Blue and Green Miss Anya Dressy Hat

Here is my latest creation, and also my entry into a number of this week's blog challenges:

• Quirky Crafts - Girly Girl
• Anyone For Anya? - Hot Hot Hot
• By The Cute and Girly - Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
• Caardvarks - Stamping and Embossing (heat &/or dry)
• Stampin' For The Weekend - Summer/Travel
• Our Creative Corner - Summer Inspired
• Theme Thursday - Bright Colours

To begin with, the Miss Anya image by The Greeting Farm, one of my recent purchases from the lovely Sam_from_Lancs over on the docrafts site, was stamped using Memento Tuxedo Black dye ink and coloured using Copic sketch markers.

• Hat/Dress: B00, B21, B24, G12, G14, YG07, Y00
• Hair: E21, E35, E57
• Shoes: B00, B21, B24
• Skin: E00, E02, E21
• Seat: E21, E35, E57

The image was cut out using a Labels 8 Nestabilities die and matted onto a larger shape cut from Kingfisher Blue Alchemy Pearl card. A pale green paper flower, from The Crafty Cow, was attached to the top corner of the label panel using a large light blue Papermania gem brad.

A strip of the Elation paper from the Basic Grey Euphoria paper pad was matted onto a panel of the blue pearl card, punched along the lower edge with the Martha Stewart Doily Lace border punch. This was then matted across a panel of the Eden paper from the same paper pad.

A decorative frame stamp from the Hero Arts Frames and Messages stamp set was stamped onto white card using a bright blue Ink It Up! pigment ink pad, and a sentiment from the Hero Arts Birthday Messages stamp set was stamped in the centre using the same ink pad and the whole panel clear embossed. The shape was cut out and the swirl and frame areas of the image coloured using a couple of Copic markers:

• Sentiment panel: YG07, G12

The sentiment panel was then adhered to the card overlapping the bottom corner of the label panel.