April Showers calender page

     Sorry I haven't been around much lately.  Been feeling pretty rotten.  Getting old stinks!  LOL  I've managed to do a little bit of crafting although I haven't felt much like it.
     Today I'm sharing my April calendar page.  I didn't add too many embellishments to this one.  Just let the main image be the focal point.

     I've used "Splash" from Mo's Digital Pencil and merged it with Make It Crafty's "Crooked Picket Fence" and parts of "Daffodil Dell".  For the sky I used chalk to make the clouds and if you look closely you can see my Glossy Accents rain drops.
     Here's my stinky inside photo of the page in the stand.

     Hope you're having a great day and didn't get too many April Fool's jokes pulled on you.
     Be blessed!


Supplies:
Paper--My Mind's Eye "Stella Rose--Gertie", Bazzill, Georgia Pacific, Copic XPress-it Blending card
Stamps--Mo's Digital Pencil "Splash", Make It Crafty "Daffodil Dell" and "Crooked Picket Fence"
Ink--Copics, Sakura white gel pen, Frayed Burlap Distress ink
Tools--EK Success Deco Corner punch
Miscellaneous--Studio Calico wooden birds, Glossy Accents, Inkadinkado Blending chalks, Michaels rhinestones

Skip to my--Alice???

     Happy Thursday kiddies!  Wish I had as much energy as this little sweetie.  LOL  Her name is Alice and she is my "Anything Goes" DT card for Mo's Digital Pencil challenge this week.  Yep, it's an east peasy anything goes theme plus we have an optional sketch from our lovely Iulia.

     "A, my name is Alice" can be found right here in Mo's store.  I've colored her with Copics and given her a Make It Crafty cobblestone path to skip on, and a distress ink sky.

     Mo gives away a $5.00 gift certificate for every twenty-five entries so break out any Mo image and come play along this week for your chance.  Make sure you check out all the inspiration from my DT sistahs too.  :-)

     Thanks so much to all of you who left such sweet comments yesterday in regard to my departure from Papercraft Star.  Your words hugged my heart.  :-)

     I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Aud Sentiments--anything goes

C.R.A.F.T.--buttons

Digi Doodle Shop--anything goes

Moving Along with the Times--summer sunshine

Papertake Weekly--anything goes 

Creative Monday--anything goes

Incy Wincy--Mother's Day or girlie

Love to Create--flowers and buttons

Make It Monday--anything goes

Paper Playtime--anythings goes

The Pink Elephant--spring time

PanPastel UK--spring time

Stamping Sisters in Christ--image of something planted to color green

Stamptacular Sunday--spring bling

The Stamp Pad--April showers bring May flowers

     Have a wonderful rest of the week!

Supplies

• Paper:  My Mind's Eye "On the Bright Side--One"  Kraft Outlet Light Kraft, Copic XPress-it Blending card
• Stamp:  Mo's Digital Pencil "A, My Name is Alice", Make It Crafty "Cobblestone Path"
• Ink:  Copics, Tumbled Glass and Faded Jeans Distress ink
• Tools:  Nestabilites Labels Eighteen, Tim Holtz Tattered Florals, sewing machine
• Miscellaneous:  Hug Snug Seam Binding, vintage Wrights rick rack, Michaels wood buttons, Kraft Outlet Hang Tag String, Recollections pearls

Can-can!

