Jessica's Crafty Challenge

Hi folks,

Popping in to share a card I created for the May challenge at Jessica's Crafty Challenge - use your favourite colours. Hmmm. That's a bit of a challenge for me so I took a look in my laundry basket to see what shows up the most.

Black. Lots and lots of black. But I also seem to buy accessories in red. My phone case is red, my Pebble watch is red. My first car was .... red.

So, I went with black, white and a burgundy-ish red for my colour choice.

I HAD coloured the hair one way and then I did my intermediate Copic certification yesterday.

Here's what it looked like originally.

So I decided I didn't like the hair the way I had originally coloured it. So, I tried switching it up a little bit. It's not QUITE the way I want it so I may go back and play with the hair colour a tad more. We shall see. The darker hair is better suited for whom the card is intended - my sister. Every year, I make her a card for Father's Day (it's complicated). This year, this will be her Father's Day card.

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, black card stock base
• patterned paper: Pink Paislee "Bayberry Cottage"
• digital stamp: Jess College Fund "Jess with Gifts" coloured with Copic Markers (E000, E00, E01, E11, R21, E21, E25, E27, E29, E21, T3, T5, T7, T9, T10, R35, R37, RV66)
• embellishments: feather poof from Pritchard Packaging
• layout: Mojo Monday 348 (I missed the cutoff for linking up - I was watching Game of Thrones!)

challenges for this card:

• Jess' Crafty Challenge - May: Use your favourite colours

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Another Jess' College Fund Digi Card!

Hi folks ,

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If you are here for my Yumi & Fumi Handmade "Battle Hop" post please click through or scroll down to the previous post. Trust me - even if you AREN'T here for that post, you should go check it out!

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Well, it's a Saturday morning and, as usual, I was up before 5 am thanks to the fur-babies. It was too early (and dark) to tackle the remaining autumn yard work so rather than doze on the daybed like I usually do, I decided to hit the craft room for a little colouring time.

It was rather enjoyable to colour "just because". I really don't have anyone in mind for this card, I just wanted to colour up this new image from Jess' College Fund. There is a fantastic challenge going on at her blog to introduce this collection of stamps - you really should check it out!

Did you  notice the words etched into the button? I was digging through my newly acquired buttons (as if I don't have too many already) and thought that this one was just perfect to pair with this image.

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, kraft card stock base and mats
• patterned papers: Basic Grey "Sweet Threads"
• digital image: Jess' College Fund "Jess Coffee Time", coloured with Copic Markers (E000, E00, E01, E93, E04, E21, E23, E25, E27, E40, E41, E42, R01, R02, R05, R08, YG91, YG93)
• sentiment: Verve "Joyful Blooms", stamped in Memento Rich Cocoa with CTMH Taffy Ink sponged on the sentiment panel
• Spellbinders Labels One
• button, ribbon and twine from my stash
• layout: Seize the Sketch #8

additional challenges for this card:

• Jess' College Fund: Anything goes with one of Jess' Images
• Seize the Birthday: Anything Goes Birthday (toppings option: texture)
• Sister Act Card Challenge #33: Anything Goes
• Shopping Our Stash #127: use something already out on your desk. I thought about taking a photo of my desk, but decided I didn't want the camera crew from "Hoarders" knocking on my door. EVERYTHING on this card was on my desk. EVERYTHING. I haven't cleaned up from the previous card so I used the same paper collection, button from the same collection, twine from the same collection, image was already printed, card base was already sitting there, my Copics LIVE on my desk, even the die cuts were sitting there, not put away from the last crop I attended! Just call me Sloppy Sheena.

As always, thanks for stopping by! The sun is up now and it's all of 6 degrees Celsius, heading for a balmy high of 10. Brrr. Have to get that yard work done!

Tuesday Morning Sketches with Jess' College Fund Digi's

Hi folks,

It's a long weekend here in Canada and I did manage to scrape out a little craft room time to make this birthday card for a friend of ours. She is an avid photographer (here's a link to her photography business page on Facebook if you would like to check it out - beautiful shots of the local wildlife) and I thought this new image from Jess' College Fund Digi's would be perfect for her birthday card (though without glasses would have been better in this case).

I can't encourage you enough to stop by Jess' College Fund to check out the very reasonably priced digital images. I have all but one - the most recently released image since I have been crazy busy this weekend and haven't had time yet to purchase it. Will fix that later today!

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, kraft card stock base and mat (I've taken a liking to doing an extra mat in the same colour as my card base recently. Love the extra layer.). Brown textured card stock from Michael's for the mats.
• patterned paper: Basic Grey "Sweet Threads"
• digital image: Jess' College Fund "Jess Taking Pictures", coloured with Copic Markers (E000, E00, E01, E02, E93, E04, E43, E47, E49, E39, E29, E77, E25, YG0000, YG01, YG21, YG23, T4, T6, T8) with a little white gelly roll accent on the camera lens. I also sponged around the image with CTMH Blush ink to pick up on the pink in the papers. Yes, I DO have a Copic Airbrush and it DOES sit in one of the towers of my desk. I really should take it out and leave it ON my desk and plugged in so I can use it more often. sigh. Just call me Queen of the unused tools!
• sentiment: Verve "Borderline"
• Spellbinders Petite Ovals
• paper flowers and embroidery floss from my stash
• layout: Tuesday Morning Sketches #223 (oops - should have uploaded yesterday to meet the posting deadline!)

additional challenges for this card:

• Jess' College Fund: Anything Goes (with one of her digi's)
• Seize the Birthday: Anything Goes Birthday (I didn't do the optional "texture" toppings"
• Sister Act Card Challenge #32: Anything Goes
• Papertake Weekly Challenge: Anything Goes
• Crazy4Challenges 211: Frame it (I decided to sponge the background around my image and add another mat behind it to give it a bit of a frame with the spellbinders die)

As always, thanks for stopping by!