Taking Flight

Here is the second card for Lawnscaping Challenge #49...

This next card design is a funny story.  My husband always has the grandest ideas for designs and I have to figure out a way to simplify them so that I can tell his story on a card. 

He liked that griffin soooo much, and as much I like this cutie too, I was worried about the coloring. So my husband sees this as a challenge (he NEVER passes up on a challenge) and decides he can color.  Above is his hilarious attempt!

So after seeing his attempt, I figure my coloring can't be that bad?!? hehehe... (I wonder if he was just playing around to make me feel better about my coloring?)

We were trying to recreate those fun aerial banners (banner from stamp set "Bannerific" shaded with a rainbow of copic markers) that planes carry through the sky, but instead of the plane we had the griffin with a cute little birthday hat from the "Hats Off to You" set.

Hope everyone is having a Happy Hump Day! 

More, more, more!

On to the next challenge as Lawn Fawn is one of my favorite clear stamps to use!  Not only does Lawn Fawn have such fun images, but the sentiments complete whatever project you make.  What would make me love them even more is if I could color the images as beautifully as their design team can ;o\

Since it's Lawn Fawn's 2nd anniversary I came up with 2 cards....

I was trying to use the inspiration photo and the lollipops caught my eye.  I used the lollipop from "Sweet Christmas" and colored them in a rainbow of colors then added stickles because what's a celebration without some glitter!  The center is a little hard to see, but it is the smallest candy swirl in the stamp set and colored each section rainbow!


Please see next post for 2nd card!

Another Challenge!

In my hunt for more challenges...apparently this is getting addicting...I came across the Moxie Fab World Challenge #7 in which you are to use 10 embellishments in an innovative way.  My first instinct was to use rhinestones! Then I went through a brief moment of "inability to let go" and my hoarding instinct came about.  Anyone ever get like that with your stash?  I love to open my little drawer of gems, but continue to collect them more than use them...hehe.  Of course when the occasion arises I do use them and then I have an excuse to get more!!

Another habit of mine is to get the mini self adhesive calendars that I got from my local craft boutique.  I buy a bunch every year in the hopes to make something really cool with it and then all of a sudden the holidays are passing by and we're in a new year!  So what to do with these expired calendars......

use it for the Moxie Fab World Challenge of course!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I used 10 out of the 12 months...talk about not wasting...and layered them all on Kraft cardstock.  I wanted to pull the colors from the calendar so placed my heat embossed sentiment on red cardstock and wanted more definition so layered it again on black cardstock.  The cute little surprised face is from Peachy Keen Stamps "Everyday Character Face Assortment" and sentiment from Stamps of Life "crayons2stamp."  

You could even take this a step further and PERSONALIZE it by placing the main month of the recipient's birthday (somewhere in the center of the card) and circle the birth date!

Hope this motivates someone to use those "expired" items in your stash!  As always your comments are greatly appreciated.

Determined

Having a great weekend pondering how to get more involved in the papercrafting community!  Gaining the courage to enter more challenges, I thought about entering A Blog Named Hero Challenge #17 A New Year, New You.  This was a PERFECT challenge for me since I am definitely new to the blogging world and received a lot of fabulous new stamps from my amazingly supportive hubby!

I got this amazing new Hero Arts Conversation Background stamp for Christmas and had to use it for this challenge.  I am normally very intimidated by such large stamps, but had so many ideas running through my head.

I decided that since this is my first try using such a large stamp I'd go simple with black ink and used some older sentiment stamps from Hero Arts.  I wanted the main word bubble to pop so I used my craft knife to cut it out and stamped celebrate in rainbow ink and added glitter!  Any comments are greatly appreciated!

And another one...

I wanted to try another CAS card for the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge and came up with this...

I'm determined to figure out my copic marker coloring and thought the Stamps of Life Flowers and Vase stamps and framelits set was perfect for this.  I wanted some kind of background without overwhelming the brightness of the flower and vase so I chose Kraft cardstock and embossed a strip to ground the vase.  To complete the look added the sentiment in the corner.  As always any feedback is greatly appreciated!

Goals!

A New Year goal of mine is to get more involved in the paper crafting community.  I decided by getting more involved I would really need to put myself out there and truly challenge myself.  I dream about being on a design team one day or having a piece of my work published!   In order for me to get there I must practice, practice, practice.  So for my first post of the year I wanted to enter my card into CAS-ual Fridays challenge.  A challenge to create a clean and simple thank you card.

Since this is my first entry to CAS-ual Fridays I wanted the card to say something about me.  My husband is from Guam and we just came back from vacationing there.  We were so blessed to be able to spend time with his family.  We went to this cute shop in the Chamorro Village that had amazingly unique Guam/Island themed rubber stamps.  In Chamorro (the native language of Guam) "Si Yu'os Ma'ase" (pronounced see-zoo-oos ma-aw-say) means thank you and in Hawaiian it is Mahalo.  So of course I had to place all the sentiments in a rainbow of colors because it is my favorite color (...yes, rainbow is a color ;o) And it wouldn't be an island themed card without the seashell border punch with a sand colored background!  Here's to crossing my fingers and any feedback is greatly appreciated!

Can't get enough

I couldn't get enough of Lawn Fawn's stamp set Hats Off to You and have to give credit to my hubby and his elaborate vision.  Of course he envisioned a design waaaaaaay more complicated than what I produced below, but I must say I do LOVE the concept. 

So the vision was the hats partying.  I used a speedball brayer (again dating myself) for the background to make confetti streamers in a rainbow of colors.  To complete the party a disco ball was necessary so I just cut a circle die and embossed to give it that mirrored look.  I then inked it up with some silver to give it more shimmer and a spritz of Shimmer Mist for added sparkle. I love how Lawn Fawn stamps have so much character.  I was inspired by her other sets like On the Mend and how each stamp had a smiley face.  I just took a couple of her faces from the bandaid stamp and the gingerbread face in A Sweet Christmas and just inked up the faces to add to each hat.  The hats and disco ball are popped up on some foam tape for added dimension.

Hopefully the sentiment explains everything! 

As you can see I've just started this whole blogging thing and greatly appreciate comments!  Thanks for taking the time to check this out...have a fantabulous day!!!