     Although I managed to make a huge dent in returning emails and comments yesterday, I'm still a bit behind so some of you will hear from me today.  Better late than never huh.  LOL  I'm still coughing a bit, but feeling better.  Thank you for all your well wishes.  :-)
     Our challenge this week at Papercraft Star is to do something "French".  I had gone back and forth for I don't know how long before I broke down and purchased Elizabeth J. from Make It Crafty.  She's a bit out of my usual style, but those ruffles!  I wanted to color those ruffles so badly.  LOL  The camera didn't pick up the shading as well as I would have liked and I think I needed to go in with another darker red layer before calling it quits, but here she is in all her ruffled glory.  She's far from perfect, but she was fun to experiment with.
     I used a Ranger manila tag for my base.  I put some Tea Dye distress ink on  my craft sheet and drug the tag through it.  I used some TH stamps with Fired Brick and Vintage Photo inks to create a background on the tag and brushed gold Perfect Pearls over the wet inks for a bit of sparkle.
     The next layer is a vintage postcard digital image created by my friend, Dawn at LilyPinkScraps.  She had offered this as a freebie over at The Outlawz and I thought it was perfect for my tag.  I changed the color a bit and printed it out on some Light Kraft Text Weight paper from Kraft Outlet.  The paper is really cool and after I crumbled it up it kind of felt like soft leather. I inked it with Old Paper and Vintage photo, then tore the upper right corner and threaded some waxed linen thread across the tear.  I added a brad and fan charm also.
     The little heart is a chipboard piece from Michaels that I covered in Perfect Medium and more of the gold Perfect Pearls.  I dyed some white seam binding with Fired Brick and Aged Mahogany Distress inks and colored a snippet of lace with the Vintage Photo.
     Last but not least is Miss Elizabeth in all her Copic colored glory.  Like I said, not perfect, but oh so fun to color.  :-)
     Our sweet Jinny is showcasing images from our sponsor, The House Across the Bay, this week so make sure you check out her card along with the rest of the DT creations over at the PCS blog and come play along with our "French " challenge.  Oui!
     I'd like to enter my tag into the following challenges:

Anything Goes--time or steampunk
Digital Tuesday--distressed
Craft Your Days Away--metal
Sweet Stampin--girly but no pink

     Happy Wednesday!


Supplies

• Paper:  Ranger Manila Tag, Kraft Outlet Light Kraft Text Weight, Copic XPress-it Blending card
• Stamps:  Make It Crafty "Elizabeth J.", Tim Holtz "Urban" and "Flights of Fancy"
• Ink:  Copics, Prismacolor pencils and OMS, Distress inks, Perfect Medium
• Miscellaneous:  Black Waxed Linen thread, Hug Snug seam binding, Michaels $1 bin chipboard piece, Spare Parts brad, charm, chain, and lace from my stash, Gold Perfect Pearls

You + Me= ♥

     Well get a load of these two!  He stole that kiss before he ever gave her the flowers!  LOL
     Our theme this week at The Kraft Journal is "So Romantic".  The big V-day is fast approaching so I'm sure you'll all have something you can join in the challenge with.  Just make sure it has kraft paper of a Kraft Outlet product on it and your in like Flynn!
     For my card I started with a base of Light Kraft Cover Weight cardstock.  I matted with some Bazzill and some digital papers that were a gift from my buddy Jan.  The image was colored with Copics and I tried my hand at the "outside the die cut" technique.  It turned out pretty good.  I don't think you can even tell where I had to cut in.
     Anyway, the fish tail banner and sentiment are more of the light Kraft.  I put some eyelets in the end of the sentiment and tied it to the smaller mat with some Red Baker's Twine.
     For the inside of the card I added two mats and then trimmed a Small Glassine Bag with some postage stamp decorative edge scissors to make a tag pocket.  I then wrapped some more red twine around the bag.

INSIDE OF CARD

     The tag was cut from Light Kraft after I printed the cute little heart digi on it.  It's colored with Copics too and highlighted with a white gel pen.  The finishing touch was a small piece of red 7 Gypsies Gypsy Market seam binding tied through the tag top.

     Hope you'll come join in our fun this week.  It's the perfect excuse to make a Valentine card for somebody you love.
     I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Paper Creations Ink--love/romance
Stamps R Us--Valentine/love
The Outlawz Monday Greeting Card Challenge--hearts
The Shabby Tea Room--love is in the air + mail or postage element
Make It Monday--anything goes
The Poodles Parlour--Valentine/love
Corrosive Challenges--I {heart} you
Creative Inspiration Paint--inspired by someone special
Penny Black and More--love and hearts
The Crafty Pad--Valentine/Anniversary love
Allsorts--one or more hearts
Di's Digis Designs--Valentines
Mark's Finest Papers--at least 4 layers
One Stop Craft--stitching real or faux
Simply Create Too--love is in the air
Wags 'n Whiskers--Valentines/Love
Aud Sentiments--use the word love
Crafty Purple Frog--Valentines Dau/show us some love
Craft Room Challenge--Valentines
Oldie But a Goodie--have a heart (both rubberstamps over six months old as well as several of the embellishments and the digi stamp)

     Happy Monday!


