Halloween Craftin' with DS

Happy Halloween! At my kid's school, they pair up a 1st grader with an 8th grade buddy that helps them through out the school year. At Halloween they exchange little gifts. My son gave his "big brother" a bag of candy but I wanted to add something special.....but hmmmm, what could we do? And then Karyn posted these fabulous bag toppers and I knew exactly what to do. (Thanks Karyn!)

DS did all the spraying of the airbrush and the stamping of the bats. My son makes all the birthday cards for his buddies and his favorite technique is airbrushing. I did the cutting and the larger stamps. He was so proud to take this into his big brother!

Stamps: Gina K. Spooky Silhouettes
Paper: GP 110, Pumpkin Pie
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Nesties, Copics, Airbrush System, Ribbon from Pink Hedgehog

Enjoy!

Michelle B.

"Queen of the Scene"

C4C8 Daisies All Over

Hello, This weeks C4C8 challenge was to use 3 different geometric shapes. I have circle, oval and rectangle here. This card features my Oops-a-Daisies set from FireCracker Designs.

I started off by inking the solid daisy stamp with Cameo Coral. Then I inked Rose Red just on the stems and around the edges before stamping. I used the dotted stamp inked in chocolate for the center. Hmmm...still a lot of white space showing there....so I inked the solid daisy in caramel and stamped it off TWICE before goint to my main panel. Yep, that's what it needed. Now that was the easy part. The sketch idea in my head was to use the large rectangle panel and the large half circle. I fretted for like days to figure out the placement of that sentiment! Ha!

Stamps: Oops-a-Daisies from FireCracker Designs by Pamela
Paper: Papertrey White, Chocolate Chip, Rose Red
Ink: Cameo Coral, Rose Red, Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel
Accessories: Textile Texture embossing folder, Cricut & George cartridge

Enjoy!
Michelle B.
Sometimes "Queen of the Scene"

SC252 Gretel’s Birdies

Today's SCS Sketch was a perfect sketch for some new images I had all colored and ready to go. I haven’t made one of these types of scenes in a while (no time!) so it felt good to return to the “old me”.

I stamped, colored, and clear embossed the branches. Then I cut out the center square (not sure why I did that in this order because I normally cut first). I sponged on some grass and a Mother Mark Cloudy sky. THEN I made the vertical cuts for the top half of the sketch - I did not make them earlier because they are small pieces and because they are a simple cut I wasn't likely to mess up. I framed my center rectangle and assembled all the pieces. Gretel, the bird, and the bench were colored with Copics, cut out, and pieced into place.

Stamps: CC Designs Swiss Pixies Gretel, Olivia’s Birdies, & Sugarplums Bench
Paper: GP 110, Whisper White, Brilliant Blue
Ink: Old Olive, Garden Green, Bashful Blue, Momento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Copics, Nesties, clear detail embossing powder

Enjoy!
Michelle B.
“Queen of the Scene”

ATS Tall Card Challenge

I just purchased a bunch of stamps from All That Scraps during their recent sale and they are just crying to be used. So, I created this card for the ATS Challenge Blog’s tall card challenge. I made this sketch up myself which proved to be challenging as I’m much better at working someone else’s sketch! Ha!

Emma is a digi stamp so I printed, colored, and cut her and her apples out. I used a torn piece of paper as a mask to sponge in the grassy area. I stamped, colored, and used the emboss resist technique for the tree branch. Then I could sponge the sky using Mother Mark's Cloud Tutorial without damaging my lovely branch. Emma and her apples were glued into position.

Stamps: CC Designs Sugarplums Apple Emma, Olivia’s Birdies, Sugarplums Scenery, and AmyR Autumn Sentiments Paper: GP 110, Riding Hood Red, Cosmo Cricket DP Ink: Groovy Guava, Bashful Blue, Wild Wasabi Accessories: Copics, clear detail embossing powder, Nesties, scallop edge punch, ribbon from Pink Hedgehog

Enjoy!
Michelle B. "
Queen of the Scene”

AIC05 Fall Bush Inspired

I have the most lovely Oak Leaf Hydrangea bush in front of my house. It has large leaves that are now shades of yellow, red, and purple. I was inspired by this bush and the AIC05 sketch to make this card. Here's a picture of my bush.

I tried to replicate those mustard and rose leaves by first stamping my flower image all over in More Mustard Ink. Then I used a little sponge to dab on Rose Red along the stems and edges of the flower....leaving the Mustard showing in the centers of the flowers.

Stamps: Artful Inkables Plant Prints, Artful Inkables Birthday Best
Paper: Papertrey White, Elegant Eggplant, More Mustard, Rose Red
Ink: Elegant Eggplant, More Mustard, Rose Red
Accessories: Copics, Corner Rounder Punch, ¼” circle punch, white Prismacolor pencil

Enjoy!
Michelle B.
Sometimes “Queen of the Scene”

Brother

My sister just had a baby girl. This card was created for the new “Big Brother”. I had a terrible time deciding on an image. I was looking thru all my boy or baby kinda images. In frustration, I decided to look at EVERY image until I saw this one and I knew it was perfect (especially given that its October!). Think the two of them will look like this at the pumpkin patch next year?

Now I am SUPER proud of myself.....I actually used 2 different DP's on the same card AND I like it. I know its just a little piece of the one but it still counts for me! I have never felt very good at mixing the DP's and always admire those who can. Me? I can barely squeek one piece on there. So Whoo Hoo for me!

The image was colored with Copics. The grassy area was colored with Copics and then I used a darker green to draw in little sprigs of grass. TIP: Turn your paper upside down when you do this as its easier to pull the marker towards you than away from you. I used Mother Mark's cloud tutorial for my sky.

Stamps: High Hopes Wagon Full of Blessings, H&M Stamps Generation of Stitches (sentiment)
Paper: GP 110, Kiwi Kiss, Unknown DP, Riding Hood Red
Ink: Bashful Blue, Whisper White
Accessories: Copics, Corner Rounder Punch, Word Window punch

Enjoy!
Michelle B.

“Queen of the Scene”
Designer for FireCracker Designs by Pamela

Mojo109 Daisy with Texture

After my brayer class back in August with Michelle Zindorf, DH asked what I had learned. I grabbed the nearest supplies I had and did a little demo. I happened to have Georgia Pacific 110 lb cardstock, Old Olive ink, and Elegant Eggplant ink. I loved the effect of my little demo so I kept the sample in my idea file (ok, I really had it sitting on my stamp table all this time!). I decided to combine this look with my Oops-a-Daisies set from FireCracker Designs by Pamela and this week’s Mojo109 sketch.

So to make this background I first brayered Old Olive ink every which way across the GP 110 cardstock. This breaks all the normal brayering rules (smooth cardstock and one direction brayering) but I like the imperfections here. Next I brayered a little Elegant Eggplant on the upper and lower edges. The daisy was colored with Copics and cut out. Well that part took all of 10 minutes and then the struggle began! You know I’m not good at all this embellishment type of thing so I struggled to find the right combo of ribbon, texture, tag, etc. and I finally finished the card in about 1 hour total.

Stamps: FireCracker Designs by Pamela Oops-a-Daisies
Paper: GP 110, Elegant Eggplant
Ink: Old Olive, Elegant Eggplant, Whisper White
Accessories: Copics, Nesties, Textile Texture embossing folder, SU ribbon, Designer Label punch

Enjoy!
Michelle B. aka “Queen of the Scene”
Designer for FireCracker Designs by Pamela