Challenge #9

Well finally I got some to time make a card this week.  I am still fighting a nasty cold and not happy about it! :)  Anyway I had some fun playing with Yellow over at the Copic Challenge Blog.  I also decided to use the sketch at Mojo Monday's for some inspiration!

Ingredients
Paper - left over bits
Stampin Up Embossing Folder
Yellow bling
Spellbinders
Copics
Flower Y00,Y13,Y15, Y18,Y28,Y26, Y28,YR09, Gelly Roll White
Leaves YG11, YG13, YG17
Airbrush in Y38

I was happy with the flower once I added some airbrushing to match the background lacy circle.  I found the white was just to stark.

Challenge #8

Well I managed to make a card today... not letting this cold ruin my entire week! :)

My inspirations for this week.   The sketch at Mojo Monday!  I also threw in the Playing with Pastels Challenge from Stamptacular Sunday.  A little bit of "Spring Pretties" from the Copic Challenge blog!

Ingredients
Bazzil Bling White paper for base
Spellbinders
Copics
Bunny - E21, E23, E25, 0, C1, C3, RV10, RV11
Flowers Y11, Y17, YR23, YR21, Y26, RV21, RV23
Flowers - Stems YG13, YG17, YG67
Stampin' Up Sentiment
Assorted Flowers
Embossing Folder for yellow base

What I Learned
Apparently I do not have many pastel colours in my card stock pack!
Making a spring bunny with some white and some brown is interesting! :)
Working with pastels can be so much fun!

Today as my boys were back at school my daughter wanted to craft with me as well.  So she made a card for Dad on the left and for the Easter Bunny on the right.  It was her first time using Brads (I better hide my stash now!)  She is addicted to tape right now so there is no stopping her!  She played with my punches as well. I think she had fun, but she wouldn't wait until Easter to give Dad her card!

Challenge #7

Woot Woot Challenge #7 Look at me Go now! HA HA!

So my inspiration started with the Sketch Challenge at MoJo Mondays.  It really gets me thinking outside of my usual projects!  Then I headed over to Digi Darlas to see what's up for this week, it was all about buttons (I really need to improve my button collection I have decided... well at least my flowers are 'bursting' with buttons! :) )  I do like to really make it interesting by trying to incorporate a few challenges and still make a decent card.  So I threw in the 3B's over at Stamptacular Sunday Challenge.  Blue, Bling and a Butterfly!   And another fav site Flutterby Wednesday  where anything goes with some wings!

So here it is hope you like it!

Ingredients
Bazzil Bling paper for the base
Spellbinders squares
Scraps for the background papers (embossed with butterflies, as this was a larger card I passed it through twice!  I was pretty happy with the results)
White Flowers, airbrushed to match (BG05,BG09) with bling coloured to match (B99)
Image from Digital Darlas, one of the amazing freebies! :)
Copics
Dress/Hat BG01, BG02, BG05, BG09, B91, B97,B99, BG10, BG13, B15
Leaves YG11, YG13, YG17
Fence E35, E47, E44, BG02, BG05
Skin E000, E00, E51, E34
Flowers Y00, Y06, Y04
and of course my colourless blender... I really need to learn to colour in the lines!

Things I was happy with
- Loved how I was able to get the background embossed in a two pass method
- Happy about using up some scraps!
- Love the airbrushed flowers!
- I picked out my paper first then my markers (usually I do it the other way around and it can be a challenge.  I knew with blues It can get interesting matching them up so I decided to start with the paper and I am really happy with the way it turned out!)


Things I would do differently
- I may put a sentiment where the flowers are the next time... but I wasn't sure what I was going to use the card for just yet... this way I can just put the sentiment inside when I decide! :)
- I think some lace around the outside border would have been cool but I didn't have any small enough (white then airbrushed of course! LOL)

It's spring break here so the kids were embossing scrap paper with my cuttlebug and big kick... they had fun (and they are hired!) LOL

Challenge #6

I had fun with this one... I took a couple of Challenges and tried to put them together.  Makes my brain do a little extra work!  I decided that this little Fairy is bringing April Showers in her little green watering can! :)

Challenges
Digital Darlas April Showers
Mojo Monday's Sketch Challenge
CMC Copic Challenge - Anything Goes
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - Cute as a Button


Ingredients
Spellbinders
Digital Darlas Water Fairy Stamp
Bling and Bazzil Cardstock
Edge Punch
3 Teeny Tiny Buttons
3 White Paper Flowers
Copics
Hair E34, E37, E35, E29
Dress RV21, RV23, RV25, RV32, RV34, Pink Spica
Shoes RV32, RV34
Flowers RV32, RV34 Y38,Y11, FY1
Skin E31, E42,E51, T4 (wishing I wouldn't have added the T4! :) )
Watering Can C00, C1, C3.. started white and didn't like it so I added YG03, YG05, YG09
Paper Flowers, air brushed with RV21, RV25

My daughter was busy playing with a friend today so no artwork today.  My husband thought the hair was 3D he said he actually had to touch it to see if it was.  (Usually he just says "that's nice" so I was amazed that he actually noticed something! :) )

Challenge #5

Well today was another colouring kind of day!  I think I am truly addicted.  This is a simple card, I must be a very boring girl...  Anyway I have entered this in the Riley Makes a Scene and also over at MoJo Monday which was my inspiration for this card.

Ingredients
Spellbinders Squares
Copics
Dress RV25, RV23, RV21
Moose E35, E37, E39, E51, E53, E55
Skates C00, C1, C3
Blades T4, Spica Clear
Colourless Blender (I always seem to need this one!  Maybe my daughter can teach me how to colour in the lines!)
Stickles - Silver
Rhinestones

I really wanted this one to look like the Moose had been skating on the ice so hence the swirls on the bottom, then I figured it needed some bling to fancy it up a bit.

