Pretty papers-silly kitty...

More Backyard Photo's

I love this week’s Stamp Something challenge. Nothing better than digging through and playing with all the papers I have-and the number is legion-and using as much as I want on my design. The challenge is pretty papers and I have to say that if I have purchased the paper I already think it is pretty! So now I get to share my idea of pretty with others.

I am all about the kitties. To say that we are a cat family is a vast understatement. We are currently owned by four little friends-Fireball, Fred, Fiona and Finley (do you detect a theme? I am married to an engineer). Mr. Fin can be seen at the bottom of my blog asking to go outside. There are a couple of rules in our acquiring of cats-all must be rescue kitties, all have to be spayed or neutered and snugglers. We have been really lucky in that every pal that has come home has loved us unconditionally and put up with other animals, a lot of hugging and petting and on occasions being utilized as a dress-up or nap buddy. I took one look at this Mo Manning image and thought, “YEP, I know that kid AND that cat”. Several of our past and present four legged family members have been that lovely orange sherbet color. You can just tell that these two are the best of buddies…J

On to the Deets:

I have four different papers here- the easel card is made from some Doodle bug design papers, the orange circles are three dimensional, fuzzy. Next I used some old paper I found which had a paint splatter effect (oranges, yellows, peachy) I cut the flower border from one of the hundreds of matstack packs I have on hand. Finally punched the orange strips out of “plain old” orange cardstock.

Little Miss Sassy and her cat are colored with copic markers. I sponged the background and edged with distressed ink.

The stickers are just great random ones I had left over (again from my cleaning spree) and I was so thrilled that they matched the flower paper. Flower and kitty charm added for fun.

The card absolutely hits the mark with the sentiment-laugh!

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look!

Backyard-the only thing I have managed to Grow!

So Mother Nature reminded us of her powers last night here in Denton. We had 75-90 mph winds, nickel and larger hail, rain and a truly spectacular light show. Cool? Certainly! Cool at 1:45-3:00 am with the sirens going off –not really. Up late, then making it in to work was an adventure of closed roads, downed trees, fences and miscellaneous debris in the road as well as contributing to bad hair day AND late to work.

On the plus side the girls are home from their vacation with big brother in South Carolina. Both are a bit pink (SUNSCREEN) but had a great time. Poor things had a very rough flight home experience-but American Airlines saved the day and they handled the trauma of it all pretty well. On to the challenge…

The Krafftin Kimmie challenge is to make something for the kid(s) in your life. My kids aren’t really kids anymore (unless gifts are involved) but I have a host of nieces and nephews celebrating birthdays over the next few weeks. I like to keep my “kid” cards generic enough in the age department that if the person is 6 or 16 it will work.  I love these fairies and bought them as the set, so many uses for them!

On to the Deets:

Side step card-using Clarabelle, Isabelle and Lilybelle. The gals are colored with prisma pencils and copic markers.

Card is on a Mosaic table I made a few years ago

Card is made with some old black and white card stock I had on hand, for both the black on white card and white on black backing for the images-I love it with the pop of lime green. Frames for the ladies are made with nestabilites and embossed for contrast. The embellishments were part of my clean out the craft room find. I basically based the entire card off of those two mushrooms! Grass with my Fiskars punch, three dimensional flower and sticker sentiment to round it all out. I think any of the kids in my life would like to get this card! J

One more for the road!

Thanks for taking a peek!!

Oh and here’s hoping the postal strike in Canada is over this week, I am dying for my new set from Kimmie-Annie’s Asian Inspired Girls!!!

Challenge-1/2/3

Well I thought one more for the road today and how appropriate my third post and it is for a 1/2/3 challenge-I was BUSY! The cards I posted today were part of the group I made while my mom was here visiting so we could spend money at the GASC. Since I managed to get all these photos taken Monday-why not share! I am a posting fool today so I will keep this one short and sweet-

The deets:

This last one is for 2 Sisters-1/2/3 challenge. My one image is Mama Roo from Meljen’s Design’s at Whimsy Stamps. So very sweet. Two papers are the polka dot under Mama and the sentiment and the brown check behind the frame. My embellishments are brads, frame and bling/pearls and gems. Mom and baby are colored with Prisma pencils and mineral spirits to blend-I think this gives them a soft focus touch. Some white gel pen to accent and it is ready to go.

So I think that covers it for today-thanks for dropping in and taking a peek.

Totally Gorguss-Flowers

It is certainly is quite around our house. The girls are off visiting their big brother in South Carolina and Christopher is still in Huntsville. Just the hubby and I, well and of course our four-four legged friends. This is what we are heading toward, with our youngest graduating HS and moving on to college it will be a big empty house! Well the quite time has allowed me to participate in more challenges.

This is my entry for Totally Gorgus-Flower Power challenge. This awesome image is Frosted Rose Angel from Hannah Lynn. I love the rose under the glass-reminds me of Beauty and the Beast.

