Rocking Out with MWLW

Today's newest digis at My Whimsical Little World are music themed.  I visited a new to me creative reuse shop close by and picked up some supplies that inspired me while there.  So today I have two musical projects using some up cycled items!

For Cadence, I decided to take a couple of old CDs (I didn't pick these up at the reuse shop, but I saw them there and knew I had a stack of old ones from my hubby and thought they'd be perfect for this!) and turn them into a notebook:

I started by masking the word 'notes' with a few stickers and painting the entire CD black.  Then I removed the stickers to have the silver show through.  I colored Cadence with Copics and attached her to the front and spread some bling bubbles around here.  I painted a second CD to use as the back cover and covered both of the CDs with paper on the non painted sides.  I punched the CD using my Cinch binder and added some ribbons to the rings once it was filled with paper.

Another thing I picked up at the reuse store was this household sample (I'm not sure if it's flooring or countertop or what, but I always see them at hard ware stores and thing they'd be great for something!).  Since the sample already had a hole punched in it and nicely rounded corners, I decided to use the whole thing for a tag to spotlight Marcia:

I tried a new color combo for her skiing and love how she turned out :)  I used white embossing paste on the cassette stencil over the tag.  I love that the sample had the speckled background already so it wasn't just boring black.  I added the paper trim along the bottom and a piece of leather cording to add a sentiment (and cover up the brand name that was stamped there ;)).  I added some frosted bling around and finished it off by adding some seam binding tied with the same leather cording used on the front.

I hope you enjoyed my projects.  Be sure to stop by some of the other DT members and see what they've come up with as well - 

Paola Jofre

Martha

Carol

And visit us at the MWLW Facebook Page as well.

Thanks for stopping by!

Angie

SUPPLIES
CADENCE CD NOTEBOOK

Stamp - My Whimsical Little World Cadence Digistamp

Paper - Copic Xpress It

Copics - Hair: E13, E15, E19; Skin - E01, E21, E11; Pants - B95, B97, B99; Shirt - C1, C3, C5, BV20, BV23, BV25; Seat - C6, C8, C10; Headphones - C00, C1, C6, C8, C10; CD - V01, B00

Miscellaneous - old CDs, black acrylic paint, Thickers stickers; Queen & Co. Bubble Bling; ribbon from stash, Cinch binder and 0.75" rings, copy paper, Lifestyle Crafts Circle dies

DANCING MARCIA TAG

Stamp - My Whimisical Little World Dancing Marcia and Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler

Paper - Copic Xpress It, Authentique Seasons Winter 

Copics - Hair - E97, E15, E18; Skin - E50, E51, E21, E11, E04; Eyes - B97, BG02, Skirt - B95, B97, B99; Shirt - C1, C3, C5; Undershirt, belt, and shoes - BV20, BV23, BV25

Miscellaneous - Household sample, white embossing paste, Crafters Workshop Cassette Tape stencil; Versamark, white embossing powder, postage stamp border punch, Queen & Co. purple frosted bling, ribbon and leather cording

Summer fun

Just a quick share of a card I made with a little hula girl that is perfect for MarkerPop's Anything Goes challenge this week:

She's colored with Copics.  The scalloped frame behind her is cut from a seashell patterned fabric and the craft card base is embossed with a ribbon tied around it.  Pretty simple, but cute :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Angie

SUPPLIES - 

Paper: Copic Xpress It, Stampin' Up Crumb Cake, sticky back paper 

Stamp: Stampendous Hula Girl

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Other: Copics (sorry, I don't have the list of what I used for this one); Spellbinders large scalloped rectangles; white seam binding ribbon; Lifestyle Crafts embossing folder; seashell fabric

Watercolor fun with Pretty Phrases

I was cleaning up my desk yesterday, found my watercolors and decided I had to use them.  I pulled out a much underused sentiment set and white embossed each of the sentiments onto watercolor paper.  In the end, I ended up with a set of 5 cards.  Pretty quick and simple!

I used the Paper Smooches Designer Draft this week for the card layouts:

Here they are as a the set:

And here is each card:

Thanks for stopping by!

