Try It Out FRIDAY - Sketch Time!

TGIF!!!! Oh yes, it's been a long week. But it IS Friday - woo hoo!!! Since this week Susana from Susana's Custom Art and Card Design took a few days off for herself (MUCH deserved) and also some store maintenance, we moved Try It Out Tuesday (#42) to Friday -- just in time for the store shopping cart to be back up and running (a bit later today) and WEEKEND SHOPPING!! Woo hoo!

This week's challenge is a sketch, see above. Here is my card:

And I realize as I'm typing this that I used the "Is it Friday yet?" sentiment that comes with the full set of these awesome Victoria Case for SCACD Everyday Gals -- and at the time this card was going to post on Tuesday so it was a perfect accident!! That gave me a giggle.

Anyway - the card details. I stamped Ms. Chardonnay in Memento Tuxedo Black ink on PTI white cardstock, colored with Copic markers, and did some color highlighting with the Ranger white gel pen. I cut the image to size and matted on Kiwi Kiss cardstock. Once she was all set I used a Quickie Glue pen to add black glitter to her entire shirt. It is sooo sparkly and fun, just right for a night out on the town! I colored white Prima flowers with my Copics to match her skirt and added the sparkly Petaloo Dazzler flowers on top. I cut out the circles using Classic Circle Nestabilities and omitted the sentiment to stamp just the parts I wanted. Remember, the sentiments are only available when you buy the full sheet of stamps, and you don't want to miss out!

That's it for me! Thanks for stopping by today and enjoy FRIDAY!

Mercy's Sketch and Copic Colors!

How has your Thursday been going? Good I hope! I wanted to post this card earlier today but I was working and didn't get a chance. Here I am now though!

SO, part of why I was so anxious to share this with you...did you know that Paper Pretties is sponsering the Copic Colour Challenge #38 right now?? Yes!! It's true. As always, it's a gorgeous color combination this week, and Christie from Paper Pretties has generously donated a stamp set for the prize! Love it, right? All you need to do to play along and enter to win is make a card with this FABULOUSO color challenge and link up on the Mr. Linky on the Copic Colour Challenge blog. It doesn't get any better than that! Here are the colors:

I used Mercy's Tuesday Sketch for my card {MTSC46}, this is a really good one, sooo versatile and really classic. Here's the sketch if you want to check me!

For my card I inked up Cuddle Me Sophia from Paper Pretties. I think she's probably my favorite Sophia (so far, ha!), she is just so sweet. I colored her with Copic markers (of course!), cut the image out with Nestabilities and put the card together. The paper is from Basic Grey's Eskimo Kisses - my current favorite!

Thanks for stopping by! Be sure to check out my Victoria Case Stamps challenge in the post below (also posted today) and don't forget about the Paper Pretties Wednesday challenge either! A chance to win a $15 gift certificate to the Paper Pretties Boutique! Details on The Paper Clip.

See you tomorrow!

Victoria Case Stamps Challenge #24

Happy Thursday to you all in blog land! Hope everyone is having a good week!

As I mentioned in my post yesterday, I am a Guest Designer for Victoria Case Stamps for November. She just had a "fairy" sweet digi release yesterday, if you missed those go check them out! There is inspiration on the Victoria Case Stamps blog for those new images too.

Ok, so for Victoria, Thursday is challenge day! You can check out the Victoria Case Stamps Challenge Blog for all the nitty gritty challenge details.

This week's challenge is of the color variety - Forest Green, Cranberry and Ivory. Sooo pretty! It made me think Christmas (of course; it's that time of year right?!) so I printed off this sweet little digi snowman and colored him up with Copics. I went with a simple layout here, some pretty patterned paper to accent the color combo and these cute sentiment pieces from one of the Dress It Up buttons collections. Perfect for that Christmas frame of mind!

Thanks for stopping by today -- have a good one!

A Prettie Birthday Sketch - PWC76

Welcome to Wednesday! Today is my first post as an official "Prettie Girl" for Paper Pretties, I could NOT be more excited!! Every week for the Wednesday Challenge we have a blog hop with the Prettie Girls to show off our creations, and then YOU have the challenge of playing along! It's worth it, if you play along with our sketch and your Paper Pretties stamps, you have a chance to win a $15 gift certificate to the Paper Pretties Boutique! Full details on the challenge can be found on The Paper Clip.

Ok, this week's Hop is extra-special because we are showering Prettie Girl Heather with some belated birthday wishes!! Yes, her birthday just passed and we're celebrating with a Prettie Wednesday Challenge (PWC76) and a birthday blog hop. Here is the sketch by Danielle (who has come to the end of her term with Paper Pretties, but will still be stalked!).

For my card I used Gliding By Sophia. I just love Sophia! She's the one who got me started loving the Paper Pretties images. Doesn't she look like she's having fun? I stamped her in Memento Tuxedo Black ink on PTI white cardstock and colored with Copic markers. Her muff and earmuffs are done in white Sparkly Fluff; it's flock with added glitz, you just can't go wrong there!! I made the sentiment on the computer since I didn't have anything that went "just right" for a birthday.

That's it for me! Your next stop on the hop is birthday girl Heather! Or, if you are just starting here at my blog, head on over to Christie's blog to start from the beginning. You definitely won't want to miss any of the party!

**This is my second blog post today, be sure to scoll down to see my earlier post featuring a new digistamp from Victoria Case**

Victoria Case Stamps - New Release!

Hello and Happy Wednesday!! I have some exciting news to share this morning; I was asked to be a Guest Designer this month for Victoria Case Stamps! How fun! You have actually seen Victoria's stamps here before, she has several exclusive lines that are licensed through Susana's Custom Art and Card Design as well.

This *adorable* little fairy is one of the new digital stamps being released TODAY at Victoria's stamp store. You can see some more inspiration with him and all of his fairy friends from the rest of the Design Team on the Victoria Case Stamps blog.

I used last week's sketch from Mercy Kerin, the girl is a sketch genius! This is MTSC45 - and I did make the card while the sketch was current, heehee, but I couldn't post it until today! Check out the sketch:

I printed the digital image using Photoshop Elements onto PTI white cardstock, colored with Copic markers, and did some color highlighting with the Ranger white gel pen. I cut out the circles using Classic Circle Nestabilities. Then I cut out my little dude and layered him on top with dimensionals. Added some Dazzling Diamonds glitter using the Quickie Glue Pen (the bestest around for adding powders!!). Paper is Basic Grey Marrakech and the punch is Martha Stewart.

This little guy is TOO MUCH FUN!! Every time I look at him I smile! I think he reminds me of my impish but sweet little boys. :) Check him and his friends out at Victoria's stamp store today!

I'll be back in a bit with my first "official" Paper Pretties post! Thanks for stopping by.