Lifes a beach....

     Its been the kind of spring that makes one want to get to the beach and feel the sunshine!  While it has been fairly mild in Georgia, my poor family and friends in the mid-west have been bemoaning the late snow and cold weather.  St. Louis recently broke a 100 year record for 12 plus inches of snow....I am sooo not missing living there and experiencing that.
     However, what really inspired me to make this card was the Design Team call over at Mo's Digital Pencil.  The minute I saw it was open my heart started to pound quicker, and I let out a hopeful SQUEAL!!!!  You are suppose to post something with your favorite Mo's image - LOL - I love them all, how could you possibly pick just one.  This said, if I think too hard about it I'll never get an image colored - they are all too, too sweet and fun.  So.....since I HAD to pick - I chose this lovely curvy lady with the delish umbrella drink.  We will be heading to the beach in a few months so I have visions like this dancing around in my head.  Yes, she is in a a "teeny, weeny, itsy, bitsy, yellow polka dot bikini" (hope your humming along now) with the tropics surrounding her.  There are harder images to color, but she is oh so fun to play with!!!  Of course I used my Copics to color her, my Spellbinders to frame her, a nicely discounted Paper Studio embellishment, and some ribbon, all mounted on some fun two sided Jillibean Coordinating paper. I like the way the chevron on the lower layer mimics the ripples in the sand as the ocean washes up on the beach.

     Yep, this will be me when we finally make it to the sand and sunshine.....an umbrella drink is a must!  I finished of the inside off the card as well - I used two shells that I stamped, colored lightly, spritzed, then bent into a shell like shape.  They are adhered with some Collall glue to give them dimension.  My original thought was to use them on the outside of the card, but this little lady screamed for a palm tree and coconuts.

     I had to laugh when I read the Design Team call requirements....does Mo really think it is a burden to have to color and play with one of her images weekly, or any time for that matter  - I say bring it on  - that is my kind of play.

Supplies:  Copics, Mo's Digital Pencil, Paper Studio Embellishments, Spellbinders Die, Jillibean Paper, Computer Sentiment, Collall glue

Challenges:  Mo's Design Team Call, Stamp and Create, April One Die Cut. Oozak, Pearls, lace, ribbon

Swingin Baby!

     Playing yesterday and started thinking of a fun way to use this digi by Squigglefly.  As I colored it occurred to me that it would be fun to turn this little cutie into a 3-D look.  Soooo, I printed 4 images and colored them up, fussy cut them and worked on creating layers.  One image is my base, then I cut the little sling along with the bows (without their little streamers) and adhered them directly over the first layer WITH A FOAM POP UP IN THE MIDDLE......this made the sling stand out a little.  Then I fussy cut the little bear and each bow and put them on small foam pop ups to make them stand out.  The last thing I cut was the babies face - placed this over the main image with a pop up more to the front giving the look of the image peeking out.  Had so much fun I have printed up some more to work on this weekend.

     Placed the image on some Jillibean Soup paper I had with a little gemstone on each bow. I used some inchies to place the letters below spelling 'baby'.   All in all a cute card - but like all creations I am already thinking of things that will make the next one better. Below are the Copics I used to color this image.

Supplies:  Copics, Squigglefly Digi, Studio G letters, Oval Cutter, Gemstones, Cardstock, Jillibean Soup CS

Challenges:  SFC313 (Squigglefly Challenge use Inchies), Our Daily Bread Designs OBDSLC134, for a Child