A little extra baggage

There are times when you just want to make something other than a card and as I managed to get my hands on some 6x6 plain white bags a few weeks back, I had it in mind that I would throw together a few gift bags.

This one was made using a gorgeous stamp from the Party Paws Xmas range  and my lovely Spectrum Noir pens.

The image is quite detailed and took a while to colour but not that hard to do as it turned out. I seem to have found a good batch of colours to colour black areas, which give the appearance of black without losing the contrast (it was a variety of shades from the IG range). I was a bit worried about colouring the tree but this turned out to be really easy in the end as I just used a light base colour to colour all over and the 'blobbed' a mid and dark shade here and there to get a bit of shading in.

You can also just about see a bit of sparkle in there - this was achieved using a Graph It glitter pen which has a very subtle sparkle.

As you can see, I went to town a bit with the dies on this one, and they were all cut from white card originally, before colouring them with my Spectrums to get a perfect colour match.

So that's my little gift bag which I hope you like :-)

I now have lots of lovely Christmassy challenges to enter and here they all are:

http://lovetocreatechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/challenge-141-anything-goes.html
http://cutiepiechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/challenge-81-festive-furry-friends.html
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/2-or-4-legs.html
http://nutcrafters.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/challenge-81anything-but-card.html
http://cinspirations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/challenge-289-anything-goes-option-of.html
http://trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/challenge-285-13th-of-november-christmas.html
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/challenge-83.html
http://wedodoobadoo.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/challenge-19-christmaswe-do-doobadoo.html
http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/week-285-anything-but-card.html
http://craftycalendarchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/crafty-calendar-november-challenge-its.html
http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge2.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/chnc-challenge-extra-for-november-2014.html
http://a-crafty-mess.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/challenge-2.html
https://www.facebook.com/SpectrumNoir?v=app_375772462579359&app_data=gaReferrerOverride%3D

Thanks for visiting me today and a happy Sunday to you all.

Sharon x