My brain fell out

Background created with oil pastels on gesso.  Charcoal pencil and Chinagraph Pencil.  Black Sakura pen for doodles.  Stamp: Karin by Daniel Torrente for Stampotique, coloured with Copic pens.

We are golden!

A Host of Golden Daffodils

this week.

Please use daffodils on your cards or maybe make a card inspired in some way by those sunny yellow flowers.

When I read the 'dare' on Daring Card Makers this week I knew I had the perfect stamp. I have no idea who makes it, I got it on ebay years ago as an unmounted stamp. I felt it deserved a very simple treatment, so a bit of copic colouring a contrasting matt and a few 'jewels' is all I needed to do to make this one.

A school...of fish!

It's Keryn's turn to set the dare at Daring Cardmakers this week here is what she says:

"Early next week all the children that have been on holiday from school in New Zealand for approx seven weeks will be returning to their new classrooms. Mother's will all be breathing a sigh of relief as their routines return to normal.

To celebrate this I want you all to create cards using the theme of school. If you've got children at school what they're up to might inspire your card, if not maybe memories of your own school days might be your inspiration."

I have to say that I was struggling with this one as I don't have children at school and couldn't think of a card theme that would let me use the card for anything else later, then into my head popped 'school of fish' and I knew that would work for me and the dare!

The image came from the Collage group on Flickr and I coloured it with Copics, paper and sentiment sticker are from a little 6x6 scrapbook kit by Papermania. Ribbons from stash.

House!

A little card for my DS2 who is moving into a new flat. The stamps are Paperartsy coloured with Copics and the background sprayed with Glimmer Mists.