Fairy Tale Bug

Hi All,

Oh wow is it super busy!  School starts on Monday for me and textbooks are NO joke!  Plus I have been redoing my stamp room/office/study area and I have ikea boxes all over my house!  Hopefully it will look how I am picturing in my head!  I am realizing how much craft stuff I do have though!

I used fairy tale bug on my card today because school is definitely on my mind.  I wanted to color him different and used all kinds of colors on him.  Of course I used my copics.

I kept it really simple with some twine!

Enjoy!

Fall Colored Chloe

Hi All,

Have you ever colored an image and absolutely LOVED how it turned out???  I did and look at her!  I love how the shading of her hair turned out!  I used Chloe by Elizabeth Bell for Whimsy Stamps.  I stamped her using memento black and colored her with my copics.  I used Blossom Nestabilities and cut her out and with the image still in the nestie I sponged some memento green ink around the edges to give it a little depth.  I paper pierced around the edges (HUGE tip is to adhere ALL of the top layers together--not the base--and paper pierce through there and then use pop dots so you don't squash your pokes)

Have a great week!

Loves Inspiration challenge

Hi All,

A super fun photo inspiration challenge is going on this week over at Loves Rubber Stamp Challenge Blog!  Here is the photo:

Use the colors of the photo and BONUS points if you incorporate the chevron pattern!  I was planning on it but I forgot and already started assembling my card!

I used the adorable Cheeky Beach from the Greeting Farm!  I love, love, love that Laura has added this line AND did you see, she has a wonderful preorder going on for My Favorite Things Dienamics!!!  AND Saturated Canary preorder too!!!!! 

Hope you enjoyed the fun card and I hope you play along!!!

Party Girls

Hi All,

I used the super cute Party Girls from Art Impressions.  Usually I am overwhelmed with larger images because I always have trouble getting nice, clean, crisp impressions.  Boy was this a no brainer!  A perfect impression the FIRST time!  Plus these girls are super fun to color!  I love using copics and this was a fun image.

Hope you enjoyed and have a wonderful week!

Loves Cheeky Nurse

Hi All,

Did you see the new stuff in the Loves Rubber Stamps Store!!!!  I am a H-U-G-E fan of The Greeting Farm images and of course I love my cheekies!  I had to use this image!

This is Nurse Cheeky.  I am also entering this card into the greeting farm monthly challenge for stars and stripes.

Hope you enjoyed!

Loves Tic Tac Toe Challenge!

Hey All,

This week we have a fun Tic Tac Toe Challenge!

LOVES RUBBERSTAMPS – TIC-TAC-TOE CHALLENGE No. 1                               www.lovesrubberstampschallenges.com

MONOCHROMATIC COLOR SCHEME	FLOWERS	BUTTONS OR BRADS
GLITTER OR SPARKLE	RIBBON OR TWINE	EMBOSSING
MULTI-FOLD CARD	DISTRESSED EDGES	PUNCHIES OR DIE CUTS

I did the middle!  I used some distress stickles for the middle of the flowers on her hat, I used twine with the button and I used the Cuttlebug swirls embossing folder to emboss the sentiment panel.

I used Eleanor from Kraftin Kimmie. The paper is unknown.  I had it in my collection and I loved the surfboards!  The sentiment is from Priscilla from Kraftin Kimmie.

Visit the Loves Challenge Blog to play with us!

Flame Broilin Tutorial

Hi All!

I have a FUN and EASY tutorial for you today!  I love this adorable High Hopes image called Flame Broilen.   I knew as soon as I saw this image I wanted to use foil.  As in aluminum foil for cooking!  I figured since it is so flexible it would probably hold a shape!

I started by stamping my image as I usually do.  If I am coloring with copics I ALWAYS use Memento Black.  Never, ever, ever smears!

 Here is my image colored.

Here are the copics I used.

 I have used foil before and I like to use heavy duty because the shape stays better. 

 I usually just rip a sheet off then I place in my embossing folder (you can use ANY embossing folder-I have not tried an impression plate so since that is a lighter impression I am not sure how that will work). 

Once it is embossed I gently trim the edges in my table top trimmer.  DO NOT push down very hard because you can flatten the shape right out!

I don't use my tape runner on the foil but I do use glue dots on the paper I am attaching it too.  I also used a brad this time to keep my place.  I used some of the cool new brads that the store carries!  They look like screws!

 Once everything is attached I completed the rest of my card!  Isn't this a cool effect and super awesome for the men!  A very cheap way to make your own patterned paper too cause a 50 foot roll was only a few dollars!

I hope you enjoyed and I can not wait to see what everyone makes!  If you use this tutorial definitely link in the comments I would love to see what you have done!

Loves Challenge Day!

Hi All,

It has been a tad quiet around here!  The big reason is I have been pretty sick for over a month now.  I have had barely enough energy to keep up with my design team requirements and actually didn't even post last week!  I even did the ER and doctors last week and both of those are huge cause I never, ever, ever go!  Long story short they are unsure exactly but I was told I had gall bladder issues and a gastrointestinal virus that is floating around.  I am starting to feel a little better and I think the biggest reason is with how sick I was feeling I still participated in a 10k walk/run yesterday to support The San Francisco Aids Walk and my friends team: Team Proctor.  It was brutal and doing that with flu like symptoms was T-O-U-G-H but I woke up today and I felt a huge difference so maybe my body needed to sweat out all the yuck!

OK enough about feeling sick although Loves owner, Laura, commented that my card for this weeks challenge looks like it could represent how I feel.  Hmmmm she may be right!

Here is my card:

I used the adorable Angry Ballerina from Kraftin Kimmie.  I colored her with copics and I tried a new to me technique for the shadow ground.  I like the technique but I definitely will need to practice to get it to look how I would like it.  The paper is Basic grey and Stampin up.  The buttons are from hero arts and the twine is from the twinery.

This weeks challenge was a fun color inspiration challenge using this picture:

I love, love, love these colors together!!!  To see more awesome inspiration visit the challenge blog!

Thanks a bunch and ENJOY!

Whew...Caught up...

Hi!  I have a fun card to share with you today!  I used Whimsy Stamps-Kenny K-Cheers Dude, this line is carried at Loves Rubber Stamps.  I LOVE using this stamp for man cards because soooo many stamp sets out there are for little boys or older men and this one really can be used for that middle group.

The paper is stampin up and cosmo cricket and of course I colored with copics!  Hope you enjoy your week!

A Day Late...

Sorry for the delay in posting!  I will be a day late for my challenge post (that is posting now) and my regular Wednesday post will be posted on Thursday! Whew it has been B-U-S-Y here! 

This week we have a fun sketch challenge!

Here is my take on this:

I used the super cute Kraftin Kimmie Gadget Girl.  Join us over on the challenge blog.

I will be back tomorrow with another card!  Enjoy!