50's Anniversary

In January I made an Anniversary card using The Greeting Farm image 50's Sweetheart and thought I would do another one in different colors. I think I will use this image for all of my Anniversary cards this year - all in different color schemes! The one I made in January was in purples and this one is in turquoise - the favorite colors of the intended recipients. I used copic markers to color the image and cut it out - that's one of the great things about The Greeting Farm images, they are easy to cut out by hand or with your Silhouette. I made a shaker card, cutting the heart out with my Silhouette and  used foam tape on the back. For the shaker elements I used sequins, tiny clay hearts jewel hearts and dew drops. I added an embellishment sticker (the flower flourish) and a ribbon for the bottom. I also added a little bling on her bow.

Take a look at my January card, too, and compare the two - I love them both! I hope you have a wonderful day!

Birthday Fairy

With all this shelter-in-place stuff going on, people are getting creative for children's birthday parties. My cousin in Indiana asked all of his friends on FB if they would send his granddaughter a birthday card to surprise her, as she is turning 6 years old. So I colored up the really cute Anniversary Fairy from The Greeting Farm. It is a digital image, so you can make her any size you want. I made a little scene with some digital images I had in my stash and made the sentiment to print on top. Before printing the Fairy I placed a digital image of a jewel flower on top of her wand (the image normally has a star on top of the wand to match the stars in her hair). I colored the Fairy with copic markers cut her out and added clear Wink of Stella on the stars, jewel flower and wings. I used foam squares to pop her up on the card, added 3 little glitter pieces and a rainbow bling strip down the right side. Take a look and let me know what you think!

Copic used:

Skin  E04, E11, E21, E00, E000, RV21

Hair  Rv29, RV25, RV23, RV21

Clothes V09, V06, V01, V00

Wings and Stars  Y11, V00, B00, RV21

I hope you have a Fairy Nice Day too!

We've Got You Covered

I just LOVE Dudley - he's a free digi from Whimsy Stamps that you must have! I printed him on digital paper that I had, trying to make it look like a room (or bathroom!) and then colored him with Copic markers. I made a little slit in the end of each TP roll and added a tiny piece of real TP for effect. I made 8 of these cute cards and sent them out to friends and family with a poem I made up. Have a look! SO MUCH FUN!

Have a Great Day!

Red String

This month's Progressive Freebie in The Outlawz Challenges is a cute image called Red String from Star Stampz. I colored the image with copic markers, used a pretty paper sack for the background paper and then some other matching paper for the corners and added a little corner bling to follow The Outlawz Challenges Wednesday Sketch Challenge. I haven't decided if I want to use it for a birthday or "just a note" card, so I didn't add a sentiment yet. Take a look and let me know what you think!

No Prob-llama Wryn

Have you heard of Tiddly Inks! She has the cutest images. I used No Prob-llama Wryn for my SIL's birthday card. The image comes with all kinds of little extras that you can use on Wryn or the Llama, even a little background image - lots of fun! I used Copic markers to color the image. On the llama, I used the E40's and they just weren't blending to look like fluffy fur. So I used my colorless blender pen and just went over the entire llama several times until it looked like I wanted. I also drew in a little connecting line between the nose and mouth. Then I colored the llama's blanket to match the background paper that I wanted to use. I added a little bow made from ribbon that has cactus images on it and a flower in the middle of that. Then I added a couple of blue-striped ribbon strips to match. Take a look and let me know what you think!

Have a wonderful day!

Floating Penguin

At the Outlawz Challenges this week we have been celebrating our birthday! As part of the celebration there have been games and a coloring challenge. Although I haven't had a lot of time on my hands to play the games, I did manage to do a little coloring! The image was a freebie drawn by one of our DTs, Sandra - a cute little penguin with three balloons. I colored him with Copic markers, added a little highlighting with a white colored pencil and fussy cut him out. Then I made a cloud background with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink, printed a little saying and added a rainbow from my stash. I popped up my penguin with foam pieces and Voila! I am always in need of a general card to drop a note to a friend and this seemed to fit the bill. Let me know what you think!

I hope this gives you a little smile - have a great day!

St. Patrick's Day Cards with Twistoon Digis

I have 7 nieces and nephews and 2 grandchildren that I make cards for every holiday! Luckily Lisa Cree of Twistoon has this cute Monster App you can download from the Google Play store and make all kinds of fun monsters! She also has all kinds of fun digis in her online shop. For my 7 nieces and nephews I used a few of the monsters that I made with the app, colored them with Copic markers (a green combo for St. Patrick's Day!) and then placed them on top of a clover field picture with a little speech bubble that says, "KISS ME I'M IRISH!" Inside each card I have a cute little holiday-related riddle for each of them. For my 2 grandchildren, a girl and a boy,  I used other Twistoon digis, Weak At The Knees and Hey There (I could not find this one in the store, but I am sure if you ask Lisa on FB she would put the digi in her store!). I also colored these two digis with Copic markers, cut the images out and placed them on a clover field, each with a different thing in the speech bubbles. Take a look at the cards and let me know what you think.

Now go find your four-leaf clover and have a Happy St. Patrick's Day!