Festival Lilly digi image

This is a freebie image from All Dressed Up! for a color challenge on the Kit and Clowder FB page. The All Dressed Up! ETSY shop is here.   This is the first introduction I've had to this shop and I am really enjoying their images!

  For this challenge we were to use our favorite colors, and although I can't say I've typically used them together before, I do like charcoal and blue-green colors. Here's my card colored with Copics:

I was inspired to add a little more bling since I've been seeing the gorgeous cards others have made. I am still unsure about it, but it is a start! (My glue was not quite dry yet on one of the daisies...)

This awesome ribbon from Stampin' Up!, called Raven, is so soft and easy to use. I made her headband to look the same. The little birthday wishes tag is from a large Sizzix die and tied on with some baker's twine from a package I received from Some Odd Girl.

The leaf die, used twice, is from Sizzix through SU!, and both these and the light gray panel at the top are stamped with MFT's wooden plank background stamp. The daisies were also cut from a My Favorite Things Die (Rolled Daisy). I actually cut the felt in half and made two daisies from it. The center bling is from my stash, and the felt is also from MFT. The butterfly dies are from Memory box, and I purchased them through Oozak! (Moonlight and Kaleidoscope).

 

Alyce, thanks for continuing to challenge us and exposing us to new stamp companies!

All Dressed up!- You haven't seen the last of me! :)

Thanks for looking and I hope you have a happy, crafting day!

Happy Birthday Danny!

Here's to you Danny! Hope your boxes are overflowing with cards! Happy Birthday!

This image is Pwew pwew pwew Jude and is from Simply Betty Stamps. Thanks Betty for your generous digi gift for this cause!
 The image is colored in Copics and the spaceship is printed on Stampin' Up! cardstock and paper pieced onto the image. A spring was used to give this card some interactive fun! The patterned paper is from DCWV- The Boyhood Stack, and the speech bubble is from WPlus9. The happy birthday words are from The Angel Company.
  Copic colors: E11, EOO; R05; YG11, YG23, YG25, YG67;B16, B24, B12; W7, W5, W3, W1.

 

Here's to you Danny! I hope your birthday is out of this world!

 

BIRTHDAY CARDS NEEDED for 5-year-old Danny Nickerson who is battling inoperable brain cancer. He is the nephew of a Marine and all he wants for his upcoming birthday is a box full of birthday cards. He'll be 6 July 25. Let's make Danny's wish come true by making sure he gets tons of birthday cards. The mailing address is:...

Danny Nickerson
P.O. Box 212
Foxboro, MA, 02035

 

Kit and Clowder Coloring Competition with The Gift

Here's a sweet image from Aurora Wings called The Gift.  Kit and Clowder Facebook group is challenging us toward improvement! Yea! Here's my image colored with Copic markers and fussy cut onto a scrap of bubble-printed paper I had in my stash. The other cardstock colors are from Stampin Up!, as well as the sentiment. I used My Favorite Things - Blueprints Dienamics 15 for the layout. The sequins are the Spring Mix from Some Odd Girl.

 

Colors used were from Jenn "Dove's Color of the Day", which she posts on her Just4FunCrafts and DoveArt Studio blog.

Girl: YR20, YR02, RV21, R35, RV29, R59. Shadow colors: V22, V25.

Boy: E50, BG10, YG11,BG45, BG49, BG78. Shadow colors: BV20, BV23.

Starfish: Y21, YR 23, BV20.



 I used a stippling technique on their scales, and here is a close up of their hair...

Thanks for looking at my card!

No Lines Coloring! Peony.

This is my second go at coloring with the no-lines technique! I do enjoy it, but it is nerve wracking at the same time-right!? Have you tried it yet?
I picked this image from Aurora Wings because the peonies in my yard are blooming right now and they sure are pretty flowers.

I thought it may be easier to color one with lines and one without the lines at the same time. I think it helped!

 

 

The left is my no-lines version and the right is printed out regularly. The words are from Create with TLC, and the ribbon is from Stampin' Up!

Here's more close-up pics:



and the last one 'with' lines:

Thanks for the challenge, making me work outside my comfort zone, and thanks for looking!

Images colored with Copics;  RV 69, 66, 63, 10; E15, Y17, 15; G99, 94, 21, 20. Very light background with BV and RV colors.

Ribbons! Belle of the Ball.

This is the July Freebie image from The East Wind, and I am using her to enter into their challenge of using Ribbons! This is a perfect wedding image, so I paired it with some words in my stash that were from The Angel Company.

 

The ribbons were all from my stash. I wrapped a translucent bluish/purple ribbon around some roses ribbon; getting my idea from this Belle's hair. The ribbon across the bottom had a row of pearls already sewn onto it, and I tied a triple bow from some thin white ribbon to finish off the top right side. The ribbon in the tag is from SU!

The papers are from Stampin' Up!, Almost Amethyst and Very Vanilla.

 

And how about that awesome ribbon in her hair!! The image is colored with Copics.

