A Ragamuffin Valentine

I love grunge and steampunk art, and this little Ragamuffin from Saturated Canary just fits nicely into my particular style.  I used tim holtz gears and film strip as part of this card, along with Maya Road flowers.  I used some Lindy Stamp Gang spray glitter, but painted it with a brush.  I used a background paper from Stampin' UP I think.  The card base is Gina K layer weight. That about does it.

Kitty's Catastrophic Ride

I just could not resist this stamp.  She is such a hoot.  I used a Kitty type variation of a quote about catastrophe on the road, and attributed it to Kitty Katastrophe, which is the name of the stamp.  I used some downloaded paper from ScrapBooks Etc. which are free, but just was what the doctor ordered for this card, and the challenges I have in mind for her.  I used Copics to color her, and the rest is digital work from Photoshop.

Challenges for Kitty

Simon Says Strips and Spots 
Flourishes Timeless Tuesday #151 Inspiration
Crop Stop Challenge 53-You can "Quote me on that"
Basic Grey Challenge #60 Something New 

Winter Blues Warm Up

This is one of those cards that will fit in many of my favorite challenges.  I used my Cricut Imagine for the cup of cocoa and sentiment from my new Winter Frolic Cartridge, my copics for the girl with the cocoa which is from Spesch Designer Stamps, used my Cuttlebug to cut Spellbinder and Cheery Lynn die cuts. 

I even got my own designer paper in the leaves of the flowers.  It's hard to find a blue-blue green that will work with blue theme, but I think all the blue in this card makes this blue green look real green by comparison.  I used the back side of some repurposed cardstock to print this new colored paper.

This card was great fun to put together, I hope you enjoy.

Challenges I hope to enter:

Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge #9 Winter Blues
Fabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday #92- Cocoa
4 Crafty Chicks-Crazy Egg Challenge #70-Something New
2 Sisters Challenge 72-Winter colors    
Creative Card Crew #1 Snow Day
Fashionable Stamping Challenges #12 Anything Goes     
Paper Playtime Challenge #64 Use Something Recycled
Cooking with Cricut Challenge #67 Something New
Party Time Tuesday Challenge #  49 Something New
Tip Top Tuesday Challenge-67-Anything Goes

Thank You Santa Baby

I just love how this turned out.  I used the Basic Grey Figgy Pudding papers, Elizabeth Bell's Letter to Santa Digi.  I also used Spellbinders Dies and May Arts Flowers colored with Lindy Stamp Gang Starburst spray, even stuck in a McGill Leaf.  The spray of pearls is from Hobby Lobby Bridal.  I got to use my new Ephiphany button maker.  I used scallop die from MFT I think, but the packaging is long gone.  I colored the girl with Copic Markers.

I hope you enjoy it.

Challenges I hope to join:

Elizabeth Bell Blog Challenge-Tic Tac Toe
Elizabeth Bell Change to win with DigiBells
Shabby Tea Room Challenge-#94 A Colorful Shappy New Year
Simon Says Stamp-12-28-11 Challenge Anything Goes

Fluttering By Just to Say Hi

I just love hummingbirds, and when I saw this one from Stitchy Bear Digi's I couldn't resist owning it.  I also found the paper at Stitchy Bear.  I colored the Hummer with my Copic Markers.  I did the sentiment on my computer using the paper as a reference for the color of the test.  As you can see, I got a thumb print on it, and I was always told by my teacher, that it is considered the hand of the artist to be treasured along with the artwork.  Of course, my teacher was my mother, and I think she may be biased there, but I'm gonna keep that as a truth.  Besides, it's shiny!!!!  I love shiny.  The rest of the shiny is from Lindy Stamp Gang.

This one was a real devil to photograph.  It is very shimmery, and looks beautiful in real life, but in the pictures it either had too much shimmer or no shimmer in most light.  I finally got the lighting to show up the gold shimmer, but it is the warmer yellow light of an incandesent bulb.  It looks fine, but in real life this isn't quite that yellow.

The challenges I wish to join.

Stitchy Bear Challenge-Choccy's Christmas Challenge

Love Ted

I went to my favorite store The Scrapper's Place in Findlay, Ohio today.  She had ALL her stamps for 25% off, and I found this guy there.  Then I remembered the Penny Black Birthday Challenge, and had to do him up in a Birthday Card.  He is perfect for my Nephew.  I also used saturated coloring for this, to use in the Copic Creations Saturated Color Challenge.  I found this to be a very interesting lesson, and it really explains a lot about my color choices, I'm definitely a saturated color lover.  I love Deep Dark Colors, the more vibrant the better.  Sometimes I get them so vibrant that I have to cut the color with distress inks because I don't think others particularly care for that.  I see so many pastels in all these challenges, and I'm grateful that they chose a saturated subject for this one.

Challenges I would like to join.

Penny Black and More-December Challenge-Happy Birthday

Paper Creations Ink-Challenge #15 Something Old-Something New  Old Stamp, New Copics

Inspirational Card Sketch-ICS#144

The Crazy Challenge-CCH #99 Bears

Miracle of Christmas

I really like the LaLa stamps and especially the Marci ones.  I did this one up as a Christmas present, but it is also great for a Birthday.  I used Copic Markers and Sakura Stardust pens to color the image.  Used Cheery Lin Rose Die and Spellbinders for the diecuts.  Was surprised how this one turned out.

Challenges I want to Join:

Dutch Dare-DDCC #144-Make It Shimmer-Di's Digis

challenge #69 here at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog

Creative Belli #133 Merry Christmas Challenge

Papertake Weekly Challeng-Last Christmas Card of the Year

Sweet Stamps Blog Challenge 46 Recipe  1 Ribbon/Border, 2DP, 3 Embellishments

The Crazy Challenge CCH #98--Christmas

Party Time Tuesday-PTT#47-USE RIBBON!

One Crazy Stamper-Christmas/Holiday Theme

Stampin' for the Weekend #23 Anything Goes