Pen and Paperie: CMS243 Plaid & Nordic

Sunday, 4 September 2016

It ain’t the clothes that make the cowgirl…

I’m sharing a card I made for my niece featuring Cowgirl Mae from Some Odd Girl.

My colour scheme comes from the current challenge at Just Add Ink. I don’t have any Stampin’ Up! inks or cardstock so I had to hunt out equivalents, which I did using a conversion to Copics and then matching my inks and cardstock to the Copic markers. I made my own background paper using Tim Holtz’s Plaid stamp, a nod to the check shirts often associated with country people. I wasn’t game to try and colour Cowgirl Mae’s shirt in plaid though given the Copic colour combo that went most closely with the Soft Sky Stampin’ Up! colour.

I made up my card following the current sketch over at Sketch Saturday. I wasn’t thinking too well when I cut my two plaid pieces and ended up with too much gap in the middle so I decided to add another thin strip of Flamingo to tie in with the circle frame. Rather than a sentiment I’ve just added the number 13 as, scarily, my niece is turning 13. As the current theme at the Alphabet Challenge is numbers I am entering my card there.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes E30, E33, E35

Lips E04

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit B91, B93, B95, B97, B99, BG0000, BG000, BG10, BG11, C0, C2, C5, E70, E71, E74, E77, R20, R22, R24 , 110

Rope E53, E55, E57

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities Dies ~ S4-114 Standard Circles Large & S4-116 Standard Circles Small

Embellishments

Tim Holtz Idea-ology ~ Mini Plaquettes

Inks & Paints etc

Molotow Paint Marker ~ Signal White

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Faded Jeans & Iced Spruce

Papers

Bazzill Monochromatic Cardstock ~ Artic, Flamingo & Sea Salt

Stamps

Some Odd Girl ~ Cowgirl Mae

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection ~ CMS243 Plaid & Nordic

Challenges

Alphabet Challenge ~ N for Numbers

Just Add Ink #327 ~ Colour!

Sketch Saturday ~ Sketch #428

Thanks for stopping by!

Saturday, 9 July 2016

I begin to love this little creature…

I’m sharing a card I made for a colleague heading off to have her baby shortly featuring a sweet pregnancy image, Mother To Be 1, from Mo’s Digital Pencil.

My card follows the current sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches. I had to flip the sketch as I needed a vertical oval to fit my image so I shifted the placement of the sentiment to match.

Baby stuff always makes me think of gingham and there was lots of it in the Double “D” inspiration image. I was wondering how to incorporate that into my card until I saw the current theme at Moving Along with the Times of no designer paper. Got out my trusty Tim Holtz stamp and the lovely and baby soft Fran-tage and voilà one lovely ginghamy background.

As I’ve created my own background I am also entering this in the challenge over at The Sisterhood of Crafters. Thanks for the tip, Darlene!

To finish off my card I added in a sweet teddy bear button and an appropriate sentiment from Tim’s Small Talk stickers. I cut the saying in half and cut in notches on the ends before inking with blue and adhering to my card.

Over at Crafty Musketeers they are looking for projects to do with babies, which mine certainly is so I’m linking up my card there. As I also have a Mo image I am entering my card in the current challenge at DP2.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E30, E31, E33, E50 (E02 cheeks)

Lips R24

Hair N4, N6, N8, N10

Outfit N4, N6, N8, N10, R01, R02, R05, R08, R24, R46, R59, YG11, YG13, YG17, 100

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Shabby Blue

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities Die ~ S4-110 Classic Oval Large

Embellishments

Jesse James Button It Up ~ Stuffed With Love