Kraft Outlet Supplies


Light Kraft Cover Weight cardstock
Red Baker's Twine
Glassine Bag
7 Gypsies Gypsy Market seam binding


Other Supplies


Papers:  Jazzy Patterns "Romantic Adventure" digital papers from MyGrafico, Bazzill, Copic XPress-it Blending card
Stamp:  Make it Crafty " Geeky Love", Michaels Dollar bin Love rubber stamp, Claudia & Company "Heart Swirls" by John Grutta
Ink: Copics, Memento Tuxedo Black, Marvy Uchida white gel pen
Tools:  Nestabilities Standard Circles Large (S4-114), Making Memories eyelet setter, Crop-a-dile, unknown 1/2" circle punch, Crop-a-dile, Michaels postage stamp deco edge scissors
Miscellaneous:  Cotton Candy and Diamond Stickles, Recollections pearls and eyelets

You can't catch me......

     Another Christmas card for the stack.  :-)  This one was made using this cute gingerbread man from Make It Crafty who thinks he's Fred Astaire.  (What do you think Ira?  LOL)  He's got some dimensional paint icing on to snaz him up a bit.  :-)

     He's colored with Copics and I used some papers from a K & Company paper pad I picked up at Michael's last week when it was marked down to 60% off.  I had a tough time with Christmas papers this year.  There just wasn't a whole lot out there that really caught my eye.  I don't like to buy too many 12 x 12 pads anymore because I like the smaller scaled down print of the 6 x 6's, but there was some really great smaller designs paper in this pad and I couldn't beat the price.

     I tried and tried to find a way to photograph my card so that the deep green ribbon behind the image looked green, but it absolutely refused to look like anything but black.  All my dark colored ribbons always look black in my pics.  sigh....

     I found some chipboard photo corners in my stash,covered them with some of the Light Kraft I used for the card base and inked the edges.

Hope you like my stylin' ginger dude.  I'd like to enter him into the following challenges:

Dream Valley Challenges--Christmas

The Squirrel and Fox--Christmas
Crafty Emma--traditional Christmas

One Stop Craft Challenge--traditional Christmas

i{heart}2stamp--sketch

Card Makin Mamas--Christmas

Stampin For the Weekend--Christmas

Crafty Ribbons--traditional Christmas colors

Little Miss Muffett--buttons and ribbons

My Mum's Craft Shop--traditional Christmas

Heart Song Inspirations--Christmas and/or red, green, and white

Truly Madly Crafty Challenge--Christmas images and colors

Have a wonderful new week!

Supplies

• Papers:  Kraft Outlet Light Kraft cardstock, Bazzill, K & Company, Copic XPress-it Blending card
• Stamp:  Make It Crafty "Gingerbread Dance"
• Ink:  Copics, Walnut Stain Distress ink
• Tools:  Nestabilities Standard Circles Large (S4-114) and Labels One (S4-161), Martha Stewart Cornice edge punch
• Miscellaneous:  chipboard corners and dark green ribbon from my stash, buttons from Hobby Lobby, Hang Tag string and Red Baker's Twine from Kraft Outlet

Sweet Stampin Guest Designer #1

     Surprise!  Surprise!  Two easel cards in two days!  LOL  This card was actually made several weeks ago though and is one of four I'm making as guest designer at Sweet Stampin' Challenge Blog this month.  Thanks so much to Tracey for asking me and to Abi and Fi for allowing me to guest for them.  :-)

     The challenge at Sweet Stampin' this week is a photo inspiration you can see here:

     Isn't that pretty!  For my card I've used several images from Make It Crafty that I merged together for the little scene.  I used Copics to color and the papers are from the gorgeous Bo Bunny Gabrielle collection.  I thought they went pretty well with the butterfly swing.  :-)  I also added a Martha Stewart Monarch butterfly punch which I painted with Creative Inspirations paint in Sea Foam.
     The top part of the easel was created using a die cut piece of paper I had from another collection.  I just used it as a template and them trimmed the other layers to fit and distressed them.  There's a little of that fun cheesecloth I've been using, lots of pearls, and some lace that I threaded some pretty ribbon through.  It doesn't show its true color in the photo, but it's a pretty icy blue/green that matches the papers really well.

     I know the ladies would just love to see what you can create with this beautiful color palette so get creative and link it up for this week's challenge.  :-)

     I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Allsorts--anything but square
Digi Designs Challenge--ribbons and bows

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge--flowers, ribbon, and lace

Card Makin' Mamas--die cuts (top panel, image, sentiment, butterfly)

4 Crafty Chicks--die cuts

Crafty Ribbons--BINGO (punches/dies, flowers, ribbon)

Do You Stack Up--teal

Paper Crafting Journey--use a digi

Little Darlings--not square

Deep Ocean Challenge--sweet

The Ribbon Carousel--anything goes plus spooled supplies (ribbon and lace)

Craft Your Passion--BINGO (flowers, pearls, use a punch)

Crafty Boots--young at heart

The Pink Elephant--distressing

Addicted to Stamps--shabby, shabby chic, vintage

Have a fabulous and blessed weekend!

Supplies

• Papers:  Bo Bunny Gabrielle, Kraft Outlet Brown Kraft and Light Kraft cardstocks, Recollections, Copic X-Press It Blending card
• Stamps:  Make It Crafty "Sitting Annalise", "Butterfly Swing", and "Daffodil Dell"; Raindrop Echo Sentiments "Sylvia's Sentiments #3"
• Ink:  Copics
• Tools:  Nestabilities Labels Sixteen (S4-301), Martha Stewart Monarch Butterfly punch
• Miscellaneous:  Dritz Cheescloth, Recollections pearls and flowers, Celebrate It ribbon, Inkadinkado Blending Chalks, Creative Inspirations Sea Foam paint, lace from my stash

Papercraft Star Challenge #67

     Not much extra on this card.  I just wanted to show off the fun background for Mr. Zombie for our Halloween challenge this week at Papercraft Star.  That creepy scene is from one of the Halloween downloads from our sponsor, The House Across the Bay.

     I popped Mr. Zombie and his batty friends up on foam for some 3D effect and I just couldn't resisit adding that corny sentiment.  LOL  In case you find it a little hard to read with all that goo dripping from it, it says "Bats in your belfrey?"  :-)  I know, I know.
     Make sure you check out the fun project from my sweet friend Ira Huberts who is guest designing for Papercraft Star this challenge.  She LOVES Halloween and has the most creative imagination.  :-)
     I had fun making this simple little scene.  We'd love to see what you come up with.  Prizes from our sponsor for our first and second place winners.  So come play along.  Link up before 6:oo a.m. EST Monday to play.
     Have a great week!

Supplies 

• Papers:  Bazzill, Recollections, Kodak Photo Paper, Copic X-Press It Blending card
• Digital Image:  The House Across the Bay "Halloween Spooky (026)"
• Stamp:  Make It Crafty "Halloween Zombie"
• ink:  Black Soot Distress ink
• Copics:  E07, E08, E31, E33, E35, E37, E41, E97, Y21, Y26, YG93, YG95, YG97, YG99
• Miscellaneous:  QuicKutz label die
• Miscellaneous:  Glossy Accents

Purple Rules!

    It's been FOREVER since I've gotten to play a challenge at Make It Colourful and I really need the practice from those challenges.  So I managed to squeak a little crafty time in last night after everybody went to bed and then finish this card up today so I could play along with this weeks challenge, color with purple.  I still don't know how to do hair really well, but I wasn't too disappointed in this attempt.  :-)

     I'd also like to enter my card in thr following other challenges:

Deconstructed Sketches--sketch

Crafting For All Seasons--birthday

Top Tip Tuesday--birthday

    Hope you like the card!

