Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge--The Fabric of our Lives

The Challenge this week at Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge hosted by Dorcas is to add fabric...easy you say...well kinda LOL.  Here is my card...note no Christmas card...already tired or them :)

I chose this adorable image called, Make a Wish, and colored her in pinks and chose pink cs to show her off.  The image was colored with copic markers and cut out with a spellbinder die and airbrushed while still in the die.
I added two doiles behind the image to set it off against the pink cs.  I added 3 pearls in each upper corner.
To make my fabric flower I used my cricut and that requires the Heat and bond which you iron onto the fabric you want to cut, and then just cut out like you would paper.  Pretty cool huh.  I cut the pink cotton gingham in 2 inch and 1 and a half inch flowers and added a gold rimmed pearl to finish my double band of  pink gingham ribbon.
Have I mentioned I love my toys :)

Be sure to see what other fabric embellishments the other DT members came up with to show you, I can't wait.
Be sure to stop by the Mo's Digital Pencil Store and see the new images she has come up with for you to purchase, after all it is Christmas.  My dog always buys me the best Christmas presents LOL,  He always knows exactly what I want, how does he know ?!?

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful creative day.

Cathy

Just Inklined Blog Hop--Fall Colors

Welcome to the October Just Inklined Blog Hop.  I'm Cathy and I am the Hostess this month and I choose the theme Fall Colors.  I love the colors of Fall and not only is this card made with my favorite colors but also to celebrate a Special Day. Today is my 41st. Wedding Anniversary.  And yes, I was a child-bride, LOL:

Because the card is for my husband it is perfect for the fall colors of oranges, brown and greens.  The Corner  A-4 Poppy is perfect  as the sentiment and image are ready to print.  The image was colored with copic markers and the border was over stamped with a cracked paint stamp and airbrushed to highlight the image.  The flowers in the upper left were hand made and airbrushed to match the poppy and mounted on a MS doile.

The next stop along your hop is the super talented, Heidy, and I know she will have a wonderful project to inspire you.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to leave a comment at each DT members blogs along the way as there will be random winners drawn from the comments of several of the DT blogs.  The winners will receive the digi files used to create the card.  How cool is that. 

Have a wonderful creative day!!!

Cathy

Making Cricut Rolled Flowers--Yep I am playing!!!!

Hi everybody.  I have been busy cleaning my stamp area tonight and that brought about the need...to make some paper flowers....I have tons, literally, of paper scraps to use and since I love the look of rolled flowers I decided to make some tonight.  Here is what I am making, a work in progress:

I looked online and found some free SVG files to use with my Cricut Expression machine and the ones I liked the most were created by Cheryl First.  Thank you so much Cheryl for doing all the hard work for me and allowing me to just do the fun part :).

I downloaded her file and put it into my Sure Cuts a Lot program and at the size she had it, which is the red one above, I could place 6 flowers on a 12X 12 sheet.  They end up being about an inch tall and inch and a half across.  Great for boxes or larger projects.  That being said and since I usually make cards I needed smaller flowers. so I decided to size them to 12 to a sheet.  12 to a sheet are the orange/rust double sided flowers which end up being about 3/4  inches tall  and about an inch across.  I will use this size some so I saved the sheet to my folder so I wouldn't have to create the sheet again.

When I created the smallest flower sheet I made them about an inch and a half square and placed them as close as I could and placed 35 on the 12X12 sheet.  I just hook up my USB cord and click the cut and the Cricut cuts my file.  It is really pretty awesome.

Assembling the flowers is really simple. I use the tweezers you see in the photo and roll the flower starting from the open outside edge and basically twirl the flower around the tweezers until I reach the center which ends up being the flower base.  I use Aileens Clear Gel Tacky Glue and cover the coils, which have been gently uncurled from the tweezers and allowed to loosen a little until you get the size flower you want, and then I gently hold the flower from the top with my thumb and forefinger from the bottom to allow the glue to set for a few minutes,  Then I set them aside and move to the next flower. 

