Fall Apart

You know whats awesome about digi stamps?? You can re-size, flip and even delete bits.  No masks, no fuss no problem. I wanted a pair of bears so I used the digi stamp Healing bear then flipped him so that now it looks like they are leaning on each other. One supporting the other no matter how ragged they feel. They look like they could use a vacation. :)

Digital stamp- Healing Bear: Whimsie Doodles

Copic Markers: Bears: E23,25 and E25,27 + a blender pen to lighten the bears.

BG11:background

R22,20: ears

Chalk: Blush on cheeks

White gel pen: Uni-Ball (best pen ever)

Paper- Be. Loved: Fancy Pants

Divine Twine-Bubblegum: Whisker Graphics

Happy place

Omgoodness I can't tell you how exciting it is to go out shopping with a little handbag that I decorated all by myself.  I"m more surprised by how many people actually notice it.  I think what I like most is the fact that it's "one of a kind",  it's unique to me and no one will have the same bag unless I part with mine. And well I don't think that will happen.  Well....maybe. Here's my latest Valentine design for Z Becky Brown.

If you want to see my gallery of inserts for the Z Becky Brown handbags stop on over to my gallery here.

Tip or Trick: I ran out of letters in "happy" so I nabbed a lighter colour (grey) letter and used my red copic to cover the grey and match it to the rest of the letters.

Materials
Hand bag- My White Knight- Z Becky Brown
White inserts- Ziva Papers- Z Becky Brown
Copic Markers
Letter stickers- Sn@p-Simple Stories

True Loves Kiss

What better image to have on your Z Becky Brown purse for Valentine's Day  then the iconic Snow White?? I gave her a little twist with blue eyes instead of her original brown and put her hair in a side pony tail.  I drew the image on X Press It cardstock and coloured it with Copic markers and multiliners.  Then attached the it to the Z Becky Brown Ziva paper. 

  Materials

Handbag-The Little Black Bag- Z Becky Brown

Ziva Papers- Z Becky Brown

Copic Multiliners-Black, Sepia and Turquoise 

Copic Markers- N9,7,5,3, E11,00, BG57,53,11, R46,24,14

Blush-Pebbles Inc.

Daisy Thanks

I admit I"m not at all a person to buy or use flower stamps but when I saw these gorgeous Gerber Daisies from Flourishes I just HAD to have them.  I think it's because they are not only gorgeously detailed but big so I have lots of room to play with colour and try different techniques.  

For the first card I wanted to keep the card really simple.  This is my intro class to Copic Colouring.  Keeping it simple with white on white and BG10 background blening.

 This next card uses a combination of Copic Markers, Spellbinders and Memory Box.  Simple white on white with Pink Velvet antiqued edges from Ranger.  Stickles were added to bling the Daisies.

 The last card I stamped Desert Sand (Memento) on Kraft cardstock then coloured the petals with a white colouring pencil.  Copics YR21,24,28 were used to colour the centre and E31 was used to add a shadow in the background.

Of course they just wouldn't be complete without the elegant sentiments also from Flourishes.  I can't get these stamps from my Local Scrapbook Store so I had to buy them online.  No biggie, I just had to be very patient.  

Happy Birthday Jessica

Well it's our fearless leader Jessica's Birthday and we're celebrating with a hippy hop hop.  It is going to be a great blog hop, we have lot's of peeps with tons of cards.  So if your looking for an awesome collection of inspiring birthday cards keep on hopping.

For my cards I used the "Jungle out there" stamp set

 I border punched a small stripe of pattern paper, pleated and glued it to the elephant the covered any mistakes with twine!!

 Here's the same layout only for girls and this time I used the "no lines" technique by stamping with Memento Desert Sand ink.

 here's a close up

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Let's get hopping!

Happy Birthday Jessica!! 

Hold for Appaws Day 3

Well, we are on our final day of this month's Blog Hop Challenges, and I REALLY think you all are going to LOVE this one!! Our final set is from Me, so let's get started!!!

Whether making a card for a boy or girl, man or woman, or scrapbooking your latest trip to the zoo, there is something in my new Jungle Out There set for you!! Full of the CUTEST animals, and most HILARIOUS sentiments, what’s NOT to love??

Jungle Out There is a 6x8 set that includes atotal of 20 stamps and will sell for $24.00.

Would you like to win the new Jungle Out There stamp set? Here is what youneed to do- visit the Trendsetter’s blogs that are participating in eachof the blog hop challenges below and comment on their creations asyou go. One of the Trendsetter’s blogs (from each hop day) will berandomly chosen as the ‘it’ blog and a winner will be picked using a randomnumber generator from the comments left on that Trendsetter’s Blog HopChallenge post.

