Stamp-N-Doodle Thursday

Hello again. Welcome back to post number two for today! We DT members were asked to use this absolutely striking image of a tiger face and use the distressing technique.

Is that an intense stare on that image or what?! Love it! I was trying to get those intense eyes to pop off the card at whoever looked at it, I hope I succeeded. I colored the image with my Stampin Up Watercolor pencils, which I haven't used in quite a long time, then I smoothed out the colors with a blender pen. I used my distressing tool to rough up the edges of the image and then also of the mat that is under it. It is a little hard to see in the photo. I went with as simple a layout as I could because I didn't want anything to distract from the image. The card stock colors that I used were all from Stampin Up: Summer Sun, Garden Green, and some retired DSP. The rhinestones were from the dollar bin at Michael's. Go check out the other DT member's blogs and see what they have come up with, then over to the Stamp-n-doodle store to see the new stuff that is ready to play with!

Now, come back in a little bit because I have a new image from Soft Pencil Designs to show you!

Blessings, Lisa

I found a new Digi images company! too cute!

Introducing the freebie offered over at the Chi Chi Memories Blog and Store:

This is my card for this week's sketch challenge, I am trying to win a free stamp set. Here is the sketch below, and above is my take on it.

I'll hopefully be able to come back later and give you some more details on the card, but I have two more posts to do today and I have been feeling under the weather today literally (heat issues)! ! ! have patience with me please. Thanks.

Hugs to all, Lisa

P.S. To my friend Kerry, it is all your fault that I am now hooked on another digi image company. LOL

Soft Pencil Thursday!

Ready for some Soft Pencil cuteness? We were asked to work with the new Digi Sentiments this week, and I chose the English version of "Happy Birthday". I believe it also comes in Spanish and Dutch. In a couple of weeks, we DT members will be showing samples with the "Thinking of You" digi sentiment.

I went completely blank today, huge creative block. I hate it when that happens. So, I looked into my stash of bright card stock scraps that I had, and came up with the above layout. I added a few punched butterflies to coordinate with the one on the image, some bright red sticky gems from Michael's and what a quick card it turned out to be. All card stock is from Stampin Up, some of which from the recent discontinued list. Sniff, Sniff. I will so miss my Yoyo Yellow, Lovely Lilac and Brilliant Blue. Sniff, Sniff. Next Thursday we will be showing off a new critter to the soft Pencil animal family, an absolutely adorable Frog! Don't forget to go visit the other SP DT blogs and leave them some happiness (see links on my sidebar).

Until Next time............. Blessings, Lisa

Stamp-n-Doodle Sketch Challenge

We were asked to follow a sketch this week and I tried to copy/paste the sketch itself into blogger and it wouldn't cooperate with me, so I will go straight to the card that I made.

I believe the image is called "Letters from Home", and it seems like it would be a masculine image, but I somehow managed to make it work with some soft colors. I am a complete animal crazy person, so I really enjoyed working with this one. I colored the image with my Prismacolor colored pencils, cut it out with my square Spellbinder's nestibilities, opting not to emboss it so that I could round the corners with my Stampin Up small corner rounder punch. All card stock is Stampin Up (Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery, and Pale Plum). Add a sentiment punched out with my SU Small oval punch and some sticky gem embellishments and that is about it. Hope you enjoy.

Stick around for another post, it is also Soft Pencil Thursday!

Blessings, Lisa

Soft Pencil Thursday!!!!

Hello again. Wow two posts from me in one day! Are you all fainting? LOL.
This week, we got to work with one of the new images from Soft Pencil called Michu's Mom Digital Paper. So, I decided to use it as a background paper which is what you see at the bottom of the card, then I colored Michu and his mom (from another digi image) with my Prismacolor pencils and cut them out, added them to a shape that I cut out with my Spellbinder's Label die cut and cuttlebug machine, and added some Stampin Up designer paper on the top half, some sticky pearls and ribbon for embellishment and all done! Go over to the Soft Pencil blog, link on my sidebar, then find the store link and check out the new digi products. They are awesome!!!


