Mojo Monday 112

Woohoo! It's only Tuesday and I have my Mojo Monday card done for this week! I do believe in miracles...I do, I do!!!

I had fun with this sketch after I decided I would use this little Stampabilities mouse as my image. Click for a close-up look at how glittery the card is.

Here are the details:

The candy strip DP is by My Minds Eye, the sparkly white is glimmer paper by The Paper Sutdio and the dark red paper is Bazzill. I colored my image with copics and prismacolor pencils. As I said in my last post, I don't have a lot of copic colors yet, so I struggled a bit with this poor mouse's ears. They turned out more orange than pink like I planned. Obviously, I'm going to have to find a better pale pink for things like mouse ears and cheek color. I'm open to suggestions from the copic pros out there. Back to the card...I added some white sparkly fluff to the mouse's hat, then punched out the image with a circle punch and mounted it to a nestie. I used CB embossing folders on the two white pieces and then punched the mice with MS's mouse border punch. I created the sentiment on my computer and then punched that with a SU label punch. I sponged the edges with SU Riding Hood Red and then backed the label with red that I punched with the label punch and then cut in half, and overlapped on the ends. Finally, I added 2 clear rhinestones for accent on the ends of the sentiment, a glitter brad on the half circle on the top and some irredescent Offray ribbon behind the brad . Oh yes, I also attached a couple of individual mice strategically placed on the bottom of the card. I hope that's not overkill. What do you think?

Thanks for stopping by again:))

Sweet Sunday 43

Wow! Could it really be Sweet Sunday 43 already? I remember doing Karen's first Sweet Sunday sketch and it seemed like yesterday. I've only missed a few of Karen's sketches when life was just too busy.

I've been waiting for a sketch like this so I could ink up this cute Penny Black image. I'm still a beginner with these copics, and I don't have all the colors I would like yet, so please bear with me. I'm definitely going to have my own style.

Here are the card details:

Both DPs are Bo-Bunny and I love them together. The blue paper is SU's Baja Breeze and the brown is Bazzill. I double stamped the Penny Black image so I could cut out the Santa face on the second image and pop it over the original. I used a nestie to cut out the image and then backed it with the Baja Breeze which I handcut. The border is MS's icicle border punch. I punched that out of some scrap glitter paper. To finish it off I added a Heidi Swapp ghost snowflake. On top of that I layered a snowflake punched with a MS punch from glitter paper and put a heart brad through the center of both. The image and snowflake are both popped on dimensionals.

Thanks for stopping by to take a peek.

Mojo Monday 111

Here is my creation for this week's Mojo Monday sketch. We've been having such nice weather lately that it's been hard to think about card crafting. Somehow I did manage to get a few cards done this week.

The snowflake DP is by Kelly Panacci. The blue cardstock is from my scrap pile and the purple is SU's new Razzleberry as is the ribbon. I embossed the snowflake design on the blue paper with my new CB border embossing folder and then scored a few lines for accent down the sides of the paper. The image and sentiment are from a clear acrylic Inkadinkadoo set called "O Holy Night" and both are stamped with SU razzleberry ink and cut out with nesties. I inked around the edges of the sentiment and then added some rhinestones on some of the circles above and below the sentiment as well as on a few of the snowflakes. I also added some glitter pen to around the star on the sentiment and around the halo on the baby Jesus. Finally, I added the silver snowflakes that I found in my stash and took the liberty of placing them a bit different than the sketch did. This card will probably go to my Mother-In-Law, who will really appreciate a religious card.

B-Day Card for my daughter

Just a quick post of my daughter's birthday card. She loves shiny, glittery cards so I think she'll like this one.

I used my new candy cane stripe CB embossing folder on some shiny red paper for the background. Then I added some shimmer white paper embossed with my swirls CB folder.
I heat embossed both the image and the sentiment. Both are from and Inkadinkadoo clear acrylic set called "Birthday Sentiments". I double stamped the image and cut out and popped the gift box and a number of stars on dimensionals. The backing papers on the image and sentiment are also shiny papers. Finally, I added a red cord bow to the bottom half of the gift box. Thanks for taking a peek.

