Hello everyone wishing you a wonderful Wednesday! I hope that you are having a lovely week.
We finished harvesting our olives on Sunday and they have all been pressed at our local mill...quite a good harvest this year, just under 1 tonne in weight which has yielded around 160 litres of olive oil so not bad considering.
We have 80 Olive trees and it's taken us around 7 years to get them back into a good shape, lots of pruning to bring the height down and get rid of all the dead wood so it's not as time consuming when we pick. We pick by hand, no machines and no help, just me and John which is hard work, but it's definitely worth the time and effort and the taste of our own olive oil is amazing.
I'm on my blog today for the new bi-weekly I Love Promarkers blog challenge , it would be wonderful if you joined us over there if you love to colour with alcohol markers and don't forget there are prizes up for grabs.
You can find all of the rules and details for the challenge over on the blog.
Here is my inspiration card for the current blog challenge with the theme - Love is in the air, using a sweet digital stamp called Rory's Owl Friends and this is going to my cousin for her Christmas card this year.....Owl's are a favourite so I thought this was the perfect image.
Its a simple a6 Christmas card, with a layer of pink glitter card stock and the focus on the beautiful image. Once coloured in I have gently blended blue distress ink around the image and added white dots of snow in the sky.
The sentiment was stamped and heat embossed and added to the bottom of the card using card scraps for dimension. I've added some blue distress ink around the sentiment and then scattered heart clay confetti around the design to finish it off and to add to the them of Love is in the air.
I really hope that you like my card today and will drop by again to see my next project and don't forget to join in with the challenge over on the I Love Markers blog
Hasta luego ๐
Enjoy the rest of your day !
Card recipe:
Woodware Craft Collection Sentiment Stamp - Bauble Owl
Cosmic Shimmer Detail embossing powder - Clear
Versafine Clair ink - Twilight
Heart clay confetti
Distress ink - tumbled glass
Sakura Gelly Roll Pens - white, black, clear star
Cosmic Shimmer - Cosmic Twinkles - Icicles blue
Promarkers used :
Skin: almond, dusky rose, soft peach, oatmeal, blush
Blush: pale pink
Hair: vanilla, caramel, sandstone, umber
Eyes: denim blue, cool aqua
Outfits: hot pink, carmine, cerise
marine, turquoise, pastel green
cool aqua, blender
Tights
Pom poms
Bows: mango, peach , soft peach
Feathers: umber, caramel, pastel beige
Feet
Beaks: pumpkin, sunflower
Snow: cool aqua, blender
Fence: caramel, sandstone, umber
Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog I would love if you could leave me a comment.
Wendy x
I love the way you have coloured this image! Such a beautiful card.
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