ATS Challenge...

There's a fun challenge over at ATS...to make a corner bookmark! I thought it would be difficult, but not to fear...there's a terrific and easy tutorial to follow!

I chose Miko from the TGF Roll Call kit, and colored her in B&W. One of my favorite color is blue...this pretty ribbon I found at Michael's is a gorgeous teal blue. It was perfect against the white cardstock that I punched and inked the edges with some old teal ink. For the bookmark base, black was the only way to go!
It was so much fun (and easy) to make this, my dd and ds both want SOME of their own! lol! They want to decorate it themselves, I just need to help with the base...and maybe I'll make some more too!

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Special Thanks...

It's been so slow for my to get back into making cards. The kids have been back to school for a week now, so finally I found some quiet time to make this card...which is going to someone that I won awesome candy from awhile back. I'm not mentioning her name here, cause I wanna surprise her! But she is super talented and so inspirational!

I tried quite a few new techniques here. First I followed a fantastic tutorial from Color me Copic, made by the one and only Amy Young, on coloring curly hair. All I can say is she makes it look so easy, but I defninitely need to practice ALOT more! I also "tried to" distress the edges...didn't look like it made much difference. Lastly, I used some fabulous Shimmerz on the flowers...think I need more colors now! hehee! Oh..and I followed one of the FFF sketch by Mercy!

Challenges:
Color Me Copic - Challenge #3 Curly Hair
Karber - Thank You
YNS - Anything goes

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Color Me Copic Challenge #2...

Wow...can't believe it's been almost one month since my last post. Went camping the last weekend of July, very minimal internet. I had to miss the TGF's birthday bash! :( Then after camping, we took a family vacation to Disneyland and Legoland! The kids had a blast! Since they are old enough to go around the park with their cousins, hubby and I took it easy. Didn't ride too many things, getting old...LOL! Anyway, two days after our trip, my son had his 10th birthday party! I tried to pre-plan as much as possible, but there's always last minute stuff to do. I didn't really have anything in his party bags that matched his theme (Mario Brothers), so the quickest and easiest thing I could come up with was to wrap the candy bar. This is what I did on Saturday for his party on Sunday!

Pheww, so glad things are slowly getting back to the normal schedule...and back to school next week!

Now let's get to the card. My son's friend's birthday was today, so he wanted me to make a card. Ok...now card for a 10 year-old boy...that took me a while to think of something. Luckily I came across these images from Tiddly Inks. Not girly, and not too kiddish (if that's a word)! Found a great sketch at Taylored Expressions, and finally came up with this...

Over at Color Me Copic, there's a great challenge and toot on grass by Kim. Was a little worried about the colors I used, but it turned out ok. I didn't add the little flowers though since the card is for a boy.

Card is for the challenges at:
Color Me Copic - Grass Tutorial Challenge
Taylored Expressions - TESC #125
Lollipops Crafts - Pets (oops missed the deadline!)

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Color Me Copic - Challenge #1

Color Me Copic is having their first challenge...to use black and white! Ooh, and the fabulous Rachel has an excellent tutorial on her amazing technique. I definitely had a lot of fun doing this challenge, and I chose Swiss Pixies Ladybug Nora for my card. She can be found at ATS.

used a recent ATS sketch...

and came up with this...

All the b/w paper is from my dd's old papers for paper clothes, was lucky to find scraps that were big enough to use on the card. Also used an image background from Bugaboo stamps (and they're having a great sale right now). Couldn't resist using my stickles, only a touch on her wings and headband! and a shiny ladybug to finish! The flower is made with two little flower punches, and used MS butterfly punch...wish i had a smaller butterfly punch too!

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Wedding Cake...

I was on the search for the perfect image for a wedding card, but just couldn't find one. I adored the Magnolia set, but if I ordered them it would be too late for me to get the card done...as you know, I'm a last minute kinda of gal! So at the last minute (again!), I decided to draw my own wedding cake! There were three images that inspired me...

wedding cake from
Ace of Cakes

 

Magnolia love cake

pearl heart & swirls  

So this is what I came up with...

and my finished card...

Not quite what I wanted...I couldn't fnd my stash of purple flowers that I had leftover from some wedding favors I made years ago. I was running out of time, so just used whatever I could find. I have another wedding coming up, so I'll be using the image again...

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Believe....

When I saw this beautiful mermaid designed by Amy Y, I just had to have her! Pearl Tidepool & Seamoor...what perfect names. They are so so adorable!! This is my first time trying the monochrome technique, I chose purple and it so much fun to do!  Following the ATS and Tamiko's challenges, here's what I did.

When I finished coloring Pearl I thought, why did I color her face purple??? Then I lightened it up with the blenderless pen, and it turned out better. Added stickles shine and liquid pearl to pretty her all up! Flowers are from Petaloo...after a long search thru my stuff, I finally found some glass beads that I added to the center of the flowers. Ribbon and sentiment stamp are from Michael's and dp is from my old stuff. For someone that just got into cardmaking, I have alot of old stuff! lol! I bought alot of extras when I did party and wedding favors...now they come to good use!

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Hello Miko...

Okay, I must work on getting my cards done earlier!  I just submitted this to Club Anya's WCW color challenge...it may be too late but I wanted to finish it anyway because the color combo is one of my favs! The fabulous sketch is from Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge here. Mercy makes absolutely magnificent sketches and amazing gorgeous cards!

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Here is Miko from the TGF Roll Call Kit, and she's such a cutie! I'm using alot of new stuff I recently splurged on...Basic Grey Koishi papers, liquid pearl, flowers & buttons from makin' memories, and some new copic colors! and finally sentiment is from AmyR's big words collection 

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My Friend Summer...

Look who stopped by, my friend Summer! Isn't she just adorable! This is another cutie from TGF Roll Call kit, which you can get here. This week at ATS weekly challenge  calls for using carribean blue, pink, and celery.

What a fun colors to play with. I used copics and couldn't resist some stickles shimmer on her. The cute ribbon I got from Michael's, and dp are from Me&My Big Ideas and Autumn Leaves. I followed the fantastic sketch from Club Anya Sketchy Saturday #24.  I'm so glad I got to finish this in time!

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