Spoil Yourself

Here is another Pink Cat Studio/Copic card. This is for a customer who has a shoppy/girly friend. I thought this image was perfect but after I had colored it with the ONLY two purple Copics I own, I realized I had no purples that matched very well. So I high-tailed it to my LSS, where I searched the aisles high and low for some "shoppy" paper. NO luck. I got the glitter paper and went up to the counter to pay. I was showing the worker the image and telling her what I'd wanted and she said "Oh, you mean like that?" Lo and behold, sitting right there by the cash register, was a sheet of the perfect paper that someone else had put up there! Luckily there was another sheet for me. I think this looks adorable! I used white Liquid Applique sprinkled with lavender glitter for her feather boa and a little rhinestone for her ring and Liquid Pearls for her necklace and earrings. The green in the paper matched Kiwi Kiss perfectly, so I made that the card base. My customer said, "It's like you know her" so I guess it was a hit. Since I bought a 12 x 12 sheet of this stuff I will be making more, but coloring the bird green instead of yellow.

What happy accidents have you had lately?

Warm Winter Wishes

This is a card I made for the winner of my "Year of Cards" scholarship auction offering. I made it as a winter birthday card. The image is Pink Cat Studios, colored with Copics. I got a bunch from my DH for Christmas and have been practicing with them. Need a lot more practice, but I like how she turned out! I used white Liquid Applique for the ear muffs, trim on her clothes and the bird's hat, and snow (I added Dazzling Diamonds glitter to the snow). The tag is from PTI's first Christmas tag set (2008 I think?) with the coffee cup masked out. All other is SU, except for base (PTI) and main image (Gina K layering weight white). I put sent. from PTI's Birthday Basics on the inside.

Thanks for dropping by today! Have a good one!

Emily's Birthday Party Invitations

Okay, so my darling but high maintenance daughter informed me that she wants a costume party for her birthday. Well, I thought I'd put Lily by Pink Cat Studio dressed as a princess on the front of the invitations. But I worried that that would be too girly for the little boys on her list. Emily came up with the perfect solution--she was happy with the princess idea for the girls, but wanted a cowboy for the boys. Luckily I own almost all of the Billy and Lily stamps, so I was able to handle that without buying anything new--yay me! However, I'd already printed out all the card bases on Gable Green CS. It's retiring this year so I'm trying to use up my stash. The girls' invites have Pixie Pink layers, which is perfect with the GG. Anyway, I wasn't about to waste all those card bases, hence the unconventional color of cowboy attire on Billy. I also thought the Billy card looked better without the DP (you could make out the barbed wire accent--done with Cricut cartridge Old West--much better), but everyone else liked it better with. Stamp is from PTI's Anniversary set Round and Round. On the inside of the card I printed the details in "A Yummy Apology"--a great free font perfect for a little girl's party. Other colors used on this card are Taken with Teal, Green Galore, Pumpkin Pie, and cool Caribbean. As always, Blush Blossom is my go-to ink for Caucasian flesh tones, of course that's being discontinued too, and Barely Banana for his hair. I added the freckles with a marker. Image is stamped on watercolor paper with Palette Noir ink and watercolored. I learned something--if you color with markers on wc paper instead of regular CS, you get MUCH better results. I never used my markers much, but I'll use them more now--I guess you really do learn something new every day! Unfortunately I forgot to take a pic of the little girl version of this invite before I mailed them all off. Maybe I can borrow one later and get a pic--they were really cute! Thanks for stopping by!

Little girl birthday

This card I made for a lady at church who won a free year of handmade cards in our church's Scholarship Fund silent auction. She has a granddaughter with a birthday in March. This is Lily, from Pink Cat Studio's Dress Up Lily set. She comes with all sorts of cute accessories like this crown and sceptre. I stamped her in black on water color paper and watercolored her with an aquapainter and SU reinkers. I added pink stickles to her earrings and crown, and Dazzling Diamonds glitter to the star. DP is by Imaginisce. CS is Pretty in Pink and Regal Rose by SU. I popped up the sceptre on dimensionals. Oh, and that's my new border punch from SU. It gives a super pretty lacy edge.

Hope you get some stamping time today! Thanks for checking in.

Mojo 77--2nd post today--scroll down!

This is my entry for Mojo Monday. It's kind of plain, but you don't want a lot of frills on a boy card. I compensated with some Hodgepodge Hardware. CS is Whisper White, Kiwi Kiss and Pacific Point, DP is Scenic Route. Ink is Stazon Black, Kiwi Kiss, Pacific Point, Baja Breeze, Tangerine Tango, Blush Blossom, Barely Banana, More Mustard. Freckles are dotted on with a Chocolate Chip marker.

Thanks for looking!

Super Boy!

It's a bird, it's a plane...No, it's Super Boy and Friend! This is the Billy Set from Pink Cat Studio. I just love the little dog with his cape and mask! The CS is SU Blue Bayou (ret.), Tangerine Tango, Kiwi Kiss, and Baja Breeze, PTI Stamper's Select White. Ink is the same, plus Barely Banana and More Mustard (watercolored his hair), Blush Blossom (face) and Close to Cocoa for the dog. DP is Scenic Route. For the medallion at lower left I punched out a scallop circle using my SU punch and then (here's the trick) adhered a thin scrap to the back of my punched circle to use as a handle to put the punched piece back in the punch. You line the points up in the middle of the scallops and punch and you get a circle with points instead of scallops! My SU buddies here in Wichita taught me that! I thought it went well with this card. Brads are HL I think. I had fun making this card. Hope you enjoyed it. Have a great weekend!

Winter Fun with Lily and Tweet

Good Thursday morning, happy stampers! Did everyone spend lots of bucks at the PTI release party last night? Recession? What recession?

This card uses an image from Lily and Tweet by Pink Cat Studio. I just adore Melissa's Billy and Lily images. They are so cute! Here I watercolored Lily, Tweet, and their cool friend using SU colors. Card base is Bali Breeze, layers are Blue Bayou (SU retired), and Pumpkin Pie. Patterned paper is Scenic Route. Die cut is Sizzix out of Blue Bayou and coated with Dazzling Diamonds glitter, brad is round Ice rhinestone from SU. Fur trim on Lily's outfit is flocked and I added glitter to the bottom of the image.

Hope you enjoyed looking at this card as much as I enjoyed making it!

Sweetie Pie

Good morning all! Hope everyone is having a good day.

The last PTI swap I participated in we also did image swaps, not necessarily PTI images. Angela (monkeymama on SCS) and I are both Pink Cat Studio fans, and I got some images from her from the set Sweet Treats. Last night I was playing around with this one. I watercolored the image, put crystal effects on the cherries and liquid applique on the whipped cream, used a bunch of SU retired product, and this was the result! I like how it turned out, though I wish I'd sacrificed one of the other pie images and popped up the ice cream above the whipped cream. Pink Cat Studio is coming out with their newest stamps today or tomorrow, really cute Lily and Billy valentine stamps, and a cute kitty. Papertrey Ink is also having their release party tonight, and they have got some really great sets this month. I'm hoping my new SU catty will be here today too, so lots to look forward to. See you soon!