She Sells Sea Shells...

     This one is for the July Crafting with an Attitude challenge and the image was donated by our sponsor, Colour of Love (formerly Lacy Sunshine.)  It's called "Sandi Boo Collecting Sea Shells."

ProMarkers
Alcohol ink used for the hand made background paper
QuicKutz oval dies
3 gems on each side of oval

     Challenges:
Archi-Scraps
Colour Crazy
Crafty Creations
Crafty Friends (beach, babe,blue)
Creative Fingers
Di's Digi Designs
I {heart} ProMarkers
Outlawz SAR
Scrappy Land
Simon Says Stamp & Show

     Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

Taking a Bow

     I adore this sweet image (Mo Manning) and this is the first time I've used it as a Thank You card.  I needed one on the spur of the moment and this image was lying on the desk, waiting to be colored.

My colors came from My Favorite Things.

     This time, I 'water' colored with a brush and some of my refill alcohol inks.  I added sparkle gel ink to her tutu and the gems in her hair.  I know it doesn't show up well in the photo but that was the best I could do.  I really did try to get the sparkle to show.  :-D

     I used a Fiskars corner punch on both the image and the piece behind it.  I mounted everything onto a pink card base.  The sheer ribbon was in my scrap stash and I used up what I had left.  Rather than tying a bow since I had such a small piece left after wrapping it around the card front, I simple folded it into a bow shape and added a sparkly flower to the center.  I used ribbon glue to add it to the corner of the image.

     Challenges:
CARDZ TV
Crafting from the Heart
Crafty Catz
Crafty Creations
Creative Fingers
Cute Card Thurs.
DL.ART Thankful Thurs.
Pammie's Inky Pinkies
Southern Girls #2 (ink/stamp/white)
 
     Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

Sunrise Bird

     I did some playing around with something that's completely new to me and I'm not even sure the technique has a name but I was playing with alcohol inks for the first time.  I used one of my favorite images from Beccy's Place.

I started my card inspiration with the optional sketch

at Beccy's Place but turned it 1/4 turn.

     After being inspired by a friend of mine, I had been making background papers by adding alcohol inks to watercolor paper and then adding die cut or framed images as layers on top of the background.   But as I looked at this particular inked paper, it had a "hole" of light that I thought would look terrific as a sunrise.  I carefully measured the distance of the "hole" of light from the edge of the full sheet of paper and tried 4 different times printing this bird image until it lined up where I wanted to print the image.  I think next time, I'll just use a rubber stamp instead of trying to print out a digi.  :-D

     Once I was sure the image would print into the right spot, I put the inked paper into my printer and hit the print button!  I had only one shot at it but I'm happy with the result.  I colored the bird with Pro-Markers, then cut the image piece by hand.

     The die cut (Cheery Lynn), golden-yellow, CS was a scrap left over from another project and it worked well here.  The netting added great texture and the bow was already made and in my stash.

     I'm pretty excited about my afternoon with alcohol inks and I'll do more of this, I'm sure of that.  I want to try alcohol inks on a smoother paper so that it doesn't spread or get absorbed as much.  Watercolor paper just sucks the ink right in.

     Challenges:
Colour Crazy
Crafter's Castle
Crafting by Designs
Crafty Calendar
Creative Fingers
Creative Moments
Jo's Scrap Shack
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends
Take It, Make It

     Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie  

Happy Little Cat

     I discovered a new artist (new to me, that is) the other day and fell in love with some of her felines (of course!)   She publishes her images under the name "Drawn by Krista."  This is just the happiest cat I've seen in ages.  :-D

Before I even colored the fur baby,

I decided on the sketch from The Outlawz.

Can you believe how faithful I was to the design?

I usually go off on a tangent.  :-D

     I grabbed my ProMarkers, colored the image, and cut it with a circle die from QuickKutz.  I dug into my storage of alcohol inks, chose three and brayered them across a stamped background scrap, then die cut a hexagon shape and used it for the frame around the image circle.

     I cut strips of CS and Paper Studio dp, layered them onto a card front and added the borders of flowers above and below the strips.  For embellishment, I added sequins (my one diversion from the sketch which had buttons) and a burlap ribbon bow.  No sentiment on this one yet because I haven't decided how I'm going to use it.

     Challenges:
Catch the Bug (center row)
Crafting with an Attitude
Crafty Addicts
Crafty Ribbons
Create and Inspire
Creative Fingers
Penny's Paper Crafty
Simon Says Stamp
SUYP Cats Only
Take It Make It

     I'm here for a short while and then will be leaving the end of the week for more travels until after 4th of July.  I have a few posts scheduled during my absence but I may be out of touch for commenting.  Whether or not I can access the internet whenever I want is always a question.  :-D  Happy Stamping.  NanaConnie

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