The snow-drop, April’s meekest child…

Sharing a CAS birthday card I made for a friend featuring the image she had done for her by Mayzy, this is Corinne.

It’s actually quite a good likeness of Corinne, with her big hair and big smile!

My card layout comes from the current sketch at Hand Stamped Sentiments and my sentiment from a retired Stampin’ Up! set called Perfect Words.  I double matted everything in black and red to echo the colours of Corinne’s top, she loves red and black.

Now it might seem a bit odd to have snowflakes on a birthday card but when I saw they were the theme at Addicted to Stamps and also the embellie shape on the sketch I just had to go with them.  After all, Corinne loves the snow, loves her short shorts too.  Strange for an Aussie like me to contemplate wearing short shorts in weather cold enough for snow but guess when you’re used to the cold you can wear what you want.

I added in my snowflakes with another retired Stampin’ Up! stamp called Serene Snowflakes as well as a Tim Holtz Frozen Alpha Parts.  For some added sparkle, the current theme over at Crafty Friends, I did the snowflakes in glitter and popped some rhinestones in the centre.

Ingredients:

Copics

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

Eyes E30, E35, 0

Lips E04, R56, R59

Hair YR20, YR23, YR14, Y28

Outfit N7, N9, R29, R46, R59, 100

Chalks & Powders etc

Tim Holtz Distress Glitter Dust ~ Vintage Platinum

Embellishments

Champagne Rhinestones from stash

Kaisercraft Sparklets ~ Coral

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Alpha Parts ~ Frozen

Inks & Paints etc

Copic Multiliner ~ Black

Molotow Paint Pen ~ Signal White

Ranger Archival Dina Wakley Media ~ Ruby

Papers

Bazzill Orange Peel Cardstock ~ Garnet

Bazzill Prismatic Cardstock ~ Black

Glossy White Cardstock from stash

Stamps

Mayzy Art ~ Corinne (commissioned image)

Stampin’ Up! ~ Serene Snowflakes & Perfect Words (both retired)

Challenges

Addicted to Stamps #138 ~ Snowflakes

Crafty Friends #47 ~ Sparkle

Hand Stamped Sentiments #254 ~ Sketch

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Macabre Reflections

It’s the final week of Spooktober and I have a number of special projects to share (provided I get them all finished!) and two for today.  The first is my entry to Day 9 of the 13 Days of Halloween at Simply B Stamps where the theme is Splattered and who better to splatter than Corinne?

This is a little compact I made, it was very silver so I added some patina to the rim, the background is black, Corinne’s favourite colour.  I needed something to add interest to the background and the splatter theme was just perfect, I went with red for blood, as red is also Corinne’s favourite colour and she is a bit bloodthirsty!  Well, OK, not really, but she likes to pretend!  The image is a cropped version of the image Betty drew for Corinne for her birthday last year.  You can’t really see the smoke she is blowing in the photo and the Diamond Glaze I used to seal it made her lips run :-(

My second project is also an off-the-page and features the lovely Pipper, from the Burtonweenies collection at Simply B Stamps.

This choker turned out almost exactly as I imagined, there are supposed to be some red sugar skulls in the open zip part but I have turned my craft room upside down and can’t find them!  Most of the pieces I got from my local fabric and craft stores.  I’ve gone with a red and black theme again and Pipper as she is Corinne’s favourite Simply B Stamps’ image, I’ve just cropped her to fit the vintage frame.

There’s a Halloween challenge over at Craft Mojo, where I am linking up my choker.  And, as this is definitely not a card and features ribbon, I ‘m also entering it in the current challenge at Crafty Ribbons.

Oh, and Corinne, no need to call dibs on these, they are headed your way just as soon as I can make it to the post office, just my way of saying…

To someone who is truly a wonderful person, despite all the pins!

Ingredients:

Copics

Corinne

Skin E50, E51, E53, (cheeks R02)

Eyes E29, E37, 0

Lips R24, R46, R59

Hair E08, E18, E93, E95

Pipper

Skin E50, E51, E53, (cheeks R02)

Eyes E35

Lips R46, R59

Top R24, R29, R46, R59

Embellishments

Beaded Insert from local fabric store

Maya Road Vintage Findings Antique Ornate Frame

Rhinestones from stash

Inks & Paints etc

Ranger Enamel Accents – White

Smooch – Siren

StazOn – Black

Vintaj Patinas – Verdigris

Ribbons & Trims

Lace from LSS

Rhinestone Zipper from local fabric store

Velvet Ribbon from local fabric store

Stamps

Simply B Stamps Burtonweenies Pipper

Simply B Stamps Headshot Corinne

Challenges

Craft Mojo – Halloween

Crafty Ribbons Challenge # 67 – Anything BUT a card

Simply B Stamps13 Days of Halloween Day 9 – Splatter your projects with either black, red or green anything goes

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