Deck the halls

Good morning!

There is a new challenge over at Some Odd Girl today and this time we want to see you create an easel card. Go to town with this and have fun, do what ever you like just so long as it is standing at attention on an easel card base. :)

Now, you know that I don't make a lot of fancy folding cards, but the easel format isn't so bad (even if I did waste an entire 12x12 sheet of cardstock by scoring the folds wrong... twice, LOL). I chose Tree Trimming Kaylee because I thought she would look really nice with the traditional red and green Christmas color combo that I wanted to use and then I just started piling on the goodies. I also used this Kaylee for a Strawberry Blond hair coloring video a week or so ago which you can find here and here or on the Color Me Copic blog. :)

Ok, now it's you're turn to play along and you've got until December 13th to enter an easel card for a chance at winning a fab prize and while you don't have to use a SOG image to qualify, you do get an extra name in the hat come drawing time if you do.

Good luck!
Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and Copic X-Press It
paper- Making Memories (Falala and Mistletoe), Reminisce (santa face)
stamps- Some Odd Girl (Tree Trimming Kaylee and sentiment)
ink- Memento tuxedo black and Colorbox Chestnut Roan
American Crafts twine
Making Memories poinsettia and die-cuts
Kaiser Craft pearls
Papertrey Ink Itty Bitty Birds die
felt
Sharpie white marker
Copic Spica glitter pen
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, R00, R20
hair- YR30, YR31, YR23, YR24, Y38, Y11
eyes- BG96, BG99
clothing/everything else- R37, E08, E19, YG67, G99, YG99, YG21, YG03, YG95, Y04, E81, 0, T5, T7, T9, Y13, Y26, Y28

Warm & Cozy Christmas

Happy hump day!

Ok, so I just have to talk Glee for a moment. It was back with a new episode last night and I thought it was a great one. I especially loved the music, so many great songs... but Finn's rendition of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun blew me away! OMGosh, I couldn't believe how amazing it was and I will totally be downloading it onto my ipod today! :)

Moving on to my card, this one was totally just for fun and wanting to play around with a bit of altering. That and I also wanted to play along in the Monday Fun Day challenge to use three of something on a card. I've had this idea for a while to create a cocoa sipping Anya using Cafe Ian's mug holding arm. And since this was going to be a Christmas card I thought it would be cute to put her in some fun Christmas pjs so I pulled out Dress Me Anya's body and pajamas. Then to finish her off I grabbed Travel Anya for her great head of hair. Doesn't she look like she's just woken up and is ready to settle in for a Christmas morning full of opening presents and snuggling with Ian? :)
And as for the challenge, my original plan was to use three pattern papers but then I went and paper pieced her pajamas which got me up to four. So when I added the holly leaves I made sure that there were three on there... but technically I also used three TGF stamps to create this Anya, LOL!

Alrighty, I've got a day off and I'm hoping to get a video or two done so we'll see how that goes.
TTYL!

Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and Copic X-Press It
paper- My Mind's Eye (Merry Little Christmas)
stamps- The Greeting Farm (Travel Anya, Dress Me Anya set and Cafe Ian), Stampendous (sentiment)
ink- Memento tuxedo black and Colorbox chestnut roan
Martha Stewart border punch
Papertrey Ink Itty Bitty Bird die
felt
Making Memories holly leaves
Kaiser Craft pearls
Copic black multiliner 0.3 pen
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, R00, R20
hair- YR31, YR23, YR24, Y38, E35
clothes- R00
mug- R24, R29, E18

Holiday Joy

Hello again!

