Monday 4 April 2011

Are you a cosmo girl?

Hi guys- just a quick post today. Mum is feeling the full effects of her chemo and is in bed with sickness and diarrhoea so am back on nursing duty and no time to chat! Two little cards to show you this week...

First up is a card I made for my friend who's just got back from New Zealand and has been looking for a job- she got one on Friday so I thought it was cause for a celebratory card! I used Cosmobella. I coloured her with watercolour and lyra pencils and copics. I then sponged ink around her. I really love the colours of this card- teal is one of my favourite colours.

I'd like to enter this into:
Charisma Cardz- bling/sparkle
One Stop- spots and dots- polka dot paper
Simon Says- sketch

Here is a close up! I quite like the colouring on her jeans and her funky glittery flip flops!

Crafty stash used: Stamps (Stamping Bella; Hero Arts); Papers (DCWV); Assorted cardstock; Copics; Watercolour pencils; Lyra pencils; Nesties; Flower (The Cheap Shop); Stickles; Brad (Prima); Heart (recycled); Ribbon (recycled)

Next up is a very quick card I made for my mother-in-law. Well I had the image coloured and was waiting for a sketch challenge I could enter but our internet connection went down for a few days so I quickly cobbled this together on Sunday morning in the end! Image is Lily of the Valley- as usual coloured with mixture of watercolour and lyra and copics and again inked. Papers are by Abbey Road, I thought the colour combo was a bit unusual.

I'd like to enter this into:
Pollycraft Monday Challenge- use old/neglected stamp- LOTV
My time to Craft- Mum's the word
Creative Inspirations- Mother's Day
LOTV- Spring
Allsorts- Blooming blossoms
Stamptacular Sunday- buttons/bling & bloom

Crafty stash used: Stamp (LOTV); Watercolour pencils; Lyra pencils; Copics; Nesties; Papers (Abbey Road); Assorted cardstock; Sentiment (freebie in mag); Border (K&C0); Corner embelly (freebie in mag)

Hope you're all well xxxx

18 comments:

brenda said...

Two gorgeous cards Steph.

Thank you so much for sharing your lovely creation and joining in my Bloomin’ Blossoms theme at Allsorts this week

B x

There's a Stampalot voucher up for grabs here

email: Steph@SimonSaysStamp.com said...

Superb colors and images on both of these!! They look amazing!! : )

Thanks so much for sharing your work with us at the Simon Says Stamp Challenge!!!

-Sarah

Anonymous said...

Two beautiful cards Steph; just love your style1 Hope your Mum is feeling better soon. xxx

Christel said...

I really like both of your cards. You are really good at colouring!!
Thanks for joining Charisma card challenges this week!

Sue said...

Hi hun
two gorgeous cards, awesome colour work as always, hope your mum is soon feeling better, sue,x

Debbie said...

Gorgeous!!! Thanks for joining us at Crative Inspirations


Hugs
Debbie

Jules said...

Hi Steph

Still battling on at your end then!!

Hopefully there will be an end to all of this soon and you can get back to some sense of normality. I bet you struggle to remember what that is like!!.

Loving your cards. You colour so beautifully.

Love Jules xx

Anonymous said...

Your coloring is gorgeous and the sentiment is perfect with that image. You have a very lucky friend!! Thanks so much for sharing your beautiful creation with us this week at SSC.
Hugs,
Kristin

Unknown said...

Two beautiful Cards! Hope your mum is feeling better....

Thank You for joining us this week at OSCC!

Hugs Kobie - OSCC DT

debby4000 said...

Oh what wonderful cards they're both gorgeous.
luv
Debby

Nina said...

Two wonderful cards!! On the green and blue card (like that colour combo) I just love the motiv and it`s a great detail with the sparkling flip-flops :)

On the other card I really adore your motiv and I love how you`ve coloured it.

Thanks for joining us at Stamptacular Sunday this week :)
Nina.

Jane said...

Gorgeous card thanks for joining us at Simon Says Stamp Hugs Jane x

Tracy said...

fabulous cards Steph I especially love the second one, very cute. Tracy x

Nicola said...

This is one gorgeous card Steph, a perfect take for our Spring theme this week.
Thank you for joining us at Lili of the Valley.
Hugs,
Nicola

Daisychain said...

Beautiful cards, love the colours you have used. Thanks for joining us at LOTV and Creative Inspirations this time. Hugs Christine x

Emma said...

Both such gorgeous card, beautiful colours and layouts.
Thanks for joining us at Pollycraft & good luck.
Hugs Emma x

Lexxie said...

2 beautiful cards Steph, big cyber hugs to you and your mum,
Love Sarita xx

Leonie said...

Both of your cards are just gorgeous. Love your sweet LOTV image for our buttons, bling and bloom challenge.Thanks for joining in with us this week at Stamptacular Sunday.
Hugs Leonie