Supplies

• Papers:  K and Company Floral Dreams, Bazzill, Recollections, Copic X-Press It Blending card
• Stamp:  Make It Crafty "Zoe Celebrates"
• Copics: 

             skin  E000, E00, E11
             hair  E21, E25, E27, E29
             clothing  BV02, BV13, BV17, BV20, BV23, BV25, BV29, BV31, Y17, YR68 

• Tools:  Martha Stewart Doily Lace edge punch and Frond punch; EK Success Retro Flower punch, QuicKutz label die
• Miscellaneous:  Martha Stewart seam binding, Recollection pearls

Papercraft Star Challenge #54

     I had a totally different card planned for this weeks Papercraft Star challenge, but I just couldn't get it to work so I just started from scratch--new sketch, new images.
     This cute little mermaid and her shell are some of Make It Crafty's wonderful digi stamps.  I colored her and her clam shell boat with Copic markers.  A clam shell probably wouldn't make a very good boat, but I wanted her floating so it became her mode of transportation.
     I found a new group of sketches that I just love and one of them had some layering at the bottom that looked very much like a beach and waves.  That's when the fun began.  I rarely ever use vellum and don't know why because it's colors are so soft and muted.  Love that!  Anyway, I wanted the water to be soft and I dug out my folder of vellum sheets and luckily had some soft water colors in there.  The base layer is white and I did some chalking on it using a piece of cardstock cut into a cloud shape as a mask.  The chalking is very subtle, but looks wonderful IRL. 

     Next came the waves--a soft green and blue, just randomly torn and layered.  The last layer is some OLD Provocraft paper that had a pattern on it that looks like sand.
     I still need more practice with coloring hair, but it's a little better and overall I'm pretty happy with how Cordelia turned out.
     So, check out the photo inspiration pic on my sidebar for this weeks challenge and let's see what you can do with those colors and a beachy/summer theme.  Get your projects linked up by 6:00 a.m. EST on Monday.
     Be on the look out for some exciting news tomorrow from Papercraft Star.
     I'd like to enter this little cutie into the following challenges:

City Crafter Challenge Blog--beach theme
Clear It Out--use old supplies, anything goes (old paper stack and vellum, the shells are from my stash that were collected in Puerto Rico 26 years ago!)
Paper Minutes--blue, brown, beige
The Stamping Boutique--cool colors
Lexi's Creations--at the beach
Pollycraft--summer fun
Designed 2 Delight--beach/tropical or summer themed
Fussy and Fancy--summer

     Have a great week!



Supplies

Papers:  Vellum, Bazzill, Recollections, Georgia Pacific, Copic X-Press It Blending card
Stamp:  Make It Crafty "Clam Shell" and "Cordelia the mermaid"
Copics:
            skin E000, E00, E11, E13, R20
            hair E31, E35, YR20
            clothing/tail B000, BGO1, BGO2, BGO5, BGO7, G40
            shells E40, E41, E43, R000, R00, R11, R12
Tools:  Martha Stewart Deco Fan punch around the page set
Miscellaneous:  Celebrate It ribbon, flowers and shells from my stash, Inkadinkado Blending Chalks, Pearl Perfect Pearls, Kaisercraft pearls

The Outlawz Copic Challenge Guest Designer #3

     Isn't this guy too funny!  He's a great digi image from Make It Crafty called "Cheery Santa".  I had a few scraps left over from my Basic Grey Jovial pad to create this card with for this weeks Christmas in July challenge at The Outlawz.  We've been having so much fun this month sharing our creations for the challenge.  We'd really love for you to come over and play along with the challenges.
     Ahhh . . . one Christmas card down.  LOL
     I'd like to enter old Ho Ho into the following challenges:

Stamp Something--Christmas in July
Stampin with the Dragon--Christmas in July
House That Stamps Built (Repeat Impressions DCC76 Designer’s Choice Challenge)—Christmas in July
Craft Us Crazy—Christmas in July
Simon Says Stamp--Anything goes

     Happy Friday!


