High Hopes Guest Designer Call

Well you've got to be in it to win it as they say, so I thought I'd give it a go and send off an entry for the High Hopes Guest Designer Call.

I don't have any High Hopes stamps - yet! But the challenge said it was ok to use what you have, so I used a digital stamp from Pollycraft, this one is from a set called Penelope Gardening, I thought it was such a great image, and I've used watercolour pencils to colour her in as I wanted to keep the image quite pale not to overpower the pale pinks in the background. I've used three papers from FunkyHand's Funky Seasons CD in a mixture of pinks & browns and used a sentiment from the same papers, the ribbon is also a paper strip from one of the papers. I've also inked around the edges of the papers and the image with a sepia toned ink pad, to blend it all in together. I'm really pleased with it, I love the way the colours work together, so fingers crossed!

Penny Black Challenge - Romance

I received a set of Penny Black stamps today in the post just in the nick of time to enter this challenge. The stamps are gorgeous, but in the end I choose this sweet little hedgehog, the "love" sentiment is from the same set. The background papers are from Funkyhand's "It's Funky Too" CD and the ribbon is from my stash. I went for a clashing mixture of pinks & purples, quite bold for me, but I think I've pulled it off!

The Pink Elephant Challenge No. 1

The theme for this challenge was a colour one - to use pink, white & black, which I liked the idea of

• Backing papers from FunkyHand's Funky Season's CD, also used for the black & white circles, cut using a Nestability die
• The black wavy border is from FunkyFairies Doodlementals collection
• The "hi" has been cut using a Cuttlebug alphabet die, the tag is also a Cuttlebug die
• The pink flower, black & white spotty adhesive ribbon & the brads are all from my stash

Hope you like it