Angie


SUPPLIES:
STAMPS - Paper Smooches Geo-Graphic and Pretty Phrases
PAPER - 110 lb white card stock, Stampin' Up! card stock in Wisteria Wonder, Pool Party, Calypso Coral, and Marina Mist
INK - Stampin' Up! Wisteria Wonder, Pool Party, Calypso Coral, and Marina Mist; Versamark
MISC - white embossing powder, baker's twine, peerless watercolors, foam tape, postage edge punch, corner chomped

Glitter, Stencils, and Stickers!

Hello, my name is Angie and I am addicted to outline stickers!  I don't use them as often as I should considering the number of them that I've accumulated.  I recently got a couple sets of stickers that were little garden fairies and rushed home to do something with them.  I decided since they are fairies, coloring them on glitter was the way to go.  I covered some paper with ScorTape, burnished on some glitter, added a few stickers, and got to coloring.

After that, I couldn't decide what to do with them.  So they sat on my desk for a couple of weeks while I figured it out.  Then when I watched on of Darlene's recent videos, I was inspired.  (See her video here.)  I loved the card layout and thought these girls would look great on a hill of their own!

I didn't put any sentiments on so they could be used for whatever.  There was a ton of die cutting involved, some distress inks, colic airbrushing, embossing paste, ad lots of time, but I love this little set of blank cards.

I'm playing along with the following challenges:

Simon Says Stencil It

MarkerPop #45 - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by,

Angie

SUPPLIES
120 lb card stock for card base
white card stock
Dreamweaver's white embossing paste
Stampin' Up! Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder
Elizabeth Crafts - Flower Cuties 1 and Flower Cuties 2 outline stickers, Ultra fine glitter
Copics and Airbrush
Sweet and Sassy Cloud dies
Masking Paper
Distress Inks - Mowed Lawn and Peeled Paint
Distress blending tool
Stencil
Spellbinders A2 Curved Borders One

Purple Bunny Shaped Card

I'm working on some cards for Farmhouse Memories this weekend.  Here's one of my favorites so far...

Not the greatest pic but not too bad for having practically no light ;)  The little image is by Wild Rose Studio and actually says Happy Birthday with a little mouse in the tree.  I masked that part of the stamp when I stamped it so I could use it for a different card.  The ribbon was colored using the darkest copic marker that I used on the purple in the image.  It's cute... I may not be able to part with it!

For the inside, I stamped a border that coordinates with the dies (like I did on the front of the card) and added a sentiment sticker from SRM.

Thanks for stopping by!

Angie

SUPPLIES - 

COPICS: G21, G24, G28, E29, E39, E71, E74, E77, R20, R21, W0, W2, 0, YG03, YG61, YG63, YG67, V12, V15, V17, FRV1

Masking Paper

Spellbinders Classic Ovals Large

Just Right Nested Clouds and Tags Dies

Distress Inks - Broken China and Dusty Concord

Inky Antics Cloud Stencil

White Seam Binding Ribbon

SRM Wishing You Well Sentiment Stickers

Foam Tap

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

Kiss Me Giraffes

It's been awhile since I've played with my Paper Smooches stamps (especially since I got some new ones for Christmas!) and when I saw this weeks challenge, an idea immediately popped in my mind.  This weeks is a Picture Perfect challenge:

Such a cute picture.  So here's what I came up with:

I took the giraffe from Zoo Crew, bent the neck slightly then stamped it.  I tried a reverse stamp for the first time to get the mirrored giraffe on the left.  It took a few tries, but I finally got one that I liked.  I did some really simple copic coloring then popped it on the houndstooth background from Debonair that I white heat embossed then covered with an ombre of Distress Inks.

