Three challenges and a winner

I´m overdoing myself... I never participated in three challenges at the same time doing three different things! but I´m enjoying myself a lot!!

The first one is for the Softpencil challenge #16 at PCP, the challenge was to make a friendship card:

I used this cute image Taking care of flowers by Elizabeth Pujalka, colored with colored pencils, papers are from Summer Driggs, sentiment is a dollar stamp that I attached to the card with a brad. On the inside I wrote Like flowers, friends need to be taken care of.

The second one I made it to participate on Challenge #14 at Michelle Perkett Challenge Blog:

 

I called it The Queen of the day, I used Queen of hearts by Michelle Perkett colored with colored pencils and the papers are from Kimberly Lund. The challenge is a sketch challenge and I changed the central oval dedicated to place the image by a heart and placed my image on the side, hope it counts!!

An the third one is an altered plastic box I made to participate on Challenge #1 at Michelle Perkett group on SNR:

 

 

the challenge was to make a project using Michelle´s Dragon Dream image. The box is a box we store paper membranes in the lab I work, we emptied and it was going directly to the trash, sooooo... I couldn´t help myself and I saved it from its painful death for future use, and I did it just this afternoon! I colored the images with colored pencils, put some rhinestones as their heads, and the sentiment I found it here (a wonderful quotes finder).

An last I want to show a card I did for Softpencil Challenge #15 at PCP and I won the challenge!!! WhooHoo!!! Thanks Elizabeth!!!! the challenge was to make a card with our favorite layout:

I colored with colored pencils Three hearts that Elizabeth so generously gave us as freebie, I´m completely in LOVE with this image... I like a lot to color mandalas, so these hearts were whispering to me "color us... color us...!!" as soon as I saw them. Because the challenge was to use a layout of our liking I chose this one because of its simplicity, it fits so well with me... and the main focus is the image, something that I wanted from the start. The colors of the card were chosen to match the ribbon... crazy, right? but that´s what exactly did... I wated to use that ribbon, so the rest of the card have to complement it. I colored the butterflies in the centrar heart with green to break a bit the 2 color scheme I was using and added some glitter glue to make it sparkle a bit. This will be my Valentine´s day card for my sweetheart, I hope he likes it!! (it´s a winner, so he MUST like it! hahaha)

It´s been a long week at work but I´m so glad it´s done, so now I have the weekend to enjoy!! Enjoy yours also!

All Michelle Perkett

I want to show today what I did so far with Michelle´s images, she is so talented, her art work is incredibly beautiful and on top of this she´s been very generous to all her group members at PCP and SNR giving for free lots of wonderful digi stamps. Thank you Michelle, for sharing your work with us and for being such a wonderful person. This is what your images inspired me:

• Holly Fairy: Holly the Christmas friendship fairy colored with colored pencils, white puff paint for the snow, and the swirl was made with photoshop
  

• Christmas wish: Wishing star angel colored with colored pencils and the papers are from Summer Driggs. This was my first participation on a blog hop!

• Farfalla: Arianna colored with colored pencils and the papers are from Summer Driggs  

• Holiday treat: freebie colored with colored pencils, paper pierced and papers from Summer Driggs

• The gift of your heart: Snowman with heart colored with colored pencils and eye shadows, papers from Summer Driggs

• Arianna Ornament: dollar store ornament embelished with Arianna colored with colored pencils and shimmer body on her wings

• A gift for you: freebie digitally colored with photoshop, papers from Summer Driggs.
  

• Peace: Harmony goddess colored with colored pencils, papers from digital blog train Afternoon Delight and lots and lots of glitter
  

• Peace and love: Holly the Christmas friendship fairy colored with colored pencils and the papers are from Summer Driggs
  

• Sofia 1: 15´s invite step ladder card I made for my niece using Spring. I colored the image digitally to match the papers colors, the papers are from Helly and I modified the colors a bit.
  

• Birthday sprite: Magical birthday sprite colored with colored pencils blended with vaseline, papers from Summer Driggs
  

• Believe in mermaids: Tutti-Frutti colored with colored pencils
  

• Fairy in a jar: Magical birthday sprite colored with colored pencils, embellished with rhinestones and glitter, the sprite stands on a bed of moss

I´m almost done with another card I´m making to participate in Michelle´s challenge blog, I´ll show it as soon as I finish it. I didn´t realize until now how many I made using Michelle´s images... and I have a few more waiting for me to be colored!

Showing a craft and a challenge

Before starting I want to thank all comments on my first post, you are helping me to get over the scary feeling about my blogging new life. Thank you so much!!
As Michelle so nicely suggest me I´m starting to post today some crafts I made to share with everybody. What a nice idea! because I didn´t know how and where to start...
So first I´m sowing the entry I made to participate in last weekend challenge "under the sea" that Michelle set for us at her PCP group.  Michelle´s images are so great! but I´ll dedicate my next post to show all I did using her art work.
This is the whole piece:

it´s an altered cardboard box that I papier-mache to give it texture and after it dryed I sponged it with acrylic paint. I colored the Tutti-Frutti Mermaid from Michelle Perkett with coloring pencils and suspended her with a fishing lane on the middle of the box. Here is a picture of Tutti-Frutti before gettting into her fish-box

I put as a background an assembly I did on photoshop with some digi-scrap freebie I found a long ago, printed it out and glued it on the inside of the box. I finished the project with Michelle´s sentiment "Believe" and some embellishments. I have to mention also that I won that challenge, such an unespected thing!!! but sooo pleasant! thanks so much Michelle!!
And second, I´m participating in a challenge also at Aly´s Sunday Challenge (Aly is a 11 y-o creative little lady that I found a few days ago). This card has a history of its own... one day I was feeling inspired and I doodled something that I wanted to use as a background for an image. Here is what I drew

I colored the image with my coloring pencils using a color combination at another weekend challenge posted by Michelle: orange, pink and red. I couldn´t participate that time and the color combination was something I´d neved used myself but I wanted to see what could I do with that

then I liked it so much how it turned out that i could use it as a background, so I made a card using Aly´s sketch #9 and Maggie from Digital Delights for my daughter

I added some details with glitter gel pens, some words I wrote myself and a ribbon to follow the sketch.