SCS Mystery Image Swap - March 2016 MFT Birdie Brown "You are Super"

Super Girl says You're a Super Friend! I've always loved this Super Girl image from My Favorite Things.  It's been on my wish list forever.

This month in March, Joanna (Queenbee Jo) over at SCS sent us all this darling stamped girl, accessories and sentiments from the "You are Super" set to play with.  She even sent along two different cityscape skyline dies for us to use.

So here's my Super Girl card with shiny don't hate her because she's beautiful hair, super girl shield and word bubble sentiment! Had to throw in some red glitter a la easy glitter tape.

I'm not really sure why I went with the patriotic theme in my background patterned paper selection. Maybe I was thinking of Captain America when I was coloring in that shield?

I've been watching new coloring tutorials and applied some of what I could remember.  I've never used a hint of Copics B00 before and I love the way her hair came out.  With this close up, you can see I messed up with color bleeding outside the lines on the bottom right dress area.  Now you see why she ended up with a shield? tee hee!

Here are the Copics I used for her hair and skin color.  I busted out Y17 for once for all the yellow you see. 

But I really don't have any primary blues or reds. So I ended up reaching for my SU Watercolor Pencils set to finish her Super Girl costume. I also added a pop of white sharpie marker pen work on her boots. 

Because the sentiment Joanna sent along was stamped with plenty of space in between each of the words, I decided to carefully die cut the phrase "Super Friend" as you can see below.  Usually, this type of precision aligning would require a lot of praying for it to work out because I'm too cheap to waste my non existent washi tape stash by using a few pieces to tape the metal die in place.

I remembered to pack my new magnetic platform I just received from Joann's during their most recent online 50% off sale. Oh my gosh, this was so worth the splurge!! It worked like a charm with success on the first try! Saving so much time since additional attempts with limited supplies were not necessary.

I forgot how much joy new crafting toys can bring.  Thank you Joanna for the opportunity to play with this adorable little Super Girl.  And I hope Kelly likes it as this is on it's way to her on Monday as part of our rotating mail out schedule for the Mystery Image Swap.

SCS is hosting their "Here Comes the Sun" themed Virtual Stamp Night this weekend, so I'm submitting this one for Hostess Carla's (Covington Crafter) "Give Me A Head With Hair" Challenge MAR16VSNK since I made it a point to try a different hair coloring approach this time.

Challenge #1 of 14 - done!


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"Super Friend" You are Super Card
Paper: Cryogen White #89; ? PP
Stamps: MFT Birdie Brown "You are Super"
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black; Copics (Hair) B00, N1, C5. C7, C9; (Skin) E00, E51, YR21, R 20; Super Girl Outfit - SU Watercolor Pencisl & Wink of Stella Gold 
Tools: SU Word Bubbles Framelit Die; Memory Box Cityscape Silhouette Border Die; Creative Memories Star Punch
Embellishments: American Crafts Best Creations Red Glitter Tape
Size: 5.75" x 5" rectangular 

SplitCoast Stampers June 2015 Virtual Stamp Night Event "You Are My Happy" Challenge JUN15VSNC

I'm so excited to be able to play along the 2 day Virtual Stamp Event going on at SCS this weekend. There are 10 challenges and the ongoing theme is Happy.

Hostess Sue (gregzgurl) is calling for cards to show a special someone how "You Are My Happy." The rule for all the challenges is to complete the card in 1 hour or less - eek! That in itself is stressful enough since I'm a slow poke!

Here's my entry for this JUN15VSNC "You Are My Happy" Challenge:

Thanks to the other day's attempt with heat embossing my Etch-A-Sketch cards, I decided to try heat embossing this flower stamp in order to use watercolor to color. It's a style trend I've seen a lot on the web.

The heat embossing and water coloring was actually quite fast. I think it helped that I made a color swatch of my Canson Water Color set because it made it so much easier to know which colors to use.

Once I watered down the embossed areas, I merely dabbed on the lighter of the green and blue violet colors on first before touching up with the darker versions.  While the water colors were drying, I then adhered the sequins.

Funnily enough, what took most of the time within the hour was
1) Choosing color/shape of sequins
2) Choosing location and number of sequins to adhere!

Whew! 1 down, 9 more challenges to go!

What's more, I was able to tackle another one of my 2015 Let the Year End with Beauty:

16.  Watercolor medium for coloring in flowers/roses. 

The color choices were inspired by this week's current Muse Challenge #121.

I've never been a green person, but this inspiration card featured a lot of green, so I decided to emphasize a fresh green on my card by attaching the SU Gable Green cardstock.  I took a liberal interpretation of their navy and sage green and made my versions of the color more springy for my card's purposes due to the Iris stamp image.

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"You Bring Out the Happy in Me" Card
Paper: Canson 140lb Watercolor Paper; SU Gable Green
Stamps: PSX K-3192 Iris ; MFT All Smiles (Sentiment)
Ink: Canson Angora Water Colors; Stampendous White Opaque EP; SU Brocade Blue; Memento Black 
Embellishments: SU 2013-2015 In Color Sequins
Size: 4.25" x 6.5" rectangular 

La-La Land Inspiration Monday {Buttons And/Or Bows}

It's Inspiration Monday on the La-La Land Crafts Blog and this week the DT challenge is to add Buttons and / or bows to our projects.

Here's what I made this week using the Marci Ballerina which you can get as a rubber stamp or as a digi-stamp.

Copics Used:

Hair: E39
Skin: E00, E11, R20
Tutu & Roses: R81, R85
Leaves: G14

Here's a different angle so you can see her pretty vintage ivory buttons that complement her dainty tutu. :) She's so soo cute!!

Thanks for popping my blog and don't forget to check out the other DT creations over at the blog today and again on Friday.

Happy Monday Everyone!




"I'm so Proud of Who You've Become"
Paper: BG Eva PP; Neenah Solar White 80# CS, Bazzil CS
Stamps: La-La Land Craft "Marci Ballerina"; Phrase is MFT
Accessories: Copic Markers, Spellbinders Ovals and Scalloped Ovals; Double Sided Tape; SU Pop Dots; Offray Ribbon, Maya Road Pins, Prima Flowers; Heidi Swapp and Michaels $1 Bin Bling; Misc Button