My Creation Time

OMG!!!

2011-03-11T23:20:00.003-07:00

So I was more than a little Star Struck and totally a blubbering idiot. But it was TIM HOLTZ people *insert Squeal here*. I have a Ranger Class tomorrow so hopefully I'm over my dorkness and I'm able to concentrate on my projects.

Birthday Blog Hop!!!

2011-03-11T04:00:00.009-07:00

Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you.
Happy Birthday Dear Tracy,
Happy Birthday to you!!!!!

If you are just starting with me, this post is part of a Birthday Blog Hop for Tracy Jackson of Stamping Seasons. I have the extreme honor of being part of her (and Lou's) design team over at Southern Girls Challenge Blog. Tracy is so talented and such a wonderful person that a Birthday Hop is definitely in order. Make sure you scroll to the bottom of this post to enter for a chance to win some Candy Candy I have up for grabs, before you continue on with the hop!

Ok, so what better image for a birthday card than a little girl in her birthday suit. Don't ya just love her little bum. I absolutely love this Mo Manning image. It has definitely got to be my new favorite (I know, I know, I say that at least once a month). I gave feather blending another go on this card and I have to say, I'm much happier with the result. I hope you like it Tracy!

So once you have hopped to the last blog, make sure you stop by Tracy's Blog and give her some Birthday Love. Tell her that Michelle Singer sent you so that she gets the hint about this surprise Birthday Blog Hop.

So have you entered your name below for my Blog Candy? You have, Ok, then let's get our "Hop On" and head on over to the next stop in this birthday hop. This would be the blog of my fellow Southern Girls teamie, the lovely and Uber talented Alicia from Time to Create. If you have time, leave her some love. :)

Challenges I'm putting this card in:
Crafty Purple Frog - Fly away with us
Paper Crafting Journey - Things with Wings
Magical Mondays - Spring Colors
The Crafty Pad - Use a ribbon
Mo's Digital Challenge - A bit of Green

Hair Inspired Card!!!

2011-03-09T14:40:00.007-07:00

This card was totally inspired by my new hairdo although the way it looked in my head and the way it turned out on paper are two totally different things. I would have played with it a little more but this card is for the Southern Girls Flower Challenge and I ran out of time. The left hand side of this card is driving me nuts. lol

The image used on this card is a Digi from The Paper Shelter who is one of the sponsors over at Southern Girls. I'm not used to using such bright colors but I think I'm feeling as washed out as all the Vintage colors that are popular now and I'm cravin' color. I paper pieced the flower to add a little dimension to the card. I might still add one more layer for the center of the flower.
Here is a picture of my hair in case you were wondering how on earth my hair could inspire this card. I love funky colored hair and my stylist is awesome.

Copics Used:

Flower: B02, B00, RV13, RV10, Y38, Y35, YG09, YG07, YG06
Bugs: B02, B00, RV13, RV10, C5, E11, E13, E09, E07, R27
Shadow: C1

Challenges I'm putting this card in:
Friday Sketchers - for the sketch
Delightful Sketches - Welcome Spring
Stamp Something - Use a Digi
Simply Create - Power of Flowers
Little Claire's - Flowers
Stampin' Sisters - Stamped Flower image
Gingerloft - Flowers
KB Challenges - Use Pink
Die Cut Dreams - Spring Garden Scene
Bunny Zoe Craft - Spring Flowers
Ladybug Crafts - Spring Colors
Crafty Creations - Use baby blue

Brads, Gems or Dew Drops

2011-02-23T09:44:00.005-07:00

The Southern Girls Challenge this fortnight is to use Brads, Gems or Dew Drops. It was my intention to use all three but I couldn't find my dew drops so I had to settle for brads and gems. The international challenge sponsor for this challenge is Wild Orchid Crafts, Woohoo!!! I only wish I could have entered the challenge. lol
This card has a lot of dimension. The heart I used was cut out of chipboard. I then covered it with a black paint dabber, Perfect Pearl powder and set it with Forever Red Perfect Pearl Mist. I know, a lot of work for something I was just going to cover up but I think it added to the look of the card. The flowers, of course, are from Wild Orchid and I inked the edges of the outside flowers with Fired Brick Distress Ink. I also placed a small crystal in the center of each flower.

Challenges I'm putting this card in:
Sweet Stamps - Flowers
Bunny Zoe - Flowers Everywhere
Lexi's Creations - Flowers
Creative Cowgirls - Hearts
Crafty Calendar - Love
Mami Doodles - Flower Card
The Stamp Man - Hearts Theme

Love 2 Scrap Event

2011-02-07T10:12:00.002-07:00

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Canvas Clock

2011-01-27T19:18:00.007-07:00

Before I share my project today, I wanted to share a song with you. This is "Sweater Song" by Hedley and I think it's become my new favorite song. I love Jacob, he is the best.

On to my canvas clock.

I hang this clock on the wall year round and I just swap out the paper and photo when the seasons change. The photo is of my little boy playing in the snow. It was the first snowfall this year so there wasn't much snow on the ground. The paper I used is BoBunny, I think it's called Midnight Frost. When I saw the snowflake on this paper, I knew it would be perfect for my clock.

Challenges I'm putting my clock in:
Penny's Challenges - Anything Goes
Sisterhood of Crafters - Anything Goes
Incy Wincy Designs - Winter Wonderland
Stamping Scrapping - Winter Challenge

Cutie Little Cupid

2011-01-26T20:49:00.007-07:00

I saw a tutorial on SCS last week for this cute pop up card and I had to try it. And wow, was it ever easy. I'm definitely going to make more cards like this. This card is for the latest challenge over at Southern Girls. The challenge is.......da da ta da....Dry Embossing. I was happy to do this challenge cause I just got me some new Tim Holtz embossing folders and was dieing to try them out. Oh..Oh did I mention that I'm gonna be taking a class from none other than that legendary TIM HOLTZ in March *insert squeal here*. I was so excited that I almost peed my pants when I found out my registration had gone through. I wonder if he is as excited about meeting me...LOL There are three people in the papercraft industry that I would love to meet. Those people are Tim Holtz, Suzanne Dean and Jennifer McGuire. One down, 2 to go....woohoo.

Anyhoo, on with the card. The image I used on this card is from Delightful Digitals, the International Sponsor for Southern Girls. It's called Loving Cherub. There aren't that many more details in the card except maybe for the Bricked embossing folder and I used the new BoBunny Valentine paper.

Copics used:
Skin: E00, E11, E13, R20
Eyes: B01. B00
Hair: E59, E37, E33, Y17, Y23, Y21 (ok I went a little silly with the hair colors)
Wings & Cloud: BG10, C1, C00, 0
Bow & Heart: E59, E37, E33, R29, R24

Challenges I'm putting this card in:
Stampavie & More - Love
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Valentine
My Time to Craft - Embossing
Craft Your Passion - use 2 Patterned Papers
Lexi's Creations - Valentines
Gingerloft - Things That Fly
Copic Creations - Anything New & Copics
Craft Your Days Away - Love

Valentine's Cards

2011-01-12T15:17:00.012-07:00

Well, it has been a long time, no post.The holidays kept me really busy but life is starting to get back to normal. Well, at least for a few days then I have card classes starting up again. I love teaching so classes are so worth the work it takes to put them together.
I have 2 cards to show you today so make sure you keep on scrollin' to the end. The challenge at Southern Girls this fortnight is "Totally Loved Up!!!" and they have 2 awesome Digi sponsors. I fell in love with both images and felt the need to play.

