You're the Best!

Today's card was fun to make. A couple of new (to me) stamps and fun colors.  However, I do feel sorry for these children.  I know their mother went out and found them matching outfits, sat them in her garden with a scrapbook she made for them, told them NOT to get it dirty, and PLEASE act like you love each other because this is going on a card for Grandma!

The LOTV stamp is Times to Treasure. colored with Copics.  I cut out the book along with the hands and the boy's sleeve to give it some dimension.  I just noticed from this angle he looks like he has two left hands!!!  Hard to see here, but I scored the book on both sides of the binding to help shape it.  The Hero Arts stamp is Classic Fabric Design.  It is inked with Faded Jeans, Tumbled Glass, Peacock Feathers, and Evergreen Bough Distress Inks.  I spritzed the stamp with water before stamping. I cut the banner on my Silhouette.  The sentiment is from HOTP Tiny Words & Images.  I curved it to follow the banner shape and embossed it in white.  The paper, flowers and ribbon were in my stash.

This card is entered in the following challenges:
Lili's Little Fairies: Your Favourite Craft Tool So many!  My favorite has to be my Silhouette, I think I've had it five years or more - whenever it first came out.

Moxie Fab World: The Damask & Brocade Challenge They asked us to use it in an innovative way so I dressed up this classic pattern with fresh colors and clean lines.

CR84FN Color Challenge #54 I couldn't resist this beautiful color combination!

Retro Sketches #11 A great, classic sketch to go with a classic card.

Thanks so much for looking, I love the encouragement and insights I get from so many of you!  I hope you're having a great day!
Kara Lynne

Gee, Thanks!

I had some time yesterday to make another card.  I think card making is magical: it makes time pass quicker, too quickly!  It was just the opposite at the dentist's office this morning.  Today I had to hold some rinse in my mouth for the longest minute on record.  Card making time should move at that speed!

Usually inspiration pictures aren't taken literal in a design, but I loved the way these bikes looked all lined up.  I masked each bike to get the ones behind.  I held my breath each time, hoping the whole process would work out.  That great bicycle stamp is from Hero Arts, the "thanks" is part of a stamp from Studio G, and the "g" is chipboard from The Paper Studio.  The inks are Brilliance Sky Blue, Orchid, Sunflower Yellow, and Ranger Distress Spiced Marmalade.  The patterned paper is Bo Bunny Yummy Mini Dots from 2005.  I cut the flowers on my Silhouette and added a dot of white gel pen.

This card is entered in the following challenges:
Embellish Blog: Bicycles Color Trends 

 

CPS - Card Sketches #265 

 

Hope you have a great day!

Kara Lynne

 

Together Forever

First, I have to thank all of you for visiting my blog.  It is such a privilege to have fellow card designers (as I hear we are called) give feedback and encouragement.  It feels good to be back after a week off!  I've missed playing along with everyone, and just gave a peek at many of the wonderful cards being created out there.  Today I made an informal wedding card.  Is that okay to do?  Well, I had fun with it anyway. 

I used Stampendous Chick Family for the birds, Close to my Heart Just Married for the glasses, and Hot Off the Press Tiny Words & Images for the sentiment.  I stamped the glasses once in black, again in Distress Worn Lipstick, paper pieced it, and added Glossy Accents.  The extended bubbles and hearts are Crayola glitter glue.  The bride's veil is a piece of ribbon pleated onto a glue dot in back.  The flower and groom's bow tie both come from the same Chick Family set.  Everything is raised on foam and I drew their legs behind.  I just free hand cut the grass.

This card is entered in the following challenges:

CAS-ual Fridays: CFC52 Feathered Friends

ABC DT Challenge: Graduation or Wedding Card

Hope you all have a great day!
Kara Lynne

Hippy Birthday

I saw Virginia Lu demonstrate how to make an action-wobbler card today and wanted to give it a go.  Here is her post.  It was perfect for the birthday card I wanted to design.  Thanks Virginia!

My card idea was inspired by Agnieszka Malyszek's card from Case Study (See Below)

I took the photo above when the sun came out!

Can you see the springs?

