Paperbabe Stamps Challenge #67 ~ Sketch Challenge

Happy New Year!!!
everyone, it's year of the dog this year, hope your enjoying all the festivities, a busy week indeed with pancakes and valentine's too.

We have a new challenge on the Paperbabe Stamps blog today...
This Fortnight's is a little sketch...

I was inspired to create this piece in celebration of the Chinese New Year.

 I've used the Blunt bangs Long with the head & torso mixed media templates,

 with of course the female face stamp... to give a different look, I omitted the eyelashes stamp and simply drew in a suggestion of them with black copic liner pen.

having rekindled my love of copics coloured away, I thought I would bring out this vintage patterned paper from about ten years ago(I know).

Remember the old days when we would matt with gold mirri? hahaha I thought it fitted this style though so went with it...

although I do like the layered gold washi, also pretty in keeping with the theme...

I also used washi on her kimono, for the edging, which inspired the stamping on the rest of her kimono using the flower from the Oriental Zen Stamp with distress oxides, I then coloured the grey with copcis, impressed how the oxides don't 'bleed' good to remember if you ever want to stamp something in a different colour...

and I just had to finish her off adorning her hair with the large Peony & Bud flower, also coloured in copcis, in case you were wondering...

I'm entering this into a few other challenges, thank you...

A bit more time to craft ~ Anything Goes

Creative Artiste ~ Anything Goes

Crazy challenge ~ Girl Power

Creative crafters ~ Very First Challenge

Crafty hazelnuts ~ Patterned Paper

Inspiration destination ~ Real Stamps

Dragonfly dreams ~ Flowers

Stamping Sensations ~ Flowers

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Thanks for stopping by, I am planning on showcasing our new release over the next week, with a lovely blog hop on the Saturday... hope you stop by then too.

Enjoy a wonderfully creative New Chinese Year!!!

HuGs Kim x