The reason I did the smaller ones in white was so I could spray them with copics to match any color I wanted to match and could have them made ahead.....the old mind is always thinking of time saving.  I do like the multi colored flowers too so you will see both.
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Hope you enjoyed this post....thought you might like to see the flowers before they were.  If anyone has a cricut and would like the link to Cheryl's file let me know.

Have a great day, and thanks for stopping by .

Cathy

Sassy Cheryl's Challenge--Flower Power

The Sassy Cheryl's Challenge this week is hosted by the super talented Jackie,and the challenge is Flower Power.  I used a flower in my  image and on my creation: 

Isn't this just the cutest little flower girl, called:  A Simple Gift of a Flower?  I love her hat and the dangling flowers on her dress.  I colored her with copic markers and sponged the edge with distress ink. 
The hat was supposed to look very well loved and I tried to get it to look very distressed but it didn't show up  in the photo as much as in person.  I think I spent an hour coloring just the hat LOL.   It is done much the same as I do denim or bear fur with the copic blender marker pounced until I get the effect I want. 
I  added a little MS punched fence to give the flower garden feel and tied a brown and pink ribbon at its base.  a large pink flower which almost perfectly matches the Flower Girls flower add a special touch of Fall.  I have a very similiar  pink flower in my garden and it is beautiful, at least until the next heavy frost.

Be sure to stop by the Challenge Blog and check out the Flower Power created by the rest of the DT and then head over to the Sassy Digi Store and see the first Sassy Snowman of the Season!!!!!!  He is adorable.  And there is a cutie patootie Sassy Gift bearer girl...yep they are must haves...

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful creative day!!!

Cathy
 

Just Inklined--- Beautiful Tulip Jug

You all know how much I love to color beautiful flowers.  Maybe that is because I don't grow them well :)  Just Inklined has the most beautiful flowers and this Tulip Jug is one of the newest ones. What do you think?:

My mother always had tulips in her yard and I always knew Spring was right around the corner when the first ones popped up, sometimes through the snow.  The colors are so varied and beautiful, too bad they only bloom for such a short time.

The image was colored with copics and I especially had fun making the jug look like a weathered tin jug, if you enlarge the picture you can see the glended different colors used.

A little corner punching, a pretty Ms border punch, a band of lace and a cute bow finish off this, Just Because they are beautiful, card.  The I-rock gems are just a little added bling.

Be sure to stop by the LaPashe Store and check-out the wonderful Just Inklined digis.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week-end.

Cathy

I got to play the Color Me Challenge this week!!!

I love all of Sassy Cheryl's images as you well know, but the new ones are especially fun, so many flowers, bunnies and cute stuffs!!! Here is Buttons Flowers Bag:for the Color Me Challenge:

Isn't this cute?  I love cute button flowers and the little lopsided flower pot was just too fun. I over stamped the flower pot with a cracked texture stamp...yes, I do still use stamps...occassionally LOL. The sentiments are from the same stamp set. 

The image was colored with copics and sponged with SU ink.  The dp was some I got on clearance a few weeks ago and the bow is wide grosgrain ribbon.  A few pink gel dots and my Challenge card is complete.

You should come and play along. Cheryl has two images each week and you can purchase them for only 2 dollars each instead of the normal 3 dollars.

Come play along.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cathy

Beautiful Daffodils----Just Inklined

Well, after a super busy week I finally had time to get my Just Inklined card posted.  I didn't want it to get lost in all the multi-post blogs last week so here is it today!!!  You all know I love to color flowers and these beautiful daffodils are just my little way of saying.......HURRY UP SPRING!!!!!!!

This beautiful Daffodils in Bottle image was colored with copic markers and sponged with peeled paint distress ink. 

I wanted to keep the card  CAS so kept the extra layers to a minumum, maybe I went too far, on well, I like it LOL!!!

