An inspired by challenge

 Today I have a new make I did for the Whimsy Stamps world card making day "Inspired by Challenge". I was inspired by Sue Hastead's card. Love the layout and how she has the girl looking through the heart. I attempted to make something similar with the Elephant and butterflies stamp from whimsy stamps.

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I colored the background with Daniel Smith watercolors and the elephant and grass is colored with copics. I placed the background into a pouch to turn it into an infinity shaker card.

I hope you enjoyed this card I'm entering it into the whimsy stamps inspired by challenge and Simon Says Stamps "anything goes challenge"

Love is in the air

 Hi crafty friends! Well here I am again entering my last card for MFT Card Design Superstar. I wasn't intending on entering the color virtuoso challenge after seeing all the spectacular entries. I don't think I stand a chance in that category. However I still wanted to complete this card because the idea was still in my head and I love to watercolor. As you can see from my entry I'm no expert, I'm barely a beginner at best, but I do enjoy it. I hate to have this card just sitting here and not putting in something in each category so I'm gonna give it a go!

Materials used:

MFT - Lets Stick Together

I used Daniel Smith watercolors to paint up this scene. Thanks for stopping by!

Yeti for Christmas!

 Hi crafty friends! I'm back with my next creation for MFT's Card Design Superstar. Today I decided to work on innovation master. Last year I entered with a chibi lights card and once again I'm back to the chibi lights, I have no idea why since they are kind of a pain to work with, atleast for me they are! So I had this idea to use the MFT dienamics meet in the middle to activate the chibi lights instead of the regular pressing down. I also wanted to make a couple of presents move to make it look as though my yeti was bursting through the gifts (not sure if I achieved that look.lol). So below you'll find a little on my process.

Materials used

MFT - Beast Friends, Jingle all the way (presents)

MFT - Meet in the middle, Starry circle

chibi lights, copper tape

While assembling this card I decided that the my pull tab would be going up instead of the bottom of the card because I wanted the presents to pull away from my yeti not towards him.

I put the copper tape around my pull tab at where I wanted it to stop on the card to make the connections for the lights. I then used score tape to adhere my battery to the top of that copper line, and put together my circuit. While testing it I ran into some problems, it wasn't making a strong enough contact between the pull tab and the circuit.  First I tried layering the copper tape to lift it higher so that it would touch the pull tab better, this didn't help. 

I solved this by placing my broken earth magnet to the back so when the battery runs over the magnet pulls it towards it making a stronger connection.

Colored with copic markers, and distress oxides for the background sky. Adding the chibi lights caused a lot of dimension in this card. I'll have to head to the store for more foam tape! Over all I'm super happy that I was able to accomplish my idea and really love they way this card turned out, hope you enjoyed it to! Here's a short video of it in action.

If you can't view this video here it's also available on my instagram @verlassen75

CAS card

 Wow! looks like I haven't posted anything on this blog for exactly one year, for the same reason, to enter MFT's Superstar Card challenge! Well here's hoping for the best this year. Today's post is for the Clean & Simple challenge. 

Materials used:

MFT - Hog Heaven

MFT - St Tri Peek-a-boo win, Stitched Sentiment Strips, Tag builder BP5 dienamics

MFT - cloud edges

I colored this with copic markers and used some prisma colored pencils to add a bit of details to my little piggy. Thanks for stopping by!

A really really big card!

Hello crafty friends, today I'm posting my last entry into the MFT 2019 Card Superstar challenge!
Other then the sentiment this is a one layer card. I wanted to create this scene without shoving my characters to close together resulting in one huge card! Hope you like it.

This was colored with copic markers and the sky was done with my copic airbrush.

Materials used : MFT Magical Dragons

MFT Stitched Sentiment Strips
MFT Trees in the forest

Wink of Stella clear

The red dragon looks speckled in this picture because he's layered with wink of stella! All of the dragons are layered with wink of stella because their magical, for some reason with my lighting in the PNW  it only showed up in that picture on the red dragon.lol

As you can see a lot of masking went on in the making of this. Thanks for stopping by!