The first image is from Pink Cat Studios who is one of my favorite stamp companies. It's called "Rex Ate the Valentines". When it came time for a sentiment for this card, I was going through my stamps and found one that said "Be my Valentine". I contemplated using that one but then I got to thinkin'. Rex is eating the valentines, Do I really want to be his valentine? lol So I whipped you this sentiment in Word and there you have it. I decided to make this one in blues and greens because, well, I have 2 boys in my life and I can't give them girlie girl valentines.

Copics Used:
Rex body & sky: B99, B97, B95, B91
Rex spikes & Grass: YG99, YG97, YG95, YG93
Valentines: R39, R27, R24, RV34, RV32, RV10
Shading: C1, C00

Challenges I'm putting this card in:
BunnyZoe Crafts - Love is in the Air
The Crazy Challenge - Animals
Stamp Fairy - Layer and Buttons
One Stitch in Time - Love and Valentine
CES Challenges - All Creatures Great and Small
One Stop Craft - card for a child
Do you Stack Up - Cute as a Button

My next card took a lot longer than I had planned. I'm a big fan of the monochromatic look when coloring images and this combo of black white and red is my favorite. But there were so many different sections to this image it was hard to define them all with only one color. My husband must have thought I was losing it when I was coloring this one. I keep ranting about not enough light and skinny legs. I noticed him smirking at me quite a bit. lol

This image is from Tinkled Pink Stamps and it is called "Lil Birthday Luca". I know he is supposed to be a cutie bringing a birthday gift but I think I turned him into a Valentine bearing Vampire. I read waaaay to many vampire books. (Just finished the lastest House of Night book and I'm losing it knowing that I have to wait until November for my next fix) Anyhoo, that's another story. The sentiment is another one that I did in Word. I just haven't been find what I need in rubber lately. I might have to download more fonts if I keep this up!!!

Copics Used:
Roses: R39, R29, R24
Shadow behind Luca & sentiment: R01, R00, R000, R0000 and my airbrush
Everything else: C9, C7, C5, C3, C1, C00

Challenges I'm putting this card in:
Freshly Brewed: Black & White and one more color
Scrap Creations - Love is in the Air
Lexi's Creations - Say It with Love
Woodware: Hearts
Aly's Sunday Challenge - Things with Wings
Sentimental Sundays - Anything with Wings
Kaboodle Doodles - Do It With Digis

Vintage Christmas

2010-12-16T09:30:00.005-07:00

I didn't realize it has been a month since my last post. A lot has been going on and I have not had much crafting time lately. But here is my latest creation. It is a card I made for Southern Girls and the Vintage Challenge this fortnight.

The image is from Whimsy Stamps and is called Pajama Time Emma. As soon as I saw this image I thought of a little girl sneaking down the stairs to see if Santa had come yet. So I generated a sentiment in Word and there you have it. I recently bought a product called Perfect Pearls mist. I used the red one on this card. It really added to the vintagey feel to this card. Plus it has a metallic shimmer to it and I loves me some sparkles. The flowers were something I found in my stash. I just spritzed them with the Perfect Pearls, shaped them and placed a brad in the center.

Copics Used:
Jammies: R59, R29, R24, E50, E41, E40
Skin: E13, E11, E00, R20
Hair: E27, E25, E35, E53
Puppy: E50, E41, E40
Shadowing: C1, W5, W3, W1, W00

Challenges I'm putting this card in:
Friday Sketchers - for the sketch
Creative Belli - Christmas papers and embellies
ABC Challenge - Jewels or gems
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Christmas Cards
Stamp With Fun - Christmas
Cupcake Craft - Non-traditional Christmas

On a side note: Does anyone know what happened to the Feline Playful Challenge list blog? I went there to get some inspiration and a blogger window popped up saying it couldn't find the blog, weird!~

Guess My Favorite Color

2010-11-18T09:46:00.004-07:00

The challenge at Southern Girls this fortnight is to use your favorite color. I'm not sure how successful I was in creating that. My favorite color is purple. Can you tell? lol The problem is that I usually start a card by picking out my patterned paper. This card I started by coloring the mushroom cap. So as the card progressed, purple kinda faded into the background. That's why I stuck that honking huge purple flower to the corner. I had to bring back the purple.

The image I used is called Mushroom House and it's from this week's sponsor "Make It Crafty". They have some awesome and really fun to color images. And let me tell ya, I had fun with this one. I can just picture a little fairy walking through that door. lol I didn't use too much glitter on this one, just some stickles on the mushroom cap. Go figure, the image that just screams for glitter, I don't put much on. LMBO

Copics used: (hold on to your hat)
Cap: V99, V95, V93, V91
Stem, YR24, YR23, YR21
Windows: C1, C00, BG10
Door & Trim: E53, E35, E29, E25
Leaves: YG99, YG97, YG95, YG93, YG91
Stones: C7, C5, C3, C1
Ground: W7, W5, W3, W1, W00
Background: BG10, BG000, BG0000

Challenges I'm putting this card in:
My Time to Craft - Window fun
Tuesday Throwdown - Buttons & Bows
Cupcake Craft - Housewarming
Stamp with Fun - Square
One Stitch at a Time - Your fave color

Winter Woodland

2010-11-17T08:42:00.002-07:00

Winter Woodland is the challenge over at Creative Inspirations this week. This challenge has soooo much potential and I had a lot of fun making this card. Although the ribbon behind my image gave me quite the headache. lol Again this card is covered in glitter. 'Tis the season. :) The image I used is one that I had to dig into the back bin on the highest shelf of my storage area to find. This is the secind stamp I ever bought. I never used it because when I first started stamping, I hated to color. I wasn't very good at it and never liked how it turned out. It's funny how things change. Now I rarely make a card that doesn't have some sort of coloring on it. :)

Copics Used:
YG99, YG95, YG03, G20
E53, E35, E29, E25

Challenges I'm putting this card in:
Friday Sketchers - for the sketch
Delightful Challenges - Glitter it up
Secret Crafter - Sparkle & Shine
Crazy 4 Challenges - Christmas
The Crafty Pad - Christmas Sparkle
Pollycraft - A glittery Christmas
Little Paper Shop - Die Cuts
Caardvarks - Die Cuts

Weekend Crop!!!

2010-11-15T13:44:00.009-07:00

Hi Everyone,

I'm hosting my very first crop at Creative Scrapbooks. If you have any unfinished papercrafts or want to get going on your Christmas projects, this is the event to attend. There will be plenty of ideas, projects and inspiration going around. As well, I'll be teaching a card class ($20) and a free make and take for everyone and Cori-Lyn will be teaching a gorgeous mixed media mini album class ($20). All meals are provided. See below for more details.

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It's time again....

THE CHRISTMAS CROP IS BACK!

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Christmas Crop

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Friday November 19th 6pm – 11pm

Saturday November 20th 10am – Midnight

$75.00 for both days

Let us help you get your Christmas creations started!

Make and takes, exclusive Idea Gallery and
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EMBOSSED CHRISTMAS CARDS

with Michelle

Take home 5 beautiful Christmas cards and learn everything you need to know about both heat and dry embossing... plus the coolest bow tying tricks ever! This additional class is only $20 and available ONLY at this weekend event.

