DT Card for Kenny K

Happy Sunday, everybody! I hope it is starting to thaw out and warm up where you are. It's already getting to be summer here in southeast Texas! Yep, you read that right! It was 82 degrees when I left work this afternoon and I had to run the air conditioner all the way home. I love warm weather but I don't tolerate HOT too well so this time of year is almost perfect for me.

Okay, so there is a new challenge at Kenny K's Krafty Krew that starts today and the theme this time is "Dies and Punches". This should be a favorite for a lot of people with all those gorgeous new dies from Spellbinders, Cheery Lynn and other companies that we drooled over during CHA. They are finally starting to appear in stores and online shops and if you're patient you can even find them on sale occasionally.

Here's my card for the challenge. I used "Miss Thang" and, as always, she is colored with Copics.

In case you weren't aware, Kenny K is now on Facebook and Pinterest!!! Woohoo! We would love to have all our ardent fans follow us so hop on over there and Like us on FB and follow us on Pinterest! You won't believe all the gorgeous creations posted on those pages.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Mema's Crafts - April Challenge (Anything Goes)

My Grafico - #148 Anything Goes

613 Avenie Create - #15 Anything Goes (with an optional sketch)

Challenges for Everybody - #18 Anything Goes

Hobby Cutz - #4 (Monochrome)

Paper Crafting Journey - Monochromatic

If you have a few minutes, breeze on over to the Krafy Krew blog and see the fabulous creations made by the other mega-talented designers on Team A. And if you're inspired by what you see, by all means, we'd love to have you join the fun and play along with us this week!  The prizes are 5 free digis from Kenny's store and a $20 gift voucher from Flonz! Plus you have a chance at Top 3 and being chosen by Kenny himself and his lovely wife, Elena, to have your card appear in the weekly Spotlight! So c'mon by!

That's all for today, folks. So until next time, let your families know how much you love them, hug and kiss your kids and grandkids and do something crafty!

Hugs to all!

Anniebee

Another Quick Post...

Hello again! You might recall that I posted a card a couple of weeks ago called Valentine Hat using an image by that same name by Rick St. Dennis. Well, today I have another version of that card that I made for my dear sister-in-law for her birthday tomorrow. She has already received and opened it so I'm free to post it on my blog now! LOL I colored this one all in red, the traditional color for Valentine's Day.

I really liked the purple one but when I finished this one I loved it even more. 

Here's a closeup of the image. She was, of course, colored with Copics, my medium of choice. I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Sparkle and Glitter - #11 Spring Is In The Air

That's all I have for you for now but come back tomorrow for another birthday card I made for the WOW Embossing Powder blog. If you love red, you'll love it too! Until then, be nice to one another, tell your loved ones everyday how much they mean to you and find time to do something creative.

Hugs to all, 

Anniebee

Layer It Up with Kenny K's Krafty Krew

Good day, everyone! It's Sunday again already and that means another new challenge at Kenny K's Krafty Krew. This week is Team B's turn to show you their stuff but since Kenny is releasing 3 new digi stamps to go with the Steampunk Burlesque collection, I decided to make a card with one of the new images too. Being an old rocker chick myself, I knew the moment I saw her that I had to color Madame Axe and put her on a card right away.

This week's theme is "Layer It Up" and our sponsors are:

with a $20 gift certificate

AND 

our own Donna's prize of a gift voucher to her store!

How're these for fabulous prizes? Awesome, right?

So without further delay, here's my contribution to this week's challenge inspiration:

This guitar-totin' bad a$$ is only 4 1/2 inches tall (though you can make her any size you like) and that's a LOT of detail for so small a space, which made coloring her a bit of a challenge. Worth every painstaking stroke of the marker though (LOL)... I love how she turned out!

It's hard to tell in the photos but all of the metal pieces on the guitar and amp as well as Madame Axe's goggles, are colored in silver metallic ink and shaded with gray Copic ink to add the appropriate amount of dimension. The background paper is from the Colorful Life stack from DCWV and the gears die cuts are from Want 2 Scrap. If you haven't checked them out yet, they have some fantastic products! I also used WOW Embossing Powder in Metallic Copper Regular on the chipboard gears.

