Two Cute Little Monsters

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Miss Anya Calendar Page

On Monday my dear friend Christine pointed out a challenge blog with an unbelievable prize - an exclusive Tilda! The challenge blog is Anyone for Anya (and CC Designs too!) and it gave me a chance to use my Miss Anya set. The actual challenge was scary as I've never done a calendar page, but I started colouring Miss Anya and waited for inspiration to hit! Luckily inspiration did hit this morning, when I saw the sketch from Sketch Saturday:

Copic Details

Skin E0000/000/00/02

Hair E50/Y21/E31/E35

Dress T0/1/2/3/4/5 Trim T5/6/7/8/9

The papers are from the new Be Mine collection from Echo Park and the cardstock is from Gina K. Miss Anya is stamped in Memento ink on PaperTrey Ink paper and coloured with copics.

Thank you for looking!

Monday, January 3, 2011

Puddle Jumper Ella for My Daughter

Happy Monday! Today I am back as promised with another card featuring my brand new Puddle Jumpers! This doll is named Ella and can be found on sale right now at Claudio & Co.:

I was hoping for a sketch challenge to inspire me today, but alas, this layout is my own. With the bold colours of this gorgeous collection from Bo Bunny, I kept the embellishments to a simple bow. I distressed the edges of the patterned paper with Creamy Caramel cats eye and chalked around the image with SU Creamy Caramel.

A huge thank you to my friend Christine for sharing her brand new copics with me so that I could try out a new-to-me colour combination for blondes: E50/Y21/Y26/Y28.

Copic Details

Dress - E00/E01/E11/E20

Belt, underskirt, and shawl - BG10/BG72/BG75

Shoes - E43/E44/E47/E49

Socks - C0/C1

Skin - E000/E00/E02 and chalk on the cheeks

I stamped off once before stamping directly onto the paper in order to achieve a lighter image on the inside of the card. The sentiment is first generation.

Thank you for looking!

Sunday, January 2, 2011

A Puddle Jumper for My Son

During my trip to Jasper with my best bud Christine (and neither monster!), I felt obliged to colour some images for my children. My son and daughter love when I make them cards, which is a good thing considering it is my passion! I find it difficult to find images I enjoy colouring for my son. However I loved stamping my new Puddle Jumper Davey and colouring both him and his pet lizard:

I have flipped and rotated the sketch from The Sweet Stop in order to take advantage of my DP:

I cut the arrow so that I could bring it in front of the image and cut the background paper so that words would be legible.

I am still working on my shading, attempting to get more dramatic contrast that I admire in other cardmakers' images.

My daughter also wanted a Puddle Jumper card, so tomorrow's card will feature Ella. I had a lovely afternoon at Christine's house but after colouring this little beauty I had to return to my two little monsters!

Davey will be entered into the following challenges:

The Sweet Stop - sketch (flipped and rotated)

Sundays with Crissy - Ribbon

Really Reasonable Ribbon - Something New plus Ribbon

Craft Your Days Away - Punch It Out (nestability to cut out Davey and a circle punch to fit patterned paper into the tag)

Thank you for looking! Check out the post below for my Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog card DT card featuring one of the new Magnolias!

Celebrating the New Year with Paper Sundaes

Happy New Year!!! This week Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog would like you to ring in 2011 by showing us something new! It can be a new image, paper, embellishment or tool as long as you identify the item in your post. For my card, I have managed to use a new Magnolia image and new paper. This Tilda is from the upcoming Magnolia release:

Michelle's Scrapbooking & more carries Magnolia which you can check out here.

I created dimension by "popping up" Tilda, the green panel annd the sentiment. I also cut out Tilda wider than usual to try the technique where you dazzle the outside of the image.