May 2008 Project Parade Challenge

I know I'm going crazy with the Imaginisce images I have. I love how cute they are and seem to go with anything I'm doing these days.

I loved all the color schemes I saw going around with Verve Visuals challenge that I decided to give it a try. I think I will probably do a few more cards with this color scheme as I really liked it and can think of a few more sets I'd like to try with it.

I used Imaginisce Flip Flop and Penguin Girl for this card. I used a layout from Colleen Schaan
which was easy and fun. I also did something different for this layout. When I found the sketch, I mapped it out on my grid sheet and that way I knew exactly what size to cut my pieces (with the exception of the circles). This made the process so much easier for me!

I used pumpkin pie, old olive, soft sky and regal rose inks and cardstock for this card along with my Rich Regals brads for the center of the flip flop flowers.

Hope you enjoy!

ETA: I apologize to Colleen, I have Connie in my credits on my picture and I tried to fix it, but her name is really Colleen and her link is above.

Blogger Challenge, Week #48 & TSSC18

This week our challenge was to use Red, White and Blue. I decided to combine this with another challenge I missed this week for Monday Technostamper Lunchtime Sketch Challenge.

I'm so thrilled I decided to try this layout as I absolutely love it so I did 2 cards again. I used a few more images I had laying around.

The card on the left uses the Penguin from Imaginesce and I knew when we were given this challenge that I wanted to use him. I just couldn't figure out the coloring medium I wanted to use so this is about my 4th one. I tried colored pencils, pure color pencils, markers and finally settled on watercolor/marker combo. Do you remember during the hot summer months eating Bomb pops? We used to always get these from the ice cream truck that came around. I used the shaving cream technique for the background on the front along with faux brads with my white signo gel pen in the photo corners.

For the other card I used one of my new images from Stampotique called Peacock. I used my pure color pencils on this, it's very plain looking card with no embellishments but I'm okay with that. I printed out the phrase on my computer "Birds of a feather flock together" which I thought was a perfect sentiment for Peacock. The background paper is retired Stampin'Up!

Have a great holiday weekend, I have one more card to share in another post.

Make sure to click on the Blogger's Challenge Logo to the right --------> for all the other participants to see what they created this week.

Inspired by Tanis

I was inspired by this card of Tanis' as it was simple and a focal point that was just one image. I liked that and had just the image I wanted to use in mind. I used some retired cardstock (Buckaroo Blue and Cool Carribean) as well as some Wild Asparagus DSP. These were the quickest cards I made in a LONG time, maybe 10 minutes for both of them. Glad I stamped and colored a few more of the images.

The one on the left I used Confetti White cardstock with Staz-on and the right Whisper White cardstock with Staz-on. Boy, you can really tell the difference in the sharpness.

Hope you enjoy the little chick, I can't wait to use her little fella and some cute little flip flops!