Birthday cards

Made 2 requested birthday cards this weekend.  One is for a young man that does archeological scuba diving for a living (say that 3 times fast!).  The other is for his brother who is an avid golfer.  The golf one was easy, the diver not so much.  I ended up using a Bugaboo image (girl diver), cut her hair off and turned her swimsuit into a shorty dive suit.  Who knew?!?  Worked fine.  The sentiments are from Our Craft Lounge.  A little young (alot really) for a 23 year old but it was what Danna wanted. 

The second card was for the golfer.  Much easier and age appropriate!  The image is a Kenny K digi.  Doesn't he just ooze 20 something attitude?!  Love it

The image and sentiment on the inside are both from Our Craft Lounge.  Great images that are a joy to color.  Speaking of which, all images were colored with copics.  The water and the outdoors DP are both from a photo stack from DCWV.  The DP behind the water is from my scrap basket as are the 'too cute' little fishy brads.  The golf ball is CB embossed with swiss dots.  The diver is embossed with Ranger clear embossing powder to make him look wet.  Nesties were used for the obvious cuts on the cards.

Happy birthday to Carter and Stephen DuVal!

Playing with Copics

Today I played at a new site.  Copic Creations is a great little blog with challenges using your copic markers.  It doesn't matter if you are a beginner or an expert, the challenges are still fun.  This weeks challenge is to use shading on or around (or both) your image.  What a wonderful way to practice a skill that can always use work!   Here's my card:

The pumpkin is a digital image that I found on line.  I'm sorry I don't know the artist.  The cattails were done using an SU grass stamp in brown memento ink.  I then used a brown marker and then sparkly fluff (from Our Craft Lounge) to make the 'heads' of the cattails.  The leaves are a punch using glossy white paper and Ranger alcohol inks.  The inky dinky dots and the sunflower charm are from Inky Impressions.  The ribbon is from Michaels.  The DP is from my scrap basket.

The background behind the cattails was used by sponging memento inks.

The pumpkin is my main shading for the challenge.  I used the following copics for it:

Y02, Y21, Y38, YR04, YR07, T1, T3

On the stem I used:

E29, E33, E35

On the leaves:

YG03, YG09, YG67

4th card, 3rd post- It's a banner day!

This is my 4th card and 3rd post today!  It is warm and rainy here.  Can't imagine a better day to spend cooped up in my craft room making cards!  This last card is for the "Friday Sketchers" challenge.  It is a beautiful sketch and I immediately knew what I was going to do with it.....

Not sure where I got this image from.  Doesn't it look to horrible to actually wear?  The sentiment came from 'Elegant WordArt'. 

The coloring is copics, the ink edging is memento inks.  The papers, ribbon, and flower are all from my stash.  The border punch is a MS punch around the page.

If you like my card, leave some love and then feel free to click on my header and check out the rest of my blog. 

Fancy folds and Fall memories

I have cards for 2 challenges here.  The first is for the Doodle Dragon Studio challenge blog.  They want a card with "Fancy Folds".  The second card is for a GinaK card challenge.  She wants a 'fall' memory as the idea for your project.  To see this card, scroll on down.  Feel free to check out the DDS blog entry along the way!  I don't know about fancy but this is at least a little different.

The images are all Dustin Pike images in a collage on the card.  All are colored with copic markers.  The glitter is SU dazzling diamonds.  They are all colored, cut out and pop-dotted (is that a word?) on a black card blank.  The edge of the card is punched with a MS border punch.  The ribbon is from my stash.

The horn of the monster above the 'beware' catches on the bottom of the bat to hold the card closed.

My second card is for the GinaK challenge to make a card based off of a favorite fall memory.  My favorite part of fall is just the colors.  This card was easy to put together. 

I sponged the background using memento inks and masking with post-it notes.  Stamped the image, again with memento inks using a stamp from Rubber Stampede.  The darkest set of trees were stamped with the mask removed to allow them to be the foreground.  The leaves are a punched out shape colored with Ranger alcohol inks.  The ribbon is from Michaels.  The sentiment is stamped and cut out with SU wordpunch window.  The card base was embossed with a CB folder.  The leaves are up on pop dots for some dimension.  (I believe I read a tutorial on doing this background on Crafting the Web)

This is quite an easy card to do, took about 15 minutes.

Have you got your BIG GIRL panties on?

Well??? Have you got your big girl panties on?  You need them if you are going to play along with the new sketch challenge on Our Craft Lounge.  There is a new sketch posted every Friday and a monthly chance to win the stamp set of your choice from them!   

What a great stamp set I chose to use today!  Isn't she wonderful!?  There are several stamp set based on granny (and gramps) but this is my favorite.

