Angel Gilli

Hi There,

I am back with my project as guest designer. This is my take on the monochromatic theme this week.

I am using Angel Gilli for my card. Isn’t she pretty. This is the second time that I have used Angel Gilli and I love coloring here. anaRy has designed her so that you can create pleats in her gown if you like. Coloring pleats and folds are one of my favorite types of coloring at the moment. I kept the card more on the simple side because I didn’t want to take away from Angel Gilli’s beauty. She is colored in the earth tones of copics.

The papers are from My Minds Eye Lost and Found Christmas collection. I love this collection of papers it is muted but yet with very pretty designs. I have also added a few brown pearls and brown satin ribbon to finish it off. I hope that you will jump in and give the monochromatic challenge a try.

I also want to take a moment to thank anaRy again for inviting me to be a guest designer. This has been fun.

Thanks - Outlawz Friday Challenge

Hi there,

Hope everyone had a great week. Can you believe that it is November all ready. Good grief next thing you know it will be Thanksgiving. Guess I better starting watching for the turkey's in the store.

Well it's Friday at the means the Friday Copic/Pro Maker challenge over at The Outlawz.

This weeks theme is Thanks. What does that mean? Well think Thanksgiving, things that you are thankful for. Just remember your image must be colored using Copic or Pro Markers. The project must be new and no back linking. Have you checked out the awesome prizes from our equally awesome sponsors?

My card this time around is one that I dug an old stamp out and dusted it off. I had purchased this stamp years ago long before the Copic markers made it big in the stamp world. I kept looking at this stamp wishing I could come up with a great way to color it without losing the details of the stamp.

Well with the Copic markers you can. I was very happy with how this came out. I wanted to keep it simple so no DP for this one just some solid colored layers and Happy Thanksgiving.

I masked of the edge of the cardstock and sponged on with some versa color ink to soften it.

I hope you liked my card today and that you will join in on the challenge this week at The Outlawz

Thanks for stopping by.

New DT at TTCRD

Hi there,

I have wonderful news. I was asked to become a member of the Design Team for Through the Craftroom Door Magazine. This is a crafting magazine published by Suzanne Dean and Marti Wills. They have two challenges a month. You should stop over and join in on the fun.

For my first project I am using a digi image from Karber. They are also the sponsor for this challenge. The prize for the winner will be three of their images, winners choice.

The theme is "Fall" in Love, must have leaves and use the color brown or tan or kraft.

I have colored my image with my Copics. I added some stickles to her wings and star on her wand.

I also added some punched leaves and a die cut leaf branch.

The papers are Bo Bunny Forever Fall collection.

I hope you have enjoy my card and will stop over and join in on the fun at TTCRD.

I also will be entering this into The Paper Players Challenge - Anything goes

Thanks for stopping by today.

She's an Angel

Hi there,

I am back again. Hope your day is going well. I was able to finish another card today. This one is another Gilli stamp :-). She is for the challenge over at CMC Bookendz. You needed to create a card based on the book read for the month which is The Mercy of Thin Air.

I have colored her with my copics in BV 01 and BV 02 and used my colorless blender to give her dress a more shear look.

Her wings got the stickles treatment. I have added some pretty pearls and some charms I created using shrink plastic and embossing power with my CC Designs die. A pretty white satin ribbon to set it off.

The papers are from Heidi Grace Designs and Deja Views.

I hope you will stop over to the CMC site as well as the Bookendz group and check out the challenges there.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.

House of Gilli Guest Designer

Hi There Everyone,

I was thrilled when anaRy asked me to be a guest designer over at The House of Gilli. anaRy is the designer of these cute images. Gilli just recently celebrated her 1st birthday. anaRy designs Gilli to be used in many different ways. She draws the images so that you can add your own creativity. I think that is one of the things that first caught my eye. She also is very passionate about the quality of the stamps and that they are made in the USA.

Gilli was invited to a party and was able to walk down the red carpet.

The challenge for The House of Gilli is to use texture and something recycled.

I created texture with my cuttlebug embossing folder for the layer at the bottom of the card and on the lenses of the camera.

The recycled items are were items that was used in a note that was sent to me. The bakers twine and the Gilli postage stamps.

I hope that you stop by The House of Gilli and join in the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Happy Halloween....It's The Outlawz Friday Challenge

Happy Friday Everyone,

For all of those who celebrate Halloween, the challenge over at The Outlawz will just up your alley. The theme is Halloween. Make it fun, cute, scary as long as you make it with your Copic or Promarkers.

