Thursday Pirate with AiFactory

Hello everyone and welcome to Thursday's AiFactory Challenge! Today's challenge was set by the talented Erin and she has asked us to:

SET A SCENE

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The DT is using this cute little Pirate boy and his treasure chest. My scene: a treasure map. The map is from the Paper Doll Dress Up Cricut cart - which has the best accessories (cut at 12"). I cut it from an old manilla folder and inked it up with Ranger Tea ink and once dried, I sprinkled a little water on it to create the spots. The blue background is also created from the file folder inked with Ranger Denim ink. Oh, I also used plenty of pop dots!

So play along with us this week at the AiFactory Challenge Blog for a chance to win a free digistamp from the AiFactory Store. Don't forget to visit the rest of the DT for further inspiration: Erin Cheri Penny Monica Fliss Fink Laurie Carole Carlie Kerry Angie Jodi S

Hello Kitty Part 2

Yesterday I mentioned that I'm making a set of 4 cards using the Hello Kitty Cricut cart and showed 2 of them. Well, here are the other two:

This one uses Splitcoaststampers SC13. The papers are MME Magnolia, the sentiment is a $1 acrylic from Michael's, and I did a little shading with my chalk inks.

This diecut was much easier than the rest since it has nice, easy cuts. All the same papers and inks. The layout is SC66.

I haven't completed the holder/box just yet. I'm a little "stuck" on how to embellish it. I guess I'll go out into blogland for a little inspiration!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Hello Kitty Project

So I've got four Hello Kitty cards in the works right now, and here are two of them:

I'm using my current fav paper pack MME Magnolia. This is one of the first packs I bought a LONG time ago and I use it, put it away, and rediscover it again. This layout is Splitcoaststampers SC80. I used my chalk inks for the shading.

The HK Cricut cart is filled with adorable cuts, BUT if your kitties are too small, it makes it really difficult to piece together. With all the details in the kitties, you really want to go with a larger cut, but the accessories seem to cut great at all sizes.

I just LOVE the jacket! This layout is Splitcoaststampers SC76. I used my copics to add a little shading. These are left without sentiments on purpose to be used for any occasion. This will ultimately be a set of four cards in a box...hopefully it will done in time for Easter.

St. Patrick's Emo

Well, that's what I'm calling her. When I first saw her, I thought she was just perfect. I got her (and a couple others) from MyGrafico and I couldn't decide if she was sad or shy...and I know the "word on the street" these days is "Emo." So she's my Emo girl.

Details: PTI white and kraft, MyGrafico digistamp, copics, oval nesties (just got these!), two different border punches, ribbon.

This card also meets the following challenges:

• Pals Paper Arts - color combo: Garden green, Certainly Celery, Kraft
• DareU2Digistamp - #33 no patterned paper (this was a tough one!)
• Card Patterns - #55 layout

Easter Set using Character Cafe digi

No one ever said Easter is all about bunnies.
I wanted to put together a little something for the kids, and the girls are easy...but what about boys? So I thought this little guy was perfect!

Isn't he just adorable? He is colored with Bics and Copis, I used M's Just Chillin DP and MME Magnolia for the solids, The Character Cafe digistamp, and embellishments.

Over at The Character Cafe Blog this week, Deanne has set the challenge:

SKETCH/LAYOUT

I love layouts since they are a really great jumping off point when I make cards. Anyway, a 2 year old little boy isn't going to be overly impressed just getting a card...so I made a coordinating t-shirt to go along with his Easter gift.

Here's what I did: I opened my image in Paint, filled in the areas using the paint bucket in coordinating colors, saved. I then opened Word, opened and sized my image. I set my printer settings to "iron on transfer" which automatically flips the image, and printed on my transfer sheet. Then just folow the directions on the iron-on packaging. Why is he backwards? Because I didn't read the instructions first that tell you NOT to flip the image. Oh well.

So this is for Rhys, and I hope to post the girls' gifts next week. This also meets the following challenge: All Sorts Challenge - #42 Just For Men

Flowers and Butterflies with AiFactory

Good evening! It's Thursday and that means a new challenge with Aifactory Challenge Blog. This weeks challenge #27 is:

CLEAR and SIMPLE

Yes, you read correctly - clear. So join us by creating something simple with a clear component!

This week the DT is working with a beautiful set of flowers. I am using the Mariposa. LOL! Do you get it? Mariposa is Spanish for butterfly! That's why I just HAD to use my new butterfly punch. So I "stamped" my digistamp 3 times in different sizes and colored with Bics and copics.

For my clear element, I punched my butterflies from acetate (transparency) and sponged with blue Ranger alcohol ink. I bent the wings up a bit and adhered with tacky glue (LOVE the tacky).

So come play along with this us by creating something wonderful using something clear!

This card meets the following challenges:

• Cupcake Craft Challenges - #81 Flower Power
• Cardpatterns - layout #54
• Pile It On - The One You Must - one color and a neutral

If you play along at AiFactory, you do not have to use an AiFactory image but there are plenty of FREEBIES if you do want to!

My Angel

Happy Tuesday. Here's a card I made for a few challenges:

The DP is MME Magnolia, sewing, TCC digistamp, Ranger inks, flower embossing folder in the Cuttlebug and computer generated sentiment. I applied 3 coats of UTE (ultra-thick embossing powder), put my image in the freezer for a few, then cracked it in several places for the glass look.

I recently got this image at TCC and was dying to use it. I printed it and colored it with Ranger Inks (using q-tips). This technique can make an image look really "soft."