MIXED MEDIA MINI ALBUM

"The Best Things in Life"

with Cori-Lyn

Create a beautiful gift using chipboard, acrylic, denim and paper! Play with new techniques using , the Imaginesce I Rock tool, Smooch Spritz, Tattered Angels Glimmer Glam, Distress Ink, Rangers Paint Daubers and much more! This additional class is only $20 and available ONLY at this weekend event.

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Pink Christmas

2010-11-10T08:48:00.006-07:00

Creative Inspirations has an awesome challenge this week, it's A Pink Christmas. This is my card for the challenge. I love this Magnolia Snowman and it's the first time it has been inked up. For shame. I had a crazy idea the other day that I wouldn't buy any more stamps until I used all the ones I have, at least once. LOL Yeah right. I've never be able to buy another stamp. Maybe a garage sale is in order. :)

This card caused me to have to sit through other glitter lecture from my husband. Although, I think his co-workers are slowly coming around. lol I put glitter on this snow, bells, snowflakes, dew drops, and illuminating topcoat on the snowman. Plus, there was already glitter on the patterned paper and brad. Overboard, I know. I also used liquid applique and fun flock on this cute little snowman's coat.

Copics used:
Snowman: C1, C00, BG10, RV000
Clothes: RV11, RV00, RV000
Bells & Buttons, C7, C5, C3, C1, C00
Holly: R39, R29, R24, YG45, YG41
Background: BG10 (airbrushed)

Challenges I'm putting this card in:
Sketch Saturday - for the Sketch
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Snowflakes
Caardvarks - Die Cuts
Flourishes - Glitter
Crafty Calendar - Winter Snowflakes
One Stitch at a Time - Winter Wonderland
Paper Sundaes - Let It Snow
Paper Players - Use a Snowman
Crazy 4 Challenges - Create a Square Card

Clean and Simple is not so simple

2010-11-04T12:59:00.003-06:00

The challenge for Dutch Dare Card Challenge this week is Clean and Simple. I have discovered that clean and simple is not so simple. This must have been my tenth attempt to make a DT card for this challenge. I'm not really that happy with it but I ran out of time. I see some stunning CAS cards out there is Blog Land and I am just in awe of them cause I struggle with them. I used my rectangle nesties to emboss and mask and airbrushed the pink background.

Copics used:
Background - RV32

No Copics.......GASP!!!

2010-11-03T09:42:00.006-06:00

It's that time again. Another challenge at Creative Inspirations. This week's challenge is to make a Shaker Card. I tell ya it's been a while since I made one of these but it was a lot of fun to sit and try to think of a new spin on it. So my new spin was to use my nesties to cut the window. I also popped my little reindeer (from the Fanciful Holidays shapeabilities) up on dimensionals. I think it turned out really cute. It looks like the reindeer is actually galloping through the snow. :) Oh and guess what? I didn't use a single copic marker on this card. Can you believe it?

Challenges I'm putting this card in:
One Stitch at a Time - Christmas
Bee Crafty - Christmas
Mark's Finest Papers - Holiday Cards
Our Daily Bread - Sparkle, Dies or Texture
Secret Crafter - Anything that Flies
Totally Papercrafts - Bling It On!
Cute Card Thursday - So Transparent
Lollipop Crafts - Embossing

Santa - I believe

2010-10-27T09:26:00.005-06:00

Creative Inspirations has another great challenge this week, Use the colors Brown, Sage and Cream. I really liked making a card for this challenge cause I tried to incorporate those colors into a Christmas card. I love using non traditional colors for Christmas. Sometimes just using Red and Green can get boring.

The image I used for this card is becoming my favorite Christmas image. It is from Flourishes and the set is called Santa - I believe. I didn't go crazy with the coloring on this image. It is so beautiful on it's own that I didn't feel like it needed a lot. I stamped the image in Memento Rich Cocoa ink. I added stickles to the areas that should be white and Crystal Effects to his glasses.

Copics used:
Skin: E11, E00, R20
Holly: G05, R29
Glasses: YR23
Eyes: B01

Challenges I'm putting this card in:
Delightful Challenges - Christmas
Totally Gorjuss - Sparkle
Paper Players - 1 DP, Something punched & a sentiment
The Crafty Pad - Christmas
Craft your Passion - Glitter & Sparkles
Papertake Weekly - Sparkly Bright

Halloween Again?

2010-10-22T11:04:00.004-06:00

I think everyone in my life will be glad when Halloween is over. lol Today I have another Halloween card to share. I made this card for the Dutch Dare Card Challenge where the theme this fortnight is what else, "Halloween". The image I used is called Goth Angel from Stitchy Bear. When I first saw it I thought it was perfect almost as it was so I did minimal coloring on this one and just added a little purple smooch to her hair. The sentiment is just one I made in word. I thought it kinda fit the image, you know with the wings and goth look. She also reminded me of Kalona from the "House of Night" novels. I read way too many vampire books. lol

Copics used:
Skin: E11, E00, E000, R20
Eyes: B01, B00
Shadowing: C1 (I also used this one to lightly go over her hair)

Challenges I'm putting this card in:
Crafty Catz - Balck & White and one other color
Stampin' for the Weekend - Halloween
Creative Cottage - Halloween
Penny's Challenge - So long as it Flies
Sisterhood of Crafters - Halloween
Anything Goes - Black & White
Oh La La Creations - Scary Stuff

Glitter, Glitter everywhere!!!

2010-10-21T23:04:00.006-06:00

Southern Girls has one of my favorite challenges EVER!!! The challenge this week Glitter It Up! Well, you don't have to tell me twice. lol I'm like a magpie, attracted to all things shiny. For the card I used adhesive sheets and ran it through my Big Shot with an oval nestie, then covered it with purple glitter.

The pumpkins were easy peasy as well. I just brush them with a little Aleen's glue and covered them with microfine glitter. I covered the body of the pumpkin first, waited for it to dry then applied green glitter to the stems. I made 6 in total so they are going to be props on my halloween table. I may have to expand to 2 tables this year though. *heehee*

Copics used:
Clothes: V99, V95, V91, 0
Shoes & Hair: C9, C7, C5, C3
Skin: E000, E00, R20
Pumpkins: YR18, YR16, Y08, YG95, YG93

Challenges I'm putting this card in:
Creative Belli - Pumpkins
Fab 'n' Funky - Halloween
Paper Pretties - Green, Purple, Orange
Paper Playtime - Pumpkins or Spiderwebs
Friday Sketchers - for the sketch

Spooky

2010-10-19T17:48:00.002-06:00

Creative Inspirations has an awesome challenge going on this week. The theme is "Spooky". I love making Halloween projects any chance I get. This image is from this week's sponsor "Sassy Studio" and I just love it. Usually Halloween images are cutesy kidsy but this one's for the grown ups. I tried my hand at mixing copics with prisma pencils for this image. I wasn't getting the shadow in her dress that I wanted so I whipped out the black pencil. I'll have to practice this some more cause I really like the effect it created.

Copics used:
skin & hair: C7, C5, C3, C1, C00
Eyes: YG25, YG23
Shading: W5, W3, W1. W00
Dress: V99, V95, black prisma pencil

Challenges I'm putting this card in:
Sketch Saturday - for the sketch
Digi Doodle - my peeps
One Stop Craft - Halloween
Bee Crafty - Halloween
2 Sisters - Halloween
Karber Monthly - Fantasy

Just Gorjuss :)

2010-10-12T22:18:00.008-06:00

This week's challenge at Creative Inspirations is a sketch challenge provided by Nat. BTW thanks Nat for the awesome sketch. It was so easy to work with and so versatile. I'll definitely be using this one again and here it is:

If you have time, please give this sketch a try. If you enter it in Creative Inspirations Challenge you could win some awesome stamps.

