Brrr-fect

Today I'm playing along with the latest Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge.  This week is a picture perfect challenge.  Here's the inspiration photo:

When I looked at the picture, I immediately thought a love card would be the way to go (because it's a wedding cake ;)).  I also took the color palette for inspiration and the scalloped square topper.  With all of that, I came up with...

My card is 4 1/4" square on a dark grey card base.  One thing I'm trying to keep up with this year is doing something with the inside of he cards as I make them.  (Fingers crossed I can keep up with that this year!) So here's the inside - 

I do love that little penguin!

Angie

SUPPLIES

STAMPS - Paper Smooches Chilly Chums and Sweethears; Impression Obsession Swatches

PAPER - Stampin' Up! Basic Grey, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White

INK - Versafine Onyx Black, Memento London Fog, Festive Berries Distress Ink, Stampin' Up! Daffodil Delight, Stampin' Write Markers in Daffodil Delight and Summer Sun

OTHER - Lifestyle Crafts Nesting Doilies Dies, Wink of Stella Black Glitter Pen, Twinery Twine

Life is a Song

Just popping in to share another art journal page I came up with using one of my favorite Some Odd Girl Digi Stamps, Dancing Mae...

So Mae is colored with Copics and then fussy cut.  I painted the pages with some red and silver glitter acrylic paint, added some music themed tissue tape, spritzed a little red dylusions spray over everything, then added some stamping and white gel pen.  I printed the saying out on my computer then added that to finish it all off.

Thanks for stopping by!

Angie

Safari Smile

My desk was still littered with my Paper Smooches stamps from my last card (which made me the PS Pro Stamper!!) so I decided to use them again to play along with this weeks Paper Smooches Sparks trend watch....

So many of the little critters from the stamps have great smiles, so I cut the word 'SMILE' out of a card base and had some of the smiley creatures popping through the letters.

I LOVE the laughing hippo.  And the toucan is so cheery.  The monkey is adorable - I thought about cutting him down so that he wouldn't stick out past the edge of the card, but realized that he makes the card look like it's saying, 'Smile, I Love You.' so I left him in one piece (so happy I did!).

Once I got all of their placements figured out, I stamped the chevrons onto a piece of cardstock and popped the smile piece on top.  Then finished it off by layering it on a piece of black cardstock.

Thanks for stopping by!

Angie

SUPPLIES:

STAMPS - Papers Smooches Zoo Crew, Flap Happy, My Peeps, Smoocheroos, Geo-Graphic

INK - Memento Tuxedo Black and Stampin' Up! Island Indigo

PAPER - Stampin' Up! Basic Black, Island Indigo, Neenah Solar White, Copic XPress It

COPICS - hippo C3, R20, monkey E39, E53, toucan FYG2, FRV1, FYR1, FY1, FB2, 110, butterfly BV08, BV34, R22

OTHER - Silhouette, foam adhesive

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

You Color My World - layered!

Last week I shared a journal page I created using an adorable Tiddly Inks image.  (You can see that here.)  I colored the image again and did some layering with her to make a great card...

I had printed her kind of large so I knew the card would be fairly plain.  To add a little more color to it, I inked a piece of glossy paper with Copic various inks and put that behind the white panel.  I punched a little hole towards the bottom and white embossed the sentiment in the window.  Then to add a little more to fill some of the white space, I added some little mini buttons I had in my stash.

I love how she turned out :)  I'm playing along with MarkerPop#17 this week:

Thanks for stopping by,

Angie

SUPPLIES -

PAPER: Copic Xpress It Blending Card, Neenah Solar White, Glossy cardstock

STAMPS: Tiddly Inks Little Artist Digi, Paper Smooches Word Salad

INK: Versamark, Memento Tuxedo Black

COPICS: Skin - E00, E01, E11, E13, R20, BV20; Hair - E35, E37, E39, E29; Clothes - B93, B95, B97, B99, 0 on scrap of denim, BV01, BV08, BV04, C6, C8, C10, 110; Brush - E71, E74, E77, W5, W6, W7, Spica Silver, R32, R89; Background - BG23, V09, V12

OTHER: Mini Purple Buttons, Stampin' Up! Word Window Punch, white embossing powder, Glossy Accents, Crystal Stickles, foam squares

Finger Print Love

Play Date Cafe is celebrating their third anniversary this week so I wanted to play along in honor of the big event :)  Here's the color story for this week:

I realized this week that I have a TON of ink pads... more than I thought I had.  So I thought instead of stamping an image and coloring it in (like so many of my cards seem to have lately), why not use some ink pads that match.  So that's what I did, but I couldn't use any old stamp.  I had to use my thumb :D

I kept it pretty simple.  Stamped my thumbs in each of the three colors, added a sentiment, distressed the edge of the main panel then adhered it to matching cardstocks.  I didn't have paper that matched the bluish purple or the red, so I used the same ink pads to color a sheet of white cardstock.

