Simplicity is Key

Magnolia-icious Highlites is having another fun blog this week. And its definitely a fun one. This week's challenge is to create a CAS card (a clean and simple card). My style is pretty much a clean and simple style, so this was a good challenge.

Below is my entry:



The cardstock is from my stash. The background paper is from GCD Studios. The buttons are from Fancy Pants Designs.

Edwin was colored with the following Copic colors:

E37, E39, R37, E00 and B45

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Magnolia Easel Card Sketch

This is my first entry into Magnolia-licious High Lites! I have admired the stamps for awhile and finally got a couple of them. All of them are so cute!

For the month of October, Magnolia-licious High Lites's challenge is to create a card using the DT member's sketch. The sketch was of an easel card, which I have used on a couple of other occasions. Link to the challenge and sketch is
here.

Below is my entry:



The cardstock is from Core'dinations (french roast). The background paper is from My Mind's Eye. I used my Nestabilities petitie small oval and petite small oval scallop for the image. The image was colored with the following Copic colors:

E00, RV32, RV34, R20, E37, and the colorless blender. I also used the At You Spica gold pen to highlight the oval scallop.

The sentiment is from Hero Arts, stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa ink. The woven ribbon is from May Arts. The stick on brown pearls and my brown and pink ribbon are from my stash.

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Sparkle with color and a sketch

Been fighting a cold this week, so I only had time to do one card. I am glad the challenges I participate in let me use their challenges to combine them into one card.

Here are the three challenges:

1) La La Land’s Weekly Wednesday Challenge - Sparkle (anything from glitter to bling)

2) Copic Colour Challenge - Here are the colors to use:



3)Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Here is the sketch to use by DT member Nat:



I was so excited to use my Penny Black Catman stamp for the challenges! After seeing the sketch for the PB Saturday Challenge, I was thinking "Oh no, what am I going to do?" The stamp can fit in a circle shape, but the sketch had a rectangle shape to use for the stamp. Think I made it work.

Here is my entry:




The front of the card was done using the following materials:

Black cardstock (my stash)
Orange bling cardstock (Bazzil)
Background paper (Basic Grey's Eerie collection)
Stamped image (Penny Black's Catman using the following Copics: YR04, G94, V17 airbrushed, 100, C3, R20 with At You Spica orange and pitch black pens) Used the Nestabilities large circle and large circle scallop. Circle scallop was decorated with Tim Holtz's Distress Stickles and Sakura's glitter pen)
Purple flower gemstone (Basic Grey Bling It!)
Stamped sentiment (Savvy Stamps)

Inside of the card was done using the following materials:

Orange bling cardstock (Bazzil)
Purple and orange glitter swirls (Best Creation Inc.)
Spiders and spider webs (Stampendous!)
Gemstones (Hero Arts)
"Boo!" sentiment (American Crafts thickers) with Basic Grey's Eerie collection

This has to be my longest post. I had so much fun making this card for Halloween.

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Early Christmas!

La-La Land Crafts released their twelve Christmas stamps this past Wednesday. All of them are so cute that it was hard for me to choose one. I decided to go with a character that I don't currently have.

In line with their Christmas line of stamps, This week’s La La Land’s Weekly Wednesday Challenge is Winter/Christmas. Below is my entry:




I love the easel card template! I recently came across the blog Magnolia-licious Highlites that hosts contests to make paper crafts with the Magnolia stamps. The challenge for this month was to use one of the Design Team's card sketches. Click here for the instructions on how to make this card.

This is Christmas Kirby. Isn't he adorable? He was colored with the following Copic colors:

E00, R37, Y38, RV13, E33, E35 and the colorless blender.

I also used Sakura's glitter pen for some spark on the stocking and Kirby's hat. At You Spica orange pen was used for the stars. The sentiment is from Hero Arts, stamped with Memento's Dew Drop Lady Bug. I used my Nestie petite oval scallop and petite oval shapes for Kirby, using At You Spica melon for the oval scallop shape.

All of the paper is from Bo Bunny. The gold stick-on dot embellishments and ribbon are from my stash.

A pretty simple card this week. Looking forward to the challenge next week!

