Tag: Make it Crafty

Bobo Petal Sprite

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I finally got the colored image onto a journal page for the Make it Colourful challenge – coloring snow! To get close up images and details of the scene… check out a previous post HERE. The images I used are all from Make it Crafty: Bobo Petal Sprite, Festive Elements, Winter Objects and Winter Scene Elements, plus some Snowflake Stars chippies too.


I wanted to keep a feel for winter and snow so I used light colors in the paper and embellishments. The pink was chosen for the ribbon to give more of a focus to Bobo Petal Sprite and pull out those pinks of her petal hair.


The chippes were covered with acrylic dauber paints in a pearl – which looks like a mix between silver and white. Then a quick sentiment was found and that sums ups all the embellishments. Hope you like it and once you get your snow project finished you can upload it into the Make it Crafty Gallery!

“Fantastic Project Award” – Thank Linda for such a sweet reward!

Agent Cupcake Aiming

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Welcome to the second day of previews for Little Miss Muffet Stamps and today I’m showing off the newest Agent in the Operation TREEHOUSE series… Agent Popcorn Aiming! Be sure to head on over to the store to see the Agent Popcorn in her cute pose too. ;D


Phew… this project took the longest time to finish as I had one mental block after another. I had colored Agent Popcorn a couple days ago then printed out a background to work on. However, today I made the mistake of changing out the kids summer clothes for winter ones before crafting and now I wish I had done it the other way around! LOL Now as I “rest” and enter in my details, I’m terribly distracted by a cute little movie called The Gruffalo. It’s darling and I’ll have to get the book from the library tomorrow.


Anyway, back to my project. He he he. This is Agent Popcorn taking aim against the boys next door. But don’t let those jumbo popcorn pellets fool you as I’m sure they’re filled with something gooey… maybe even something smelly too.


The background is Pebblestone Path from Make it Crafty. I had merged the images and printed them out together then realized I wanted to use dimensional for her so I colored the background ignoring the character. This gave me the opportunity to work on the grass and sky without worrying about lines. Afterward I colored the character black in case you could see between the layers. Once the project was finished I used dimensional foam and “popped” that girl right on. Enjoy!

I’d like to enter this into the following challenges:

Lollipop Crafts Challenge #53 – no sentiments
Jen’s Digi Stamps Challenge – fight like a girl
My Mum’s Craft Shop Challenge – food and drink
Shelly’s Images TTT Challenge – anything goes
Use it Tuesday Challenge #17 – metal (I hord these brads and chippies!)

Mitten & Button

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It’s new release week at Little Miss Muffet Stamps and there are four adorable images going out! Today I’m using a couple Animal Friends, Mitten and Button, to create a warm holiday scene next to the Hearth & Home fireplace from Make it Crafty.


These two images were inspired by a few animal friends of my own – our little Ginger was a recent addition to our home but there was already an image of that name so I named her after my childhood pet dog, Mitten. We couldn’t have someone getting a puppy for Christmas without a kitten in the mix too so I drew Button after another past companion.


The Hearth & Home fireplace is from Make it Crafty and gave me another opportunity to color a fire. I wanted to focus on the inside of the fire pit as I wasn’t sure how to color it so this time I looked up images in Google and found a good image to reference. It’s not exact but still turned out nicely.


I colored each of the images large so creating the journal page would be quick and easy. I covered the back with decorative paper, wrapped a large ribbon around and positioned my images. Then added some MiC chippies, couple of pearls and lastly a few snowflake buttons – finished! 😀

I’d like to enter this into the following challenges:

Crafting When We Can Challenge – Christmas
I Did it Creations Challenge #77 – animals
KB Cute Monday Challenge #31 – anything goes
Karen’s Doodles Challenge – animal antics
Make it Monday #59 – anything goes

Mystic

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Here’s a project that I created for the Whimsy Magazine online that was published back in August and if you head on over there you can see the newest release published just last week! The August issue has all the supplies extra supplies listed for this project but the main stamps are Mystic and Birthday Letter Seals from Whimsy Stamps and the Tropical Waterfall from Make it Crafty.


This was actually the first project that I made in my second journal and it wasn’t too long ago that I finished my last page… so I guess to answer that question it takes me two months to fill a large journal. ;D


Most unicorns I’ve seen have been colored white so I wanted to give a try at a black one – but to keep the details showing I colored the tail a fiery orange. To balance out the project I also elements of the waterfall in darker colors too. Oh… and the page behind it is ripped out of a Winnie the Pooh book that I have on hand just for this occasion. ;D Hope you enjoyed the project as much as I enjoyed making it.

Bobo Petal Sprite

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Welcome to another great challenge at Make it Colourful where our theme this time around is “Coloring Snow!” However, first thing is first, the winner of my Blog Candy. Thank you everyone who participated, left comments and hopped with us. ;D

The random winner of my Blog Candy is …

#40 Mary Lou of Mary Lou’s Corner

Congratulations Mary Lou!! Contact me with your name, email and mailing address and I’ll get the package sent off to and on its way!


My project is another coloring sample for our challenge at Make it Colourful and our challenge was to color snow. Don’t worry – I plan to put this on a journal page and show it off next week. For the snow I used the Neutral tones for the majority of it but around lamp post I used Y23 and Y21 for a glow. However, mixed up the glow in the lamp post and should have reversed the dark and light parts – but that’s no biggie.


The trees were a little tricky but I started with the darkest color and tried to leave plenty of uncolored portions for the snow. I also went in with a white Gel pen afterwards for touchups and snowflakes too.

The main character is Bobo Petal Sprite from Make it Crafty and I used several of the new winter elements that were just released… Festive Elements, Winter Objects and Winter Scene Elements. Even though I was coloring a winter scene I still wanted a lot of color and I liked how it turned out. However, after looking at the other DT sample I think I’m going to add some more color and maybe some blue in the snow as well. ;D

Aussie Outback Shack

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It’s October and the perfect time for some spooky creations. This one is the first one in response to the new monthly Make it Colourful Challenge “Spooky Night Sky” and you can find some chatter about it in the MiC Message Board.


To start my project, I first studied the inspirational pictures in the challenge post and noticed a few similarities… for the most part, they were on an angle and monochromatic in a certain color. A couple of them had eerie things in the clouds or moon, spiderwebs, fog, etc. So with these things in mind I merged some images together and tilted the scene 15 degrees to the left.


After printing it out I looked online and found a Mean Skull that I sketched into the moon with a pencil. I wasn’t sure if it was going to turn out so started playing around in coloring the moon I was surprised how it turned out. I was so excited that I started coloring the rest of the image using the Warm grays. With the darkest tones I added my shadows and worked my way to the lighter tones. The clouds were done the same way except I started with the lightest and went darker.


After the whole image was colored in the monochromatic tones I started adding in YG91 and YG93 from the sides inwards. Next time I think I’ll go darker on the outer edges. Next I added the spiderweb using a gel pen. For this I wish I had more branches at the top so I colored some in, however, better positioning of the tree would have been better.


Lastly I thought it could use some eerie mist but I wish I could have applied it differently – I was looking for more of a chalky soft look so I’ll work on that technique next time. Finally I placed the finished image on a journal page and added fun elements such as dripping blood, tombstones and other such things. Hope you enjoy it and come on over to play along in this super duper challenge!