My Last Design Team Friday with JustWordz Stamps

This will be my last project for the JustWordz design team. The current term ends today and Kim is in the process of selecting and notifying her new team members. They will soon take the reins and I have no doubt at all that they will provide every bit as much creative inspiration as the current team has. I hope they have as much fun as I have had these past 4 months. This is a wonderful and extremely talented group of women and I'll truly miss working with them and with Kim. This is both a sad and exciting moment for me. I am sad that this term has ended so soon and I am saying goodbye to some really great artists and friends but I am also excited for the new path I have chosen. More on that later but now it's time to talk about my project.

This week, Kim asked us to create a project for a specific family member. My assignment was to make something appropriate for a sister. Well, my youngest sister's birthday is coming up next month so that worked out pretty perfectly, didn't it? I've had this lovely digi stamp in my library that I have been wanting to color so I decided it would be a good one to use for this purpose. I don't recall who the artist was that created it so if any of you know, please tell me so I can give him/her the credit.  In my opinion, this design just "begged" to be pieced.  It's a ceramic or earthenware pitcher holding a bouquet of roses.  Simple but elegant.  I love the yellow and blue color combination seen in French Country decor so I colored the pitcher in those colors.  I also colored the two uppermost blossoms 3 times so I could cut and layer them to make them look 3-dimensional.  I stamped my sentiment, for which I used the Everyday Sentiments stamp set, onto a distressed tag and tied a small piece of hemp cord through the hole and popped it up on the card. I hope my sister likes it and I hope you do too.  

Materials and supplies:

Base card - Core'dinations cardstock in royal blue

mats - Core'dinations cardstock in royal blue and beige

DP - DCWV Tradewinds stack

Image - artist unknown

Medium - Copics

Sentiment - JustWordz Everyday Sentiments

tag - 7 Gypsies

paper rose - Recollections

Scotch ATG adhesive

foam tape - from Big Lots

Inside stamp - Inkadinkadoo

I am entering this card in the following challenges: TBD

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a wonderful weekend! I'll be back a little later with a very important announcement.  Until then...

Happy crafting!

Anniebee

A New card For a New Week

Good morning and happy Monday, all! I was supposed to post this yesterday but I got busy making birthday cards for my two youngest nephews and had to be at their party by 2:00 P.M. so I didn't have a chance to post it before I left and was too tired to do it when I got back so I'm doing it today instead. I'm not really sure yet what kind of card this is going to be but I love this image by Phee McFaddell so much that I just couldn't wait to color it and put it on a project. As you'll see, it's another one of those images that convey the elements of mood and drama that I love so dearly in an illustration.

Just to make things interesting for you, my readers, and me, I am going to ask you to leave me a comment and tell me what kind of card you would make out of this. I have the card made already. I just can't decide on a sentiment so maybe you guys can help me out in that respect. There's no prize for playing along. I just thought it would be fun to do something interactive. I'll use whichever suggestion I like best. So here ya go... let me know what YOU think about it.

Cool image, right? If you click on the photos, you will see them displayed full size. It took me hours to get the coloring the way I wanted on this one but it was well worth the effort. I used a glitter pen to add sparkly highlights to the halos around the candle flames as well as on the rest of the image to add a reflective quality. You can only see it if you hold the card at a certain angle which was what I wanted. This one turned out to be one of my favorite cards to date and it will be hard for me to part with it if someone likes it enough to buy it. I can always make another one but it would be difficult to replicate the coloring.  It was sort of an experimental project so I didn't take the time to write down all the colors I used.  It would have taken twice as long to finish had I taken the time to do that.

So what do you think? Does it "speak" to you like it does to me? If it does, I would love to know your thoughts and whatever suggestions you might have for a sentiment to go with it.  I don't absolutely HAVE to put a sentiment on it if I don't want to but if I can come up with one that is fitting, I will.  That's it for today.  I hope you enjoyed seeing this little gem and I hope it inspired you in some small way.  I'll be back with some other new projects before the end of the week.  As always, Friday will be my regular post for JustWordz stamps and Saturday is Paper a la Mode Challenge day for The Outlawz.  Have a wonderful week and until next time, my friends....

Happy crafting!
Anniebee


I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Dream Valley Challenges #18 - Halloween
Lollipop Crafts Challenge #53 - No sentiment
Forever Night Freaky Friday #13 - Black and Creepy

Fifth and final entry for the CDAC Progressive Freebies Challenge - Round 3 (cdacpc3)

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Hello again! This is my third and final post for today and my 5th and final entry into the 3rd round of CDAC's Progressive Freebies Challenge . Have I confused you?  No more than I have confused myself, I hope! LOL!  The image I used this time is by Nicecrane and is quite unusual in comparison to the types of images I usually use on my creations but I really kind of like it because it's so off the wall!  Except for the bit of black organza ribbon, I tried to keep the design fairly masculine and monochromatic with the black and cream color scheme.  I really rather like how it turned out and I thought the sentiment stamp I used fit pretty perfectly with the cigar-smoking duck!  I found it in the dollar bin at Michaels a while back and had never used it until today.