Thanks for stopping by!

--Angie

SUPPLIES:

INK - Memento Paris Dusk, Stampin' Up! Cherry Cobbler and Rich Razzleberry

PAPER - Stampin' Up! Whisper White and Rich Razzleberry, Neenah Solar White

STAMPS - Paper Smooches Word Salad

Week 6: Paper Piecing

This week I challenged myself to use some of my paper stash by paper piecing.  Todays card has no paper piecing but I did do some paper piecing through the week and you can see them here and here.  For today's card, I turned CPS's day 12 sketch (#118) into something inspired by the current Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge -

And here it is...

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I loved the felt heart with the pinking around the edge.  I immediately was drawn to the Smoocheroos set and that adorable little monkey.  I stamped him and colored him with Copics.  I used Distress Inks and masked clouds to create the sky that he is floating through.  I stamped the I heart U from the same set on red glitter paper, popped them up and attached some twine.  I cut the heart with pinking shears. The background is stamped from hearts and XOs from Chubby Chums, spiffy Scooters, A Little Lovin', and Word Salad in addition to the Smoocheroos.

That monkey is just too cute :)

My self challenge this week is to use Dazzles in some of my creations.  I've amassed quite a collection because I love how they look, but I don't seem to use them very often.... but this week I will!!

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 
PAPER: Stampin' Up! Crumb Cake and Real Red, Neenah solar White
STMAPS: Paper Smooches - Smoocheroos, Chubby Chums, Spiffy Scooters, A Little Lovin' Word Salad
INK: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Up! Real Red, Tumbled Glass and Faded Jeans Distress Inks, Jet Black Stazon
COPICS: E31, E35, E37, E30
OTHER: Pink Felt, Pinking Shearts, Sweet & Sassy Cloud Die, Ink Blender, Red Glitter Paper, Foum Tape, Souffle White Gel Pen, Maraschino twine from the Twinery, Paper Piercer, Snail Adhesive

Sending Love in a Hot Air Balloon

Happy weekend!!  Today started off with I smile when I saw I was picked as the Primo Stamper for the Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge.  I loved that card when I was done with it so I'm glad Kim and her DT did too!

This weekend I'm catching up with all of the CPS anniversary sketches and I'll have at least one card to share every day and hopefully an extra special project that I'll be working on this weekend.  For today, I'm using sketch #26, for day 10:

I also decided to use the colors from this week's Play Date Cafe's challenge:

For whatever reason, when I saw the colors I immediately thought of a hot air ballon and the diamond pattern that some of them have so I set out to make my own background paper.  When I was searching through my stamps deciding which to use, I found a set that I forgot I had and haven't even used yet.  In the end, I was pretty happy with what I ended up with:

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I created the background by cutting 1/2" strips of the four colored papers and glueing them on a piece of copy paper on the diagonal.  Then I cut that into 3/4" strips and placed them onto another piece of cardstock that I ran through my xyron to make sure it was super adhesive.  I flipped every other strip 180 degrees and lined them up to form the pattern.  I used the same colors to paper piece the ballon that I finished by covering it with crytal lacquer.

It took sometime to make the background, but I think it was well worth it!  And since I paper pieced the background and ballon, it'll be playing along with CAS-ual Friday this week too:

Stop by tomorrow to see how I use CPS's sketch for day 11.

Have a great weekend!

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 
PAPER: Stampin' Up! Night of Navy, Daffodil Delight, Marina Mist, Crumb Cake, Neenah Solar White
INK: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Up! Daffodil Delight, Marina Mist, Night of Navy
STAMPS: Ain't Love Grand Stampin' Up! Hostess Set
OTHER: Tombow Mono Multi Glue, Snail Adhesive, Spica Lipstick marker, Crystal Lacquer, Glue Dots, 5" Xyron, Stampin' Up! Brights Buttons, Tonic Distresser, Finger Daubers

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)

Week 4: No Copic Coloring

Have you seen the Lawn Fawn blog recently?  Kelly Marie featured my card that I made for my alphabet sticker self challenge on this post here.  I was grinning ear to ear when I saw that pop up over there!  There's also a Valentine's card drive for children's hospitals going on.  You can get the info from that post if you're interested in sending cards out to the kids.

Yesterday, I posted this card that I made using my Prismacolors instead of my Copics.  Today, I stepped away from the pencils and picked up some of the Smooch colors I have to create this non-traditional Valentine's card:

I used the sketch from the Young Crafter's Unite Challenge and the CAS-ual Friday Challenge (they sketches are very close to each other!).  I used the color palette that is out there this week at the Play Date Cafe (plum, pear, and moldy cheese).  

