Lorie's Mocha

Can you believe two posts practically back-to-back??? Me either - lol! This one is kind of a three-in-one: 1) the Outlawz Challenges Progressive Freebie for this month 2) the Outlawz Challenges Wednesday Sketch and 3) a Halloween card for my granddaughter!!! How great is that, to get a three-for-one! The image for this month's Progressive Freebie challenge at the Outlawz Challenges is actually 4 images and like 18 different sentiments you can use with it, all from Imagine That Digistamps! The image is Lorie's Mocha For All Seasons, however I decided to make her a little more ghoulish, ha ha ha! I used the Copic BV08, BV13, BV11 markers for her dress, bow and shoes; YG and G markers for her hair, E70, E71, E000 for her skin. I then used the YG03 for the green highlights among the BV markers. Oh, and I added a sentiment on her cup and a spider sticker (in place of the cherry). I made a couple of eyeballs from circles, copics and googly eyes and put those on top of spider web washi tape and orange/black twine. I cut the oval from some old Halloween paper I had and colored it with the YG01 copic marker. Take a look - so much FUN!!

Hope you get some fun ideas for your Halloween cards!
Have a Spooktacular Weekend!

Yorkshire Terrier

Well, ALOHA! I know, I know, it has been over a month since my last post, but there have been SO many things going on. I've been working on another lauhala hat (pictures when it's finished!), my husband and I went to some WCS dance workshops in Arizona and another card (today's post!). I've been wanting to color this image for my sister's birthday card, as she used to have Yorkies. But, I was also afraid I would mess it up because it requires those small, tiny flicks with a copic marker and I have not mastered those yet - they come out in all different sizes, usually tooooo big. But, my sister's birthday is getting pretty close, so I HAD to bite the bullet and start coloring. This image was from Kit and Clowder's February 2019 monthly pencils class, so the first thing I had to do was convert the pencil colors she used to copic marker colors. Then I carefully watched her videos (yes, the pencil coloring videos) and kept the picture of her coloring next to mine as I slowly got started. I finally finished and put the card together, and I can say that I am pretty happy with it! My sister's favorite colors are blue and green, so I tried to keep that color scheme going. Take a look and let me know what you think!

I didn't use too many embellishments; three sequins which I filled with stickles and a double-sided ribbon that I hand-sewed a stitch and gathered and then made a double bow with the rest of the ribbon.

Have a wonderful day!

Stars and Back

This month in the Outlawz Challenges group our Progressive Freebie Challenge image was from All Dressed Up, called Stars and Back. It is a super-cute image you could use for any loved one, or even to say Thank You to someone! I colored the image with copic markers, diecut a stars background with my Silhouette Cameo and added five very small bling stars here and there. I used a bronze metallic pen to color in the "love" and a white gel pen to place a small white highlight on the moon (on her pants). I tried to make the sky a little like outer space with some sweeping colors - take a look below!

This evening, take the time, stop and look at the stars, remember someone special and count your blessings for having known them.

Cutting The Rug

Have I mentioned that my husband and I do ballroom dancing? We have for about 27 years and have met some very nice people throughout that time! About 3 years ago a very unusual thing happened - a single guy started coming to one of our dance groups. You may wonder why that is unusual, but I gotta tell you, it is very common for women to come, single, unaccompanied women. In fact, we always have more women than men, and the men are very busy - lol! If a man attends a dance class, he is usually there because his partner asked him to come. So this single, never-before-knew-how-to-dance, guy starts coming to dance class. He learned to dance, met a super-nice gal from our class and they really hit it off! So much so that they just got married!!! We are all So Happy for the two of them!

So, I used a Mo's Digital Pencil image called Cutting the Rug for their card - it was just perfect! I colored the image with copic markers and paper-pieced their clothing. I cut out the image using my Silhouette Cameo along with a diecut for the lattice background. The paper behind the lattice is the same paper I used for her dress. I used a light gray copic marker to add some shading to both of their clothing. Instead of coloring the flowers in her hair I added a couple of small flowers and little sheer ribbon streamers with stickles added on the ends. I then placed some pearl hearts for accents on the lattice diecut. Congratulations to our friends, we hope they are very happy!

I am entering my card in the "Anything Mo Goes - Optional Theme: "Christmas" challenge #281.
I hope you have a wonderful day and Dance Like No One's Watching!

Shellabrate Your Anniversary

Well, one more anniversary card with this super-cute couple from Tiddly Inks. They were a freebie a few months ago and I decided to use them for the three anniversary cards I had to make. I colored them with copic markers, but forgot to write down the colors (I am so sorry!). I added small dots on them with a white gel pen. The sun is a paper clip and I added shell buttons, beads and a strip of burlap ribbon. I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut and write on the cloud and the rainbow is a little sticker. I hope you enjoy my card!

Shellabrate and enjoy every day!

Coloring Sophie

This month our image for the Outlawz Challenges Progressive Freebie came from Little Blue Button and is called Coloring Sophie. It's a very cute image that can be used for many different occasions. I've used copic markers to color it and then used the Outlawz Challenges Wednesday Sketch Challenge layout to make my card. So many times I get stuck on how to put a card together, so the Sketch Challenges really help with great ideas! The copic markers I used were minimal, the W's for the kitty, V17, 15, 12 for the yarn ball, E29, 27, 25, 23 for her hair and shoes, E30's for the chair seat, C's for the chair legs, Y's and YR23 for the table and E21 andC1 for the floor. I hope you enjoy my card.

Have a lovely day!

Fin-tastic Anniversary

Wow - has your summer been as hot as ours? We are having late August temperatures right now and it's crazy! My niece's anniversary card practically made itself with the summer heat we're having right now. For this card I used the mermaid couple from Tiddly Inks that was offered a couple of months ago (April) as a freebie on her blog. I colored them with copic markers, added some white gel pen highlights all over their tails and then fussy-cut them out. The paper on the card is some scrapbooking paper - one that had a sun and the other had shells all over it. I placed a piece of burlap ribbon where the two papers met and added some plastic shell buttons (I cut off the shanks) and a couple of beads. Then I printed a shell with some text on top saying, "Have a Fin-tastic Anniversary!" I attached this shell with a small piece of shimmery elastic as if it is hanging from the sky. I hope my niece and her husband enjoy the card! Have a look:

I hope you have a Fin-tastic day!