Trevasaurus - Let's Get Sketchy

Happy Monday! Today there is another sketch reveal over at Let's Get Sketchy. I was having way too much fun with this sketch and had to stop before I got too far away from the original sketch design...lol  My son Trevor loved Dinosaurs when he was little and his Grandfathers nickname for him was Trevasaurus. So it just seemed fitting to title this page that.

 

The sketch by Jenessa that I used for inspiration.

Product List:

Cardstock: Core'dinations

Patterned paper: Basic Grey Archaic

Embellishments: Basic Grey

Alpha: Basic Grey

Mixed Media: Modeling paste, Tattered Angels

Writing Tools: Zig

Sketch Designer: Jenessa Franco

Challenge Site: Let's Get Sketchy

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Colorful Creations "Favorite Things" Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the Colorful Creations My Favorite Things blog hop!  If you have arrived here from Brenshevia's blog welcome to the hop!! If you have stumbled across this by chance and want to play along then you can head back to the Colorful Creations site to start at the beginning.
Make sure to comment & follow my blog in order to be eligible to win the prize!

Here is my project showcasing my favorite things modeling paste and mists.

I love this Bo Bunny collections called Whoo-ligans, super cute! I have it for many years and have been hoarding it for the perfect page.

Thanks you so much for joining us on the blog hop, make sure you hop on over to Michelle's blog for more inspiration!

Make sure you make Colorful Creations your last stop on the hop to see how to win the wonderful prize up for grabs!

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Mermaid Card - CCC Digi Creations

I have a fun little card today for you all that I made for CCC Digi Creations challenge that is up on their blog. I colored cute Mermaid "The Gift" image by Aurora Wings with Copic markers. Cut them out and used some Stickles to give them some sparkle, pop dotted them onto the background. For the background I dusted off some Alcohol Inks and used them on one of those cellophane bags that stickers come in. Adhered it to some Paper House Endless Summer paper to give the card a really cool water look to it. Stuck some random stickers and some pearls and some glass filler to create some sand. The glass filler by 13arts is my newest find and I absolutly LOVE it!

This fortnight's sponsor for the CCC Digi Creations is:

The prize for the lucky winner of this challenge will get $10.00 USD worth of digital stamps of their choice from Aurora Wings.  For a chance to win this great prize all you have to do the challenge and enter your project at CCC Digi Creations.

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Perfect Pumpkid - Colorful Creations

I'm getting in the Halloween spirit! I am really behind on scrapping my kids Halloween pictures. I think it is because I tend to only want to scrap them during the Halloween season and then I move onto Christmas pictures which I am also really behind on.
Over at Colorful Creations there is an awesome moodboard and sketch that was perfect to help me get some of my Halloween pictures scrapped. I had so much fun making this page. I started with spreading a thin layer of Gesso behind the picture area on the background paper. I then used some tissue paper and stuck it down to the Gesso and made sure it wasn't flat so it crinkled up some. I then poured a little Gesso on my Teflon mat and sprayed some Dylusions onto it to make an orange color. Spread that over the tissue paper with a old credit card to give some orange streaks. Then flicked some black color shine over that and also spread sightly with the credit card to give a few black streaks. Let dry. Then spread some Clear Rock Candy and let to dry to give the background a crackle look. Once that was dry I randomly sprayed some Tattered Angels Pumpkin Pie mist and let it run some down the page and so it spread out through the crackles. Added some rubons and some glass filler to the bottom  of the trees sprayed with black color shine for more depth. I even added a little bit of the spider wed stuff that was using to decorate the house with.

Here is the finished results.....

This is the sketch and moodboard I used for my inspiration.

Product List:

Patterned paper: Dream Street Papers LLC Superstition & Sam

Embellishments: We R Memory Keepers, Reminisce

Stickers: Stampendous, Reminisce 

Alpha: Sandylion, Pink Paislee

Mixed Media: Gesso, Dylusions, Heidi Swapp Color Shine, Tim Holtz Clear Rock Candy, Tattered Angels Mist, 13Arts Glass Filler 

Ribbon/fibers: Burlap

Miscellaneous: Tissue Paper, Spider Web

Sketch Designer: Brenshevia Baker

Challenge Site: Colorful Creations

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Snow Fun - Let's Capture Our Memories

I saw this fun sketch over at Let's Capture Our Memories and had to use it. I've had these pictures of my daughter crawling threw the snow tunnel that her daddy made for her going to our neighbors driveway that I knew would be perfect for this sketch.

