If Smiles Were Flowers

Happy Mother's Day!  Sorry for the lateness of this post.  Last night I had a housefull with my two nieces and nephew joining us for a sleepover.  Today, being Mother's Day, was our traditional Mom and Kids trip to the movies.  We saw Rio which was fun for all!

This week on Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog we would like to see your magical, mythical and fairytale characters.  I decided to make a sweet card for a little girl using Bunny Fairy: 

Once again I've followed the gorgeous layout from Sketch Saturday, however I've turned it sideways.  The papers are some of my favorite from my stash - a collection of papers from Three Bugs in A Rug from over a year ago.

I love the clean and simple lines of the Pink Cat Studio images so I kept the lines of the card and embellishments simple and clean.  Copic Creations challenge this week is colouring sky/clouds and actually have three different tutorials linked up.  I attempted to follow the tutorial by Dana Christiansen but my result needs work.

  Copic Details

Bunny fur: C00/C0/C1/C2

Flowers: RV11/RV21/RV34 and R30/R32

Wand: G40/G82 B000/RV10

Wings: B000

Sky: BG10/B000/B0000

The inside features word art from Paper Makeup Stamps:

This card will be entered into the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes with optional round

Creative Inspirations - Embossing (white background on front is embossed with dots)

Thank you for looking!  I look forward to seeing your magical, mythical, and/or fairytale characters at Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog for your chance to win with Pink Cat Studio!



Kimono Bear

Meljen's Designs in conjunction with other artists and Whimsy Stamps, is raising funds for Japan. All proceeds from their Help for Japan digi set will be donated to American Red Cross disaster release fund. This set is currently 50% off and features this gorgeous Kimono Bear by the talented Melissa Jenkins:

Today is the last day to help raise funds for Japan!

Thank you for looking!

A Simply Sassy Mother's Day

Happy Monday!  This weekend I had the wonderful opportunity to play with a little sugar, some Simply Sassy sugar! 

I had so much fun with the layout at Sketch Saturday, that I decided to use it again.

Thanks to colouring tips from Wendy, I've been trying a different strategy when applying colour.

I've done this card for my mother which makes two Mother's Day cards - hmmm, pretty good considering most years I forget to send them!

This card will be entered into the following challenges:

Basic Grey - Be Charming (used Basic Grey bling)

Sketch Saturday - sketch

Dutch Dare - For Mom

Stamptacular Sunday - Mums the Word!

Thank you for looking!

Puppy Joy!

Happy Sunday!  Today on Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog we would love to see your favorite hair colour combination.  Whatever your preferred medium, we would like you to tell us what you used.  For my card I used copic markers and began with a base of E50, which I later darkened to E53.  I then layered E55, E57, and E59 to make a brunette baby boy.  This week's sponsor is Karen's Doodles and I used Christmas Puppy to make a baby card for a friend's upcoming birth:

I followed this week's layout at Sketch Saturday and used paper from My Mind's Eye Fine and Dandy collection.

I really like how the card came together!  Hopefully my friend will too!

Copic Details

Skin: E0000/E000/E00 Cheeks: chalk

Hair: E50/E53/E55/E57/E59

Jumper: BG10/BG11/BG34 

Trim on jumper: E42/E43/E44 

Bottom of feet: E40/E41/E43/E44

Puppy: E50/Y21/Y26/Y28/E31/E33/E35

Bow: YR12/YR14/YR16

Thank you for looking!  Please check out the details of Paper Sundaes Design Team call here!  And I look forward to being inspired by your favorite hair colour combinations on Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog!