Heartfelt Hello!

Hello Thursday! I'm looking forward to the end of the week though, weekends mean so much more to me when it gets warm. That and I'll be finishing my balcony, so that I have a really nice and cool spot over the summer. :D I told ya on Tuesday that I would share with you more of the Fairy releases from Tiddly Inks and here is my second creation! She is so cute.

This one is Fairy Heartfelt and really I couldn't resist doing the card in Black, White &  Red. :D I used my wonderful red washi tape as an accent, which I think works great.

Here she is close up!

Copics used:
Skin: E000, E00, E21, E11, R20
Hair: E21, E25, E29
Dress: C1, C3, C5, C7, C9, R24, R27, R29

I've been really into doing mostly the dark brunette hair, so no surprise on the colors. :D I'm actually quite surprised on how well her hair came out, I was coloring her up the other evening while watching EuroVision in the semi-dark even.

Well, it is time for me to actually do some work. I have my project going and need to get a lot done today so Cheers! I'll be back tomorrow with my last Clear Release for the week - another fabby Fairy.

Oh did you hear, the fairies are all ready SOLD OUT! Craziness, I tell ya. Due to that, Christy has already re-ordered them, which she said they should be in next week, plus she will continue with the sale (just for the fairies though). These gorgeous gals are so fabulous!

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Washi madness

Hello my friends! Welcome to the third and last day of the gorgeous Some Odd Girl May Clear Release! I've definitely saved the best for last..haha. This one has a bit of a story too. I've been asked before about Washi tape and how I use it, so I thought it was a good question to pose to all the Oddies over at the Some Odd World Community. Well, the truth came out that - the majority of us use this stuff specifically to hold our dies in place. Yup, I'm totally guilty of that. With that in mind I really wanted to try to use more of my washi tape and after perusing my inspiration spot, a.k.a. Pinterest, I found some great CAS cards. Considering I use the washi for my dies, I thought it poetic to use the die reverse for my card front. :D I absolutely love the way this turned out!

The image is Artist Mae. Isn't she just so darling with her tongue hanging out. :) After coloring her first with my Copics and then fussy cutting her out I applied her to the card front. I used her sentiment and some of the doodly extras to add some textural interest to the card itself.

Copics used:
Skin: E000, E00, E21, E11
Hair: E50, E51, E53
Shirt: C1, C3
Pants: C5, C7, C9
Shoes/Headband: B04, B05
Copic Bag: BG72, BG75, BG78

I would love to have shoes that color! So cute. I couldn't tell you which of the three new Clear Releases I love more - all of them have fabulous looks and are so much fun to color. The sentiments totally rock and I love the little bits Kristy adds to each set. :D

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Music to my ears

It has been a rather rockin' week so far, so today I'll take a little break from the new releases and share this awesome ATC for this week's challenge over at the Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge. The theme is Song & Dance is sponsored by The Greeting Farm. Did you know they did digis? I totally didn't!

This gorgeous image is Chibi Trumpet! I came up with the design of the ATC while in my Microsoft Publisher program. I usually create a rectangle the size of the ATC so I could get my sizing right. Once I added a cool music-themed digital paper to it, I knew that I didn't want to color her up. I love the look of her sitting there in her brown gorgeousness. I added a sweet sentiment from Create with TLC and that was it. Such a simple ATC, yet very pretty.

I'll be back a little later with the last of the Some Odd Girl Clear Releases - and I tell ya what, you will want to not miss this one! Cheers!

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Rockin' again

Hewwo! Welcome to Tuesday and another fantastic Clear Release! I'll be showing off yet another Some Odd Girl set today. Although I'm sure you've seen that Tiddly Inks also had an AMAZING Release today as well and that I already showed you the first of the three Fairies, I'll be showing the rest of the creations at the end of the week. Gotta to spread out the goodness, no? :D

This card today is using the same awesome Music Mae set that I gave a sneak peek last month. It is finally available today for all you lovely crafters to get your hands on! I have to say that this image is just so wonderful to color.

I went a little unexpected in the colors. It all started with her headphones. I really wanted to make them red, since they reminded me of a classmate. I then progressed to a pale red for the shirt and of course some blue-grey sweatpants to show how awesome Mae looks even in her "chill clothes". I thought the shirt looked a little more towards the orange range, so decided to bust out my Glitz "Hello Friend" paper pack.

Copics used:
Skin: E000, E00, E21, E11, R20
Hair: E21, E25, E29
Eyes: E35, E55
Headphones: R24, R27, R9
Shirt: R20, R22, R24
Pants: BV20, BV23, BV25
Shoes: C9, C7, C5
Still keeping with my classmate as the inspiration, I went with the lovely dark auburn colors, with that gorgeous blond streaks pulling through. Seriously love this image! I'll be back tomorrow with the third and last SOG Clear Release and then time to show off the gorgeous Tiddly Inks' fairies! Cheers!

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Fairies in the house!

I told you this week was packed FULL of gorgeous new Clear Releases! I'll be sharing the first of three new Fairy Releases from Tiddly Inks! But then you'll have to wait for the other two - ok, if you are really interested to see them hop over to the Tiddly Inks Blog to check out all 3 Fairies and two AMAZING Goth Girls! I absolutely did not have the time to play with the Goth Girls, but you know I will - so my style. :D

So, the card I would like to share with you today is using the Fairy Tenderheart Clear Stamp Set, it comes with such cute extras - like a bird's nest and 3 sentiments!

Such a cute little thing. I've had this card made up for awhile, she has been dying to be released. :D The background paper is a wonderful digital paper from Traci Stroud Designs by the name of Cloud 9 (available at Scrap Orchard). I added some scrap DP paper, ribbon and two metal embelishments. The circle behind her is all about the TH tissue paper - Papillon to be exact. :) It is a quite busy card for me, but I still love it.

