Winter My Whimsical Little World Release

Today I'm sharing some projects for the latest My Whimsical Little World release.

First up, a card I made using the All Dressed Up for Christmas digistamp - I really liked this digi and wanted to keep him a pretty good size, so I opted to color him and just mat him on a couple of Christmas colored papers.

Next, I decided to make a gift tin using the Christmas Owl digi -

I colored parts of this image on 5 different printouts and layered them all together for the final look. Then finished it off with some sequins and rhinestones.

Lastly, I broke out my art journal and whipped up a page using the Love U Latte digi - 

Now hop on over to the other design team members to see what they've come up with using the new release:

Paola

Martha

Debbie

Amy

Louise

And stop by the MWLW Facebook page.  There's a scavenger hunt going on until November 7th for a chance to win a free digi from the shop.

It's also an Anything Goes Challenge at MarkerPop this week, so I'm playing along with their challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

Angie

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I finally got the September Freckled Fawn Oh Deer Me Kit in the mail - I look forward to this every month!!  There was a little card announcement in it about 'something merry' coming and it was such a cute little card that I couldn't just pitch it.  I thought it was a great little saying for Christmas and it deserved to be put to use!  So I grab some supplies (from past and present kits) that were light teal and red to match the card and had at it, ending with this little cutie...

The announcement is that entire business card size white piece on the front.  I matted it onto some matching red card stock and added two types of red washi tape along the bottom - one is ruffled one is over that to cover the ruffled seam.  Then I added a few little embellishments - some chipboard stars, a teal arrow, a red resin camera (which is tucked under the washi so it doesn't actually look like a camera ;)) and finished it all off with some pearls from this months kit.  The card base is an old background stamp I have that I stamped and clear embossed onto the teal card stock.

For the inside, I kept it really simple.  I just added two strips of the washi and this sticker which I thought went perfectly with the front saying.

And that makes it official.... my first Christmas card of 2014!  

Thanks for stopping by!

Angie

SUPPLIES

PAPER - Stampin' Up! Pool Party and Real Red

STAMP - Hero Arts Merry Background

MISC - July, August and September Oh Deer Me Kits; Clear Embossing Powder, Versamark

Christmas Tags

I just wanted to pop in and share some tags I've been working on...

Sorry the lighting isn't the greatest on these!

I stamped the images on some watercolor paper and heat embossed them.  Then I used my Distress Markers to watercolor with.  Simple enough to do a batch and not wonder why I put myself up to it!

And since they're for the holidays and I used some markers, I'm entering in MarkerPop Challenge #36...

Thanks for stopping by,

Angie

SUPPLIES

PAPER - Distress Watercolor Paper, Recollections City Sidewalks

STAMPS = Cosmo Cricket Jolly Days

MARKERS - Distress Markers: Barn Door, Mowed Lawn, Squeezed Lemonade, Weathered Wood, Antique Linen, Gathered Twigs, and Ripe Persimmon

OTHER - Paper Smooches Hexalong dies; Xmas Red, Crystal, and Green Stickles; Stampin' Up! Real Red Ribbon, Queen & Co Twine, foam tape

Christmas Sprite

It's been weeks!  Holiday time seems to go by much quicker than regular time ;)

I wanted to play along with the Some Odd Girl challenge this month.  It's been ages and I was dying to break out an image and get to coloring.  I adore the Spunky Sprite digi image and thought she'd work great on a Christmas card.

The SOG challenge this month was to make your own background.  I tried a couple ideas I had floating in my head but wasn't having any luck.  I ended up finding a snowflake background stamp and embossing it with some glittery powder.  The image was colored with Copics.  The gifts were paper pieced and stacked to make her seat.

I traced her wings onto vellum and covered the vellum with a clear Wink of Stella pen.  The pen caused the vellum to curl a little adding some great sparkly dimension.