I used some glitter on a chipboard snowflakes I had. Also added some Heidi Swapp Ghost Shapes and Bo Bunny Chunky Charms.

On the background I did some dots with modeling paste and a stencil and flicked some Metallic Ayeeda Paint by 13arts over that. Sprayed some Tattered Angels Chalkboard Glimmer Mist too.

Gotta love the glitter Thickers! Also in a few spots I used some glass filler by 13arts to create some snow. You can see it in this picture below the S of snow.

and here is my sketch inspiration.

Product List:

Patterned paper: Best Creations, Bo Bunny Snowy Serenade

Embellishments: Heidi Swapp, Bo Bunny, Hero Arts, Tattered Angels

Alpha: Thickers

Mixed Media: Modeling Paste, Tattered Angels, 13arts, Distress Ink, Stampendous Glitter

Sketch Designer: Ana Castro

Challenge Site: Let's Capture Our Memories

This page was published in the Let's Get Inspired Christmas Issue 2014!

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Zoorassic Park - Let's Get Sketchy

It's time to get sketchy! Today is a new sketch reveal at Let's Get Sketchy. The sketch worked perfectly for this panoramic picture I had of my son feeding the giraffes. I used a stencil with Copic markers and airbrushed the giraffe print around the background and used some waterpaints to get the green behind the picture. On the circle I sprayed some Tattered Angels to get the light brown color and the Copic markers airbrushed over that for the pattern. The papers I used on this page were actually in a big box of stuff that I put together awhile ago of things to get rid of. Trying to clean out my stash really doesn't work well when I keep taking stuff out of the box of stuff I'm supposed to be getting rid of....lol

Here is the sketch I based my page from.

Product List:

Cardstock: Core'dinations

Patterned paper: DCWV

Embellishments: DCWV, American Crafts

Alpha: DCWV

Mixed Media: Tattered Angels, Water colors, Dylusions

Ribbon/fibers: Twine

Miscellaneous: Copic Markers

Sketch Designer: Laura Whitaker

Challenge Site: Let's Get Sketchy

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Texas Star - Sketchabilities

Gelato's, do you have any? Have you tried them? They are soooo much! I used a sketch from Sketchabilities, sketch #124 for my page. I loved the hexagon shapes in this sketch!
On the background paper I cut the hexagon shapes out with my Cameo. I also stamped some random circle images and then stamped some grid stamps with VersaMark and embossed with clear embossing powder. Over that I rubbed some Gelato's on my background and then used my finger to spread it around. Took a baby wipe and wiped over the background to remove the Gelato from the embossing to bring the grid stamping back out. Gelato's with the embossing makes a pretty cool effect, or at least I think it does! I also cut my title out on my Cameo.

Sketchabilities #124

Product List:

Cardstock: American Craft

Patterned paper: Basic Grey Capture & Glitz Kismet

Embellishments: Raffle Tickets, Pink Paislee Tickets, Rain Drops

Stickers: Glitz, Washi Tape

Stamps: Lizzie Anne

Mixed Media: Gelato, Hero Arts, Heidi Swapp Color Shine, StazOn

Writing Tools: Zig

Miscellaneous: Silhouette Cameo 

Sketch Designer: Karan Gerber

Challenge Site: Sketchabilities

This page was featured at Sketchabilites!

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My Scraps & More Sketches Blog Hop!!

Hello and welcome to the My Scraps & More Sketch Blog blog hop!! Today, each design team member has created a CARD sketch to celebrate World Card Making Day. That’s TEN different sketches!!!

There will be TWO prizes given out for the blog hop:

1. One person will win a $10 gift certificate to the store just for commenting on and following one of the designers blog posts. I will choose one of the DT members blogs and then choose a random commenter from that post. 

