Floating - VLVApr Week1 and Penny Black Cat

I wanted to join this month's Penny Black challenge to include a dog or cat on your card.  I am a "doggy person" but I do like the Penny Black cats so that is what I ended up with on my card. 

I used another VLV sketch and colour scheme.  The flower is dark grey but it actually looks black.  I photographed it from a variety of angles but it still looked darker than it really is.  The image, from one of the clear sets, is coloured with pencils.

Hope your weekend does not float by too quickly.

VLVApr2014 Butterflies

The inspiration picture and sketch from VLVApr2014 Week 3 led to this card below.  It wasn't where I was originally going but the lettering on the wall reminded me of wings.  The colours are inspired by the photo too, but using the papers I had to hand.  That background is dark BLUE.

Here are the inspiration and sketch

 

 

 

The butterfly and banner dies are from Spellbinders and the sentiment is from Marks Finest Papers.

Birthday Sack

I used VLV April Week 2 sketch to decorate this sack, deviating from the sketch a little to keep in with the waves theme.  All the blue card was from my scraps tray - yeah!

I wanted to recycle the tissue and cellophane from my Easter flowers but sticking / stitching the layers wasn't quite as straightforward as I hoped and in all my efforts I forgot to stamp my greeting until it was assembled which made this less accurate.  Hey we live and learn!
Images are from Verve and colouring was done with Copics.  I used some nice sparkly embossing powder from Stampendous on the stamped wave.

The sack contains a small gift as part of my sister's Birthday present.

Thanks for looking - enjoy the weekend.