Elephant Riddle & Pink Flamingo

RIDDLE ANSWER: See if he brought his trunk.

I used another improved Sew Many Cards image - Eris. I used Stacey's Curtain Color Call #33 of Celery Green, Navy Blue, Sky Blue and White and Paper Craft Planet's sketch for the week. Since I have a riddle, I think that qualifies this card for the Child's Play challenge at Crafty Creations.


I like Stacey's color combo #32 from last week (but then it disappeared when my computer re-booted and for some strange reason I was unable to find it again) so here's a card with that color combo too. My mother-in-law has a friend that likes flamingos so I'll let her give this card to her.
I used a Dustin Pike freebie image. I used an red/pink printed paper that I don't know the name of the pack it came from (I remember I bought it at Walmart but that's all I know about it), then chose an apricot colored cardstock to run thru my Cuttlebug with a Quickcutz floral folder. I colored the raised flowers with a golden-yellow and then a pink ink pad. I used a scrap of yellow ric rac that I have no idea where it came from (I think it might have been in my sewing stash but not sure where it came from...garage sale, what-cha-got-box, given by friends or family, some other??). The pink ribbon came from Target's dollar bin. I typed up the Happy Birthday sentiment with MS Word.

Challenges for this card:
Crafts & Me: Friends and Family
The Creative Cottage Challenge: Pink
Creative Belli: Old & Forgotten (yellow ricrac)

Have a Beary Happy Birthday

Here's Sew Many Cards' Bear with balloons and Happy Birthday sentiment. I used the sketch from Lili of the Valley Thursday Challenge, the color choices for my card at Colour Create Challenge, and I also have embossing which means I can enter into the Cardvarks challenge.

Keep yer Kool!

This card is perfect for the 16 year old about to get his/her license. I colored Tayla with two brown markers and the tires with a gray marker then paper pieced the car. I used my alcohol inks to make a red/gold paper, a aqua/silver paper and a green/gold paper, then printed the car three times (once on each paper). After cutting the car body in red and the windows in blue, I did the bumper in green. I also cut the eye/headlights from the blue and tongue from red and glued them on top of their proper spaces. To darken up the window seal, I ran the gray marker in that spot. To finish the card off, I rounded the corners, matted it on a green cardstock scrap then on dark red card base.

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Here's yet another improved quality image from Sew Many Cards. I used PaperCraftPlanet's sketch, and the main colors of orange & blue with a little beige (the scarf is beige although you can barely see it). The MAZEL TOV stamp is by Studio G (love that dollar bin at Michael's and JoAnns) and I used Rubber Stampede dark blue on orange paper to stamp it then cut it out. The blue twine is wax coated jewerly cord and the flowers are Prima Sweet & Sassy Dolly. The papers came from a 8x8 pack that I don't remember the manufacture name but I bought it at Walmart a couple of years ago. Everything was mounted on an orange card base.

You can see the colors better in this photo. The photo above doesn't show you the shadows on the snowballs or the light color of the scarf. However, the detail around the eyes doesn't look right in this one (looks better in other picture). And by getting so close, you can see where some of the background chalk got onto the scarf and cheeks.
Well thanks for looking.

SMC Father's Day card

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Prize Package -- 5 free digi stamps


I chose Owen with Flowers for my Father's day card. I was unable to see my Create A Card sketch a few weeks ago when my internet was out so I decided to use one of those sketches this time.
I colored Owen with my alcohol markers (the only copic brand I have is the flesh tones, all the rest are Bic, Sharpie and Prisma). I added a little dab of Studio G green glitter glue for his buttons. The background papers are made with Adirondack Alcohol Inks in Meadow and Lettuce greens with gold highlights then ran thru the cuttlebug with a Sizzix folder called Flowers and Vines. The redish strip is Currant and Eggplant inks and ran thru the same embossing folder. I used a scrap of gold ribbon and the flower brads came from Making Memories Spring Fling.


Challenges:
Just Us Girls: Dry Embossing
Crafty Ho's: Bring out dah bling, lush ribbon, and flourishes.


