Showing posts with label Craft Affair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Craft Affair. Show all posts

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Spoil Yourself...at Paper Sundaes!

*this is my second post for today, so scroll down to see my debut DT project for Creative Inspirations!


Good Morning ! - It's another great Sunday! We're having a party at our house today...just a little cookout for our families to get together. Guess who else is having a good time today...yep, you guessed it...Paper Sundaes has a new challenge today and it's called Mixed Mediums! That means you must use at least two different mediums on your project...you could use chalks over your copics, or pencils over your copics, or mix and match how you like (but never use your copics on top of any other medium). The sponsor this week is My Creative Classroom and they are giving away a $25 gift certificate!

I started by stamping this adorable image that I recently won at Follow Your Heart. They had blog candy for their new release of their Elisabeth Bell exclusive Animapeeps stamps at Susana's Creative Art and Card Design...and I won the whole set! This one is called Sweet Slumbers...such a cute little mouse in her kerchief and nightgown! I used both Bamboo Leaves and Rich Cocoa ink to stamp this. The little dewdrop size inks make it very easy to do this. Then I colored them with my copics (listed below) and topped it with Prismacolor pencils. The mouse is colored with Prismacolors only.

I wanted to use a generic sentiment for this one as I'm not sure who the recipient of this card is yet! The front sentiment is from Craft Affair and the inside (shown) has a sentiment from Our Craft Lounge! I used a couple of different lines of papers here in order to achieve a sort of Fall-like feel to this card, but not limiting myself to using it in the Fall. I finished it off with some printed sheer ribbon topped with twine, a few polka dotted fabric brads and a little pearl! I really hope you like it! Head on over to the Paper Sundaes Challenge blog to join in the fun!

Other Challenges:
Photo Synthesis Challenge #3 - photo inspiration
Meljen's Challenge #23 - Stripes!

My Crafty Recipe:
Stamps: Animapeeps Sweet Slumbers (Elisabeth Bell for SCACD), Our Craft Lounge, Craft Affair
Inks: Memento - Bamboo Leaves, Rich Cocoa, ColorBox Chestnut Roan
Paper: October Afternoon, FP Daily Grind, DCWV cardstock, Neenah
Spellbinders: Standard Circle Lg.
Copics: E11, E50, G24, R20, R24, Y21, Y32, YG11, YG17, YR000
Other: Prismacolor pencils, paper piercer, Indentz vines EF, Recollections pearls, sheer leaf printed ribbon, twine, Target $1 spot brads, Fiskars circle and scalloped circle punches

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Sunday, August 8, 2010

life is sweet...



Happy 'Sundae' to you! It's time for another Paper Sundaes challenge. This week challenges you to use metal on your project and our sponsor is Stamp and Create. You can find the image I used called Cherry Emma there!

I used four different stamps on this lovely card. I required a bit of masking but I think it turned out great! I used Cherry Emma and her stump from CC Designs, the cupcake stack from Our Craft Lounge and the sentiment from Craft Affair. And, since there are really three different images to color, I used quite a bit of my copics for this one. I'll spare you the list and give you a picture instead!

I decided to use the sketch from Sweet Sketch Wednesday and then after coloring her in, I paper-pieced Emma's jeans with a piece of Paper Pizazz denim paper. I love the way they look so real. The cupcakes are 'iced' with Stickles and I love cucakes with a cherry on top! (plus they match the cherries on her shirt)! In keeping with the challenge, I used a metal photo corner, a metal cherry brad and metal brads as flower centers!

Other Challenges:
Sweet Sketch Wednesday #61 - sketch

My Crafty Recipe:
Stamps: CC Designs Cherry Emma and stump, Our Craft Lounge cupcakes
Inks: Memento Rich Cocoa, ColorBox pink and lipstick red
Paper: MME Pretty Please, Bazzill guacamole, Paper Pizazz denim dp
Copics: pictured
Other: Stickles in diamond, cotton candy and xmas red; Bo Bunny brads,Prima flowers, AC metal photo corner, cherry brad from stash

I really hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by!