It's Your Birthday

It's your birthday.  Starla, it's your birthday!! 

 Did you come by way of Gina's fabulous blog?  If not you will want to start back at Vicki's blog so you won't miss any of the hop.  Starla is having a bog hop to celebrate her birthday, her 1 year blogaversary, and her belated celebration of 100 followers to her blog.  She has asked a group of blogger buddies to join in the hop and help her celebrate.  I was happy to be asked and happy to hop along with Starla and this great group of crafters.  What Starla doesn't know is that Guylou has created a special image just for Starla.  Starla loves everything fairies and so she has requested that we all use a fairy image.  So happy birthday Starla, what's better than to have an image named after you. 

 Now you will want to check out the rest of the hop.  Your next stop along the way is Tracy's blog.   If you leave a comment on all the stops along the way I know that Starla has some great blog candy for the winners.  If you get lost along the way here are the participants. 

Vicki

Cely

Charlene

Lynn

Sara

Gina

                      Brenda ~ you are here

Tracy

Kim

Guylou

Starla

Outlawz Tuesday Color Challenge August 16

Today over at the Outlawz starts another Color Challenge.  This week I got some gorgeous new papers from My Mind's Eye from the Lost and Found 2 collection.  Oh my goodness they are yummy!!!  I decided to do a little 6X6 layout of my grandson Gunner.  I will be adding to this layout to make a mini album of my grandbabies.  We learned last week that our next one will be a BOY!  That will bring it to 3 boys and 4 girls.  Who woulda thought in 6 years we would go from first time grandparents to grandparents of 8.  Are you counting and 3 plus 4 doesn't equal 8?  Well our oldest daughter also informed us that she is having another baby!!  Our two girls 6 years apart are pregnant together. Too fun!!  Do you see the need for simple small layouts?  This is Gunner and these are a couple pics of him at 1.

Todays colors are brought to us by Jenn.

Artistic August: Use shells or gems

Another reason I did a layout is to show you that you don't have to make a card. You can do a layout, a mini-album, any other project using our color inspiration.  

We have some fabulous sponsors to our challenges this month.  In the Color Challenge we have 

Di's Digi Downloads

Paper Temptress.

As well as our Main sponsors.  You can check them out on the main page.

What do you think? You gonna play along?  Come on over!!

Some Odd Girl tag and tutorial

Some Odd Girl is having a facebook contest to make a tag.  I had fun with this challenge using Coffee Mae.  It has been a while since I made a coffee themed project.  They are one of my fave things to do.  So I thought I would share my tag with you and then a coloring tutorial with my fave hair and skin colors.  I hope you will stick with me, I have lots of photo's today.

Here is my finished project.

I made mine a double tag and sewed a pocket on the inside to add a coffee card.  That coffee card on the inside is the one I just got from my friend Gina with some birthday goodies!! Thanks Gina!!  I used some new My Mind's Eye papers. Oh my gosh those new Lost and Found 2 are gorgeous!!

 Ok, now I took a succession of photos on how I color the hair and skin with my fave color schemes. 

First I layer a very light amount of E-23

Then I add a very light amount of E-25

some E-27

Next I go back over it with E-23.  I flick in the direction of hair growth.

back again with the E-25, then e-27, and lastly I add some E-29

Next I start a base color on her skin with E-0000 

Then I add E-01 around her hair line, arms, legs and you will notice her ear. I accidentally colored it with the hair and used my color blender to remove the color!

next I blend with the E-000 and add a shadow for her nose.

Next I add E-11 and blend those.

After E-11 I like to add some E-13

And you can see all of these need blended. I also add some E-95 on her cheeks and E-04 to her lips,

And the final project after I match her clothes to my papers and embellishments is above.  I almost always color Mae with green eyes.  She reminds me of me.  And I have green eyes!!  

I am also going to add this to the challenges at:

Come and Get it~color challenge of red, black, white.

Allsorts has anything but a card.

Crafty Purple Frog is anything but a card.

Crafting for all seasons has a tag.

Diva's by design is birthdays.

As always, thanks for stopping by.  I had a fabulous birthday this weekend.  I used inlinz to choose a random winner to my birthday candy.  Brynn over at Flair and Frills was our winner.   Thanks so much for playing along.  

Thankful For All You Do

The challenge over at Some Odd Girl this week (and next) is a Thank You challenge.  I decided to use a ticket stamp that I have from Whimsy called Ticket Sentiments.  I pulled out some of my favorite My Mind's Eye papers and my new favorite clear stamp Sweet Thinkin Mae.  I wanted to give the card some 3-D effect so I paper pieced and added pop dots cut really tiny to her hair, bow, dress, and shoes.

I have been playing with my sewing machine and ribbon lately.  I love this turquoise polka dotted ribbon, all rouched up with a sheer polka dot ribbon on top.  Next I added some Wild Orchid Crafts flowers, a little purple clip and there you go!

I used my favorite copic skin colors~E-000, 01, 11, 13, and E-93.  For her hair I used E-21, 23, 3=25, 27, and 29.  I added some RV-63 and 66 to her dress and bow just to give a little highlight. And her eyes are YG-93 and 95 cuz my eyes are green. :) I also added some glossy accents to them.