I would like to enter this into the MFT 2019 Card Design Superstar: Coloring Virtuoso

Interactive Christmas card

Hi crafty friends I'm back again with another card for MFT's superstar contest! My make today is for the innovation master.  So for my make there's a lot of different things that went into it including chibi lights! I've also included some photo's below of my process and even a boo boo.

Looks pretty ordinary huh? Doesn't seem very innovative, but wait........

Ok now that's a little something a light up card, still pretty plain though, but wait........

That's it! Hope you enjoyed it and found it at least a little innovative.  Below are some photos of the process and a little accident I had!

Materials used:

MFT Santa's Elves (sentiment and ornaments)
MFT Well Connected Alphabet
MFT Lucky Dog
MFT Cool Cat
MFT Die-namics Home Sweet Home
MFT Die-namics Stitched Sentiment Strips
Chibi lights
Finnabair snowflake paste

And now for my mistake! While stamping the sentiment on the inside I didn't realize I had some ink on my fingers!

There's some ink by the bottom of the y and on the W!

Luckily I was able to mask this with some embellishments and a little bit of a white pen!

Thanks for stopping by!

I'd like to enter this into the MFT 2019 Card Design Superstar: Innovation Master

CAS card

Hello friends! I feel like its been a day and then some.  I've started to just post my makes only on instagram because I feel like its so much faster and easier. However today's make is for a few challenges, the biggest one being the superstar challenge!, so I felt it deserved some blog space.


Today's make is for the Clean and Simple challenge. I wanted to keep it with a black and white kind of look with a tad bit of color on the inside.

Materials used

MFT  Harvest buddies

Copic markers (some from every gray family)

Pretty Pink Posh mini stars and charcoal sequins

The sentiment is from the same stamp set, I just cut it in pieces.

The inside acorns were colored with colored pencils so it wouldn't seep through the back of my card.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges

MFT 2019 Card design Superstar: Clean and Simple Genius

SSS Monday Challenge: Stamp It

SSS Wednesday Challenge: Bling It On

Thanks for stopping by I hope you enjoyed this make!

Dreamy Card

Hi friends.  Well it's amazing I'm back twice in one day! While working on my first card for the lawnfanatics I had an idea for another card that I had to see through so here it is!

I'm really happy with the way this turned out and I was inspired by a creation I had seen from mama elephant.

Materials used

Lawn Fawn Stitched circles, upon a star

copic markers

embossing powder

star sequins

Thanks for stopping by!

Shaker Card gone wrong

Hello crafty friends I'm back again with another card for another challenge. Today's card is for the Lawnfantics challenge blog which is a sketch challenge. I love sketch challenges because one of the hardest things for me as a card maker is deciding where to place things.

So what went wrong with this card, well several things. first I wish I would've thought to do my embossing before I added the acetate! Thats right unfortunately this warped my acetate not sure if you can tell. Next while I did put down some powder on the acetate to prevent my sequins from sticking this didn't really help so it's not to much of a shaker card.  Finally my wish tag I made every effort to get this cut out without cutting off the top part of the h but it still got off!!

Anyway here is my card for the challenge, hope you like it. All in all I'm still happy with it!

Materials used:

Copic markers

Embossing powder

Lawn Fawn - Teeny Tiny Backdrops, Upon a Star

Sequins

Fun foam

Acetate

Happy Crafting!

Mothers day card

Hello crafting friends, today I have a card I made for the whimsy stamps challenge April showers bring May flowers.  I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone and make this a mother's day card! Win win right!

Supplies used:

Whimsy Stamps "Teddy Best Friends"

Darice  embossing essentials "Cherry  Blossom"

Fun foam

I colored this little guy and the background with copic makers. My original intentions had been to create a daytime scene but it turned into dusk.lol

I was also going to add a sentiment to the front but I liked it just the way it was and sometimes less is more right?!

So for the inside since this is a Mother's day card I youtubed a video for pop up flowers and followed the steps.  Can't send my mom a card with no flowers!

I hope you enjoyed this card!

