Sorry to hear you're hurting...

Hello!  I've had these images colored since I first got my Copic markers but never really did anything with them.  They were my introduction to using the copics to create shadows.  I guess you can say they were my testers.  I ended up loveing how they turned out but I had no idea what to do with them so they sat in my work pencil box for a couple of weeks.  At first I thought they were a bit scary looking because the nature of their background but I grew to love them.  I finally had an A-Ha moment yesterday on how to use them.  I kept it fairly simple with pattern paper and the image. I used MFT sketch for last week as inspiration for the layout.  Here it is...

Chirpy-Chirp-Chirp

Herrooooo! I'm super excited mainly because I'm finally on Spring Break!  Woo hoo!  I love my job as an educator but boy does it get hard.  Today I woke up wanting to make a card.  My sister asked me to make some baby shower cards, so I thought I would get that going.  The inspiration for this card came from the Lawn Fawn chirpy chirp chirp stamp set.  I love how that set could be used for many occasions other than Easter; it is very versatile. I have not purchased the stamp set yet, but will hopefully soon.   Majority of the SVG images came from Miss Kate Cuttables. I blended some inks to make a nice sky color and used a font called oldskool script.  :) hope you like it.

You're Flippin' Awesome!

I'm I've been eyeing this MFT stamp set since it came out in February but delayed buying it because I really didn't have many coloring mediums until recently.  I wanted this card to be colorful and bright; also I wanted to play with my watercolors :).  I purchased the kuretake tambi 3 weeks ago but hadn't had a chance to use it till now.  I was super excited not only to get the stamp set but use my watercolors.  I wanted to use the emboss resist technique.  However, I was struggling a bit with it.  The images where a bit too far apart which made it look too scattered :(.  I was about to trash my attempted but decided to save it while I thought about what could save it.  Took me a couple of days but I thought maybe if I put some Copic colored images on top of some of the emboss images it would bring the background back to life And it did!  I was super happy.  I also added some embossed hearts to fill in the empty space.  I'm not sure how they all ended up upside down.  Anywho, here is my card.

Guess who....

I made this card a couple of weeks ago but forgot to post a about it.  Treasure Box had an awesome freebie that I wanted to use (love their cuts). When this was posted I had to make a card from it. I thought it was an interesting image in that it's an owl coming out of its shell with bunny ears, seems a bit confusing at first but it was super cute.  I got the idea of it being in a basket like an Easter basket on a farm (I think when I saw the egg I was thinking farm).  So the setting is nice sunny farm day.  I thought the sentiment "guess who..." Would be appropriate because it's an owl hatching into a bunny so you're not expecting that, so guess who it is  Lol... I don't know,my thought process on this card was all over but love it!  I did some ink blending with Simon Says Stamp inks and well as distress inks.  I used stamps of life grass stamp to create more texture for the grass.  I uses an Miss Kate Cuttables for the barn.  Of course Lil owl bunny is from Tresure Box.   Anywho here is the card I made for easter.

Think Happy Be Happy...

Hello! I started this card a week ago when I was experimenting with my copics.  Ahh!  I'm still juiced about my Copics still.  I was telling my boyfriend how it was a meant to be situation.  I've been wanting copics for some time now and had an opportunity to purchase some on eBay at a decent price but that slipped by.  Then this past weekend I saw on a Facebook post that the artist supply store was having a sale! I jumped at the chance and boy was it a sale.  Anywho, I wanted to test my copics out and the only stamp image I have right now is Freckles by MFT stamps.  I wanted to practice coloring skins and ended up paper piecing half of the project.  Can't get away from that paper piecing. :D I left her on my table the whole week because I had other projects to work on and I honestly wasn't sure what to do with her.  I've been doing mainly scenes with my paper piecing so I didn't know if I wanted to create a scene with her.  Today I woke up, saw her on the table and decided I needed to do something with her.  Took some time to put it together but I like how it came out, especially how the colors worked out.  I made some last minute changes at the end because it look so one dimensional.  I took it apart and did some inking on it so the cardstock would pop a bit more and put it back together.  Well... Here it is.  :)

Home Sweet Home

My co-worker asked if I could make a card for her for a housewarming she has in a couple of weeks.  I was happy to create a card.  I asked her a couple questions before I got the idea in my head.  She told me her friend was younger and it was his first house, so quickly the idea of a bachelors pad and bbqing in the yard came to mind.  I think it came out well.  I've been toying with inks and paper piecing and combining them.  I saw on Amy R's YouTube how she inked cloud shapes onto white card stock to make her background.  I thought that would be a great idea for the background of my card.  I don't have a die cutting machine or dies so I improvised by creating my own cloud stencil with my cricut.  I welded overlapping circles to create a big cloud. I used the same technique as Amy R.  with my stencil.  I think it came out nice.  Here is my card :)

Out of this World!

