Pumpkin Girl

I found this adorable FREE digistamp at Simply Inger. She has some beautiful images for free and she has some she has donated to a charitable cause. Visit her blog to see all her fabulous talent.
This card was created for the Copic Creations Challenge which was to include pumpkins. I printed out the image onto GinaK White Pure Luxury cardstock and colored the image with a wide variety of fall colors. The papers are from two different sets: PTI's Autumn Abundance and Basic Grey's Recess. I needed some fall colored flowers but didn't have any, so I grabbed some plain white (actually they are more cream colored in appearance) Prima flowers and airbrushed them with copics. These flowers love copics and an airbrush system. I've tried other methods of coloring them in, but nothing really worked until I used the air compressor. Now I want to color them all the time. I may have to go back to Hobby Lobby and get some more even though the package contained 72 different-sized flowers. (Goodness, what if I run out!!) Where's my coupon, lol!
Project Recipe
Paper: GinaK White Pure Luxury CS, PTI Autumn Abundance PP, Basic Grey Recess
Stamps: Simply Inger's Halloween Girl digital stamp
Accessories: copics, airbrush system, PTI Ripe Avocado Saddle Stitched Ribbon, Making Memories eyelet, rhinestone brad (Hobby Lobby), Martha Stewart border punch, Prima Wildflowers Pillar Pack White, SU 5 Petal Punch, SU Boho Blossoms Punch

Dragonfly Delight

Awww! Last day of the long holiday weekend! I've managed to do a lot of crafting this weekend even though my son and his girlfriend have been staying with us. It's been great seeing him, but all the extra cooking has really worn me out (of course, any cooking wears me out!). Anyway, they have just headed back toward Dallas and I have headed up to my craft room.
I prepared this little mini pizza box for one of my co-workers who has a birthday today. These little boxes are super easy to make and you can find the tutorial on SCS. Inside I have placed a very large, high calorie, birthday treat!
The recipe for the Coffee House Cookies can be found on Lauren Meader's blog. I baked up a large batch and keep them individually frozen so I have one ready to go whenever a colleague has a birthday. Now, even though I've only given out a few so far this school year, my stash is getting a little low. I wonder how that has happened (hee, hee, like I don't know).
The Copic Creations Challenge blog challenge is to use your favorite copic color combination. Lately, I've really been "feeling" the purple. I don't know if I have one favorite combination, but thanks to this SU Cottage Wall paper, I've been really drawn to the purples and greens. So I printed out the beautiful dragonfly digistamp from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff, and grabbed some purple and green copics to color her in. I added shimmer with my Spica Atyou Glitter pens.
The Digital Tuesday Challenge of the week was to add pearls and lace. The lace was created with a Martha Stewart border punch and the pearls are a combination of Kaiser pearls and Making Memories pearl brads. Got those pretty flowers at Hobby Lobby this week at half off. I know no one does flowers quite like Prima, but these are looking pretty good for Paper Studio!
Project Supplies
Paper: SU Rich Razzleberry CS, SU Old Olive CS, SU Orchid Opulence CS, SU Cottage Wall DSP, GinaK White Pure Luxury CS
Stamps: Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Dragonfly, PTI Tags for Spring (sentiment)
Accessories: copic markers, Spica Atyou Glitter pens, Making Memories Wedding brads, KaiserKraft pearls, Paper Studio Spare Parts paper flowers, Martha Stewart Lace Doily border punch, SU 5-Petal flower punch, scorepal

Messy Little Boys

I have three sons who are now grown men. But let me tell you what! They invented the phrase "rough and tumble"! They were always getting into something (another way of saying "getting into trouble") and coming in the house dirty, sweaty and smelly. They were ALL BOY! I have a hard time finding images of less-than-perfect (but ever so cute) boys, especially digital images. Then, Lindsay The Frugal Crafter pointed out a free coloring book website which has images of "Precious Moments" kids that you can download for free. I was able to find several utterly adorable little boys!!!
This little guy with his canine companion reminded me of those messy but still cute boys I raised. So after coloring him with my copics, I created a card for one of the now-big guys. The inside will read "You've grown into a fine, young man."
This card was designed to meet the requirements of THREE, yes three, challenges. The Dare U2 Digistamp Challenge was distressing, so I took some Core'dinations Vintage ColorCore Cardstock and tore the edges. Then, I ran it through the cuttlebug inside the distressed branches embossing folder, and finished the look with a little sanding. The great thing about this cardstock is it is made for distressing giving you a great contrasting core color.
Next up, I used the sketch from Digital Tuesday Challenge. I really like the clean design of this sketch. Finally, the Copic Creations challenge was "eyes". The Copic Creations design team used anime images which have these gorgeous big eyes. My image has the lovely Precious Moments characteristic tear drop eye, so I just was able to add a subtle touch of color to the boy's eye and the dog's eyes. This was the first time I've added color to eyes before. Once I got over my fears, I really liked the look. You can see a closer look at the eyes below.
Wowzer! I know people who can enter 3,4,5 challenges with one card, but usually I can only manage 2 at best. This project just seemed to come together fitting easily into the requirements of my favorite challenges. But it all started with that great image.
Project Supplies
Paper: PTI white CS, Core'dinations Vintage Collection CS, SU Old Olive and Baja Breeze CS, SU Green Tea DSP (retired), GinaK White Pure Luxury CS
Stamps: Coloring Pages Precious Moments, PTI Star Prints (sentiment)
Ribbon: PTI Ripe Avacado twill
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Provo Craft Distressed branches embossing folder, Spellbinders Oval die and ribbon slide die, shaped paperclips (unknown but I think JoAnn's), copic markers

