Mouse under Partyhat

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I made these cards using Mouse under Partyhat from Whiff of Joy. This was the perfect image to use for birthday card invitations and turned to color easily. I made 30 of them but didn’t do as much shading on the others, as I’m sure you understand. ;D


Main Stamp: Mouse under Partyhat (WOJ)
Copic Colors:
-mice: T1, T3, T5, E55, E57, E59
-hat: YR20, YR21, YR23, R20, R21, R22, B95, B93, B91, G24, G21, G40

Did you know? A rare textile made from the silk of more than a million wild spiders is now display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. To produce this unique golden cloth, 70 people spent four years collecting golden orb spiders from telephone poles in Madagascar, while another dozen workers carefully extracted about 80 feet of silk filament from each of the arachnids. In this unique lamba cloth, the individual threads used for weaving are made by twisting 96 to 960 individual spider silk filaments together. The resulting 11-foot by 4-foot textile is the only large piece of cloth made from natural spider silk existing in the world today.[Spider Silk, American Museum of Natural History]

Boy with Puppy

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I made this card using Boy with Puppy from Elizabeth O. Dulemba‘s Coloring Tuesdays. This is another card my Mom & I made together and we both chose the same Mojo Monday sketch!


Sketch: Mojo Monday – Sketch 157
Main Stamp: Boy with Puppy (EOD)
Patterned Paper: School Spirit Collection (Crate Paper)
Dry Embossing: Co. Texture Plates Nm., Co. Embossing Folders Nm.
Metal Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities Deckled Rectangles
Copic Colors:
-skin: E11, E13, E15, E18, E04
-hair: W3, W5, W7, W9
-clothes: E50, E51, E53, G20, G21, G24, BG11, BG32, BG34
-dog: YR20, WY21, YR23, YR24, E04, W5, W7

Did you know? “De Divina Proportione” is a famous book on mathematics written by Luca Pacioli around 1497 in Milan. Today only two versions of the original manuscript are believed still to exist. The subject was mathematical and artistic proportions and also contains illustrations by Leonardo da Vinci.
[De Divina Proportione, Wikipedia.org]

Millerstein

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I made this card using Millerstein from Simply Betty Stamps for the 12 Days of Halloween Challenge! This time, the challenge is to create a card or project using crows as incorporate the quote given. I thought it would be fun to give Millerstein two different color eyes.


Challenge: Simply Betty – 4th Day of Halloween
Main Stamp: Millerstein (SBS)
Patterned Paper: Blackbird (MME)
Copic Colors:
-skin/eyes: YG91, YG93, E43, E44, E47
-hair: W1, W5, W7, W8
-clothes: E42, E43, E44, E47
-other: W1, W5, W7, W8

Did you know? Frankenstein (or The Modern Prometheus) is a novel written by Mary Shelley. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18 and the novel was published when she was 19 years old in the year 1818.
[Frankenstein, Wikipedia.org]
“On the 4th day of Halloween my ghoul love gave to me… four crazy Ravens.”
Update: I made the top nine at Simply Betty Stamps for this challenge!

A Gift for You

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The challenge this week over at Lollipop Crafts is a 1-2-3 Recipe and to make something using 1 decorative paper, 2 stamps and 3 embellishments. But today is also a special post because we are celebrating a surprise birthday…

Happy Birthday Kim Yu!

We all hope you have a wonderful birthday today and with lots of R&R. 😀


I made this card using A Gift for You from Sugar Nellie Stamps plus a bear from P. Hillman. I saw a wonderful card created by Kim (PaperBabe) and had to try one out, so that is how this layout came about. I also colored the dress following the Color Copic Me coloring clothes tutorial and used fall colors for the Teddy challenge.

Sketch: PaperBabe CASEd
Challenge: Lollipop Crafts – Challenge #11
Challenge: Color Me Copic – Challenge #6
Challenge: Teddy Stampers – Challenge #21
Main Stamp: A Gift for You (SN) and the bear by P. Hillman
Patterned Paper: Best of K&Company (K&C)
Copic Colors:
-skin: E000, E00, E11, R21
-hair: W1, W5, W7, W9
-clothes: E40, E41, E42, E43, E44, E47
-other: YG93, G85, YR20, YR21, YR23, YR24, BG72, BG75

Did you know? Roll-on/roll-off ferries (RORO) are large, conventional ferries named for the ease by which vehicles can board and leave by driving stright in and straight out.
[Ferry, Wikipedia.org]

Cupcake Ruby

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I made this card using Cupcake Ruby from Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps. The challenge is to create a card or project based on the sketch provided. I have a shortage of birthday cards and this is such a cutie to use!


Challenge: Sparkle Creations – Challenge #13
Main Stamp: Cupcake Ruby (SCS)
Patterned Paper: Nook & Pantry (BG)
Copic Colors:
-skin/eyes: E000, E00, E11, R20, R21, R22, E47, E49
-hair: G82, G94
-clothes: R20, R21, R22, R24
-other: T1, T3, E40, E42, E43, E44, E47, E49, BG72, BG75, BG78, R02, R05, R08, YR12, Y11, Y15

Did you know? After a hiatus of over five years, in February 2009, Siegfried & Roy gave their final act with Montecore, their white tiger, as a benefit for The Lou Ruvo Brain Institute. This performance featured one of Siegfried & Roy’s signature illusions, in which Siegfried and Montecore magically switched places from within separate, locked transparent enclosures.
[Siegfried & Roy, Wikipedia.org]

Mini Monsters

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Happy October! I made this card with no stamps but using Mini Monsters Cricut Cartridge instead. This one is the first monster on the cartridge, Icky, plus a few trees that are there too.


Challenge: none
Main Stamp: none, used the “Icky” monster for the main image
Patterned Paper: unknown scraps
Cricut Cartridge: Mini Monsters

Copic Colors: none

Did you know? The “Boredom Dodger” is a manuscript on the game of chess written around 1500 by Luca Pacioli, a leading mathematician of the Renaissance. It was created when rules of the game were evolving to the ones we know today and contains over a hundred chess problems to be solved. The long-lost manuscript was rediscovered in 2006 and has since been suggested that the chess pieces in its illustrations were designed by Leonardo da Vinci.
[De Ludo Scachorum, Wikipedia.org]