Skin: E04, E11, E21, E00, R20, R32.  Hair: E29, E25, E23.   Dress: BV31, BV 0000.  Ribbons: B63, B66, B69; E53, E51.   Background: E51, E50.

Thanks for looking and thanks for the wonderful image Unky!

KKS Challenge 5-Two or more stamps!

Here's my entry for this Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Challenge! I've been stamping like crazy the last few days to get some cards done for the challenges. Scroll around my blog to see the other cards I entered into their themes :)

 

This little cutie is from the Birthday Lulu stamp set which comes with three girly, party images and 5 sentiments, from KKS. She is colored with Copic markers and the layout is from MFT Blueprints 15. The graph paper in the background is really a pretty, deep/bright-pink color in real life, and the striped flag paper pieces have a little bit of a shimmer to them.

When I cut the pink graph paper out with the Blueprints die, I also cut out the smaller piece shape-like the one the image is stamped on, so now I have that smaller-shaped pattern piece I can use on another card! This also lets the white paper with the image on it nest flat into the graph-like background paper.

Thanks for looking, and I hope you enjoyed all the fun challenges from KKS!

KKS Challenge 4-All Things Shimmery!

Here's my entry for this Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Challenge! I've been stamping like crazy the last few days to get some cards done for the challenges. Scroll around my blog to see the other cards I entered into their themes :)

This card is loaded with shimmer - Shimmery black pearl paper, shimmery white pearl paper, silver glitter enamel dots, and shimmering show girls! This gal in the photo frame below with short hair, has a shimmery background made with Heidi Swapp Silver shine mist and Tim Holtz's dark pink (that was misted on first so all areas were covered). Looking closely you can see a little bit of pink in there! The silver shine spray was a little blotchy when spraying, but in the end it turned out well.

I masked her, and then quickly pulled off the mask after spraying. It did soak through some areas faster than I anticipated... On one of the two that were masked for cards, I ended up having to recolor and cut her face out; gluing this over the finished card since the first originally ended up with some silver puddles on it.

The images are colored with Copics and loose, white/clear glitter was glued onto their outfits and feathers.

The film strip rectangles and photo frame dies are from Stampin' Up!

 

 

No more waiting, here's the card in its entirety:

This set is called Show Stoppers and can be found at KKS. I was lucky enough to win this awesome set at its release, and this is the first time I had a chance to ink it up!!
Thanks for looking!


 



KKS Challenge 3-Unconventional Colors!

Here's my entry for this Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Challenge! I've been stamping like crazy the last few days to get some cards done for the challenges. Scroll around my blog to see the other cards I entered into their themes :)
This was a fun one to color up, and the first time I colored an entire image in black and white!

 



I thought it would be pretty unconventional to color the party girl in black and white.
I used my range of Copic C shades. Unfortunately the photo is a little washed out, and this background paper is more of a not-quite navy color in real life; that is not showing up too well.
I originally planned to find some wild, party-type paper for the background, but this piece jumped out instead! Here's the whole card:

This is Sophia and she comes with two sentiments, one of which I used on this card. This set is from KKS.
Thanks for looking!

KKS Challenge 2-Paper Piecing!

Here's my entry for this Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Challenge! I've been stamping like crazy the last few days to get some cards done for the challenges. Scroll around my blog to see the other cards I entered into their themes :)

I paper pieced her flight attendant uniform. Her skirt and jacket are cut out as one solid piece and shaded with markers for dimension. Her bag is colored with Copics and then a, dampened with alcohol, piece of burlap was pressed against it. Here's the whole card:

 

The Adventure letters and the banner are from My Favorite Things and the photo frame is from Stampin' Up! The stamp is from the set Glamour Girls from KKS.

Thanks for looking!

What goes up and never comes down?....

Hmmm....

 

 

YOUR AGE!!!  Say What!!

 

 

These sassy cuties are from Little Miss Muffet Stamps and can be found here: Jr-Hatter-Michelle and

Jr-Hatter-Kathrina.  The sentiment is from create with TLC. This image is colored with Copic markers; and has some enamel dots, purchased from Oozak.

  I merged the two junior hatters and the words in my Microsoft Word program and colored up these two jokers with the My Favorite Things Color Palate Challenge 6 and the LMMS Challenge 88 anything goes challenges in mind.

 I hope you like my little funny and thanks for checking out my blog!

Happy Birthday! Marilyn Style

Well, sortof...I have a Marilyn anyway!! She's from Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps and is a rubbah image with a sentiment. The happy birthday sentiment circle is one I have had for ages. It has been unmounted and I am no longer sure which company it is from, maybe a PSX??

 

I wanted this card to be pretty much white-on-white. I deviated by adding a little blue-for her eyes, the happy birthday sentiment and the background card base.

