Teddy Bear with Turtle card

OK I must admit I'm getting addicted very quickly to digi images especially cute little ones. I have bought so many in the past few weeks. This cute little Teddy Bear with Turtle is a digi from http://www.shopskdigis.com/. I will say I actually won this cute little guy so I figured I needed to make a birthday card for my dad's birthday and figure this was just too cute. My daddy has a stuffed turtle and my mom collects Teddy Bears so I thought it would be perfect. I will say while I enjoy making a card for my dad -I'm not a huge fan of "boy" colors - I looked through my stash and only found a few papers I liked that would work for masculine stuff.

I colored this cutie with my Spectrum Noir markers - I think I'm getting better. Just trying to get a few color combos to work together.

The cute little bear was colored a few different techniques I've found using the Spectrum Noir markers.
The bear is colored with TN2, TN3, and TN4
The little turtle is just as sweet as can be - he is colored with DG 2, DG 1 and CG 2
The mushrooms IG2, IG 1 and PL 2 

No bling no rhinestones no pears, but that is perfectly fine as I wanted the cute stamp to be the focus.

The paper is from MME Nostalgic line -
The cute little sticker is from SRM. Love how it disappears and you really can't tell it's a sticker (unless you really look closely). Love those stickers.

OH did I mention that the weekly challenge at http://sketchyfriday.blogspot.com/ - oh nope didn't so I guess you should run over to her blog and check it out. This is now one of my favorite sketch challenges to participate in.

Hope you enjoy and
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Sketchy Friday Challenge #1

So a couple of weeks ago I discovered a fun little Challenge website. I was looking for digi images and came across this great website it is http://skdigis.blogspot.com/. I then started looking around her blog and found this: http://sketchyfriday.blogspot.com/. Score. I love the digi stamps and love a great little sketch challenge. Here is the photo of the sketch challenge:

The rules were pretty simple - just create a project following the sketch.

 

So I bought this cut cupcake for a very very special person. My Husband's Grandma - She will be turning 100 on Saturday. I'm so excited. I love Grandma just like she was my own. My daughter loves her GREAT GRANDMA too and is super excited about her party on Saturday. I went to the store just to buy a quick card and I'll tell you nothing jumped out at me. So then I figured I'd go ahead and play along with the great little challenge.

 

The card is actually an easel card - measure 6x6. I wanted to make it larger for Grandma - as her eye site is a little weak.

I printed the birthday cake onto white smooth card stock made for coloring w/ alochol inks. I used my Spectrum Noir markers. 

I sized the image for printing to be about 3" and used a circle scallop from Arts Philosophy cartridge sized at 3 3/4" - can I say I also figured out how to use the CENTER point button on my expression? Well I did figure it out pretty quickly and looks pretty good to me on the image.

 

I then used some Echo Park paper I had - I love the green and the pink. The ribbon is from American Craft. The buttons were from my stash. I added a few Rhinestones, and some stickles.

 

I think this turned out really pretty - and really hope she loves it.

 

Have a great day and

 

Happy Scrappin'



Happy Birthday - to my friend.

OK so I couldn't post this the other day when I made it. Why?? Because I know my friend, Alicia reads my blog. I just saw her this past weekend and gave her this cute little card. A little background - she loves the Inky Antics stamps, and Honeypop paper. She actually got me hooked on these. I love the cute little stamps. I only have 2 sets but I'm sure they will be used allot (and soon). I just love the Elephant - my daughter named her Zoe. (Don't ask I don't know).

I used my prisma color pencils and gamasol to blend the elephant.

The paper stack is from DCWV - and is the Citrus stack. Can I just say I bought that the other day and have used like 15 sheets from it. I LOVE it.  The colors here look a little more "bright" but really they are a green and blue.

I added the honeypop paper inside and a cute ltitle stamp.

Thanks for looking and

Happy  Scrappin'