Rule of thirds

Okay so in the quest to increase my knowledge as previously mentioned I have been studying at the My Favourite Things Summer School.  I probably am not the best student as I am handing my homework in out of order, but I will add, on time.

This is lesson #1 Composition - The Rule of thirds.  Which is where you divide your card into 9 equal parts by using 2 equally spaced horizontal lines and 2 equally spaced vertical lines.  Thus creating a visually pleasing layout.

I made myself a handy dandy template out of left over laminate by drawing the lines in permanent marker.  I can place this on my card and see through it to see the placement of embellishments etc.

In this card I have used Paper Smooches Chubby Chums, Cow (and who says pigs always get to be pink).

I am also going to enter this into the Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge  June Anything Goes (wk3)

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Quiet Space

Following on from yesterdays post this card is another lesson from the My Favourite Things Summer School.  This is Lesson #5 Balance - Quiet Space/White Space.  Yeah sorry I am a bit out of order but some of my homework just went together better than others.

I used a couple of other techniques learnt from the Summer School.  The rule of thirds when placing my bubbles, which are inked in MFT Hybrid Ink using a stencil.  The same rule applies to  placing my little fish. I also believe I have created a focal point.   The little fish is coloured in Derwent Coloursoft pencils highlighted with a white gel pen, as are the bubbles.  I was going to add a sentiment but I was afraid it might wake up my quiet space.

Focal Point

My Favourite Things  have been running a Summer School with lessons on card composition.  Lesson # 2 was all about creating a focal point.  The homework was to go away and create a card with a focal point.  The focal point being the main area where an embellishment or stamped image is placed.

Having chosen my stamp, a little LOTV Friendship Recipe I set to trying to create a focal point for it.  I have to say this was a little harder than I anticipated but after much tooing and froing I think I have achieved it.  I will be very interested to see what you think.  The papers I used are from 2 of the new LOTV collections Dress shoppe and Sunny Side Up.

Three little Chicks

Reminds me of three little monkeys, Hear no evil, Speak no evil, See no evil.  The current challenge at Paper Smooches Sparks is an inspiration picture as below.

First of all who wouldn't want a bed like this I know I would.  Anyway I took inspiration from the colours, white and turquoise  with a pop of yellow along with a tiny splash of pink.  I used the rows of three windows for my row of three chicks. This is the chick from the Paper Smooches Chubby Chums stamp set. The Happy Birthday sentiment is also a Paper smooches die which I cut three times and stacked.

A big warm welcome to my new followers this week.  Its so lovely to have you come and see what I have been creating.  I hope you will pop in often.

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Lili Of the Valley Collective Card

Hi there I have my next Collective card to share today. I posted a little sneak last week.  I have to admit this little fellow was stamped a few weeks back and I tried several different ways to colour him, none of which I was happy with so I pulled out (and dusted off) my watercolour pencils and quickly realised they were perfect for this image.  I hand drew the clouds into the background and added highlights with a white gel pen. He then sat for another few days as I couldn't decide how to put him on a card as I wanted the image to be the focal point.  I finally decided to keep the design pretty simple.  I don't know about you but I really like the end result.

And just because I feel you need to get up close to this one......

Stamps: ST378 You are my Sunshine

           

Coloured with Watercolour Pencils

Accented with white gel pen

Paper:  Butterfly Kisses

             Country Meadow

            Watercolour Card

Other: Die cut flowers from Elizabeth Dies Balloons, 

Couture Creations scallop border, Paper Sweeties flower sequins

Chubby Chums - More of the gang!!

The Paper Smooches Chubby Chums set has 5 quirky little characters.  I have them all coloured but two still need to make it to a card.

This first card I made for my daughters friend for her birthday.  These characters and the sentiments which come from the Uplifters stamp set are just perfect for teenagers.  This girl loves owls and loves Instagram so the Owl chum was perfect for her and the # which comes from the Paper Smooches cardbooking set also fitted the brief, along with the straight speech bubble cut.  Behind the owl is a stitched tag cut at an angle.  I know she is going to get real chuckle from this, its just so her...

These are coloured with Derwent Coloursoft pencils.

Here is another Chum, this time the dog. The edge is cut using the cute clouds die cut.  I wanted a munched kind of look instead of a straight line as this little fellow just looks so naughty, don't be fooled by the little bow tie I added.   In behind him is a Paper Smooches die cut stitched tag.  The papers are from the LOTV Sunny Side Up Collection and I say it again they are perfect with these images.

I am linking these up for the July Guest Designer Search

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Hey Chickie!!

I have been working along on the 30 Day Coloring Challenge trying to colour something every day.  This little Paper Smooches cutie is from a few days back, they are so fun to colour and you can mix the colours up a bit because they are so whimsical.  Chickie  and the sentiment are from the Chubby Chums stamp set.  The clouds are die cut with a Paper Smooches die cut called Cute Clouds.  I reverse cut them so you can see the background paper.  Talking about the paper this is one of the new paper pads from LOTV called Sunny Side Up and it works so perfectly with these stamps.

 I am popping this into the challenge at The Paper Smooches Sparks, 

Anything Goes Challenge, June wk1

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