Flopsey for Kate

My friend Kate isn't into the "cutesy" stamps but she is starting to like Flopsey from MFT so when I picked up Flopsey's Flowers from Scrapbookers Paradise North the other week I told her I would change her mind - he's just so darn cute!

I used my June Key Ingredients from Taylored Expressions for the paper. Flopsey is stamped on Gina K's pure luxury paper with memento ink and coloured with copics. I paper pieced Flopsey's flowers and added some siren smooch (and smudged it) to the centre of the flowers, I then added some pink Taylor's tiny twinkles.

For the flowers, the two dark pink flowers are from the key ingredients kit, but the light pink on is a white one which I coloured with copics. I then used Glimmer Mist (pearl) on the flowers - yes Kate I used Glimmer mist you will convert me yet!!

Hope you are having a great weekend, mine has been fun for my anniversary I went to a movie & dinner with a friend - we saw The Hangover; it's so funny!! Today I am golfing with friends & the sun is suppose to shine all day FINALLY!!

Thanks for stopping by

Dana

Sweet Tweet

When I saw this little Birdie from Imaginisce's new line Twitterpated I knew I HAD to have him - he is so darn cute!!

I stamped him on Gina K 80lb Pure Luxury cs with Palette black ink and coloured him in with my copics; the colour choice was easy because I was using Imaginisce's DS paper Twitterpated, Mushroom Fancy to go with him. I am so happy the paper actually works really well with SU's So Saffron, Riding Hood Red and Tangerine Tango. I was shocked when I realized how little of the Tangerine Tango I used; I love orange on cards so why has it been neglected?!

Anyways, birdie was cut out with my nesties and then I outlined the image with my Atyou Spica in black to give it a bit more definition. The sentiment so tweet is also from Imaginisce and again I went over the words with the Atyou pen. To give his beak some shine I added a little of SU's crystal effects. Then I FINALLY used some of my tangerine ribbon (again why has it been neglected?!)

Again I have to say thanks to Gloria over at Scrapbooker's Paradise north she showed me the new Imaginisce line as soon as it arrived

Thanks for stopping by & have a great day -

Dana

Masculine Birthday

I have had this card idea rattling around in my head since seeing Lauren Meader sketch late Friday night (thanks for posting it early!) and my friend Nancy

has started a colour and texture challenge that I

wanted to do PLUS I
never make guy cards and my brother's birthday is next month so it was perfect!

The colour/texture challenge was interesting because I didn't' want to colour in grey, black, silver or white so I had to find a solid stamp, not that easy in my collection - I love to colour :)

The card really is formed around the designer metal sheet that I embossed with cuttlebugs tiny mosaics.
I have had the sheet of metal since the summer - I bought it at Stamping Bella (sorry can't find it on

the site). Funny story behind it is that RYAN sold it to me! Yep he knows I am a lover (or sucker) for new things so he showed me a card that Nicky had made using the metal sheet and shock of all shocks it ended up in my bag - lesson here don't think you are safe if Ryan is in the store, he too will show you amazing things to try/buy :) How I miss them!

Once I had the metal embossed I found layers for the rest - the card base is SU's Basic Grey. The DS paper is from Little Yellow Bicycle called "love letters" I picked it up today at Scrapbooker's Paradise (north) - funny thing I always told Gloria I couldn't find much there -yeah ate my words big time today (and was reminded of that) the bag was FULL!

I heat embossed SU's Happy from Happy Everything on SU's shimmery white with black embossing powder and layered it on both basic grey and basic black. "Birthday" is stamped with SU's basic black on shimmery white and I used several circle punches to mount it again with basic grey & black. I sponged the edges on the white so it wasn't so harsh and added a piece of Doodle Bug paper frill from the tuxedo collection (another item from my Scrapbooker's Paradise bag), it was white so again I sponged it with the grey to soften the white.

I really like the effect of the metal, so thanks again Nicky for the inspiration and Ryan for showing :)

thanks for stopping by,

Dana