Debbie's Donkey Derby!

Hi Friends :) It's another Dr.Digi friday and I am bringing you the newly released Debbie's Donkey Derby! 

So I wanted to make her have a flavour of the English seaside and detract from poor Diego the donkey having a really rough day. I think Debbie thought that galloping on a donkey along the beach might soothe her rather sunburnt body!

Here she is in her digi format -

And here is my version of her (Shes about 11cm high on my card) -

So I did add a bit of background detail because she looked a bit weird floating on a donkey! Hope it doesn't distract and just adds to the theme! Both hats have seaside mottos, traditional ones, if you think either say something rude.... shame on you ;) 

She is so shiny, it was really hard to get a nice flat photo. Normally there would be some daylight to use but the UK only has gloomy rainy weather for the rest of our lives. (Maybe a bit dramatic but ye gads I am bored of it!)

Background paper I think is Kanban, a seaside set from the dark ages. Bling from the stash. Fonts are CAC Pinafore and Wooden Nickle NF. I used a bit of white posca pen and the rest is polychromo pencils.

Exciting events starting on Dr.Digi this weekend! Stay glued to the Dr. Digi Facebook page for more details!!

What is going on in the background...

Interesting week at Witt & Sass, our challenge this time was to make a project focusing on the "behind the scenes" products that Witt & Sass make!  I really wanted to have a go with the sea and beachy themed items so I decided to have a go at a seaside scene theme! ~hard to say quickly, try it ;) 

 Both cards are made using distress oxides through stencils and wet wipes dabbed to remove colour or add texture. Then I added detail and highlights with the stamp sets using distress oxides, white ink or dabbed onto wet wipes  to create a bleach effect.

I made two cards in the end. This one was a disaster, I put it on top of the bin (Top Tip, don't rip or crumple failed projects, just place them cleanly on top of your bin, often they are worth a rescue, particularly the next day!) and once it was cut and mounted and I added a pen outline to the stamp, I had tried and failed to use, it's now probably my favourite!

The second card worked a bit better, I decided to hand draw on some birds to create a focal point. I used a black pigment in pen and some polychromo pencil to soften them a little and add a hint of light.

I'm not sure if it worked out very well, I wish now I had stuck with one set of birds but hey-ho!

 I pretty much used the same set of products for both cards, so here is a list of what I used.

Stencils

Background Builder Stencil Waves

Layered Stencil Clouds

Stamps

Sentiments from the You Are Beautful Stamp Set

Background Builder Stamp Sand and White Caps

Freebie Magazine Stamp from the Stash, parent and child.

Other

Distress Oxides

Hero Arts Unicorn White Ink Pad

Pigment Ink Pen (to add birds)

Polychromo white and brown pencil.

White Fine Posca Pen.

Wet wipes (to remove ink through stencils etc)

If you want to check out what the rest of the DT come up with this week, why not pop to the official Witt & Sass Blog! ( I write there too, but with more dodgy humour and cruddy puns! lol)

On the beach!

Miss Lilly has the right idea, in all this ridiculously hot weather, she is off to the beach! (X-post to the LBBS Blog) This digi is called "Miss Lilly on the beach" and is from Little Blue Button Stamps -  a nice sunny picture for my DT project!

This is just polychromos and white posca pen on kraft card. I even decided against glossy accents :)

Here she is in the shop, so you can see the digistamp before I started to colour it! It's a very pretty stamp and quick and easy to colour too.

The font I have used is LA Headlights BTN. I used Fiskars corner scissors to shape the kraft card. The background paper is a freebie from Making Cards Magazine and the bling is ancient and from the stash. 

Final shot of her, before signing off! If you would like to see more of the DT's inspiration and info on new releases, head over to the Little Blue Button Blog for a nosey!

Kanban Beside The Sea Collection

A very kind friend  ( Thanks Grace! :)) liberated part of her stash for me and it was all from a lovely collection by Kanban called "Beside the Sea". Although I actually had it on the pretext of putting it towards my very-long-running-altered-art-seaside-project I thought it would be nice to make a commissioned card for a long term customer who wanted something seascape-ish!

I used to really love Kanban things when I first started crafting and could regularly pick up bargains from the QVC shop in Shrewsbury. It's all such lovely quality, and although sometimes people's foiling can be rather brash and brassy, Kanban foiling is really nice!

I'm not sure what this card fold is called, but the main card is 22.5 cm x 15 cm with a valley fold at 7.5 cm. The smaller card inside (10cm x 10cm), faces the wrong way round and you glue it in the centre of the back piece. Hope that is explained well enough? I normally put the message inside the smaller centre card, and a place to write your own greeting on the inside of the front small flap, or if there is room, on the left hand side of the card hidden by the 7.5 cm by 15cm flap. There are images inside the flap on this card too.

If you want a diagram of how this card works let me know and I will gladly draw one.

Talking of handy diagrams... I found this on pinterest the other day... it's a set of miniature  instructions for how an easel card works! I normally draw one to include with my card but this would be super handy. Going to print it and cut one out every time I need one. Easel cards are not common sense, even very bright people have been baffled by them....;)