Glamorous Babe

This image and it's accompanying sentiment always crack me up.

This is the birthday card for my other sister who's having a birthday in the next month.  This image is from Art Impressions and I've colored it using Copics.  I don't have any skin-tone Copics so the skin is left pasty-white.  Obviously Edna doesn't get out in the sun much :)

I used some DSP from More Amore as well as the In Color DSP.  I used the sketch from Deconstructed Sketches for this card.  

Thanks for looking.

Stamps:  Edna, Sentiment (Art Impressions), Hearts a Flutter
Cardstock:  Whisper White; More Amore DSP; In Color DSP
Ink:  Brilliance Graphite Black; Coastal Cabana; Primrose Petals
Accessories:  Copic Markers; Hearts a Flutter Framelits; Basic Pearls; Vanilla Trim; Button; White Baker's Twine

Cheers
Karren

Mama Card

As mentioned in my earlier post today where I showed my Papa and Baby cards, here is my Mama card.

Again I used the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches, but I'm not linking it up as it's too similar to my earlier cards.  This time I used the colors from Color Throwdown and because it's more of a feminine card, a few embellishments were in order, hence the Candy Dots.

Thanks for looking.

Products used:

Stamps:  Gorgeous Grunge; Off the Grid; Teeny Tiny Wishes
Cardstock:  Whisper White; Smoky Slate
Ink:  Daffodil Delight; Tangerine Tango; Smoky Slate; Basic Black
Accessories:  Candy Dots

Edited to Add:  This card was mentioned on Color Throwdown Featured Stamper post. Cheers
Karren

Misty Tango

As soon as I saw the cool sketch at Freshly Made Sketches this week, I wanted to use Gorgeous Grunge and make a masculine card.  I love square cards and I cards with images off the edge!  This sketch is a match made in heaven!  In fact I love this sketch so much I made two cards - not intentionally - but my first card looked too big so I made a sized-down version as well.

I combined the sketch with the colors at Stampin' Royalty and the Masculine theme at SUO Challenges.

Here's the Papa card - he's 5" square.  I stamped Off the Grid in Basic Gray stamped off twice, then over-stamped with various images from Gorgeous Grunge in Marina Mist and Tangerine Tango.  The sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes is stamped in Basic Black.  Now here's the Baby version.

I actually like the proportions of the baby card a bit better.  This card is 4 1/8" square.  Here's a photo of them both together.  I think I might go make a Mama card now using this week's colors from Color Throwdown LOL.

Thanks for looking.

Products used:

Stamps:  Off the Grid; Gorgeous Grunge
Cardstock:  Whisper White; Basic Black
Ink:  Basic Gray; Basic Black; Marina Mist; Tangerine Tango

Cheers
Karren

Hey, Cupcake

Over the next month, two of my three sisters have birthdays.  Today I made a card for one of them (not sure which one, yet!).  I used the colors from Just Add Ink for my card, which also uses the new Circle Thinlits.  I've been waiting and waiting for SU to introduce them to the NZ market, so a very good friend of mine in the US sent me both the Circles and Labels sets for my birthday.  Today is the first chance I've had to try them out.  ETA:  I just logged onto the SU Demo site and these are going to be available in NZ from 22 October!

These cards are a 'mare to photograph so I took several photos.  This first one is the card closed.  I used an Inkadinkado set for the cupcakes which I colored using refills and an aqua painter.  It's been quite a while since I colored with an aqua painter but I wanted a very watery look for the Raspberry Ripple icing otherwise it would have looked sickly :)  The small cupcake has the Raspberry Ripple watered-down and the Raspberry Ripple full strength for the cherry - so you can see the difference!  

The candy dots are actually Rose Red but they are close enough to pass for Raspberry Ripple.  

Here is a photo of the inside.

I used some NBUS on this card, which is a Paper Smooches set I just received on the weekend.  For the circle element, I stamped the sentiment in Raspberry Ripple, then over-stamped the cupcake in Sahara Sand.  And another photo just for the fun of it!

Thanks for looking.