As well, this card fits nicely with the current challenge over at Southern Girls which is to use 4 layers of patterned paper. They have some awesome prizes this week which are well worth taking part in the challenge.

The image I used is a Gorjuss Girl from Sugar Nellie. I always forget about these little images and they stay tucked away in a binder. Then I'll go blog hopping and see a project using one of these cuties and they see the light of day again. I wanted her to look like she was sitting on the ribbon and I think the way the ribbon wrinkled, it kinda looks like that.

Copics used:
Skin: E13, E11, E00, E000, R20
Hair: C9, C7, C5, C3
Clothing: R85, R83, R81, C9, C7, C5

Challenges I'm putting this card in:
Anything Goes - Ribbons
Tuesday Throwdown - Elements in 3's
CSSC - Girly Girl
Gingerloft - Glitter or Bling
Crazy 4 Challenges - Birthday
Sweet Stampin - Bling
Crafty Calendar - Birthday
Raise the Bar - Pink & Female Image

Tagalicious

2010-10-07T09:16:00.005-06:00

This is a cute little tag I made for the DT over at Dutch Dare Card Challenge where the theme is what else, Tagalicious!!! Every year for Halloween I do up special Trick or Treat bags for children that I know and this little darling is going to be one of them. I have used a Tin Tie Bag for this project which I will probably gussy up a little, when time permits, with some stamping and patterned paper.

The image I used is part of the Tableau of Terror set from Stampin' Up! There is also a sentiment that says "Have a Spooktacular Halloween" that I really wanted to put on the tag but I ran out of room. Hmmm... maybe it will go on the bag. I used the sentiment on THIS card if you wanted to see it. It's too cute. :)

Copics used:
C9, C, C7, C5, C3, C1, C00
YG95, YG93, YG91
R29,R24, R21, R20
YR18, YR16, Y24
E000, 0

Challenges I'm putting my tag in:
Simon Says - Halloween
Lexi's Creations - Spooky
The Crafty Pad - Spooky
I did It Creations - Spooky
One Stitch At A Time - Spooky Halloween
Baby Bud - Fall / Halloween

Happy Birthday!!!

2010-10-06T16:30:00.003-06:00

It's time for another challenge over at Creative Inspirations. The challenge is to make something with a birthday theme and this is my card. I think the paper from DCWV, I think it is the Nana's Kitchen Stack. I'm lovin' the DCWV stacks lately. I kinda go through phases.

The image is a digi from cc designs. I can't remember which copics I used on this image cause I was working on two images at the same time and I didn't keep track of which was for what image. Sorry :( I think I had every purple marker out and on my desk. lol

Challenges I'm putting this card in:
Digital Tuesday - Ribbons, Buttons and/or Bling
Party Time Tuesday - Anything goes Birthday
Karber Weekly - Go Digital
Oh la la Creations - Nothing Floral
Pink Elephant - Childhood
Catch the Bug - Anything Goes

Some of My Best Friends are Flakes

2010-09-28T17:00:00.000-06:00

I just love this sentiment. It makes me giggle a little everytime I read it. The sentiment and image are from the Flaky Friends stamp set by Stampin' Up!. This is a card I made for this weeks' Christmas in September Challenge over at Creative Inspirations.

I decided to use up some of the Basic Grey Christmas paper I bought last year and hadn't even opened. I also tried using Fantasy Film for the first time. I know if you heat it you create a bond between layers but I decided to go easy the first time. I just ran it through my Big Shot with the new Spellbinders Snowflake die then separated the layers to add some dimension. I also added some dimension with liquid applique (do I ever love that stuff) covered in glitter.

Copics used
Shading - C1, C00, BG000
Clothing: BG01, BG000, BG0000, R08, R05,
RV34, RV32, C7, C5, C3, Y08, Y04

Challenges I'm putting this card in:

Friday Sketchers - for the sketch
Lollipop Crafts - Glitter, Sparkle, Gems
Totally Gorjuss - Christmas
Paper Playtime - use Water in some form
Sentimental Sundays - Let's see some Dimension
Crazy 4 Challenges - Bling
One Stop Craft - Christmas in September
Creative Belli - B-themed Embellishments
Everybody Art - Friends

Dutch Dare - OWH Christmas and Birthday

2010-09-23T00:30:00.001-06:00

Hello, hello! The challenge this fortnight over at Dutch Dare Challenge Cards is to make a Christmas or Birthday card for Operation Write Home. This is the card I came up with for the design team and I have made 20 of them. I think I will make 20 Birthday cards and then off to the Post Office I go.

OWH has some specific requirements for their cards that I had a hard time designing around. Cards need to be A2 sized and *gasp* NO GLITTER. As well, I didn't think the military would appreciate a card with 7 seven layers, a bunch of flowers and an inch thick. lol It is funny how we evolve over time. When I first started papercrafting, all my cards were A2, no more than 2 layers and very few embellishments. Now, I have a hard time making a card like that. It will be interesting to see what my cards look like 3 years from now.

The image I used is from the Flourishes "Sleigh Ride" Set. I know I used way too many Rhinestones on the antlers but I had to make up for the lack of glitter, especially on a snowflaky Christmas themed card. Besides, I have about a kazillion of these little stones cause last year I was looking for a specific size and ended up ordering 2 packages of the wrong size before I finally ordered the right size.

Copics used:
Reindeer - E59, E29, E25, E53, C7, C5
Background: B37, B32
Shadowing: W5, W3, W1, W00

Challenges I'm putting this card into:
2 Sisters - OWH Christmas Card
Catch The Bug - is also OWH Christmas Card
Totally Gorjuss - Animals
Crafty Calendar - Blue & Flowers(optional)
Daring Cardmakers - Come Fly With Me

Southern Girls - Jewelry Recycling

2010-09-22T13:00:00.003-06:00

WooHoo!!! Are you all set for my first DT card for the Southern Girls Challenge Blog? Here it is!!! I've been on a really rich color kick lately. I made this card to coordinate with the Dragon Card I made a few weeks ago. Not sure why, it just kinda felt right. The piece of recycled jewelry I used for this challenge was the chain from an old necklace I found, belonging to my hubby. I swear he is going to disown me if I don't stop raiding his stuff. First it was his toolbox, then his tackle box (which he doesn't know about yet so I hope he doesn't read this *heehee*) and now his jewelry.......

The image I used on this card is called "Princess Shona" from Digital Delights who is the sponsor for Southern Girls - Recycled Jewelry Challenge. I've seen this image a few times while blog hopping and she was always done in light colors. I wanted to see what she would look like in deep rich colors. I really like how it turned out. The ribbon is airbrushed with my copic marker R89 cause it was more purple than burgundy and stuck out like a sore thumb. I gave it a few squirts with the ole R89 and presto, it matched beautifully. Ahhh....I love my airbrush.

So as they say "Waste not, want not". Start digging through that old jewelry you don't use anymore, make a paper project and then head on over to the Southern Girls Challenge. We would love to see what you can come up with. :)

Copics used:
Dress & hat: YG99, YG95, R89, R85, R83
Skin: E13, E11, E00, E000, R20
Eyes: B01, B000
Hair: E25, E35, E31, E53

Challenges I'm entering this card in:
Stamp Something - Use Something Digi
Oh Alice - Fighting for the Crown
Cinema Saturday - Use Metal
Anything Goes - Cute
Digital Tuesday - It's All About the Girls Digi
Cooking It Up With Katie - Is that sweet metal ribbon I see?

