I used the Wonderland set from The Greeting Farm and colored (highlighted) with my Copics. I did the border with my Zig pen and my caffein-induced shaky hand! lol! Here's a pic so you can see the dimension on Alice:
Now that you've fallen in love with them too, hop over there and check out the DT examples and the chance to win all FOUR of these!!! I'll be back tomorrow for a project post. The kids and I had a PJ day today and we just hung out and played board games until it was time to pull more weeds (yard inspection tomorrow from housing *bleh!*)
Now go win some DF stamps! Wait, don't, I want them, heehee!
Until next post, be blessed!
I combined 2 Sketches 4 You and Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #41 into this card. SCSC's challenge was to use "Spots and Stripes" and of course 2S4Y is the sketch. The sketch actually didn't call for the main image in the middle, or the ribbon on the bottom, but I added those cuz I wanted to ;) Here is a closeup of my coloring on Annika:
The patterned papers are Crate Paper and I colored Annika with my copics. She's actually been colored for awhile and I happened to notice that these papers match her colors just right! Woohoo! Well, I hope you all liked the card for today. I'm hoping to get more posts pre-posted for next week. But I'll work on that tomorrow.
Score the long side of the cardstock at 3 and 3.5 inches.
I used Stampin' Up Kraft Cardstock and the Symphony jumbo wheel. I colored parts of the images in with pencils. The two brads are from Gina K. Designs and I twisted some twine around them to hold the card closed. Here is the card with the top flap open:
I used the wheel again on Very Vanilla cardstock but used brown ink this time and didn't color it in. The sentiment is from the SU! Music Expressions stamp set and says "Musice Expresses that which cannot be said." -Victor Hugo. Here is the card with the bottom flap folded down:
The middle was left blank so I could write on it and the bottom panel has the main image from the Music Expressions stamp set stamped in brown ink. My husband is a musician, so when I saw this set I knew it would work for a card for him. Even though his brother is the one who plays the bass... Anyway, I hope you liked my LATE Father's Day post, and who knows, maybe I'll actually post my Hubby's Birthday card on tomorrow's post?!? Maybe...
I used images Sunny Glen DP from The Greeting Farm since that is my favorites right now. I made a stair step card since I've never done one before and there was a tutorial on Secret Crafter Saturday a couple weeks back. I hope Kim likes the card and I'll be sure to post the card she sent me as soon as I get it! Have a blessed Sunday, bye!
AND, I used the stamp (Spring Fever) that I WON from Shirley's 2 Girls Twisted Thursday challenge a month or so ago (click on the button on my sidebar to check out the Twisted Thursday challenges!). I stamped the image and colored it with my copics. I used Cosmo Cricket papers on the cards. Here you can see two of the embellishments that I made:
The white flower button originally came with a yellow center, but I popped that out and put the blue button with twine instead. On the bottom one, I added some red ribbon behind it to look like another layer of petals. Here are a couple more:
On the top you can see that I did the blue button on the white flower button again, but right below that I put a pink heart brad on a white flower button instead. They are both on a ruffled piece of ribbon. At the bottom of the picture you can see that I used white ribbon with a green button to make another type of flower embellishment. That one is my favorite! Here are a couple more:
The top blue button was threaded, the green button was threaded and then I used yellow scalloped ribbon to make a flower. The pink button was threaded with yellow floss and glued on top of a yellow flower button. Well, those are all the amazing embellishments for my SheetLoad of Cards. What did you think? If you have any questions on how I made any of them, let me know and I'll do my best to answer. I'm thinking of doing a whole post on making flowers and flower embellishments... I've had so much fun making them lately. OH, and guess what... I WON RUNNER-UP FOR JUNE!!! YEP! You can go HERE and see the blog post announcement. My SheetLoad won Runner-up! I am so excited since it was my first time entering! I'm working on my July SheetLoad. You can play too. Go HERE and check it out!
I hope you all enjoyed my post today and I hope you have a Suberb Saturday. Be blessed, I know I have!
