Birthday Wishes

These digi images are so fun aren't they. I so love coloring them with copics.
I love this one from Mosdigital pencil. I feel like running and catching before the girl drops the cake.

 

 

Simple embellishments. Some stickles, button, ribbon, crochet thread and some inking. Corners were cut using decorative scissors from hobby lobby. So worth it for about 10 dollars.

Party at Hetcanary blog

There is a party at http://hetcanaryblog.blogspot.nl/2012/08/verrassing-voor-jullie.html
and they are giving away this sweet sweet digi by saturated canary Krista. I love the blog and of course love the digis by Krista and so of course I had to get it and color it.
Here's my card using the image

 

 

 

She is so beautiful isn't she.

 

Pattern paper and cardstock is from colorbox - walmart.

 

Brads, ribbons, buttons, stick pin (handmade using pearls and beads) , cake doily cut to form border around the image, ink and paper trey ink stamp complete the card.

 

WaltzingMouse sketch 112 challenge

I decided to do another card today. And this is using a sketch too.
This time the sketch is from WaltzingMouse Stamps- Sketch 112

And my card

Materials used:

Stamps:
Waltzing Mouse Stamps - Asian Garden
Waltzing Mouse stamps - vintage label 18

Paper:
Cardstock - Recollections Kraft from Micheal's
Pattern for card base - Recollections Elegant paper from Micheal's
For the rose flower - Imagine Art Cartridge - Better Together

Die cuts:

Rose flower - Sophie cricut cartridge cut at 3.5 inches
Sentiment  label - Nestability Label 18
Scallop behind doily - classic scallop circle nestability
Circle on the doily - circle nestability

Misc
Inks - Versafine black, colorbox chalk ink - catseye, distress ink - antique linen
Flat back sticky pearls
Buttons
Brads
Cake doily small
Ribbon

In Love

Shirley aka Okieladybug from cricut MB has some beautiful challenges in the old cricut community facebook group. Now I keep promising that I will tackle layouts but please don't hold your breath on that. The card challenge though - yes I can do that.
I am also entering this in little scrap pieces challenge

This weeks sketch was

Since I updated my imagine I have begun using it a little.  My first attempt and the mat broke! EEKS!
Thankfully I had another mat and used that to make the card

The heart is from Sophie cartridge and the pattern for the heart is from Imagine art cartridge - Better Together. The rest of the pattern paper  is from Me and My big Ideas paper stack. The sentiment is from a sticker collection I had.  The scallop was using Martha Stewart punch and the blue label is using purple cow blade. Some crochet thread, buttons and rhinestones to embellish.

Back to School

It's back to school and I wanted to share a project which my son made (with a tiny bit of help from me)
I finally went up and updated my Imagine and made stuff using it all the while keeping my fingers crossed.
I got a couple of cartridges in eBay in the wee hours of night. That's a bad time lurking there as you cant resist. One of them was TBBM2 and the other was greeting cards.
So I decided to break open TBBM2 and print and cut. After silhouette you can say I love print and cut. But with this cartridge I wish I had just printed like a paper and used expression to cut as I haven't figured out a way to do scoring lines with Imagine.
But with the booklet it was kind of easy to figure out scoring lines.
The elements in the card was all chosen by my son  and so was the box and it's pattern

The imagine cartridge  was Imagine more (I think) for pattern and card and alarm clock.

The label is nestability label 20 with just right stamps for label 20 - fleur de lis.

 

 

 

The inside of the card - The sentiment inside was dictated by my son. I just stamped and tied the bows and he helped with assembling.

 

The envelope - stamped the just right stamp on an ivory envelope and added the flat bow.

The box

There was a gap on the sides and as I did not want my candies to fall off I just cut an inch square and pasted it

Hope you enjoyed this project.
And please if you have a trick to scoring with Imagine please do share.

August Poppy

Hi
This is Pam from Papillon digital designs and TheBugBytes today at Shes a Sassylady. Thanks Sheila for having me here.
I was thinking on a project to do and I though I would google wikipedia and enter the month August. It's so cool - Sometimes when you are stuck and want inspiration doing something like this is the way to go. Sometimes I just want to try a particular technique and I build on that.
So when I read the article I saw that August 's birth flower is Poppy and I wanted to do a card with poppy as I had a lovely silhouette 3d poppy file

Here's the card

Here's a peek at the silhouette file

Now I did not want to cut out the intricate brown swirl so I sort of flattened that on a a colored rectangle. But I wanted the pop so after printing I outlined the swirl with copic multiliner and used copic spica pens. I also used spica and Tim Holtz distress markers to ink and decorate all the cuts. Going over a image or die cut with markers sort of distresses the surface fibers a little and gives a nice velvetty suede like texture.
The leafs get the color variation in color by using the distress markers and waterbrush and then adding a bit of subtle glitter with spica pen
Here a closer look of the spica pen effect

It isn't as overpowering as stickles and I love that bit of shine.

Here's the inside of the card

So google up a month and get inspired by the facts you read and make yourself a project.
Happy Crafting
Pam

Created from Color - Advanced class

I loved this class. Learned a lot about shadows and light source.
This time around instead of choosing our own image we had to work with a image given to us which covered most of what we had learned.

Tough one! So I printed about 5- 6 and started working after just looking at it for a week lol.
Finally I couldn't stand the pressure and put my copic to work. Initially I just blocked in the colors on 1st one. No intention of blending or anything! and then I worked on 1st one. It was night. By the time I came to end - I had left water for  last -I messed up on the water in the foreground! Yikes!
Water is meant to lay flat! so always paint it with horizontal strokes to convey that. The background water was ok but in the foreground water was a little messed up
So of course I had to trash that and start again. But  decided to do it next day in the morning after breakfast.

Here's my final image

Here are both side by side so that you can compare.

 Left one is the wrong  one

Here is a card I made from the image.
Yeah after a long long time I finally went up and used my Imagine machine.
The pattern papers are from Audrey. The yellow patterned paper cut is from Lacey Labels. I eyeballed the size. The striped pattern was cut using a 1:2 rectangle at about 5.75 inches height. I inked up a cake doily in blue red and yellow and added that too as another layer. I added a crocheted flower with button center which I had made before as embellishment and some bling

The sentiment is from paper trey ink and the label cut is from nestability.