OCC - it's all about the coloring

I made this card a day or two ago to send to a crafting buddy on a forum to let her know that I was thinking of her.

I thought I'd share it for the challenge on Our Creative Corner 'it's all about the coloring' - showing a favourite way of colouring. Well, I have to confess that I'm not very good at colouring - find it difficult to get the blending right, whatever pencils, copics etc I use - but I'm fairly successful with this stamp (probably because it doesn't need much colouring!) - it's very simple, but one of my favourites (as you may have guessed, because I've shown other cards with it on). I used inktense pencils with a touch of Sansodor to blend:

ABC challenge: P is for pink & CBCC072 Paper plus

I was asked to do a birthday card with a pink theme, so I thought this would be perfect too for this week's 'P is for pink' on ABC challenge blog.

I used a Crafty Bitz paper that has a patchwork effect, cutting it up and re-arranging, with just the addition of a piece of pink velvet ribbon, primas (to hide the folds in the ribbon where it had been wound round card!) and the printed greeting:



As this card has used mainly just patterned paper, it is just right for challenge 72 on CBC where the emphasis needs to be on PP, no stamping etc.