I found these hipsters in the Silhouette store.  They were too cool to pass up.  I cut everything out, including the words, on my Silhouette.  I colored various pieces using Copics RV17, BG10, Y17, R81, and YG13.  The "birthday" sentiment was mounted with foam adhesive and the word "hippy" went through the Xyron Create-a-Sticker.  The hippies were mounted using the technique demonstrated by Virginia Lu.

This card is entered in the following challenges:

CASE Study Challenge #89

Edit:  I removed the image of this card.  It was getting pinned on Pinterest from my blog and unintentionally giving me the credit.  Yikes!  Please see above for the link to Aga's blog.

CAS-ual Fridays: CFC51 - Birthday Card

This will be my last post for a while (I'm telling this to myself more than to anyone else).  We have my husband's parents coming up to see our girls in the school play.  I NEED to focus on other things, but all I WANT to do is play!  I am looking forward to having them though, so it's a good thing!

Hope you have a great day!
Kara Lynne

A Birthday Card featuring Milly

I thought I'd make something more in my comfort zone after the runway inspired card.  Is this my style?  I don't know, I'm still working on finding that.  Coloring, paper piecing, and creating dimension just make me happy.

  
I just love that image from LOTV, it's called Milly Me and My Dog.  I colored her with copics and paper pieced her outfit.  I poked a few holes strategically on the image and threaded the "rope" through.  The tree "bark" is made from sentiments from an old Close to My Heart set.  After I stamped, I free-hand cut the tree and inked it with Ranger Distress Inks.  The patterned papers are from My Mind's Eye.  I cut the fence and flowers with my Silhouette and inked them with Distress Ink.  I got the background idea from the Silhouette blog.  I thought it would be a fun way to use the coordinating papers.  The leaves I just free-hand cut and inked up a bit with Ranger Distress Ink. 

This card is entered in the following challenges:

A Blog Named Hero:  Topsy Turvy - use a sentiment as something other than a sentiment
Now I must confess, I feel bad not using Hero Arts stamps on this, but I only started stamping a few months ago (but scrap-booked for years), so besides the LOTV stamps, most of my mine are ones I bought years ago when my friends started selling things.  Now that I know what I have, I love using them, but I'm looking forward to buying some of the new stamps I see you all using!  A Blog Named Hero kindly states that you do not have to use Hero Art products.  A big "thank you" to them!

Lili's Little Fairies:  Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Challenge:   Birthday Card

Have a great weekend!
Kara Lynne

A Runway Inspired Thank You Card

I decided to try the Runway Inspired Challenge.  Now the closest thing I get to fashion is watching old episodes of Ugly Betty.  Not that I wouldn't love to be fashionable, but the pocket book says, "no."  Ah, that's why we love paper!  This card was quite a challenge for me.  Those moths (and others) were flying every which way on that card.  They finally rested on the left.  I'm still not totally sure about it.  Very much out of my comfort zone, but that's why they call it a challenge!

I colored the background pink with Copic marker R81.  The paisley and moth paper are from The Paper Studio.  The sentiment if from Studio G.  I inked it with Brilliance Graphite Black so it would be dark enough.  I think the metal buckle is from Making Memories.  Here's the inspiration photo:

Runway Inspired Challenge: ric#11

Hope you're having a great day!
Kara Lynne

Leap Frog

Actually, there are no frogs involved!  This is a Lili of the Valley stamp called "Leap Frog".  Such a great spring image!  This could actually be the bunny family living in our backyard.  I hope they just play leap frog and stay away from my new plants!

I used my Silhouette to cut out the sentiment.  The papers are We R Memories Anthologie.  The circles were cut out from one of the papers in that pad.  The Lili of the Valley stamp was stamped once on the patterned paper, and once on white card stock.  I colored the bunnies with Copics, cut them out, and ran them through my Xyron sticker maker and adhered them to the card.  I used Ranger Distress ink Gathered Twigs and cotton craft thread from Hobby Lobby.

This card is entered in the following challenges:

Mojo Monday 239

StampARTic: Surprise Challenge:  Lili of the Valley Stamp

Sentimental Sundays:  Challenge 100 - Cards for Kids

Papertake Weekly Challenge:  Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you have a great day!
Kara Lynne