Showing posts with label TCP Tuesday Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TCP Tuesday Challenge. Show all posts

Friday, October 14, 2011

Take Off, eh!

I've had this Take Off set from The Cat's Pajamas since it was released and it had yet to see any ink, so I pulled it out and played along with the TCP Tuesday sketch challenge, TCPTUES180.

The sketch was a little intimidating with that big 'ole star, but I just treated it like any other layer and I love how my card came together. This little guy is SO cute!!! I love that his ears are practically bigger than the plane!

I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black onto choice buttercream and coloured it with copics. I paper pieced the airplane with two patterns from the Blink of an Eye collection by My Mind's Eye. I added a couple coats of clear glaze pen to his goggles and a rhinestone swirl coming out of the exhaust pipe. I cut out the row of clouds using the cloud border die then stitched them in place. I gotta say, my little Janome Sew Mini did not like going through that many layers of card stock! LOL!

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Beary Christmas

It's time for my Christmas-card-of-the-week. I find that to be motivated to make Christmas cards at this time of year, I need to work with new stamps. Problem? Not for me!!!  :)  I indulged in some sweet new Christmas sets from The Cat's Pajamas. Am I the only weirdo ordering Christmas stamps in the new year?!?!
For my card today I wanted to play along with the TCP Tuesday challenge. This week's it's hosted by Amy Rohl and the challenge is to paper piece...perfect...I love paper piecing! I reached for the bear from my Give A Little set and used last week's sketch challenge, SC266, from Splitcoast for the layout.

The bear is completely paper pieced and the honey pot and candy cane are coloured with copics. I added white Liquid Applique to his hat for the fur trim and glittered up the candy cane with my uber sparkly Glitzy Glitter. His eyes were a little lost on the chocolate patterned paper so I went over them with my black Glaze pen to bring them out a little more. The patterned papers are all from the SU Ski Slope pack.

The sentiment is stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black onto Riding Hood Red then cut out with a small scallop rectangle Nestabilities and I stitched around the edge to give it a little oomph. I couldn't resist adding a zig zag stitch along the outside edges and you had to know that there would be a ghost snowflake on here somewhere...wink! There's a chocolate circle under the ghost snowflake to help it stand out a little more, then a punched Baja Blue snowflake topped with a lovely button from my new Sweet Thing Buttons Pack.


A few of you have told me that you hopped on my Christmas-card-a-week wagon and that's awesome!!! You'll be soooooo happy in December...trust me! If you're not on the wagon, it's never to late to hop on!

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Happy Birthday Wendy!!!!

Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday dear Wendy, Happy birthday to youuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!

Today we're doing a little blog hop to celebrate Wendy Bond's birthday. Since I was just at CHA (I know...I'll have a few pictures to post soon, I just need to get organized) I used a few of my purchases.


I've been wanting this adorable Smells Like Cake set from The Cat's Pajamas for a while now so it was one of my CHA purchases. Since I was using TCP stamps I decided to use this week's TCP Tuesday Challenge, a sketch hosted by Leigh. I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black onto Choice Snow White and coloured it with copics. I added some green and orange Glitzy glitter to the cupcake and one of the party hats. It's so sparkly because it's actual pieces of tiny glass.

I added a little stitching to the image and the base layer. I wanted the penguins to stand out so I added black layers to make them pop. The patterned paper is another CHA purchase from the Paper Loft, the Morning Rain collection. The solid cardstocks are brocade blue and so saffron and I used my coordinating brocade blue ribbon. The sweet bow was done with my Bow Easy...LOVE that thing!


Wendy...hope your day is absolutely out-of-this-world fabulous and filled with many good wishes and plenty of wine!!! Save a glass for when I visit Calgary in March! Happy Birthday Girlfriend!!!!

Here's a list of the other friends wishing Wendy a VERY happy birthday!!!
Dee Woodland   http://deespapertree.blogspot.com/
Regan D'Agostino   http://stampymcstamperson.blogspot.com/


Thanks for stopping by!
Karen