A very Fergus birthday

Since I was in the masculine birthday mode, I decided to make another using the Cardpatterns sketch for this week.  Introducing.... Fergus with Cupcake!  Fergus is another one of my Wild Rose Studio stamps from Paper and Such.  He wasn't in my first order, I must admit... dinosaurs are not my favorite as I've always found them difficult to color.  However, I saw so many cute cards that people have changed my mind. I'll just have to learn dinosaur colors and that's that!  LOL

I pulled out some DP that had some dinos on it for color inspiration.  I *think* it is Paper Studio, but I cut it up before I remembered to look at the back. (Bad Alison).  I'm really liking the grass green and sweet mango combo as well, so I went with it again.  Boys like colors.. right?  The image was stamped on white, colored with copics and cut out.  Little Fergus has popdots underneath to make him stand out a little more.  In case I run into a girl who likes dinos... I added a little sparkle to the cupcake using a Copic Spica pen.    Hope he brings a little smile to your face, he sure does to mine!

Recipe:
Stamps: Fergus with Cupcake
Paper: Pure Luxury Little Boy Blue, In the Navy, Grass Green, Sweet Mango, Lipstick Red, White; DP
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Burlap twine, buttons, copics, copic spica, nestabilities

Challenges:
Cardpatterns #117


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Blast Off!!!!!!!!!!

Gina K Designs is sponsoring the Card Positioning Systems challenge this week. This is a totally fun sketch!! When I saw the sketch... and flipped it.. I decided it would be perfect for a birthday card that I need to make for a classmate of my daughters...I used Tami Mayberry's Oh Boy set. I just love this set of clean images. I chose some "out of this world" dp from the All about Boys mat stack. That picked my colors for me :-) I stamped the rocket on white cardstock, colored it and cut it out.  I used some crystal effects for the spaceship window and a button that I picked up at a craft store as a little extra accessory! The rocket is popped up from the panel. The flame behind the rocket has some sparkly gel pen on it, but it's hard to see in the picture.
Recipe:
Stamps: Oh Boy! (Gina K); Birthday sentiment (PTI)
Paper: Pure Luxury Grass Green, Sweet Mango, White; DCWV All About Boys
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Accessories: button, Sakura stardust gel pen, crystal effects, ribbon, copics, nailheads

Challenges:
StampTV Free For All Friday
CPS220

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Black and White

Whew! I placed my order for the new GinaK release. WOW, it is an awesome release.. I had to pick and choose... One of the challenges was to make a black and white card. That's it, no other colors allowed. I love black and white, but I usually add some red or silver.. but what the heck, I'll give it a shot. I used the Card Patterns sketch and I added a frame for the challenge from Our Creative Corner.

SURPRISE! I actually really like the way this turned out!

Recipe:
Stamps: Faithful Florals, You are Not Alone (GKD)
Paper: Pure luxury White, Black Onyx
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Pearls, Nestabilities

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Moxie Milton

Hee hee! I just tend to giggle when I see these Wild Rose stamps... They are just too cute! They stamp well and are so much fun to color. My friend Julie sells these at her store Paper and Such. Anyway, this is Milton with Daisy, isn't he just too much? I colored Milton with copics (surprise, surprise.. right?) and followed the layout for the second Paper and Such blog challenge.
I also used the Tuesday Trigger from Moxie Fab World as an inspiration on this card. The colors of the pyrex picture sort of called to me.

As you might know.. I have "issues" working with bright colors, so I saw the orange and red as a real challenge for myself. I also noticed that there was some patterns and brown/black included on the table, so the color scheme was born! Once you have the sketch, the image, and the colors, what's to stop you :-) I added a little texture to the brown panel with an impression plate and I made a flower to represent the flowers in the design on the pyrex as well.

Recipe:
Stamps: Milton with Daisy
Paper: Pure Luxury Sweet Mango, Red Hot, Dark Chocolate; DCWV Botanicals DP
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Copics, Mini rolled rose die, ribbon, Impression plate (PTI)

Challenges:
Paper and Such
Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger


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Sympathy

Sympathy cards are NEVER fun for me to make...I like to try to have a small stash so I don't really have to make them as needed. So, thanks to one of the challenge blogs, I have been able to add another sympathy card to my little pile.

This is a combo of 3 challenges. I colored the brad in the center of the flowers with my copics so it would match. Other than that, I tried to make this card a little bright without being obnoxious..hopefully that worked!

Recipe:
Stamps: Fanciful Tags (Gina K)
Paper: So Saffron, White, Early Espresso, Real Red, Dandelion
Ink: Real Red
Accessories: Ribbon,MS edge punch, Prima flowers, nestabilities


Challenges:
ColourQ Challenge #86

FTL141

Raise the Bar #67


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Challenge Time

Every once in a while, I get the urge to try some challenges so that I can get some mojo flowing. Today would be one of those days :-)

This card is way outside my comfort zone. I don't usually use bright colors... but having kids, I'm gonna need to learn! I used copics to color the images by Taylored Expressions. I just fell in love with the images in this set when I saw it on the site. This is actually one image and all 3 cars are connected, so it's really a train... BUT that didn't fit the sketch challenge. I split the image into 3. So now you know why the poor little sheep looks like he is flying in the air.. LOL

I got the color combo form the Just Us Girls challenge blog. It's neat to be able to combine challenges and see what you can really pull out of the box. This week's challenge was to use purple, blue, yellow, green, orange and red. Now I don't know about you, but that color combo just screamed spring to me...and voila!

Lastly, I used the recipe challenge from Critter Sketch Challenge to help me finish the card. I didn't follow the directions in the recipe exactly.. but I wanted to mention them becuase I did use the recipe :-) -- The challenge recipe was: to use 3 different solid colors- 2 buttons and 1 ribbon... so you see not exactly..but the inspiration is there!

Recipe:
Stamps: Hello Spring (TE)
Paper: Sweet Mango, Sweet Corn, Green Apple Pure Luxury; DCWV Cafe Mediterranean DP
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Memento Sweet Plum
Accessories: Ribbon, buttons, copics

Challenges:
TESC138

Just Us Girls #85

Critter Sketch Challenge #66


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Pirate Bear

Isn't he ADORABLE!!! This little cutie is from the newest Lili of the Valley stamp release! I made this card for one of the VSN challenges this past weekend.  The challenge was to combine tough and girly.  I figured that a soft cuddly bear and some pink would add some girly to that mean ol' pirate. The DP is part of a DCWV mat stack and shows part of a map.

Recipe:
Stamps: Liliofthe Valley
Paper: Kraft, Innocent Pink, DCWV Once Upon a Time
Ink: Memento Rich cocoa
Accessories: Copics, ribbon, rhinestones

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