Sea You Soon - Sketch

Hey there everyone! It is sketch time over at Bombshell Stamps and Kathi our fearless leader (She must be fearless to deal with us crazies) has prepared a lovely sketch here for us all to enjoy. My take on the sketch became very dark with pops of color.

I colored Mermaid Treasure up with blues and yellow greens  and then cut her out and layered her on the black paper. I love how it makes her stand out. Now the ribbon is silver - not red or pink. I promise! It is just VERY shiny. I am wearing a dark pnik shirt and apparently it reflected on the picture. SIGH. So the picture looks a little strange. The sentiment is from Homeward Bound.

I think I will do more on black with the Bombshells.

The Bombshells have some FANTABULOUS Inspiration for you over at the Bombshell blog.

The rules for the challenge are :

• Feel free to flip it, flop it, and make it your own.
• Use Bombshell Stamps!
• Upload your take on the sketch on the blog post by September 30th for a chance to win a fabulous prize.
• Upload your take on the sketch in the forum and double your chances to win!!!
• Have fun!!!

 

Hope you all have a great day!  

Any Which Way - or EVERY WHICH WAY?

The Flourishes release week challenge this week was to was to use one of the four sketch orientations "Any Which Way" to create a card. Well, I did a series of Christmas cards using all four. WOOHOO!!!!

This was really fun and I loved the sketch layout, although I think I liked the wide short orientations better. Here are all four of them. The colors used were R35, 46, 59 for the reds, G82, 94, 99 for the greens, Y11, 23, 26, 28 for the golds, and C3,5,7,9 for the blacks.

Thank you for joining and checking out my Christmas cards. I hope you come back again soon, and check out some more posts.

Have a good week.

P squared Challenge - Piece and Punch

Hey there guys! Nice to see you back - or hopefully nice to see some new faces too. I created this card for the Kraftin Kimmie Piece Out challenge.

As the name implies, the challenge was to Piece part of the image you made. As I was contemplating the paper to use, I saw that Basic Grey also had a challenge this week to "Punch It". Well that was providence. I must combine challenges.

I used the Basic Grey Oxford paper for her pants, top, headband and scrunchie. I then used the same two papers to punch some flowers out, and then another Basic Grey in the background.

I colored her in standby skin colors of E000, 00, 11 and R20. Then I layered on her outfit. For shading on the outfit I used the N2 to add some deepness. For her hair I used Y00 as the base, and then E13, 15, 18. Her Ipod, toe betweeney things and washcloth are RV52, 55. For the washcloth I did most of it in the RV52, then I added a teensy tiny bit of the RV55 at the bottle and where her foot is sitting. Then... I went crazy with the colorless blender and dotted and dotted and dotted... to make it have this faded look.  It looks kinda soft and wooshy to me. :-)

OK... Thanks for coming. I have already gotten two of my cards done for Bombshell this month - I am ON A ROLL... So make sure you tune in on Wednesday to CHECK OUT THE DT's work for the Sketch Challenge.   Oh - and you have a little bit of time still to apply to be a Pin-Up for the next term. The designs are really cool and extremely versatile. You should try!!!!

Sassy Studio Designs

Howdy all. It is game day!!!! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOP. Gig 'EM Aggies!!!!!

OK... now I feel better. :-)

I colored this very elegant lady up when I heard that Sassy Studio Designs was having a DT call. Their designs are very cute and well - - uh - - SASSY. :-) And... she was a BLAST to color up.  I loved the layers on her top.

I wanted it to appear as if she is sitting in front of her dresser and mirror. Her outfit was colored up with the V2x series. I found this paper that matched afterwards - my typical modus operandi.... WHEW! Originally I was going to use more white, but the Black flowers and ribbon and pearls just made it pop out so much more.

I had this little black and white cameo charm, that fit perfectly on her bow, so I used that one to give it a little more dimension.  She is popped up from the card with the coolest little black foam tape. I ADORE IT !!!!!

Hope you all have a great day!

See you back soon!!!

Heartfelt Card

Heartfelt Creations card that is.

My hubby was nice enough to go to the CK Convention in Nashville with me a couple of weeks ago. It was much smaller than usual, and that was VERY sad. But Heartfelt Creations had a booth there, and I got this beautiful Tattered Flowers stamp. I colored it up with the dp I used in mind. I used R11, 12, 14, 17, R05 and R39 for the main flowers. I went over it a touch with Y11 in the lighter areas. The leaves were G20, 21, 24, 28 and the centers were Y11, 23, 26. Once done I added some gold Flower soft and a bit of fine gold glitter on the centers. Then I added B91 dots to the stamped image dots around the image. I cruised several sketch compilations and picked one to use. Then I messed it up, so I changed the sketch up... Go figure. :-)

I told my hubby that it reminded me of Christmas, even though it is not a Christmas image, or Christmas paper, or Christmas anything. It must be the allergy drugs roaming insanely through my system.

:-)

Talk to you again soon!!!!

Guest Designer - Samee

Hey there guys. My little one (who is only 4 3/4 inches shorter than me now) decided she wanted to color some... and guess what... she said "coloring is fun". Hello - it just took you 13 years to get that? She has designed two cards for you all today.

The image stamps for both are from Heartfelt Creations. The shading on the horse really impressed me. I thought it was very well done. She volunteers for a Horse Riding Rehab center, so she is really into the horses, and I think that it shows.  The pink card was a surprise for me when I got down this morning. AND she cleaned up after herself. GASP!

Thank you all for stopping by, and I hope you have a great Monday. (And if you want to leave a little love for Samee - I am sure she would appreciate it!!!)

I will have another card up tomorrow.

Just a Teensy Bit Krafty

The lovely ladies over at Kraftin Kimmie stamps have challenged us to get Krafty with them and incorporate Kraft paper into the project. I did... Just a tad. I had great plans to use a lot of Kraft cardstock, but it just didn't look right  once I had the image all colored and ready to go on the card. So I took Cheryl's advice and added a tag to it using the Kraft paper and I love how it turned out.

The  Jukebox was colored up with basic colors:

E23, 25, 27
B00, 01, 02
Y00,02, 04
R00, 02, 05
C1, 3, 5, 7

You can see it better in person, but I added some sparkly on top of the blue and silver. Then I added crystal accents on the blue and the glass parts to give it shine. The flowers were cut from die cuts and then rolled. The sentiment was stamped with versafine and then heat embossed.

Thanks for checking me out. I hope you come back pretty soon because I am being very color-y this weekend and plan on having some more stuff up tomorrow and Monday.