By Lori Designs - Wagon of Gifts

Happy Thursday! The weekend is almost here and I, for one, am so thankful. Today, the By Lori Designs Challenge Team invites you to play along with Challenge 12 (BLDC12) and this colour combinations;

Isn't it a classic combination?!

My image is Wagon of Gifts by Mercy (Mercy is brilliant with the digital image editing and has merged images that Lori illustrated. Mercy is my hero!) and used this week's sketch challenge from Paper Craft Planet (sk040211) for my 5" square layout. You could win a subscription to CardMaker Magazine for playing along with the Paper Craft Planet sketch challenge this week! There are TWO ways to win –

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I coloured this darling image using copic markers which are listed below. Check out that little bit of shine on the hair bow, shoes and gift bow! Stardust Stickles are DIVINE! I never put them away because I keep them upside down ready to go on my stamping desk. {insert contented sigh}. Look more at the sparkle than the yellow background glow. I'm not so happy with they way the glow became more like a neon beacon flashing continuously all night long like a cheap hotel sign. Gee, ya think I'm not thrilled with it?!!! Oy! And I just couldn't figure out what to do to make it better short of cutting out the main image and mounting it on a new piece of paper which I really didn't have time for. However, this glow has worked on other cards I have done using this exact same yellow combination, and I really think it is the yellow pink combination which isn't working here. Shoulda gone with blue!

Here are the Copic Markers I used and where;

wagon & gift; R11, R12, R32, R35, R37, N2, N4, N6
bear; N0, N2, N4, N6, N7
shirt, shoes, hair bows; R81, R83, R85
overalls; W1, W3, W5, W7
hair; E11, E25, E27, E29
skin; E00, E01, E11
nasty glow; Y0000, Y11, Y21, Y23, Colourless blender

Now about that sentiment;

It's not a By Lori Designs sentiment and maybe I shouldn't have used it here, but it was too perfect for this image to be passed over! It's actually 2 stamps that I stamped one over the other. The lower sentence is the itty bittiest little font I think I've ever seen in an acrylic stamp (less than 1/8" high) and I gasped when I saw it. Remember I have a thing for miniature 'things' and this teeny sentiment totally fit that bill. It was a bit of a bugaboo getting it straight on the acrylic stamp block, but it was totally worth the fussing! Links for the supplies I used for this card are in the recipe listed below.

Check out the By Lori Designs challenge blog for the creations by the rest of the design team! And enjoy your weekend!

stamps; wagon of gifts by Mercy (by lori designs), simply you sentiments (technique tuesday)
paper; hazel by stella and rose (MME), elephant, canvas white (bazzill), x-press it (copic)
ink; black soot distress ink (ranger)
accessories; sm square nestabilities (spellbinders), screw brads (karen foster), white brads (paper studio), button (basic grey), pink ribbon (SU!), mini scallop border punch (ek success), stardust stickles (ranger)


paper craft planet sk040211 - sketch
by lori designs BLDC12 - colour combination
HSS #62 - in the pink
papertake weekly - anything goes
scrap-creations - ribbon, glitter, button
craft your passion - anything goes
daisy doodle #30 - digi challenge spring
bring back beauty - spring
really reasonable ribbon - die cuts/punches & ribbon