Happy Crafting

Mermaid Pop-up Birthday Card

Hello crafty friends! It's been a long time since I've been on here, but today I'm back with this mermaid pop- up birthday card. Since I very rarely make boy's cards I geared this one a little more towards boys although I'd like to think of it more as unisex since it would make a great card for anyone.

This stamp set is by C.C. Designs, "Summer Fun". I absolutely adore this set. I'm entering this card in the C.C. Design challenge red and teal. Thanks for stopping by, hope you enjoyed this card as much as I did making it!

Challenge #108 - Thanks

Hello KBD friends! Today's challenge is all about being thankful.  So I'd like to thank Kitty Bee Designs for having me on their design team.  They are an awesome group of ladies! Unfortunately my time with the team has come to an end.  I've recently gone back to work and with that and other things in life I'm finding it difficult to add in some crafting time.  I honestly don't know how some of you ladies do it!

I'd also like to thank our sponsors for this challenge Sasayaki Glitter and Lemon Shortbread.

For today's challenge I went with an image from Sasayaki Glitter "Amy in the Garden"

I used copic markers to color her and zig clean color real brush for the Thanks, which I later with over with a shimmery embossing powder.

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!

Doggy Bag

Hello KBD friends! For my spotlight today I'm using iHeart You.  This cute little guy goes perfect on an old fashioned to go bag! Remember when asking for a take out bag was asking for a doggy bag?! I wanted to keep this bag pretty simple so I wouldn't take away from anything by adding layers and layers to it.  I fun flocked  the dog bone to add a little fun to it!

Materials used:

Kitty Bee Designs - iHeart You
My Favorite Things - Well connected alphabet
Lawn Fawn - Large Stitched circle stackables
Paper Smooches - Dots and Dashes, Borders 2
LittleB - Hearts
Fun flock
Ranger - Enamel Accents Caribbean coast

I used Kuretake water colors to color this pup and copic markers to color my wording with an ombre look. I also used we are memory keepers gift bag punch board size medium to create my bag. Hope you enjoyed my spotlight for this month, thanks for stopping  by!

Halloween Challenge #106

Hello KBD friends! For my mid-inspiration post today I have decided to use images from both of our sponsors to create these shaker bookmarks, a perfect non sugary treat to add to those goodie bags! Usually I have a complete list of the copic colors I've used, but I've found that going back to work after 13 years of being a stay at home mom, I barely have time to craft let alone keep track of the markers I've used!lol So today will be a quick post.

I'd like to give a special thanks to Star Stampz and The East Wind for sponsoring us in this challenge. They both make so many fabulous images!

Materials used:

Star Stampz - Ghost girl

The East Wind - Spellbound

I hope I've brought you some inspiration, and remember there's still time to join in the challenge!

Happy Crafting!

Gift Bow

Hello KBD friends! For my spotlight today I've created a gift bow. The bow is an SVG cut from Sandra's Scrapshop and comes with a card base which I have not added. I'm using the ever so cute Narwhal Love II. I wanted to paint him in space colors and had the perfect fish in space paper to go with it.

Materials used:

Kitty Bee Designs - Narwhal Love II

Sandra's Scrapshop - Bow card

Simon Says Stamp - Stacked Stars

Sizzix - Framelits ovals

Spellbinders - Holiday Magic embossing folder

Deco foil - Rainbow

Ranger - enamel accents blue ribbon

Star garland

Lace with glitter

Wow! - Gold pearl embossing powder

Tim Holtz - Distress paint picket fence

To make Narwhal with galaxy skin I printed her out on some bristol paper.  I then went over the outline with my versamark watermark pen and heat embossed her in gold. Then I used Zig clean color real brush markers black, purple, deep violet, blue, and cobalt blue. I randomly marked Narwhal up leaving white space here and there for the color to flow into. Next just add water to a brush and let it flow on, its amazing how the colors come together. After letting it dry I flicked Tim Holtz picket fence paint on with a splatter brush, and with a white gel pen I added a few more dots and some stars.

Hope you liked my project, thanks for stopping by!