I love these pirate stamps! I stamped Pirate Any and Ian in brown in on Kraft cardstock and cut them out. Shaded a little with a blended pen and more brown ink and popped them up on foam tape. The FFF challenge was to use 2 stamps, punches and bling. I used FOUR stamps; Anya, Ian, the sentiment, and the skull. I used a couple circle punches and the flower trio punch. For the bling I used rhinestones in the flowers and gem circle sticky things on the eyepatch/belts/Anya's heart and I used shimmery brown cardstock. Here is another view of the card for dimensional purposes:
It's really hard to tell but the solid brown cardstock is shimmery! Oh, the patterened paper is a piece that I have been hoarding FOREVER because it looks like a pirate map! So Cool!
And the inside:
This is a little box I made and filled with 5 teabags:
This is the same box, only smaller to be filled with some chocolate squares (maybe Ghiradelli, maybe Ritter, gotta see what I can find):
And here are all the pieces of the project together!
I have to say that I love the way this turned out. As a matter of fact, as soon as I'm done on this machine I'll be making another similar project for that cause I mentioned... But I'll post about that later. What do you all think? The Himawari images are just that; images already colored on a sheet of cardstock that you cut out and use however you like. If I had more of a single image, I would probably cut out pieces and make it more layered. I used some copics on some of the images just to give more shading. And the images are just the right size for ALL kinds of projects. I am really hoping to win the challenge because I want more images for myself! Ok, so I'm done with this post and I have a whole lotta stuff to do so I better get moving. Any questions on the project, please ask and I'll answer best I can. 
For: a HAPPY ANYAversary BLOG HOPPIN' BASH!!!
Not only is this card for the T.M.S. challenge, I also made it work for Copic Creations Challenge #7 and Club Anya's VSN challenge #1!!! Three challenges in one; SCORE! For C.C.C.#7 our challenge was to color brunette hair. I followed a couple tutorials they had on their blog and changed it up a bit to make it work. While I was coloring Anya's hair, I totally went out of the lines and colored brown onto her face and RUINED her beautiful face! So I ended up cutting out the hair and glueing it onto a new Anya. Also, Club Anya's VSN Challenge #1 was to "Trip it up and stamp it out!" LOL! I had to make a psychadelic, retro, disco, or "trippy" card. I think this fits the bill! I used American Crafts designer papers from the "play" collection (I think). I decided Anya needed a HOT PINK dress so I stamped her dress onto neon pink cardstock and cut it out. OH, and just so she'd match, I made sure to color her undies hot pink as well... 
I have had this Bella image colored since LAST Christmas and finally put her on a card! I love this combo of colors and elements, and I think I may duplicate it! I can even change the sentiment and image and make it into a Valentine's card, or anniversary card... Hmmm, the possibilities! And here is yet another note holder I made (ignore the horrible lighting, this just would NOT photo properly!):
I don't have any post it notes that match this holder, that is why there aren't any on it yet. I used all TGF Sunny Glen papers, Stampin' Up retired (I think) ribbon and the digital image from TGF is colored with watercolor pencils and OMS. OH! Actually the polka dot and green hearts are Cosmo Cricket, sorry about that. Well, let me know what you think of the projects and my new (again) blog layout! 
I based the whole color scheme off the christmas papers I got from a BIG pack of papers I bought from Taylor of Taylored Expressions. I totally scored with the pack! But more about that on another post. I really wanted to have the main image matted, so I used a top note cut with my Big Shot! Here is how I did it: First I die cut the Top Note shape in Really Rust cardstock. Then I cut the middle out of it as you can see here:
Next I lined up the two end pieces to make sure they would line up nicely as you can see here:
Sorry it's so blurry. Finally, I placed my main image on the pieces to make sure it was right:
WaaLaa! I worked! I then gluedthe two pieces of the top note togeter, glued a piece of ribbon over the seam to hide it (and for a little extra decor), then I stuck the main image on with foam tape. Cool yeah?
ome of you (Kristel):
Obviously that first one is of me and 4 of my 10 brothers... heehee(yes, I have a HUGE-mongous family, and I love it! And Yes, I include my inlaws because I love em like blood!). Can you tell which one out of those 4 is from the same mom and dad as me? Of the three others, two of them are stepbrothers and one is an inlaw. Can you tell? And this next one is of me and Ashton:
These are all from about 2 or 3 years ago. So, why post them? Well, my Sister (or sis-inlaw, we're so close it's hard to remember which is true!) commented that she saw my new profile pic on my blog and didn't recognize me! She said my face looks different and my hair is super long now. Yeah, compared to how it used to be my hair IS super long. And my face, well, I didn't do anything to change it, maybe the hair makes it look different? Ok, that's enough blabber for today. I hope you all have a Fantastic Friday and hopefully I'll hear from you all soon (in the comments maybe? heehee).