Thanks for stopping by,

Angie

SUPPLIES - 

STAMPS: Paper Smooches Zoo Crew, Debonair, and A Little Lovin

INK: Memento Tuxedo Black, Versafine Onyx Black, Distress Inks - Spun SUgar, Worn Lipstick, Festive Berries and Aged Mahogany, versamark

PAPER: Stampin' Up! Read Red, Neenah Solar White, Copic Xpress It Blending Card

COPICS: R24 (heart), Y13, Y15, YR14, YR24, YR27, 0.5 multiliner

OTHER: Black Floss, Glossy Accents, Xmas Red Stickles, Heart Punch, Mini Label Punch, 1/16" circle punch, white embossing powder

Bring on the spring

Well, now that the ground hog has seen his shadow, I'm bringing on the spring with some fun House Mouse stamps.  The first one up would be a great Easter Card:

I colored the image with my Copics, rounded the corners, and adhered it to the two layers of puprle (one of which I pierced around).

One of my least favorite things about the warm weather is the buzzing bees that seem to pop up everywhere.  If our bees were like the ones in this image, I might be okay with them:

Again, I colored the image with my copics, matted it on the layers of black and yellow.  The card base is black embossed with the hexagon background.  To finish it off I add some Stickles to the wings.  Here's the sparkly-ness up close:

Who wouldn't love a bunny-bee?!?!?

Thanks for stopping by,

Angie

Happy New Year!

Is your new year off to a good start?  After having some of the in-laws in town for the holidays, I finally had some time to get up to my craft room and have a little fun.

I recently got this adorable stamp at my local scrapbooking store and was itching to color it up.  Here it is:

After coloring the main image with my copics and cutting it into the wonky rectangle,  I stamped it again on some masking paper.  It took me quite some time to get it cut out with all of those little blades of grass, but it was finally cut out so I masked my coloring, added a few cloud die cuts from the same masking paper and airbrushed the sky.  I airbrushed it with a blue copic marker then after removing the cloud masks, decided it needed a little bit of gray, it is raining after all.

I matted it on a larger wonky rectangle, then adhered that to a standard size card that I clear embossed with that amazing background stamp.  To finish it off, I colored a piece of white seam binding with the darkest copic from the flower and added that to the side.  Such a cute mouse!

Thanks for stopping by!
Angie

SUPPLIES:
STAMP - Stampabilities House Mouse  - Flower Drop, Market Street Stamps Punched Tin
INK - Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark
PAPER - Copic Xpress it Blending Card, Stampin' Up! Wisteria Wonder
COPICS - Flower: V20, V22, V28; Grass/Leaves (using the pallete method) YG03, YG99; Mouse: C0, C2, C4, C6, E50, E51, E53; Rain drops: C1, C5, 0; Sky (airbrushed): B21, C3
OTHER - Spellbinders Wonky Rectangles Dies, Cloud dies, Eclipse Masking Paper, Seam Binding Ribbon, Clear Embossing Powder

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

White Out

I decided to ink up a stamp from The Greeting Farm and play along with the Farm Fresh Friday Challenge this week.  The challenge is to only use white (except for the image which can be colored).  Since I could only use white, I dug out some embossing folders that I liked and some border punches, and then a little glitter, all to end with this little beauty:

When it came to coloring in Beanie Anya, I decided to add in MarkerPop's weekly challenge of yellow.  I didn't want ALL of her clothes to be yellow so I added in some maroon and teal.  I recently started a mini art journal which right now consists of a bunch of pages using mists, distress inks, and stencils/templates.  The very first page in my book (which was probably the last one I worked on!) is one of my favorites and is where my color combo for Anya came from.  I used Aged Mahogany, Peacock Feathers, and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Inks for this page:

And I'll leave you with a close up of the image:

Have a great week!

--Angie

SUPPLIES:
STAMP - The Greeting Farm's Beanie Anya
PAPER - Copic Xpress it Blending CardStock and Office Max White CardStock
INK - Memento Tuxedo Black
COPICS - Hair - E35, E37, E29; Skin - E00, E01, E02, E11, R01; Clothes - Y13, Y15, Y35, Y38, R39, R56, R59, BG10, BG23, BG57, BG49
OTHER - Lifestyle Crafts Embossing Folder, Fiskars Dotted Scallop Punch, Glitter Ritz Warm Highlight Microfine Glitter, Pearls from the stash, Corner Chomper

Lime Splashed Thanks

I've been super busy around the house lately (cleaning things up and reorganizing... fun times!) so I've been out of my crafts space for far too long.  I decided I was due some real fun so took a break from all of the house work to play along with a couple challenges.

