Poorly Chester

May 20, 2013 ~ sproatmeyer ~ 4 Comments

Oi… it’s Monday! This has been us this past week – all stuffed up with allergies and sinus problems with a few infections here and there. So I thought it was a perfect card to show today! LOL

The images I used are Poorly Chester from Little Miss Muffet Stamps and designed by Pollycraft, and Totally A-Maze-ing from Stampin Up. I’ve wanted to use the maze for a while but it’s so huge that it’s hard to fit on the card. I think I’ve managed to get it one on there okay and also came up with another idea which I’ll show later on.

I think PJs always look cute as the traditional blue and white stripes but this time I wanted to try something different and went with turquoise and yellow to match the paper. And of course, I had to give him a pink nose! LOL

We’re all on meds and we’ll be feeling much better – just in time for the holiday weekend next week. Whohoo… a 3-day weekend!! Then after that, one week of school and the kiddos will be out for the summer. Yeah… that should be fun. 😀

Fancy Marci

February 8, 2013 ~ sproatmeyer ~ 34 Comments

Remember the skin tone step-by-step guide I did a couple days ago using a La-La Land Craft image? We’ll, as promised I finally put her on a card and wanted to share it with you this weekend. To see the tutorial just click HERE and that even shows all the Copic colors I used on this sweetie. Check out my finished project which is both perfect for Valentines and spring…

Isn’t she just adorable! The images I used are Fancy Marci from La-La Land Crafts and That’s the Ticket stamp and punch from Stampin’ Up! The dragonfly chipboard embellishments are from Make it Crafty in a set called Dragonflies (of course! LOL).

For the hexagon aspect, I used a beehive stencil and sprayed Iridescent Spray & Sparkle over the background. (Thank you Ruby!!) The light reflects on it and really adds an interesting element. I’ve also colored the chipboard dragonflies and covered the wings with pink Stickles.

QUESTION: Some of you may be wondering if coloring Marci with a facial personality is allowed – and the ANSWER is: YES of course!! The terms of use state no altering of the image so I’ve deliberately left the line art alone and printed the image the way it downloaded – nothing was change. Now I can safely color using only Copic markers and some “mad coloring skills.” Also check the other awesome examples on the La-La Land Crafts Blog that show fantastic ways to use your coloring! Such as plaids, fuzzy texture, camouflage, hair strands and fabric folds – there so much you can do with your Copics and that’s what makes them so fun!!

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

La-La Land Customer Gallery

MilkCoffee Valentine Challenge – Valentine

Moving Along with the Times Challenge – Girls Only

Crafty Ribbons Challenge #38 – Anything with Ribbon

Copic Marker Europe – Anything with Copic

Simon Says Stamp Challenge – Have a Heart

Make it Monday Linking #126 – Anything Goes

Oozak Challenge #11 – Anything Goes with Favorite Color (Pink/Brown)

7 Kids College Fund Challenge #66 – Hexagons

Stamp and Create February Challenge – Spring

Update: I was a chosen winner for this project at 7 Kids College Fund!

Irene

January 1, 2013 ~ sproatmeyer ~ 2 Comments

Happy New Year! Thirteen happens to be my favorite number so hopefully 2013 will be a lucky year for me. 😀 I wanted to jump on quickly and share a project – I was hoping to have a New Year card to show off but this will be second best. The images I used is Irene and Angel Wings from Little Miss Muffet Stamps; and the sentiment is from Stampin’ Up. (The Angel Wings are on sale right now but you better hurry as I’ll be setting them back to regular price later this week!)

If you can beleive it, I found the large white flower in the clearance bin at the craft store – there were six in the package for only 50 cents! I wish I could have found more because even though the package said Christmas, they can be used year around – and I love the little sparkle and beads on the petals!!

I hope everyone is resting up and having a safe New Year’s Day! I have plans to quilt at Grandma’s house with my daughters so hopefully we’ll get something done in that department too. 😀 Happy New Year!!

Valerie

September 6, 2012 ~ sproatmeyer ~ 8 Comments

Today is the day for another challenge at Little Miss Muffet Challenges and this fortnight we want to see you create with printed paper such as a story book, dictionary, encyclopedia, etc or decorative paper that looks like printed text. This is a theme that is always fun for me, however, I didn’t have time to create a card so I’m going to show an alternative challenge theme – Anything Goes – that is provided that you’ve used a Little Miss Muffet Stamp or Diecut on your project. 😀

My card today uses Valerie from Little Miss Muffet Stamps and the sentiment is from Stampin’ Up (however, I don’t remember the name as I got it off of eBay). Remember those bright blue papers? Well this time I used the gray portion and the colors didn’t turn out as bad – certainly a difference from the neon blue that was coming out on the last card.

The butterfly is metal and was a find at the local scrapbooks store – the hardest part was figuring out when I wanted to use it! I should have bought a couple so I wasn’t hording them but then again, the purpose of buing only one was to not hord them. Such is life, I suppose. LOL

Thanks for coming by and make sure you get a chance to visit the LMM Challenge blog to see all the wonderful creations by the design team – they’ve really out done themselves!!

Gloria

August 30, 2012 ~ sproatmeyer ~ 8 Comments

We have a fun plost over at Little Miss Muffet Challenges this week as we’re in between challenges and new releases – so the design team has created anything they wanted and are showing them today! It’s a post that you don’t want to miss out on! For my project, I used an image that was colored a while ago and decided to adorn her onto a card and this is what I came up with…

For my project I have used Gloria from Little Miss Muffet Stamps as well as the Park Glen Door diecut from Little Miss Muffet Stamps (with the included screen mesh). The sentiment is from Stampin’ Up as is in French which roughly translates to “The day of your birth is the greatest gift.” The paper is from Authentique, I think, and it really is that neon blue!! This is about the sixth time I’ve used and photographed it and the neon always shocks me – just not my taste so I might have to pass the rest of that package off onto my kids. They’ll love it, I’m sure! LOL

It’s the start of school week for my family down to the very last one of us! I started another semester of night school, my two older daughters are going back to elementary school and my youngest has started preschool this year! What I didn’t know was that my husband is taking a technology class for work this week as well!! So we’ve all got school on our minds at this house. 😀 Anyway, thanks for coming by and hope you are all having a great week!

Eglantine Faerie

August 17, 2012 ~ sproatmeyer ~ 19 Comments

Hello bloggers! I have another creation I wanted to share using the new images from Simply Sophia which were releases yesterday. This one is Eglantine Faerie and I think she is adorable all snuggled up next to her familiar. 😀 So with that I went with a soft color pallet and here’s my card…

The sentiment stamp is from Stampin’ Up and the best part bout this card is I was able to use up the rest of my scraps in this paper line which always feel so good. 😀 Thanks for cooming by and if you get a chance you should stop by the Little Miss Muffet Challenge Blog and see wha the design team has done with these awesome new images!!