These gorgeous Gorjuss images are being offered by Kirsten in celebration of her birthday this week. The candy ends on July 31st. HOp on over to her blog, Kirsten's Krafty Place, and find out how to enter to win this wonderful prize.
Kimmi is celebrating the end of 6 months of Chemotherapy by offering all of US this super sweet candy! Hop on over to her blog, Poppy Petal Designs, and find out about entering to win.
YOu have to go over to Bona's blog, Keep on Scrappin, to fully grasp the extent of this pink candy! Wow! She is celebrating making the top 100 list on Youtube's list of most subscribed (did that make sense? lol!). So hop on over there and tell her I sent ya! And last but not least, Jodi's candy!
Did you see those TWO spellbinders??? This yummy candy is being offered on Jodi's blog, Inked Inspirations, in celebration of her birthday as well. So hop over there also to enter to win.
Andrew totally inspired this card. I told him I had no inspiration for the sketch and I didn't know what to do and he said "Well, make these three circles into stars." And that's how this whole card started! I used Space Ian since I haven't put him on a card yet. The "moon" is a diecut that was sent to me in a Blog Candy from Diana Gibbs. The ribbon was also given to me by my neighbor before she moved. The star brads are making memories and the star paper is from the DCWV rockstar pack. Oh, the dark grey paper is Stampin' Up! Here is the inside of the card:
I cut the crescent moon out of the other half of the diecut circle that the half moon on the front of the card came from. The rocket ship and star trail is from a Studio G clear stamp set and I wrote in the sentiment. I wrote a little personal note in the card and left it in Andrew's room for him to find when he woke up this morning. He really liked it :)
I paper pieced the hippo and balloons and drew in the border. Here are a couple simple birthday cards:
I sponged the edges of the cards, glued on some scalloped papers, tied a bow and stamped the sentiment; so simple! This is a mini birthday card that I ended up keeping for future use:
I used Stampin' Up stuff to make it and colored it with my watercolor pencils. Here are two cupcake birthday cards:
The first one uses a Gina K. Designs flower stamp and the second one uses a Stampin' Up flower stamp (not sure of the names of the sets they came from). The second one is tiny again and I kept it for my use later. I hope you like this photo-filled post today. I am going to try to be more consistent throughout the summer with my posts! 
I like to call it my Pink Dahlia Post-it holder. You can barely see the paper, but I did use polka dot paper! I colored Dahlia's hair Pink and I love it! I got the idea for the note holder from Joy over on her blog; A Place to be Me...
I have to admit, I orginally began this project thinking that it was going to be a RAK for someone someday, but I lvoe it so much that I'm keeping it! Heeheehee! I did buy three more acrylic frames so I will be making some for RAKs eventually. The big pink flowers that I used showed up in my house one day after our neighbor (well, exneighbor-Miss you Kylie!) came over to play. I don't know where she got them... The white flowers and pink little flowers are from Stampin' Up's pretties kit. I colored the pink flowers (which were originally white) with my copic marker and they came out just perfect for this project. The centers of the biggest flowers are Basic Grey brads and the other brads are from the Pretties kit (again, colored with my pink copic). Well, my second project for the Dotty Spotty Challenge is my Space Anya card:
I actually made this one first, but it didn't come out as originally planned. Oh well. AND I don't know what is up with the photo. I could not get a good picture of this card (probably because of all the white?) so please excuse the poor quality. Oh, and the water mark at the bottom... I didn't put that there! LOL! I don't know why it's there, and there is NO Stampin' Up product on this card so it shouldn't be there anyway! Oh well. I wanted my Space Ian to be Anya, so I stamped and cut out Ballerina Anya's head and put it on Space Ian's body. 
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