Sweet Daisy Girl

Okay, I may be officially a digi stamper! I haven't ordered a single rubber stamp from the new Stampin Up catty, but I've acquired several new digi stamps over the last few days including this adorable image from Cute Daisy May Digi Stamps. She's part of a set of four images and they are all absolutely adorable. In fact, it was very hard to pick just one set. This set ended up costing less than $3 US. I can tell I'm going to have to go back and get some more.

That beautiful background paper is the new SU Razzleberry Lemonade DSP. I matted the image with SU Rich Razzleberry. I combined this with PTI's Lemon Tart CS and PTI Bitty Box Basics PP in Lemon Tart. Finally, the gorgeous flowers are Primas with a brad I picked up on clearance at JoAnn's.

I really worked with my copics on this one. I re-watched a couple of Suzanne Dean's copic tutorial videos. If you are at all interested in copics, her site is a must-see. She's got great tutorials and loads of great designs. I'm entering this little lady in the Copic Creations Challenge Blog. The challenge this time is brunette hair. I'm also entering her in the Cute Daisy May Challenge since anything goes this week. Hope you have a Zippy Day!

Project Recipe

Paper: SU Rich Razzleberry, SU Razzleberry Lemonade DSP, PTI Lemon Tart CS, PTI New Leaf CS, PTI Bitty Box Basics PP, GinaK White Pure Luxury CS

Stamps: Cute Daisy May Digi Stamps Set Sheet #12, All That Scraps Sugar Plum Sentiments

Acessories: Prima Flowers, SU Small and Large Tag Punch, SU Eyelet Border Punch, brad (JoAnn's), Paper Studio eyelet, twine, copic markers (including a few Copic Ciao not pictured)

Duo Challenge

I really love combining challenges. I took Lauren's Inspiration challenge and combined it with the Copic Creations challenge. Both challenges steered me to purple! Those of you that have followed my blog at all know I make something called "a cake in a can" for all my colleagues on their birthdays. Well, May is chock full of birthdays, so you'll be seeing a lot of these and I won't have a lot of time left for other types of creations. If you're sick of seeing these, check back in June. I should be through with school by then and ready to move on to other projects.

The paper I used on this can is part of the Scenic Route Sonoma paper. The flowers and colors reminded me of Lauren's Inspiration piece. I also used punches to create the layered paper flower. The image is a digital stamp and it was a free set from My Grafico. The Copic Creations Challenge was to use purple flowers or lilacs.

Okay, now for some BIG news, at least big for me. For Mother's Day, my wonderful hubby and my three sons bought me a small air compressor to use with my Copics for airbrushing!!! I've got the adaptor kit coming from Ellen Hutson's and in a few days I will either be on cloud nine or in frustration hell! Stay tuned to see how this all turns out!

Project Recipe

Paper: Scenic Route Sonoma PP, SU Elegant Eggplant CS, PTI Vintage Cream and Ripe Avocado CS (for paper flower)

Stamps: My Grafico Vases and Flowers Digital Stamp

Ribbon: PTI Ripe Avocado twill

Accessories: copics, Gold Atyou Spica marker, SU 5-Petal Flower Punch, SU Slot punch, MS hydrangea punch, liquid pearls, Spellbinders Oval Nestabilities

Gardening Jeans

Copic Creations has a new challenge out--coloring jeans. This gardening set from CTMH was perfect for the challenge. It's a little too hot to garden in jeans in South Texas, but I wish I looked this good watering the yard. Oh well, I'm a pretty indifferent gardener anyway. My plants are lucky if I remember where the water hose is. At least this little lady looks good while she looks after her plants. This card went to my CTMH "dealer" Amy who sets me up with all the good stuff!

Tune in tomorrow as I finally finish my friend Wyndi's birthday card that I've been working on for three days (I kid you not). When you see it, you'll wonder what took so long, but, hey, I'm a little a slow and I had to go to the grocery store after work today which really cut into my creative time.

Project Recipe

Paper: PTI Melon Berry CS, CTMH Perfect Day PP, GinaK Pure Luxury White CS

Stamps: CTMH Ms. Gardener

Accessories: stickles, Imaginisce Ring Around the Rosies flower, Basic Grey glazed brad, copics