The chandelier is cut from a shimmer paper with my Cricut and a cartridge from CTMH. Rhinestones were added to give a little more bling for Marilyn. In the photo above you can kind of see the sentiment....
The background was embossed with a folder from SU! The stairs were also embossed from a SU! folder, and the die is from Memory Box.   This was kind of a busy card for me. I was not sure about it at first, but it is slowly growing on me!             Here's the full card front:

 

The fancy double scallop border at the bottom is also from shimmer paper and the die is from MFT. Marilyn is colored with Copics and clear glitter is added to her dress and shoes for added Pizzazz!

 



(SU!=Stampin' Up!  CTMH=Close To My Heart  MFT=My Favorite Things.)
Thanks for checking my blog out and I hope your weekend is full of sparkles!!



My Dad's Truck

This is the perfect digi, for the perfect card, for my dad on this Father's Day!
Thanks Tiddly Inks! I would love to enter it into your contest!!
  The card was made with Stampin' Up! cardstock and Cordinations cardstock, which I sanded for the banner. -I didn't plan on watercoloring the image, so it is printed on Georgia Pacific CS. Watercoloring seemed the best way for me to get that old, rusty-truck look! The enamel dots are "Happenings" from My Minds Eye, purchased at Oozak.com.

 

 

Thanks for looking and I hope you are inspired to try watercoloring!

Just saying Hello

This fun little card was made with Little Miss Muffet Stamps: Polka Dot Pals Narah digi image. This was the first time for me coloring her up, and I was a little apprehensive about trying to draw my own nose and mouth.. Anyway, I think she's still pretty cute this way! This image is merged with Make It Crafty: Pebblestone patch digi stamp.
The crystal-sparkling sequins just arrived to my door from Some Odd Girl: Spring Fling. I literally sprinkled them onto the card then glued them where they fell :) .  The embossed clouds on the yellow paper-ribbon-tag is from a Stampin' Up! embossing folder. I used the debossed side and did not emboss the bottom of the tag.

 

Here's a different angle to show of the sparkle in the sequins!

 

Copic colors for this card include: E04, E11, E21, E00, E000, R11. B32, B34, B37. G99, YG67, YG23. Y38, Y11, Y15, Y17. E37, E33, E30.BG05, BG01. E77, E74, E71, YG00.RV10, RV21, RV23.

I am entering this card into LMMS challenge LMMS Challenge 86: Anything Goes. Thanks for looking and hopefully I have inspired you to get crafty!

Chillin with aqua accents!

This week I am entering into two challenges. The first is the new Headshot release from Simply Betty Stamps. The second challenge is a layout from MFT; one of my newest favorite shops! The Gerbera Daisy Die is also from MFT.  Ice Queen Betty (SBS) is colored up with cool colors, glitter and sparkles.

 

 

The teal blue foil paper came with the ridges and was cut with the metal die mentioned above. One is popped up for added dimension. The sentiment, I believe from a Stamping Up! set is stamped in variegated pink-purple/blue metallic ink. White SF Sharpie Pen accents were added to her hair, but then I thought it made the artist's drawn lines look like dotted lines, so this gave me the perfect reason to add more Stickles sparkle to her hair. Stickles were also added to the collar of her dress and her necklace. She has clear Spica glitter pen added to her eyelids and a touch to her lips also. Here are some close-up shots:

Here's a second card for comparison I made for my stash, and I did not add the extra sparkles to her hair. (It was fun to challenge myself to try to make icy colors in pastel form! ; ] ).  I used Copics on all.

The  second part of SBS challenge was to use the headshot of Music Notes Rio. This time the challenge was to use black and white plus one other color of choice. (From the samples it looked like it was okay to color the skin natural colors.) Here's my take:

I decided to stick with the same aqua-teal color I love for this one. I am still struggling practicing with black hair! The black colors were made with cool grays and BVs for the shirt and eyes. BGs were used for the pops of color. I tried to make the music notes look like they had a glowing, vibrant center. I also die cut the double background from a shape set, and the fancy flourish is from Lawn Fawn. The music note inked background is from a stamping wheel from Stamping Up!, and for an extra accent of color, I added some enamel dots.  

Thanks for checking out my site!

 

Cupcakes with Jean

The image for this card comes from the amazing MayzyArt Site! She has so many images, and after some time away, she is cranking out even more awesome images! This one is called Jean and she's bringing a treat for you.
The layout is one from Jen's Deconstructed Sketches (150), and I changed it up just a tad!

 

She's colored up in Copics, and I didn't write the combo down this time, but there are BGs and cool greys, possibly E15, a YR and Y for the hair...I used Spica turquoise glitter pen for her barrettes, the bling on her belt and buttons on her boots. The blue background is also a shiny/glittery paper from a pack in my stash. I think it totally makes this card!

 

I changed the ribbon in the middle (from the sketch) to be this fun twisty-cut piece of textured paper and was having a time trying to think of what I should use in the corner, when it dawned on me- I have a Sizzix die for a cupcake (It also has an icecream cone with it and is an oldie.)! I bent the edges of the cupcake paper for a more 3-D look and the frosting was embossed with a stencil using a thin rubber mat through my Big Shot. The cupcake is popped up for added dimension.

Thanks for looking! (Dontcha just want a cupcake now?)