Fierce

Hi Everyone, It's Bonnie here today to share a tag I created with the new The East Wind release from Monday called Michelle the Nutshell. This was one of the winning photos from the portrait game that Kyra then drew and released as a digi. We all loved the photo and the image is a delight to colour and create with.

I coloured Michelle with Prismacolor pencils, adding a little detail with silver gel pen and a green half pearl for her earring. Michelle was then matted in black partially to add strength to the image because I knew her head would require several layers of foam tape in order to match the level of the metal.

The background started as a black #8 tag (3 x 6.25 inches). I applied Perfect Medium through a Dylusions harlequin stencil and then dusted the gluey spots with Interference Green Perfect Pearls. It has a gorgeous shimmer in real life and yet remains subtle. The metal sheet which is black on one side and silver on the other is from Add a Little Dazzle. It's fabulous stuff...embosses and cuts like butter, can be torn, rolled, so many possibilities. I embossed it with my favourite Tim Holtz folder, Riveted Metal. I then cut it down the center about half way and rolled the two halves back towards the edge like it was opening up. Before I adhered it to the background, I applied Black and Rust Alcohol inks and blending solution to age and grunge it up.

On the image, Michelle has a buckle at her neck so to repeat that I threaded a dotty ribbon through an Idea-ology buckle and wrapped the ribbon around the tag, using the same ribbon for the topper. As soon as I saw the photo and then Kyra's image, the word Fierce popped into my head as in a fierce competitor, fierce friend, and "don't mess with me" kind of fierce. I love the attitude I am imagining. The gold metal beads spell out Fierce and repeat the metal from the lower part of the tag. The last element is the heart with wings. It started out brushed gold but I added a little Treasure Silver wax to highlight the detail and tie it in with the other metals. I chose the heart because to me it represents both freedom to be an individual and speed from her roller skates.

Thanks for visiting today. We have a couple of challenges going on right now ~ our Facebook challenge theme is Wedded Bliss and our blog challenge theme is Ribbon. We'd love to see your projects entered into either of those or just shared with us on The East Wind FB group.

Bonnie

Use a ribbon

We have a sweet and easy new challenge for you over at THE EAST WIND

Use a ribbon, see, I said easy. Who of us doesn't love to use this wonderful stuff?

I made a reveal card, 2 x A4 and a bit of scoring on my Scorepal, it was easy!

RECIPE 

Fabulous image called belle of the ball from THE EAST WIND, but if you sign up to our newsletter, you can have her for free! Sign up HERE, coloured with Copics

DP I think K & Co, (had it ages and forgotten for sure)

Sentiment, corners and flower DO

Butterfly Craftwork

Ribbon from stash

Stickles on the gown

Susan's Challenge #9 Showcase

Good morning everyone!! Our current challenge at The East Wind is Challenge #9 - Bling. Here is what I've done:







For this card I used Christmas Tree with Sexy Girl from The East Wind. I wanted to do another Christmas card. I colored her with my Copic Markers. I decoupaged her in front of the gifts. I added glitter for the tinsel around the tree, a little bit of glitter for the lights on the tree the flower on her headband, and a little bit of yellow glitter on the star. I used quite a few different dies on this card. Some swirls from Cheery Lynn and the rest are Spellbinders. I added inking around the edges of all of the papers and then the stitching, gems for the berries and the white dew drops. The sentiments on the front and inside are from Paper Smooches. The papers are all Echo Park This & That.

Copic:

• Skin: E000, E00, E01, E11, E13
• Red: R14, R24, R46
• Tree: G40, G43, G46
• Xmas Balls: B00, B02, B04
• Blue Gift: B21, B24, B29
• Dark Purple Gift: BV00, BV04, BV08
• Wine Bottle: R69, R89, RV99
• Aqua Gift & Ribbon: BG02, BG05, BG07
• Dress, Star and Yellow Ribbon: Y11, Y15, Y19
• Light Green Gift: YG01, YG05, YG09
• Pig: R20, R22

'Lucy Loo' Vampire Queen

Hi, it's Donna here.  Just wanted to share one of the new "dark" designs released June 20th at The East Wind Shop.  Meet 'Lucy Loo' Vampire Queen.  She's the first of a number of scarier designs coming soon to The East Wind.  Although I love all of the images at The East Wind, I'm particularly fond of creating with the dark ones, and not just for Halloween.  Stay tuned all you lovers of  "The Dark Side".  This is only the beginning...Bwahahaha!  Not a fan?  Never fear, there's plenty of cute and cuddly and elegant and beautiful images at The East Wind too.  Check out our FB Group for the latest and be sure to enter the new "Wedded Bliss"contest there which runs through July 17th.  And sign up now for the Newsletter on the right side of the Challenge Blog to receive free digi's monthly.  Our new Challenge starts there on July 1st.

Crafting Vicky - Wedded bliss - Asian mon amour Korean

Hello everyone! It's Monday!!!  Oh well... but here in Québec tomorrow is a holiday!  So a little respite to be able to play

But now I'm here to share with you the card that I did for the new FB challenge of The East Wind.  For this challenge it's Wedded bliss!  I really hope you are part of the FB group and will play in the newest challenge!!!

For my card I decided to use the fabulous image Asian mon amour Korean Hanbok.  I really love how the trees are intertwined... I just thought it was the perfect sign for love!

The paper for this card is from Day Dream - 1st edition.  I used my nesting frame 6 from Quickutz.  I added a little ribbon with some gold pearl embellishment on it and another ribbon and bow that I made.

Here's a closer look at the fab digi that I colored with my copics.  

Isn't she just fabulous?! You really should check out the new digis!!!

Have a great crafting day!!!  

Hugs