Creative Inspirations - 2 or more stamped images

2010-09-21T16:55:00.007-06:00

I am sooooo excited. The team over at Creation Inspirations has asked me to stay on as a full time design team member. I couldn't be more honored. So, this is my first challenge as a Creative Inspiration Team Member and it is to use 2 or more stamped images. So if you have time, make sure to join it. They have an awesome prize this week.

This card gave me a lot of challenges. First off, the flu has be running rampant through my home. With a sick 2 year old, that means not much crafting time. Secondly, I just got a new prescription for Contact Lenses and the funny thing is, colors were just not looking right to me. Luckily, the Copic Fairy visited last night and when I put my card together today, things started looking right to me. lol

Copics used:

Skin: E13, E11, E00, E000, R20
Hair: C9, C7, C5, C3
Dress: B18, B16, B24, B12, Y26, Y23, Y21, R29, R27, R24, BG10,BG000, 0
Hair Ribbon & Apple: R29, R27, R24
Fence: BG10, BG000, 0
Grass: YG99, YG95, YG93

Challenges I'm putting this card into:
Just Magnolia - Lace It Up
Wild Orchid - Ribbons & Bows
All Sorts - At Least 3 Punches
Secret Crafter - Anything Goes
Paper Pretties - Use Pearls, Rhinestone or Glitter Dots
Raising the Bar - Yummy

Creative Inspirations - Tag It!

2010-09-15T07:50:00.007-06:00

I will have to make my post short today. We have been a house full of sickies since yesterday and we probably only got 3 hours sleep last night. I feel really bad for my husband cause after all that, he had to get up and go to work this morning.

Today's project is a gift tag I made for the Creative Inspirations Tag It! Challenge. No patterned paper for a change but I didn't think it fit.

OK I'm back with a few more details. It's been a long day.

This "Tilda Goes Shopping" stamp has to been my most favorite Magnolia image to date (with the beach wedding couple coming in close second). The flowers are airbrushed with RV93 and I masked the Tilda image and airbrushed wit BG000 for the background.
I used the stem on the middle flower as a charm holder. I was going through my stash of embellies and came across some hat pins with these beads. I am hat pin inept because not matter how hard I try I can't make those hat pins look nice on a project. But I was looking at the beads, then the flowers and a light bulb on. I like how it turned out.

Copics Used:
Hair: E25, E31, E53
Skin: E13, E11, E00, E000, R20
Shirt: RV95, RV93, RV91
Pants: B99, B97, B95, B91
Shoes, Purse, Bags: E35, E34, E33, E31
Shadowing: W5, W3, W1, W00

Challenges I'm entering this project in:
Paper Playtime - If The Shoe Fits, Buy One Of Every Color
Paper Sundaes - use a minimum of 3 different types of embellies
One Stop Craft - Fashion
Totally Gorjuss - Flower
StampInsanity - use Elements in 3's
Copic Creations - Shading on & around images

Dutch Dare - Back to School Bookmark

2010-09-09T00:30:00.000-06:00

I have been so fortunate lately. Not only did I make the Southern Girls Design Team, I also made the Dutch Dare Design Team. This is my first challenge for Dutch Dare which is a bookmark with a Back to School Theme. So stop by Dutch Dare Challenge Blog and check out all the fabulous creations by the other design team members and play along.

The images used for this bookmark and pencil holder are from The Stamping Boutique which is the sponsor for this challenge. These are some awesome digis for back to school.

Copics used:
Skin: E13, E11, E00. R20
Hair: E49, E25, E53
Apron & Shoes: B45, B41
Dress: R27, R24, R22

Southern Girls First Challenge

2010-09-08T16:00:00.005-06:00

Well the day has come and the Southern Girls Challenge Blog is in full swing. The design team has been divided into 2 groups and my first official challenge starts on Sept 23rd but I just had to play along with this challenge. Lou and Tracy have lined up some amazing sponsors with some great prizes. So make sure you check it out and play along especially in the first challenge, it's "Anything Goes" so there is nothing holding you back. :)

The image I used on this card is a *Wink *Wink Ink digi image (who btw is one of this week's sponsors at Southern Girls) called Jewel. I fell in love with this little dragon as soon as I saw it and knew I had to make a card with it. I used the Once Upon a Time stack from DCWV, I think it was a good fit.

Copics used:
Skin: YG95, YG93, YG91, R20
Eyes: YR24, YR23, YR21
Nails: W5, W3
Diamond: YG91, C1, Stickles
Shadowing: C1

Challenges I'm putting this card in:

Southern Girls - Anything Goes
Lollipop Crafts - Monsters & Such
Stampin With The Dragon - The Eyes Have It
Sisterhood of Crafters - 1 Ribbon, 2 Designer Papers, 3 Flowers
Paper Pretties - Use Brads or Eyelets
Cupcake Craft - Books & Stories
Lexi's Creations - Flower Power
Paper Playtime - Castles, Knights & Damsels in Distress

Creative Inspirations - Lace & Sparkle

2010-09-07T21:45:00.002-06:00

This is my second week as a Guest Design Team member at Creative Inspirations challenge blog. The theme this week is Lace and Sparkle. I think I went a little overboard with the sparkle on this card. Although the camera didn't pick it up that well, I probably used about a half bottle stickles on this card. I decided to go monochromatic with this card and used all creams and browns. It was fun. Make sure to go check out the Creative Inspirations blog and the other amazing samples by their DT.

Copics used:

Skin: E00, E11, E13, R20

Clothing: E21, E25, E27, E29, E50, E51

Hair: E59, E29, E25, E53

Halloween Gift Set

2010-09-01T16:54:00.000-06:00

I saw this little folder for the sample bottles of Halloween Theme hand sanitizer from Bath & Body Works and I had to make one. The idea came from Erica Cerwin over at Pink Buckaroo Designs and she has an awesome tutorial. My version came about after visiting Mo's challenge blog. The theme is Halloween. Now I already did a card using one of Mo's images a little while back but I had printed two sizes of the image cause I wasn't sure which one I wanted to use. Then I thought to myself "Self, that small Mo image would go perfectly on one of those hand sanitizer thingies". So now I have a set to give to a friend. :)

I modified the measurements of this little folder form the original tutorial. This box is 3.5" x 4" where the original was 3" x 3.5" cause my image was too big. I added the goo border to the bottom flap to match the card. The image and sentiment is sponged with Black Soot distress inks. I think that gives it a cutesy spooky feel.

Copics Used:
All black parts: C9, C7, C5, C3, C1
All brown parts: E49, E47, E44, E43
Dress: YG25, YG23, YG21
Skin: E13, E11, E00, E000, R21, R20
Shadowing: W5, W3, W1
Pumpkin: YR18, YR16, YR15
Moon: Y08, Y02

Challenges I'm putting this card in:

Mo's Digital Pencil - Halloween Projects
Digital Tuesday - Make a Gift Set
Stampin' Sisters - add some form of metal
Oh, Alice! - Little Girl Theme
Bee Crafty - Anything Goes with a Digi Image

Creative Inspirations - Pastel Green, Pink & Cream

2010-08-31T21:22:00.000-06:00

I couldn't be more excited and more stressed. The exciting part is that I am the Guest Designer for the Creative Inspirations Challenge Blog for the month of September (WooHoo - doin' the happy dance). The stressing part is that the first challenge is using pastel colors and I am the most pastel challenged person you will ever meet. So this card was made with great effort and lots drafts thrown in the trash can. lol

It's funny how sometimes you can be so proud of the little things. For me, it is the tag on this card. I made the sentiment in MS Word and doodled the little fly and squigglies with my copic multiliner. Now this may not seem like much to most people but for me it is a huge deal. I'm one of those people who stamps because they can't draw and trust me, I can't draw a straight line with a ruler (lmbo).

