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.

HS:MS:HS fry + cling

Yesterday's word on HS:MS:HS was 'fry'. I fully intended to take a photo when I cooked our evening meal, because I used the frying pan, but I forgot, so in the end I took these shots:





Later on in the evening, I happened to flick on to UKFood on TV and there was an old Masterchef. I decided to try and capture a couple of shots from the screen - mmmm, every time I tried, the picture had moved on before I got the shot, so, not to be put off, I paused the picture and managed a couple of shots of salmon being fried with flames leaping around the side of the pan:





Today's word is 'cling' - I couldn't think of anything exciting for this, so this is my effort: