Cards Galore Encore Challenge 2: Bling it Up!

Challenge 2: Bling it Up! is live at Cards Galore Encore 

This month create a project and add a gem, pearl, or some glitter etc. Easy peasy right?

Our Sponsor is Scrapper's Delights and the prize is 3 of their Digis

I fell in love with Scrapper's Delights Love Fairy 2 and thought it was perfect for Valentine's Day. It is February... ya know!! It comes with and without wings, colored or not colored. It's so versatile and fun to color. Minimal shading is needed to make this image look it's best. I re-sized it (to make it bigger) in word before printing. The quality and array of digis at Scrapper's Delights is second to none!

Here's a closer view of the coloring (to see the whole card scroll down). I am new to coloring and having fun learning new techniques. To create the color for the hair I combined gray and blue. Any coloring tips are greatly appreciated. Just leave me a comment below! Thanks!

To bling it up, I added ultra fine glitter with a quickie glue pen to her outfit and some love glitter tape across the bottom of the card. A little will do ya for this challenge but feel free to add more to your project entry if you like!

Supplies:

• Scrapper's Delights - Love Fairy 2
• Copic Xpress It Blending card
• Copics - 0, Hair: C1, C3, C5, C7, B45; Skin: E11, E13, E15, R81; Outfit: RV09, RV13
• Copic Multiliner - black
• American Crafts 5x7 pink card
• Darice - heart embossing folder
• The Stamps of Life - standup4sentiments
• Quickie glue pen
• Recollections - Glitter tape
• Queen and Co. - chevron washi tape
• Sparkle n Sprinkle - ultra fine transparent crystal glitter
• Scotch ATG

Here's the whole card. I am so into washi and glitter tape these days! I can't get enough of it. It offers just the right amount of contrast and style. I also love the combo of pink, hot pink and white. The standing sentiment is from The Stamps of Life and is the perfect accompaniment for the image.

I hope you enjoyed this presentation and will consider entering the challenge this month! I can't wait to see your entires (3 max).

Challenges:

• The Paper Girls 
• Craftin Desert Divas
• The Crafting Cafe
• Craft it Up with Pin and Tack
• Pumpkin Spice
• DL ART
• Sister Act
• Ribbon Carousel

La-Vie

Tunnel Style Christmas Card

Recently I participated in a Christmas card swap with Kraftie Kre8ations. This swap required me to create 6 tunnel cards for Christmas to swap with partners. The A2 cards had to include white, silver and blue and 2 butterflies. As a result of the swap, I received 5 unique tunnel cards, one card from each swap participant. 

The instructions for the tunnel cards (and many other types of cards) can be found at Beccy's Place. I was astounded by all of the types of cards I had never heard of AND the fact that there are detailed instructions.

Oh what a bit of cardstock, stamps, detailed embossing powder, Krylon pen, Washi tape, Stickles, dry embossing, Copics and embellishments can do!!

The card I created includes stamps from Hero Arts and Stampin' Up! I love how it came out. I will definitely make more tunnel cards and many others from Beccy's blog in the near future. Hope you will give it a try too!

La-Vie

Dear Adrieeal 8x8 scrapbook page and love letter

 

 



Meet my Nephew Adrieeal!

 

Today I challenged myself to complete this 8x8 layout. I usually work in 12x12 only when it comes to scrapbooking, but I wanted to step out of my box and try something new. I am entering 3 challenges today (see links below) and each required different elements to be included as a part of the project. One challenge required the colors I used (3 shades of orange and 2 shades of green) and the word FRESH in the journaling, one required the subject I used (0-12 month old boy) and yet another asked for a heart as the main accent.

 

Crafty tip - the photo mat was too large to fit in the embossing folder so I folded it in half. If you look closely, you'll see that half is embossed and the other half is debosssed for an interesting look. You can see the fold but it adds to the overall design rather than taking from it. Try it, I bet you'll like it!

 

I decided to group a few items to create my own embellishment. This layout is my take on the collage zstyle of scrapbooking. It includes many different shapes, textures and ideas. Who says baby boy layouts cannot include bling, flowers and glitter? I used to be afraid of "going there" but today I threw all caution to the wind and I love the results! I hope I win some swanky prizes and bragging rights but if not, I have made a gorgeous love letter for my nephew that will last a lifetime. It's a win, win.

 

This is my first time using my Zig Photo signature pen to write on a picture. It was scary! I did it last and hoped I didn't mess the whole project up. Mission accomplished. My handwriting is not the best, but it's mine and a part of my Nephew's history forever. I love him so much. I'm going up North to see him the last week of March. I cannot wait! I was there for the delivery in January but haven't seen him sense. I love than new baby smell. It's so fresh and so clean - clean!  He's growing my leaps and bounds and I don't want to miss a thing!

 

Supplies:

• Cardstock: DCWV, green: Taj Mahal Stack
• Cricut carts - Cricut Essentials on E2 - Frame2 cut at 8" and Heart2 cut at 8"
• Embossing - Darice: Heart folder run through the Cuttlebug
• Alphas - Thickers: Stroll and Sparkling by Dear Lizzy and American Crafts
• Embellishments - Hairbows Unlimited.com: Lime green crochet flower petals
• Bling - orange flourish and bling: Jolee's All that Bling dimensional stickers
• Stash - orange butterfly sticker, green fabric leaves
• Pen - Zig Photo Signature Pen

 

Wish me luck! I am entering this layout into the following challenges. Deadline Feb. 28, 2013. Check out each challenge blog and join me in the next challenges! C'mon...it's super fun!

1. About A Boy Challenge Blog - Oh Baby!
2. Color Me Scrappy - Challenge #30
3. Scrap Africa - Challenge No. 14 - Hearts

La-Vie