As with the other entry I posted a few moments ago, I have not quite finished the inside of the card so I have not included photos of it.  So what do you think?  Strange? Unusual? Humorous? Downright silly?  I would love to know your thoughts about this design.

As with the other card, the cardstock is Core'dinations and Recollections.  The DP is DCWV's Best of Brenda Walton stack.  The ribbon is from Joann, the border is from a Sizzix die and the ticket was a freebie image I got from a member of The Outlawz Challenge site.  Thanks for stopping by today and for leaving me a comment to let me know you were here and also what you think of these little projects.  I hope you have a wonderful and blessed weekend and that you get to do something creative.  The Outlawz 1000 Member Party kicks off Sunday night so I hope to see you all there!  Until then...

Happy crafting!
Anniebeehere.

Entry #4 for the CDAC Progressive Freebies Challenge #3 ( (cdacpc3)

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Today is the last day to post entries in CDAC's Progressive Freebies Challenge for which I have created 2 more cards.  The theme for the current challenge, which is in its 3rd round, is Fall.  Nothing says fall to me like apples! One of the free images we received for this round was a bowl of apples.  Yum!!  The image is by Glitterbabe and is colored with Copics.  The card is a 6" square.

The cardstock I used is by Core'dinations and Recollections and the DP is DCWV's Summer Dream stack.  The ric rac trim was purchased at Michaels and the flower was a Jo-Ann dollar bin item.  The sentiment is from ajilliamvancedesign's Down On the Farm stamp set.  I'm not showing the inside of the card this time.  It is finished in the same manner as I finish all my cards but I haven't put the white paper for writing and stamping the sentiment yet so there really wasn't much poing in including a photo of it.  I was trying to finishe both cards, take and edit the photos and get both blog posts completed before the challenge period ends tonight.
My 5th and final entry will be in the next post, in case you arrive on my blog before I get it posted! LOL!

Happy crafting!
Anniebee

Design Team Friday at JustWordz

Hello again, my friends!  It's Friday again and that means it's time for the JustWordz Design Team to inspire and entice you!  Yes, we want to entice you to get creative with your crafting and, if possible, to try something new or outside your normal comfort zone so be sure to visit each of my teammates to see what they have made to inspire you this week.  Links to their blogs can be found in my left sidebar.  If you haven't already, be sure to visit the JustWordz website too as Kim has a project posted as well.  Today is the last day to order the two new stamps sets at the pre-sale price.  Tomorrow, the price will be going up a couple of dollars but I'm not sure when they will start shipping.

This week, our assignment was to make a shaped card using any image and any sentiment we wanted to as long as we used the Everyday Sentiments stamp set.  Well, let me tell you, I have hardly touched my cutting machines since  I discovered Copic markers last year and I practically had to re-learn how to use the Silhouette.  I already had a few shaped cards saved to my library so it was easier than having to design one for the Cricut.  Don't get me wrong, I still love my machines and I enjoy cutting not quite as much as I enjoy coloring.  When I color, the piece I am creating is more of a work of art than the die cut ones.  I have to choose the colors and lay them down in layers on the image I'm using, blending and building the colors until I get exactly the effect I want.  Each piece kind of takes on its own personality and is really my own design when it's finished.  I'm not saying that it doesn't take talent and an eye for art to create with the cutters; it's just a different kind of art.  I enjoy both methods though so I will never tire of creating the same types of projects all the time.

Sooooo... after a few practice cuts and adjustments to my Silhouette, here is the card I came up with.  It's a simple design with only a couple of layers but I really like the way it turned out.

In case you have somehow missed it in several of my earlier posts, here are pictures of the two new stamp sets that are being released and will start shipping soon.  They look like they are going to be every bit as versatile and fun to use as the Everyday Sentiments set that we have been using these past months.  I can't wait to play with them!

That's about it.  All cardstock was by Core-dinations and Recollection.  Bling by Recollections, rhinestones by Recollections.  Don't forget to visit my teammates and this afternoon, I'll be posting two new entries for the Progressive Freebies Challenge at CDAC this afternoon after I have photographed them and edited the photos for posting.  Until later...