Copics used:
Frog: G20, YG43, YG41, YG00
Mouse: E44, E43, E42, E41
Shadowing: W3, W2, W1
Flower, Cheeks & Tongue: R22, R21, R20

I hope you get a chance to join in on the Creative Inspirations Pastel Green, Pink & Cream Challenge this week. The prize is a whopping 4, count 'em 4 free digis from MelJen Designs.

Reflection Technique

2010-08-31T16:09:00.000-06:00

Well I have to say I have a ways to go before I've perfected this technique. :) I have an image of a fisherman in a boat and I think I will try working with that one. I have to say that I'm loving all of my beautiful flowers I got in my Wild Orchid order last week. It has been so fun playing with them and figuring out how to best use them.

I'm usually pretty random with the markers I use and I have a hard time listing them. But I remember which colors I used for this image and will try to list which ones I've used whenever possible, in the future.

Copics used:
Bunny: RV32, RV00, RV000, RV0000
Umbrella: C9, C7, C5, C3, C1, E31
Water: BG0000, B000, 0

Challenges I'm entering this card in:
Copic Creations - Reflections
Paper Play Time - Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Cupcake Craft - Let's get Digital
CSSC - Flower Power
Lollipop Craft - Sympathy
Mad for Markers - Use Pink Copics

WooHoo!!!!! I made the Southern Girls Design Team

2010-08-27T21:30:00.000-06:00

I couldn't be more excited. I was chosen the be one of the members of Southern Girls Challenge Blog's very first design team. I guess everyone crossing their fingers for me really paid off (lol). So Thank You so much. Also a Big Big Thanks to Lou & Tracy for choosing me. I've had a chance to check out the blogs of the other DT member and all I can say is WOW, there are some amazingly talented ladies on this team. I feel very honored and blessed to be a part of it. Challenges are going to start up on September 9th and I participate in my first challenge on September 23rd (yay). So be sure to check out the Southern Girls Blog and I hope you can join in on the fun!!!

On a sadder note, today's card is one I made for some friends of mine who lost their dog this past weekend. He was 13 years old and they didn't even know he was sick. We had to put down our 13 year old Boston Terrier last year but he was seriously ill, which I think makes it easier in the long run.

I was so nervous coloring this image. The stamp belongs to a friend of mine and I stamped it last year. The problem was that it was stamped on Gina K paper, which used to be my favorite, but for the past few months I've been using Cryogen paper which is my new favorite. These two papers hold the copic ink in completely different ways. I had to revert back to the way I used to color in order to color this image and let me tell you, it wasn't easy. You have to work a lot harder to get even blending with the Gina K paper. Since this was my only copy of this image I was so afraid I would mess up. I did have a few boo-boos that my colorless blender wouldn't clean up so don't look too closely. *smiles*

Challenges I'm putting this card in:

I Did It Creations - for the sketch
Totally Paper Crafts - Keep It Clean and Simple
Creative Belli - Round and Metal

These Masculine Cards Are Killing Me

2010-08-26T17:12:00.000-06:00

I have come to the conclusion that there is way too much testosterone in my life. I'm always making cards for boys and I'm dying to make pretty frilly pink things. To make matters worse, I got my first order for Wild Orchid today and all those pretty flowers are just screaming at me. I feel like a kid that peeked in the closet before Christmas and now I have to wait to use all my new goodies. Oh well, I guess the little guy in this image is so stinking cute that it makes up for the lack of girliness. lol

I made this card for a friend of my little boys', Rory. He is turning 2 on Saturday so I thought this image would be perfect. This image is called Sam in Trouble and it's another image by Mo Manning. Doesn't she just draw the cutest little kids. I'm really becoming a fan of Digi images. They are so versatile for resizing and combining images. But I'll never get up my Rubba either. :)

Challenges I'm putting this card in:

Lollipop Crafts - Ribbons and Buttons
Totally Gorjuss - Star
Cupcake Craft - Blue and Green
Rosie D's - One For The Boys
Create4Fun - Make a Birthday Card
City Crafter - I See Stars
Cute Card Thursday - Dieing for a Punch

For My Bestest Friend

2010-08-25T16:15:00.000-06:00

I made this card for 2 main reasons. The first is that I needed a card to give my friend Mandy for being there for me. She has been my friend for 33 years and what 34 year old can say they have had a friend that long. We both moved away from home almost right out of high school and went our separate ways but as luck should have it, we ended up living in the same city out of pure coincidence. The second reason I made this card was to apply for the Design Team Call over at Southern Girls Challenge Blog. Wish me luck.

When I started coloring this image I wanted BG72 to be my darkest tone. I couldn't find any other color that would blend the way I wanted with this color so I decided to break out the old Colorless Blender. I used BG72 and the colorless blender, tip to tip, for all the blue you see in the image. This is the first time I've only used 1 color to color everything. I'm usually the one using 4 or 5 different markers to color a single flower petal. LOL

PWCO - for the sketch
Just Magnolia - Let's Get Sentimental
ABC Challenge - B is for Blue
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle - use the color Kraft
Kaboodle Doodles - Lovely Flowers & Lace
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Vintage
Stamp With Fun - card for a girl

Is it too early for Halloween?

2010-08-20T15:36:00.000-06:00

I was trying to organize my paper, which I still don't have a clue as to the best way to do it, and had an undying urge to use some Halloween paper. Do many of you out there give out Halloween cards? I haven't in the past but my collection of cards is getting out of control so I think this year I may start doing it. LOL

This image from Mo's Digital Pencil is just too cute. I love how the dog is dressed up as a cat. I'm one of those foolish people who dresses up the dog for Halloween. I have a little Boston Terrier named Daisy and I dress her up in a pretty pink Princess costume with pink toenails to boot. We used to have a male Boston and he would be dressed as a King. The kids just love seeing puppies dressed up even if the puppies are not amused by it. :)

After coloring this image I'm in the mood to go shopping for decorations and a costume for my little boy.

Here are the challenges I'm putting this card in:

Creative Inspirations - for the sketch
Lollipop Crafts - Pets
Mo's Digital Challenge - Thank Heaven for Little Girls
Stamp Something - Digi Day
Stampin' for the Weekend - Anything Goes

Sewing gives me a headache

2010-08-18T21:38:00.000-06:00

Me and my sewing machine have a hate - hate relationship. Actually, I think what the problem is, is that I'm determined to prove I'm smarter than the machine and it is determined to prove I'm not. LOL But that's a whole other rant that I may need to reserve for another day.

I'm a little disappointed with how this card photographed. It is loaded with sparkle. The white paper is cryogen white which has a shimmer, the insects and the water have stickles on them and I sprayed the whole card with Shimmerz. I think it is time to invest in a photo tent.

