Colouring Ground at Make It Colourful

This week at Make It Colourful the challenge is coloring ground. I was inspired by a card that I'd seen on Barbara's (Forgotten Scraps) blog a little while ago and I wanted to try grass for myself.

Zoe gave us a pep talk on the Make It Crafty Facebook group the other day, so I'm not as afraid to say this. This is the best coloring I've ever done. It may not be the best I'll ever do, but that's okay. I often compare myself to the other girls on the MIC team and I get discouraged, but really I should be comparing back to my earlier coloring attempts. Scrolling through my blog, I found these cards - I've come a long way on shading and depth and I'm really proud of that. Well, enough about me. I'm writing this to encourage you to get out your favorite coloring medium and join us in the challenge, if it's your first try or your 100th.

So, now on to my card. I used Pipi who is not yet available in the Make It Crafty store. Zoe gave her as a freebie on the Facebook group to try coloring with no lines (she was already greyed for convenience). I printed her on Make It Colour paper and colored her with Copics. I added grass using thin lines with three shades of green and then added in little pink flowers to match the flowers in her hair. Her hair is my current favorite color combo, it reminds me of Peanut's hair and caramels.

Copic Recipe

Dress BG11, BG13, BG15

Skin E00, E01, E11, R20

Hair (my current favorite color combo) E31, E53, E35

Flowers R81, R83, R85

Grass G12, G14, G16

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

1. Copic Creations #56 - blue greens - I used BG11, BG13, and BG15 for her dress

2. Craft Us Crazy #15 - anything goes

Happy Crafting!

Fish Out Of Water

I was feeling a little down the other day when Meredith showed us this great kit, Fish Out of Water, and I thought the word art would be perfect for a pick-me-up. I designed the inside and outside of the post-it note holder using iScrapbook. I printed it out along with the flower and stars. I glued the inside and outside together. I cut out the flowers and stars and put the stars on with pop dots and the flower on with a small piece of wire so it pops out. I added the post-it notes and there you go.

I'd like to enter this project in the following challenges:

1. Craft Your Passion #71 - anything but a card

2. Paper Crafting Journey #17 - anything goes

Happy Crafting!

Little Miss Muffet #16 Use Multiple Stamps

It's my second challenge as a guest designer with Little Miss Muffet Stamps. This week's challenge is to use multiple stamps. I decided to totally decorate a card. For the front I merged all of Little Miss Muffet's The Hatters with the Crooked Picket Fence from Make It Crafty. The papers are all DCWV.

I colored three of the four hatters in a larger size and used them to decorate each page. Here's the inside of the card:
Here's the back side of the card:
I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

1. The Crafty Pad #134 - cute and girly

2. Tuesday Throwdown #62 - non-stamped sentiment - I used stickers from my stash to create mine.

3. Paper Playtime #53 - anything goes

Happy Crafting!

Bunch 'o Stuff

First things first, you have a few hours left to enter my blog candy!

Second things, I made a purple and lemon Tilda card. I wanted to try pleats and folds on a non-straight dress and work with my purple Copics. I wasn't happy with the way they blend together. I don't have the folds quite the way I want, but I am now happier with purple markers. Then I went for a complimentary color in yellow. I colored her socks first and had to ask DH if they looked like "pee" socks, but things got better when I added more yellow : ) Probably more of a story than you wanted. I went clean and simple on this card, with the addition of just a few lace doilies.

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

1. Magnolia-licious Highlites - use only paper

2. Some Odd Girl - complimentary colors - I used violet and yellow.

3. Totally Tilda #29 - fit for a princess

Third things, here's my journal page for the Week 4 Heart Journal with The Greeting Farm. The theme this week is The Girl in Me. I thought it would be fun to image my life in digi stamps. I used Bride Mae and Baby Snuggle Kaylee from Some Odd Girl, Isabelle and Belle from Little Miss Muffet Stamps, Zoe All Excited from Make It Crafty, Sonny Honeycloud - Poetry from Pollycraft, and 50s Sweetheart from The Greeting Farm. I put them in order of my life, me born, me as a schoolgirl, meeting DH, getting married, graduating with my PhD, and having Peanut. You may be wondering why Zoe is all dressed in orange. These are not my school colors. I was reading about academic degree colors and engineering is orange. If I'd read further, I would have discovered that a Ph.D. should be blue, regardless of the field. I like blue better, too, but she was already colored.