Here's a closeup of Ms. Axe so you can see the level of detail Kenny puts into these bold ladies. The Steampunk Burlesque digis are probably my favorite collection of all of his awesome images for that reason among others.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create Challenge - #8 Anything Goes (with option to Pile It On)
Challenges for Everybody - #14- Anything Goes
Dream Valley Challenge - #51 Ribbons and Bling
Glitter n Sparkle - #21 Bling It On
Joanna Sheen Challenge - Layer It Up
One Stitch At A Time - #152 Use a Digi
The Squirrel and The Fox - #38 Fairy Tale or Fantasy
Want 2 Scrap - Time2Create Challenge (using Shifting Gears Silhouette and Shifting Gears Small Chipboard Embellishments)

I hope you have enjoyed your visit today and that you'll take the time to visit the Krafty Krew blog to see all of the incredible art created by Team B. We'd love to have you join the challenge too!  Have a great week, my lovely crafter friends, and until next time...

Happy crafting!

Anniebee

Going Round in Circles at Kenny K

Good morning and happy Sunday, Kenny K fans!

I hope you have been enjoying your weekend. It's been a little cool here this week but for the most part the sun has been shining and the afternoons have been warm enough to go out without a jacket. You'll not hear me complain though. We have hardly had a winter at all this year and I haven't had so much as a runny nose the entire time, which is a miracle in light of the horrible flu season we've had.

It's time today for a new challenge from Team A and the theme this week is "Going Around in Circles". That is to say that you need to use a circle shape on your project. I used Kenny's Brooklyn Babe as my focal point for my card and a girlie pink and blue color scheme.

But first, a word from our sponsors. Our sponsors for this week's challenge are:

offering FIVE digi's of the winner's choice

 and

offering a $20 gift certificate to their shop

Okay, now here's my card!

I'm entering this card in the following challenges/ Linky parites:

Challenges 4 Everybody - #14 Anything Goes

The Corrosive Challenge - #168 Rainbow Bright (Favorite Color Combo)

Crafting When We Can - #38 Birthstones (Pink Tourmaline)

No Matter Which Challenge - #6 Ribbons and Bows

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - #203 Two's Company (2 stamps, 2 colors, 2 embellies) I used Brooklyn Babe by Kenny K, pink and baby blue, pearls and ribbon.

I haven't added the sentiment inside yet because I'm not sure who will receive this card. I do this sometimes so I can choose a sentiment that fits the person or occasion. I hope you'll take a few minutes to visit the Krafy Krew blog to see the wonderfully creative projects my teamies have made. We'd love to have you join the fun and enter your own projects too! That's all for today, folks, so until next time...

Happy crafting!

Anniebee

A Big Happy Birthday To My Brother

Hi, everyone! It's been a couple of weeks since I posted so I thought I would kick off a new round of cards with the one I made for my brother's birthday this month. He's not quite 2 years younger than I am and we were extremely close growing up. Well, my brother and his wife just bought some property in a little rural community in northeast Texas and for Christmas, my brother bought an old tractor! Their plans are to clear the property, build a home and live as much off the land as possible and in the process they want to downsize to just what they need to be comfortable.

Long story short, I decided to make a card for my brother celebrating not only his birthday but also his acquisition of the old tractor. He has always loved working on mechanical things and he had to do some work on it to get it running properly but I guess it's operating just fine now. I haven't seen it in person but the photo below is what inspired this card.

I don't even know the make and model of this old tractor but I think it's kind of cool looking.

I found this digi stamp online at Just Inklined and spent a few hours coloring it with my Copics to resemble my brother's tractor as closely as possible. The front wheels and grill are a little different but otherwise, I think it's a pretty good likeness.

I never knew how much enjoyment I would get from hand coloring farm implements but I really had a ball with this one. It was fun trying to get the shading to look relatively realistic and even though it's far from perfect, I love the way it turned out.

My brother loved it too... and that's the most important thing!

Below is the inside of the card.

 

I am entering this card in the following challenges/ Linky Parties:

Card Makin Mamas - It's Birthday Time
Card Crafter's Circle - #62 Paint the Town Red
Natalie and Amy - #6 Something Old and Something New (My something old is the papers which have been in my stash so long, I don't even remember where I got them and the die used to cut the tree branch. My something new is the digi stamp by Just Inklined that I bought just for this card.)
Sandy's Crafty Creations - February Anything Goes with a Twist (Must be for a birthday)

That's it for today! I hope you all had a beautiful Valentine's Day yesterday. I got a very sweet card and a box of Ghirardelli chocolates from my son, daughter-in-law and grandkids and naturally, I made cards for them. I'll be back tomorrow with the one I gave my sweet grandson. Thanks for dropping by today. As always, I welcome your comments and questions. Until next time...

