Summertime and the livin' is easy

I fell in love with this month's image from Scrapper's Delights for the Progressive Challenge. However I was a little worried for her modesty if she should bend over to collect shells so I have added the shorts to her outfit.





Materials used: 
Scrapper's Delights - Sailor Dress Honey
Dragons Lair Designs - Seaside Retreat
7x5 card blank
printer card
X-Press It card
Copic pens:
skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R20
hair - E57, E47, E49
eyes - E35, E39, E59
tunic and shorts - B21, B23, B26, B18
outfit trim,stripes and bracelet - R29, R39, R59, R89
shoes - C0, C1, C3, C5, C7, C9, 100

The frame she is in is from a Dragons Lair set of papers and embellishments called Seaside Retreat. I have been unable to locate it in the new store but if you go to the Dragons Lair fan page on Facebook I am sure you can drop them a message and they should be able to tell you if it is available anywhere.

We have certainly had a beautiful summer in the UK, great for those on holiday but a nightmare for our farmers. They had already started feeding the winter supply earlier in the year when we had all the snow and now they are having to feed again because there is no grass left. The crops are not doing much better either. We need rain, and not just a little. Ideally a good few nights of steady rain would be good for the parched earth and the flora and fauna. It's not often we have the problem of the summer being too hot and dry!

Thank you for popping in. Take care.

Pippa

Entering the following challenges:
Scrapper's Delights Facebook Challenge - July
Ike's World Challenge #111 - Anything Goes / All At Sea
Lemon Shortbread #73 – Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments Designs – Anything Goes
Artistic Inspirations #205 – Anything Goes
Crafting From The heart #217 – Anything Goes
Avenue 613 Create #211 – Anything Goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #86 – Anything Goes
Crafting With Friends #72 – Anything Goes
Creative Fingers #150 – Anything Goes
Create and Makes #23 – Anything Goes
Jo’s Scrap Shack FFC#244 – Anything Goes
PIP Challenge #1830 - Sunny Days!
A Gem Of A Challenge #224 - Summertime / Holidays

Double the fun at LeAnn's World

The progressive challenge on LeAnn's World 101 Facebook Page is in full swing using the girl and stocking image. However LeAnne also had a weekend challenge this past weekend with the little boy image. Being short of time and not sure if I could make cards for both challenges I decided to combine the images.



Materials used: 
LeAnn's World 101 - Fun With Stockings
LeAnn's World 101 - Santa's Helper Sam
Imagine That Digistamp - Elegant Ornaments
Christmas designer papers
Britannia Dies Poinsettia set
red and green card
gold liquid pearls
X-Press It card
white pearl
red ribbon
Copic pens:
skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R20
girl's hair - Y21, YR23, E15, E18
boy's hair - E42, E43, E47, E49
beard and fur trim - C0, C1, C3
clothes - R29, R39, R59, R89
belt and boots - C5, C7, C9
stocking - G02, G17, G29, G99
holly leaves - G21, G94, G99
sack - E21, E23, E25, E29

Both LeAnn's images and the sentiment from Imagine That were aranged on the page and printed out together before colouring with Copic pens.

The poinsettia is made up from 2 layers cut from red card and one from green card. The stamen are made from small drops of gold liquid pearls.

The ribbon is from my friends wedding last year, she used ribbon to decorate the stems of the wine glasses so after the reception I 'rescued' some!

Thanks for popping in. Take care.

Pippa

Entering the following challenges:
Lemon Shortbread #73 - Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything Goes
Artistic Inspirations #205 - Anything Goes
Crafting From The heart #217 - Anything Goes
Avenue 613 Create #211 - Anything Goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #86 - Anything Goes
Crafty Friends #89 - Lace/Ribbon
Hiding In My Craft Room #363 - Any Holiday! (Christmas In July)
Crafting With Friends #72 - Anything Goes
Creative Fingers #150 - Anything Goes
Create and Makes #23 - Anything Goes
Di's Digi Challenge - Use Stash Items
Jo's Scrap Shack FFC#244 - Anything Goes
C.R.A.F.T #477 - Christmas
Pixie's Crafty Workshop Snippits Playground #331 - Must Include A Snippet (the poinsettia was made from snippets, and the ribbon is a snippet).
LeAnn's World 101 #4 - Anything Goes 

Could do with some snow - it's so hot!!

Christmas in July sounds like a great idea this year. The UK is basking in unusually hot weather and has been for some weeks. Our weather station had the outside temperature at 32+ yesterday, far too hot for me! So to cool down I was thinking snowy thoughts while colouring up this image by LeAnne's World 101.


Materials used: 
LeAnne's World 101 - Daisy
acrylic greeting stamp
X-Press It card
black starry designer card
mixture of stick on gems
black archival ink pad
Copic pens:
skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04  R20
hair - B41, C5, C7, C9, 100
hat and flowers on dress - R29, R39, R59, R89     fur - C0, C1, C3
leaves - G07
dress - Y00, Y11, Y15, YR23
belt, hem and shoes - B21, B23, B24
tree - G21, YG63, G94, G99
lights and presents - R29, R39, R59, R89
RV63, RV66, RV69, RV99
B24, B28, B39
YG21, YG03, YG17, YG67
YR00, YR12, YR16, YR18
BG53, BG45, BG09
tree trunk - E31, E33, E35, E39
star - Y13, Y15, Y17
shadows - W0, W1, W3

I have used a lot of old favourite colour blends in this one but also tried out a new one for the hair.

You may be wondering where I have been for the last 3 weeks. Well we have been away on our holidays much of which we spent in Ireland exploring the Wild Atlantic Way. With the beautiful weather we have had this year the Atlantic was more mild than wild!

Thanks for dropping in. Take care.

Pippa

Entering the following challenges:
Artistic Inspirations #205 - Anything Goes
Crafting From The Heart #216 - Anything Goes
PIP Challenge #1829 - Anything Goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #86 - Anything Goes
Dragonfly Journeys #123 - Christmas In July
Hiding In My Craft Room #362 - Christmas In July
Crafting With Friends #72 - Anything Goes
Creative Fingers #150 - Anything Goes
Jo's Scrap Shack FFC#243 - Anything Goes
Simply Papercraft #59 - Anything Goes
Carlin's Kaartenparadijs #1 - Anything Goes
A Bit More Time To Craft #72 - Anything Goes 
LeAnns World 101 Challenge #4 - Anything Goes
Ike's World #110 - Anything Goes/Christmas In July