This card is loaded up with challenges. I was challenge hopping before I made this card so it gave me lots of great ideas. Here they are in no particular order:

Stamp with Fun - for the sketch
Totally Gorjuss - the theme is Aqua
A Pocket Full of Posies - All That Glitters
Scrappy Frog - A Stitch in Time
Fun 'n' Funky - Flower Power
Stamp and Create - is also flowers
City Crafter - Isn't she lovely?
Everybody Art - In The Garden
Color Me Creative - Create some green Grass

A Splash of Color

2010-08-14T16:39:00.000-06:00

This card was inspired by the patterned paper. I found a sketch and was going through my paper stash. This is the one that stood out cause I just loved the monochromatic look to it. I airbrushed the flowers wit my C3 marker. The one thing I realized is that I need more white flowers. What you see on this card is what I've got. :( For this card I used my copics C7, C5, C3, C1, C00 and R37 & R59.

The challenges I'm putting this card into are:

Paper Works Co - for the Sketch
Creative Card Crew - Cute and Girly
Alphabet Challenge - P is for Punches
Secret Crafter Saturday - What Little Girls are Made of
Wild Orchid Challenges - One for Girls
Kaboodle Doodles - Add a little metal

Masculine cards are not easy

2010-08-07T19:25:00.001-06:00

This is a card I made for my brother-in-law's birthday. I found this card so hard to make. All of my masculine type stamps are for fishing, hunting or are for little boys' and none were appropriate. I finally decided on this image which is a digi that I found on my laptop. I'm not sure where it is from but it kinda looks like a Dustin Pike image to me.

Here are the challenges that I'm entering my card in:

Sketch Saturday - for the sketch
Lollipop Crafts - Anything Goes
The ABC Challenge - A is for August
Dutch Dare Card - another Anything Goes
The Secret Crafter Sunday - It's a man's world

I love this little guy

2010-07-16T10:40:00.000-06:00

I started this card by coloring the image. I wanted to practice bridging with copic markers so his jeans are colored using only B97 and B91 and I did the tip to tip technique to gradually work the colors together. The B90's drive me nuts cause the B93 is so out of whack with the rest of the family. lol I'll have to figure out why one of these days.

I'm on a bit of a challenge kick lately. For this card I used the following challenges:

2 Sketches 4 You - for the sketch
DP2 Challenge - the theme is Masculine
Stampavie and More - ok the theme there is anything goes and since this is a Stampavie stamp I figured I'd link. I'm not sure if you can enter more than once. I read the blog and didn't see anywhere that you couldn't. I'll remove the link if I'm only allowed to enter once.

That's it for today. Tomorrow is my little boy's birthday party. He will be 2 and I have to make a Thomas the Tank cake today. Wish me luck. :)

A card for Nicole

2010-07-15T13:29:00.000-06:00

This card is for my niece, Nicole. It's her birthday next month. I thought the image was spot on for a teenager. To make this card I played along with a few challenges.

Friday Sketchers - for the sketch
The ABC Challenge - where the theme is You and Me
Stampavie and More - I had originally planned for last weeks theme of sparkly but I was too late, but this week's challenge is Anything Goes, so it fits.

That's about it for today. I'm working on another card using a Mo Manning image that I will post in the next couple of days.

My Poor Copics

2010-06-19T07:03:00.000-06:00

Here is a card I made for my little boys' friend for her birthday. She is turning 2 and her birthday is tomorrow. I haven't used my copics in a while so I am a little rusty. I followed the sketch from Challenge #107 at Friday Sketchers. This card also fits the Stamp with Fun Challenge # 63 to make a Fairytale inspired card and Challenge #35 at Totally Gorguss which is Sugar and Spice. I figured the best way to get back into the swing of things was to jump in with both feet and jam pack as many challenges as I could in one card.

I am just too obsessed with Twilight. Is it Vampire Edwin........ or Edward?

2009-08-22T16:12:00.000-06:00

I sat down to make a project for the Magnolia-licious Tricks-n-Treats Blog Hop and decided to use the Vampire Edwin stamp. I was trying to decide on what colours to use on his face and then I thought of "Twilight" and decided to make his skin glisten just like diamonds in the sunlight, just like Edward. I am such a geek. So this project ended up being a tribute to the "Twilight" Saga. Little Edwin (Edward) is bringing a Halloween treat to Bella. I used the sketch from the Just Magnolia Challenge Week 17 pictured above.
So this is the Tricks-n-Treats Set I came up with. The apple was a piece of clipart I found on the web. I never realized how much the shadowing lines on a stamp help with shading and highlighting when you are colouring. This apple took me three tries to get some dimension in it. I wrote the Bella inscription on the bag with my copic multiliner. I knew I was going to colour it with my copic markers and I didn't want the ink to run. To make Edwin's skin glisten, I first put shimmer paint on it then covered it with Diamond Stickles. Here is a close up picture.
The coffin holds candy or whatever other treat you would like to put in it. I printed off a PDF online and that it what I used for a template.
Here is a picture of the inside of the coffin. I haven't bought any halloween candy yet so I just used some Hersey Kisses. But I guess that works seeing how my little Edward is bringing a gift to Bella.
Finally, this is a picture of the Copic Markers I used.

On a side note, I created a new yahoo group. I`ve been looking for a place to share my projects with images that are not Magnolia and I have not have that much luck, so I created a group for it. I called it Copics, Stamps, Ink. Oh My!!! It is a place to share any projects you have created that include stamped images coloured with Copic Markers. If you are interested in joining this group, click on the link below or on my sidebar. I hope to see all the wonderful copic marker creations you come up with.

Click to join CopicsStampsInk

Recipe

Stamps: Halloween Edwin, SU Teeny Tiny Wishes, SU Batty for You
Paper: SU Basic Black & Real Red, SU Night & Day DSP, Gina K white
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Weathered Wood & Black Soot Distress ink, Copic Markers
Extras: SU Ribbon, Nestabilities, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Apple Ribbon slider from Eyelet Canada, SU brads, Diamond Stickles, Frost Shimmer Paint

Just Magnolia Week 17 Challenge

2009-08-13T17:40:00.000-06:00

The Just Magnolia Week 17 challenge is a sketch challenge. I really like doing these challenges. I find it helps me with compostion and colour choice. I am a scientist at heart so I find I need some sort of procedure to get me going. A sketch is just that to me, a procedure.

I've been on a purple kick lately. Even though I chose patterned paper with pink in it and colored my Tilda with pinks, I had to use a Pale Plum cardstock. I'm not sure if it actually goes together. What do you think? Does it look OK? This is my first time using Flower Soft and I have to say....LOVE IT!!! It isn't easy to find this product here in Canada so I finally broke down and ordered a few jars from All That Scraps (any fellow Canadians, I recommend buying from here, you will get to best bang for your buck with shipping and all). Needless to say, I will be placing another order very soon for more colors. Below is a picture of the copic markers I used.

Recipe:

Stamps: #287 Tilda Picking Lilacs, SU Warm Words set
Paper: SU Pale Plum, Basic Grey Sugared, CC Designs Copic White Cardstock, SU Whisper White
Ink: SU Pretty in Pink & Pale Plum, Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Flowers from stash, 7 Gypies leaves, Dew drops colored with copic marker, SU Filigree brads with rhinestone brads in center, flower soft spring mix

Two Challenges in One

2009-08-11T15:45:00.000-06:00

This is a card I made for both the Copic Creations Challenge and the Basic Grey Challenge. The Copic Creations challenge is to colour eyes. For this I used the Standing Ava digi image from InStyle Stamps, who is this weeks sponsor. The Basic Grey Challenge was a sketch challenge that I used my favorite Basic Grey paper on, Wisteria. The sketch is below.

