Punny Whale

Here's another card using Pun Fun. A while back I watercolored a stack of these and I finally got the card put together. I water colored on Confetti White card stock because it has a heavy weight and can withstand the water saturation.

This time I just used plain old water and puddles of ink to color in. The colors I used are Brilliant Blue, Tempting Turquoise, Night of Navy. The card stock is in the same colors. I added a few highlights with my white Signo gel pen. The seagulls are there because I couldn't think of what else to to with that space! The waves a punched with the slit punch.

YKYR #1 Numero Uno

This is my entry for the Y.OU K.NOW Y.OU R.OCK! challenge. We're supposed to make a creation based on the current CD in your player. In my case it was MP3 but hey does it matter?
Yes this was the album I was listening to when I took on this challenge. There are some really funny videos on YouTube. This is my favorite Computer Camp Love. When I first heard the song my husband played for me (he's my personal DJ) I looked at him and said "Is this a real band?"

Yes they are.

Here's a YouTube video of the funniest song. Watch it if you're brave enough.Voilá! Here is my creation. I decided to do a scrapbook page of my younger sister Hillery. I had a perfect picture of her modeling some "fun" sunglasses from last time I visited her. I took the colors Pixie Pink, Real Red and Only Orange from the album cover. I stamped this lovely leaf from Personal Stamp Exchange in Whisper White and sponged pixie pink chalk over it. Then I outlined the leaves with my Real Red marker. Sprayed the fixitive over to fix the chalk. I think I printed the title in Terminal to match the title on the cover.


Yesterday I used a tutorial at Melissa Clifton's website to alter the image of my sister to look like an Andy Warhol picture.

So funny

If you feel like reading something funny you might want to BUZZ on over to my sister's blog.

She definitely got the writing gene -- Which I didn't . I just express myself non vocally. Right? I think that a magazine would be smart to pick her up for those back of the mag stories.

You Are a Strawberry

You are friendly, outgoing, and well liked by many people. You are popular, but there's nothing you ordinary or average about you. You a very interesting person, and you have many facets to your personality. Sometimes you feel very conflicted. Your different sides of your personality pull at you. You are a very sensual and passionate person. You are fiery... you can't help it. In general, you keep your passionate side under wraps. You are only wild in private.

What Type of Fruit Are You?

Wonderful Poinsettia

Can I just say, I love this set? So last week in the midst of wrapping up some of my other swaps I thought maybe it would be cool to swap a Christmas card for those crazy plan-aheaders. Although those people probably already made theirs last January. My little epiphany was to make a poinsettia out of the Wonderful You set.

A couple of notes about the watercoloring. I like to fill one of my Aqua Painters with Future Floor wax. It creates a glossy look and a little bit of texture between the layers of color. In lieu of matting with another piece of card stock I just drew a wobbly line of gold with my Zig Painty.



Stamp Set: Wonderful You, Stems and Silhouettes Jumbo Wheel, Holidays & Wishes
Ink: Stazon Black, Ruby Red, Always Artichoke, Summer Sun, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa - wheel cart.
Card Stock: Ruby Red, Always Artichoke, and Whisper White
Accessories: Zig Painty Pen, 1 3/8" Square Punch, AquaPainter

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KWerner's Color Challenge #16

This is the inspiration picture from KWerner CC16
I love this picture I think I tried making these booties
before but you need really high quality felt to make it worthwhile.
The colors were great to work with, and here's the card
I whipped up this morning. I have to say it is refreshing
just playing along with challenges right now.

I thought the Scallop Notes would be perfect for this project, which come in Soft Sky, Very Vanilla and Kraft (these will be retired for sure because of the soft sky). They measure 4" x 2 3/4". Petite but great for gift giving. I used some of the die cut flowers from the summer mini which one of the colors was Pumpkin Pie and a 1" circle punched from Certainly Celery. I also had stamped the circle from the A Beautiful Thing on top of that piece. The strip of flowers is stamped in Very Vanilla along the bottom of the ribbon with the centers stamped in Soft Sky. Ribbon Celery and Double stitched soft sky (soon to be retired).

Stamp Set: A Beautiful Thing
Ink: Soft Sky, Certainly Celery, Very Vanilla craft
Card Stock: Scallop Notes - soft sky
Accessories: Ribbon double stitched soft sky, 1/4" celery grosgrain, silver brad, 1/2" circle punch, 1" circle punch, die cut flowers, dimensionals

Little Butterfly Scrapbook Page

A double page LO using some Scenic Route Paper I bought a while ago. The pictures are from Halloween. We went to the park for a photo shoot with the kids in their costumes. One of my favorites is the one where Poppy is barely in the picture. I wanted to leave all of the white space to illustrate what a moving target she is. The butterfly accents are from the Amy Butler line from K&Co that I splurged on a month ago. Sorry to all the Cricut people out there but I don't know the names from the cartridges I used at my friends house.

