Dazzling Aqua

I decided to play along with this weeks iCopic challenge kind of at the last minute.  The challenge this week is to use the BG family.  It's not one that I usually gravitate towards so I wasn't super inspired at the beginning of the week.  But today that changed!  I grabbed my image, colored away, and ended up with this little cutie:

I used some Dazzle stickers (as I challenged myself to this week!) and kept it pretty simple.  Still need to practice with those BGs and Rs.

Challenges:

          

Next week, my challenge is to use some washi tape.  i have a nice little stash but I never seem to use it.  

Have a great weekend!

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 

PAPER: Neenah Solar White, Stampin' Up! Whisper White

INK: Memento Tuxedo Black

STAMP: The Greeting Farm's Beanie Anya

COPICS: Hair - E35, E37, E29; Skin - E50, E51, E00, R20; Clothes: BG10, BG23, BG49, BG72, BG75, R35, R37, R39

OTHER: Corner Chomper Aqua, Dazzle Stickers

Since I didn't have any craft time this weekend, I made up for it today!  I got a couple of new stamp sets from Sweet and Sassy this weekend and put them to use today.  Still playing along with CPS's 5th anniversary celebration, here are the cards I created today -

Using day 7, sketch 242

I made this card using Cocoa in the donought -

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 I used Memento Desert Sand Ink to stamp this image.  I wanted to try color an image with lighter lines.  I layered his face in the doughnut to add some dimension too.  The doughnut is paper pieced and finished off by adding some crystal lacquer to the icing.

Next, I used day 8's sketch, #102

I thought about using a new star die set to replace the heart in the sketch above, but when I saw that iCopic's weekly challenge was hearts, I left it as a heart and added hearts along the bottom of the image panel as well -

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In addition to the CPS sketch celebration, this card is playing along with iCopic and Lawnscaping:

And to finsih off the day, I used day 9's sketch, #5 - 

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A little hard to see in the picture, but the apple was lacquered for that candied look.  (I even left some of the aire bubbles in the lacquer since every candied apple I've had was full of bubbles.)

I think Cocoa the mouse is just too adorable.  I can't decide if I like him as a grey mouse or brown mouse more (I'm leaning toward grey!)

--Angie

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DOUGHNUT COCOA:
Stamps - Sweet and Sassy So Sweet Cocoa
Copics - Ears R01, R20; Cocoa E30. E31, E33; Nose C3. C5, C7; Shading C0, C1, 0
Ink - Memento Desert Sand, Stampin' Up Read Red
Paper - Stampin' Up! Real Red, My Mind's Eye Quite Contrary Jack and Jill
Other - Stampin' Dimensionals, Snail Adhesive, Tombow MonoMulti Glue, Rouge Zing Embossing Powder, Zig Embossing Pen, Judy Kins Detail Scissors, Red Ribbon, Uniball Signo, Tiny Attacher

CUPCAKE COCOA:
Stamps - Sweet and Sassy So Sweet Cocoa
Copics - Ears R01, R20; Cocoa E33, E35, E37; Nose C3, C5, C7; Cake E29; Shading C0, C1, C3, 0; Spica Lipstick (21)
Inks - Memento Rich Cocoa, Distress Inks Fired Brick and Worn Lipstick
Paper - Basic Grey Perhaps
Other - Uniball Signo, Snail Adhesive, Stampin' Dimensionals, American Crafts Foam Dots, Tombow MonoMulti Glue, Stampin' Up! Large Heart Punch and Heart to Heart Punch; ink Blenders

APPLE COCA:
Stamps - Sweet and Sassy Cocoa's Tasty Treats
Copics - Ears R01, R20; Cocoa C3, C5, C7; Nose C7, C9; Apple YG61, YG63, G94, R37, R39, R59, Stick E31
Inks - Memento Tuxedo Black,
Paper - Stampin' Up! Real Red, My Mind's Eye Lime Twist
Other - Marschino Twine from the Twinery, Large Oval Punch from Stampin' Up!, Red Rhinestones, Tiny Attacher 

Aptee'tude Love

I play along with the CPS Card Sketches almost weekly and this week marks their 5th anniversary!!  Each day, from January 29th through February 18th, they're posting a sketch from the past.  Today they posted #166 -

I pulled out one of my new favoite stamps - Stamping Bella's Aptee'tude - and used her as my focal point. 

