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.

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

Flowers & Sentiments

I need just a few more Christmas Cards, so I'm getting Challenges to help me figure out what I want to do.  This works great for getting different ideas.

Challenges

Clean & Simple FLT 170

My Favorite Christmas Greeting

This is one of my favorite Christmas greetings.  I love to use this on cards for my friends, as most of them are tea lovers.  I got this lovely little girl stamp as a freebie at Digi My World, and immediately saw the possibilities for this Digi, and my favorite Christmas greeting.  I unfortunately ran out of my good express it paper, and can't get any for a few days;( so the copic looks a little more streaky than I like it on the cheaper paper.  However, it is still a great card.

Challenges:

Cutie Pie-#12 Use a Sentiment

Truly Madly Crafty December Challenge

Icopic Challenge #60

Christmas Tree Plain & Simple

It took me longer to decide what I was going to do, than to actually cut and assemble this card.  For some reason I could not find the proper green cardstock to make the background.  I finally found it, and the rest came together fairly easily.

FLT 169 Challenge Special Christmas