This was such a fun card to do.  I don't know about you but card making is my therapy!!  I really appreciate you stopping by.  

Don't forget to add your link to my blog candy!

OK, now let's see what challenges I can add my card to.

Creative Craft World has anything but birthdays.

Craft your passion challenge has anything goes.

Paper Creations Ink has stitching.

Come and Get it Challenges has anything goes.

The Stamp Man has stitching.

Craft us Crazy has Anything goes.

Crafty Sentiments has polka dots.

Outlawz Greeting Card Challenge

This week I was able to add a card to the challenge over at the Outlawz Greeting Card Challenge.

 This week's challenge:  Oh Ballooney ~ Must Have a Balloon

Awhile back when I was camping I colored up some images with my Prismas, one of them was Balloon Kaylee.  So, as you know I love coloring with my copics but it is almost impossible to take them in the trailer when we camp.  My solution was to learn to color with Prismacolor pencils. They close up in a tin and I just have to take along my odorless mineral spirits and go.  I definitely am still learning but am 

having a blast with the process.

The other thing I like to do when camping is take a little 6X6 paper pad and some A-2 cards to throw them together.  And when I get home throw on the extras and go.  The Happy Birthday sentiment is from LOTV.  

August's Wonderful Sponsors

Oozak

$50.00 Gift Certificate

Check out Oozak great deals on Copics and supplies!

 $25.00 Gift Certificate

 

SCACD has crafting supplies for all your needs! Rubber stamps to glitter!

Gilli Goodie bag to one lucky winner!!

Check out these adorable stamps!

                                                     $25.00 Gift Certificate

If you're looking for that special color, look no further

for PT will have it!! Plus gorgeous ribbon!

I hope you will head over to the Outlawz Greeting card challenge and join in with us this week.

I will add it to the Challenges over at 

Card Cupids has Birthday as its challenge.

Sparkles Forum Challenge has one for the girls.

Our Creative Corner has red and aqua as it's color scheme. I love those colors together!

And don't forget to add your link to my blog candy this month.  It is open until August 13th.

Tuesday Color Challenge at the Outlaws July 26

Can you believe it is Tuesday again!!  You all know what that means.......Time for another Color Challenge at the Outlawz!!  And such a fun color palette too! Our colors are brought to you by Guylou this week.  

Oh my gosh, isn't this a gorgeous color pallette?  The Juicy July twist is to add doodles. 

I used a new stamp this week.  Oh my gosh, I had so much fun coloring this image.  In my mind as I am coloring this I am thinking, "which one am I?" hehehehe

Do you see my doodles? I mimicked waves on the blue My Mind's Eye paper.  The yellow paper is from Echo Park splash collection.   This fun image is Girlfriends by Art Impressions.  Isn't this image just hilarious?  

So you have from now until next Monday at Midnight to upload your card to the color challenge.  Don't forget your doodles!

heheehee, just had to add a close up of these gossiping gals!  I also added polka dots to 2 of the suits.  Check out how many copics I used.  Crazy, huh?

OK, now the deets of the challenge.  The sponsor this month is Happileigh Scrappins Designs.

You will want to check out the Main page of the Outlaws to see the many sponsors we have in July. 

That is a lot of reason to join in our challenge! Hope to see you there!

OK, now to add this to some challenges:

The Pink Elephant has Fun in the Sun as their challenge.

Opus-Gluei has beat the heat.

Paper Sundaes has Beachy or Summer.

Craft Your Days Away has Summertime.

Crafty Emma's has humor/funny.

Just Some Lines has easel card.

Card Makin Mama's has food and drink. I hope this qualifies, as they are all drinkin!!

Ok, that's enough!!  

Lift an Odd Girl Challenge

Have you checked out the new challenge over at Some Odd Girl?  The challenge is to lift an odd girl.  So I spent some time roaming through the odd girl design team blogs.  I say that like I have never done that before, right?!! LOL, of course I have. I seriously love these stamps. They are some of the funnest images to color.  When I stumbled upon the card at Zarah's and in english blog I knew it was the one I wanted to lift.  You can find her card here.  I hope you can see the lift. :)  I used the new clear stamp Sweet Thinkin Mae.  She is from the new releases. You knew I had to have her!!

I pulled out some of my favorite papers from My Mind's Eye and decided to paper piece her dress and bow.  I added some flowers and lace from Wild Orchid Crafts, some dragon fly buttons and fancy pants pins.

The little charm is from my stash from when I used to sell CTMH.

Mae has been popped up.  I used E-000,01,11,13 for her skin and my favorite pinks R-89,85,83 for her shoes and shrug.  Her eyes are YG-83 and 85.  I distressed the edges and added some ink with CTMH creme brulee ink.   We wouldn't be done til I showed you the inside of my card.

I am going to add this to the challenge at Moving Along with the times that wants us to use our favorite things. They are Some Odd Girl, My Mind's Eye papers, copics, and wild orchid craft flowers.

Lollipop Crafts has anything goes.

Sparkles forum challenge has lace and elegance. 

Totally Papercrafts has girly girls for the challenge.

Do you stack up is stitching.

Little Darlings Challenges is buttons, brads or eyelets. I used buttons.