Happy Crafting,

Template Challenge with Meredith Cardall

Meredith has a template challenge on her blog! You can download the great free template and scrap a page using any Meredith Cardall Designs product. You have until Saturday to scrap a page!

I used my favorite model, Peanut, and Meredith's What a Hoot Kit to scrap this sweet page.

Meredith also has a great drawing going on at her blog to win a kit! Hop over and post a comment.

Happy Crafting!

Jen

This Week in Digi Scrap #2

These are my digi scrap pages for this week. Hope you enjoy!

Credits (Scrap Matters):

Brown and white patterned papers, yellow, brown and blue dotted papers, yellow paper, frames, yellow flower, clock, ric rac, blue flower with gem bow, red flower from Make Time by Kim Broedelet Designs

White paper with stars, green patterned paper, plain blue paper and Ric Rac, stitches, buttons, blue and yellow flowers with buttons, vine from Whoo Loves You by Elise's Pieces

Plaid paper, scalloped paper circle, word art from The Good Life by Jenn Barrette Designs

Credits (Brownie Scraps):

Orange and flowered papers, bead scatter, orange flower and frame from Celebrate by Scraps by Mara

Alpha, leaves from Moments by Scraps by Mara and Flutterbye Fairy Designs

Ribbon, bow and ric rac from Monkey See, Monkey Do by Flutterbye Fairy Designs and B2N2 Scraps

Red flower from Brownie Scraps Love Story Collab

Yellow Flower from Every Day by B2N2 Scraps and Marni Designs

Yellow-orange flower from Everyday Moments Brownie Scraps Collab

Yellow gingham ribbon, yellow flower, white button from Brownie Scraps Birthday Bash Collab

Credits:

Papers and elements from Apple of My Eye by Flutterbye Fairy

Font: sf Natalie

This layout won 8/10 Layout of the Day at Brownie Scraps! I was so excited to be picked.

Credits:

Papers and elements from Monkey See, Monkey Do by Flutterbye Fairy and B2N2 Scraps (Brownie Scraps)

Font: Three Dates, One Night

Credits:

Papers and elements from Reflections by Scraps by Mara (Brownie Scraps)

Font: sf Natalie

Credits:

Papers and elements from Aquamarine by Marni Designs (Brownie Scraps)

Template: B2N2 Scraps (Brownie Scraps)

Font: Highland Perk

Credits:

Papers, mouth-watering word art, tiny flower, scalloped circle, green ribbon from Berry-licious by Happy Scrap Girl (Scrap Matters)

Cream paper from Fair are the Meadows by Andilynn Designs (Scrap Matters)

Cupcake, Happy Birthday word art from Birthday Bash Collab by Brownie Scraps

Red flower from Christmas Past by Down this Road Designs (Scrap Matters)

Blue/white and red/white flowers from Cotton Candy Christmas by Stolen Moments (Scrap Matters)

Blue/cream and red/cream flowers from Earth Laughs in Flowers by Graham Like the Cracker (Scrap Matters)

Font: Prissy Frat Boy

Digital Scrapbooking Sites:

9th and Bloom

Brownie Scraps

Scrap Matters

Happy Crafting!

Jen

Computers and Tildas

We have a new addition to the progressive challenge at The Crafter's Cafe - Anything goes with a bow and sparkle. I have a set of 3"x3" cards featuring Swinging Cynthia, New Wings Cynthia, I Love You this Much Cynthia, Seamstress Cynthia, and Cynthia Digi Papers from The Stamping Boutique. You'll have to come back next week to see the finished product.

Peanut found this piece of folded cardboard and immediately claimed it as her "computer." I thought we could build on that with some stickers and glitter. I helped her layout the keyboard and then she decorated the screen and added the glitter mousepad.

Peanut is going to enter this in the kids challenge at The Crafter's Cafe. The challenge is back to school. What almost-four-year old doesn't need a computer for her first year at preschool?

I tried a card with Tilda stamped in dove gray ink to hide the lines. After coloring this image, I think that having an image that you want to have white areas on may not be the best use for the "disappearing" ink. I used Basic Grey (dark red, cream print) and DCWV (light green, flower red) for the papers.

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

1. Sketch Saturday #168 - sketch

2. CES Challenge #49 - papers from two manufacturers

3. Fab 'n Funky #85 - Christmas

4. Just Magnolia #119 - Holiday Fun

5. Secret Crafter #147 - Christmas is coming

6. Magnolia Down Under Challenge #109 - inspired by a song - "Deck the Halls"

7. The Crazy Challenge - monthly Christmas challenge

Happy Crafting!