Sunday 14 June 2015

Man's Best Friend...

Good Afternoon...
Today's card is for the lovely Lili of the Valley Design Collective.
My love for all things Lili is no secret and at the moment, well I have to say  
there is an awful lot to love!

There is a special offer on some of the newly launched papers, sentiments and art pads;

Look here for all the details!

...and as if that was n't enough to have us Lili fans swooning there is another fabulous offer - a whopping 25% off all Lili Christmas goodies until 25th June!

All the details of that offer can be found here

Today's card is made with the adorable stamp 'Man's Best Friend'
This is just a perfect subject for me given my love of my adorable girls Ruby Roo and Phoebe Mouse.

I coloured this super image with Prismacolor pencils.  To be honest, I had pretty much given up on my pencils.  They were gathering dust on the corner of my table and I had virtually decided to sell them.  I thought though that I should give them one last chance and after a bit of practice, this card is what I came up with.  You can of course all speak freely,   I respond well to feedback, but perhaps I should hang on to them for a while?

I used some papers from the new Lili of the Valley Collections, 
Romance and Roses and Dress Shoppe to create layers and the strip of paper across the card is from the Bonnets and Bowties collection.

The background is a piece of Core d'inations card stock embossed with clouds and sanded.

Finally I added a Father's day sentiment from Lili of the Valley's 
Greetings Postmarks - Set 18 and some twine and a little star button.

Here we are then 'Man's Best Friend' (and from where I am sitting, 'woman's' as well)!
I would like to enter this card for the following challenges
Papertake Weekly - Something For The Boys
The Ribbon Girl - Anything Goes With An Image
Little Claire Designs - Father's Day Challenge
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Furry Friends
Ingredients
Lili of the Valley Rubber Stamp - 'Man's Best Friend'
Make it Colour Blending Cardstock from Quixotic Paperie
Memento Ink Pad
Archival Ink Pad
Prismacolor Pencils
Lili of the Valley Sentiment Stamps Set 18 - 'Greetings Postmarks'
Papers from Lili of the Valley 'Romance and Roses', 'Dress Shoppe' 
and 'Bonnets and Bowties' Collections
Tim Holtz Distress Core d'inations Cardstock
Die'sire Embossalicious Embossing Folder - 'Clouds'
Die-namics MFT Stitched Rounded Rectangle Dies
Twine from The Ribbon Girl
Tiny Star Button from my trinket box
Tim Holtz Paper Distressing Tool
Tim Holtz Paper Sanding Tool
Collall All Purpose Glue
Inks Used
Memento Ink Pad in Black
Archival Ink Pad in Watering Can
Signo Uni-Ball White Gel Pen
Prismacolors - 
Skin - 929 Light Peach, 1092 Nectar
Hair - 941 Light Umber
Clothes - 1091 Green Ochre, 1078 Black Cherry, 941 Light Umber, 1052 Warm Grey
Little Dog - 1052 Warm Grey, 935 Noir, 1084 Ginger Root, 1082 Chocolate
Bench - 1094 Sandbar Brown, 914 Cream
Grass - 1096 Kelly Green, 1090 Kelp Green, 1004 Yellow Chartreuse
Background - 1024 Blue Slate, 1087 Powder Blue, 938 White

Thank you for visiting...

Happy Crafting...
Sue...xxx

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11 comments:

crafty-stamper said...

Love the cute image and fabulous colouring I would hang onto them too-love the embossed clouds
carol x

Kelly Lloyd said...

I love this lili image and your colouring and layout is gorgeous
Hugs Kelly,

Whisper said...

Oooo this is my favourite LOTV image, as it reminds me of my son and dog, am loving the fabby cloud background and super layout too, luv Sam x

Karen Oliver said...

Yes do hang onto them I love this. Your colouring is great so it would be a shame to not have pencils in your collection of colouring equipment. Gorgeous layout too. Love that cloud embossing in the background.

amanda stokes said...

Great card Sue, love the colour scheme and fab colouring :)

Christine L said...

You really have made such a perfect job with this prismacolours Sue.... definitely keep hold of them.... it's always nice to have a change!! (says she that had Distress Inks, Prismacolours, Spectrum Noirs etc etc, but never seems to use other than her Copics! LOL)

I do love the layout of this card so much too.. the colour combo is fab... and the touch of gingham... perfect!

Hugs
Christine x

Deborah said...

Gorgeous card. Your colouring is fabulous and if I were you I would definitely hand onto the pencils.
Deborah A

Sharon said...

I love this LOTV image and you've made the perfect Father's Day card. Thank you for joining us at Little Claire challenges.x

Debs said...

Fabulous card sue - love the image so beautifully coloured and the embossed background is gorgeous.
Debs xx

Donna said...

Absolutely gorgeous Father's Day card.
Thanks for joining us at The Ribbon Girl. Good luck!
Hugs, Donna xx

cebelica said...

So beautiful! I love those embossed clouds. They look amazing!
Thank you for playing with us at Bunny Zoe's!
Hugs! xx