Kitty Bee Designs October Blog Hop

Yay, it's blog hop time! There's so many new adorable images at the Kitty Bee Designs etsy store to chose from! For my project on this hope I've chosen to use the oh so cute and versatile Unicorn Panda. While it is halloween and this image would go perfect on a halloween card or treat bag, I simply can always use a good birthday card!

Materials used:
Kitty Bee Designs - Unicorn panda
Clearly Besotted - Best birthday (inside sentiment)
Tiddly inks - Chloe Darkwig , magical friendship (front sentiment)
My Favorite things - Peek-a-boo circle windows, trees in the forest, butterflies
Lawn Fawn -
PaperArtsy - jofy 38
Stampendous - frantage embossing powder, white embossing powder
Wow! - pastel glacier mint, fluorescent pink embossing powder
Nuvo - shimmering pearl embossing powder
Zig clean color real brush - pink, cobalt blue, may green, lemon yellow, orange, light green, purple
Stickles - spun sugar, glam pink, cotton candy
Tulip - daimond
Distress ink - seedless preserves, picked raspberry

Copics used:

clouds - RV66, YR68
panda - B06, B04, BG05, BG01, B000, YG05, YG09, R20, RV91, W5, W3, W1,W00

I couldn't leave the front blank, so did a simple water color and some glitter so you know there's something magical behind this little forest!  Remember to leave a comment for you chance to win this cute little unicorn panda. Thanks for stopping by, only a few more hops to go!

Kitty Bee Designs Blog
Larelyn of Handmade From My Heart
Karla of Creative Love Affair
Tracey of Mowbray Designs
Connie of Connie Can Crop
Grace of Sugar Cards
Jessica of Fresh by Jess
EK of ekgorman designs
Lisa of Snowy Moose Creations
Clara of Just Buzzinʻ By
Naz of Sasayaki Glitter
Julie of Crazy Crafting Squirrel
Anne of Constantly Carding
Jennifer of Glitter in My Hair
Saba of Paper Boutique
Peggie Sue of Max and Boo
Annie of Little Wings Creates
Kitty Bee Designs Blog


One commenter from each stop on the hop will win the digi used by that DT member. You donʻt need to comment on every blog to be entered to win... but each comment you leave is another entry so make sure you swing by every designer's blog and let them know how FANTASTIC their cards are, and then make sure you come back and tell us which digi is your favorite!! One SUPER lucky winner who visits (and comments) on every stop as well as tells us which 3 digis are their favorite on the KBD blog will be entered to win ALL THREE!!

Entries close in on Tuesday 3rd October 2017 at 11pm Hawaii time. Winner will be posted the following day, Wednesday 4th October. Multiple comments on a single blog entry do not count; comments must be made on the KBD Blog hop post and/or the KBD DT memberʻs KBD Blog Hop post before the above-mentioned deadline to qualify for the prize. Only one digi will be given out per stop; if a DT member has made multiple projects, only one digi will be given out and the prize digi will be chosen at our discretion.

Remember to make sure you come all the way back to the KBD blog and let us know which 3 digis are your favorite! And if you just canʻt pick swing by the KBD Etsy shop and use CODE1017 to get 15% off your order for the entire month of October!!

Water Play!

Welcome back KBD fans, there's still time to join in to this challenge water play! This cute little puffer is just floating by to wish you a happy birthday! I love this theme its so versatile that there should be nothing holding you back from joining in the fun! Lets also give a big shout out to our awesome sponsors:

 Materials used:

Kitty Bee Designs - puffer
Tiddly Inks - Floating by (sentiments)
Lawn Fawn - Large Stitched Rectangle Stackables, Stitched hillside borders
Whimsy Stamps - Slip 'n Slide dies
Stampendous - white embossing powder
Prima Marketing - mini art stones
Simon Says Stamps - shape sprinkles
blue vellum
seashells

I painted this cute little guy and the background with Kuretake water colors. My faux sand is the mini art stones that I mixed with some copic E33 refill to create the sand.  I hope this inspires you to stop on by the Kitty Bee Design Blog and join the fun! Till then happy crafting!