ink.

The image is from Crafty Downloads and I've coloured it with watercolour pencils. It's been layered onto pearlescent blue card and then layered onto the card itself. I've not added a sentiment, purely because I've forgotten to!

• Backing paper: Papermania 'For Him' 6 x 6 pad
• Image: Crafty Downloads coloured with watercolour pencils

Gift Wrapping

The current Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenge is this lovely sketch combined with a colour challenge:

And here is my creation! All the papers are from Now That's Funky from Funky Hand and I printed them off as an A5 size as I wanted a smaller pattern, the image of Gift Wrapping Sarah-Jane is from Crafty Downloads and I coloured her with watercolour pencils.

I've inked the edges of all the paper, rounded them too and added a fine doodled border. The card candy has also been added along with the ribbon. I was going to add a sentiment but decided to make a feature of the bow instead!

I enjoyed this sketch and hope to complete more in the future!

• All backing papers: Now That's Funky from Funky Hand
• Image: Crafty Downloads coloured with watercolour pencils
• Card Candy: Craftwork Cards
• Ribbon: From my stash