Happy crafting!
Anniebee

A new challenge at Saturated Canary

Wow! This week has really come and gone very quickly. Perhaps that's because we celebrated a holiday right in the middle of it. Well, today marks the start of another new challenge at Saturated Canary and I'm still pinching myself at being selected as a guest designer for the  entire summer!

The theme of the latest challenge theme is "Bling it Out!" and I have done my best to comply!  In the event that you have been living under a rock and are not familiar with Saturated Canary or Krista Smith, the delightful artist who created this sweet image, you can find her digi stamps for sale in her shop.

As you can see, it's a very feminine card, all pink and frilly and decked out in pearls, rhinestones, lace  and ribbon and even a pink polka dotted butterfly.  The image is called "Priscilla Pie" which I colored with Copics.  I used WOW! Embossing powder in Bubble Gum Pink on the butterfly as well as the Happy Birthday sentiment on the inside.  The dot over the "i" is a heat set rhinestone.

 I know how busy summer months can be with the kids out of school and all the warm weather activities but I hope you'll find time to play along in the challenge with us.  I'll be back this weekend with another new card.  Until then,...

Happy crafting!
Anniebee

A Boy's Birthday Card

TGIF, everybody!! If this year keeps cruising along at the speed it is now, it won't be long before we're thinking winter holidays again! Personally, I would rush it just a little more as I have a hard time tolerating the summer heat here in Texas, even though I have lived here my whole life.  I also hate shelling out $300-400 each month for electricity, trying to stay cool!  If I could afford to, I would retire to a little cabin in the mountains, I think.

Anyway, there's a brand new challenge at Saturated Canary and the theme this time is red, white and blue.  I have used Krista's cute Basketball Boy to create this birthday card.  It's always easier for me, as I think it is for many people, to make stuff for females so I like to challenge myself whenever I get a chance to make something for the guys in my life.  My grandson turned 11 in May which was before I made this card but I made him a cute one with a football player on it.  Since he plays football it was really more fitting for him anyway, though I just adore this cute little guy!

I {heart} all of the Saturated Canary images but I think this is my favorite boy.  I'm not sure I succeeded but I tried to saturate the color on his uniform to make it resemble the shiny satin-like material often used in making such garments.  I love the expression of concentration on his face as he shoots the hoop. I just KNOW he makes that basket! LOL

I used white paper and red ribbon to make the stripes on the card. I believe the paper is from DCWV's Summer Dreams stack. All of the lettering was done with stickers, except for the #1 on the inside, which was done with stamps.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Saturated Canary #20 - Red, White & Blue
Card Makin Mamas #48 - Color (Red, White & Blue)
Delicious Doodles #22 - 1,2,3 Recipe - 1 image, 2 kinds of bling (stars & circles), 3 ribbons (the red and white stripes) or 3 colors (red, white & blue)
Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge #65 - Boy Attitude
The Poodles Parlor 6/15/12 - Red. White & Blue
Delightful Challenges 6/20/12 - Anything Goes
DYSU #77 - Inspired by a Movie (Like Mike- 2002)

Well, that's all I have for now. I hope you all enjoy your weekend and that you manage to sneak in some time to be creative. Until next time...

Happy crafting!
Anniebee

Happy Birthday!

Hi, everyone! I'm a little late posting today so I'll get right to it. I have another Saturated Canary card for you today (didn't I warn ya? LOL).

This little cutie is called "Priscilla Pie". I have used a monochromatic color scheme this time, with the primary color being various shades of purple. I making such projects occasionally though I really prefer using lots of color in my projects.

