Your Next Stamp -Sending Smiles

What a beautiful few days we have been having here is Southern Ontario - the sun is shining, the flowers are planted - (my brown thumb is hoping for a good outcome) and we have been out enjoying the golf course - love it!

Your Next Stamp has their Sketch and/or colour challenge up and running until June 9th - lots of time to create a little something! The idea is to use the sketch or the colours from the inspiration photo or both - lots of options!  BONUS: Splitcoaststampers Free For All (F4A) challenge for today is watercoloring! So.....

I decided to use a bit of both - the sketch and three of the colours - pink, blue and yellow.  Perfect colour for a baby card.

First I stamped and watercolored some of the little critters from Woodland Cuties using the three colours.

I splattered some orange paint on top to be able to use up another colour - really wished I hadn't because I am not sure I'm fond of the look.

I die cut the cuties and placed them all in a bundley bunch - such sweetie images!

Using plaid patterned paper, I completed the sketch and added a yellow satin ribbon for a soft effect.  Go on over to Your Next Stamp and show some creative style!

DTGD Sweet Little One!

Hey there! I was totally inspired by this post of Jennifer McGuire's on "Copic Dot Coloring" so I had to give it a go - and I used her sketch - which, naturally, is brilliant!

Along with that, I am continuing with the Dare to Get Dirty Challenges for 2015 and this is for Sweet Miss Daisy's challenge.

I began by picking my image - this sweet little bunny from Your Next Stamp's set called Woodland Cuties - I use this set quite often for baby cards - so cute!

I lightly coloured him with C1 and then (held my breath) using C3 and C5, I made little dots where I thought there would be some darkening or shadows.  I added a touch of C7 - which close up looks kind of weird, but the overall effect is eye-catching!

Finally I "coloured" a few dots for some grass and sky to finished it off.

My circles were die cut using the MFT Stitched Circle dies - I love them!

I popped it all up onto my card base that is covered with a piece of Papertrey Ink Sweet Blush patterned paper  - just perfect!

Thanks for visiting - try some of those Splitcoaststamper Challenges - tons of PRIZES to be won!