2. Another winner will be chosen from all the card sketch entries uploaded to the In Linkz on the My Scraps & More Sketch Blog. For each card you create based on a sketch, create a DIFFERENT link up. So if you complete all 10 sketches, you will need to do 10 link-ups! (On your card link please be sure to mention whose sketch you used and link back to the My Scraps & More Sketch blog. If you’d like you can also leave the DT member a comment with a link to your card so they can see what you did with their sketch.)

Here is the prize for the card sketch blog hop:

All comments and card sketches for the Blog Hop must be linked up by Monday, October 6th at 12 pm EST.

BUT, if you don’t complete all the card sketches by Monday, that’s OK….you can still upload them through the end of the month for the monthly prize drawing on the sketch blog! The more sketches you do, the more chances you have to win!

Here is our regular monthly blog prize:

Here is my sketch and the card I created with it......

To see all the sketches, check out the DT members blogs below:

Audrey Y. - http://audreysreflection.blogspot.com/2014/10/world-card-making-day-blog-hop-with-my.html
Nadine C.- http://myscrapnstuff.blogspot.com/2014/10/msam-blog-hop.html
Wendi R.- http://scrappydayinparadise.blogspot.com/2014/10/my-scraps-more-sketch-card-blog-hop.html
Lisa M. - http://lisasscrappyhideaway.blogspot.com/2014/10/my-scraps-more-blog-hop.html
Jessica S.- http://jessica-createandshare.blogspot.com/2014/10/my-scraps-and-more-sketches-blog-hop.html
Michelle G.- http://scrapsandpixels.blogspot.com/2014/10/ms-blog-hop.html
Tracy R.- http://ascrapatatime.blogspot.com/2014/10/my-scraps-and-more-blog-hop.html
Tracy F.- http://tracysscrappyhideaway.blogspot.com/2014/10/my-scraps-more-sketches-blog-hop.html
Jenessa F.- http://jenessafranco.blogspot.com/2014/10/my-scraps-and-more-sketches-blog-hop.html
Missy W.- http://littlenuggetcreations.blogspot.com/2014/10/my-scraps-more-sketch-blog-hop.html

Thanks for hopping along with us!

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Christmas Tag - Creative Craft Cottage

Today I thought I would try something different and make a tag. Over at Creative Craft Cottage they have a bingo or color challenge up and I went with bingo card and used a Tag, Glitter and Ribbon. I've always wanted to make my own Christmas tags just never seemed to find the time to do them.

Product List:

Patterned paper: Page from old music book

Embellishments: Flowers Unknown

Stickers: Stampendous

Stamps: Bo-Bunny

Mixed Media: Hero Arts, Distress Ink, Viva 3D Stamp Paint, Art Glitter. Tattered Angels Mist

Ribbon/fibers: Teresa Collins & Unknown

Challenge Site: Creative Craft Cottage

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Pumpkin Card - CCC Digi Creations

Wow, it's October 1st already! Before you know it, it's going to be Christmas. I'm so not ready!

I made my first Halloween card for the season. Using this really cute whimsical pumpkin digi image from Oak Pond Creations. She has some of the cutest images in her Etsy store! I colored the pumpkins with Copic markers YR02, YR04 and YR07 and for the leaves I used G21 and G28. I then airbrushed around the edges with E33. I embossed some Black Magic Core'dinations to back the pumpkin image and used Fancy Pants corrugated kraft paper behind that. For the punched border I used a Fiskars border punch.
Here is the finished results....

This fortnight's sponsor is

Oak Pond Creations are offering one lucky winner, their choice of 3 digi stamps from their store.

If you would like to be in for a chance of winning this fabulous prize, simply enter your creation using a digi stamp image with a border or punch, at CCC Digi Creations. Can't wait to see what you create!

Product List:

Cardstock: Core'dinations

Mixed Media: Distress Stickles Antique Linen, Distress Ink Gathered Twigs

Ribbon/fibers: Burlap

Digital elements: Whimsical Pumpkin digi image from Oak Pond Creations

Miscellaneous: Copic Markers, Fancy Pants Corrugated Kraft Sheet, Fiskars Boarder Punch, Sizzix Embossing Folder

Challenge Site: CCC Digi Creations

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