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Ivett Carrillo Blog Candy

One of the people I took the Copic certification class with this year is giving away some great things on her blog. Check out her blog below for details on how to win! She is so talented! And is also a Stampin' Up demonstrator.

http://www.ivettcarrillo.blogspot.com/

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Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Buttons and Bows

This week's Penny Black Saturday Challenge is using buttons and bows.

I finally had a chance to use a free gift I got recently of Bo Bunny's green buttons with green and white checkered bows. And I also wanted to try a new card layout. After technical difficulties with my camera,here is my entry!


Front of the card

Side of the card

I love this card layout. This is called an easel card and I got the instructions to make it from the Magnolia-licious Highlites blog that I recently joined. To see the instructions on how to make the card, visit Magnolia-licious Highlites blog at: http://magnolia-licioushighlites.blogspot.com

The cardstock is from Core'dinations. The background paper is from Bo Bunny, along with the green and white flowers with the buttons and ribbon. I used the PB stamp Dream A Dream with the following Copic colors:

E35, E39, V15, G94, R20 and the colorless blender. I also added some At You Spica lavender color for the flowers.

I used my Nestabilities petite scallop oval and petite oval shapes to cut out the image and sentiment. The sentiment is from Amuse, which I used pop-dots to have as the "holder" for the card. I added some glitter to the scallop ovals, using my Sakura glitter pen.

The buttons, pearls, and ribbon are from my stash.

Thanks for stopping by!

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Copic Colour Challenge - Guest Designer

I am excited to be a guest designer for Copic Colour Challenge. I have enjoyed participating in the challenges and also getting great color combos to use in my creations. Here is my design:



The cardstock is from Worldwin Colormates Berry Red. The background paper is from Imaginise (double-sided). The red ribbon is from my stash. The gold flower is from Prima. I used Penny Black's Holly Jolly stamps and colored the critter with the following Copic colors:

C3, C5, R37, YG99 (for challenge colors)
0, B12, RV02

I used my Nestabilities large and scallop rectangles to cut the cardstock for the critter. I used my Sakura glitter pen for the scallop rectangle. The pearls are from Hero Arts.

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Challenges Galore!

This week’s La La Land’s Weekly Wednesday Challenge is a bunch of challenges into one. The Design Team came up with the following to include in the entry:

Two different patterned papers
Color combo: red, brown and cream
Embossing (dry or heat)
Scallops
Paper piercing

Talk about a challenge! This is one challenge that was a little difficult for me to begin. After I found what I had plus getting a few things, here is my entry:



Here is Window La-La. She was colored with Copic markers E33, E35, E00, G94, RV13, R37, and the colorless blender. I used my Nesties square scallop and square shapes with Window La-La. The cardstock is from Core'dinations. The background papers are from Bo Bunny. I distressed the background paper with Memento's Rhubarb Stalk ink.

For the embossing, I embossed Happy Birthday from Cuttlebug's Happy Birthday template. I paper pierced the corners of the card and the square scallop. The ribbon is from my stash. The flowers are from Doodads.

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La La Land Crafts Blog Candy

La-La Land Crafts is giving away a really cool prize package this week. One of their stamps - Happy Maya and a stamp set of kid quotes from Inkadinkado, another favorite stamp company. I like finding different, funny and unique quotes to use in my paper projects.

Check out Irina's bookmark card and details on the blog candy here.

Take care and good luck!

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Copic Colour Challenge #33

Busy week this week again. Wish there were more hours in the day. I was able to get my challenges in again. :)

This week's Copic Colour Challenge had some great bright colors to work with. Below are the colors for this week and my entry:



The cardstock, background paper, ribbon and pearls are from my personal stash. I used La-La Land Crafts Whiskers Sleeping stamp. I colored the stamp with the challenge colors plus C3, C5, RV13, and the colorless blend. I also the At You Spica pen colors lavender and melon. I used my Nestie petite scallop oval and petite oval shapes. I used Martha Stewart's doily punch for the orange cardstock. The sentiment is from Amuse, using At You Spica orange for the design.

Thanks for stopping by!

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