So the deets:

She is colored with copic markers I added glitter accents in her hair and her eyelashes are also glitter’fied

I added the crystal glue accent over the rose so that it does look under glass and has a 3D feel.  The card is clear and I choose the papers to coordinate with her hair. The flowers along the side are cut out of one of my mat stack paper sets, pop dots were added on some to give dimension.  I held the main image on with the bronze gems. I was really happy with the color palette here. (My youngest has been trying to die a small section of her hair blue for a while now so I am on a multi colored hair kick) Used one of my spellbinders for the flourish at the bottom. There is a bit of white cardstock inside for the sentiment-also held down with the bonze gems. Overall I am pleased with the results.

Thanks for stopping in and taking a peek!

Crazy 4 Challenges-Boy theme

Monty and the Dragon

Masculine card challenge. I think that I do pretty well with masculine cards. There are not always the best choices out there for boys and I know it is often more about what is in the card than the card. :) Typically when I find a "boy" image I tend to use it often.   When I was a senior in HS we did the play Camelot. I found it vastly amusing that it was more about the swords than much else for the guys in the play.  This little guy reminds me of them. My future husband was one of the knights-and I clearly remember him growing a full beard for the show. This is my tongue in cheek homage to him since his birthday was Wednesday.

I think this image makes a great, any occasion card, for the knight in shinning armor in your life.

On to the deets:

Colored with copic markers

He is mounted on the front of the card with small squares of red and black paper The other papers are from one of my (many many) mat stacks-used numbers since I made this a birthday card and coordinating black and white square piece added on top. Some small embellishments-no bling needed :) I like to take the less is more approach to my boy cards.

I hope you enjoyed-thanks for stopping by!

7 Kids-Something Hot-and it is HOT in Texas

Kraftin Kimmie girl is for the 7 kids challenge...something hot. I might have varied a bit on the theme-I think this gal is a Hot Southern songstress, with her big hair, shades and smoken' shoes! I know I have said how much I love the Kraftin Kimmie stamps-this one is especially perfect. My daughter Emily sings, beautifully if I do say so my self, and her favorite color is blue...

My Songbird Emily

As to the details on this one: She is colored with my copics. Glitter used to accent her music notes and shades. Hints of white in her dress, hair and cheeks for accent.  Random papers, with the lighter blue embossed with music notes.  I used my spellbinders to cut two of the layers and then thread a thin piece of ribbon through-with a larger blue ribbon to accent. Sorry the picture is a bit blurry-I was in a rush and did not have my glasses on; so it looked good to me! while taking it :) The picture is taken in my craft room on my hubby chair. It is the chair my mom bought me for Christmas with the express purpose of my husband being able to come and sit and hang out with me while I craft. Sweet- heart that he is he actually uses it for that purpose.

I love the way this turned out! thanks for stopping and taking a look....

You gotta have friends...Mo Challenge and Guest Designer

FUN WITH MY FRIEND

I have not been on my blog for a bit. Lots of things happening. Big girl work-rough. Mom and nieces visited-went to the Great American Scrapbook Convention THAT was lots of fun. Youngest finished school and is now a SENIOR which is a tad overwhelming. Went up to take a look at the church, reception and possible rehearsal dinner venues for oldest son's wedding, YIKES. So many things on my mind that the blog has taken a bit of a back seat.

Then when I finally make up my mind to get pictures of the cards taken and work on my blog I also determine   it would be fun to change up the look of my blog a bit...WOW big mistake and not at all fun! I have mentioned (several times) I am learning as I go on the blog front. I gave up and finally went to bed, in what can only be called a "snit" to think on it another day. Scarlet has nothing on this Yankee girl. I did manage to find my mistakes and change up my blog. Not sure that will happen very often.

ON the plus side of things the long break has really allowed me to just create and finish bunches of cards. I really wanted to stretch myself and try new things as often as possible. So I have a bunch of great new projects to show off. :)

Close up shot

First for Mo Manning's challenge-and to throw my hat in the ring again as a Guest Designer-an easel card honoring friendship. I love this image and can image the conversation and trouble these two can find on their adventure. Basic easel card, using my grass punch and some flowers I found in the dollar bin to "hold" up the friends.  I used my Prisma pencils (LOVE THEM) with mineral spirits for the coloring. I do like the copics for the skin tones so in fact both my pencils and markers are used here. I like the pencils for images such as this one because I think it gives a nice soft focus tone to the color. A little distressing and ink on the edges of the image. I loved the papers and cut apart one of my bling stickers for the leaf edge. I was really happy with how the card turned out and thrilled that the format was not as hard as perhaps I was thinking it would be-I found the how to on Split Coast Stampers and step-by-step on YouTube. I hope you enjoy my froggy friends.

Thanks for taking a look.