No pictures from my girly today.  She was to busy playing 'skating' with her brothers mini-transformers!  At least she is playing with dolls tonight! :)

Challenge #4

So this time a something a little different...  I dug out my new cameo today and decided that I wanted to try out the sketch challenge at Mojo Monday.  It was supposed to have a tag as well but I just couldn't fit it in there... but I though I would enter it anyway! :)   I am also joining the Challenge at Flutterby Wednesday which needs a butterfly or a fairy!

Ingredients
Bazzil Bling and Assorted Paper
Bright Pink Copic Marker to highlight butterfly edges
Pink embossing powder
White ink
Brads & Ribbon

Well this one started out with an idea I saw here for creating your own stamps.  Then I thought hey I could cut out some of my Slice foam with my Silhouette!  So I cut out my own stamp, then stamped it in white on a larger image I also cut on my Silhouette.  I was looking at it and thought hmm... some embossing powder would make it all sparkly! I also cut the doily with my Silhouette.  I was really trying to work in the butterfly like a tag on the left hand side but it was just too big... then it just seemed to fit right in on the right side so that's were it ended up.

I didn't have anything for my copics so I just had to colour the edges on the butterfly.  Really now I probably could have use a stamp pad.

I am really thrilled that I created the stamp from an image I cut on my Silhouette.  It took me about 3 test stamps to get it really inked up the way I liked but was very happy with the end result.  Not to mention that with the outline function I could make a bit bigger butterfly to stamp it on!

Here is a pic of the stamp on the block... as the foam was quite thin I had a bit of a mess on the block but I didn't get any on my paper when I was stamping it so I was happy.  I really can't wait to try this out again!  Although next time I will not use high tack adhesive.  I was just so excited I grabbed what was closest.

As always I was crafting with my daughter.  Today it was a sticker day, she tells me the starfish are holding hands and the little fish are in school! :)

Challenge #3

This time I decided to join the folks at Oldie but a Goodie Challenge (Mom's the word) and Bugaboo Stamps Catch the Bug Challenge (anything goes).

Ingredients

Flower Stamp

Spellbinders

Flower V25, BV08, V15, V04, V01, V000

Leaves YG13, YG11, YG17, YG67

I found some old hardware that I have had for probably 2 years... sheesh!  It was silver and I decided I wanted to play with my Copics and I coloured the brads and the little frame.  I decided not to stamp the MOM part and tried some hand lettering, not sure if I like it.  I also used my copic's to edge the card and the flower.  Then I had to do some drawing around the hardware as I decided to change it's colour after I had it stuck down and I kind of slipped!  OOOPS... Well it's amazing what you discover when you screw up! :)

I also decided that I want a real air system for my Copics!  I used my air tool for my stampin up pens and taped (gotta love painters tape) my Copic markers to it... ha ha if you could have seen me!  No hand to hold my paper so I was blowing it all over until I stuck it down with a wee bit of painters tape.  It was a two hander but definitely do-able in a pinch!  I couldn't just use one of my markers that actually fit in the contraption because that would have been way to easy! :)

As always my daughter was busy colouring away.  An elephant was her choice this time.  A little better than the monster.

Challenge time... (#2)

So I was at it again today!  This time it's bears.  I really wish there was more hours in a day!  I decided to join the challenge at Crafty Sentiments and Copic Challenge Blog today.  Unfortunately I have just discovered them so I don't have any of their cool stamps, so I decided to dig through my collection, which for some reason doesn't have many Teddy Bears.  That I am going to have to rectify as well! :)

Ingredients
Girl Stamp
Square Spellbinders
Purple ribbon that I had
Copic Markers
Hair Y02, Y11, Y21, E33
Dress V12, V15, V17, V09
Shirt V01, V04, V09, Lavender Spica
Shoes V01, V04, Lavender Spica
Socks B21, B24, C1, C3
Teddy E11, E13, E37, E57, E15, E21, E25 FRV1, RV63, C0
Skin E11, E15, E00, pink for cheek

I also coloured the flowers in the Dress colours and the Brads to match the Teddy's Bow.  I didn't like the bear as I was working on it but am quite happy with the finished product!  I did find out I must really like this stamp as apparently I have two of them.  Oh ya and lots of colourless blender.  When will I learn to colour in the lines?  Oh and her socks don't match on purpose, she was looking a little 'put together' for a little girl so I had to throw that in! :)

Again I was spending quality Colour time with my daughter.  She picked out her stamp that she wanted and way she went.  It is her 'creature'.  (I am dreaming of the day she picks flowers! LOL)

My very first challenge!

So I have decided to try out this Challenge thing... So here goes...

I happened across this Digi Darla's website and saw that they had a Spring challenge. I also had time to get something done before the deadline!



I used one of Digi Darla's freebie images as it's the first time I have been to the site... I think there may be some digi stamping in my future from that site! :)

Ingredients
Digi Darla Image
Spellbinders
Versa Mark and a Flower stamp for the background
Copics
Hair Y00,Y11, Y21, Y33
Overalls B91,B95, B97
Shirt C1, C3
Skin E00, E11, E21
Leaves G28, G09
Grass G21, G24, G28
Pinks RV63, RV02, RV55
Watering Can YG05, YG09
Browns E13, E15, E19, E29

So I am a little dull so I decided to brighten up the card with a ribbon that matched the nice green watering can.... and it was supposed to be spring!

I almost forgot my 4 year old daughter wanted to colour too... I think hers took a little less time than mine but we both had fun!