Ah.... the weekend

It's Friday! And I've gotten quite a bit of crafting done lately so I thought I'd pop in and share a card I made for two current challenges:

            

Simon Says Stamp is a pretty easy challenge - 'stamp it' (no digi images allowed!), but the Lawnscaping one is always tough, so I thought it would be a fun to give it a go.  I recently bought some Lawn Fawn steps that have been sitting  on my desk begging to be played with, so this was perfect!

To create my one layer card, I used a really heavy card stock and stamped my images.  I knew I wanted to use the cogs down the side so I had masked off that area to play with later.  Once everything was stamped, I used my prismacolor pencils to color it all in.  I love my copics, but for a one layer card, I didn't want to see the marker bleed through.  Initially I thought I'd use some embossing paste for the cogs, but decided to use embossing powders and a faux cloisonné  technique I learned recently. (I learned the technique with embossing paste, but just skipped that step so it was a more flat on the card front.)

Have a great weekend!

Angie

SUPPLIES
PAPER - 120 lb white card stock
STAMPS - Lawn Fawn Beep Boop Birthday and Bannerific
INK - Memento Tuxedo Black, Close To My Heart Pigment Inks
OTHER - Prismacolor Pencils, Dreamweavers Cog stencil, ultra thick embossing enamel, clear embossing powder

Celebrating Birthdays with My Whimsical Little World

My Whimsical Little World has another great new release today. The theme... birthdays! Three new digistamps are available today.  But before I show you, I must tell you... be sure to stop by the Grand Opening for My Whimsical Little World today on Facebook from 10am EST to 6 pm, there will be great fun to be had and some prizes along the way!

Now onto today's new releases!!  First up we have Christopher...

Here's Birthday Belle:

And lastly, Astrid. 

Astrid also comes with two sentiments - 'happy birthday cupcake' and 'love ya', the 2nd one I've used on the inside of the card.

Be sure to stop by the other design team members to see what they've come up with as well!

Paola

Marilyn

Martha 

Kimberly 

Thanks for stopping by!

Angie 

SUPPLIES:

DIGISTAMPS - MY WHIMSICAL LITTLE WORLD Balloon Christopher, Birthday Belle and Lola, Astrid

PAPER - Basic Grey RSVP 6x6 Paper Pad, Stampin' Up! Island Indigo, Rich Razzleberry, and Summer Starfruit

MISC - Prismacolor Pencils, RSVP embellishment pack

House Mouse x 3

We had a House Mouse Copic class at Farmhouse Memories this weekend.  I had lots of fun coloring with the ladies.  The official card for the class used the Diva Shopper stamp -

Then we each had the First Aid stamp to play with.  I finished up the card today using some left over paper from the class card.  The sentiment is a SRM sticker that I put on some of the scrap paper (I love that they're clear so I can easily customize them!)

Lastly, June shared an extra image of the Bunny Luv stamp with me.  Instead of using Copics for this one, I used my Prismacolor pencils to color them in.  And the SRM sticker sheet I had used on the last card was still sitting on my desk and happened to have a 'sending HUGS' sticker... perfect!

And that's my crafty fun for the weekend!  

Thanks for stopping by,

Angie

SUPPLIES

STAMPS - STAMPENDOUS/HOUSE MOUSE FIRST AID, HAPPY HOPPER BUNNY LUV, AND HAPPY HOPPER SHOPPING DIVA

INK - MEMENTO TUXEDO BLACK

COPICS - SHOPPING DIVA: E95, E97, E99, B02, B04, B06, W1, W3, W5, R59; FIRST AID: E71, E74, E77, W1,W3,W5, C3,C1,C00, R00, R000

OTHER - SRM STICKERS WISHING YOU WELL, KAISER CRAFT PEARLS, PRISMACOLOR PENCILS, CORNER CHOMPER

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

Nuts For You!

I just got in a few new Some Odd Girl sets that I purchased, so I HAD to use one of the new sets for their latest color challenge.  Their inspiration picture is this adorable nerdy bear note card from MyZoetrope's Etsy shop:

One of the new sets I got was Nutsy Kaylee.  I love the little squirrel in the set so had to use him :)

I colored him using my Prismacolor pencils (trying to get more practice with them!).  The sentiment is stamped in a teal/aqua ink.  To add the pink, I had a couple of different ideas, but wanted to keep the card pretty simple so opted for some stitching below the sentiment.  Then I used my scoring board to score two lines across the bottom and up to his tail on the left side.  To finishi it off, and balance the score lines a little, I rounded the top right corner.

I'm also playing along with the following challanges:

      

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 
PAPER: Stampin' Up! Crumb Cake
INK: Stampin' Up! Indigo Island, Memento Tuxedo Black
STAMPS: Nutsy Kaylee by Some Odd Girl
OTHER: 1/2" Corner Chomper, Stampin' Up! Scoring Board; We R Memory Keepers Floss; Embroidery Needle; Paper Piercer; Stampin' Up! Mat Pack; Prismacolor Pencils

Copics in Storage

This week, I challenged myself to color images without using my copics.  I love coloring my stamps from Some Odd Girl with those magical markers, so I thought I'd color Gwen in using my Prismacolors...

The card is based on this weeks CPS sketch:

I flipped it 180 degrees and made it a trifold card.  The front image on the scalloped oval flips up to reveal the inside fold and small sentiment...

Then that panel folds down to reveal where a written message would be...

In addition to the CPS challenge, I'm playing along with:

Lily Pad's Patterned Paper Challenge

Anything Goes Challenge

Some Odd Girl's Color Challenge

I'll be back tomorrow to finish up my challenge week with one more non-Copic colored creation!

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 

Paper: My Minds Eye Quite Contrary Jack and Jill 6x6, Neenah Solar White

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Up! Pool Party and Read Red

Stamps - I can't remember her exact name, but it's one of the Holiday Gwen sets from Some Odd Girl

Punches/Dies - Spellbinders Large Oval and Large Scalloped Oval, Stampin' Up! Large Scalloped Oval and Large Oval

Miscellaneous Tools - Sponge daubers, Prismacolor Pencils, Moonlight Smooch, White liquid enamel, Tombow Mono Multi Glue, Snail Adhesive, Red Ribbon, KaiserCraft Red Rhinestones

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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