Friday Sketchers & Magnolia Challenge

This challenge incorporates 2 challenges:

Magnolia-licious Hompage - and it must by Halloween

Friday Sketchers - sketch

I want to thank a friend of mine for sending me some Halloween images (you know who you are), my buddie Simone for sending me the great witches hat charm and many others.  LOVE THEM!  The paper is Bo Bunny and I cut some of the fencing and 3'd it in front of Tilda.  I discovered you can color your flowers with Spica pens and what a dazzling effect this shows IRL.  I'm not super sure about having flowers on a Halloween card but I really wanted to use my new Martha Stewart leaf punch  LOL!!  I embossed the web onto Core'dinations paper.  It's black on one side and green on the other but once I embossed and sanded the black side, the green showed through.  Great stuff!! 

Mojo Monday & Copic Colour Challenge

I have wanted to do a bubble card for awhile now so here it is!  TADA!!  I won't be making another one again for awhile.  Wow that's time consuming  Well.......cutting all the little leaves was the time consuming part.  It was hard to take a good pic of it because the light was bouncing off the bubble.  I hope you can see it.

I used Monday Mojo sketch as shown here.

I challenge myself to use the colors for this week's challenge at Copic Colour Challenge, which called for :

Unfortunately I didn't have the E07 but it didn't seem to fit with the YR23 and YG97 I used.  Love that color! 

Here's a close up view:

The idea came from the BoBunny post Recycle and Reuse.  The globe is made using Bo Bunny packaging, which you can actually buy now.  I colored with Copics, added glaze to all my leaves, 3-d Riley's pumpkins and used Quickutz for the branches.  The dp paper is from Bo Bunny's fall line last year.  Hope you like it!!

WOW!!  You MUST check this out at
Ladybug and Friends.com! 

It will take you only a few minutes!

The new Elisabeth Bell stamps are A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!

You can check them out here.

Choosing background paper

Back in the beginning of August I had received this message "Hi, I am rather new to card making and to the Group. It is hard for me to pick out the dp, it takes a long time I hope that it gets easier.  Looking at everyones cards gives me hope.  Linda W." as well as a few other comments about choosing DP paper so I thought I would just mention what helps me.

The easiest thing I can tell you is to buy more then 1 sheet of the same line of DP paper.  Here I have bought 4 sheets of 3bugsinarug "Let In Snow" christmas line.  Each of these papers are double sided as I've shown in my pictures, which now gives me 8 different background patters & various colors to use.  I can use the green, red, brown, blue and even white colored cardstock. 

There are so many choices other things I have to think about when I'm making a card that anything to make it easier for me is something I'm all up for!! 

3 Challenges - YIPPEEEEEE YEEHAW!

I have been wanting to enter the Sugar Bowl contest the minute it came out!!!  Ooooh I am having to learn patience!!  This workin' for a living cuts into my "ME" time too much.  You can relate can't you?!!!!  LOL!  Hey you think I like snowflakes????  NO control! 

Challanges used for this card:

The Sugar Bowl - sketch & buttons

A Spoon Full of Sugar - distressing, which you can hardly see but the image is distressed and many of the layers as well. 

Creative Inspirations - blue & brown (but I added pink so I'm not sure if it will count but that's okay then.)

So I colored with my Copics, added glitter to the "fur" on her coat, Basic Grey Opaline pearls, SU buttons, misc buttons, Carolees bg paper, EK Success punches, Scrapper's floss and pink & yellow Spica glitter pens.  OH MA GOODNESS!  And my favorite part is my new Martha Stewart icicle punch!  I LOVE IT!!  Want, NEED to make more! LOL!!

 

1st Creative Accents Challenge

As previously mentioned, I have been given the opportunity to become a designer for my LSS Creative Accents - YEE HAW YIPPEE!!! I have passed along a few cards to them but this card was their first challenge to the designers. I chose to do a card vs a scrapbook layout with my Basic Grey papers, flowers from Maya Road (shimmer) and colored Bazzill cardstock. A tri-shutter fold card!!! I thought "ooh this will be tough but don't let it fool you - it's easy!!! You can find instructions and a video tutorial here.

If you have any questions let me know.  I really had fun making this one!