Until Next time................ Blessings, Lisa

Stamp n Doodle, another design team?

Hello. Happy Thursday to everyone! I was asked to join and help out on another design team! How exciting for me to have my efforts recognized! The store is called Stamp-n-doodle, and it is an online store that sells digital images and rubber stamps. Just click on the highlighted company name and it will take you to the blog and then from there you will find a link to the store. The first image that I was asked to create something with is a digital image of some Military people in uniform and we were asked to create a Canada Day or 4th of July card. since I am a very proud US citizen, I chose 4th of July. I punched out some stars with my Stampin Up Star and Large Star Punches out of some glitter card stock. I colored the image with my Prismacolor colored pencils, and I added some red sticky gems for some extra embellishments. I hope you like it.


Anyhoo, tune in later today as I have another post scheduled to appear by noon for Soft Pencil Thursday!


Toodles, Lisa

It's Scrapbook Page Day at Soft Pencil Designs!

Oh my goodness, this is the first time since I have been on the Soft Pencil Design team that we have been asked to create a scrapbook page with our weekly image! I got so excited, I have been making notes on what I wanted to do for two weeks or longer. I got started in paper crafting as a scrapbooker, then a year or so after that I got invited to a Stampin Up workshop to make some cards, and I was hooked on that too. Now, if I can find a way to do it, I will add pretty paper, stamps, digi images, embellishments, etc to just about anything. Sometimes I am amazed at what some of the talented blogging ladies out there will alter with their paper crafting supplies. I know, Blah, blah, blah....... get on with the project. This first image is a snippet with the image called "Molly is giving you a flower". I colored her with a combination of Stampin Up markers, Ink refills, and blender pens. Then, I cut her out with a Spellbinder's Nestibility Circle.




Is Molly cute, or what? I love her and all of her cuteness. I added the sun that comes with a couple of other Soft Pencil Images. To create the background behind Molly, I printed her out a second time onto plain copy paper, cut her out, adhered her on top of the colored image with repositionable adhesive, left her in the Circle Nestibility, and sponged some ink around her. I love doing that! Fun, fun!






This next photo is also a snippet to show you a close-up of another Soft Pencil Digi that I added to the page, actually a handful of times. I simply enlarged the flower on Microsoft Word software, and copied it a bunch of times, and punched them all out with circle punches after coloring them. The bling in the center is supposed to be a bright yellow color, but I had trouble capturing that with my camera. Take my word for it, it is pretty bling!

Ok, now here is the final and complete scrapbook page!

I am a clean and simple scrapbooker, just like my card making style. I just can't help it, I don't like clutter. As you can see there is plenty of room from top to bottom for photos! The white flower border on the left side of the page is from Doodlebug Design, as are the yellow sticky gems on the flowers. The cute little butterfly brads are from Making Memories, all circle punches are from Stampin Up, and so is all of the card stock and designer paper. I used Pretty in Pink , Certainly Celery, Melon Mambo, and of course some watercolor paper. As always, if you have any questions please leave me a comment, or see my email link on the blog sidebar!

Until Next Time............ Blessings, Lisa

Soft Pencil Thursday!

Hello. The image that we were asked to work with this week is called "Michu's Mom", and it is an adorable image of Michu and his mom standing next to their home. There was no challenge issued to us, so I decided to make a happy birthday mom card.

I usually color Michu gray because my real kitty is gray with white feet, but today I decided I would challenge myself to step out of my comfort zone and color him in shades of tan and brown. Of course that meant that I had to use the same colors on his mom. I hope you like them. I started out using Stampin Up's Creamy Caramel (which is about to be retired by the way), then added some Close to Cocoa accents. I cut the image out with some of my Spellbinder's Nestibilities Rectangles, added a sentiment (cut out with some Stampin Up punches). Last but not least, I added some Designer paper accents and sticky gem embellishments. Oh and lets not forget that I went a little crazy rounding corners with my SU small corner rounder. Next Thursday, we are being asked to create a scrapbook page with our digi image, so don't forget to come back and visit all of the DT ladies to see what we all come up with.