A downloaded striped dp for the baes annd a simple orange check ribbon band onto which I added a hatpin I made over the wee-end. I dyed the white hat pin heads with crystal effects dyed with SU reinkers, so you can have just about any color you want. The beads were added and because I don't make jewelry the beads are rather limited, but the effect is cool. 

3 vellum butterflies sponged with distress ink and my card is complete. 

Thanks for stopping by  and have a great day.

Cathy

Sassy Cheryl's Challenge--Use Something New!!

Oh, what a fun challenge Tracey chose for the Sassy Cheryl's Challenge this week...Use something new!!! What to choose LOL!!!  Here is what came up with:

I have a couple of new things in this card.  The image, Funky watering can with  flowers, is new, I haven't used it before, and the butterfly punch is my new favorite acquisition. 

The image was colored with copic markers and the spots and swirls on the watering can were colored with the Atyou silver glitter pen..  The image was cut out with a Quikkutz label die and a second in coordinating color was cut for the frame. 

I have this cool double sided ribbon in the greens and orange of the dp so that is my accent over the border punched side band. 

Three gree butterflies to enjoy the beautiful flowers and my card is complete.  Be sure to check out the rest of the DT creations.  See what New things they came up with..  Be sure to join us for this challenge and as with all the Sassy Cheryl's Challenges you get a chance to win a free image just for creating a challenge card using a Sassy Cheryl image.

If you haven't checked out the new releases Cheryl has in the store for you today, you better run right over there, Cheryl has been working overtime to create a Whole Bunch of awesome new releases.  I could pick 10 right now and I just got a quick look LOL....Check it out. 

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful colorful day!!!

Cathy

Sassy Cheryl's Challenge--Nature!

Happy Tuesday all you Sassy lovers!!!  This week the awesomely talented Tracey is our hostess, for the Sassy Cheryl's Challenge,  and she has chosen the theme Nature.  Here is what I created:

I think I should call this card,  Funky flowers Bunch 2 meets Vintage, LOL. I like the contrast.  The image was colored with copic markers and airbrushed around the border.  The image was then mounted on orange which was off-set on the olive green panel.  The print dp is from a paper pack called Sera Sera by K & Co.  

I added a band of my new found natural netting which I overlayed with orange and white gingham check unto which a  button was mounted. The button was tied with yard,.

I found the cute butterfly punch at Target, it was a two pack of punches, the butterfly and

half inch circle.  Three of the butterfly and circles were added in the upper right corner of the main image. 
The edge was swagger stitched with my sewing machine.
Be sure to check out the rest of the DT creations and then stop by the Sassy Cheryl Store and see the new super cute images she has created for this week!!!  Can I just say CUTE!!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Cathy

A Beautiful Rose card--Just Inklined A4 card

Today I want to show you the beautiful A4 Rose image available from Just Inklined .  It is really cool because you get the image and sentiment all in one.  Here is what I created :

If you have followed my blog for a while you know I love to color flowers.  Just Inklined has some of the most beautiful flowers you can find anywhere.  One of the nice things about this digital image is that is comes with the rose and 3 sentiments.  As you can see here I printed the image two times, and colored one of the Rose images using my copic markers. 
The colored image was set aside and I added my embellishments to the inside and sentiment of the card which would show with the card open or closed.  I cut a piece of pink cs the length of the inside panel plus border and the length of the outside colored image.
The colored image was cut outside the colored image and shadow free hand.  The inside panel was mounted  and then the pink cs was folder over the top of that from the right side.  The pink layer of the colored image (outside or front) was trimmed with an equal border of the rest of the card.
I like the look of this card and while it may not be exactly what I had envisioned I like the way it turned out. Plan B is not always a bad thing.
Hope your week-end is going well and you aren't getting the snow we are getting here in Omaha  I think we got another 6 or 7 inches of snow today and it is still snowing but they say the snow will end about 3 am.
Thanks for stopping by, always glad to have you visit.

Cathy

Gorgeous Freebie from Just Inklined!!!