Images and Sentiment:  Granny's support group by OCL

Card:  SU long notes cool caribbean notes

DP:  DCWV stack (can't remember which one)

Coloring:  Copics, Mememto inks, Ranger alcohol inks

Bling:  SU dazzling diamonds, diamond glaze

Ribbon:  Michaels

Cord and gems from my scrap basket

Create with TLC

Paulette with Create with TLC has posted a freebie image and a challenge to use it in a project.  The winner is to get $7 towards purchases of her fabulous word art in her store.  Besides all the freebies that she gives away every day, Paulette has some amazing packages of word art.  Just the thing to finish off a project when at a loss for words. (often a problem for me).  This is my entry.

Image:  Create with TLC

Sentiment:  Handwritten

Coloring:  Copics

Punch:  Martha Stewart punch around the page.

Ribbons, buttons, DP, BP all from my scrap basket.  (love when I can use this stuff!)

Just Inklined Halloween Challenge

Just Inklined is a new digi image stamp company and blog.  They have a store and post occassional freebies.  So far the images have been really, really good.  Today they have posted a Halloween challenge.  You have to use a Just Inklined Image and post it with Mr. Linky to their site.

I chose to use the freebie that is currently available on their website, this wonderful mummy.  So many different things you can do with him.  Check my card out.

Main Image:  Just Inklined

Candycorn border:  Our Craft Lounge

Sentiment:  SU

Papers and ribbon:  my scrap basket

Border punch:  Martha Stewart punch around the page

Coloring:  Copic markers

Inks:  Mememto

Embossing:  Ranger fine detail clear, cuttlebug swiss dots folder

Card base is just orange cardstock.

There is fine glitter on the spiderwebs behind the mummy but doesn't show in this photo.

(I'm still learning alot about taking the pics!)

Here kitty, kitty, kitty. BOO!

Today I joined in at the new sketch challenge listed on Our Craft Lounge.

As always, they have a new sketch challenge every Friday, pick a winner the first of every month.  This winner get the OCL stamp set of their choice (and boy are there alot of choices!) mailed right to their house.  I challenges are always beautiful sketches, and really fun to do. This is my 2nd card. (see the 1st one below)

I decided to go with Halloween.  The black cat, the ghost, bats and spiders just fit onto the spiderweb background paper from 'The Paper Patch'. 

The stamp set is Spook-tacular by OCL.

Mememto ink, versa mark ink and ranger clear detail embossing powder were all used.

The clouds behind the cat and ghost are a Stampscapes stamp.

The coloring is with copics.

The ribbon from Michaels.

Dazzling diamonds from SU for some bling.

This is actually the 2nd card I did for this challenge.  I really don't care for the first one.  Not sure what I should have done with it.  Just doesn't seem 'right'.  I am including a look at it in hopes someone will know what to do with it.  (short of just pitching it, which is what my first inclination was!)

Anyway, that all folks!

Sketch Challenge

Today is the start of the first sketch challenge for the month of September for Our Craft Lounge.  They post a challenge every Friday on their blog and at the end of every month they give away one of their amazing stamp sets in a random drawing from the projects submitted.  They also have blog hops with each new release.  You have a great chance of winning one of their new sets during these hops!  Todays sketch was a wonderful one to follow.  Go to the site, check it out and get out your stamps!

The cardstock is an off white, the bottom 3rd was embossed with my CB swiss dots folder.

The ribbon and brads are from Michaels. 

The DP is from 'Hot off the Press'.

Dazzling Diamonds glitter from SU and Atyou Spica Clear pen for shine

Main image and sentiment were stamped with Memento inks and clear embossed with Ranger fine detail clear embossing powder.  The other colors were sponged with Mememto inks.

Everything except the DP and ribbon is up on pop dots.

The images and sentiments are all from OCL

Dandy Days:  the flowers

Fairy Dust is a Must:  the sentiment

Natures Notes:  the butterfly.

These great stamp sets are beautifully used within their sets and many of them easily mix and match to make them quite useful (and thrifty)!

CPS-card sketch

This is my 2nd post today.  This card is for the CPS card sketch.  It is basically a CAS sketch that you 'doctor up' with your own ideas.  I kept mine very simple and relied on the embossed DP to carry the card.

The card base is black cardstock.

The DP is embossed paper I got in a variety pack of  black papers from Costco years ago.

The sentiment is from OCL set 'Say it Big'

Copper Imbossing on sentiment by Al `a Mode

Ribbon from my stash

Inky Dinky Dew Drops from Inky Inspirations sit just above the ribbon.

On the inside,

...is a sheet of Neenah solar white cardstock

Punched with EK success punch to dress it up!

