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.

Multiple Challenges...

Really excited to hit multiple challenges with today’s card! Again another first for me, I was making a card for each and every challenge I was looking at and getting a bit overwhelmed. My husband asked me the other day if I was having fun…I was not so sure of my answer. Starting the blog, starting to enter challenges, being a bit intimated by what I was seeing from others J was not giving me the sense of fun I always had when being crafty.

So it seemed important with this post to hit some of the highlights –and really make it more about my joy in crafting then what is due when and how to post that and does this fit…

I think this little girl from Tina Wenke is just great. I love the sense of fun with “rubber rain” boots and the tutu. My daughter Kaitlyn had a red pair of cowboy boots that she “purchased” when we first moved to Texas. She wore those things to death. One of her old elementary school teachers bumped into her and asked about those red boots-said no matter what Katie was wearing she had those red boots on.  I though making these boots red added the perfect accent. J

And the deets:

Image-Colored with copic markers. Her hair with my prisma colored pencils and gamasol (I like the black hair better using that medium)

Round card

Ribbon and accents

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Challenges:

7 Kids – Circles

2 Sisters – Garden

Totally Gorgus – Not a Square

Pile it On- Boys and girls

Also just for fun I added my other fun one-love letter purse. :) Magnolia image and a purse template. 

Stamp Something-Anything GOES!!!

Miss Emily Kay

I completed my first blog hop with the Stamp Something challenge and blog hop that was taking place this week. I have only been blogging for a few months and entering my cards in these challenges for less than that so it is pretty fun to accomplish something new each time.

The card for the anything goes challenge is to honor my youngest-my baby girl (not so much a baby anymore at 17) Emily.  I finished making this card Sunday and held it up to those sharing my craft space…”Who does this remind you of?” I asked with a smirk…immediately Emily chimed in with, “well it certainly isn’t me.” Alas my poor darling drama queen of a daughter everyone disagreed (including ALL the kitties).

 Emily may be a drama queen but with good reason. (Proud Mom!) She also has a beautiful voice and a love of the theater and the drama of this image completely fits.  We attended her Choir variety show on Friday and Emily sang solo’s from Les Miserable’s, Phantom of the Opera and The Sound of Music. Her solo from Phantom was so wonderful her dad and I along with several other audience members got choked up. Today she received some really great news in choir and reached a goal she had been striving toward since  her sophomore year…so to honor my DRAMA QUEEN…this one’s for you kiddo.

On to the nitty gritty-

Colored-copic marker(s)

Round card with music notes embossed and accent paper is also music notes that carry through with the circle theme

Mo Manning digital image-(everyone should check them out and get some of these wonderful images)

Ribbon and note brads to finish it all off-oh and for fun the picture background here is the program from the variety show.

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King of the Mountain!-Mo Manning Challenge

Wow, rough day today keeping the peepers open. Stayed up WAY to late watching a movie and waiting for baby boy #2 to make it home from college, he made it, but it was LATE Sunday evening. Boy I am glad I was able to spend so much quality time in the craft room this weekend. Allowed me to get many card projects completed and not be behind the eight ball this week in challenge posting.

Mo’s challenge this week is here comes summer.  My image and card choice is a homage to Christopher Mark who successfully completed one of his last semesters’s of college and is heading into summer break. Yeah for Chris!!!

I think anyone can agree that one of the best parts of summer is getting out into the fresh air and getting dirty.  I love this image, it certainly demonstrates all the fun; dirt, army men, trucks, blocks and a bit of imagination can bring. Christopher had a great time, when he was little, allowing his imagination to take over –his transformers were forever pitted in a battle for world domination. (They still are, somewhat, now via computer with a bit more violenceJ) In Mo’s image you can just tell that this guy is so ready for the summer and to let his imagination run free. He is definitely king of the mountain.

This young man is colored with copics and then I sponged blue around him with a bit of gray cast. I made sure that grass and dirt stains marked the “kings” shorts, shirt and a bit here and there on his face, because what’s the point if you are not getting DIRTY?!

For the card-I stamped the background squares with some of my old Close to my Heart stamp sets. This set is called “All about Boys”. The sentiment, “ALL BOY” is from this set as well. I free hand cut out the clouds and then added a bit of color with my copics airbrush (gray and a bit of really light blue) I thought these were a great topper for my frame.  Finished it off with some fun rainbow ribbon and gave it an overall block like look.

I had my darling husband take some pictures of the card outside on bits and pieces of the old fence that blew down in the last storm. I really like they way these turned out the fence adds to the rough and tumble aspect of the card.

The picture taking matching the theme of the card is something I want to try to do more. If you look through the last few postings I have card with cookbook, candy and now the fence. I am having fun dreaming up the theme to compliment the card. I think a photography class might be in my future…

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Still crafting Sunday...

I tend to miss a couple of challenges I would really like to be a part of so I am going to have multiple posts today-that way I am EARLY instead!  Kenny K is one of the challenge's I miss to constantly miss and I love the images-they remind me of my girls! Use of tie cuts and punches were in this weeks new challenge.

 Spellbinders were used for the coaster cut and layered circles. I found this great paper with an old article about cake making. I love this Rockin mom from Kenny K. My mom can do that great one eyebrow lift thing. I added the cookbook, tongue firmly in cheek my mom bought it for me  right after I got married and we still use it today, my daughters think that is really amusing.

My mom is colored with copic markers. The sentiment is punched out and then I did some cutting to make it a bit unique. Pop dots of course to boost up the image. I love the sentiment-Amazed, awed, inspired by you...how true!!!

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