Happy Halloween!

Hello everyone,

As soon as I saw the newest Lawnscaping Challenge come out, I knew exactly what I was going to do. I took the plunge and I have my first attempt at a galaxy background.  I have to say that more than once this piece almost headed into the garbage can.  But I stuck it out and I'm really pleased with how it turned out.

I took the distress watercolour paper and did like most others who create these backgrounds and added the squeezed lemonade, picked raspberry and seedless preserves and added them in a random pattern on the paper.  Once that was blended in and you don't need to be perfect with this because you'll be covering it with the black soot.  So when it's all done you can only see the purple and the yellow becomes green.  I then added some white gesso I had in my stash and watered it down a bit and took a small pain brush and splattered it all over the panel.  With the distress inks I find the white doesn't stay white so I went over some of the splatters with a white gelly roll pen to brighten them up.

After I was done blending, there was still some left over black soot, so I took a bit of water and sprayed my craft mat and and with another piece of watercolour paper I did some ink smooching to create the moon.  I added some of the same ink colour around the edges once I cut it out with a circle die and adhered it to the card.

I cut out the tree border with LF black card stock and adhered one panel to the galaxy background and then took one of the slide on over dies and cut it out so she's flying to the moon.  I saved the little piece that comes out so I could add it to the card base so it had a cleaner look. I added fun foam to the back of the panel to give it stability and the added my penny to the back and then added foam tape to it and the added the little witch.  

I coloured in the witch with her broom and treat bag in with my copics (picture listed below of the colours) and used a white and silver gelly roll pen on her buckle and dots to her cheeks as well as some white highlights.  

And lastly I added the second tree panel with foam tape to the front of the card and heat embossed the sentiment with white embossing powder.  

Copics used

I'm playing along with the Lawnscaping Challenge. 

UPDATE

October 29, 2016

I am honoured to have been chosen for the Queen of the Green and I couldn't be more excited! 

Thanks for stopping by, see you again soon.

Coralynn  :)

Supplies:

*Copics purchased at my local Michaels.

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Feel Better Soon - Card and Video

Hello everyone,

I had this idea in my head but wasn't sure how it was going to turn out so I turned on the camera.

I started out with the archival ink cubes that came in the SSS Nuts About You October card kit and added a bit of ink blending to the middle of an A2 sized card. Then I cut out a frame from the MFT single stitched frame dies and cut it out from white card stock and popped it up on foam tape to the card base.

I die cut the banner from the SSS basic banner dies and did some partial die cutting to have the flag ends and I used my mini MISTI to place and stamp the sentiment.  I popped it up on foam tape to the card base.

I stamped and colouring in the sweet elephant from SSS with SSS intense black and my copics.  I added the dot details to his nose and the top of his head.  When you watch the video, you'll notice that this was not included as it was an afterthought. I popped him up on foam tape as well and added him to the card.  I took the Nuvo Crystal drops from the SSS October card kit as they matched the Ranger ink perfectly, and added them to the card.  

I can't thank you all enough for your support with my YouTube channel and I am almost at 200 subscribers!  As soon as I hit that mark I'll have a small giveaway.  Stay tuned!

Thanks so much for stopping by, see you again soon.

Coralynn  :)

Supplies:

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Mint Owl Studio - October Release Blog Hop

Hello everyone,

We are super excited for this month's release.  Hope you'll hop along with us for a chance to win the entire release!  See end of post for more details.

Now on to my card.  I started with the cardinal and coloured him in with my copics.  I ended up looking them up online to see their colours.  I fussy cut him out and added black marker around the edges to clean them up and the set him aside.

With an A2 sized card panel, I stamped the pine bough in the bottom lefthand corner with great ink and with second and third generation stamping to give some dimension to the card.  I had such a fun time that I added more in the top right hand corner.

I then took the panel and used two stitched rectangle dies, one the same size and the other two sizes down and ran them both through my die cutting machine. I added them to the card base and popped up the middle panel with foam tape.

I added some glitter to the pine needles so it would look like there is frost and snow on them and added a few red sequins from my stash.  

We're also giving away the entire new stamp release!  Want to know how to win?  All you have to do is comment on this blog and each of the blogs on the hop.  The winner will be randomly chosen from one of the blogs, so the more blogs you comment on, the better your chance is to win!  Good luck!

                           

Hop Order:

Mint Owl Studio

Lisa

Larissa

Cassie

Coralynn

Tara

Thanks for stopping by, see you again soon.

Coralynn  :)

INTRODUCTION - Snarky Birthday Sentiment Stamp Set

Hello there! 

I'm here to introduce our new Snarky Birthday Sentiments stamp set.  I absolutely love these sayings.

For my card I used one of our new stencils (*sneak peak) and added willow coloured dye ink using a blending tool to an A2 sized card panel.  

I had this little fella sitting on my desk from a previous project and he was just hoping to be put on a card...so I did!  

I used a banner die to cut out olive card stock and added the sentiment with black ink.  I took the panel and used a rectangle die of the same size and cut it out adding it to the card base.  I then added the banner with liquid adhesive so I could move it around to make sure it was straight. Once that was done I added the little owl with foam tape and called it a day.

Snarky Birthday Sentiment 

Thanks for joining us and stay tuned for more new products tomorrow.  You'll love what's coming!

Coralynn  :)

AAA Cards Game 75 - Photo Inspiration

Hello everyone,

I'm back with a fun card for our newest challenge over a AAA Cards and it's a photo inspiration (see end of post for more details and photo). This is a fun one as I love rainbows and colour.

I stamped the leaf image from Create a Smile a few times with my mini MISTI so I could get a good impression. I went through my copic stash and found two colours per colour family and started colouring in the leaves.

Once I had them all coloured in I fussy cut them out with my scissors and went around the edges with a Memento marker to give it a cleaner look. I then cut out a vase and thanks from MFT and then went to town with the sparkle.  I added it to just about everything on this card. I know, I have a problem but it looked much better with it.  

Be sure to head over to the blog to see what the other DT members have done.  The details on how to play and a linky to add your card is over on the blog. 

Our super duper sponsor for this game is Happy Little Stamper and we couldn't be more excited.

www.happylittlestampers.weebly.com

$20 Gift Certificate

See you again soon.

Coralynn  :)

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