Monochromatic - Halloween

Second post for today. Did I mention that I went to see the play, "Young Frankenstein" at the ASU Grammage last weekend. It is the first play hubby and I have seen in Arizona and we have been here for 6 years now. I guess we just never found the time to go, but this play with incredibly funny. I was laughing throughout the entire play, very good sense of humor.
The image with colored at my last copic class - monochromatic, taught by Jennifer Dover. I always wanted to try this technique. This image is so darling, but aren't we suppose to be scare of vampires and isn't the sentiment just scares you. We are no longer scare of vampires since cute Edward Cullen came into our imagination (lol). This stamp is from Stampendous. The copic markers I used are C1, C3, C5, C7. I need to work on my feather technique with the hair. I feel I am not getting it, but are practicing almost every weekend. I used grey cardstock, DCWV dp and creative impression black webbed ribbon. I also embossed the DCWV dp with my swiss cuttlebug embossing folder.

Challenges:

1. Simon Says Challenge: Simon says... Halloween

2. Cupcake Craft Challenge: Challenge 112 ... Scary creatures

3. Ellephantastic Challenge: Challenge 15 - Anything Goes

4. Craftalious Challenge: Challenge 10 - Anything Goes

5. Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge: Challenge 24 - Stripes

Change of Season

It's Sunday and I am watching "Desperate Housewives". I love that tv show, it is hilarious. Finally the temperature is cooling down in Arizona. I love this temperature, not too hot and definitely not cold here. I was able to play with Jennifer Dover this past Friday. She is just so talented. Check out the pair of converse shoes she colored with copic markers. I can't wait to see her at the end of October for her next copic class at Paper Vineyard.

I got around to coloring this Stampendous latern light image from my August copic coloring class, taught by Jennifer Dover. A made a Christmas card out of the latern image. I used Flower Soft for my snow on the latern top and crystal lacquer on the candle area and the holly berries.

Challenges:

1. Sketch Saturday: Week #124

2. Alphabet Challenge: X for Xmas

3. Paper Sundaes: Challenge 39 - A Change of Season

4. Papertake Weekly: Your favorite from the past 3 yrs challenges - Four Seasons Challenge

5. Stamp Something: Something Punchy - punched snowflakes.

Card Deed:

Stamps: Stampendous latern light, PTI sentiment

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic markers

Paper: red, brown, olive, blue, old dp from my stash

Embellishment: Martha Stewart snowflake border punch, red rhinestones from AMuse, crystal lacquer, flower soft, cuttlebug swiss dot embossing folder

Flowers make me happy!

Tomorrow is Monday, another week of work and will be saying bye bye to August 2010. I love flowers and seeing them makes me happy. My favorite flowers are calla lilies and tiger lilies, but any flowers will bring a smile to my face. I have to say, I don't see many blue colored flowers, but I am sure there are plenty, I just don't know them.

Yesterday, I attended Jennifer Dove's copic class (the card samples are on her blog) at Paper Vineyard, my local scrapbook store. We colored three out of fourth images and made one card. The class was 4 hours. The last image is a Christmas/winter image which I will eventually get around to it. I made a birthday card out of the colored flower image. The colors are based on Jenn's card sample for the copic class. I need to practice on shadowing with my copic markers. I am extremely happy that I took the copic class because Jenn is a great teacher and I learned a lot. I will be taking Jenn's next copic class in September.

The image is from Stampendous and the sentiment is from PTI. I haven't done much distressing on my cards lately, but do love this technique. I gives a old vintage look to cards. I love this blue polka dots paper, it is georgous, there is a felt feel to the circles and the paper has a shimmery shine to it. I got this assortment of felt feel papers from Costco for probably over 2 years now and haven't use much of these papers.

Challenges:

2 Sisters Challenge: Challenge#5: Sketch

Cute Card Thursday: Challenge#127: Dieing for a Punch (No punches)

Bunny Zoe's Crafts Monthly Challenge: Challenge#3: Vintage

Stamp and Create Monthly Challenge: Challenge#4: Flowers

ABC Challenge: B is for Blue

Card Deeds:

Stamps: Stampendous, PTI sentiment

Ink: Momento, copic markers, Tim Holtz Vintage Photo distress ink

Paper: Gina K dark chocolate luxury paper, Spring Moss PTI, unknow paper from Costco