Happy crafting!
Anniebee

Thursday and a Scrapbook Page

Happy Thursday, all!  I can't believe it's Thursday already!  I have been busy this week working on projects for the 1,000 Member Party at The Outlawz which will begin at 12:01 A.M. this coming Sunday.  I have mentioned the party a few times already but I have to do it again because we are just so excited about it!  I think I told you already that we're hosting a special challenge each day of the week and members will have the entire week to post their entries for any or all of them.  We're also having a blog hop with prizes at each stop.  Each challenge design team will have a stop with the projects created by all its members on the one blog.  There will be links to the individual blogs from there too in case you want to see more photos or detailed information about a particular project.  There will be games like Bingo, Name That Tune and scavenger hunts too.  Basically, there will be something that we hope every member will enjoy participating in and the only catch is that you have to register to become a member.  Believe me, the prizes are awesome!!!  Our sponsors have been super generous and just as an example, Oozak and SDACD have donated $100 gift certificates!  How unbelievable is THAT???  And that's just the beginning!  We have Copic and Prismacolor classes, rubber and digi stamps, tons of other gift certificates to Ippity, Whimsey and Paper Temptress among others.  I think I have submitted 4 projects for the party so far and I've had fun making each one.  I hope that if you're a member of The Outlawz, you'll look me up and if you're not, you'll consider becoming one.  It really is the best challenge site on the web, in my opinion.

Now on to my project for today.  I have tons of photos of my lovely niece, Kirsten, and I love making scrapbook pages with them.  She is super photogenic and besides being beautiful, she is also a sweetheart.  I originally started this page as a project for the party I was just going on about but it didn't come together in time so I finished it yesterday after I completed my project for JustWordz that will post tomorrow.  So here is the newest page I made for her.  By the time I get all of my photos of her scrapped, I'll have a full scrapbook for her!  LOL!  I need to make pages for my grandkids and my other nieces and nephews if they'll ever send me their photos.

Isn't she a cutie pie?  It's difficult for me to realize that she is 19 years old!  It doesn't seem that long ago that she was an adorable little toddler.

 The next photo shows some of he detail close up.I don't know if you can tell but I added some highlights in gold ink to the letters and to the flower.  The lacy borders are from a Sizzix die and the leaves on the flower are drawn and hand cut and then colored with Copics and hightlighted in gold.

  

Another close-up.

I have to give credit to another of my nieces for the beautiful photography.  My brother's daughter, Lyncca, is a professional photographer and she took most of the pictures I am using on my pages of KC.

Layout is 12" x 12".  All of the papers are from DCWV.  Cardstock is by Core'dinations and Recollections.  The chipboard letters, heart and flower came in a big bundle of several colors from the Paper Studio that I got from Hobby Lobby.  Drop by tomorrow to see the first card I have made using my Silhouette since I discovered Copics!  And don't forget about the big celebration starting Sunday night at The Outlawz.  We sure would love for you to come join in the merrymaking as we celebrate our 1,000th member.  Until then...

Happy crafting!
Anniebee

Paper a la Mode Challenge at The Outlawz

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Paper a la Mode Challenge

Another week has come and gone and it's time for a new Paper a la Mode challenge at The Outlawz!  This week, our sweet, talented Jane has given us our challenge to create a project using the following photo for inspiration.

We could have used the color palette, the layout or any number of other elements on which to base our own designs.  I used the basic layout, minus the text as my inspiration.  I really wanted to use the color scheme,  as I thought it both interesting and vibrant, but I didn't have the right shades that would work together in my stash and I didn't feel like going shopping for a couple of pieces of scrapbook paper.  As you'll see in just a moment, my interpretation is not very strict.  I chose to play up the cross shape created by the intersections of the different papers and the ribbon I used, and a beautiful angel by an illustrator who goes by the name ina jane, that I colored with a combination of Copics and Primsacolor pencils.    

This is the inside of the card. Oopsie! I didn't notice it until I downloaded the photos from my camera to my hard drive but the larger butterfly had come loose and fallen down just before I shot the picture.  It is permanently glued in place now so if I have time to do a retake, I'll post a newer pic this weekend.  

Materials and Supplies:

card base and cream cardstock from Core'dinations

Gold foil cardstock from American Crafts

dp from DCWV's Tradewinds stack

image from Sweet Coloring pages

ribbon - royal blie grosgrain from Michael's

Sentiment label - Spellbinders Shapeabilities Fancy Tags

blue dew drops - sent to me by Kim at JustWordz Clear Stamps

corner punch - Martha Stewart Punc Around the Page set

front stamp - Fiskars clear stamp set called Squarely Sentimental

Inside sentiment stamp - Stampabilities

Dark blue chalk ink pad - Studio G

butterfly dimensional chipboard stickers - K & Company

Metallic gold gel pen

That's all for me for today!I hope you'll come join us at The Outlawz Challenges.  We have a different challenge each day of the week with fabulous prizes from our awesome sponsors.  We are going to be hosting a membership drive/party as we're nearing our 1000th member and we're going to start the celebration early!  Aside from the challenges, there will be games and a blog hop with lots of prizes including not one but TWO $100 gift certificates; one from Oozak and the other from SCACD!  Where else can you find fantastic prizes like that?  If you're not already a member, you need to get over there and register so you can participate in the 1000 Member Party.  Watch for more details coming soon.

Thanks for stopping by to visit me today.  As always, your comments are both welcome and very much appreciated.  Until next timem have a lovely weekend and...

Happy crafting!

Anniebee