Here is the picture of the Copic markers I used.

Recipe:

Stamps: Standing Ava, SU Hugs & Wishes set
Paper: SU Lavender Lace, Mellow Moss & Whisper White, BG Wisteria, Gina K white
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Lavender Lace, Mellow Moss, Copic Markers
Accessories: SU 5 Petal Flower & Boho Punch, SU Mellow Moss Taffeta Ribbon, Rhinestone Brads, Diamond Stickles

Magnolia-licious Sketch Challenge

2009-08-08T22:07:00.000-06:00

This is my first card using an Edwin image. Coloring and paper choice is easy enough but finding embellishments is other story. I am sure I'm not the only one to have a limited selection of masculine embellies, there just isn't that much out there. Mental note - Want to make a million $$$? Design a line of masculine products.... good ones (lol). I guess that is easier said than done. Anyway, this is the card I came up with for the August Magnolia-licious sketch challenge. I tried to make the 2 Tilda images look like they were peeking through the portholes in a ship. I had a lot of fun making this card. I hope you like it. Below is a picture of the copic markers I used.

Recipe:

Stamps: #293 Tilda with Pumpkin, #287 Tilda Picking Lilacs,#520 Row Boat, #102 Edwin with Paddle
Paper: 3 bugs in a Rug - Playtime Boats, SU Baja Breeze cardstock, Gina K white
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic Markers
Accessories: Fibers from my stash

Birthday Card

2009-08-08T18:38:00.000-06:00

My niece's 13th birthday is next week and this is the card I made for her. I hope she doesn't check out my blog before then. I discovered that it is not so easy to make a card for a teen girl. But these Gorjuss girl stamps are just edgy enough to pull it off, I think. The sketch is one I found online but I don't know who to give credit to, so if you know who please tell me an I would love to give them credit. The original card had an image of Tilda sitting with a lamb. Below is a picture of the copics I used. I think this is the least amount I have ever used.

Recipe:

Stamps: Sugar Nellie Gorjuss Girl, SU Tiny Tiny Wishes
Paper: My Mind's Eye Bella collection, Making Memories 12x12 geomteric brown paperie, Bazzill brown cardstock, SU whisper white, Gina K heavy white
Ink: Copic Markers, Memento Tuxedo Black & Brown, Antique Linen & Tea Dye Distress Inks
Accessories: Irene's flowers, SU rhinestone brad, SU ribbon slider, SU Chocolate Chip twill ribbon, halfback pearls, spacer from Michael's, nestabilities

What to do???

2009-08-06T11:38:00.000-06:00

Have you ever had inspiration hit and then not have a clue what to do with your project once you were done? When the Copic Creations website had the Clear/Transparent challenge I had the idea to do the reflection technique. The problem is, once my image was finished, it was too big to fit on any card I tried to put it on. No matter what I tried it didn't look right. My finished image measures 7" x 3". So I am open for suggestions on what I should do with this image. It turned out so nice I don't want to waste it. If you have an idea please leave me a comment and let me know what it is. Have a super day!!!

Lily, you little cutie!!!

2009-06-22T14:25:00.001-06:00

Cole finished his swimming lessons on Saturday and received his very first report card. He passed with flying colors and got his Starfish sticker. Talk about a proud mama. In his class there was a little girl who looked exactly like Lily from the Pink Cat Studio stamp collection. I just had to make her a card with Lily on it and this card is what I made for her. I kept the design really simple. I didn't want to take away from the image or the ribbon which I absolutely love.

These are the Copics I used.

Recipe

Stamps: Lily at the Beach
Paper: Regal Rose, Cutey Pie DSP, Gina K white
Ink: Memento Ink, Copic Markers
Acc: Retired SU Ribbon, Label Nesties

Three Challenges in One

2009-06-21T08:54:00.000-06:00

This is a birthday card I made for, Paige, a playmate of my little boy. I started out trying to complete the Magnolia-licious color challenge but ended up including the themes of two other challenges in my card.

The Magnolia-licious June color challenge is:

This was my first color challenge and I found out that I stuck at color challenges. I fiddled and fiddled with this card until 20 minutes before the birthday party. I still wasn't that happy with it but I couldn't make the little girl wait for her birthday card. LOL

The second challenge for this card is Copic Creations Wood Challenge, sponsored this week by Unity Stamp Company.

Finally, the third challenge for this card is Just Magnolia Summer Challenge sponsored by Jacobi Drachten.

These are the copics I used.

Recipe:

Stamps: Magnolia Stamps, Teeny Tiny Wishes SU set
Ink: Regal Rose, Memento Ink, Copic Markers
Paper: Regal Rose CS, Riding Hood Red CS, Pacific Point CS,Gina K white, Basic Grey Cupcake & Urban Garden
Acc: Boho Punch, 5 petal flower punch, Word Window Punch,
Modern Label Punch, Pacific Point ribbon, Baby Blue Stickles, Spacer from Michaels

Magnolia-licious Sketch Challenge

2009-06-08T10:45:00.000-06:00

This is the card I made Magnolia-licious Highlites Sketch Challenge. This is the sketch:

The colors were inspired by SU Juntos Paper. I was flipping through my stash and when I saw this paper I knew I had to make a Tilda card with it. I know, I know. It is a fall looking card and summer has not officially started yet. But you know how it is when inspiration hits. LOL

These are the copic marker I used.

Stamps; Whirling Flowers Tilda, SU Great Friend
Ink; Memento, Really Rust, Copics
Paper; Gina K white, SU Juntos, More Mustard
Acc; Prima flowera, CTMH leaves, SU library clips, Mellow Moss Taffeta Ribbon, Nesties

Sweet Pea

2009-06-08T09:58:00.000-06:00

I am in love with Pink Cat Studios Sweet Pea Stamp set. The little babies are just the cutest. First is the little boy version of my card. I drew inspiration from my own 10 month old little boy. He has to touch everything right now.

Next is the little girl version of my card. I think she is just adorable.

Stamps; PCS Sweet Pea
Ink; Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic Markers
Paper; Gina K luxury white, SU DSP and cardstock
Acc; SU buttons, Prima flower & dew drops colored with copics, nesties, Kiwi Kiss Ribbon

Pink Cat Challenge

2009-05-30T17:54:00.000-06:00

This is the card I am entering in the Pink Cat Studio "Jodi's Geometry Challenge"
The challenge is to make a card that is rectangular in shape with 2 different patterned papers, one cut in the shape of a circle and the other in the shape of a square.

Stamps: PCS Sweet Pea
Paper: SU Good Morning Sunshine DSP & So Saffron, Gina K white
Ink: Memento Ink, So Saffron, Copics
Acc: Cord. Button, Kiwi Kiss Ribbon

Copic Creation Challenge

2009-05-30T17:28:00.000-06:00

Hi there. This is my first post on my new blog. The following picture is a card I am submitting for the copic creations "Blond Hair Challenge" This is my first ever Tilda card and I just started using copic markers about a month ago so please be gentle. The layout is a sketch I saved from another website (can't remember which, though).

Stamps: Magnolia, SU Oval All
Paper: SU Real Red, SU Ski Slope DSP, Gina K white
Ink: Memento ink, copic marker, real red
Acc: Cord. buttons, white flowers colored with copics, metal photo corner