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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

OWH-Yet another tiger card.


Only one card with this design. I had another image on it and it just wasn't pleasing me me so I pulled it off. The paper is DCWV Safari 8" pad. I mounted it on Bazzill rhubarb color cardstock. Colored the Microsoft Office clipart image with Copics. Used the same markers as in the previous tiger card.

Monday, January 10, 2011

OWH-Safari Dreams Lion


Are you getting tired yet of all the safari cards? I will need to take a break soon and make a couple of family birthday cards. I have less than 3 weeks to get that done.


The lion image is from Microsofts Office clip art. It was already colored so no Copics needed. The papers are all from the DCWV Safari 8" pad. I mounted it all on Bazzill Pinecone color. This is a very dark brown and I don't have many occasions when I use a color this dark. I mounted the sentiment on chipboard and inked up the edges with VersaMagic.


I had 2 sheets of the background grass paper so I made 4 cards like this. I hope you enjoy this creation

Saturday, January 8, 2011

OWH-Safari Dreams elephant


The elephant was imprinted on the DCWV paper (the image was already on the paper). Because there were only two sheets of it I made only 2 cards. Too bad because I really like this elephant. I do have some other elephant cards in the works though and I will be posting those.
On this card I stitched around the edge with multi colored thread to dress the simple card up a little. I used my Tim Holtz tiny stapler to fasten down the sentiment and ribbon. I love that stapler! I distressed the edges of the image mount with my Tim Holtz distresser and then inked up the edges with green VersaMagic

Friday, January 7, 2011

OWH-Safari Dreams Rhino


I made four of these cards with clipart from Microsoft Office clipart. I colored the image with Copics. The papers are from DCWV Safari 8" pad. I used the Distress ink Stormy Sky on the image edge. The twine I used was Darice 20lb hemp from the jewelry department. I soaked it in coffee because it was white.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

OWH-Safari Dreams, tiger


This is the second in my Safari Dreams series for OWH. I used the DCWV 8"Safari pad of papers. The image is a clipart download from Microsofts Office clipart. I colored with Copics. I don't normally list the colors I used but I will for this one. It gave me fits. I made 4 of these cards.


Copics
E41 for background. I used the broad end of the sketch marker.

E11 for base color of tiger.

Y23 over the base coat.

YR12 shadows

C00 white on face

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

OWH Safari Dreams







These cards were a real change of pace for me. I decided I would make some masculine cards. I fell in love with the DCWV safari 8" pad and had to have it. Now the problem is finding images to use with the paper. I found these zebra clip art images at Microsoft's Office clip art site. Found some other usable images too. I printed the images out on Crate paper. On the bottom 2 cards I used my Ranger craft mat and the Tim Holtz Stormy Sky Distress Ink and rubbed the edges with the Tim Holtz applicator. I made 12 of these zebra cards






I am working on some tiger cards and the images are giving me fits. I have a hard time doing animals with my Copic markers. I may have over 225 markers but I still can't find the correct color.

Sunday, January 2, 2011

OWH The last of the butterflies







The purple butterfly card went to my sister Betty. The other was made for OWH.

Friday, December 31, 2010

OWH more butterflies







Looks like I need to get my blog updated. Here are some more butterflies. Same image, different look. The bottom card used a piece of really old Basic Grey paper. The top 2 I used my new pad which is old, of DCWV Sweet shop. I made several cards with this image. Getting pretty good at making multiples

I have been working on some masculine cards that I will be posting soon

Monday, December 27, 2010

And then I woke up


This is the card I made for my Angela's 49th birthday. I want to do some of these for OWH. I colored with Copics. Added some Diamond Glaze to the umbrella.


The holidays are winding down. Betty goes back to wet Southern CA in the morning. I will get back to eating properly. I have been having pasta and a bit of bread and a couple of pieces of pie and this evening I am up a pound from 2 weeks ago. I can't have that.


My son-in-law replaced my garbage disposal this morning. That gave a nice hit to my pocket book. Then I decided I needed some of that fancy x-press paper to use with my Copics. That was an arm and a leg. I hate to balance my checkbook. The nice thing is I am loving that Michaels has the ATG tape. Been using coupons to buy that. If I was smart I would do that everyday this week. Been using a lot of that tape!

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

OWH butterflies







I have found myself making cards even with the holidays approaching. Here are 3 with the same colored image but different papers. The digital word art is from TLC. I have no idea of the company that made the butterfly stamp. It was from an image exchange a long time ago. Colored with Copics