At the Beach--DogGoneStamps

I promised you a Dog Gone Stamps card today and this is one of my favorite 1926 images called At the Beach. In 1926 being coy and innocent was very feminine...boy have times changed! :)

Colored with copic markers, you would be really surprised if I said anything different!!!, and sponged with Tim Holtz Distress inks Broken China and Vintage Photo.

The background is a faux marble dp that I created using Tim Holtz reinkers and metalic mixative pearl. I used bottle, denim and pearl with a felt applicator pad and a little Tim Holtz blender fluid. I had been waiting for the right image to use the dp and this was perfect because it looks like the ocean to me.

I really wanted the image to be the main focus so I just added a wide dotted swiss ribbon, tied a bow knot and added 3 antique pearl (real pearl) buttons from my grandfather's button collection.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out the great sales and stamps that Dog Gone Stamps have right now.

Have a great day and I will of course have another project tomorrow, just not sure which one yet.

Good Night.

Cathy

I'm ready for Summer!

Since I have totally had all the cold weather I can stand I decided to show you this wonderful image called At the Beach from the 1926 stamp collection at Dog Gone Stamps.

The image was drawn by Doris Folkman Summerill in 1926, isn't it wonderful. I colored this image with copic markers and used my copic airbrush system to add the water and bale blue sky.

The card was created for a sketch challenge that is offered on the Dog Gone Stamp Group page on Paper Craft Planet.

The Dog Gone Stamp DT is having a blog hop, more affectionately known for this occassion as the Doggone Blog walk this coming Saturday April 25, beginning at 10:30 AM. Be sure to come and check-out the newest stamps offered. I am sure that you will find tons that you will love, I know I have :)

Catch you tomorrow, my long week-end is catching up with me and I am going to bed early tonight.

Cathy

The Belle of the Ball

Happy Friday!!!

I finally got a chance to make the Belle of the Ball into a card. I showed you the image a few days ago because I just didn't take time to make cards yet (I was having too much fun coloring.)

This is one of the 1926 images at Dog Gone Stamps. The original drawings were done using a feather quill pen and ink.

I colored the image with copic markers and wanted to make a simple but elegant card to showcase this beautiful lady. I added glitter to her sash and necklace with a stardust clear glitter pen. Of course it is really hard for the true shine to show up with a flash picture.

I sewed the main image onto the star flower punched and embossed white panel. I decided that I wanted just the blue panel as the card base, but it was a little plain, so I used my sewing machine and made a free hand sewing line twice around the card base. Where the lines intersected I placed a half pearl for pretty definition of the sewn lines. I tied a sheer white ribbon around the base under the raised main panel and my card was complete.

I hope you all have a great evening. I posted a little earlier than usual tonight, I still have a bunch of stamping to do, the best part of the day!

See you tomorrow.

Cathy

Day 5 Blog Candy Winner and new Dog Gone Stamp images

Happy Monday everyone. Lynn is our final winner for the Scavenger Hunt. Congratulations Lynn. I have received all of the mailing addresses so your prize bundles will be mailed tomorrow. Thank you so much for playing.

I got some new Dog Gone Stamps today and so tonight I have been coloring. I have not made any cards from them yet but I am going to post two pictures of the colored images anyway.




Isn't this just the cutest, saddest, loneliest looking little pup you have ever seen. When I make the card it will say Miss You because it sure looks like he does.
It is nearly impossible to color black and be able to shade and add any detail so this is done in about 10 shades of grey :) Really it is 3 shades of grey, 2 shades of dark blue and nighlights done with blender pen.

I used my copic airbrush for the grass and sky.

The next image is from the 1926 stamps, The Ball:


Isn't she just beautiful. It is hard for me to imagine that Miss Dorothy drew the original images with a feather quill pen. Such attention to detail.
I started out thinking that The Belle of the Ball was going to be dressed in a pastel dress. I love my copic markers but they don't always lend themselves well to pastel colors when you blend and shade as much as I do.
Tomorrow I am going to try my Koh-I-Nor pencils and OMS and see how I like that.
I don't usually just post images that i had colored but I wanted to show you these new images and didn't want to stop coloring to make a card yet.
I am going to wrap this up and go color some more.

