Skipping in the Flowers

I'm not sure how this is going to post as I am having to use my phone due to internet issues. This is my last card for this session of the My favorite things summer school and I really wanted to get it handed in.  

So I am back this morning with a good photo and some edits to this post.

This card was made following lesson #3 Composition - Movement/Flow of the My Favourite Things Summer School.  I have to say I enjoyed attending summer school and am pleased this was session one suggesting there is more to come.

This lesson is about creating a sense of motion.  I had the idea to use this sweet little stamp from Lili of the Valley, aptly called Skipping.   I wanted to create the effect of her skipping in the flowers and catching them with her skipping rope sending them flying through the air.  The papers are from the new LOTV collection Romance and Roses.

She is water coloured and I got a little adventurous creating a background scene for her.



Thanks for stopping by

Karen

New Challenge At Southern Girls

Its time for a new challenge at Southern Girls.  Lacy Sunshine and Oddball Art are our fantastic sponsors this round.   Its a classy colour combo.

White or Cream

mint green and/or Turquoise 

 coral and/or pink

Heres my little creation using a Lacy Sunshine image

 Now pop on over to the challenge blog (link above) snd check out all the other lovely inspiration and enter for a chance to win.

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