With all of the new stamps being released it can be easy to neglect old favorites, so we are doing a bit of a throwback post over on the ATS blog today. Each of the DT have chosen a winter/Christmas stamp from a past year's release to feature once again. For my card I chose my sweet little Winter Darby and her pal, Pudge who were first released last November. This time I did a tiny bit of altering to Pudge by adding a letter for him to deliver to his friend because I was inspired by the postcard looking paper scrap that I pulled for the card. Yep, this is more scraps from the scrap bag and I even made my own Christmas yo-yo for an embellishment... I feel so crafty! This card was a lot of fun to make. Seriously who doesn't love visiting with old friends... whether they be rubber or real. :)

Okey dokey, thanks for stopping by on this fine Tuesday. The sun is shining here and I'm off to enjoy the day!
Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and Copic X-Press It
paper- Basic Grey (polka dot), My Mind's Eye (cream), Simple Stories (houndstooth and postcard), Making Memories (green)
stamps- Sweet November (Darby and Pudge), My Favorite Things (sentiment)
ink- Memento tuxedo black and Colorbox chestnut roan
Making Memories stick pins
Knot & Bow gold twine
handmade mini yo-yo
Doodlebug white flock
Sakura clear glaze pen
Copic Spica glitter pen
Copic black multiliner pen
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, R00, R20
eyes- E25, E29
hair- C5, C7, C9, 100
clothes- R05, R08, E19, E18, YG67, YG97, YG99, T5, T7, T9, E81, W1, 0
pudge- W1, W3, W5, W7, E81, YR24

And the angels sang...

Ah, Monday... here you are again.
Hey guys, so are you ready to get back into the swing of another week? I'm feeling pretty upbeat and positive for a Monday morning and I hope that means good things for the rest of the week. Remember that MIA paper pad that I was searching high and low for? Well after giving up hope yesterday, I found it in the backseat of the car of all places! Sheesh! At least now I can stop obsessing about it, LOL! ;)

I made my card for today using one of the Kraftin' Kimmie angels that I had colored up from a previous "white" video that I did, which can be found here or on Color Me Copic. Because white has a tendency to reflect whatever color surrounds it, I used very light pinks to color Aurelia knowing that I would be pairing her up with this pink snowflake paper from October Afternoon. Talk about a very girly looking Christmas card, but instead of fighting it I ran with the look. Throw on some glittery cardstock, sparkly twine and a pretty handmade stick pin that my November Secret Sister, Kim, made me and it was done!

I'm also entering this one into the open challenge over at Flutter By this week. It's been awhile since I've played along and this time of year is the perfect excuse to add angels into the fluttery mix. :)

And now I must bid you adieu as I go get ready for work.
TTFN!
Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill, glittered, and Copic X-Press It
paper- October Afternoon (Very Merry)
stamps- Kraftin' Kimmie (Angel Aurelia), Papertrey Ink (sentiment)
ink- Memento tuxedo black
Martha Stewart border punch
Tim Holtz tiny tabs and tags sizzix die
Making Memories felt snowflake
Knot & Bow silver twine
stick pin (from Kim... thanks Kim!)
Sharpie white marker
Copic Spica glitter pens
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, R00, R20
hair- E50, YR000, YR01, 0
eyes- E53, E55, E59, BG0000, 0
clothes/wings/notes- R000, R11, 0, E40, E41, E81, Y11, Y26, Y28

Grow everyday

Hey there!

So nothing fun came up yesterday, in fact I ended up spending a lot of my time cleaning. Have you ever bought something only to have it go missing before you could even use it? That's what sent me into my cleaning spree... I was going to make a card with a new little paper pad that I got recently but when I went to look for it, it was nowhere to be found. Sure, I could have changed my plan and gone with different papers but the missing paper pad kept bothering me so I just kept searching. Now I can report that while my room is clean the whereabouts of that paper are still unknown and not a card did I make.

Luckily, I still had this card from the SOG Nouveau Girls release that hadn't been posted here on my blog yet. Something about this gorgeous miss Grow brought to mind a nouveau style Snow White... it's probably that apple of hers. So naturally I had to give her some shiny black hair and fair skin. I think that all three of the Nouveau Girls are fabulous but if I had to pick a favorite, Grow would be the one. Something about her attitude speaks to me. :)

Alrighty folks, I hope your Sunday is a pleasant one. Anyone decorating for Christmas yet? I'm thinking that I might as well since the place is currently so clean, LOL!