Good Night

Cathy

I did two challenges today, Yeah for me!!

Well, we made it through the snow storm yesterday with no ill effects. The snow started as I was going to work and ended before I left work at 5:30 so I had about 7 inches of snow to drive home in. I hear more on the way this week so I will get quality stamping time.

I did two challenges today. the first is for the weekly GinaK Designs challenge hosted by Joanne Basille. Her challenges are always great and this was no exception. Use Kraft paper, that was it.

I didn't have kraft cardstock so I looked in my old SU catalog and matched it as closely as I could. Here is the card I made:

I wanted the sentiment to be the focal point of the card so I kept it kind of simple. I used my Top Note Die for the larger beige panel and used my Quikutz label die for the Kraft label that I sponged with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo distress ink. I sponged all of the edges but you can't really tell the sponging on the bottom layer for some reason.

I added a piece of ivory sheer ribbon to the Top Note panel bottom and tied another piece of white sheer ribbon and light brown loop edge satin ribbon to the first knot bow. I punched two leaves with my Martha Steward leafy punch. I also punched 2 butterflies out of vellum with my Martha Steward Butterfly punch. I don't care what you say about Martha Stewart you gotta love her punches.

My card is done for the GinaK Challenge for this week.

My second challenge card is for week3 at Dog Gone Stamps. Jana created another really fun sketch challenge and here is my card I made:

I don't know what is wrong with me but once again I followed the sketch without changing it.

This card is larger than most that I make, it measures 5 1/2 inches square.

I colored the main image, elephant with balloons, from Dog Gone Stamps with copic markers. I added Atyou green glitter pen to the green balloon and Star Dust clear glitter to the yellow and blue. I put a few dots of the clear pen inside the pink ear of the elephant and smeared it with my finger to spread it around in the ear. You can't see that in the picture here but it is sparkly.

I used my red Atyou glitter pen to paint her toe nails, Hey, if you are an elephant it's the little things that dress you for the party.
I cut the main image out using the out of the box technique, so that the balloons are hanging over the edge of the other two matt panels. I thought it would add a little interest to the square center panels.
The cute felt flowers are from the dollar bin at Target and because I wanted to tie in the colors to the SU Polka Dot and Paisley designer paper that I used I added the ribbon elements.
I like the way that it turned out and Jana had another fun sketch challenge.
Feel free to join the challenges at Paper Craft Planet, Dog Gone Stamps Group, it's a really fun group and they let me play.
I'm going to stop for now and go color some more.

Have a good night and see you tomorrow with more news about the Dog Gone Stamp blog candy scheduled to begin on Thursday.

Nite,

Cathy

I Toad You!

This is an awesome King Toad image from Dog Gone Stamps, I had a lot of fun coloring it.

This was a sketch challenge that I printed off and I like the way that it turned out.

I colored the toad with copic markers and sponged around the edge with Brushed Corduroy and Vintage Photo Tim Holtz Distressed ink. There are three layers of coordinating patterned paper in tones of green and brown. I sponged around the lightest green layer to tone it down a little.

I used Martha Steward beige twill ribbon for the verticle stripe in the sketch and tied a knot bow in it. I printed my sentiment on my computer because I didn't have any Toad sayings. I cut the sentiment strip and used my tag punch to create the ends. I then cut a piece of black to mount the sentiment on and punched the ends the same way with my tag punch. The tag punch that I have has three different size tags on one punch so I can use the correct one for the size paper strip I have cut.

I added tiny colored gems from K & Company to the crown and sentiment tag. Just a little bit of bling fit for royalty.

A pretty straight forward card. Hope you like it. The inside of the card will say "that I love you" Happy Anniversary!

Thanks for looking. Oh, I forgot to mention that Dog Gone Stamps has New Stamps on their site tonight. They are really cool created from drawings done by Nancy Torfin's Mother(correct me if I am wrong). The originals were drawn with a quill pen.

They also have new Dog Stamps that are so cute and perfect for the dog lover and a left and right corner border butterfly stamp that will be on my next order :)

Thanks for looking, have a great night. I'm off to bed.

Cathy