Thanks for looking

Tayla with balloon

Here's is another "new and improved" Sew Many Cards image: Tayla with Balloon. I colored Tayla with colored pencils and embossed the red oval with the paisley cuttlebug folder. I 'smooshed' brown chalk on the oval to "age" it and inked the edge in blue cyan ink. I further aged the card using brown cocoa ink on the edge of the card. It ended up a bit plain so I added white to the red and I think that improved it.


Challenges:
Ann's Creative Nook - Red, White, Blue
Techno Stamper - sketch

Here's what Tayla used to look like. The biggest difference you'll notice is the party hat. I tried the party box instructions provided by The Wild Flower Patch

Tayla with Cauldron

Image: Tayla with Cauldron from Sew Many Cards http://sewmanycards.com
Markers: Sharpie and Bic
Cardstock: scrap packs, I chose bright orange, peach, golden yellow and grey
Ribbon: Unknown
Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug Pumpkin Harvest
Ink on pumpkins: Cats Eye Yellow Citrus
Glitter glued on with Ranger Inkssentials Matte Glaze


Challenges:
Paper Craft Planet's Color Challenge #69
Midnight Madness Sketch #56

Croa-kee, Croa-kee

My title is inspired by Dora the Explorer and the little frog song they sing. It makes for a more interesting title, but I'm not sure that I spelled it correctly. LOLFirst I used this sketch and The Wildflower Patch wanted a monochromatic card (sorry I don't do pink frogs - LOL-and besides, it's the natural flesh tone of frogs so if natural human flesh tones are ok for monochromatic then I think green froggies are allowed - LOL) I chose to do one of Sew Many Card's frogs because I saw this post at
http://bylisac.blogspot.com/2010/05/special-rak-event-for-my-sister-jayme.html.

Hope you like it. Thank you for looking.

June SMC Blog Hop

First some personal news...SCHOOL'S OUT!!! I have a lot of things to accomplish this summer before August. Hopefully the rain won't come and stick around again like it did for the past couple of weeks. My internet is through a satellite so when I have heavy rain clouds blocking my signal I can't post to my blog, visit other blogs or links, or read my email (Thank goodness I had worked ahead and posted some of the stuff to my blog but my posts weren't entirely ready either). I was deprived of my computer for over a week. I would sneak some time at work reading my email but I couldn't go to links so I had to wait until the sun came out again (and boy has it come back - it's now hot and humid here) and now I have a lot of past links to look at and catch up on. I also have some posts I need make for my blog so stay tuned.


And now for the June blog hop details:
We would love for you to come join us for our June New Release Blog hop at Sew Many Challenges!! Angela, from Sew Many Cards is updating some of the images and re-releasing them this month! Memorial Weekend Sale 60% off purchase of $10 or more.Use coupon code MEMORIAL60 Saturday, Sunday and Monday only.
Other participating stores: ---

Sunshine Stamps – http://www.yourspecialdelivery.co.uk/sunshine-stamps.html
Sew Many Cards – http://shop.sewmanycards.com
The Stamping Boutique – http://thestampingboutique.com


So come join in on the fun. STARTING POINT IS THE SEW MANY CHALLENGES BLOG You can find all the details at

http://sewmanychallenges.blogspot.com

and don't forget to grab our Friday Freebie we have posted!!!

Hope to see you join us!!

Now, I get to show you Cammi in an Apple.

My image, printed on white cardstock, was colored with Bic, Sharpie, and PrismaColor Markers. I cut it out and popped it up like Your Next Step challenge. I made my card following Paper Craft Planet's sketch 052210 and A Gem of a Challenge's color scheme to use Burgundy, Pink and Green. I also have met Whimsical Ink Sorority's challenge to use green and to have a decorative border. I quickly stitched some variegated green thread above Cammi and added a couple of transparent pink flowers that I made darker with some Currant alcohol ink dabbed on one side. Mark's Finest Papers/Speedy the Cat's Challenge is to have an animal. KL Stamping and Scrapping is asking for distressed and torn edges. I tore the edges of the green felt-like paper. I think it's some kind of mulberry paper but it is really thick and heavy so I'm not sure. Totally Gorjuss wants to Bling it Up so I added the glitter glue dots and the tiny glitter flower.

In case you were interested in what Cammi looked like before...here you go.

I think I like the improved image much better, don't you? This card follows Techno stamper's sketch and the color inspiration by Crafty Hos challenge.