To finish off the card, I did a little decorating on the inside:

Thanks for stopping by,

Angie

SUPPLIES

STAMPS - Some Odd Girl Spunky Sprite (digi) and Warm Wishes Tia (clear); Paper Smooches Christmas Sampler; Impression Obsession Snowflakes

PAPER - Stampin' Up! Crumb Cake and Real Red, Recollections Christmas City Sidewalks, Copic Xpress it

INK - Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark

COPICS - Skin: YR0000, YR000, YR00, E11, E04, E08; Hair: YR24, YR27, E35, E37; Clothes: R21, R24, R29, R59, V99, G03, G05, G19, G28; Eyes G43, G21, G46

OTHER - Brads and Pearl from my stash, Stampin' Up Dazzling Ice Embossing Powder, White Embossing Powder, Vellum, Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Pen, Foam Dots

Too early for a Christmas card?

So I thought I was back after my hiatus and someone (eh hem, mom!) kept me busy pretty much every weekend in October - productive and busy weekends.  By the time I got home, I had no motivation to get anything posted here.  But I think I'm really back this time ;)

I taught a little class at a local store today (Farmhouse Memories), and I had some extra images that I colored so decided to create something new with it.  For the class, I came up with this card (sorry the pics so dark):

I didn't want to do too much fussy cutting for a class, but that adorable image was just something I was dying to fussy cut.  When I got home, I dug out some supplies and got to work.  I used some of the same elements from the first card, but altered it just slightly to create my new card:

She's just as beautiful as I thought she would be all cut out :D  And what's a fairy without some sparkle?  I finished her off by brushing her wings with some Wink of Stella.... sparkly!!

And since I finally broke out my Copics, I'm playing along with MarkerPop's bi-weekly challenge (it's been too long!).

Thanks for stopping by!

~Angie

SUPPLIES:

PAPER - Green and red card stock; Copic Xpress-it Blending Card

STAMPS - Penny Black Fairy Holly and Hero Arts the Miracle of Christmas

INK - Memento Tuxedo Black and Versafine Onyx Black

COPICs - Hair: YR21, E35, E37, E29; Skin: E000, E01, E02, E11, E04, E08; Holly: YG61, G24, YG63, YG67; Clothes: R21, R24, R29, R59, V99, 0, C0, C1, C3; Bells: Y13, Y15, Y18, Y35; Globe - BG000, 0

OTHER - Snowflake Mini 8 Punch, Wink of Stella Pen (clear), Fouland Cuttlebug embossing folder

Enchanted Elves

When I saw the Enchanted Elves set from Paper Smooches, it was one of those most of stamp sets.  I love the characters in that set so as soon as it arrived this week, I stamped it out and colored each of the little guys (I know I just posted a Halloween card, but I couldn't resist!).  I opted for colored pencils this time around and I'm pretty happy with the results.  Once the three were colored, I stared fussing around with a card front.  I had an idea for an elf peeking out the window to see Rudolph so started digging around in my stash for supplies and here is what I came up with:

Love it! :D  Except you'll notice only two of my colored images made it to the card.  I really wanted to use the third on this too, but couldn't fit him in.  When I added some fun to the inside, I tried to use him but just didn't like how he was ending up.  But I had to use him some how so I simplified the image for the inside...

Since I couldn't use my colored elf on the card, I grabbed a tag ;)

I'm linking this up with:

as well as throwing it in for the Paper Smooches Guest Designer Search.

Thanks for stopping by!!

~Angie

SUPPLIES

PAPER - Stampin' Up Crumb Cake; Bella Blvd Christmas Countdown Collection; Neenah Solar White; Watercolor Paper; Ranger Manilla Tag

INK - Memento Tuxedo Black; Versifine Onyx Black; Versamark; Distress Ink - Gathered Twigs and Festive Berries

STAMPS - Paper Smooches Enchanted Elves, Merry Motifs; Stampin' Up Woodgrain; Hero Arts Miracle of the Holiday

DIES - Paper Smooches Duo Die 1, Christmas Words, Elf Icons and Motifs Icons

OTHER - Prismacolor pencils, Dazzles Jeweled Stickers, Glossy Accents, Ranger Sticky Embossing Powder, White Embossing Powder, Red Glitter, Dylusion Inks

Elf Christmas

I love the movie Elf.  It's become a must see every Christmas.  So when I saw Some Odd Girls' Elf Kaylee, I had to color her up.

