…take the suggestions out of the box before you try reading them

Sharing a comic inspired card featuring several images from the sadly now closed Kenny K, Big Surprise, Smart Aleck, Total Drama and What If.

I created my own comic strip with the images, blowing up the Smart Alec one to be the biggest and adding in my own sentiment.  I named my comic as a play on the obscure one of ‘The Fantastic Foster Fenwick’ swapping out Foster’s name with the birthday boy’s name (I’ve obscured the last name on the image to protect the guilty!).  The sentiment is also a play on something from work as the recipient is a work colleague who will not only get the reference but hopefully enjoy the laugh and the nod to him thinking I’m some kind of internet stalker that I worked out his age a few years back after he refused to say anything more than “I’m closer to 40 than 35”.

I took the inspiration for my colour palette from the photo at Time Out.  The sky on two panels matches the blue wall paint, with yellow, pink, blue and green on the characters’ clothes and purple for one of their hair colours to match the various frames and flowers in the image.  Yellow got used a fair bit in my colouring to reference the main piece in the picture, the brightly coloured yellow table.

I’m also playing along with the Tic Tac Toe board at Paper Craft Crew.  I’ve gone for the left-hand column, I’ve got two shades of blue (the suit jacket and the background blues), it’s masculine (well hope it looks that way as it’s going out to a bloke!) and I’ve done simple stamping.  Literally just placed my images on the one page, added in my computer-generated sentiment, printed and coloured.  Matted in black on the card and that was it for me to call it done.

As I’ve got not one but four stamps, digi but still stamps, on my card I am also linking up at Krafty Chicks where the theme every first week of the month is stamping.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin B60, E21, E50 & Prismacolor pencils PC1026 & PC1092

Hair B66, E59, E57, E23 | 100, C9, C7 | V01, Y13, Y11 | G99, BV08, BV17, BV34

Outfits Y28, B97, B95, B93 | V01, Y13, Y11 | B34, YG17, YG03 | B32, RV34, RV32, RV11

Backgrounds B01 | C6, BV49, BV 45 |V01, Y13, Y11

Buildings BV20, BV 23, W3, W5, W7, W9

Inks & Paints etc

Sharpie Pen ~ Black & White

Stabile Fineliner Pen ~ No 40 Red

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Classic Cardstock ~ Licorice

Cryogen Curious Metallics Cardstock ~ White

Stamps

Kenny K ~ Big Surprise, Smart Aleck, Total Drama & What If

Challenges

Krafty Chicks #497 ~ Week 1 Stamp Act

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...I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times

I’ve got a CAS card to share today featuring Martial Arts Boy, from Kenny K, made for a friend’s birthday.

Given the discipline of karate I thought a restrained monochromatic card would best suit the image and the current sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches was perfect.  I made the two horizontal elements into my sentiment, which I printed straight on to my base cardstock.  I put a second piece of card behind my image just to add a bit more interest with the black border.

I think the pop of yellow works well too, I went with that colour as my friend recently got his yellow belt in karate.  He takes his youngest daughter, a sweetie who is about to turn six, to karate so figured he’d learn too and he loves it hence featuring it on his card.

Clean and simple is the current theme over at Cute Card Thursday so I am entering my card there.  Over at the Male Room they are looking for letters, which I have on my card in my sentiment and it is for a male so I’m also entering their challenge.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21

Eyes E30, E35, E37, 0

Lips E11

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit C00, N0, N1, N2, Y02, Y06, Y08, Y19

Papers

Core’dinations Smooth Cardstock ~ Black Cat & Great White

Stamps

Kenny K ~ Martial Arts Boy

Challenges

Cute Card Thursday #370 ~ Clean & Simple!

Freshly Made Sketches ~ Sketch #183

The Male Room #8 ~ Using Letters and/or Numbers

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Santa’s Naughty Little List

I have a rather cheeky Christmas card to share today made for a friend with a suitably cheeky sense of humour.

Doesn’t look so cheeky from the front, does it?  Although those buttons are a bit suggestive aren’t they?  The sentiment gives a clue to the image inside, KennyK’s Bow (Adult).

Now with an image like this you just can’t leave things flat so I printed it out several times, got out my fussy cutting scissors and shaping tools and got ready for some decoupage action.  I think I managed to capture her curves quite nicely and I’m sure my firend would be very happy to find her sitting under his tree on Christmas morning!

I made up the front following the sketch at Pal’s Paper Arts, I just resized the sketch to suit my favourite card size of 6x6 and swapped out the single circle embellishment for two to suggest, well, I’m sure you get what they’re supposed to be.

As I’ve used a KennyK image I’m also entering this card in their current anything goes challenge.  And hopefully it isn’t too raunchy for the ladies over at Through the Purple Haze where the theme is ‘here comes Christmas day’; which inspired the sentiment and theme of this card.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53 (cheeks R02)

Eyes BG 01, BG05, 0

Lips & Bow R24, R29, R46, R59, R89

Hair Y00, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28

Dies

Spellbinders Nestabilities Marvellous Squares

Embellishments

BoBunny Brads – Silver & Gold

Buttons from stash

Inks & Paints etc

Pebbles Chalk – Metallic Cream

Tim Holtz Distress Ink – Festive Berries, Fired Brick, Tea Dye &Walnut Stain

Papers

BoBunny Back to Backs – Noel Dot

BoBunny Silver & Gold – Winter

CTMH  Pear & Partridge Cardstock – Red (retired)

Kaisercraft Twig & Berry – Advent, December, Frankincense & Yuletide

Stamps

KennyK – Bow (Adult)

Challenges

KennyK’s Krafty Krew Challenge #162 – Anything Goes

Pal’s Paper Arts #184 – A Sketch Challenge

Through the Purple Haze #23 – Here comes Christmas day

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