My images are by Make it Crafty. I have colored with my Copics.

Added some little orange pearls, black seam binding and a plastic spider.

The paper is Authentique Glowing 6x6 paper pad.

I hope you will join us this week. Remember you project must be new for the challenge and no backlinking. You also must use Alcohol based markers such as Copic and Promarkers on your images.

The Outlawz

Copic/Promarker Challenge Oct 21st

Happy Friday Everyone,

Hope your week has went well.

Today's challenge over at The Outlawz is Asian Theme.

Today I used a Magnolia stamp and my new butterfly die from All that Scraps.

The background is really a napkin. I cannot think of the type of napkin I have had these for years. I thought it went well.

My image is colored with copics. I cut her out so that I could match the dimension of the butterflies.

Please remember that the project must be colored using Copic or Pro makers and must be a new creation. No Back Linking. I hope that you will come join us for this weeks challenge.

Thanks for stopping by

Think Pink

Happy Friday,

I hope you have had a great week. It is really beginning to feel and look like fall here.

There are a lot of home decorated for fall and Halloween.

Well this is not only my birthday month but way more important it is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I hope all of my lady followers have scheduled their appointments for their mammogram. I have although it is in November it is schedule. Please do the same. Remember better to have it done the find out too late.

So with that here is the challenge for this week over at The Outlawz CPC today. I hope you didn't party too much last week during our party that you can't play. The week it is Breast Cancer Awareness/Pink or Opal. Take your pick. Just make sure it is colored with your Copics or Promakers and it needs to be new creation for the challenge and no backlinking.

Here is what I came up with for the challenge.

The image is by Tickled Pink. They had a special offer on 4 digi stamps that all of the proceeds went to breast cancer awareness. She colored with my copics.

The DP is some that I had picked up at Michaels a while back. The verse was part of the digi's that TP was selling.

The butterflies are cut from a CC Designs die cut. I added the little antennas. I colored some white pearls with my Copics to match. I hope you have enjoyed the card. It was really fun to make.

Thanks for stopping by for a visit. Enjoy your weekend. Be sure and check out my previous post for my new video I made to go along with my other glue gun pearls.

New Video

Hi there,

Hope your week is going well. It is raining and just plain yuck here.

I have added another video to my Hot Glue Gun Series.

I couldn't get the angle just right. Sorry about that. But if you have seen my other two video you should be able to follow along.

This video show you how to make pearl sprays and icicles that you can use for embellishments that you can use in your card making.

I hope you like it.

I am reposting the other two videos for reference here as well.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will give this a try. They are a fun alternative to the pre-made pearls and pearl embellishments. Don't forget to stop back tomorrow for the new card challenge for The Outlawz CPC group.

Blog Hop Winner

Happy Monday Everyone,

Just a quick post to let everyone know who the winner was for The Outlawz Blog Hop prize for your visit to my blog stop.

Congratulations to DQ.

DQ said...

Lovely card, and great tutorial!

October 4, 2011 4:21 AM

DQ I have sent you a comment via The Outlawz site.

Thank you to everyone for your participation during our 1000 member party. It was so much fun for us. We received so many wonderful comments on our blogs as well as on The Outlawz site. The Party was a huge success. We hope that you all enjoyed it. We will resume our regular daily challenges now. Be sure to stop by and check them out.

Keep watching The Outlawz site for the announcement of the prizes for the games and challenges. The winners will be announced on or before Wednesday 3PM EST.

Party, Party, Party oh and a card!

If you have arrived for The Outlawz Blog Hop please click here or scroll down.

Happy Thursday Everyone,

Have you visited The Outlawz 1000 member party yet? Did you say no? Oh my you should really check it out. There is over $800 plus worth of prizes being given away. What do you have to do for those prizes? You pick what you want to enter. There are two scavenger hunts for $100 gift certificates for Oozak and SCACD. Scavenger hunts can be fun. Heck it will give you a chance to pick out what you want if you win the gift certificate. :-)

That's not all. There are 7 yes 7 challenges all going on right now. Make 7 cards based on the 7 challenge themes and that will give you 7 chances to possibly win 7 prizes. They say the number 7 is lucky. See a trend here?

There is even more games. DT Pryn and Rona are hosting 3 more games to play along for prizes Bingo, Name that tune and Word Scramble.

What are you waiting for? Just click here to head over and join in.