We are currently enjoying some unseasonably nice weather here in Wisconsin. Temps are in the 60's today with lots of sunshine. I hear more is on tap for tomorrow. Woohoo! Hope your day is filled with sunshine no matter where you are.

Mojo Monday 110

My take on this week's Mojo sketch. I just found this Prickly Pear snowman today and couldn't wait to ink him up. I thought I would have another go with my shimmery blue and white cardstock for this card.

Here are the card details:

The shimmer paper is from The Paper Studio. The background white was embossed with a brand new CB embossing folder that came in the mail today. It's a larger size than the previous folders, so it works nicely on a 5x5 card. I also got that cute border embossing folder with the trees and house on it today and thought it would fit on this card nicely. My snowman was stamped and colored with copics. I'm still very green with copics so bear with me while a try to perfect some type of technique..lol. I added some sparkly fluff to the snowman's mittens and scarf and below him for snow. Then I used my Jelly Roll glitter pen to highlight the dots on the CB folders, the stars, the holly, the roof on the house and at the snowline. The sentiment is SU which I embossed with versa mark and SU's irridescent ice to make it sparkly. Finally, I added the silver gemstones around the sentiment and some Kaiser red pearls to the holly berries (I added the pearls after I took my picture and I was too lazy to take another picture, so you just have to use your imagination).

Hope you all had a great Halloween (if you celebrate it)!

Sweet Sunday 41

Here is my take on this week's Sweet Sunday challenge. It turned out to be a rather shimmery sparkly card after all was said and done and I got to use a few new nesties that I recently picked up.

Here are the details:

My shimmer blue and white paper are from Archivers. The snowman and sentiment are from Stampendous Snowplace clear acrylic set and the tree is from Recollections Winter Wonderland clear acrylic set. The background stars and dots is from The Angel Company. I colored the snowman and tree with some new copics markers that I recently picked up. I'm slowly getting accustomed to them. I added some glitter to the stars in the background, colored the star on the tree with my yellow Spica pen and added some Sparkly Fluff to the snowman's earmuffs and below the snowman and tree for snow. I love how easy that fluff is to use, even on small areas. Then I added some Kaiser red pearls to the tree for ornaments, cut out the stamped scene with a nestie, sponged the edge with Adirondack Stonewashed blue and mounted it over 2 layers of shimmer paper that I texturized with CB dots and snowflakes embossing folders. The sentiment was stamped, embossed with versa mark and SU irredescent ice, punched out with a circle punch, sponged with blue ink on the edges and backed with blue that was cut with another new nestie. I mounted both nesties with dimensionals.

Thanks for stopping by again. I'm off to carve pumpkins and then on to my Mojo challenge for this week.

Mojo Monday 109

Woohoo! I'm back at last! I feel like it's been forever since I've posted and guess what...it has!!
We had a great vacation in California during the last 2 weeks of September. I've been crazy busy since I got back from vacation and just couldn't find my mojo for card making. I guess this week's Mojo sketch just inspired me....plus I needed a couple extra Halloween cards:) I hope all of you are still out there keeping an eye out for me. I hope to get back into full swing next week with at least 2 cards a week again.

Here are the details of my card:

The DP is by Reminisce. The red cardstock is SU Ruby Red. The black piece on the bottom is the reverse of the DP which I texturized with a CB embossing folder. The image and sentiment are SU. I double stamped the dog and colored him with prismacolor pencils, then cut out and popped the second doggie over the original one. I used MS's web and goo edge punches for accents (I love both of these for Halloween). I added some piercing around the sentiment and image and on the red strip below the image. Finally, I punched and popped a spider below the sentiment and added the shiny bat (from my stash) as a substitute for the bow shown on the sketch. I'm thinking of sending this to my sister with her Halloween chocolate. It would be oh so appropriate. Thanks for stopping by:))