Vintage Challenge at OMCF

The current challenge at Open-Minded Crafting Fun is "Vintage", and I chose an image by Lemon Shortbread called Winter Muff Shoujo. Lemon Shortbread is just one of the awesome sponsors for this challenge. The others are Fairy Tangles, The Art of Ronne P. Barton, and The Fantasy Art of Nikki Burnette. They are offering up some awesome prizes for this challenge as well, so go check out the blog and enter your own project for a chance to win!

Winter Muff Shoujo

I don't have any experience with vintage, so I'm not sure this is vintage, but I like how it turned out, nonetheless. I coloured the image with Copics. The papers are from Michele R Designs, the Vintage Frost collection. The embellishments are from Live & Love Crafts (as part of our swag bag at the Kit & Clowder retreat), the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Some sad news to report is that Open-Minded Crafting Fun is closing up shop. you can read Vicky's post about it HERE. It's become too difficult for the ladies to manage the admin side of the page after losing their main admin person a couple months ago. So there will only be two more challenges after the current challenge and then it will be no more. Sad to see it go as those are some fabulous ladies over there doing some awesome things.

New Release at The East Wind

It's another new release over at The East Wind, and today's image is a new Aurora called "Bloom".

Aurora "Bloom"

All of the papers are from Kaisercraft. I got that lovely pearl lace from the Kit & Clowder retreat, so I'm not sure what company it's from. The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts. I coloured the image with Copics using my new Hex Chart, so I used some different colour combos based on that. It's going to be an awesome resource I can tell. 

The Hex Chart is something I discovered while at the retreat, and I shared it recently on Kit & Clowder's Facebook page. It seemed to be a big hit, while others weren't keen on spending the $6 on it. I think a lot of time and effort went into the creation of the chart, and you can't get everything for free. It's worth the money to me to see the different combos you can make. It's a different perspective, for sure. Here's mine all coloured up. Obviously, I need to do some more shopping to connect some of the dots. Lol!!

Hex Chart at Sandy Allnock

Thanks for stopping by and checking out the new release. Hopefully you are a member of the Facebook group and are following the blog. Between the two, there are THREE challenges a month with the chance to earn some free digis. And make sure you are signed up for the newsletter to get your freebie on the 1st of every month!

Let's Get Gothic Challenge at Tiddly Inks

There's a new challenge starting at Tiddly Inks today!! The theme is "Let's Get Gothic". There are so many gothic themed images to choose from in the TI store, so you should have no problem finding one to enter the challenge with. I chose "Baby Dragon Queen" and I used a Make It Crafty digital background also. It took me awhile to colour the entire thing, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. 

"Baby Dragon Queen"

I coloured the entire picture with Copics. I hope you run over to the Challenge Blog and enter your own creation. Make sure you share with us in the Facebook group as well. I hope you've signed up for the newsletter so you're staying up to date on all the new releases and freebies too!

Thanks for stopping by!! xx