Happy Birthday to a Sassy Girl

Welcome back ... This card was made for The Outlawz' Paper ala Mode challenge for today, running for a week.  The theme was Anything Goes ... We were asked to use images from Sassy Studios, I chose the Birthday Cake one.

This was digital image was printed on Cryogen Irridescent and colored with Copics.

I used Stampin Up cardstock (pink pirouette and perfect plum).

Designer papers were from Bearly Mine Designs paper packs, Black & White Essentials, Happy Hauntings and Mini Dots.

The doily is SU pink pirouette cut with one of my new dies from LaLaLand, heart doily border - loving it!!

 

I sponged all the layers with perfect plum ink, as well as stamped the sentiment before finishing off with pearls.

 Here's a close up ...

 

Hope you like it ... head over to The Outlawz' Saturday Paper ala Mode challenge to see what the other DT members came up with, and to submit your own creation.

 

Hope everyone has a lovely Thanksgiving spent with those you love.

Have a wonderful week!

Elfie Elizabeth

Welcome to this week's Paper ala Mode challenge at The Outlawz!

This week, our sponsor was Art by Miran ... and our TWIST was to use something metal on the card.  Art by Miran has some really adorable images, you'll have to check them out.

I chose to color up Elfie Elizabeth with Copics.  After coloring her, I decided to go tradition red 'n green ...

I used some Stampin Up cardstock (garden green & cobbler) along with some beautiful holiday digital papers from Bearly Mine Designs - 3 different paper packes:

Christmas Traditions

Christmas Frolics

Happy Hauntings

 

I sponged all the edges of papers with cobbler ink and added some fern leaves and the sentiment, cut from the Silhouette ...

Here's a close up of Elfie ...

Head over to The Outlawz to check out the rest of the Design Team's samples, and put your own in ...

 

Thanks for stopping by ...

Have a wonderful weekend!

 

Mary Christmas

Good afternoon everyone ... Making a dent in Christmas cards today ...

 

This beautiful image is a new release from Saturated Canary, called Mary.

I colored her with Copics.  Papers used were from Bearly Mine Designs' Christmas Frolics set.  Cardstock is from Stampin' Up (cobbler), and unknown green.  The sentiment is digi from Sweet & Sassy set called Jesus is the Reason that I punched out and mounted on snowflakes cut with the Silhouette Cameo.

Here's a close up ...

Copics Used: 
     Skin:  E04,11,21,00,000,R20
     Hair:  E18,15,13,11
     Blanket:  B97,95,93,91
     Dress:  E97,95,93
     Straw:  Y11,21,YR23,E35,37

Hope you like it ... I love the way it turned out warm and cozy looking.

Have a wonderful day ...

Emmers' Jr. Achievement

This card is for my god daughter for receiving her Jr. Achievement award.  She's such a hard worker and excels at academics and sports alike, with equal abandon.  And to top it off, she's a very sweet young lady.

The image is Jordana from Saturated Canary that I colored with Copics.  The sentiment is from Sweet 'n Sassy.  Papers are from Bearly Mine Design's The Boy Zone and Marlo Dee.  I finished with sponging the inside of the die for the oval, added a grosgrain ribbon and some half pearls.  I love the way some of the sentiment floats off the page.

Here's a close up:

Copics used:
     Skin:  E11,21,00,000,R20
     Hair:  E59,39,35,33
     Greens:  G16,14
     Blues:  B95,93,91
     Greys:  C9,7,5,3,1
     Boots:  E578,55,53

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Cheers to our Servicemen!

Okay, all is good in the world right now ...

I was able to combine my new favorite paper pack from Bearly Mine Design, Love Struck, as well as my dream stamping image to create this beauty ...

I've been coaching recreational cheer for 10 years now (yikes), and have loved absolutely every minute of it.  Being able to teach the girls something that makes them feel good about themselves is an incredible feeling, that's what keeps me coming back, even though my darling daughter is off to college and not interested in cheerleading any longer. 

I just found this wonderful company, Saturated Canary, about 2 months ago, with artwork designed by Krista Smith.  I absolutely ADORE her images.  I am partial to the girly-girl images, but if you scan back on my blog, she's had a couple of scary looking zombies, as well.  While she had a girl with a "team" pennant in her hand called "Crushing on the Quarterback", I instantly envisioned a cheerleader with her beautiful artistic style.  I emailed her softly suggesting what I had in mind and a couple of days later read something from one of her staff members about not asking about specifically designed images.  I can understand this - after all, an artist's best work comes from their own muse, and cannot be delivered with the same artistic flair 'on-demand' ... So, I let it go ... obviously ordered the quarterback image if that was as close as I could get ... Lo-and-behold ... Krista released a cheerleader image today, Cheer Captain, that she'd had in her hopper for awhile now ...

Can you guess who was excited?  Yes, it was me ... INSTANTLY bought it, printed it out and have colored her up.

This card encompasses so many of my favorite things:

• Cheer
• Saturated Canary images - Specifically the Cheer Captain
• Bearly Mine Design's new Love Struck paper (rose/brown/vintage-y) pack
• Chocolate Covered Cherry combo (browns/rose/red)

Anyway ... to create this card, I used Soft Suede and Rose Red from Stampin Up's cardstock and the papers from the Bearly Mine Designs' Love Struck paper pack.  I used a Martha Stewart border punch as well as a Nestabilities Heart Circle die.  I also sponged the edges of all the papers with Ranger's Vintage Photo distress ink. 

Copics used:
     Skin:  E04,11,21,00,000, R20
     Hair:  E18,15,YR23,Y21
     Uniform:  V17,15,12,01,000
     Shoes/Socks:  C5,3,1,00; E42,40
     Grass:  YG67, G21

Here's a sneak peak of the paper pack from Bearly Mine Design:


I'm still keeping things a bit on the simply layered side, because this card will also be sent from my girlies to a friend's husband who was recently deployed.


In case you haven't figured out by now, I absolutely adore this card.
Let me know what you think by leaving a comment ...

Hope you have a wonderful day ...