You will not knowwhich blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chancesare of winning new stamps! The Blog Hop Challenges willbe open until 5 PM Eastern Time Saturday, March 31^st withthe winner being announced during the release party chat.

Red hair challenge #72

iCopic lover is hosting a colour challenge #72 this week and it's one of my favorites!  The challenge is to colour RED hair!!! Eeeek!!  I think this is one of my most favorite colours for hair.  I used the YR series for her hair, it's not exactly red but it's a more strawberry blond (on the orange side). LOL

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I used a Social Teen doll head from Whimsie Doodles to make this card.  They have big heads that are perfect for customizing with hair clips, earrings or any other accessory.  This card was created specifically with my best friends daughter in mind.  She has gorgeous red hair and hazel green eyes and LOVE Angry Birds.  So I picked up that Angry Bird hair clip from Daisy Doo's Hair Clips, cut two slots in the hair and slipped the bow through.  Now the card IS the gift!

Materials:

Doll head-Whimsie Doodles

Copic Markers: Eyes-YG91,93

Hair-YR12,E97,YR18 *my favorite combo

Paper-Blush (Lost & Found)-My Mind's Eye

Out of this world

Good morning all!  I was just browsing through my on-line subscription of Cricut and realized the February edition was out.  That means I can share my cards with you.  If you checkout out my CricArt (Cricut Art) tab you'll see projects (mostly cards) that I made using only Cricut images.
This card is my favorite mainly because I was so surprised at how cool looking the robot turned out.  To be honest I love my Cricut but I hate having to load a dozen cardstocks into the machine just to make one image so I decided I was going to just use my Neenah white cardstock and cut every shape I needed all at once, then once everything was cut I coloured the different pieces with my Copics.  It was awesome to finish an image so quickly, plus add dimension and have any colour "cardstock" my copics could make.  Easy peasy!

 Here it is on page 80/81

I also used a stamp set I designed on this card called "Out of this world"

Robot-Robotz Cricut Cartridge

*hint-if you want to try colouring your Cricut pieces leave them on the sticky mat.  It's so much easier to let the mat "hold" everything still for you while you colour the image!

How to feather hair

I've had a lot of requests for a tutorial on how to feather hair.  I don't know about you but I learn better when I see it not read about it so I decided to make a video tutorial.
Have a wonderful weekend!

Happy Mom's Day

I hope all you Mom's out there will have a very wonderful day today.  I spent last night making Mother's day cards.  I know it's the last minute but I actually forgot about it.  Can you believe that?? LOL
Anyway I made one card and thought I'd make a couple more slightly different.

My son is making his Nana her favorite cookies so I decorated this little gable box to put them in.

Materials

Butterfly stamp-Gina K

Argyle print-CTMH

Baked with love-Whimsie Doodles

Copics-R20, E31,33,35 and E29

Antique Photo Distress Ink-Ranger

Cardstock-Pink and Vintage Cream-Papertrey Ink

My new Copic Storage Unit

So some of you already know that I have jumped on the Copic band wagon!! So the next step is to get storage for my new most favorite thing in the world. I hate to have to spend major dollars for my already too expensive habit so I was looking for a cheap solution. And between my husband and I we came up with something pretty cool. (atleast I think it's cool).

So we bought some plastic pipe at the hardware store, I decided how long I wanted the pieces and hubby cut. We sanded the rough edges, crazy glued the whole thing together and here is the result....

  It holds 12 Ciao or 10 Sketch Copics per tube.  There are 12 tubes so it will hold 120 Sketch or 144 Ciao markers.  And it only cost $10.00!!  The best part is that I can add more tubes as my collection grows.
 
I love my hubby, he's the best!!

Waddle I do it's release day!

Wooot wooot it's NEW RELEASE day at Whimsie Doodles!!!
I'm so excited about the new winter images it was killing me all week not to share them!  I'm going to show you my favortie for the moment! Yep just the moment cause I'm working on new images and they are now my new favorite!!  But I still like this one!  The Muffin Tops are really popular right now and this little guy is the third in the series.  So that means you can interchange the muffin tops and bottoms with the each other.  That is if you have the other set.  LOL

Penguin Muffin Top-Whimsie Doodles
DP-SEI and Imaginisce
Scallop circle-Spellbinders
Copics

Incase your wondering I pre-schedualed this post!

Gifts on a sled

Hi all!  Well I'm off to New York today!  And I wanted to leave one more card for you from Whiff of Joy's winter collection.  It's called "sled packed with gifts" and if you saw my post Thursday you would have seen poor Willow freezing on it.  Today it stands alone because who wouldn't want a sled packed with presents???

Materials
Sled packed with gifts-Whiff of Joy
DP-SEI flurry kisses
SUINK ribbon
Swiss dot embossing folder

Have a wonderful weekend!