Wild Child - Mojo 353

Hi folks,

Well, it's been a while since I posted - nearly two weeks! What can I say? I just haven't been feeling the crafty mojo.

It might be the fact that it is summer, it might be the fact that I'm taking a three week vacay from work. It might be the fact that I've been busy making jam. OR - it might just be that I finally caved and took a day to clear out the mess that had accumulated in my craft room.

Eeep! I didn't take a photo of the room before I cleaned - but I did take a few after. AND the office where everything that I took out of the craft room is now waiting to be sorted.  Yep, enough stuff to fill TWO craft rooms. Is it any wonder I didn't feel like getting crafty?

But July is a busy birthday month so I made my way into my craft room this weekend to do a bit of colouring and some card-making.

Today I'm sharing the card I made for dearly beloved's niece - she was seven on Saturday.

I'm really not happy with the hair - my E25 and E27 markers were leaving that telltale "sticky" residue. Ick. I've given them a clean and we'll see what happens. I may just have to pitch the nibs though and replace them.

Anyways, card details:

• finished size: 5x5 inches, white card stock base, black card stock mats
• patterned paper: Doodlebug "Flower Box"
• stamped image: The Greeting Farm "Wild Child", coloured with Copic Markers (E000, E00, E11, E04, E00, E21, E23, E25, E27, RV00, RV02, RV52, RV55, YG06, YG07, YG00)
• sentiment: The Greeting Farm "Magical" Bean kit, stamped in CTMH Watermelon (retired), with the "happy" stamped a second time, cut out and popped up on adhesive foam tape
• sparkly pink ricrac from my stash and sparkly adhesive stars from my crafty pal, Rinne!
• layout: Mojo Monday 353
• Spellbinders: Petite Circles

additional challenges for this card:

• TGF Farm Fresh Friday Challenge: Stripes or Plaid (I went with stripes)
• Seize the Birthday: Anything Goes Birthday with the optional topping of "Stars and Stripes"

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge with Alice Bean

Hi folks,

Back again to share another of the October birthday cards! This one is for a little girl who will be six on her upcoming birthday.

card details:

• finished size: 5x5 inches, white card stock base
• patterned papers: Doodlebug Designs "Flower Box"
• stamped image: The Greeting Farm "Alice Bean", coloured with Copic Markers (E000, E00, E01, E93, E21, E23, E25, E27, RV11, RV13, RV14, RV17)
• sentment: Verve "Borderline"
• Spellbinders Labels 1
• layout: Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge #232
• adhesive gems from my stash for a little extra sparkle 

additional challenges for this card:

• Seize the Birthday: Anything Goes Birthday (again, I didn't do the toppings option of fall colours)
• Sister Act Card Challenge #29: Anything Goes
• Crafty Creations Challenges #244: Sparkle and Shine (I used sparkly gems as embellies!)

As always, thanks for stopping by!

A Strawberry Shortcake kind of birthday

Hi folks,

the eldest daughter of dear friends of ours celebrated her 6th birthday on Good Friday. She requested a Strawberry Shortcake themed birthday cake and I assisted in the hunt for a cute little toy as the cake topper (it's convenient to work in office tower attached to a mall).

So, I thought I should try to do a card with a similar theme for her. I knew I had some paper covered with yummy strawberries in my stash (thanks to my DT work with PaperWorksCo) and promptly pulled it out for this card.

I am quite pleased with how the card turned out. I coloured this new TGF image (from the Sitting Lovely set) with what I hope are close matches to Strawberry Shortcake's clothing colours.

card details:

• finished size: 5.5 x 5.5 inches, CTMH Chocolate card stock
• patterned paper, ric rac and butterfly dew drops from the June 2010 PaperCard Kit from PaperWorksCo featuring papers from Doodlebug designs 
• stamped image: "Sitting Lovely" from The Greeting Farm, coloured with Copic Markers (E0000, E000, E00, E01, E93, E21, E23, E25, E27, E29, RV02, RV04, RV06, YG05, YG06)
• sentiment stamp: CTMH
• Spellbinders: Petite Circles, Scalloped Circles
• Cuttlebug die cut number (I forget which alphabet but I THINK it is "You're not the boss of me")
• layout: TGF Saturday Sketch Challenge #8 on SCS from a couple of weeks ago.

Challenges for this card:

• Flutter By Wednesday #197: my butterflies are in the form of the three butterfly dew drops in the upper right corner of the card.

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you are having a wonderful day!

happy happy happy

Hi folks,

I have to say it - Peggy is NOT kidding when she says that you can make at least 10 cards with the PaperCard kits that she puts together over at PaperWorksCo.

This is my NINTH card!



I am DETERMINED to use the entire kit just so you can see the assortment of cards you can get from these kits. I *THINK* I have enough of a variety of summery/beachy images to go with the papers I have left. I actually have some Miss Anya and Mermaid Anya images partially coloured as I did their flesh when I did my Surfer Ian a while back. I just need to finish them up and assemble the cards. So those will take care of two more cards....and I am sure that there will still be paper left to use!

For this card I had to play around until I found just the right black ink for this image. The sheer amount of black on the penguin chick required an ink that would give really good, solid coverage. After a few misfires (either the colour wasn't quite right or the coverage wasn't solid), I settled on Black ColorBox Pigment Ink - which meant I had to WAIT for the ink to dry. I actually wound up stamping this image one day and finishing the card the next.

So, how many black ink pads do YOU have? Off the top of my head, I know I have CTMH Black, Stazon Black, Colorbox Black Pigment, Memories Licorice Pigment, Memento Tuxedo Black and a *few" little cubes of black ink -- AND THEY ALL LOOK DIFFERENT!


Oh oh...and did you notice? I am so proud of myself - I actually used the UMBRELLA side of the Umbrellas paper (not the "other" side - sand).


Oh oh...(I feel like Arnold Horshack from Welcome Back, Kotter...did that age me?) and did you notice the picture itself? Yup, I made myself an infinity board! Well, two actually, one white and one black. I like the fact that I don't have a line behind my cards now. This means we are finally going to get around to photographing all the old hand tools that dearly beloved acquired when his Dad shut down the shop.


Card Details:
Finished Size: 4.25 x 4.25 inches
Papers and Embellishments: PaperWorksCo August PaperCard Kit (Orange Bazzill Washboard Cardstock, Red and White Bazzill Smoothies, Cosmo Cricket Snorkel "Umbrellas", Red Rick Rack Ribbon)
Stamps: Imaginisce Penguin Chick, DoodleBug Designs Inc Birthday
Ink: ColorBox Pigment Ink: Black, Memento Tuxedo Black
PrismaColor Pencils: 918, 928
Tools: Cuttlebug, Spellbinders Nestabilities Small and Large Circles
Dimensional Foam Tape to pop up the image panel