Hello crafty peeps and welcome to my crafty nook! I hope you are all well and have something crafty planned for this Bank Holiday Monday. I'm going to have a good clear out of my crudy as it's become rather untidy these past few months. I might do some crafting too, I've made some more mini milk cartons and I'm planning on decorating them with gems, pearls and die cut flowers.
I asked my friend Adam to let me know what sort of things his wife Victoria likes a few months ago as I don't know her as well as I'd like to and she's celebrating a significant birthday this week, after quite a few email reminders Adam finally got back to me with his answer - she likes pink! With not a lot to go on I've made the card below for Victoria.
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| Think Pink card for Victoria |
I hope Victoria likes this card, I've used a Crafter's Companion Scruffy Little Cats stamp called "Perry" and I've coloured it using my brand new FlexiMarkers by Letraset. I got them last week from Cowling and Wilcox Ltd priced £1.50 per pen and I got all 5 Blue Greys, a pink called Tea Rose (all pink items on above stamped image coloured using this), a skin tone called Antique White (I used this to colour Perry's skin), 3 browns - Auburn (hair), Cappuccino and Caramel, a purple called Purple Velvet bought purely because I liked the name, 4 blues (used to colour all blue items) in Storm Blue, Verdigris, Blue Lake and Sea Mist. Cowling and Wilcox don't show the colours of the pens so my choices were made based on the names but luckily I love all the ones I chose although had I realised the exact colours of the Cappuccino and Caramel I may have chosen two different ones as I was planning on using them together to colour hair and they seem better suited to be used for blonde hair rather than the brown I was hoping for (and mousy blonde at that!) Since ordering them I've discovered that Letraset have a colour chart on their website and I'll consult that before ordering any more. It's hard to see on photos but the brush end of the pen allows you to get a more realistic shading on clothes but obviously I need a load more practice before I'm any good at it. The pink card was taken from my stash and I embossed a panel of it using a Darice embossing folder that I purchased from Crafter's Companion. I added liquid pearls to the meeting points of the embossed diamonds and allowed them to dry before adding them to a panel of distressed Melissa Frances patterned paper that came free with a magazine. This was mounted on some textured grey card and some polka dotted adhesive ribbon was added as shown (The Works 99p). I made the flower using a die that came free with the Crafter's Companion Inspiration magazine out of scraps of the pink and grey card and I embossed them with a burlap embossing folder that came free with the same magazine. I added a white pearl from an embellishment pack that's free with this month's Papercraft Inspiration magazine. The card blank is 7" square made with hinged pink panel and a 7" square of white card stuck together with red liner tape. The card isn't overwhelmingly pink but has a pleasant pinkness about it without being a Barbie world reject lol or at least I hope that's how it comes across.
I may enter this week's Passion for ProMarkers Blog Challenge and as it's theme is no sentiments I've kept them inside (plus I wanted a flower where the sentiment may have gone). As I mentioned on the card for Winnie post, making cards for people with very little detail of their likes and dislikes is rather difficult so I've got my fingers crossed that Victoria will like this card. I'm rather pleased with how it's turned out, classy and girly without being too pink.
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| A Close up of Perry |
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| Pearls are a girl's best friend? |
As always if you have any questions or comments then please leave them in the usual places. Until next time - keep crafting!
Love and crafty hugs,
Sarah xxx