I stamped Hero Arts' Blooming Heart and colored it in with three colors of Smooch - Plum Berry, Ocean Soul, and Olive Twist.  The olive twist was a little darker than the papers I had picked out so I added some pops of green with Zing's Leaf Embossing Powder and a Zig emboss Writer.  

Next week, I may bring back the Copics (my, how I miss them!), but I will also be using ribbon.  Ribbon is my challenge for week 5.

Have a great week!

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 

Paper: Stampin' Up! Island Indigo, Whisper White, Wisteria Wonder DSP, and Lucky Limeade DSP

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Up! Lucky Limeade

Stamps: Hero Arts Blooming Heart, My Favorite Things Notched Tag Die and Stamp Set

Other: Zing Leaf Embossing Powder, Zig Emboss Writer, Heat Gun, Stampin' Up Mat Pack, bone folder, Snail Adhesive, Indigo Island Brads, Stampin' Up! Word Window Punch

Smooch Ink: Plum Berry, Olive Twist, Ocean Soul

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Week 2: Alphabet Stickers

This week I challenged myself to use alphabet stickers. I wasn't really sure what I was going to do with that so I decided to work on the card then add the stickers later.  As it started coming together, I decided I'd use the alphabet stickers for the inside. 

I started by using the CPS sketch this week:

and created this card:

 

I used a few ink pads and a blender pen to color in the raccoon.  Wrapped him with some charcoal twine and added a heart punched from glitter paper.  It's a little hard to see in the first pic, but the red is mounted on a black card base.  The hearts were die cut on my Silhouette Cameo (a Christmas gift from my hubby!!) and instead of using the hearts that were cut, I used the negative image and popped it up on the red.  I think you can see it a little better in the next pic:

As I was going through my stamps for the front, I kept trying to think of cute little statements for each of them knowing I was going to be putting something on the inside.  Once my eyes saw that little raccoon, I knew exactly what I wanted.  So I went sifting through my alphabet stickers and setting on these from ProvoCraft:

And what sentiment did I settle on?  Well, see for yourself:

The finished card is 4 1/4" square, so it would fit in a standard size envelope with some excess in the length.  Since I had some scraps laying around, I went ahead and crafted an envelope to fit:

I took a standard envelope and sealed it.  I then cut the envelope so it would be 4 3/8" square.  I added a piece of coordinating paper as the new flap, and there it was, an evelope that fit perfectly!

While I was super motivated (and with some spare time), I made another 4 1/4" square card. 

I colored the bot in with some copics then made him sparkly by coloring over with a Spica glitter marker.  Then I used some more of the same stickers for the inside of this one:

And I created an envelope for this one as well:

You can't see in the picture, but the envelope flap is stamped with the 01011110001 stamp that is on the card front.

Next week, I'm challenging myself to use some buttons.  I have tons of them, so I'm going to put some to good use!

Have a great week!

--Angie

SUPPLIES -
"You Stole My Heart"
-Paper from Stampin' Up! - Basic Black cardstock, Real Red DSP, Whisper White cardstock
-Snail adhesive
-Foam adhesive
-Stamp - Lawn Fawn's Critters in the Forest
-Silhouette Cameo
-Blender Pen
-Ink - Stampin' Up! Crumb Cake, Basic Black, and Early Espresso; Memento Tuxedo Black
-Charcoal Twine from the Twinery
-Red, adhesive glitter paper (found in my stash)

"Birthday Bot"
-Paper - Stampin' Up! Basic Black, Neenah Solar White, Circuit pattern paper from Boxer
-Snail adhesive
-Foam adhesive
-Stamps - Lots of Bots by Stampin' Up
-Inks - Stampin' Up! Basic Black, Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark
-Copics and Spicas
-Lifestyle Crafts Tag Its
-White Embossing Powder
-Silver brad

Pinterest Inspired Challenge at Wee Memories

**Two posts today, check them both out!**

Over at wee memories this week is a challenge to use pinterest or etsy as inspiration.  I have been addicted to pinterest lately.  So many great ideas and items, I can't stop checking it out!

Both of these items I found on pinterest and used them for my inspiration:

 

I like the love sentiment using the ring as the O and I love the color pallette of the second pic.  So using these as my inspiration, I came up with this card:

I kept it simple with the white and added the tints of red and orange for some color.

SUPPLIES -
Making Memories metal tile letters
Crop-A-Dile Eyelet
Twine from the Twinery
Fancy Pants On a Whimsy Clear Stamp Set

And now for another inspiration I found on pinterest...

I'm off to bake these 4 ingredient nutella cookies.  YUM!