E for Embellish over at The ABC Challenge

Good morning my lovelies I hope you are all having a good start to your Saturday.  Its going to be a quiet one here today me thinks as hubby is out at work all day, the kiddies are still in their pj's watching films and I've holed myself up in my craft room for an hour with a latte and matchmakers, mmmm good start to the morning!!! 

Anyway, as its the 1st today it means its time for a new challenge over on The ABC Challenge and we've moved on to the letter E for this challenge so that's 'E' for Embellish and we would like to see three or more embellishments on your creation please.  We are being sponsored by Kenny K and Bunny Zoes so some great prizes to be won and I got to play with Club Kid by Kenny K.

Okay so here's my card and I've gone a little clean and simple with this one and just love it.

Image:  'Club Kid' by Kenny K

Medium:  copics

Papers:  First Edition 'Love Letters'

Embellishments from stash

The usual close up so you can see the fab image.  

Copics list

Face/Body:  E000, E00, E11, R20, R30

Hair:  E11, E13, E15, E29

Clothes/Shoes:  W0, W1 W2, W3, W5, W7/B91, B93, B95, B97, B99/

R81, R83, R85/ Y21, YR23

Ok I'm off to enjoy my latte and have a mooch around blogsville.

Take care and happy crafting.

Ann-Marie

xxx

"Text Me"

Good morning everyone from a rather misty Bournemouth which I'm hoping will burn off later to leave us with another beautiful day.  The mornings and evenings are starting to have that lovely fresh autumnal smell about them and although I will be sad to see the warmer weather go I just love autumn its my most favourite season.

 

As I'm up nice and early today I thought I would load up my latest creation for you.  This time I've used a Kenny K image called 'Texting Diva' which is from Whimsy's latest release.  I've coupled her with the 'Tiny Shapes Die' set which is fab you get three little shaped dies to use and I opted for the heart one on this card.  The image has been coloured up using copics and then once I'd cut it out with my Spellbinders die I just left it all in place and inked around it before taking it out to give me the white border around the image. 

 

Image:  Whimsy Kenny K 'Texting Diva'

Medium:  copics

Papers:  Prima 'Rondelle'

Dies:  Whimsy 'Tiny Shapes' die set, Spellbinders 'Romantic Rectangles', Dienamics 'Crochet' border

 

 

The close up.  Fab image isn't she - she can be used for so many things so a good one to have in your stash I think.  Now I'm not too hot with text speak so I just went with 'lol' which for the purpose of my card is 'lots of love'.

List of copics

Face/body:  E000, E00, E21, E11, R20, R30

Hair:  W00, W1, W3, W5, W7, 100

Trousers:  W1, W3, W5, W7

Top:  YR16, YR23, YR31

Phone/Necklace/Belt:  R81, R83, R85

 

Okay, a couple of challenges I would like to enter this card into:

 

1.  Papertake Weekly  -  anything goes

 

2.  Simon Says Stamp  -  anything goes

 

Right time for me to toodle on off now folks.  Its my little girl's last day at home today so we have some serious chillin out to do.  We've got a tinkerbell film lined up with the obligatory popcorn and chocolate fest and maybe a batch or two of cookie making.  My boy had his first day of senior school yesterday and he came home buzzing so I was happy as I had been worried all day that he would hate it.  Today will be the tester though as yesterday it was just the new Year 7 but today the whole school is back so we'll see. 

 

Take care everyone and catch up with you soon.

 

Ann-Marie

xxx

 

 

Howdy cowboy!

Good morning everyone I hope you are all well and having a good week so far.  We went on a little uniform shopping trip yesterday and started getting my boy's secondary school kit.  Well what can I say when he tried on that blazer - I think it suddenly hit home that my little boy is not so much my LITTLE boy anymore he looked so grown up. 

 

Okay onto my card.  Again I'm here to show you a little Whimsy inspiration today and its something different for me - I made a card for a man.  I don't do it very often but these images from Kenny K are just perfect.  I used the new Cheyenne from Whimsy's newest July release and she can be found HERE.  I also used the new sentiments set 'Giddy Up' by Raindrop Echo Designs.  It has some fab sentiments in it and also the 'Wanted' poster and even a cowboy hat stamp so really useful and can be found HERE in the Whimsy Store.

 

Image: 'Cheyenne' by Kenny K for Whimsy Stamps

Sentiments:  'Giddy Up' by Raindrop Echo Designs

Medium:  copics

Papers: Nitwits

 

Okay a quick side view.  I used foam pads to raise up the sentiments and 3d gel to raise the image up.

 

 

The papers were ones I printed out again and are from Nitwits as is the cowboy frame with barrel and boots and stuff.  I didn't want to over embellish the card as the background was quite busy but did add a little string and tied it sort of like a lasso around the wanted poster.

 

Last piccie is a close up.  

 

List of copics

Skin:  E000, E11, E21

Hair:  E31, E35, E37, E29

Clothes/boots/gloves:  B91, B93, B95, B97, B99/ R43, R46, R59

 

I've just seen actually on the close up that I forgot to go around the edge of the image with a black pen so you can see little bits of white where I've cut her out.  That's just going to annoy me now but that's what you get for doing it at 2 a.m.!!!

 

Challenges I would like to enter

 

Papertake Weekly  -  anything goes

 

Okay time to go and do a little colouring I think.  The kiddiewinkles are happy on the Xbox so I'm going to grab me some crafty time for half hour.

 

Catch up with you soon folks, take care

Ann-Marie

xxx