The challenge this week on the Just Magnolia blog is Animals and Insects – please feature either/or on your card. The animal or insect does not have to be a Magnolia image – or even a stamp, it could be a die cut, a punch out, a charm, shaped button – anything as long as it is an animal or insect.
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Well….I’m probably stretching it here because my ladybugs are pretty small…I tried to use the Magnolia ladybug but it just didn’t work out like I planned! I used the new EK Success bug punch and they did turn out pretty cute…took a little fiddling to get them to look like something other than a punch out!
I used grass, fern, corner flower and stem punches from the Punch Bunch. The yellow ric rac is from Making Memories. Tilda is from Magnolia of Sweden and colored with copic markers. “You are my sunshine” is from Wordsworth. I used a rectangle nestabilities die for the background.
Here’s a close up of the flowers and bugs!Thanks for taking the time to check out my entry and I appreciate your encouraging words!!!
Vrrrroooom! The challenge this week at Just Magnolia is to make a shaped card – nothing square! Here’s what I came up with…Edwin is driving now!
The car folded in half into a card….
The card open…
I think it will fit into a A7 envelope the best…
The car is cut on the Cricut with the Graphically Speaking cartridge….some really cool things on this cartridge! Now to go look and see what everyone else came up with!
Here’s my entry…Posies for You
A close up of the posy bouquet…
Another angle on the card…
I used Grape Bazzill card-stock, KI Memories flower die cut 12×12 paper, Lasting Impressions for Paper black polka dot, Beckett Expression Radiance card-stock to stamp and color my Magnolia Tilda flower girl, All Night Media flower border punch, Martha Stewart border flower punch and the EK Success wavy border punch.
I’m used to putting my markers back in the stand when I’m coloring, so the yellows I used for the blonde hair are not in the picture below! They are Y21, YR21 and YR24.
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Found this super fun blog this past week and had to enter with a card I was making for one of my daughters! One of the sponsors liked my entry and emailed asking if I’d create a card and be the guest designer for the next challenge??? I only panicked for a few minutes and then agreed to try. Here is the card I submitted to Jennifer for the OCC color challenge this week….
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The color challenge is to use the colors Regal Rose, Certainly Celery and Bashful Blue, all Stampin Up card-stock and ink colors. This little girl (Penny Black rubber stamps) is all ready for Spring, see the word “spring-time” in the music? I colored her with copic markers. I really liked using YG11 and YG17 for the certainly celery colors. I dyed a little piece of SU’s white taffeta ribbon green w/the YG11 marker…I’ve been wanting to try that! For the Regal Rose match, I used RV 11, RV13, RV14 and RV 19.
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I used the teeny 1/16th green Bazzill brads in the two holes of the flower button and put the white dots on the brads w/a white sharpie poster marker. The flower button and the flower are from a Making Memories embellishment jar for Valentines Day. The leaves are two different Martha Stewart punches. The little baby’s breath is a border punch w/six little flowers and the stem is from The Punch Bunch. I used the Martha Stewart fence punch in the background and the Fiskars mini pinking decorative scissors to cut the top of the certainly celery card-stock, for the grass line.
I used the new Hero Arts grid stamp on the certainly celery card-stock and a Hero Arts floral background stamp on the regal rose card-stock. The small white buttons are from Lasting Impressions for Paper and I used a teeny strip of rose card-stock for the “paper” thread. Oh for the copic match to bashful blue I think I like B21 the best but I also used a little of B34.
Play along in the challenges this Month over at Our Creative Corner and you could win a $20 Gift Certificate to the Stamps and Smiles Store.
Please stop by Our Creative Corner to see more fun samples using this color combination.
Our Creative Corner Challenge blog – this week is a sketch. I’m playing along, but I had to use a rectangle instead of an oval…hope that’s ok! Click the link to see the sketch and play along!
Flowers For You
The little boy stamp that’s stealing your heart is from Penny Black….love coloring w/the copic sketch markers…Eoo, Eo2, R20 for the face/flesh…R 22, R24, R27 for the reds….B91, B93, B97, B99 for the blues…Y21, Y35, Y38 for the yellows…can’t remember what I used for the red hair this time…I keep experimenting w/different markers for the red heads… I have a bunch in our family and they’re all different beautiful reds! I colored on Beckett Expressions 80# Radiance card-stock for the first time with this image! OH my, it is my new favorite for coloring with copics…it is so easy to stay in the lines…and smooth, oh, it is wonderful!
The pattern papers I used here are from Carolees Creations…I wanted to keep it simple this time, so the image would be the focal point for sure. Again, those puffy little hearts from K & Co., I heart them!
Thanks for taking the time to check out my entry and I appreciate your encouraging words!!!
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