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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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Eep! Omigosh!

Last card from today’s crafting is a fun one featuring a number of images from Kenny K Stamps; Big Surprise, Total Drama, What If and Wise Guy.

This card is going out to a male friend who is older than me and will always be older than me so I can keep doing up cards ribbing him about his age.  Helps that he has a good sense of humour and, as he also is a bit of a comic geek, I know he’ll be more pleased than offended to receive this card.

Over at CAS-ual Fridays they are celebrating their sixth birthday by looking for six items on a birthday card.  So that meant I needed six panels and images on my birthday comic.  Just as well Kenny K Stamps have quite a few comic strip images.  The birthday cake was a Kate Hadfield Designs freebie with a magazine, which I cropped the candles out of and duplicated multiple times to go with my storyline.

The colour scheme of the background, the cake and the title ‘Scotto’ were chosen to match the recipient’s footy team colours.  When I’d coloured everything else up I realised I had a lot of white space left around the last female so I added in the blue background.  With all my bright colours I am entering this in the current challenge at Crafting When We Can.

Over at My Time to Craft they are looking for masculine projects, which mine is, so I am linking up there too.  Apart from all the colouring this was a fairly simple card and, with all the busyness of the images, it doesn’t need any embellies or frippery making it the perfect style for a male card.

Wasn’t till I’d finished up all that colouring that I cut the panel down to size.  That’s when I realised I’d not properly centred the title of the comic and the signature was too low down too.  By that stage there was no way I was redoing this but a lesson for next time to do a test run on some copy paper first!

Ingredients:

Copics

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

Eyes B000, B04, E30, E35, YG03, YG07

Lips E04, R56, R59

Hair Y00, Y11, Y15, YR23 (Blonde), E23, E25, E27, E29 (Brunette), E09, E18, YR04, YR07 (Red Head)

Outfits BG000, BG02, BG05, BG07, BG09, RV00, RV52, RV55, RV66 (first panel), R01, R02, R05, R08 (third panel), N1, N5, N7, N9, Y21, Y23, YR21, YR24, 0 (fourth panel), G07, G09, G12, G14 (fifth panel)

Cake B24, B28, B39, Y02, Y06, Y08, YG00, YG01, YG03

Candles B28, BG13, BV08, G09, R29, RV66, V05, Y04, Y15, YR02, YR09, YR18

Cake Plate Y00, Y11, Y15, YR23

Backgrounds FYG1, T1, T3, T5, T7 (first panel), FYG1 (second panel), BG0000, BG000, BG10, FYG1 (third panel), C0, FYG1, V20, V22, V25 (fourth panel), FYG1, W1, W3, W5 (fifth panel), BG70, BG72, BG75, FYG1 (sixth panel), B00 (background filler)

Inks & Paints etc

Copic Multiliner ~ Black

Spica Pens ~ Gold, Peach & Silver

Tim Holtz Distress Markers ~ Black Soot

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Fourz Cardstock ~ Pollen

Bazzill Monochromatic Cardstock ~ Typhoon

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ Apple Crush

Stamps

Kate Hadfield Designs ~ Birthday Cake

Kenny K Stamps ~ Big Surprise, Total Drama, What If & Wise Guy

Challenges

CAS-ual Fridays #173 ~ Pick 6 birthday

Crafting When We Can #144 ~ Bright and Colourful

My Time to Craft #345 ~ Masculine

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