LEJ Designs Challenge #81

Welcome Visitors, Fellow Bloggers, Crafters and Friends.....

 

Hope you are keeping nice and warm in this horribly cold and wintery weather this morning.

 

 

Today sees the start of LEJs weekly challenge #82 - Buttons, Bows or Beads.

 

LEJ Designs Challenge Blog offer weekly challenges, starting on the Tuesday of each week.

There are always wonderful LEJ Designs Images up for grabs for the winner, along with a small crafting 2nd prize from one of our totally wonderful sponsors. (Please see the blog for further details of our sponsors).

 

http://lejdesignschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/

 

 

 

We have some exciting news coming in the new year, so keep your eyes peeled.....

 

 

LEJ Designs also has a facebook page, which you can find here:

 

https://www.facebook.com/LEJDesignsDigitalStamps

 

 

Currently, for every 10 new likers to the facebook page, someone has a chance of winning on of the LEJ Designs Digi Images. Get 'Liking' and 'Sharing'.

 

If you use one of the LEJ Designs Digi Images on your challenge entry, and you win, you could be in with a chance to win an extra bonus amount of Images. Currently the rollover stands at 4!!!

 

 

What I have Made

 

I decided to use the wonderful 'Snowman' images from LEJ Designs.

I coloured him with Water Colour pencils. I love my water colour pencils as you can give images as much or as little colour as you want. I used hardly any colour on the body, but made the other features stand out with heavier colouring.

 

I decided to use Buttons AND bows on my card. I took the orange from the Satsuma nose on the wonderful snowman. I think the blues and oranges go together well.

 

The border around the image is made up from lots and lots of punched out snowflakes. For these I used a Tonic Boot punch. I think this just gives the card a textured look, and with them spread out, it covers some of the white of the image topper. The backing paper is a Kanban sheet.

 

 

I finished the card off with a gift that I printed off from SERIF CraftArtist. I coloured this with the same water colour pencils as in the image. I used a few orange gems for the corners that aren't covered, and the middle of the bow on the parcel, and small black gems on he features of the snowman.

 

 

As always, I really hope this make has inspired you to pop along to the LEJ Designs Challenge blog to join along with the current Challenge.

 

Thank you so much for your wonderful visits.

 







LEJ Designs Challenge #75

Welcome Fellow Bloggers, Crafters and Friends.... Thank you for all the visits you make to my blog.

 

 

Today sees the start of this weeks new LEJ Designs weekly challenge. This weeks theme is 'CELEBRATE'. To me, celebrate represents any occasion that you would have a party for.... so birthdays, wedding, anniversary, christening etc...

 

 

As stated, the LEJ Challenge Blog offers weekly challenges, which start on a Tuesday.

The winner of the challenge will win some of the gorgeous LEJ Designs Digi Images. There is also a small crafting prize which is provided by one of our wonderful sponsors (please see main blog posts for the sponsor details).

 

 

Please click the link or photo below to take you to the LEJ Designs Challenge Blog. On the blog, you will find links to the LEJ Designs Shop. This is always worth a look as new images are added all the time, and there are also a few freebies to look out for....

 

http://lejdesignschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/

 

So.... Now to show you what I have made......

 

I absolutely love this image. It is fun and really great to colour.

 

I coloured the image with some water colour pencils and a thin water brush. I have really gotten into my water colour pencils as they can get into really find detailing and they blend so perfectly.

 

I used a gold pearlised card as the matting, and two different clues to match the colour in the ladies top.

I embossed the main backing layer and then punched out the bingo balls with a 1.5" circle punch.

I put a broken border line on the image and the balls with a thin blue ink pen, and used a gold marker pen for the bingo numbers.

I arranged the image, border stripe and bingo balls and stuck them all down with glue and 1" foam pads.

I finished off the card with matching gold card candi.

 

I would like to enter this card into the following Challenges....

 

Challenges For Everybody - Anything Goes - Ends 25th October

Robyns Fetish - Square Cards Only - Ends 19th October

Scribble & Scrap #3 - Always Anything Goes - Ends 19th October

2 Sisters - Anything Goes - Ends 18th October

Paper Creators Crafts - Dies or Punches - Ends 19th October

(bingo balls were punched using a 1.5" circle punch).

 

 

 

Thank you everyone for visiting, and I hope my card has inspired you to pop over to the LEJ Designs Challenge Blog and join in with the wonderful 'Celebrate' theme....