...Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge #57 (MTSC57)

This week I decided to try out my first Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge. On January 1st I was lucky enough to get one of the limited supply stamp sets Happy Day by The Greeting Farm. Oliver and Amelia are Anya & Ian's new friends that will be officially released in March 2010. Well, my daughter is a HUGE American Girl Doll fan and these stamps look VERY similar to her Bitty Baby twins (actually Quadruplets, 2 boys & 2 girls...thanks to birthday, Grandma & Santa 2 years ago) that she LOVES and plays with ALL THE TIME!!! I decided it was time to go out of my element and make a boy card and I used this sketch as a guide to do that.
Here I used papers from My Mind's Eye, colored the image with Copics, used a Fiskars border punch, the dinosaur is Quickutz and other cutting dies are Spellbinders.
I didn't put a sentiment on the front of the card but thought it would make a nice boy birthday card, with the sentiment on the inside.

I hope you like my contribution to my 1st Mercy's sketch challenge, it was a fun card to make. I LOVE these sweet new friends of Anya and Ian and can't wait to show you how I've colored up Amelia. I also have a layout page in the works with the 4 dolls and 4 images....again, reliving my not-so girly girl childhood.

THANK YOU for checking out my creation and I am curious to know what you think of him.
Until next time,
Jodi

Leftovers......for DIE CUTS R US

This week we are suppose to make a new creation from our leftovers of Christmas/Holiday papers and here is what I came up with.


I looked through my papers and found I had enough of the My Minds Eye Colorful Christmas collection to make a nice card. The stamp is a new Wild Sprout from The Greeting Farm which I happened to get in the mail today from DIE CUTS R US, her name is Stella and isn't she precious!!! I colored her with Copics, the ribbon and all Dp is from the Colorful Christmas Collection mentioned above. The cardstock is Bazzill and the cutting dies (embossed and colored frame, labels and flowers) are all Spellbinders.

I hope you like my little "leftover Stella" and thanks for stopping bye to visit.

Have a beautiful day,
-Jodi

CLUB ANYA & FRIENDS Sketch Challenge

Hello,
I made this card for the Club Anya & Friends Saturday Sketch challenge. Here is the sketch we used.
Here is my card based on the sketch
I used this stamp from the Miss Anya Love collection. I colored her with my favorite combination of copics and atyou Spica markers. The papers, hearts and butterfly are from SEI's Jolie Chocolat collection (I think it is SO pretty). The oval dies are spellbinders, the love die and the scalloped circle are from Quickutz. Isn't she sweet?? Perfect for a Valentine. I just LOVE the incredible "people" stamps from The Greeting Farm!!! They are so much fun to color with copics!!

THANKS for stopping at my tiny little creative place and have a GREAT DAY!!! Hope you like her.
-Jodi

DIE CUTS R US Color Challenge

This afternoon as I was checking my blog dashboard list of blogs I came across one announcing a Design Team Call for the store DIE CUTS R US. I knew I had been to the store and Design Team Blog before and remember seeing some beautiful, inspirational projects. So I saw this great color challenge and decided to try it.... and I liked it so much I even decided to apply for the Design Team. I use most of the items they sell regularly and I love them all. The challenge is to take inspiration from the colors they use in their banner below and to create something based on that inspiration.



Here is what I created. I took a look in my stash after looking at the colors and found this paper from an old kit I still had, all of the paper is Collage Press. I used the new Chelsea Wild Sprout from The Greeting Farm and colored her with copics and atyouSpica glitter markers. When I finished coloring I decided I wanted to paper piece her dress instead. The sentiment stamp and frame are from Unity. All die cut shapes are Spellbinders.

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT week!!
Jodi

Sparkle Challenge by Club Anya & Friends

Here's another card I made for one of the New Years challenges over at Club Anya and Friends. I continue to practice coloring, using the markers from the monthly Copic Club at Paper Maniac(if you are interested in just trying copics I highly recommend this club, I have a blinkie you can click on over to the right). Lately I have been working on different skin and hair colorings. Around here we have different skin coloring and it also changes in the summer, so I'm trying to figure out which markers work best. I'm also trying to figure out what I like for our dark brown hair with either red or lighter brown highlights. The skin color on this card turned out darker than I wanted but I still like the look.
I LOVE to add sparkle to my images using the atyou spica twinkle markers over my copics. Here is a close up of her. I also used
Prima Design paper
Bazzill Cardstock
DCWV glitter paper
Basic Grey square purple bling
Spellbinders dies cuts and border
Tattered Angels Dazzling Diamonds glimmer mist
Unity sentiment stamp from the Little Buggers set

THANKS for stopping here!!
-Jodi