Monday 13 June 2011

kitty in a box!

I'm rather late sharing this card with you today - after a pleasant afternoon with a couple of crafting friends I've had an evening of stressful phone calls .. .. but to be expected. It can't be long now and I'm busy doing laundry and getting my case packed ready to go and stay with Mum later this week. I have my suspicions that Father's Day this year is going to be remembered, for rather sad reasons.

Anyway, back to my card and an apology for the bright picture I've taken under my desk light this evening. This is Dawn with Kitten, a clear stamp by Nellie's Choice and coloured, as usual, with my Copics although the colours are looking washed out with the flash. The pretty patterned paper is a magazine freebie and the pale lavender card is a retired SU! colour. I've added the little flower organza ribbon strip on top of the MS punched lace layer, diecut various bits and bobs for embellishing and finished with pearls made with my cream pearl maker pen.

The Copics are my usual skin colours of E000, 00, and E21 with a touch of R00 for blush. Her hair, the kitty and other soft warm brown tones are E50, 51, 53 and E81 for shading the E50. E81 is a new Sketch pen colour called Ivory and works great to shadow the pale E40 and E50, although personally I would have called it stone - it's almost a perfect match for the pale beige Promarker. For the pinks I've used RV000, 00 and R81, then for the violets I went for V000, 01 and 15, but also added in a little BV 01 here and there as well. The shadow is a subtle cool grey mix of 0 and 1, then I've used my Magnolia Budd Versamagic chalk ink to edge the image and take off the stark white so it ties in with the cream base card and the cream background of the patterned paper.

As far as challenges go, I'm entering the Paper Sundaes theme of girly girls, the Stamp Something theme to have something punched, and the Totally Stampalicious theme of anything goes! I couldn't sleep last night so was up colouring until the wee small hours but have yet to put any cards together .. .. hopefully I may find time between chores tomorrow to finish a couple off and schedule them for later in the week. I suspect I will be missing soon and I'm not sure when I'll be back at my desk to catch up with you, but I would like to thank you for your kind words and prayers for my family, and especially for my Dad.

14 comments:

  1. Your soft colouring is incredible - & thank you so much for your comment about the Copics, very much appreciated, especially at the moment. Your card is so pretty & delicate with these colours & the image a real girlie one.
    You & the family remain in my prayers & please take as much care of yourself as you can under the circumstances.
    Much love
    Paula (PEP)

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  2. Your card is beautiful Annie and even better IRL. It was a fun afternoon and thanks for bringing along your collection for me to play with.

    Thinking of you, your Mum and family at this most difficult of times.
    hugs
    wynneth
    xc

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  3. This is a really pretty card Annie, the image is gorgeous.

    Thinking of you, take care
    Tracy x

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  4. Such a beautiful card Annie wonderful colours!!

    Thinking of you all Chanelle xxx

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  5. Very pretty and so cute! Such a sweet image!

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  6. This is gorgeous Annie and the colours are so pretty!
    Clairex

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  7. This is such a pretty card, love the soft colours and the image is gorgeous! Thanks for playing along in our "girly girl" challenge over at Paper Sundaes :)

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  8. this is gorgeous Annie, I love the colouring, I was going to get some Copics but I'm daunted by how many colours there are and don't know where to start, any advice would be greatly appreciated
    take care
    hugs

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  9. You couldn't get much more 'girlie girl' than this. I love the pastel colours. Thanks so much for sharing with us at Paper Sundaes this week.

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  10. Gorgeous card Annie and such a sweet little image. Beautiful colouring and lovely layout.
    Thinking of you and the family.
    hugs
    Marion

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  11. So wonderful card,I love the image and your papers.

    Hugs Riet.xx

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  12. Oh this is just precious and so sweet. Thanks for playing in TOtally Stampalicious Blog Challenge.

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  13. What a sweet, sweet card! I love the colors you chose, the coloring is awesome and that kitty is precious! :) Thanks for playing with Totally Stampalicious this week!

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  14. This is total cuteness! Thanks for playing along with our Anything Goes Challenge at Totally Stampalicious!

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