Cozy Gilli is keeping warm during the current Winter Gilli challenge..

Popping in here with my Winter Gilli Challenge card. I inked up my fave Cozy Gilli and her snuggly for my inspiration as I just adore being wrapped up in something warm with a hot cuppa tea in one card. I coloured Gilli with my copies and I tried blonde hair for a change from my usual brown hair. I used Y23, YR21 and YR23. Not too bad! I will have to use this colour combo again. 

I hope this helps get your inspiration going for our current challenge. If you don't feel like making a card for that cold icy stuff that floats down from the sky think warm like I did! 

Don't forget to link up your challenge cards over at the House of Gilli challenge blog so that you can have a chance to win some yummy Gilli stamps of your own!

Cheers, Andi

Magnolia- Yoga Tilda- challenge card and who wants to win a Cricut Mini, Kindle, gift cards and digi stamps??

I am actually posting a Magnolia card for the first time in years! My stamping Bff Sarah has got me into the same stamps I swore I never needed to own. I think I have 12 of them now in a very short period of time. I have to wonder why I ever bother deciding I am not getting into something when all it means is I fall head over heels at some point lol!

Here are the current CMC challenge deets- I would play along with this incredible challenge that Suzanne has put together to raise money for such a wonderful cause! See below:

NEW CHALLENGE #33 will run until January 5th!
SO THIS RUNS FOR 1 MONTH!

Your challenge this time is all about

** HOLIDAY JOY--in Golds. Creams & Whites**

Show your holiday joy with sparkling colors of GOLD, CREAM & WHITE!

(yes you can use some other colors like hair/skin/etc but the majority of colors should be Gold, Cream & Whites)

For this Challenge we have LOTS OF PRIZES!!

AND A WAY TO DONATE TO A WONDERFUL CHARITY!!

WHAT YOU CAN WIN:

-1 person will win a NEW Provocraft CRICUT MINI machine

-1 person will win a NEW KINDLE E-READER

-1 person will win a $50 Gift Cert. to SCACD

-1 person will win a $25 Gift Cert. to the Paper Temptress

-1 person will win 5 digis from Tiffany Doodles and a $15 Gift Cert to 7 Kids College Fund and a Gilli Gift Bag

HOW TO PLAY:

4 different ways to enter

-Enter up to (2) TWO projects into the link system below by Jan. 5th

-Enter (1) one project into the BookEndz Challenge

-Donate a $3-5 donation to the Charity below for 1 entry

-Donate anything over $10 to the Charity and get 2 entries

OUR CHARITY:

Reading is Fundamental is the charity I have chosen to sponsor this season. As you all know I am an avid reader and it amongst my very favorite things to do in my spare time. I truly believe that literacy and reading opens up many doors in life for everyone. Not only can you find joy in books but it opens your eyes to other cultures, places and people that is so worthwhile. And just the fact that a huge part of life involves being able to read--to get through school, get a great job and navigate through life. For me teaching children to read early on in life is a MUST yet so many children are not provided with the basic materials to learn to read. So this charity is a non-profit that provides books to children and opportunities to bring literacy into areas that need it!

Click here to be taken to the challenge site to read more about the month long initiative and also to donate if you choose. 

I am also entering my Tilda in the following challenges:

Magnolia Down Under- Lost and Found- my doily

The sketchy challenges- sketch

Cute Card Thursday- Anything goes

I am really happy with how my Tilda turned out. I have to admit I put off creating for this challenge for awhile as I had no idea how to pull it off and it turned out to be soooo much easier than I had thought! I used the following colours:

Skin- E0000, E000, E00, E11, R01, R20

Hair- YR20, YR21, YR23 and E35 over the YR23 area then more of the yellow over top of the brown just to deepen it up. Thank you Sarah for that suggestion!

Yoga Pants- E50, E51, E53

Shirt- E40, E41

Ground-W1, W3, W5

I hope you get a chance to play along with some of these challenges too!

Cheers, Andrea

Copic help- hair colours

I hope you are all having a good day. I was until a few minutes ago and now I am in the middle of a wee temper tantrum I am ashamed to admit. This is the third time I am writing this post. The first one left when I went to make something a capital and the entire thing became highlighted and deleted. Not sure how I pulled off that magic trick. The second time thankfully I was only a bit into the post when POOF it left the screen. Now I am saving constantly lolz. Lesson learned. I wanted to share todaywhat colours I use to colour hair as I had showed a few of my friends the other day. These cards are very basic in terms of layout as the focus was on colouring. I want to share I got my hair colours from The Greeting Farm blog who also make these adorable stamps so I can take no credit for the colour combos. A piece of advice is to keep your blender pen handy to erase mistakes as its all about layering ink and colours so it can sometimes spread a wee bit. I like to call the blender pen my fave copic colour as I use it more than any of my other copic markers lol.

Black, grey, white and yellow card:

On this card I used the following colours-

Hair- C3, C6, C7 and 100 (black) but some found it better to use C9 as it does move a bit better to blend than black

Skin- E000, E00, E11 and using E00 I swiped it on an R20 marker to get the cheek colour

Dress and flower petals- Y11, Y15

Petticoat- C4+C5 on pockets, C6+C7 on rest of dress

I then outlined her in C1 and added a bit in the middle of the white flower centre to add some shading

Easter Card-

Hair- E25, E27, E31, E49

Bunny ears- outside- RV32, RV34 and inside- V000, V01

Dress, tights, shoes- RV32, RV34, V12, V15

Easter egg basket and eggs- Y00, Y02, BG13, BG23, YG, 23, YG25, V01

Skin- E000, E00, E11 and same as above for cheeks using R20

Outline- BG10

Hope this helps and I encourage you to go to The Greeting Farm blog for other hair colour suggestions :)

Cheers, Andrea