OCL Sketch Challenge

Every Friday Our Craft Lounge posts a new sketch challenge for their followers and friends.  At the end of the month, they do a random drawing for with winner a set of their stamps.  Winner gets to pick the set! 

I have just gotten off a horrendous stretch of 12 hr shifts in the ER (8 out of 9 days) and am definitely ready for some time in my craft room without anything more serious to think about or decide about than layout and colors! 

Here is my entry into the challenge that was posted on last Friday.

Image:  OCL - Hangin Loose with Kona (turtle and sentiment)

Image:  Bird's Cards (VW bus)

Coloring:  Copics, Memento Ink, atyou spica, Sakura glaze pen

DP:  DCWV pack 7 (wave)

Shapes:  Oval scalloped nestie

Scrap basket:  plaid paper, fish buttons and raffia

This is a wonderful image set to work with.  Makes me think of summer not matter the weather (raining here).  Turtle, sentiment, VW all up on pop dots.

I WON! OCL blog hop candy

I am sooooo excited.  I won another stamp set from the recent Our Craft Lounge blog hop celebrating the release of their latest stamps.  This is the set that Cami had, the cute fortune teller with her crystal ball.  It is called Crystal-Clear.  How cute is this!?!

After a wonderful day coloring with Cami and Kisa on Saturday, this just really is the frosting on the cake.  Thanks very much to Cami and Our Craft Lounge for the candy!

Sketch and a class

Today I am posting the card I made for this weeks sketch challenge over at Our Craft Lounge.  It is a beautiful sketch, probably as close to a CAS card I will ever get (LOL)!  The stamp set was designed by Kisa and is based on her children.  It is truly beautiful!

This image is printed on Neenah Solar White, colored with copics.  The DP are scraps with ocean prints from my scrap basket.  The ribbon is embossed in white with shells (hard to photograph).  It came from Inky Inspirations as a freebie when I placed an order with them.  The punch is EK success.  Very quick and simple card once I figured out how to NOT put on "all that extra stuff"!

I spent today at Memories of Time (my LSS) in Coos Bay, Oregon.  Cami and Kisa had a copics coloring day that lasted for *gasp* HOURS.  It was a blast.  Their partner in OCL, Joy and a couple of copic gurus from Portland came down to play with us also.  They gave away cool kits to everyone who came-OCL stamp sets, Copic refill, flowers, perfect pearls from Ranger (Tim is a friend on Joy's and gave her them to give us!) and a spray mister bottle.  They also did name drawings all day long.  I won one which had a couple of hero arts stamps, a package of flowers from kaiser, x-press it high tack tape sample roll and a package of self stick gems from kaiser!  What a haul!  All this and we also got some great tips on working with copics.  Especially "Just Do It"  which was Cami's battle cry for the day.  Below are the cards and the tag that I completed while at the class.  The images are all from Our Craft Lounge.

This was a really great day.  Nice people, good instructors and some really good food!

CDAC Thank you giveaway

CDAC is having a Thank you giveaway. The winner will get a Genius MousePen 8" x 6" Graphic Tablet.

  The rules are:
1. You must be a member of CDAC since this is candy to Thank our members.


2. Display the CDAC member badge on your blog sidebar (see badge on the right sidebar or click here for help)

3. Add a photo of this prize/candy to your sidebar and link it to the front page of CDAC (http://priscillastyles.ning.com/)

4. Blog about CDAC and this prize and link the blog post to Mr. Linky below. (link your "my page" if you do not have a blog)

5. Meet some new people by following and comment on 5 New Groups here on CDAC

6. Follow the "priscillastyles" Group and Blog

7. Buy at least two digi from any of the digital artists here on CDAC between now and Sept 13th. We all appreciate the business here on CDAC so these purchases are based on the honor system and I would like to thank you in advance for your support to our artists.

**If you don't have a blog that is ok too...just follow the steps above and in place of steps #2 & #3 , please email at least 10 friends about CDAC and any help with spreading the word about CDAC is appreciated. ** note- no comments needed below ******You MUST do all the STEPS above to QUALIFY*****
 
CDAC is a great place to go to participate is all forms of digital crafting.  Many of the most popular digital artists are participating.  They have both art to sell and freebies.  The members have galleries and contests to compete in.  Come to the CDAC and join one group or all of them!!

Wishing you a bee-utiful day.............

Today is the new sketch at Our Craft Lounge.  A simple layout with lots of potential!

The card is a 5 x 5 of black cardstock.  The DP is part of a paper from DCWV.  The ribbon is from a garage sale.  The images are OCL, 'Bees Knees'.  The hive and the bees are on pop dots.  The top and bottom of the card base are embossed with my big shot.

This was a quick 20 minute card.  (Cutting the bees out for dimension to the longest time)!