Reading Beauty

Good morning all, well it's the start of another week, are you all ready for it? I don't think I am, I'd much rather be getting set up in the craft room than going to work lol. 

Anyway, today's card is a little bit different for me. I decided to colour an image using the one pencil technique that I learned at our last dabble day. 

I used Reading Beauty from Saturated Canary, and I'm really pleased with how she came out. 

I used an 8b graphite pencil and a paper stump to blend, and kept a new eraser handy to clean it up a bit as I do tend to get very messy hands lol. 

I used paper from the Midnight Blush collection from Docrafts/Papermania, and used some black lace across the card. Then I added some tiny pearl beads. 

The sentiment is cut using an Impression Obsession die and the flower is a gel sticker that I've had forever. 

I finished her off by just adding a few tiny pearls to her headband. 

Hope you like her too. See you soon, take care.

xxx

To a special niece

Good morning all, so glad it's Friday. It has been a long week at work this week so glad it's nearly over lol. 

Today's card is one I made for a friend at work. She was looking for an 18th birthday card for her niece but couldn't find one anywhere so she asked me to help. 

I was told nothing too girly, mainly black and white but could use a touch of red. So this is what I came up with. 

I started by embossing some white Centura Pearl card with a Sue Wilson embossing folder. I then cut this to fit an A5 card front and matted it with black card. 

The fancy label is cut with Spellbinders Timeless Rectangle die and the main sentiment was printed from the computer.  

I used a number die for the 18th and then used a new Memory Box die called Precious Hearts for the splash of red. 

Then I set to work with the gems! And used black and crystal gems on each of the joins. This took some time lol. 

I nearly left it there but decided to add the red braid at the end to finish it off. 

Hope you like it. See you soon. Take care. 

xxx