Supplies


Papers:  Basic Grey Jovial, Bazzill, Recollections, X-Press It Copic Blending Card
Stamp:  Make It Crafty "Cheery Santa", Whimsy Stamps "Holiday Circle Postmarks"
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Copics:
             skin E00, E02, E000, E11, E40, R20
             clothing R24, R27, R29, W1
             boots N1, N3, N5, N7
             shadowing W1, W3
Tools:  Nestabilities Classic Scalloped Circles Large (S4-124), EK Success 1 1/2" circle punch, Martha Stewart Holly punch
Miscellaneous:  Bakers Twine, DMC embroidery thread, Prima poinsettia flowers, Studio 112 pearl

A Make It Crafty Scene

     I guess this is more of a picture than a card although it's mounted as one.  I couldn't get the photo to show that the card base is actually a deep purple although it looks black.  Make It Colourful is primarily a coloring contest and by the time I finished creating the scene, there wasn't much room for extra frou frou's anyway.  So . . . it's pretty plain and simple--NOT!  LOL

     This is another entry for Zoe's challenges over at Make It Colourful.  I think this one fits a couple of the challenges, but I made it mainly for the "combine as many digi mages as possible" one.  There are six different digital stamp images merged together to make this scene, plus I used part of the fence and some of the rocks and plants from the bench image to finish the scene.  I've included a photo of the scene without the cute little Jane sitting on the bench so you can see the rest of the fence behind the bench.  She's popped up with pop dots.

     The entire scene is colored with Copics.  This was definitely a major project!  Merging photos in Photoshop is really easy, but doing that many and having to use the erase tool in all those little spots had my hand doing some major cramping.  I like the scene though.  I just wish I could have done it better justice with the coloring.  I'm not sure if I like the way I colored the ground or not, but I'm definitely not happy with her hair.  Hair is so hard for me.  I guess I'm going to have to print myself a bunch of heads and just practice.  LOL

     Mainly this was just a huge challenge to myself in a lot of areas and I can certainly use the practice.
     Thanks to all my friends for all the wonderful birthday wishes.  It has definitely been a kick back, relax and play day for me.  Just what I needed.
     Hugs to you all!



Supplies

Papers:  Bazzill, X-press It Copic Blending card
Stamps:  Make It Crafty "Tree of Love", "Crooked Picket Fence", "Daffodil Dell", "Park Bench for Two", "Sitting Jane", and "Wild Flowers"
Copics
           tree:  E21, E31, E47, E50, G40, G82, G94
           flowers: Y02, Y32, Y35YR61, YR65, YR68, R24, R29, R30, R32, R81,
                       R83, R85, BV13, V12, V17, G85, G94, BG93, BG96, YG67, YG93
           mushrooms: E41, E43
           fence: W1, W3
           bench: E71, E74, E79, C0, C2, C6
           ground:  E41, E43, E50, E51, E53
           sky: B000, B91, C0
           skin: E000, E00, E11, E13, R20
           hair:  E50, E53, E57
           clothing:  V12, V15, V17, V, 93, V95, BV000

Thinkin' of You

     Yes, I am still alive.  LOL    I'm telling you, I've either totally lost my housekeeping abilities or that vacation relaxed me a little TOO much.  HA! HA!  I finally got my house caught up yesterday so I was able to play a little and make a for fun card. 

     Make It Colourful is one of my favorite places to play because it's helping me hone my coloring skills, plus it's amazing creator, Zoe also owns Make it Crafty, which features some of the most fun and wonderful digital and rubber stamp images.  Make It Crafty is celebrating its 1 Year Anniversary and Zoe has some great challenges going on, not to mention an UNREAL blog candy giveaway.  Also today is the last day to get in on a great 40% off sale on all those fun MIC digi images.  I definitely took advantage of that sale so you'll be seeing lots of MIC images on my cards soon.

