Sprocket the Steampunk Aviator

 

This is the end result of yesterday's WOYWW? post.  I really enjoyed making this card with Sprocket the Steampunk Aviator from Saturated Canary digis as it was different and refreshing from what I usually put together and yet it still has a soft look, with plenty of embellishments and even a bow.  I'm not a get down and get inky crafter, and yet I don't do clean and simple either, it just tends to be clean and full on.  I'ts nice to dabble in something different once and a while though.

And so my first digi image stamped card has been made and I can see this becoming a new addiction.  There's no need to find a hiding place to store them either.  The more card samples I see made from Saturated Canary digi stamps the more I like them.  I have another image of Sprocket coloured in almost the same colour scheme as the card and am tempted to make a matching altered notebook now.

It's thanks to a posting made by Jak Heath that I felt brave enough to have a go at colouring this image with my Promarkers as I have difficulty in deciding where to put in light and shade if I don't have a coloured sample to follow.  I still struggled with the hair and initially she was to have been a strawberry blonde, as I was using the skin tones to colour with, but as I wasn't happy with each attempt it got darker and darker and just when I was fed up and giving up I went over the whole thing with cinnamon and this is the end result which I'm quite happy with as it tones in with the other colours I'd used.

As well as entering this card in this week's I Love Promarkers Challenge which is Tags I also used the  Sketch Saturday challenge for the inspiration for the layout.

As well as using a digi stamp I used the cogs stamp from the Stampin' up set Sense of Time to create a background paper. It was stamped and embossed using silver fine detail embossing powder.  The top backing paper is dry embossed using a cogs Cuttlebug embossing folder.  This paper, the gingham paper and the Happy Birthday paper are from a Cuddly Buddly download A Patchwork of Papers Orange.  The black and white checked paper and peach spotted paper is from the Docrafts Daisy and Dandelion CD.  I think I've finally used up all my Halloween scraps now.  Nestabilites were used for the circle embellishments, a Sizzix die for the tags and a Quickutz die for the cogs.

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges.

I Love Promarkers Challenge 89 - Tags

Sketch Saturday Challenge 178
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Totally Papercrafts Challenge 89 - Layer upon Layer 
Inky Impressions Challenge 30 - Anything Goes
Lollipop Crafts Challenge 54 - Embellish It
Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge PWC117 - Embellish
The Paper Shelter Challenge 37 - Anything Goes
One Stitch at a Time Challenge 85 - Emboss It
Kenny K's Crafty Girlz Challenges 66 - Get Dotty
PaperCrafting Journey Challenge PCJ22 - Use a Digi 
Scrap Creations  GGSC87 - Doing it Digi  (top 3 digi stores  1st Saturated Canary, 2nd Cuddly Buddly, 3rd Teddy Bo & Co.)
Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Thanks for reading

Liz xx