I kept the colors pretty traditional with a little pop of blue on the one patterned paper.  I colored Kaylee with Copics, adhered her on top of the patterned 'flags', added some piercing in the corners, a few green pearls, and an embossed Paper Smooches sentiment.

I've been practicing my Copic coloring, I still hate coloring with reds, but I LOVE how she turned out!!

She'll be playing along with the following challenges:

Some Odd Girl December Challenge

MarkerPop #12

Thanks for stopping by,

Angie

SUPPLIES:

STAMPS - Some Odd Girl Elf Kaylee, Paper Smooches Christmas Sampler

INK - Versamark

PAPER - Basic Grey Aspen Frost, Stampin' Up! Old Olive

COPICS - Skin: E000, E00, E11, E13; Hair: E50, E53, E55, E57; Eyes: G43, G21, G46; Clothes: R24, E15, E18, YG61, YG63, YG67, C1, 0

OTHER - Green Pearls from Want2Scrap, white embossing powder, Doodlebug Christmas Twine, Paper Piercer, Stampin' Up! Mat Pack

Hol-ODD-day Hop

Today I'm sharing a tag that I created for the Some Odd Girl 3rd Annual Hol-ODD-day Hop

And here it is:

I wanted to make a tag and thought the penguin from the Warm Wishes Tia set would be perfect.  I colored the penguin with my copics then paper pieced his hat and the gift.

I'm also entering this into the SOG December Sketch Challenge and CAS-ual Fridays #80 - Gift Tags.

To see all of the other fun projects in the hop, visit the SOG site here.  The hop goes from the 3rd through the 6th.  I can't wait to see all of the great things listed!

Thanks for stopping by,

Angie

SUPPLIES:

STAMP - SOG Warm Wishes Tia

INK - Memento Tuxedo Black

COPICS - C3, C5, C7, C9, W00, W1, W3, Y35, Y38

PAPER - Basic Grey Aspen Frost 6x6 pad, Stampin' Up! Real Red Cardstock

OTHER - miscellaneous tapes from the stash, EK Success Postage Edge Punch, Starform transparent glitter stickers, Icicles Stickles, Black and White Enamel Accents, Tim Holtz Tinsel Twine

Tis the Season

And here's my card:

I made to go along with a few challenges:

Some Odd Girl Novemember

Thanks for stopping by,

Angie

SUPPLIES:
STAMP - Some Odd Girl Warm Wishes Tia
INK - Memento Tuxedo Black
COPICS - Skin: E00, E01, E11; Hair: E35, E37, E29; Clothes: G82, YG63, G94, R39, R59, R89, C1, C3, C5; Gifts: G03, G19, R29; Shading: C1, C3, C5, C7, 0; Jingle Bells - Spica Buttermilk
PAPER - Authentique Festive 6x6 paper pad, Stampin' Up! Old Olive card stock
OTHER - Authentique Festive Details, 3/8" and 1/4" Corner Chompers, Pop Dots

A Greeting Farm Christmas

I've been super busy the last couple of weeks preparing to sell some things at a local craft fair.  I think I finally have it all ready so I decided to create something for a couple of challenges.  Here's my card:

I used the sketch from the Greeting Farm's Double Take Tuesdays and I colored on something other than white for MarkerPop's tenth challenge.  It was definitely a challenge coloring on the kraft cardstock!

Thanks for stopping by!