     There are five challenges and this card was made with the fifth one in mind--to color the image using the Make It Crafty blog colors (blue, brown and mustard yellow).  I've combined "Whimsical Log" and "Sitting Annalise" in Photoshop for this card.  The image is done in Copics except for the yellow chalked background.  That cute little decorative corner is also a MIC product.  It's laser-cut chipboard and the fine detail is just mind blowing.

     I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Make It Colorful--use MIC blog colors

Stamps R Us--there was a little girl

Creative Inspirations--stitching

Challenge Up Your Life--circles

Phindy's Place--going around in circles

The Outlawz Copic Challenge--Anything Goes

     Before I sign off I just wanted to share the lovely birthday gift I got from my sweet friend Ira.  She sent me some awesome goodies to play with and a beautiful bracelet.  Thanks again Ira!

     Yep, tomorrow will mark another year that's passed in the life that God has blessed me with.  He has been so good to me.  I have so much to be thankful for and one of those things is that I got to share this last year of my life with all my bloggie buddies here on the net.  I'm looking forward to sharing another one with you all and can't wait to see where all of our crafting journeys will lead.  MWAH to you all!

     Off to check on the pot of gumbo I'm cooking for my dad (he had knee replacement surgery last week), finish up a DT project, start a couple more, and who knows what else.  LOL

     Have a wonderful and blessed day!

Supplies

Papers:  October Afternoon, Bo Bunny, Georgia Pacific, X-press It Copic Blending Card
Stamps:   Make It Crafty "Whimsical Log" and "Sitting Annalise"
Ink:  Copics--WAY too many to name  :-)
Tools:  Nestabilities Standard Circles Large (S4-114), Martha Stewart Frond punch, sewing machine
Miscellaneous:  Make It Crafty Laser-Cut Swirly Corner Chipboard piece, Polymark Dimensional Fabric paint, Studio 112 pearls, Inkadinkado Blending Chalks, Prima and Recollections paper flowers, Hug Snug Seam Binding, Candlelight Glimmer mist

A He-man birthday

     I am having so much fun doing these "character" cards.  I hope you guys get as big a kick out of this muscle man as you did Mexico Phil.
     This card is for my future son-in-law.  He loves to go to the gym.  Now don't get me wrong.  He looks NOTHING like this guy and doesn't want to, but he does love to work out.  When I saw this image at Mo's Digital Pencil I knew I had to make his birthday card with it.  My daughter came up with the ticket sentiment. :-)
     It doesn't have a lot of embellishments.  I told you he's a muscle guy so I ceratinly couldn't put a lot of frou frou on his card.  The images are colored with Copics and a little chalking for the sky.  I had a bunch of those blank tickets from Making Memories so I used my computer to make the sentiment and printed it out on the ticket.
     Hope Mr. Strongman gave you a chuckle today.
     I'd like to enter him in the following challenges:

Claudia & Co.--clean and simple
Tuesday Throwdown--brads or eyelets
Bunny Zoe's Crafts--one for the boys
Cheerful Stamp Pad--there is a man in my life
Creative Inspirations--digi day
The Outlawz--Copic anything goes
Bella and Bronte's(Mo's Digital)--carnival
Charisma Cardz--jokes and laughter

 Have a great day!


Supplies



Papers: GCD Studios Loverly,Copic Express-it Blending card, Recollections
Stamps: Make It Crafty "Circus Tent" and Mo's Digital Pencil "Strongman"
Copics:
             strongman skin E000, E00, E11, E13
             hair E43, E47
             clothing R24, R27, Y28
             tent E07, E08, E43, E47, E97, G40, G82, G85, Y17, Y21
             ground E41, E43, E47, E57, G40, G82, G94
             clouds B000, C0, C2
Tools: Nestabilities Labels One (S4-161), Martha Stewart Embossed ZigZag edge punch, sewing machine
Miscellaneous: Making Memories blank ticket, Inkadinkado Blending Chalks. Recollections brads, Joann's ribbon and some from my stash