Cute Daisy May

The word over at Cute Daisy May this week, is the one word that most of us cardmakers tend to dread. Yes, the word is Christmas. I have to admit that I have been giving it some thought recently, particularly what theme I wanted to do. I did have a colour in mind but think that this year I might just do a cross section of card styles and colours.

For the challenge I thought I would try out one design and see how it came out and hopefully it might give me some direction as to what to do with my own cards. For the image, I used the reindeer from Anita's Stamps and coloured it in with watercolour pencils. The mats used cardstock from BoBunny. For the tag wording I used Word and the brad is from my stash.

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Two Challenges in One

Met up with my crafting buddy, Linda, for tea and scone earlier this week, handing over some goodies I brought back from the UK for her and in return I got a wee pressie too. A wallet of stamped images. Thank you very much Linda.

Maybe some of you don't know it but Linda is one of the Design Team over at Cute Daisy May. By way of a thank you I thought I would use one of the images that Linda had given me in the latest Cute Daisy May challenge. Which one would I use? When I saw the Orange Bush and knew that was it as I had exactly the papers that would go along with it. The papers came from K&company Citronella collection.

Onto the card, the base, 6x6, was made from another K&company collection, this time Recycled Remake Grass Greens. The image was coloured in with copic pens, with the background being, for the want of a word, muddied with the lightest of the Warm Grey copic pens. Finishing it with a few flowers with brads for the centres.

Also included it into Secret Crafter's challenge as this week's challenge asked for stripes and dots.

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