Here's the card I came up with:

Seems pretty simple, right?  It took FOREVER because I had problems with the white chevron piece.  I don't know what it was, but I just couldn't get the image stamped and embossed to my liking.  I think I repeated it five times before I finally got this one.  The black card base is the same image stamped then embossed with clear embossing powder to give a little pop to the background with out being overwhelming.

And a view of the inside:

The challenges I'm playing along with are:

Well I guess I've procrastinated long enough... back to the grind!

Thanks for stopping by,

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 
STAMPS: Hero Arts Chevron Background and Paper Smooches Word Salad
INK: Versamark and Memento Tuxedo Black
PAPER: Stampin' Up! Basic Black and Lucky Limeade; Neenah Solar White
OTHER: Stampin' Up! In Color 2011-2013 Brads; Zing Clear Embossing Powder, Zing Black Embossing Powder; Tag Punch

Ribbon Embossing

This past Friday, Danielle Daws posted a video tutorial on embossing on ribbon (check it out here).  I loved how it looked so had to give it a try.  Then I saw the lastest inspiration photo for the Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge: 

and I knew exactly how I wanted my card to look...

The inspiration I got from the challenge photo was text only and the color pallette - blue, orange, black, and white.  I loved how it turned out that I ended up making two more cards with different sentiments:

and

Lastly, here are all three together:

I can't wait to try more ribbon embossing!

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 
PAPER: Neenha Solar White
STAMPS: Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler and Good Gab; Hero Arts Newspaper Background
INK: Versamark; Stampin' Up! Pumpkin Pie
OTHER: Zing Black Embossing Powder; Heat Gun; Ribbon from stash; 1/2" Corner Chomper

2nd Annual SOG Customer Holiday Hop

Starting today, Some Odd Girl is hosting the 2nd annual customer holiday hop (you can see the details here) and I decided to play along!  I've been doing quite a bit of crafting with the holidays around and some of those projects have included some of the images from the shop.  I ended up with two projects to share, so without further ado...

Project One (for the gift category) - We're going to my Uncle's on Christmas Eve for dinner and wanted to take a little something along for the kiddos.  Nothing major, but a little sweet treat.  I made a candy holder card a week or so ago (you can see that post here) so I decided to make three more Christmasy ones:

And here are the insides:

I customized them for each kid on the inside by adding their name, so when I colored the images I tried to keep them in mind.  

Kalina has brown hair so when I colored in the Tia image, I made her a brunette:

Shyane's hair is lighter so her Tia image has lighter hair as well:

And since I didn't think Sayjn would appreciate the little girl image, I went with Rawr Tobie (I think it's fun even if it is for a Christmas theme!):

For Project Two, I wanted to take on the all white challenge that was an option for the hop and came up with this lovely:

I stamped the image on the card stock base and colored her in with some Prismacolors.  I added some crystal lacquer to the ornament (which of course you can't see in the pic!)  Then I framed her with a small fancy labels die that was put up on some foam tape.  On this piece I stamped the merry and bright sentiment.  The final piece was another piece of white cardstock that I ran through my Cuttlebug with an embossing folder, then cut the next size up fancy label die from that.  I sprayed this top piece with some pearl mist and it is super shimmery in person.  To finish it off, I added a few gemstones to the center of some snowflakes.  I really like how it turned out.  Here's a flat view of the card as well.

Since I'm in the Christmas spirit and just to have a little fun, I thought I'd give this card to a lucky visitor.  Leave a comment during the holiday blog hop by the end of the day on Wednesday, December 21st and I'll pick a commenter at random as the winner.  There may be a few little goodies included with the card as well ;-)  I'll announce the winner on the 23rd so check back to see if you've won.

Continue the hop by heading back to the SOG post here.  Happy hopping and Happy Holidays!!!

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 

TREAT CARDS

Paper is My Mind's Eye Be Merry 

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WHITE MERRY AND BRIGHT

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