Icy Hugs for LOTV

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

It's the start of a new challenge today on the Lili of the Valley Facebook page and in honour of Remembrance Day we have this lovely colour palette for you to follow.
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 Your make must include a Lili of the Valley image and at least one of the colours from the palette. Easy peasy! There are 3 prizes on offer and the winners will be drawn at random from all the entries;
1st - £20 LOTV voucher
2nd - £15 LOTV voucher
3rd - £10 LOTV voucher

For my inspiration card I have used Icy Hugs and two of the Christmas Sentiment Tag stamps

To start off I stamped Icy Hugs onto Sheena's stamping card with Black Archival Ink and then coloured it with Spectrum Aqua markers.
  
Rather than colouring the image directly with the pens, I scribbled the pens onto a white tile and picked up the colour with a small paintbrush.

I did the shadows and skin first (Charcoal and Peach)

 

then added the rest of the colours:
Her dress: Desert
Her hat/scarf: Begonia
His hat/jumper: Slate
His scarf/gloves/trousers: Navy

(I did add some Begonia directly onto the card for the darkest areas of red since the colour wasn't intense enough otherwise).

I layered up the finished image onto a 6"x6" card blank with 'Frosted Winter' papers from Trimcraft and a bit of cheesecloth. The snowflakes and Christmas trees were die-cut from white card (Joy crafts and Sizzix dies)

As a finishing touch I added some Glamour Dust glitter to the ice

and Ranger Enamel Dots in the corners

 I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Allsorts #387 - Let's make a start on Christmas
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas #305 Anything Goes
Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge #84 trees
Noor! Designs UK #24 Winter
One Crazy Stamper fall/winter fun
Art Impressions Stamp Challenge   #196 prepare for Christmas
Winter Wonderland Frosty or Well wrapped Up 
Simon Says Stamp (Wed) Anything Goes
Deep Ocean Challenge #141 Use die-cuts or punches
Live & Love Crafts Challenge #53 White Christmas 

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Flying Free for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

I've got another Leonie make to show you today, using some of the stamps that were launched on 18th May



I stamped several of the butterflies onto Sheena's stamping card, masking with sticky notes as I went.
They were then coloured in with Spectrum Aqua pens
Peacock Blue and Evergreen
Sunset,  Sunflower and Topaz
Boulder for the bodies

After colouring I painted Pebeo drawing gum over the top to protect the colours.
I made my own spritzer by soaking a piece of kitchen towel in Peacock Blue aquamarker and placing it into a spritzer bottle with water.
 

I spritzed all over my card and made some little inky puddles on my craft mat with a green aquamarker and clear wink of stella which I flicked all over the card with a wet paintbrush before drying with a heat gun

I cut the card down but left some wing tips poking out over the edges

I matted it on top of some white card which was embossed with a Crafters Companion Hessian folder before I tore the edges.

I stamped and coloured a few extra butterflies onto lightweight watercolour card and cut them out for decoupaging on top, and then wrapped cheesecloth around the card so it looks like they're escaping from a butterfly net. 

The whole thing is mounted onto a 7x7 card blank and then to finish off I stamped 'Free' with black memento ink and added some clear dew drops

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Simon Says Stamp (Wed) Mask It
Double D Challenges PEACH/CORAL & BLUES!
Southern Girls Layers
Little Claire's #69 Butterflies
The Corrosive Challenges #6 Lots of layers
Stamping Sensations  Feature a creature
Sparkles Forum Challenges # 80 Animal Magic
Crafty Catz #328 - Add a Butterfly
The Ribbon Girls June any card
Make My Monday - Photo Inspiration

Before I go, I'm excited to tell you that Leonie is launching some brand new dies and stamps this Wednesday evening on Hochanda at 8pm, with further shows on Thursday (9th June) at 9am, 12pm, 4pm and 7pm. I'll be posting some of my samples here while the shows are on.

Hope you can join me again soon,
Katrina x