Blue Jay

 
My family had a wonderful week end and I do hope you and your family had a wonderful week end also. Little on the cool side but no snow this year. So we are starting our Cards for Men challenge #8, the theme is “SPRING COLORS” starts today and ends April 22nd, 2012.                                                                                                     Our Sponsor is Digi Doodles Shop and you can win a $10.00 gift voucher
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The image I used is called Blue Jay. I taken out one of my Birds and Blooms Magazines and found a good picture of a Blue Jay and I tried real hard to capture the colors from the picture. The designer paper I used is Die Cuts with a View pack called Whimsy Stack. The punches are a corner punch for the flowers and marvy unchida mini birch. The dies are spellbinders lacy square, memory box delicate vine (I cut it) and breezy wreath (I cut it). I added for the middle of the flowers just a little Pearl Pen color Bronze. The ribbon I had but the pom poms are from Stampin’ up and the color is tangerine tango.

These are the copics I use to color my image and here is a close up.
I’m so happy you stopped by. I hope you enjoyed my card. Have a wonderful week.
Someone (my sister-in-law) sent me these pictures of the cutest animals trying to impersonate other animals so I thought I would share them with you. So you will have to wait and see what the next one is when I post my next card.

Happy Easter

 

All kinds of NEW things going on this week at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday Challenge and I know it is going to make everyone happy. The challenge for this week is ANYTHING GOES WITH A TWIST and the TWIST is EASTER and that means you can make a card and enter ANYTHING GOES but if has the TWIST, and that is  EASTER you will get your name in TWICE FOR THE DRAWING. So let me explain a little more if you make just a ANYTHING GOES card you will get your name in once. I hope I made that clear.

Now more CHANGES,  Mediums of your choice including alcohol ink markers such as Copics and Promarker, dye inks, distress inks, chalks, heat embossing, water colored pencils, crayons, Prisma's pencil. So this means YOU CAN COLOR YOUR CARD WITH ANY MEDIUM YOU WANT. HAY!!!!

 Exclusive to Twisted Thursday Challenges.... iCopics is now sponsoring our challenge monthly with a $10.00 GC , plus any order over $75.00 you will receive $5.00 off and free shipping (US orders only)... When you go and enter your card their is more information.

One more NEW changes to our challenge is that if you enter two or more card/projects into the weekly challenge you will receive an exclusive digi from Anne's Digital Art.  The image will change weekly, so get those entries in and receive your free image. The tag for this challenge is TT040512 so please do not forget to add the tag to your card when you upload it to the gallery and the inlinks. WOW!!! that was a lot of information. If you have any questions just ask.

Here is a left and a right view of my card the stamp I used is from fantastic and I sorry I do not know the name of the stamp. The sentiment is from Digital Delight, I added a tooth pick to it so it would look like a banner. Cut it out with a spellbinder lattice rectangle, I sponged around my stamp with distress ink bundled sage and tumbled glass before I took off the die cut so I would not get any of the ink on the edges. Rounded the edges with my Zutter corner rounder. My banner is from A•Muse Studio’s. I have a girl friend that started selling A•Muse products and I do love their products.

I did add a few stickers, the little duckier. The bunny look so tried after a long day of doing something so I thought it would be nice if it was babysitting some baby ducks.
Here are the copics I used in coloring in coloring my stamp.
Thanks so much for stopping by, have a wonderful week end and a Happy Easter. I’ll be back soon.

Tutorial for Magic Card/Spring Pretties

First thing we have started our challenge #40 at Color Me Creative Classroom and theme is Spring Pretties. The challenge end April 13. Our sponsor is Little Darlings.






These are my copic I used to color my image. My stamp is from Sylvia Zet and she is called “Give peace a chance”. My sentiment is from Stampendous.


I choose most of the paper I wanted to use. What I did for each layer I used a different color, hoping that would make it easier for you to understand. I color my main image I’m going to put on the front and decide what sentiment I want to use inside.

Back is cut 6.5 by 6 inches (gold paper)
Inside is 5.5 by 6 inches (green)
Front is 7.5 by 4 inches (blue)

After you have cut your back layer 6.5 X 6 inches, you need to score 1 inch on the 6.5 inch and fold toward the inside of the card.

I choose to use Martha Steward Shells Border punch. You can use any kind of border punch you want.

Punch your sides.




This is the inside layer you will cut it 5.5 by 6 inches and score .75 (3/4) inch and use your border punch on the 5.5 inch side.


So it will look something like this. I just set them together.

For the top layer cut it 7.5 by 4 inches. You will score it at the 6 inch line.




My layers are all cut out and I used a spellbinder (mega nestabilities curved rectangles) to cut the rest of my layers out, so not you can embellishment them how ever you would like.

If you are going to do any sponging to the edges you should do that now.

On the top layer where you scored the 1.5 inch you need to tape or glue that to the top of the last layer.

This is what it will look like.




Take the middle layer.

Now you can add the middle layer and glue or tape it to the last layer. I do not want to confuse you but if you had used all one color of paper you could glue or tape the middle layer to the top layer. Let me show you how they look. The first one I taped the middle to the top, second one the middle to the last layer and the last one the middle to the last layer.



The punch I use for this one is from Easy Cut Crafts it is called Baby’s Breath.




As you can see I used distress ink. I also used some polyshrink (shrink plastic) I have not used that in a long time it was so much fun. The extra sunflower stamp was a free stamp that came with Sylvia Zet stamp set and I wanted to use it so I stamped it a couple times on the polyshrink and cut them out and used my heat gun.

This is how they looked before I heated them and I colored them with my copic markers.

This how they look after they have been heated.

Here you can see how much small they are. I added them to the area where you would sign you name. The young lady I made this for she love pearls so I did add some extra one for her. I hope you under stand my tutorial. If you do not PLEASE let me know or if you have any questions just ask or email me at icyurastamper@hotmail.com I will get back to you. Thanks for stopping and have a wonderful week.
Challenge Simon says. anything
party time tuesday anything goes
inspire me friday anything goes ends April 5
Joanna Sheen spring or Easter ends April 14
If you would like to see The Magic card done by Elizabeth please click here. Her card is wonderful it is called Just Magnolia: Purple and White. If you get a chance to stop by Elizbeth's blog remember to leave her some love...

Come Out and Play!

We are now starting our challenge at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday challenge and for this week it is going to be ANYTHING GOES and you will need to tag your card TT032912. It will end on Wednesday April 4, Hope you will join us you can use any kind of medium for coloring your image, how great is that.  This is another thing I love about The Outlawz challenges you can use Any image or stamp you want as long as it fits the theme of the challenge!  Just love these two images and these are from Mo Manning The little girl is called “Come out and play” and the boy is called “Kitchen Knight” these are so much fun to color. This was just a simple card and I thought the sentiments would be so cute with these two little ones. I did add some diamond glaze and some grass fibers.

These here are the copic markers I used for coloring the images.

Here is the close up of the images.

I hope you enjoy my card. I do hope you will join us. It you are any of the ones that are interested in learning how to make the magic card. I did do a tutorial and I will be uploading for Color Me Creative challenge, the challenge ends this week end so if you get my Feed Blitz Subscription you will get the information but if you have not then you will have to stop by. Thanks for stopping and have a great Friday.

Challenge Mo Manning/ Challenge #128 ends April 4
Challenge Though The Classroom Door- Spring is in the air April 13
Challenge Oozak- Anything goes April 30