Wednesday 29 April 2009

Another 3 challenges with 1 card?


I can't believe that I've actually achieved this for the second time, I'm usually absolutely useless at making my cards do more than one challenge at a time!
The first challenge is Cute Card Thursday where I've just scraped in by the skin of my teeth with their challenge of 'Getting Edgy', I sanded the edges of my card and also added some doodles for good measure.
Second challenge coming up, Papertake Weekly who asked us to use 'Spots and Stripes', well I've used the spots and I'm hoping that the blocks of colour on this paper together with the edging I doodled will count as the stripes (not 100% sure about that, so fingers crossed)
The final one today is for My Time to Craft and their theme this week of 'Black and White plus one'. For some strange reason I always use red in these challenges and I vowed not to this time, but c'est la vie, I used red again!

Card Details:
* Image - Tilda with Ladybird
* Colouring medium - Caran D'Ache watercolour pencils
* Papers - Mmmm not sure, I think Papermania
* Embellishments - from my stash

I hadn't used this sweet Tilda before and unfortunately, she's not looking her best as I messed up with the pencils and water pen. I'm so used to using promarkers for colouring now that I found this really difficult, but I'm thinking - ladybird...summer...bit of sunburn - what do you think, does it work? LOL!
This is also the first time that I've given an image black hair and trust me, it's not easy getting that right either, so all in all a bit of a disaster. I've just realised that my scanner has made the colours look a bit blurry, so she looks even worse here than in real life now. Just don't look too closely!!!

19 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think she looks great Chrissie - don't be so hard on yourself!
Ann x

Riet said...

What a beautiful card Chrissie,l love the colours.

Hugs Riet.x

Beryl said...

I think the black hair is great as it ties in with the rest of the colours. (Good job it wasn't a lime green and purple theme.) Love the colours and the layout on this card. Well done for fitting so many challenges again.
Beryl xx

Wendy said...

This is so pretty
Wendy x

coldwaters2 said...

Chrissie I think you have done really well with this one as it fits the bill perfectly for all three and what a card....wow. I love these colours it is an awesome card.

Hugs
Lorraine x

Jo said...

Cute!!! Love Tilda's red wellies. Thanks for joining in with us at MTTC :o) Jo x

Sandra said...

Hi Chrissie...lovely card,love the Tilda you have used and one of my favourite colour combo's :0),and i agree it's not easy to colour hair black,
Take care
San x

Heather said...

Stunning card Chrissie, fantastic colours, papers and I just love your sunburned Tilda (tee hee)Black hair isn't easy...is it?
hugs Heather xx

Wendy - Anntaurus said...

Gorgeous card Chrissie and that's you and me both that put red with black & white. I like it because it is dramatic!

Jane's Blogs said...

Love the colour ... brilliant as are all you cards.

Jane xx

cats whiskers said...

This is just stunning what a great image and beautiful colouring, love all the embellishments you are getting good at combining the challenges he!he!
Hugs Jacqui x

KraftyKoolKat said...

You don't know what your talking about girl, this is super and everything looks okay from where I am sitting. Cathy xxxx

Irene said...

Hello Chrissie

You are on a roll, fantastic card.

luv
irene
xxxx

Lesley said...

Lovely card, thanks for taking part in the MTTC challenge this week xx

Riet said...

Wowwww Chrissie,what a beautiful cards,l love them all.

Hugs Riet.x

Nicky said...

Great card really pretty love the colours

Phree said...

Great card, love the way you coloured the image.

Mrs Mayne said...

Great card Chrissie! Thanks for joining us for the PTW challenge!

Cardmaking Galore said...

Cute card!