One important note is to tell you that Elizabeth, owner of Soft Pencil Designs has yet again added some new stuff to her blog and store. She has created two new images, one for graduation and one with an adorable little frog on it, and she has also created some cute digi papers that can be printed on colored paper, or plain and then colored. Hop on over to her blog and see them, there is a link to it on any soft pencil image you see on my sidebar.

Last but not least, I am working on some very easy and quick Father's Day cards that you can make at the last minute that I will be posting tomorrow, Friday!

Until next time..................Blessings, Lisa

Soft Pencil Thursday!

Hello. Happy Thursday to everyone!!!! This week, we were asked to make anything but a card with our Soft Pencil image. I was going to make a scrapbook page, but later in the month we will be doing that with another image, so I decided to decorate a composition notebook. I think that I am going to add some tabs to the pages later and make an address book out of it. Not totally sure yet, it is for my daughter, and she has not decided yet.

Anyways, I was going to add some Designer paper to it, when I decided to create my own with my Ratiny image from the "animals collection" images. I inserted one into Microsoft Word, clicked on the image, then reduced it in size quite a bit, then I copied the image over and over until I had the entire page filled. Then, I took out a piece of 8-1/2" X 11" Bashful Blue Stampin Up card stock, put it into my printer and printed it out. Voila, cute little Ratiny's in blue all over the place! Ratiny and Michu are my favorite characters from Soft Pencil, so I loved working with this image. I colored the image with some Stampin Up Ink Refills and Blender pens, and added some little punched circles to follow along with the dot pattern on Ratiny's house roof. the scallop border was created with my Stampin Up Scallop border punch. The card stock colors used were Creamy Caramel, Bashful Blue, and Certainly Celery. Terrifically Tacky Tape was used to hold everything onto the composition book. The image was cut out and mounted with Spellbinders Rectangle Nestibilities. I think that says it all, if you have any questions, send me an email.

Oh my Gosh, I forgot to add a few things! First I want to welcome new Soft Pencil Design Team member, Fink, see her blog link on my sidebar. Second, I want to apol.ogize to all of the other Soft Pencil DT ladies for not visiting their blog and leaving some love on last week's image until just a day or two ago. I am having a bit of trouble adjusting to summer break having my daughter home. I think I am getting caught up though. Thanks for understanding. Third, stop on over to the Soft Pencil Blog, rumor has it that Elizabeth has some new goodies for us to see. I am going there next myself.

Until Next time...................Blessings, Lisa

Soft Pencil Thursday!

Hello. It's Soft Pencil Thursday and I am hoping that everyone enjoyed the Anniversary Blog-Hop last week. I had a blast seeing what everyone created with Soft Pencil Images.

This week, we DT members were asked to create something with the image called "My New Tiny Friends". The sun was actually part of the image, but I couldn't fit it into the opening of my largest oval nestibility die-cut, at the size that I wanted the digi image, so I decided to hand cut out the sun and pop it up with a foam dimensional.

I used my scalloped scallop border punch from EK success to make the border on the Patterned paper. Sorry, I can't remember what brand the patterned paper is because it has been in my stash for so long. The three coordinating flower embellishments were made with my Stampin Up Trio Flower Punch (which is on their retiring list). Of course I had to finish up the card with some bling from Michael's craft store. All ink and markers used are from Stampin Up, card stock colors used are Certainly Celery, and Lavender Lace.

Elizabeth has recently added some new digi images to her store, so pop on over there and see what she has to brighten your day! There is a link to the blog and store over on my sidebar.

I just wanted to make you aware that Stampin Up has published a retiring list for the current catalog as their new catalog come out July 1st. I am offering 20% off absolutely everything in the catalog and mini catalog, so drop me an email (link on my sidebar) if you would like to order something. I can do a paypal invoice if you would like me to. Also, if you would like me to email a retiring list to you, drop me an email and let me know.

Until next time......................Blessings, Lisa