Copics used:
Skin: E00, E21, R20
Hair: E50, E51, E35
Dress: B24, B29
Flowers: B00, RV10, G05, G17
Branch: Spectrum Noirs TN7, TN8, EB8

Seriously - the amount of cuteness this week makes me giggle like a school girl. :D If you aren't a fan of clear stamps, luckily all the Tiddly Inks Clear Releases from this week are also available as digis! You don't get all the little extras, but you still get an amazing image to play with.
I'll be back later today with another super fab Clear Release from Some Odd Girl! Cheers!

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Hey Hey Mae

Hey hey! It is wonderful Monday and I've been dying to show you all some gorgeous Clear Releases. This week is fully packed of gorgeous new creations so I  hope you enjoy it as much as I have while creating them.
To start us off, we have a wonderful new Mae from Some Odd Girl. This one is the gorgeous Hey Mae!

I went with some gorgeous browns and greens for this one. A tad odd for the beginning of summer, but I think it came out so well. The layout for this one came from here and here. I love to try new things and combining inspirations, especially when it solves a problem. :D

Copics used:
Skin: E000, E00, E21, E11, R20
Hair: E21, E25, E29
Eyes/Shirt: YG03, YG06, G05, G17

Hey Mae is just one gorgeous girl that is being released this week from Some Odd Girl - so keep your eyes out on the SOG blog to see some goodies. :)

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Sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do

Even if that means taking two steps back. I've been having a lot of problems lately with my Wordpress blog and finally today my sambo and I figured out one HUGE problem with it - my host. Now, my host is really cheap and hasn't been too bad...until I started to get traffic. -.- Needless to say we've been discussing my alternatives and what exactly I want with my blog and in the end...I had to migrate.

To save what little time I have, the sambo suggested I look for a cheap pre-made template and I oddly enough found one. It looks really nice and it did save me hours in Photoshop, which I most definitely do not have the time for. In the end, the one BIG issue I had with Blogger in the first place was the lack of customization - and since then I realized that it was just my unwillingness to learn. Ah well...there are amazingly, talented people out there with good and reasonably priced designs so I went with it.

Now I'm in the horrid, horrid process of getting my images up to date and actually visible. That is the unfortunate bit of any migration. One thing we did this time was that my URL has not changed whatsoever. I love my zadis.se and took advantage of having paid for another year of my crappy host. Whether this will be permanent I'm not sure. I do absolutely love how integrated with Google+ Blogger is though. So I'll be sitting still for a bit, and even if I do migrate, it shouldn't cause too many problems for my readers. :)

P.S. Sorry for the lack of posts this week. Seriously...my class has been kicking my butt. Seems stereo viewing headaches are killer on posting time. I come home from class to tired that I haven't been able to do anything at all, which is so unfortunate. Luckily that portion should be over and then back to hopefully a normal posting schedule. Bear with me until then!

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Been quiet around here...

So it is Friday, and boy I'm glad! I feel like it has been a coon's age since my last post, and that is because I am a busy little bee. I've been at my crafting/work desk coloring up a storm for next week! I have so much to show you. :D

First off - if you did see the news there is a GORGEOUS freebie over at the Tiddly Inks blog right now! Grab it and join in in this fortnight's challenge!

The other thing I would like to share is one of the reasons why I've been so busy. We have this coming up next week!

These images are absolutely gorgeous. And all of us DT have been having a blast creating with them. I just can't wait until next week - so much to show!

Fortune...

Good morning! I'm actually writing this on my mobile as I seemed to have forgotten to set up my Wed post. If you haven't noticed, the last few days my blog sorta went haywire. No clue why, but my theme went bonkers and decided to take the blog with it. I currently have a temporary theme in place, so hopefully everything works alright. I'll get to creating or maybe just implementing a new theme this weekend.

Anyway... it is Wed so that means we have a new theme at Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge. This week's theme is all about fortunes. As in "let me gaze into this fake crystal ball and tell you that you are destined to meet a tall, dark and handsome stranger". Yeah that type. Here is my little ATC, which I think came out pretty kick ass. Love the background.

The background was made using Picked Raspberry Distress Stain, followed by Crushed Concord and Black Soot Distress Ink. The effect is so pretty.

Well my train is here so I'll sign off for now. Cheers!

Hello there Wryn!

Hello hello! It is that second day of the week - Tuesday. Tuesdays feel like Mondays most of the time, perhaps because I know I still have 3 more days till the weekend? At least this Tuesday is marked by our fortnightly Tiddly Inks' Challenge! It is a cute and rather unusual theme this fortnight. It is all about Wryn, the DT wanted to show just how versatile the Wryn images are and thus all you have to do is use one of the many fantastic Wryns in your creation!

For my card this challenge I used Wryn - Watcha Doin'?, which is a truly versatile image. I colored her up in my usual combo of Copics, going for a red-headed Wryn this go around. I wanted her to peak out of a "polaroid" picture, so easily created that using a square and rectangle shape in Microsoft Publisher. The only thing that I needed to adjust on that was the border thickness - it needed to be the same thickness as the line that the image had itself. I added a cute sentiment to go with the whole Polaroid idea. I went ahead and created a sky background with some fluffly clouds - I'm really liking the way it comes out and am still surprised at how easy it is!

The layout is one of the fabulous sketches from the Deconstructed Sketch. I LURV all the sketches there. This one was so perfect to use up some scraps that I had. I try not to over do a particular layout, but wow...I really like this one. :D

Hop over to the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog and check out all the wonderful inspiration we have from the DT! Cheers!