Paperchains

Hello peeps, hope you've had a lovely weekend.

I've taken the plunge and got some proper pencils (hubby kindly bought them for my birthday, isn't he fab?).

After hearing Nikky Hall rave about them last month I'd already decided I was going to get the Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor pencils. They have excellent light-fastness and are ergonomically shaped, so I thought they'd be the best to go for considering the problems I have with my hands.

I had a play with them last night because I wanted to brighten up a Gorjuss image that I had previously water-coloured with Spectrum Aquas. It was looking quite flat and I was a bit nervous about going over it again with watercolours in case I bobbled the paper or something. I was pleasantly surprised at how much difference the pencils made.
 

I've used the finished image to make up my sister's birthday card.

Ingredients:

7"x7" card blank from Anna Marie Designs 

Daler Rowney watercolour card

'I found my family in a book' stamps by Gorjuss

Sentiment tag stamps from LOTV

Papers from Dovecraft 'Curiosity Corner' and 'New Leaf', 

plus LOTV 'Enchantment' pad

Page torn from a book

Hessian ribbon

Cord by Hempotique

Buttons from stash

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-

Eureka Stamps #166 The Colors of Fall

Digi Choosday #44 Reds, Oranges and Browns
Creative Inspirations #335 - Anything Goes + Option of a Sketch!
The Ribbon Girl - November Use any Image
 That's Crafty! - Tag You're It!
Crafting With Friends #10 - Anything Goes
Polka Doodles 45 Autumn/Fall Colours
 World of lacy Sunshine Anything goes

Crafty Time Embellish It

Crafts and Me - Autumn/Fall Colours

Dragonfly Dreams Challenge -autumn/fall colours

Thanks for stopping by,

 Katrina x