Adorable little Prissy is colored with Copics, of course! The patterned paper I used is from DCWV's Modern Bouquet stack. I used one of Martha Stewart's  punches to make the double layered butterfly in white cardstock and vellum and the greeting is stamped onto a label made using a Nestibilities die. The little flowers, which were originally white, are from Recollections and I colored them with 2 shades of purple Copic markers to coordinate with my design. The self-sticking rhinestones are also by Recollections. The "Celebrate" die cut was made on my Cricut machine.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

TBD

That's it for today! I'm keeping it short and sweet for a change. I'll be back tomorrow with a clean and simple wedding card featuring yet another of Krista Smith's little lovelies. Until then...

Happy crafting!
Anniebee

WOW DT Project - Birthday cards in Valentine's Day colors

Okay, so Valentine's Day has come and gone again.  But February is the month of love and I have a couple of cards I created for birthdays but I used the traditional colors of Valentine's Day!  Several of my family members have February birthdays so I was tickled pink to have received this assignment for the WOW Embossing Powders DT because it enabled me to accomplish two tasks at the same time.  That doesn't happen very often.

My first card was made in the typical red, pink and white color scheme.  It also contains many of the things I adore... butterflies, flowers, little girls with big eyes and polka dots! Oh, and how could I forget pearls?  This little sweetie pie is a digi stamp created by one of my favorite artists, Krista Smith of The Saturated Canary.  Krista sells her digis in her Etsy shop and some of her designs are also available in rubber through Simply Sassy/ Sugar Nellie.

The WOW Embossing powders I used on this card were: Cable Car Red, Metallic Gold Rich Pale Regular, Metallic Gold Rich Ultra High and Clear Gloss Regular. As you can see, I even embossed the fabric flowers and they look so cool with the gold tips on their petals.

My second card uses the slightly less traditional palette of pink purple and gold.  Once again, the image is from the pencil of Krista Smith.

I haven't quite decided on the sentiment for the inside but I have to make up my mind very soon as I plan to give this one to my niece for her birthday tomorrow.  The powders I used on this one were Earthtone Grape, Metallic Gold Rich Pale Regular, Metallic Gold Rich Ultra High and Clear Gloss Regular.  These powders are so much fun and I love experimenting to create different effects I get when I use different techniques on them.  For instance, to create the effect I achieved on the butterflies on the second card, I used the Grape powder on purple Shimmer Cardstock by DCWV and held my heat gun very close to it to cause the bubbles/ little white spots.  Then I applied Versamark to the outer edges of the wings and dipped them in the regular gold and then did the same thing with the Ultra High Gold and heated them as I normally do.  And isn't this little fairy just picture perfect?  The greeting was done with a glitter gel pen by me.

That's all I have for you today.  I'm working on some altered projects and have plans for a mini album as soon as I get the time to work on it,  I hope you have been participating in our week-long blog hop over on the WOW blog and that you're keeping up with leaving comments on all the designers' blogs to make you eligible for the prize or prizes that will be given away at the end.  Thanks so much for visiting.  If you like what you see, I hope you'll consider becoming a follower.  Until next time...

Happy crafting!
Anniebee

Animal friends card for Joy's Life

Hello, everyone!

For our Joy's Life Design Team project this week, Joy asked us to use animals as the theme for our projects.  My blogger friend and former Outlawz teammate, Anne Fenton, drew these awesome digis and I have been waiting for an opportunity to color them and use them on a card.  Well, this was the perfect chance to do just that.  As I have always been a horse lover and even had my own little herd of 5 several years ago, so I couldn't resist coloring this beautiful pair similar to the ones I owned (or I should really say, owned me!).  They were as spoiled as any dog I have ever had!

Anyway, here is an Arabian mare with her foal.  I hope Anne likes what I did with them.

 I used stamps from Joy's Life Barnyard Puns stamp set, which you can find here.  In case you hadn't heard, Joy has a Design Team Call open right now so if you'd like the opportunity to work with a wonderful person and some fantastic stamps, you should really consider applying.  I can't believe that my term is almost over already.  I think I'll have one final project to post before that happens though so please check back next week to see what Group 1 has to show you and I'll be back with Group 2 the following week.  It has been such an honor and pleasure working with Joy, and the very talented designers who I now call my friends.

As always, I appreciate your visits and your comments.  I hope that you'll continue to follow me on my crafty adventures.  I am working on some new projects for my newest design team with WOW! embossing powders, which by the way, I used to create the sentiments on this card.  The first of those new projects should be revealed next week so you'll definitely want to check them out.  Until then...

Happy crafting!
Anniebee