I'm so in love with the beautiful flowers created by Just inklined but this week's freebie is gorgeous and I couldn't wait to color it when I got it yesterday.  Don't you agree?":

I really like the way this turned out.  I have been wanting to use one of my Spellbinder Impressabilities with my airbrush and I think it turned out really elegant.  I used three different copics to get the color I wanted to match the peony.
The peony was colored with copic markers in dusty mauve tones.  That is a favorite color of mine, it isn't pink and it isn't brown but just a nice pretty color.  Because I didn't want to cover up too much of my beautiful background.I didn't add any other layers except the die cut frame.
I forgot to mention I used a Sweet Stamps die  for the border around the peony and cut it "out of the box" on the lower half to allow the  leaves to be outside of the frame.
I added a row of  lace crochet ribbon under the flower frame and added a Flower name tag in the lower right corner which I ran the ribbon through the slot ends of the tag and by using a wider ribbon than the slot you get a cute little puckered end you don't have to tie.
Hope you enjoyed this beautiful flower and if you want one for your self just go to the Just Inklined store and sign up for the Weekly Newsletter and you can have this and aother gorgeous freebie every week.

Thanks for stopping by and  have a great week-end, gotta go watch the Nebraska ball game.

Cathy

Just InkLined Tiger Lilies

I love the flowers created by  Jak and her team for Just Inklined, they are beautiful and I love the Tiger Lilies almost as much as the Roses I did last week. Here is the beautiful Tiger Lilies I colored:

The image was colored with copic markers and I also used some of the free dp that Jak offers on her website.  I changed the hue a little more orange to keep with my tiger lily color scheme.
I wanted to try the spiral flowers everyone has been using and because I had made the roses from a spiral square this was  made from a spiral circle.  Really easy and really fun.  I thought I would just keep the rest of the card rather simple and used the punched corners with a dew drop in each one corner.

The card was finished with an orange checked ribbon over a fancy scalloped edge border in the center of hte image.

Love the image and love the free dp that Jak Heath offered and the paper comes in different colors.  I finished a Bell Image that was the free image from JustInklilned

Well, I need to get this wrapped up.  My sister has been visiting this week-end so I haven't gotten as much crafting done as I would like as I have been trying to help her with a scrapbook for her summer reading program.

Thanks for stopping by and I'll catch you tomorrow.  Hope you are having a wonderful week-end.

Cathy

A Beautiful Rose--Just InkLined

I know you have been seeing so many cute people, snowmen, bears and just cute stuff for quite awhile but did you know one of my favorite things to color are flowers?!?  Just InkLined has some really beautiful flowers and I purchased two last week.  Here is my Rose card,  I really like the way it turned out:

Don't you think this is a gorgeous Rose?  It was so much fun to color with my copic markers and I overstamped it with my cracked paint stamp and sponged with Bravo Burgundy SU ink. 

The dp is Tim Holtz Lost and Found paper pack which I loved with the rose because of the different lines and textures giving that wonderful Vintage illusion.

Sorry, for the short post, it was a typical day off, everyone thought of things that I needed to do to help them and there wasn't as much me time as selfish me wanted, but I still have tomorrow and most of Sunday....we'll see what else the family can think of for me to do LOL!!!

Be sure you check out Just Inklined newest images and try them out.    Catch you all tomorrow :)

Cathy

Out of the box Daisies

I really like the out of the box flower images that were just released at KLM Digital Designs. I colored the Echineaca flowers in pink and because I like pink and black together I cut all my matts and then sewed the panels together.

Because I am the bright child, I placed my card on black cs to photograph so you can't see the black panel showing 1/4 in around the pink checked layer :)

The only pink ribbon that I had the right color had white stiching, so I colored the stitching with my black copic marker. Three black brads at the top and my card is complete.

It feels good to be back home and I will have a Father's Day and or Birthday Card for you later. Tomorrow is my husband's birthday and of course Sunday is Father's Day.

See you all later,

Cathy