Lady Gilli and her large beautiful flower

Time for another Gilli stamps challenge and this one is an easy one for me..Flowers. I tend to use flowers on most of my cards and I own large buckets upon buckets of paper flowers that are just begging to be used.

On this card I tried something different. I am working on one of Suzanne Dean's copic classes at her copic site- Color Me Creative- and in class five we do Hispanic skin tones. This site is filled with classes you can take, lots of fun groups to join and just in general some awesome people to chat with. Back to my colouring of skin tones her class inspired me to do some internet searches for other colour combos for skin tones. I mean- we are all different- why keep using the same copic colours :) 

This is my first attempt outside of my standard colour combinations and while it still needs more work and practice I think it turned out okay. I really enjoyed breaking my routine and thinking of all my friends of different ethnic backgrounds and how much nicer it would be to give them a card with a girl coloured more to match their own skin tones. I am going to keep practicing and have fun trying new colour combos! 

To highlight my sassy Lady Gilli I added a big flower to set a festive air to the card. I then matched my papers to her dress and shoes and of course added some sparkle too. Lady Gilli always needs to sparkle! hee hee. 

I hope you play along with us over at House of Gilli and add flowers to your creations too!

Cheers, Andrea

A portrait of Lady Gilli

I'm back again today with a card featuring Lady Gilli for the current challenge at the House of Gilli blog! Our current challenge is to use white and only one other colour on your card. Thankfully we are also allowed to use our skin and hair colours as usual but other than that it must be white and one colour- in my case pink!

I actually coloured Lady Gilli in fully but I wasn't fond of how I coloured the pleats in her dress. I really liked everything else though and I was bummed at the thought of throwing it out and starting over. After a few minutes of sulking (hee hee) I got the idea to just frame her face and make her into a portrait. I think it turned out great and I got to keep the part of the image I really liked my  colouring on. Keep that in mind next time you make a booboo on your card too. Maybe you can salvage part of the image like I did today and take your card into a whole other direction. 

I then wanted the card base to really stand out so I used a Baroque embossing folder to make my white card base pop! I added a frame behind Lady Gilli and decorated it with crystals as I would imagine a ritzy frame would look like on her dresser lol. Some butterflies and a bow finished it off. Voila!

So come and play along with us at H.O.G. Scroll down below this post and you can also see more lovely inspiration from my fellow DT members. 

Cheers! Andrea

Lady Gilli is feeling the love

Andrea here today sharing my challenge card for our current theme- Love. 

I inked up the ever so sophisticated Lady Gilli for my card and used my copics on her hair and skin. I then paper pieced her dress to give her a fun flirty look. I imagined her getting ready to go out for Valentine's Day and wanting that sexy but cute look that I am personally always striving for tee hee!!

What ideas do you have to play along with our current challenge? Come and join us for your chance at a Gilli goody bag!

Cheers- Andi

Happy Holidays from Lady Gilli!!!

Hi Everyone ~ hope you had a fun and relaxing weekend!  Maybe you're all set for the holidays?  Well if you're like me, you're not nearly there yet,...... but I did get Lady Gilli all ready to party.  Take some time to relax, color, craft and join in our Challenge #22,  your card should have some red and gold on it.  So come join us and get the opportunity to be the winner of a wonderful Gilli Goodie Bag, yippppeee!!!  Here's Lady Gilli:

I colored Gilli with Copic markers on Cryogen card stock, gave her shoes a coating of gold Stickles, and coated her gloves with gold Viva Paper Pen.  Can't wait to see your creations!  Thanks for stopping by, Ann

♥♥ Don't forget to check the winner of challenge #21 : )