Drag Queen!

Hi folks! Back again with a GDT post for Sweet Escape Digis! I love how on-trend this Drag Queen digi image is! I decided she looked most like RuPaul, so decided to colour her in a classic RuPaul lewk!

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I chose RuPaul's Drag Race expressions and catchphrases for the outside and inside the card. If you need them explained you might not be the intended audience ;) (Font is Dacquoise)

Here is the digistamp that I worked with (in the shop) -

And here is my version of her -

I am fully aware she also looks a bit like Rihanna (It was much more Rihanna than Ru at one point, I hope I rescued it! I love Rihanna but she sooooo wasn't what I was aiming for, lol!)

I really enjoyed two huge challenges with doing this.  A completely new skin tone and a sequined sparkly dress. RuPaul is of mixed ethnicity ( African-American, African, French and Swiss-German) and has amazing golden brown skin! I normally go with something rather more pale and pink, but it's great to be a bit more inclusive!

I added some bling to the dress after trying to replicate some sequin sparkle. I used white gel pen and white posca pen, then just a touch of stickles at the end to get in the hints of other colours.

Hope you enjoyed this card today, and appreciate something a bit different! I love RuPaul's Drag Race and you can learn a lot from it, if you are a colourist, based on how the queens do their makeup!

Chubby Unicorn Citrus Styley

Third card from the new Chubby Unicorn Stamp Set by Witt & Sass. I had tonnes of ideas for this stamp set, I didn't run out of ideas, just time! For this one I was inspired by citrus colours.

As I mentioned yesterday, there are some Witt & Sass card making challenges, to inspire your makes. Remember if you take part in a challenge to tag your picture with "#wscardchallenge." I was inspired by the challenge:Yellow & Green, Sparkle and Flowers.

For this card I used the Greeting and Chubby from the Unicorn Set. I used a glittery yellow background paper from the stash and some papers from Craft Sensations Summer Fruits 6x6 (Which I purchased at The Range) to use through the round windows. The topper is 3D foam mounted onto the base, so the windows are open showing the paper on the lower card level. 

I added some little citrus coloured flowers from Wild Orchid. (Wild Orchid online shop is reopening on the 1st August apparently, with new owners.)

If you want to see what other cards are involved in the challenge, why not hunt for #wscardchallenge on Instagram? Click the link below.

More Frenchie!

Last month I had in an order for a french bulldog birthday card. At the time I made two, in different colours, and decided to use the pinky one as a wedding card for later in the year, as the couple with the frenchie are getting married. So this card I made for myself to give someone (it's been a while) but it's really nice to not have to consider any requirements other than my own :)

I masked a frenchie image and used watercolours (Gansai Tambi) to make an interesting background. I cut out the frenchie and left it as a void. I mounted it with 3D foam onto a pink sparkley paper and a pink matt. Then onto a white card base. Added banner and enamel bling.