Month: April 2011

Peppermint

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Today we’re showing off the new Sugar ‘n Spice Dolls at Little Miss Muffet Challenges blog and I’m excited to introduce to you four newest girls, or I should say dolls. ;D This one is named Peppermint and she’s all ready for school probably waiting at the bus stop. I made this card for a little girl and used bright primary colors with a touch of bling.


Preview: Little Miss Muffet New Releases – Day 1
Challenge: Stampin’ Sisters in Christ #83 (card for a kid)
Challenge: The Crafty Pad Challenge #115 (flowers [brads])
Challenge: I Did it Creations Challenge #49 (anything goes)
Challenge: Craft Your Passion Challenge #52 (anything goes)
Main Stamp: Peppermint (LMMS)
Patterned Paper: scraps (DCWV)
Metal Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 4

Copic Markers colored on Copy Paper:
-skin: E000, E00, E11, R11, R12
-hair: E30, E31, E35, E37
-clothes/other: R21, R22, R24, R29, YR21, YR12, YR14, YR18, Y32, Y35, YG11, YG13, YG17, BG000, BG01, BG02, BG05, BG07, BG09, BV000, BV00, BV02, BV04, BV08, W2, W3, W4, W6, W8

Did you know? “Della mercatura e del mercante perfetto” written by Benedikt Kotruljević around 1400 was the first bookkeeping manuscript and trade manual, aka Accounting. Several historians show the manuscript being written in 1458 and as the oldest known manuscript on the double-entry bookkeeping system, predating Luca Pacioli’s claim by at least 36 years.
[Della Mercatura e del Mercante Perfetto, Wikipedia.org]

Cooking Tilda with Wooden Spoon

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Here she is, “Cooking Tilda with Wooden Spoon”… well at least I think that is her name. I finally got around to putting this one on a card and kept the embellishments in the background so she’ll stand out more. As you can see I also had to add a face. 😀 This little smirk appears to work out well and this time I also added lashes.


To read more about the details on the background of this image then check out my Tip, Tricks & Techniques post. 😀

Main Stamp: Cooking Tilda with Wooden Spoon (Mag)
Patterned Paper: scraps
Chipboard: Love Heart Swirls (MiC)
Metal Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Seventeen and Magnolia Doohickey Cherry Lace
Copic Colors:
-skin: E000, E00, E11, E13, E15, R11, R12
-hair: W2, W4, W6, W8
-clothes: E40, E41, E42, E43, R30, R32, R35, R37, R39, G20, YG17, YG25
-spoon: E35, E57, E59
-background: E50, E51, E53, E41, E42, E43, R000, R12, R14, YG21, G24, T0, T2, T4, T6, 0

Did you know? Studio Ghibli, Inc. is a Japanese animation film studio founded in June 1985. The company’s logo features the character Totoro (a large forest spirit) from Hayao Miyazaki’s film My Neighbor Totoro. The name Ghibli is based on the Arabic name for the sirocco, or Mediterranean wind, which the Italians used for their Saharan scouting planes in the Second World War, the idea being that the studio would blow a new wind through the Japanese anime industry.
[Studio Ghibli, Wikipedia.org]

Monster Dreams

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Here’s another background sky I tried to make after having success with the last one behind Tilda. I wanted to try a sunset, however, the colors didn’t work out so I started adding browns and blacks to create a nighttime sky. Once the coloring was done I added stars with a white pen.


Challenge: Designers Choice Challenge (create a scene)
Challenge: Penny’s Paper Crafty Challenge #5 (1 image, 2 embellishment types, 3 papers)
Challenge: The Paper Variety 1-2-3 Challenge (1 image, 2 embellishment types, 3 papers)
Main Stamp: Monster Dreams (LMMS)
Metal Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities Deckled Rectangles and My Favorite Things Die-namics Jumbo Scallop
Copic Colors:
-monster: G40, G82, G94, G99, B91, B93, B95, B97, B99, R11, R12, R14
-ice cream: E35, E55, E57, E59
-grass: G21, G28, YG63, YG67, YG99
-sky: (reds, yellows, oranges, browns and blacks)

Did you know? Ondines are elementals, enumerated as the water elementals in works of alchemy by Paracelsus. Ondines are said to be able to gain a soul by marrying a man and bearing his child. The German folktale of Ondine, a water nymph who curses her unfaithful husband to cease breathing if he should ever fall asleep again, is the basis for “Ondine’s Curse,” the historical term for congenital central hypoventilation syndrome, in which the afflicted lose autonomic control over breathing, placing them at greatest risk when they are asleep.
[Ondine, Wikipedia.org]

Circus Tent

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This week at Make it Colourful the challenge theme is to color bright colors and I couldn’t resist using the new Make it Crafty Carnival images!


The sponsor this week is Whimsy Stamps so I added a few Meljen’s images for a grand parade. I added lots of embellishments too and of course used my favorite paper from last week! The tent banner was first inspired by one of my teamies who came up with a more creative name… that’s just a teaser so head on over to the Make it Colourful challenge blog to see which one. ;D


Here’s the Circus Tent background before it was mounted on the card. The sky was created with the Copic airgun and I used three of the BG colors to spray it (BG11, Bg72 and BG75). The angle of the airflow was a bit awkward and not what I’m used to. Plus I wasn’t able to adjust the airflow with the single can setup so I’ll have to work at my technique.


DT Challenge: Make it Colourful Challenges (bright colors)
Main Stamp: Circus Tent (MiC)
Patterned Paper: Stella and Rose Mabel (MME), Patriotic Bear (MD), Noah’s Loving Elephants (MD), Giraffe’s Necktie (MD) and Life is a Circus (Imaginisce)
Metal Die: My Favorite Things Die-namics Notebook Edge
Copic Markers:
Y000, Y32, Y26, Y35, YR14, YR18, YR21
BG10, BG11, BG72, BG75, BG78
G21, G24, G28, YG67
R11, R12, R14
E50, E51
E42, E43, E44
C1, C3, C5, C7

Did you know? Wilson Alwyn “Snowflake” Bentley (February 9, 1865 – December 23, 1931), born in Jericho, Vermont, United States is one of the first known photographers of snowflakes. He perfected a process of catching flakes on black velvet in such a way that their images could be captured before they either melted or sublimed. Bentley poetically described snowflakes as “tiny miracles of beauty” and snow crystals as “ice flowers.” He captured over 5,000 images of crystals in his lifetime.
[Wilson Bentley, Wikipedia.org]