AFSS26- White out Challenge

I haven't had a chance to participate in any challenges lately so when I finally finished my last batch of swaps today I set aside some time to play. Allison's challenge this week was to make a card using white ink any way you want. She did this really cool card using the black magic technique and it reminded of something else I saw while catching up on my google reader by Michelle Zindorf.

I know mine doesn't look that good, my blending leaves something to be desired but hey I can always practice. Here's my twist on this technique: I decided to stamp on Basic Grey cardstock, then I decided to use my Zig painty pen - silver side to do the outlining. The white ink is stamped on the bashful blue base and the under layer of the leaves and I stamped the sentiment with white acrylic paint and touched up with my Uniball White Signo pen. Oh and I colored my leaves with Prisma color pencils Apple Green, Violet Blue, and Cerulean Blue.



BTW the sentiment stamp-- I don't know the brand but it was a pain to get off of the acetate backing! I almost ripped the stamp. So mine might be defective or you might just not want to buy it.

Another Pun card

I was going for a Spacey card maybe for a boy's birthday or other event and I needed to use some of the already colored Pun Fun swatches I made. As I was saying about discontinued paper/accessories I thought of making a contrast piece using bleach splattering. Yes I did remember to protect my clothing and surfaces. Phew! I places the brilliant blue cs inside the sink and splattered it with the bleach with a stipple brush. I've been holding onto this one, I feel like it looks a little plain but can't really figure out what else I would do for it.




Stamp Set: Pun Fun

Ink: Stamp 'n write Markers Brilliant Blue, Temping Turquoise, Only Orange, Gable Green, Night of Navy

Card Stock: Brilliant Blue, Temping Turquoise, Only Orange

I DO have something to show for last week!

I stamped a bunch of images from my friend Misty's Pun Fun stamp set about a month ago. I actually had them colored but needed to finish off the card parts. So here's one of the cards I made with that set. I've always liked this color combination and I thought it would be perfect for this card. As I've said before it is really hard for me to make swaps without knowing what accessories not to use. I don't want to be "that" person at convention trading discontinued stuff. So this is what I came up with. I decided to play with texture sans-Cuttlebug folders. I punched and glued the Boho flowers and I layered distress strips of the very vanilla.

Stamp Set: Pun Fun

Ink: Stamp ‘n write markers elegant eggplant and only orange with Aqua painter

Card Stock: elegant eggplant, orchid opulence, very vanilla, confetti white.

Boho Blossoms punch was used for texture

Bali Breeze Stamp Class

Be prepared for any occasion with this stunning collection of 12 all-occasion cards in a custom-designed box.
This card set makes a perfect gift for the person who has everything, or simply keep it on hand for yourself!  

Date: August 5th 2008
Time: 6 PM - 9 PM
Cost: $25
Location: Prestwich Home,  Alb NE Heights (call for directions)

To secure your place in this class please RSVP before July 14th. The class includes discontinued items and I need
to order enough before the retired accessories are released. Please note: after my order is placed I will not be able to
refund any class fees.

I am also offering this class as a kit to go including step by step directions for the same price as above.
Please specify if this is the option you would like. If the class needs to be mailed I will send it First Class Mail for $3 fee.

Please email me to sign up for this class: Erica   

Supplies:
• Stamp sets: One of a Kind, Embrace Life, Stitched Exotics, A Beautiful Thing, Taffy Alphabet 

• Paper:  8 ½” x 11” Whisper White, Apricot Appeal, Rose Red, Old Olive, Taken with teal, Certainly Celery, River Rock,
Bali Breeze Designer Paper (DP), Medium Whisper White envelopes. 

• Ink: Basic Black, Taken with Teal, Apricot Appeal, Certainly Celery Old Olive, Rose Red, Purely Pomegranate,
Pumpkin Pie, Blush Blossom, River Rock Classic ink pads; Old Olive & Rose Red Classic ink refills;
Rose Red Stampin’ Write marker or Stampin’ Spot. 

• Adhesives: Tombow Multi-Purpose Adhesive, Snail Adhesive, 2-way glue pen, Stampin’ Dimensionals 

• Accessories: Pomegranate double-stitched ribbon, narrow white & apricot grosgrain ribbon, silver brads,
Dazzling Diamonds glitter. • Puches & other tools: 1/16” handheld circle punch, ½” circle punch, ¼” circle punch,
ticket corner punch, large oval punch, Boho Blossoms punch, 3/16” corner rounder punch, blender pen, Stampin’ Sponge,
Stamp-a-ma-jig