On to my card for today.

This card is a Z-Fold card. The Outlawz are hosting a blog hop see my post of Monday October 3rd. I was a stop on the hop. Each of us have given a tutorial on our blogs. Wow are they all fabulous. Mine is the Z fold card that I modified. The one I did for the challenge is fall themed. My card today is Christmas. Never to early to get a jump on those cards.

This image is by Silvia Zet for SCACD. Isn't she so cute walking with her little teddy bear? She is colored with my Copics.

The DP is all old from my collection. I cut the snow flake with my cuttlebug die.

I added some glamour dust for the snow and fur trim. As well as on the snow flakes.

If you would like to learn how to make this modified version of the Z-Fold card please visit my October 3rd post for a Video and PDF tutorial of this card.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure and check out The Outlawz and join in on the 1000 member party fun.

PARTY TIME At The Outlawz

Well Hello There and Welcome to The Outlawz 1000 member party.

Boy do we have lots of fun in store for you. This blog hop is just the beginning. We have games, scavenger hunts, tutorials and more. If you have arrived from Sharri's blog you are right on track. If not you may want to start from the top with our founder and card maker extraordinaire Colleen.

Wow, did you see all of the challenges and inspiration my fellow Outlawz DT mates have for you?

How exciting is that? And on each blog in the hop there will be a tutorial at how to make something crafty. Oh did I mention prizes? :-) OH YEA we have lots of them from a ton of wonderful sponsors to help make this celebration FANTASTIC.

What does the Copic/Promaker team have in store for you. If you haven't seen our challenge yet head on over and check it out. I think our team out did themselves this time. If you have noticed the trend that all of the challenges have a theme of Fall but each with a little something different. The CPC team's theme is to create a card with a fall theme and a different kind of folded card. Of course you must use Copics or Promarkers.

As inspiration we decided to make the same "type" of card but we have changed up the dimensions, shape and or layering on some of them. Our card is the Z fold card. Below you will find a video and PDF tutorial so that you can make one of these. We have also included the different variations as well.

Do you have to make this card style fold for the challenge? Oh no, not at all but if you want to feel free.

Z Fold Tutorial PDF

Okay, what did you think? Hope you enjoyed the tutorials. We invite you to join our challenge as well as all of the challenge. The more you enter the better chances you have for one of the fabulous prizes.

Speaking of prizes. Be sure to comment on all of the blogs along the way to be eligible for 9 yes 9 prizes! Each blog is giving away a prize and one random grand prize will be drawn at The Outlawz for those of you who have commented on every blog and enter your name into Inlinkz here

Prize for Copic/Promaker Hop some terrific digi's. Who can't use more images to color with those Copic or Promakers?

Please Note: In order to win the prizes, your name must match the name you have joined The Outlawz with. If your blogger name is a different name then what you joined The Outlawz with, you will need to sign the comment you leave with the name you used to join The Outlawz so we can can find you.

Now don't forget you have one blog left so make sure you hop on over to Rona's blog and see what she has in store for you.

Blog Hop Line Up In case you missed one.

Colleen Holmes

Maureen Merritt

anaRy Baumgarth

Brenda Ogle

Sandi Huggett

Sharri Steffens

Jo Ham (that's me)

Rona Mallard

Thanks for stopping by and joining in on the fun.

Party Starts Soon

Happy Sunday,

Hope to see you at the PARTY. Watch for the blog hop starting at 12:01 AM. You should see all the wonderful sponsors for our event.

Special Birthday Card

Hi there,

My card today was for a very special persons birthday. It was her 60th birthday. Even though it was planned at a park it ended up in the house because again Mother Nature at her finest. She slammed us with more rain that of course had the park a little messy.

All went well though. She was surprised and everyone had a great time.

The image is one by The Paper Shelter.

Look at the chocolate icing. Yummmm... LOL

Colored with my copics. Some different colors of liquid pearls were added as the topping sprinkles on the icing.

The tickets are done with my Paper Trey Ink die and stamp set on acetate with white Staz-on ink. I piece of ribbon and some glitter pearls are added to give it a little something.

I don't normally do the inside of my cards I make until they are ready to be used. This one I masked a couple of stamps to make the present to look like it was behind the other. I added some more tickets. The scallop is a punch and the stamp is by DRS designs to outline the punch.

I hope you enjoyed the card.

I am entering this in The Paper Shelters challenge this week.

Thanks for stopping by.