Winter Thinking

Well we got a little more snow today and during my stamp reorganizing I found a set that I haven't used much... Anya Scarves.  So I was inspired!!

I stamped and colored her with some copics.  I paper pieced her hat, scarf, gloves, and sweater.  I airbrushed the aqua around her and pierced around the frame instead of matting her onto another piece of cardstock.  Layered some pattern papers on the stamped background then popped the main image on some foam tape after adding some ribbon.  To finish it off, I added some matching candy buttons.  I loooove the color combo!

Since I was using a dark card base, I wanted to make sure the inside had an easy space to write a message or stamp a sentiment once I find a use for the card, so I mocked the front layout but rotated it to go horizontal instead.

And here's a close up of the image.  I added some shading to the paper pieced pieces with my copics.  I love how that added some more dimension to her.

Since I was inspired by our cold/snowy/icy weather, I'm playing along with the Simon Wednesday Challenge - Ice Inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by.

Angie

SUPPLIES

STAMP - The Greeting Farm's Anya Scarves, Impression Obsession Swatches

INK - Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Up! Pool Party, Distress Ink Walnut Stain

PAPER - Copic Xpress It Blending Cardstock, Stampin' Up! Indigo Island, Basic Grey RSVP

COPICS - Skin - YR000, YR00, E11, E04; Hair E97, E15, E18; Jeans - B93, B95, B97, B99; Boots - C5, C7, C9, 100; Paper Pieced Shading - C3, C5; Airbrush background - BG32

OTHER - Blending Tool, Stampin' Up! Mat Pack and Paper Piercer, Stampin' Up! Pool Party Seam Binding, Kiwi Lane Designed Sentiments Templates, Basic Grey Candy Buttons

Spunky Sprite Says Hi!

Hi everyone!  I'm just popping in with a super quick post with a card for the April sketch challenge at Some Odd Girl.  Here's the sketch:

Here's my take on it:

And here's a little closeup on the adorable Spunky Sprite with her pearly wings...

Thanks for stopping by!

Angie

SUPPLIES:
STAMPS - Some Odd Girl Spunky Sprite and Hi! Digis (all cut with my Silhouette Cameo)
PAPER - Basic Grey Serenade
COPICS - Skin: E00, E01, E11, E13; Hair: E50, E53, E55, YR14; Dress/Headband: BG72, BG75, BG78, Y11, Y13; EYES: E53, E55, E57; Hi: E51, E53, E55, E57
OTHER - Moonlight Smooch, Vintage Photo Distress Ink, Sponge Dauber, Tim Holz's minature paper clip, EK Success Postage Stamp border punch, Kiwi Lane Adorn Templates

MarkerPop Guest design

Today is my last post as the Guest Designer for MarkerPop.  Here's a sneak of what's up on their blog... go have a look here :)

--Angie

Feeling Spunky!

i had every intention of using the images I shared last post in some cards this week, but I had something else I was itching to do instead...layering an image

I started by printing Some Odd Girl's Spunky Sprite six times on a sheet of paper.  i looked at the image and figured out what parts i wanted on what layer and started coloring.

Once all of the coloring was done, it was time to cut them all out.

And once they were cut, I layered it all together.  I LOVE the final sprite!!

And here she is from the side.  I love the depth :)

Finally, here she is on a card... LOVE!

And since I layed the image, I thought I'd play a little with layering the card front papers as well...

All of this for Some Odd Girl's February Sketch Challenge:

ETA: check out some of the layering here - amazing and such tiny pieces!

Thanks for stopping by!

Angie

SUPPLIES:

STAMPS: Some Odd Girl Spunky Sprite digi, Paper Smooches Chit Chat

PAPER: My Mind's Eye Lime Twist Life of the Party, Stampin' Up! Gumball Green and Early Espresso, Copic Xpress It

INK: Versamark, Walnut Stain Distress Ink

COPICS: skin E00, E01, E11, E13, R20, BV20; wings C0, C1, C2; eyes G43, G21, G46; hair YR27, E53, E55, E57; clothes R20, R32, R22, BG10, BG11, BG32

OTHER: Kiwi Lane Design Templates Adorn, Hoenydew twine from the Twinery, Stampin' Up! brights buttons, Crystal Stickles, white embossing powder

Taking Time to Smell the Flowers

Wow... it's been just over a month since my last post.  I can't believe how time as flown by!  I've been out towards Chicago for some work training the last two weeks and before that I just couldn't finish a project I was happy with - maybe it was the stress of all that I'd be getting into at work once my training was over ;)  But when I finally got back in to my craft space today, the project  seemed to flow out of my head really easily and I finished something I was happy with -

I just love the paper packs that My Minds Eye comes up with.  This one is a little older, but I still love the bright colors.  I normally decide on my paper before coloring in the images, but this is one I colored before I left and didn't like how it was fitting in with my plan.  When I got back and saw it laying on my desk, I knew I had to use it.  I like when things work out like that ;D

Since this is a well loved paper pack, I didn't have enough of some of the papers to replicate the layout of the front on the inside, so I used some of those same papers and kept with the flower them:

The card was made for the March Some Odd Girl Sketch challenge - 

I'm so glad to be back in my craft room and getting things done!!

Have a great week!

--Angie

SUPPLIES -

PAPER: Neenah Solar White, My Mind's Eye Quite Contrary Jack and Jill

INK: Memento Tuxedo Black, SU! Lucky Limeade, SU! Real Red, SU! Island Indigo

STAMP: SOG Smell the Flowers Tia Digi Stamp; the {stamps} of life mums2share

DIES: Sweet and Sassy Clouds

OTHER: Kiwi Lane Designs Templates Thoughtful, Sentiments, Tiny Floral; 3/8" Corner Chomper; Copics; Spica markers; Tonic Edge Distresser; Finger Daubbers; Liquid Pearl

Scrapbooking with a Sketch

Two posts today!!  This is the second, guess I had a lot of crafty time today ;-)

I actually started scrapbooking before I started card making and for whatever reason (probably because I really don't take a lot of pictures), I prefer card making.  I've been pushing myself to do a little more scrapbooking and started a few months ago, telling myself I was going to put together a scrapbook as a friend's Christmas present.  I gave myself PLENTY of time because I knew I'd loose the will to do it as time went on.  I enjoyed making the cards for the last two posts (here and here) using the sketch from Hero Arts Sketch Challenge over at Lily Pad, that I decided to make a scrapbook page with it.  Here's the sketch:

And here's my page:

I love how it turned out and it gives me a little more motivation to get her book done!!

--Angie

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Hope

I have a coworker who was recently diagnosed with esophogeal cancer and I spent Saturday morning at a breast cancer breakfast fundraiser, so I have Hope on the brain.  When I sat down to create a card for the latest Lawnscaping Challenge, it was still there, so I used Hope as my theme for the challenge -

I forget how challenging one layer cards can be, even when they sound so simple.  I knew I wanted to play with a couple of my newest stamp sets and I had a purple ink pad closest to me when I sat down, so here's my one layer card - 

I masked the bracket and stamped the flowers over the rest of the card.  I used the inkpad and some water to color in the flowers.  Then I masked the rest of the card and the letters and filled in the bracket.  This was the first time I used this ink pad and I'm not thrilled with how it covers when sponging, but I may just need a little more practice with it.  I removed all of the masks, stamped the letters where the masks were to give the outlines, then did a little dashed line around the brackets to finish it off.

And to finish it off, here's a close up -

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 

Stamps - Lawn Fawn Petite Florals and Quinn's ABCs

Ink - Vivid! Purple

Other - Bracket Template by Kiwi Lane, Uniball Signo Gel Pen