Accessories: tonic distresser tool, ribbon, button, ribbon

CAS (Clean & Simple) - Live for Today

This sentiment (above) is so true, I am learning to appreciate life and live in every moment. So sad the weekend is almost over which means gearing up for the work week. My favorite tv shows: "Desperate Housewive" and "Amazing Race" are gone for the summer, so there's not much on TV to watch right now. I have an active stamping and cardmarking weekend... happy about this especially since some weeks or months, I don't even near my craft area. I was thinking of doing some more craft challenges for this week, but decided to finish up my sheet of stamped Stampendous flower w/PTI (papertrey ink) inspiration colors: aqua mist, raspberry fizz, and summer sunrise. I love looking at other crafter's CAS cards and thought I will do some. I made two other cards w/this Stampendous stamp and this sheet of stamped image, but forgot to photograph them before giving them to my friends. Tonight I was able to take a photo of this one. Just love the simplicity and cleanness of this card. I am starting to get addicted to PTI and starting my ink, stamp, and die collection. I hold off from buying from PTI as long as possible especially their ink pads, but once I started purchasing their products, I am addicted. I need to slowly build my collection since I have so many other companies' products are I addicted too.

Challenge: CAS70 on SCS: Quote, Verses & Saying as the main focus

Card Deeds:
Stamps: Stampendous, PTI sentiment
Ink: PTI aqua mist, various Colorbox chalk/pigment ink (forgot the color names)
Paper: PTI aqua mist and cs purchased from Michael
Accessories: pearls colored w/Copics, glitter that is like velvet (forgot the brand)

Flower Butterfly

I was at Stamp Works yesterday to find inspiration, see Nic, and buy a few things. I wanted to do some quick cards that I can give in packs as gifts. Nic showed me a sample card she did in one of her make n' take and I totally have to CASE'D it. It was so easy and fast. I am thinking of donating my handmade cards to our local no kill cat policy shelter, "Hope for Cats" for them to sale to get some funding. This is where we adopted Shui Di and Rusty. We have been donating dry cat food and liter every week to help, but I thought this may bring in extra money for all the vet bills, foods, and liter expenses.

During this week's stamping, I found the Brilliance Graphite Black ink comes off the acrylic, mounted, and unmounted stamps so easy unlike the Stazon Black or Memories Black dye ink which I have to really scrub the stamp to get it clean and I have to clean it right away otherwise the stamp is stained. I have a few stamps that are stained because I was too lazy to clean it right away. Before, I usually use the Versafine Onyx Black or the Stazon Black, but now I am always reaching for the Brilliance Graphite Black. For fine detail stamps, I would still use the Versafine. This is my two cents.

Recipe:

Stamp: Stampendous "Flower Butterfly", See D's sentiments

Ink: Brilliance Graphite Black.

Paper: White and Scarlet Red cs

Accessories: prismacolor pencils, diamond stickles, odorless mineral spirits, paper piercer, mat, and grey souffle sakura pen

Card Holder Box

I am so productive today. I finished a card holder box which I am filling it with some cards I already made. I am planning to give it to a few people as gifts. I think I can put about 5 or 6 cards inside the box for other people to use for "Thank you" or "Birthday" or just a quick "Hi". I got the box template from A Muse Addict Message Borad by Geeta Sugg. She made it to hold A Amuse cards which is 41/2 x 4 1/2 but standard A2 cards are 41/4 x 5 1/2, so I change the measurements to fit my cards. I stamped the red cardstock with Brillance Black ink pad and embossed it with clear embossing powder (ep). The stamps are from Hero Arts BG Silhouette on the bottom half of the box and the cover is a stamp from Stampendous. I used the round corner punch. I added velcro so you can open and close the box and velcro was the cheapest way to make closers. This was actually quite easy. No embellishment on this one as this was my first one, maybe the next time.

I made this card to go into the card holder box. I decided to do some simple cards. I got this stamp yesterday at Stamp Works. The stamp is from Inkadinkado. Another silhouette stamp. The sihouette stamps are ready popular right now. Almost everything stamp company has a few that just came out. I just stamped the image 3 times in 3 different colors (Marvy ink pads), but 2 of the colors are so much similar, you probably can't see it here. I stamped the butterfly a couple of times, cutted them out, added rhinestones on them, and sticked them on the card. I also used my paper piercing tool to make some holes on the bottom where the birthday sentiment is, but you probably can see them, but as a butterfly trail.

This is all for today. I have some more cards I have to make on a few more challenges on SCS.

See you later this week. Have a good work week.