Poor light and mad colours

I seriously need some better lighting at my crafting desk. It's located in probably the darkest corner of the household which originally was an intention as it used to be my computer table and I hate when light glares onto my monitor.

Things have changed though. Even if I'd only use it as a computer table I now have nice widescreen LCD monitor which my beloved hubby gave me for my birthday. Yes, he is lovely. No, you can't have him. So there.

Last night I TOTALLY misjudged the colours while colouring my image and the result is positively mediterranean as opposed to muted vintage chic. Boo-hoo. I tried to tone things down a bit with pale papers - I am starting to like Lily Bee stuff now.

Just imagine the image in soft pale colours now and you see what I tried to achieve. :D

I have seen those litte portable daylight lamps on sale in craft shops online, think I might give one of those a try first!I was following a sketch from Friday Sketchers - it's lovely and very easy to work with!

Card recipe:
Cardstock Bazzill bling & Bazzill Kraft
Patterned papers from Lily Bee and Joanna Sheen
Stamps: main images from Bildmalarna, sentiment Elzybells, stitches HOTP (I think)
Inks: Memento Tuxedo black, Rich Cocoa and Sand
Colouring medium: Whispers markers
Flowers: More of the chain store cheapies I took apart and also some Primas
X-cut butterfly punch
Ribbon, charm and brads from my stash

Thank you for looking!

Annika

A colourful card

I do like Basic Gray products a lot. Funny thing is that I only had some sheets of BG papers in my stash. HAD because I used them ALL up for this card I made for Just Magnolia challenge!



I also decided to enter this card to Basic Grey challenges - this week they want to see paper-piecing on the cards.

Card recipe:
Cardstock: Core'dinations
Patterned papers: Basic Grey
Stamps: Magnolia, Elzybells & Tingtura Stamps
Flowers: Prima
Ribbon: Poppicrafts
Felt Sticker: Martha Stewart Crafts
I also used Stickles Mermaid, Uniball white gel pen and brads & bead caps from my stash.

Thanks for looking!

Annika

Another (messy) baby card

For some reason baby cards never work out the way I have intended lately. Must be bad karma ... or just general lack of planning and vision. Or something like that.

I still adore that sweet Elzybells stamp though and there are details I like ... just not all of it. Funny but the inside actually looks better than outside to, bad cardmaker, bad!
Image stamp is from Elzybells Art Stamps, sentiment from Cornish Heritage Farms.

I coloured the image with Prismacolour pencils, the cloud was just hand cut without any template. Patterned papers are from DCWV Baby Girl stack, Graphic 45 & Sassafras. Flowers inside are from a bunch of cheap fabric blooms from local supermarket I pulled apart, LOADS more to use up. I used Imaginisce brads as centers. Flowers on front are from Prima. Lace is also from Prima, ribbon from stash.

Letter stickers are American Crafts plain white ones smothered in Stickles, decorative corners are Sizzix die, pin from Fancy Pants. Jump rings, charms and pearls from I got from Ebay. I also used some Melissa Frances stickers and Flower Soft in Ivory & Baby Pink.

Thanks for looking!

Annika