To Be At The Beach

  The weather outside is still frightful -- blowing snow, slick roads, temps in the single digits (and not always on the positive side).   We have had very few sunny days this winter; it seems to be affecting my outlook, because the beach card that I made for my cousin has the feel of a beach during a thunderstorm.  Totally, not intentional, but the psychology of card making knows what it knows.  It doesn't help that the picture isn't very good -- forgot to get any whites and gray tones in the shot, so it adjusted the color automatically and wrong.

Rubbernecker

  Image Stamp:  Rubbernecker

Sentiment Stamp:  Impression Obsession

Ink:  Memento

Cardstock:  Bazzill, Almond Cream

Copics:  YR65, E31, E51, E33, B05, E43

ProMarker:  Duck Egg

   A cheerful beach scene obviously is beyond my powers today, but when I pulled out my little envelope of beachy stuff, I found some Jolee's stickers that I had forgotten about.  Don't you just love it when you find a hidden surprise like that?  I ripped up 3 different colors of glitter paper, inked the edges and added some of the stickers.   I couldn't find a sentiment stamp for this card, which is probably for the best since this type glitter paper doesn't take ink well.  Here's my much happier under-water card. 

EK Success

 -- Let's Go To The Beach!

Santa and Elf

These Rubbernecker images are so much fun to color.  (But I will never understand artist's who insist on putting a circle in the middle of checks -- there are a lot of them that do.)


Santa, hisself, went out to Maya K.:

 And this little elf went out to Mel W. in Florida:

Does Macy's carry this dress?

Here was the challenge:

- 20 minutes from start to finish
- Main image must be stamped straight onto the card
- May use punches, but not the Cuttlebug (or Cricuit, if I had one)
- A sheet of card stock can be used, other than the card itself, but no patterned papers
- No coloring the image in with any medium
- One embellishment of choice can be used
- Any sentiment stamp may be used, or the sentiment may be generated on the computer
And the really hard one:
- She picks the "category" of the stamp used, (but fortunately not the exact stamp)

The category chosen was: fashion

Here's what I came up with:

The dress is from Rubbernecker, the sentiment from High Hopes. The dress and sentiment are heat embossed with Ranger's embossing powder (Well, she didn't say I couldn't use embossing powder. So, all is fair there.)

Gingerbread Men

Rubbernecker Frogs

Rubbernecker Cowpokes

April Showers

The image on this is from Rubbernecker. She is colored with Copics and attached with pop dots. The pre-made card is by DCWV. The flowered paper is one of my favorites, but I'm not sure who it is made by. The caption is generated on the computer.