I stamped the image and colored her in with my Copics and Spicas.  I cut her out with a circle Spellbinders die.  I used another die, two sizes up, for the scalloped circle mat.  For the card base, I used the I {Love} Love roller wheel from Stampin' Up!  Instead of adding a paper band through the center, I opted to tie some ribbon around the card (living up to my self challenge of using my ribbon stash this week :-)).

Once I had her all assembled, I felt like it was missing something so I added a few hearts from Stampin' Up!'s I {Heart} Hearts stamp set.  I layered the hearts and covered them with some crystal accent to make them shine.

Here's a close up of the coloring.  I love how those Spicas sparkle!!

For the inside, I used the same size circle as I did for the front.  I used the same pattern paper, but one size smaller with the scalloped circle.  I stamped the I {Love}Love just once in the center and added the same hearts from the front.  Then I finished it off with the Happy Love Day.

Since it's a love card I had to use a few red copics, which happens to be the challenge this week at iCopic, so I'll be playing along with them too -

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--Angie

SUPPLIES - 
Copics: Skin - E50, E51, E00. R20
           Clothes - R01, R20, R32, R37, B45, B26, B37, W1, W3, W5, 
           Hearts - R59
           Hair - YR31, Y32, Y28
Paper - Stampin' Up! Lucky Limeade, My Mind's Eye Lime Twist
Stamps - Stamping Bella Aptee'tude, Stampin' Up! I {Love} Love and I {Heart} Hearts, Studio G Happy Love Day
Ink - Real Red, Luckey Limeade, Memento Tuxedo Black
Dies - Spellbinders Standard Circles Large and Classic Scalloped Circles
Other - Red Ribbon, Heart-to-Heart Punch, Corner Chomper (blue)

Gorjuss Gift Box

About a month ago, I turned an old cereal box into a cute little gift box (you can see that post here).  Since I used that box up for one of my Christmas gifts, I decided to make another one for a gift exchange that's going on at work.  I also decided to use up one of my remaining color images from last week for the black hair challenge over at the iCopic blog (scroll down to the last post to see the card I originally made for that challenge).

So without further adieu, here's the latest gift box:

Here's a closer look at the center panel:

Here's a closer look at my colored image (I love these Gorjuss girls!):

And finally a close up of the paper pieced gift tag:

I hope the recipient likes it (as well as the goodies going inside)!

Playing along with:

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 
Copics: Hair - 100, C5, C7, C9; Clothes - G03, G05, G21, R37, R59, C3, 0; Skin - E00, E50, E51; Crown - Y11, Y13, Y15


Other supplies from my growing stash - Snowflake brads, off white ribbon, red gems

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Season's Greetings, Gorjuss

I have been addicted to my Copics lately.  They are no longer in my craft room, but next to my couch so I can color while watching tv... it's a sickness!  I saw that iCopic's challenge this week was Black hair so I decided to break out my Gorjuss girl stamps.  I love the image and she just screams black hair to me.  I tend to stick with coloring brunettes but I thought I'd play along and see how it turned out.  I think I like it :D

And here's a closer picture of the coloring:

I used C03, C05, C07, and C09 for her hair.  E50, E51, and YR00 for her skin.  YG61, YG63 g94, RV34, R37, R59, C03 and 0 for her clothing.  (I'm slowing starting to get in the habit of tracking which colors I use so I can find my favorite combos.)

It was a fairly straightforward card.  I used the sketch from this weeks CPS challenge and once the coloring was done, it was just about layering the papers in a way that I was happy with.  I inked all of the edges with matching Distress Inks just to finish off the edges a little, added a few brads, then rounded the two right corners.

I made the inside really simple as well by just adding a strip of each of papers I used on the front of the card - 

I actually colored three different Gorjuss girls because I was trying different combinations for the black hair.  I made the hubby pick his favorite because I loved them all so much.  I'll definitely be using the others in upcoming cards, but needed to focus on just one for today. Here's a look at the other two that you may see in the future.

This little Gorjuss will be playing along in:

Of course, since it was my inspiration this week :)

--Angie


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small red brads from my stash

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