Hello!  I have been on a birthday binged these past couple of weeks, so this week I was able to make a fun card.  I'm quite new to the card crafting but very eager to learn new techniques both with paper piecing and stamping.  I wish it was I had more in my budget to devote to my hobby but I invest as much as I can into it both time and money.   Currently, I am in love with inks and ink blending.  I really want to get more colors of ink as of right now I only have memento tuxedo black, color box jalapeño, and versifine embossing inks as far as dye/pigment inks are concerned :(.  As I mention in an earlier post of mine I have purchased some distress mini inks.  I am in love 😍.   It is so much fun to play with!   Although I do not currently have the ink blenders, they have been blending well with just make up blotches.   For this next card I used the colors I had to make a bright star-y backgrounds.  I had so much fun blending out the background.   It took quite a bit of time and rounds of color to get it the way I wanted because I'm soooo new to the technique.  The theme of this card is outer space love.  I was looking around at some blogs/challenges for this week and decided to combined  2 themes; Miss Kate Cuttables (love theme for February) and Scrappy Mom's out of this world theme.  I made my own wobble for the little boy astronaut; he is too cute!  Hope you enjoy this card!

Cut Images used

  * Kadoodle Bug: Out of this World

  * Miss Kate Cuttable: Heart Balloon

Stamps Used

  * Scrappy Mom- A Haunting We Will Go

  * Peachy Keen- Winter Buddies Face Assortment

Distress ink colors

  * Picked Raspberry

  * Spiced Marmalade

  * Mermaid Lagoon

  * Mustard Seed

Challenges Entered:

- Miss Kate Cuttable February Challenge 

- Scrappy Mom's Terrific Tuesday Challenge (Feb. 16)

  

Baby Tiger Birthday

This month is the month of Birthdays.  My last posts I had made a card for my niece and my sister , this one is for her son Zoland.  Amazingly, my sister's children's and her birthday are in back to back to back weeks.   Zoland loves PBS's Daniel the Tiger, but I couldn't find an SVG file for Daniel :(.  I improvised by looking for a tiger; I found a cut in Miss. Kate Cuttables.  Love her cuts!  They are super cute.  The cut I bought was a cute baby tiger. I used some glitter cardstock for the birthday hat and cupcake to put some bling into the card. I recently aquired some Amy R sentiment stamps.  Amy R stamps are rubber cling stamps; I usually like using clear stamps because it's easier to line up, but they were so lovely I had to get them.  I'm learning how to cut the the rubber sentiments and lineing them up.  Makes me really want to get a MISTI.  Anywho here is a picture of the card I made for Zo Zo.

I also helped my sister make a cupcake stand for ZO Zo's birthday, not card related but crafty.  :). I think it came out nice.  Idea was taken from Pinterest.

Card Challenges entered:
Cardz TV Cards Designer Challenge #2: Birthday Card

A Blog Named Hero: A Bit of Sparkle
Suzy Pants Blog-February 13 Challenge
Crafty Hazelnut- February 2016 Pattern Paper Challenge
(used pattern paper for background in front of card and inside card a strip of pattern paper)
Sweet Stamps Blog- February 2016 Challenge
Diana M. Lason- February Challange

I'm nuts about you...

  My bf is fortunate to be born in Valentine's Day. It took me some time to do this card as it was a bit intracute.   I glued each of the metallic hearts on the tree.  I had a little issue with the grass hills; when I first layer them on top of each other they blended in so there was not distinguishing one from the other.  Luckily I had just purchased some distress inks and I had a green color (evergreen Burroughs) to sponge in the edges to give them some contrast.  I love the distress inks, they are so much fun to play with.  I want to invest in getting more colors.  I used peachy keen stamps, pile of smiles for the eyes and critter face for the mouth of the squiral.  Been mixing and matching face stamps to get the looks I want.   The front sentiments is from Amy r's autumn sentiments and the inside sentiments is a mix of Amy r and Ali Edward stamps.   Anywho,  here is the end results.

Challenge entered:

Suzy Pants - February Challenge

Hip Hip Hooray Engagement

My closest friend just got engaged this weekend to her boyfriend of 5 years so I thought I'd make her a card to congratulate her; plus it was a good excuse to use my new stamps of life stamps.  ;D

I usually do cricut cuts but decided I wanted to test out my stamping techniques.  Been watching a lot of YouTube videos from Jennifer McGuire, K. Warner, and Amy R.   For this card I used distress inks and masked off my hippos to create stacked critters.  It was a lot of fun experimenting.  I paper pieced some flowers from pattern paper and popped them up for a bit of dimension.  The card needed that because besides that it was very flat.  The outside sentiment came from the hippo2stamp from stamps of life.  The inside sentiments I used Simon Says Stamps, tilted banner sayings and My Creative Time with Emma, turn that frown upside down.

Challenge Entered:

Sweet Stamps- February Challange