Happy Heart Day everyone!

I hope everyone has had a truly wonderful valentine's day! I actually do have a card for you today! It's the card i made for my hubster. He giggled when he opened it and said, I love my cards from you! And he truly does. he has each and every one of them on display in his office. I've taken over a whole shelf! haha!

So how was everyone's valentine's day?

Mine has been very low key with a lot of lazy around the houseness. :) Gabe has had a prett gnarly cold so we didnt even go to church this morning. It isnt anything too major, but i wouldnt want to get anyone else sick. And i did take the time to dye my hair! I picked a new shade (ok, so it will look the same to most, but i notice it!) and i'm loving the new shade. it works well against my skintone. Tomorrow is Family Day in Canada and since we are half canadian in our house, i'll be taking the day off to do more fun fam stuff. perhaps i'll have a photo op with my newly dyed hair!

Here's my card using a hodgepodge of stamps... but the largest image is from The Greeting Farm.

I put my card together a little quickly. I have had the image colored for some time, but just hadnt gotten to the card yet. The black striped paper was a leftover scrap on my table from my Moody for Rock card i made earlier in the week. It just fit perfect for the card so i thought, woohoo! The red triangle is also a scrap. I took my favorite heart from the You've Got Mail set from My Time Made Easy and stamped it to mimic the bandanna on the monkey's head. :)

The sentiment is from a studio G dollar set that i've sort of horded away. I stamped the heart again in red ink (without cleaning it off well, bad me). but my booboo of not cleaning it well gave the heart a little bit of shading. haha! here are some close up views...

And here's another fun detail show... it's hard to see in the photos, but it really makes the image pop on the card. After cutting out the monkey image with my standard rectangle nesties, i used my copic airbrush and a light grey marker to give it a little depth. My image was already colored when i did this and didnt affect the coloring at all. My advice is to just stick to airbrushing the edges and you'll be fine. :)

Well i hope everyone had a fantabulous day today!

Here are...

Stamps:

monkey image from The Greeting Farm (sorry, i'm pretty sure this cutie was discontinued)

Heart from You've Got Mail, My Time Made Easy

Sentiment from Studio G

Color with Copics

Reds R24, R37, R29

Grey's N2, N4, N7

Monkey E33, E35, E37

Pink for monkey heart in tail R20

Tools and Accessories

Standard Rectangle Nestabilties

1 3/8 circle punch by EK Success

1 1/2 circle punch by Creative Memories

Copic Airbrush

Rhinestones from $1 section at Target

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Happy Easter with a Fairy

Could it BE?! Posting 3 days in a row? Woot Woot! Maybe i'm finally getting back into the swing of things! Thank goodness, but this feeling 2 steps behind is for the birds! :)

Last Monday there was a challenge on the PMS blog issued by Christi (yes i'm aware i'm doing the challenge a little bit close to the end, but hey, i made it before the next challenge... cut me some slack!)
It was an inspiration challenge to use this picture...

Since i never even got Elle the Easter Fairy from Paper Makeup Stamps inky, i thought now was the time! And i'll just have to play with masking out her egg the next time i want to use her! Maybe she could carry a bunch of flowers!
Here is my card...

I used the colors of the eggs in the inspiration picture as my basis for the card. The rest of the layout was from my cold induced stupor. hehe.
You can kind of see the spica pen on her wings and egg in the above picture. Here's a close up of elle... you cant see the spica any better, but you can see the stardust pen i used in the background and you can see her coloring a little better.



Products Used:
Cardstock is all Bazzill (grasshopper, chablis and i'm not sure the name of the blue color): the funky strips are from a bazzill cardstock strips pack.
Copic Markers: Skin (E00, E21, E000, RV11 for cheeks); Hair: E31, E34, Colorless Blender; Dress Shell: RV11, RV34; Dress petticoat: RV000, RV10; Egg: G00, G02, BG01, BG02, Colorless Blender, White Signo Pen, Clear Spica Pen; Shoes: E34, E35; Wings: B000, B00, Clear Spica Pen
Stamps: Elle the Easter Fairy from Paper Makeup Stamps, Sentiment is from Studio G


Thanks for stopping by everyone! I hope you all have a very very wonderful Easter today!

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This is my first card using any TAC images. I got the images off of the PIF image thread on splitcoast. And i recently ordered some TAC images as well, but they arent here just yet. Still, i was happy with how this cow turned out. He's colored with copic markers and i used a white souffle pen for all the highlight. The other papers are all scraps just floating around in my scrap bin - including the cool cutout behind the stamp image. I cut a bunch of that shape with my cricut accent essentials cartridge for a swap and that was a leftover. But i hated to throw it out, so it went into the scrap stash. I knew i'd use it one day! The sentiment is from a Studio G stamp set and then i added some acrylic discs to the side just for a little pop. :)

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I'm loving image swaps lately! One stampers sends you some images of one of her stamps and you send her images of one of yours. It's a fab way to up your stamp collection all for the cost of a postage stamp and not the real rubber stamp! :)

This image is from a retired SU set that i've been eyeing for awhile. It's called Sweet Treats. But now i have some images of the ice cream cone from Lori Lynn Washburn to satisfy my taste buds for awhile.

For this one, i used my derwent watercolor pencils and aqua painter. I also used my new threading water punch by Fiskars (sent to me by my wonderful friend, Kim Stewart). the sentiment is from a Studio G set.

Enjoy!

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Oh My My My!

Oh My it's been awhile since my last post! Unfortunately, pregnancy number 2 is kicking my you know what! But i just could not resist in competing in the March Bella Babe contest hostes on the Bellaholics Anonymous board! This month's challenge was a sketch provided by the wonderful Katie Skiff! I had also seen this card on splitcoast the other day and wanted to try out a similar idea. This is the bella card i came up with using Clickabella (www.stampingbella.com)



The card is 5x5 in its folded size. I used Close to my Heart's "Delight in Everything" stamp set to stamp out the background. The large flowers are layered with 2 stamps. Then i stamped over the images using Versamark ink. I also stamped a couple of small flowers with versamark only. Then sprinkled the whole card with Kaleidoscope Embossing Poweder and heat set the whole thing. I colored Ms. Clickabella with copic markers and covered her shirt with a stardust pen to give her a little sparkle as well. And used some colored twill ribbon, primas, rhinestone brads and regular brads as accents.


And even though this is late, i'm going to post it anyhoo. It's my valentine's day card for my hubby. It's a pretty simple card, but i was happy with the way it turned out.



The base is my absolute favorite Stampin Up color, Blue Bayou! Then i used SU set "Baroque Motifs" for the flourish and flowers. The sentiment is from the Close to My Heart set "Adorable". I stamped it in versamark and then used silver embossing powder. I finished it off with some simple ribbon along the side. and Viola!


Hopefully i can get back into my crafting grove and will have more work up shortly!

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