Sunday, March 31, 2024

Girlfriends - Giant Cake Birthday

Hello everyone, I am back with another bi-weekly challenge from Art Impressions.  This is for their Pop It Up! Challenge.  


With Pop It Up in mind, I decided to make an easel card that would fit in a 5x7 envelope with a lot of dimensional elements to it.  The stamp set I chose were Girlfriends stamp 4382 - Giant Cake Set for the main event, 5722 - Birthday Journal Set5793 - Mini Journal Birthday Set and 5455 - Birthday Buggy Set for the embellishment pieces.  



This is the card popped up.  I used double layer mounting foam on the sentiment for a solid base to support the card.  




This is the top of the card, how it looks when you take it out of the envelope. 

I added a layer of shimmer on the layer behind the image.  I used Celebration Layering Stencil from La-La Land Crafts and Nuvo Glimmer Paste in Moonstone, shimmer is always a must!  I also used the glimmer paste as accents on the candles, confetti, and packages to give it a little dimensional sparkle.  I also used my Karin DecoGel MilkyWay pen in white, I really love this pen.  

Copic colors used:
Yellow: Y11, Y13, Y15, Y21, Y23, Y30, Y31, Y38
Brown:  E11, E15, E18, E50, E51, E93
Pink:  RV17, RV52, RV55, RV66
Purple:  V91, V93, V95, V99
Blue:  B91, B93, B95, B97
Gray:  C1, C2, C3, C4, W1, W3, W5

I appreciate you stopping by!






Sunday, March 24, 2024

Llama’s Fresh Flowers

 





Since I had so much fun with last weeks Art Impressions challenge card  Color Challenge #373, I decided to do a second card for the same challenge.    The colors for this challenge were navy, light blue, garden green, sunny yellow and a neutral.  I chose shades of gray as my neutral color choice. 

For this card I used #5511 - Floral Truck set as the primary stamp set.  I thought this set was cute until I started using it, then I fell in love, there are so many different ways to use it.  The second set I thought would be perfect to use for my vision was #5458 - Llama set.  These llamas are very fun and I used the small llama as the driver of the truck, isn’t she a cutie! From this stamp set I took the sentiment “Drama Llama Mama” and masked the Drama and Mama words, leaving only Llama to create the “Llama’s” Fresh Flowers sign.  I wrote in the ‘s.   

I used dimensional foam tape to pop up the flowers, side of the truck, butterfly, and llama sign to give it texture. It really added something to the look of it.

Karin Deco Gel pens in milky way white, and metallic silver, gold and red were used to add designs to the flower pots.  I used  Crystal Drops Gloss in Bubblegum Blush, Dandelion Yellow, Berry Blue, Apple Green and Sweet Lilac as a little drop flower filler (say that 10 times fast 😁).  Crystal Drops Metallic in Dirty Bronze was used for the “Llama’s” sign nail.  The coloring was done with Copic markers and since everyone loves a little sparkle, I added some Wink of Stella on the flowers and gray areas of the truck. 

As usual, I used every crayon color in the box, I tend to get a bit carried away🤣… Here is the list of the Copic colors I used:

Yellow: Y11, Y13, Y15, Y19

Green: YG01, YG03, YG05, YG09, G40, G43, G46

Blue:  B21, B23, B24, B26, B28, B29, B0000, B000, B01, B02, B04, B06

Pink: R81, R83, R85, RV52, RV55, RV66

Purple:  BV000, BV01, BV02, BV04

Gray:  C0, C1, C3, C5, C7, C9, C10, W0, W1, W3, W5, W7, W9, W10

Llama:  E40, E42, E43, E44, E70, E71, E74, 


I appreciate you stopping by to take a look!




Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Let the Party Begin!


After a long haitus, I have been back creating again as a well needed stress reliever.  
It works in miraculous ways. I was recently on the Art Impressions Blog and have decided to 
rejoin their fun challenges.  When I first started doing them I believe they were monthly, now 
they are bi-monthly to really keep me busy.


The week’s challenge is Color Challenge #373 utilizing navy, light blue, sunny yellow, a soft
 neutral and garden greens.  I choose to use stamp set 5280 - Practically Perfect Girlfriends set and 
5722 - Birthday Journal set for the balloons and banners. My mom loves the Girlfriends stamps 
and is always a request when she sends cards to her friends. 


I used Copics for the coloring and went a bit overboard on the amount of colors, oops 😂

  • Greens: G40, G43, G46, G20, G21, G24
  • Yellow: Y11, Y13, Y15, Y18
  • Pink:  R81, R83, R85
  • Blue:  B21, B23, B24, B26, B28, B0000, B000
  • Gray:  C0, C2, C4, C6, W4, W6
  • I also used Karin Gel Pen - White.  These are the best white gel pens I have used to date, they also have refills.  

If you enjoy challenges you should check out Art Impressions for some fun ones!