Later gators!


Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and Copic X-Press It
paper- Making Memories (Noteworthy)
stamps- Some Odd Girl (Nouveau Girl Grow, clouds and sentiment)
ink- Memento tuxedo black, Autumn Leaves blue and Colorbox creamy brown
Prima flowers and leaves
Kaiser Craft gems
Copic Spica glitter pen
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, R00, R20, E07
hair- C5, c7, c9, 100
eyes- E57
clothes/apple- YG0000, YG01, YG93, YG95, YG63, YG67, BG11, BG13, R14, R17, E07, YG00, Y13

Getting ready for winter

Olo!

Any big plans for this weekend? Nothing much exciting on my agenda I'm afraid. But that's ok, maybe something fun will come up when I least expect it. :)

So my card today is actually a result of a video request that I got a while ago that involved coloring up Wild Sprout DeeDee from TGF. And since I've always thought that her little boots would work great with a winter transformation this was the perfect time to color her up. The videos can be found here and here or over on the Color Me Copic blog if you're interested on seeing how she came together. I did a bit of easy altering by adding Wild Sprout Camille's coat over top DeeDee's original body. Boy, I've paired that coat up with several other Sprouts over the years... it's just so perfect for making a non-Christmas image work on a Christmas/winter card. And I put a bunch more of my Christmas scraps to use on this one. Which is fantastic considering I kinda couldn't resist a couple deals that I found for new Christmas papers online this Black Friday. ;)

Anywho, I suppose I should go get ready for the day. Have a wonderful weekend my friends!
Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and Copic X-Press It
paper- October Afternoon (snowflake, stripe and snowman), We R Memory Keepers (green houndstooth)
stamps- The Greeting Farm (WS DeeDee, WS Camille)
ink- Memento tuxedo black and Colorbox chestnut roan
Making Memories die cut snowflakes
Cosmo Cricket tiny type sentiment
buttons
Kaiser Crafts pearls
Copic markers:
skin- E21, E23, E25, E27, E07
hair- T5, T7, T9, 100
clothes- R24, R27, R29, E18, R30, R32, R35, G00, BG32, BG18, YG21, YG23, YG95

Be your best elf

Hello, hello!
So did everybody have a great day yesterday? I sure did... though I'm still feeling just about as stuffed as that turkey on the table was! OMGosh, I seriously need to go get on the tread climber and spend about 5 hours on it, LOL! :)
So a new challenge went up over on the Tickled Pink challenge blog yesterday and this week we want to see you create a sentiment in your own handwriting.

No lie, I was a bit nervous about this one. I mean, my handwriting is hit or miss and I didn't want to get a card 99% finished only to ruin it with a mistake or something. So my first trick was to choose a young, child-like, looking stamp. In this case, the super cute Lil Winter Evie digi. This allowed me to do a simple kid style type of printing that would be hard to mess up. And for an extra "no-mess-up-guarantee" I wrote on a separate piece of cardstock, instead of directly on my card base, and drew a word bubble around it all to make it easy to cut out.

So don't let this one scare you! Just go check out all the amazing inspiration from the rest of the design team girls and play along with us this week. There is a free digi of your choice up for grabs and the winner is now selected by random generator!
Don't forget that your card must feature a Tickled Pink stamp in order to qualify for the prize... these include: Lil Lolitas and Lads, Pinkettes, Pink Pets and Cherries. All of which can be found in the Tickled Pink store.

Good luck everybody!
Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and Copic X-Press It
paper- Paper Fever (trees)
digi stamp- Tickled Pink (Lil Little Winter Evie)
ink- Colorbox ice blue
ribbon
button
Maya Road star stick pins
EK Success border punch
Martha Stewart Crystal Fine glitter
Sharpie white marker
Copic black multiliner 0.1
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, R00, R20
eyes- YG95, YG97, YG99
hair- C5, C7, C9, 100
clothes- B00, B12, B14, RV63, RV55, R08, E19, YG03, YG17, E35, B000, YR04