A Fall card for a friend

Just a quick post. I wanted to share the card I sent to my friend Debby in Israel. She received it yesterday. I enjoyed making this card. The digital collage image is from gingerloft. It was released a few years ago as a stamp and now she is selling them as digitals. I used Word to merge the sentiment from TLC with the main image. The sentiment seemed perfect considering the clock on the image. I printed it out on a neutral background and colored parts of the image with Copics. I used Diamond Glaze on the leaves to make them pop. I used an edge distress-er and then followed up with Tim Holtz Distress Ink. For the final touch I used 2 gold skeleton leaves.

I have been sick for days with a cold. Wish it would go away.

Whatever was I thinking!

I wanted to chat a little bit about craft items we buy and then wonder why we did it.

Lets talk about the card with the pumpkin and little boy. I loved this digital image when I bought it. Made what I thought was a pretty cute card with it a few months ago. My first Halloween card of the year. A couple of months ago I was going through my box of Halloween supplies and what do I find? Last year a friend sent me some leftover vintage images she had and here was one of this little boy. Full color and so sweet. The shop I had bought the image from had reworked it into a digital version. Had placed a jack-o-lantern face on the pumpkin. Now I could use Copic markers for years and never be able to color like the original picture. Maybe someday I will reuse this image. What I really want to talk about is the pumpkin shaped Nestabilities. I just HAD to have this set. Paid over $18 for it. Every time I have tried to use it I just can't seem to make a card work. Money down the toilet.

On to the card with the cat. This was done with a large Sizzix die. Got it on sale for $10. Yes, I had to have it even knowing that I don't use the few dies I have. I must have cut a dozen of these cats with different papers and just plain black. I wound up using one. It just looked to darn plain on a card. I had a real problem giving it some eyes that didn't look stupid. I am a far cry from an artist. Erica finally did some eyes for me. I added some little green gems that were the right shape so it does work. The background is a digital image from Digital Two For Tuesday.

Probably my costliest buy was an air compressor for my Copics. I thought about it for months before I leaped. I would like to leap back. That cost me almost $200. What I have not splurged on? A Cricut. We won't even talk about the money I have put into Copic Sketch markers. I have somewhere around 225 of them. You do the math.

Bugaboo images today.

These 3 cards were all made with Bugaboo digital images. The little boys are called bobblehead Frank. The one that says Trick or Treat is for the 3 year old great grandson. Couldn't put on buttons or anything that he could pull off and swallow. The one with the tree goes to the 6 year old great grandson. I put googly eyes on the eyeballs that were already on the tree. I washed the entire bottom portion with a watered down solution of Diamond Glaze. The Frank images I colored with Copics and cut out. Added both images to Fiskars punchouts. The cat in the shoe is a card that I reworked. It originally had an evil looking witch and I just couldn't deal with it. lol

I have one more card ready but I will upload it tomorrow.

What's the story morning glory? MUSIC!

I just finished my card for the challenge at TLC. The challenge was to use the bird image along with the word art provided by Paulette at TLC. You will find a link for TLC on my sidebar.

After messing around I decided to print the sentiment on the card stock. I put it through the music Cuttlebug folder after I had it postioned just right. I used white core paper so I could distress the music notes. I went over the words morning glory with a black Spica glitter pen. The bird I colored with Copics and then cut out. Got my lace on a little crooked, as usual. lol That red line tape is unforgiving. Now that I see the card nice and enlarged I see I forgot to color the birds eye.

Have a sweet Halloween

I need to put this on the card and it will be finished. The image was from Deb on Cuppas and Cards. She sent it to me last year. I colored with Copics and finished off the tops of the cakes with Diamond Glaze. The orange trim was gifted to me by my friend Debby in Israel. Thank you Debby. I have another image colored the same but haven't made it into a card yet. This was the last of the cute Halloween brads by Recollections at Michaels. They are on sale so I should go today and buy some more.

There is a challenge on TLC that I want to work on today. I haven't even started and it ends at 9:00p.m.

More Halloween cards

I am about done working with Halloween cards. Getting tired of them. I have done a dozen. I will need to do some simple ones for the little grandkids in a couple of weeks. I think they are more thrilled with the $5 I put in the cards than the cards themselves. lol

Cat Girl and Batty are both digital images from Tiddly Inks.

The lady in red with a halo holder is a digital image from Bugaboo. Erica colored all 3 images. That is the last of the images she colored for me. Boo hoo. I like how she added a web to the devil lady's leg. I used Diamond Glaze on her dress and the sentiment. I watered down the glaze and glazed the flames. Now this image is not one I would buy. I got it from Angela. I do have a specific person in mind though to send this card to. Sometimes cute just doesn't get it for me and this was fun to work with.

Gossmere goes Trick or Treating

Guess I need to get this card added. It has been finished for 2 days. I have been spending what seems like endless hours reorganizing my digital images. I am almost done. Me and my thing for organizing getting carried away. They say time spent doing something you enjoy is not wasted time so I keep that in mind. I just bought the Bugaboo Sept. club with 20 images so I need to deal with getting those into Word. Also need to get some more images that Erica colored made into cards. I can see me deleting more stuff from my DVR

Image colored by Erica with Copics
Digital image-Gossmere from Tiddly Inks
Spider web done with Cuttlebug folder and inked.
Spider with gems-Recollections
All dressed up sticker is way old.

More Halloween

I finished this one up this evening. The Boo image is a digital freebie from TLC. It came colored. I printed out and added Diamond Glaze to make it pop. The image is on a cut out (the big orange blob)of a tracing I did from a tag. I used stamp edge scissors to cut it out. The scalloped edge on the top is from my new Recollections punch. Added some Primas, brads and some black mesh. The velum ghost was cut with a Sizzix die, a pretty old one. I like how it turned out. A simple image that worked.

I was busy

I have two Halloween cards today. My daughter and Erica were over yesterday. Erica colored several images with Copics for me while Candy and I worked on Halloween cards.

Erica colored the blue haired goth girl.
Blue bouncing bones paper-TLC, part of the month long holiday club
flower-Prima
skull brads-Recollections
trim-Joannes
Diamond glaze on boots, icing and skull
digital image-Pinky, Tiddly Inks
Copic Markers

Spooky card
Digital background and digital image. Colored spooky with Copics and then added Diamond Glaze. Used Nestabilities to cut. Adhesive ribbon from Joannes.

Spotlighted at CDAC

Today my Halloween boot #3 was spotlighted on the main page at CDAC. It is a badge but I don't know how to add those to the blog. I need lessons. lol

Yesterday I did learn how to take 2 separate digital images in Word and combine them to make one image. I wish I had known how to do that with the spotlighted card. Instead I used multiple papers until I was able to run them through the printer to combine. I needed the boot printed on the paper so when I cut out the colored image you could still see the curly cues on the outside edges of the boot. I cut them off on the colored one.