Products used:

Stamps:  Birthday Cupcake (Inkadinkado); Sentiment Sampler (Paper Smooches)
Cardstock:  Coastal Cabana; Very Vanilla; In Color DSP; Watercolor Paper
Ink:  Black Stazon; Raspberry Ripple; Coastal Cabana; Sahara Sand
Accessories:  Raspberry Ripple Ribbon; Circle Thinlits; 2 1/5" circle punch; 1 1/4" circle punch; Regals Candy Dots

Cheers
Karren

Black and White Christmas

Use a bird on your Christmas card is this week's challenge at Merry Monday.

I pulled out Gifts of Christmas set which has an elegant dove.  I silver embossed the main image on both Basic Black and Whisper White cardstock.  I cut out the dove from the Whisper White and spritzed it with Platinum Frost Shimmer Mist.  It's really shimmery IRL, trust me!

I'm not enamoured of the layout, but it was already stuck down when I decided I didn't like it, so it stays :)

I don't have any silver ribbon so I compromised and used white narrow grosgrain and some silver cord.

Thanks for looking.  Check out the rest of the DT cards and hunt through your stash for a bird stamp to make your own challenge card.  Notice how Loll used the same image but in a completely different way?

Products used:

Stamps:  Gifts of Christmas

Cardstock:  Basic Black; Whisper White

Ink:  Versamark

Accessories:  Silver EP; white grosgrain ribbon; silver cord; dimensionals

Cheers

Karren

This Booquet's For You...

Today is the first day of my week long stay-cation.  Unfortunately I had to spend most of this morning with a flood clean-up company as they positioned multiple fans and dehumidifiers around our house to try and dry out the damage from Friday night's burst pipe.  The noise is rather loud and poor wee Dexter-Dog can't go to his room (the laundry) so he's feeling a bit lost.  Tomorrow they'll come back to check how effective the equipment is and hopefully at some stage an insurance assessor will come round and tell us what's going to happen to repair the damage.

Enough of that - it's time for a card.  I made a Halloween card today.  Now I don't celebrate Halloween but I had to buy the sets Best Fiends and Just Between Fiends because I just love the artwork.  Never knew if and when I'd use them, but today they came in handy for this card.

I used the sketch from Create with Connie & Mary; the colors from Fab Friday and the Halloween challenge from Paper Players.

I stamped Count Dracula onto watercolor paper and colored him using markers and blender pen.  I cut him out using an oval framelit.  The card base is clear-embossed using Positively Chevron and the DSP comes from an old pack called Ghostly Greetings - again I had no plans for this paper when I bought it, but I just loved the black and grey striped sheets :)

I used a large oval framelit to cut a piece out of the DSP to frame the main image.  Some linen thread and a brights button finish off the card.  I even decorated the inside because I really love the little bat image in the set:

Thanks for looking.

Products used (all Stampin' Up!):

Stamps:  Best Fiends; Just Between Fiends
Cardstock:  Basic Black; Watercolor Paper; Very Vanilla; Ghostly Greetings DSP
Ink:  Versarmark; Black Stazon
Accessories:  Clear EP; Tangerine Tango, Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive, Basic Black and Smokey Slate markers; Blender Pen; Linen Thread; Brights Buttons; Ovals Framelits

Cheers
Karren

Holly Christmas

Yesterday I made a card for this week's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.  I also combined the fussy-cutting challenge at Friday Mashup.

I'm not really feeling this card, but I was a bit distracted yesterday.  We woke up to a burst pipe in one of the upstairs showers, so water had been steadily leaking down the walls into the laundry, garage downstairs and the floor of my son's bedroom adjacent.  I've got this week off from work because it's school holidays but I have a feeling that instead of spending it relaxing and stamping, I'll be spending it working through an insurance claim!

Despite that, I found the fussy-cutting therapeutic and calming.  I'm one of those weird people that doesn't mind fussy-cutting.  This is possibly because when I first started stamping, I did all my fussy-cutting using a craft knife, so using paper snips now makes it a doddle LOL.

Anyway, it took me 8 minutes to cut each of the four images used in this card (just some trivia thrown in there!).

Thanks for looking.

Products used:

Stamps:  Watercolor Winter; Joy to the World
Cardstock:  Very Vanilla; Old Olive
Ink:  Basic Black
Accessories:  Old Olive, Real Red and Basic Black Markers; Brights Candy Dots

Edited to Add:  This card was awarded the Queen of Clean Award at Freshly Made Sketches!

Cheers
Karren