Kenny K's Krafty Girlz DT Call

Kenny K is having a DT call. I love the images, because they are so different. They are hot and crazy and let me go wild with funny sayings. They are luscious to color, and just make fun cards. I have several cards using Kenny K images, and I am actually in the process of coloring one right now too. So, to pick two was hard, so I asked my husband to weigh in!

He picked these two:

 

This first one... was the colors, the greens and purples, and how fun she looks yet still girly. 

He was like - Definitely the Jingle My Bells one. He said he liked the way her hair was colored.  :-)

So, here is my entry. I hope you all like it. Go check out the Design Call HERE, and check out the WOW of all the entrants.

Thanks for stopping by, and off to color more.

~~Alaine

The Stockings Need to be Hung

It has been a CRAZY CRAZY few days at work, and I have had almost no time for crafting... ok lets be honest here... I have not cracked a craft for over a week. So here I am getting back to it. I decided to jump back in by doing a challenge. This is for Flourishes Timeless Tuesday challenge for this week to "Just do it" and get the Christmas cards done. These are from their Christmas Classics set and I think that they are beautiful. I wanted to try to color them a little differently, not the typical Christmas colors of red and green. I also drew some stitches on the middle one... not sure I like how that part turned out, but... oh well.

Of course I colored these with my trusty copics. The colors were primarily G40, YG63, 67, R81, 83, 85,, V93, 95, e50, 51... and then some accents. The bar and hangers are colored with Gold spica, and I have clear spicad some of the items in the stockings, especially the wrapped things.

The green paper is from a mat stack, and the DP is SEI Christmas Mint Rasberry truffle.  I used some little clear purple stones and put them in several places to tie into the stockings. I LOVE this DP. It is just so crisp and clean.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend, and see you again soon.

I Believe!

I colored this lovely Xmas Hottie from Kenny K digi images this weekend. She was so much fun to color, and I had to dress her up in non-traditional Christmas colors. Her outfit is BG10, 13, 15 and V12, 15 and 17. The gloves and boots are black vinyl done in Cool Greys C3, 5, 7, 9.  Her hair was colored all over in E11 first, then I added a little E13, 15, 17 in different areas. Then I blended back over with the E11. I like the way it ended up, it has a distinct curly look IMO. Her skin is E000, 00, 01. I used a bit of RV10 and 13 for her lips. Her blush is RV20.

I colored the "fur" at the tops of her boots, gloves and on her hat with BG0000 and BG000. I then added a bit of frosted lace stickles.

I let her "rest" for a bit (while I was sick)... and picked her up again today to finish her up. I found this lucsious purple paper in the DCWV Black Currant stack. I paired it with the black and purple CoreDinations paper I had.  The stamp is one from Stamps by Judith and was stamped in Versamark and heat embossed with White Zing EP.  And of course she had to be blinged up. Couldn't leave her surroundings naked so to speak.

Hope you enjoyed her, and hope you come back to visit soon.

~~ Alaine

Another blue Christmas Card.

I made this card over the weekend. The stamp is Caroling Sophia from Paper Pretties.

I colored her up, and then cut her out. It was that or mask over her, so I could do the background in the Nestie, and well... masking seemed harder. :-)

The lovely Sophia was colored with B12, 14, 16, 18, G14, 16, 17 and RV10, 13, E11, 13, 15. Her face was E000, 00, 01 and RV10.  I used a bit of Polar White Flower Soft for the fur on her hat and the boots.

Once I was done I cut her out. I cut out a scallopped oval with my Nestie, and while still in the Nestie I used my airbrush and the B12 to give a light layer around the inner edge of the Nestie. Sophia was pasted onto the oval...and then it was popped up on top of a beaded oval. I added Jolee's Hotfix pearls around the edge of the oval.  

The snowflakes were cut out with Spellbinders and layerd. The design paper is from DCWV  Holiday Collection.  The sentiment came with the Caroling Sophia stamp.

Thanks for stopping by. Off to take some more cold meds, and a nap. :-)

~Alaine

I'll have a BLUE Christmas

Release Week Challenge over at Flourishes this week is Warm Winter Wishes using cool shades of blue. I LOVE blue, and using blue at Christmas. I used the new Flourishes stamp set released last month.

I colored the ribbon first with all over with B32. I then added in B34, 37 in different areas to give shadow and movement. I blended in with the B32. I added a tad of B39 on the inside of the bow, and as a touch of shadow underneath the ornaments.

The greenery was G21, 24, 28 and YG63, 67 and G28.

The ornaments were colored with B000, 00 and 02 as well as C00, 1, 3. The bells were C1, and 3 and then blended with C00. Once I had all of it colored, I used some silver smooch on the bells and the ornaments, as well as some diamond stickles to make the bow and ornaments sparkly. The snowflake is white enamel accents with a little silver smooch added in the center of the white.

I cut it out with a Nestie, and went one size larger for the blue frame. I then used the largest size Nestie to cut a hole in the middle of the patterned paper.  The finished card is 5.x. 5.

Thanks for stopping by. Going to go do some more coloring! Hope to see you again soon.

~~Alaine

I got Bells!

Here is my Christmas card for the week.

This is Mrs. Claus from Kenny K. I colored her with E000, E00and E01 for her skin. For blush I added a bit of R20.  I then colored her gown / robe and hat with G14 all over and added G16, 17, 19 in for shading and shadows. The red is  is R24, 27, 29, 59. Her boots are Y21, 23 and I added enamel elements on the back of the boot, the sole of the boot, her necklace and the belt. Her hair is E13 all over with E15, 17, 18 shading.

I added polar white Flower Soft for the fur. I also wanted to enter her into the Color me Copic challenge for coloring makeup. I usually use the E000 technique for skin, but I don't always do a lot with the eyeshadow.  So I used the technique for that.

I first colored with G00 all over, then added darker G12 at the inside corner and blended out. I added V12 on the outside edge and blended in, and then took the E000 over all of the lid area to smooth it over. I like how it ended up.

Once I was done, I printed the sentiment out on my computer, and punched out some holly leaves using Martha Stewarts punch. For the berries I used hotfix crystals.

Challenges I am entering with this one.

Color Me Copic - Makeup
Kenny K - Anything Goes
Flower Soft - Sprinkle Challenge Christmas

Thanks for stopping by. I am off to make a quick card for a coworkers birthday. Have a wonderful Halloween - or what is left of it.

~Alaine

Bombshell Blog Hop - Halloween!!!

Welcome to the Bombshell Stamps October Bloghop. This months theme was Halloween - - how perfect for the Bombshell Stamps. If you arrived from Bombshell Stamps SPARKLY new blog, then you are on the right track. Yes I said Sparkly new blog. So if you didn't arrive from there... pop on over and check it out.

I took my Sugar Skulls stamps and stamped them twice with Versafine and clear embossed. I did a side step card, but in the middle - and then taped all the steps together. I used spider web ribbon to hang them from a fine thread strung across the top of the card. I then printed a black and orange saying from my computer and attached it to the top.  The paper is Basic Grey.

The prize this month is two Bombshell Stamps sets. If you leave comments on each of the blogs on this hop you are entered into a random drawing. There are several ways to win this prize package... and you can see what they are on that sparkly new Bombshell Blog.

Now... your next stop on the blog hop is Alison's Blog!

Hope to see you again soon!

~~ Alaine