--Angie

SUPPLIES:

STAMPS - The Greeting Farm's Anya Scarves; AmyR's Handy Christmas Greetings

INK - Memento Rich Cocoa; Versamark

PAPER - Stampin' Up! Crumb Cake and Real Red; Miscellaneous Christmas patterned paper

COPICS - Skin - E000, E00, E11; Hair - E71, E74, E77; Clothes - R39, R59, R89, G16, G19, G46, Shadow - W1, W3, W5

OTHER - KaiserCraft Rhinestone, EK Success Postage Border Punch,  1 3/8" circle punch, Fancy Label Punch, White Embossing Powder, Uniball Signo White Gel Pen, Martha Stewart Glitter Marker, Corner Chomper

Chummy Christmas Tags

Just popping in quickly today to share a set of tags I made with the Paper Smooches Chilly Chums set (love all of the chums sets!!) and the Christmas Sampler set -

 

The background tags were inked with Festive Berries and Evergreen Boughs Distress Inks.  Then I stamped some snowflakes in Versamark and embossed with Stampin' Up!'s Irradescent Ice Powder.  I colored the images with my Copics, added some liquid pearls and black enamel.  Popped the images and sentiments up on the tag.  And finished it off with a simple white ribbon.

Thanks for stopping by,

Angie

Christmas in a Hurricane

Well, the impending arrival of hurricane Sandy is showing with the incredible rain we're getting right now.  Since I'm not braving the storm to go out today, I thought I'd use this opportunity to make another Christmas card (especially before I lose electricity!!).  And I chose to use CAS-ual Fridays' challenge as my inspiration this week:

I kept it super simple.  Using the kraft colored card stock, I scored a couple of lines about an inch apart and then embossed the outsides in my Cuttlebug.  Stamped the sentiment, a couple of snowflakes, and added some gems.  Pretty simple!

Have a great week!

--Angie

SUPPLIES:

STAMPS - Just Rite Stamps Large Fancy Holiday Collection

PAPER - Stampin' Up! Crumb Cake

OTHER - Swirls embossing folder, Kaiser Craft rhinestones, Embossing Board

Another SOG Christmas

I'm still on a Christmas card kick :) I normally don't get started this early, but I just can't seem to stop.  So here's my latest:

I colored Kaylee's hair, skin, and stockings then I paper pieced the rest.  I added a little glossy accents to the ornament. I popped her up on some foam adhesive before adding her to the card front.

I heat embossed some ribbon with the sentiment and added that at the bottom of the panel.  Then I popped the whole panel onto the final red card base.

And I did the inside to match (just minus the foam adhesive):

Pretty! Sparkly!  And playing along with two challenges this week:

SOG October Sketch Challenge              and MarkerPop #9 - Paper Piecing















Have a great day!

--Angie

SUPPLIES:
STAMPS - Some Odd Girl's Tree Trimming Kaylee, Paper Smooches Christmas Sampler and Amy R's Handy Christmas Greetings
PAPER - Jillbean Soup Winter Tortellini and Spinach 6x6 pad and Stampin' Up! Real Red cardstock
INK - Memento Tuxedo Black, Versafine Onyx Black, and Versamark
COPICS - Hair: YR14, E15, E18; Skin: E50, E51, E53, E55, R20; Eyes: G21, G46; Stockings and Paper Piece Shading: W00, W0, W1, W2; Belt: R39
OTHER - Foam Adhesive, Snail Adhesive, Stampin' Up! Real Red Ribbon; Zing Black Embossing Powder, Heat Gun

Chirstmas Gift TIn

Well I'm still on my Christmas card kick, but today I decided to step it up a little and make some gift packaging.  My husband recently got a new wallet that came in this tin:

I couldn't through it out so I knew it would be perfect for this project.  I ended up with this final product:

I can't wait to figure out what's getting wrapped in this one :D

I'm playing along with:

TGF Farm Fresh Fridays - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

TGF Double Take Tuesdays - Sketch

MarkerPop#8 - Oldies but Goodies: my oldest markers are some in the E family, so I colored her hair and skin using those markers.

Young Crafters Unite #14 - Learning is Fun: Copic coloring is one of my favorite techniques and I'm always trying to improve

Have a great week!

--Angie

SUPPLIES:

STAMP: The Greeting Farms Beanie Anya

INK: Memento Tuxedo Black and Versafine Onyx Black

PAPER: My Minds Eye Merry Christmas; Stampin' Up! Old Olive

OTHER: Recycled tin; Stampin' Up! Real Red Ribbon; Copic Markers