Woodware Design Team Challenge - Turquoise and brown

I really enjoyed doing this challenge as turquoise blue is one of my favourite colours and it goes so well with brown. I have combined two 'Kaleidacolor' ink pads 'Cappuccino Delight' and 'Fresh Breeze' to get the browns and turquoise blue. I do love these ink pads as they are very cleverly put together.

The stamp set featured is a new one from the Spring release which is so suited for purely stamping:

FRCL211 Heart and Home

I did a very small amount of painting in the heart and on the butterflies using ink from the 'Cappuccino Delight' pad. I pressed the pad against some foil to make a palette so as not add water to the pad.

For extra detail I have added some Mark Richards bling. I have used 'Nailheads' in the corners, 'Candy Bonbons' dotted around and for the butterflies I coloured some gold 'Metals' brown with a Sakura 'Identi pen'. They look like copper!

If you are wondering where the background paper come from? I bought a very old book from an Oxfam shop so the pages are already yellowed...

Pop along to the Woodware blog for other 'Turquoise and brown' designs

Woodware Challenge - Spooks and Treats

 We don't really celebrate Halloween in our house but for some reason or other I quite like playing with Halloween images and I like the colour palette associated with it... lime green, purple, orange and black.


My treat is a recipe for 'Witches' Halloween Brew' ... quite nasty really but I had fun putting it together!
I've combined two sets to make the card:
FRCL203 Spooky Tots
FRCL137 Treat or Trick

I have highlighted my colouring using a white Sakura  Gelly Roll pen and lots of Diamond Stickles glitter glue. I used the glitter glue in the background to create webs.


I'm really into Mark Richards 'Candy Bonbon'. That's the green and orange dots you can see here and there on the card. They have very fine glitter inside them so they sparkle and the colours are perfect for Halloween.

Here is a close up of the recipe... please don't try it at home!!!


I have grunged all the edges of the panels and stripy paper with black ink but used some lime green ink on the recipe card.


Where do the spiders come from? no not my garden... a very cheap purchase from my local Asda! I say cheap as the glitter is not very secure. When I saw them I had to have them...




Hope you have enjoyed my version of the Woodware challenge. Pop along to the Woodware blog to see other variations.