One Layer Lily

This super simple one layer card was done for a one layer challenge in the Pink Cat studio forum over on Paper Craft Planet.

Lily is colored with prismacolor pencils using the gamsol magic technique. The 'ribbons' were created by scoring 2 lines 1/4" apart on all 4 sides using my score pal. I then colored them with the same pencils that I used in the image and blended them with the gamsol technique. I added the flower for the finishing touch!

Have a great day!

Enchanted Gamsol Magic class

I'm using the enchanted Lily set from Pink Cat Studio today to teach a class using gamsol and the gamsol magic technique...

I kept the cards really simple so the beauty of the technique would shine through as well as giving the ladies a chance to take their time (I've been told I'm a slave driver:) )
I used plastic canvas as a guide to get the brads evenly spaced. Line it up and pierce holes in every second hole. Turns our perfect every time!

Have a fairy nice day!

Ribbon puff Lily

Ribbon Puff card
1 – 10 x 5 sweetheart bazzill
1 – 2 x 2 white 80lb cardstock
1 – 4 ¾ x 4 ¾ Just in Jersey print
1 – 4 ½ x 4 ½ the fifth add print
1 – 2 ¼ x 2 ¼ rust bazzill
1 – 4 x 1 ½ rust bazzill
1 – 3 ¾ x 1 ¼ Just in Jersey print
1 – 3 x 2 Finished birthday cake
1 – 3 ¼ x 2 ¼ rust bazzill

Other supplies:
7” green ½” grosgrain
15” green polka dot sheer ribbon
15” brown polka dot sheer ribbon
15” pink polka dot sheer ribbon
15” pink ric rac
15” orange plaid ribbon
6 dew drops
black stazon
tombows
piercing foam and paper piercer
Plastic Canvas square

Cut 15” pieces of ribbon into 3 - 5” pieces and stack them on top of each other. Use one of the pieces to tie the stack onto the green ribbon. One by one, starting at the bottom of the pile, tie the ribbons around the one use to attach them Alternate tying them first on one side of the knot and then on the other. Continue until all ribbons are tied and make a ribbon puff.

Picture tutorial can be found here on splitcoast stampers

Have a great day!

Lily and Billy standing pop up card

Free standing pop-up card
Cut list:
1 – 11 x 4 ¼ - parakeet bazzill
1 – 5 x 2 ½ - white 80lb cardstock
1 – 5 ¼ x 2 ¾ - Just in Jersey print

Other supplies:
6” lime ½” grosgrain ribbon
2 flowers
2 brads
sticklestombow markers

Instructions are here on splitcoast stampers

Have a great day!

Lily and billy sweethearts card

This was the image that made me fall in love with the Billy and Lily swwehearts set. Although I love all the Billy and Lily stamps, I imediately knew what I wanted to do with this one...a step card.

Step fold card:
Cut list:
1 – 10 ½ x 5 rust bazzill
1 – 5 x 5 sweet heart bazzill (for largest large scallop nestabilities
1 – 5 x 5 Finished birthday cake print (for largest large circle nestabilities)
1 – 5 x 5 white 80lb cardstock (for largest small circle nestabilities)
1 – 5 x 4 parakeet bazzill
1 – 5 x 3 – parakeet bazzill

Other supplies:
Tombow markers
Adhirondak ink in lettuce and aqua
Sponge
White gel pen
Dew drops

Pink cat studio Lily and Billy sweethearts
Stampendous winter trees set

General instructions:
On the 10 ½ x 5 piece, score at 1 ¼, 2 ½, 4 ¼, 6 and 8 ¼” marks

This pic over on splitcoast was my inspiration for the card.

Swinging Lily

Here's another of the cards for my upcoming copics class. I used the Enchanted Lily set from Pink Cat Studio.

I added stickles to the wings and flowers and 'rubbed' the sides of the card and glittered them for extra sparkle.
The flower is also colored with copics to match the card.

Have a great day!

Lily and the frog

This is the last of the cards for my copic class using the Enchanted Lily set by Pink Cat Studio.

The flower and the frog were colored twice and then cut out and mounted on the card using pop dots. I added stickles to Lily's wings and diamond glaze to the frogs eyes. The purple cardstock matte is glittered with Stampin Up! dazzling diamonds glitter. The flowers are colored to match.
I also made an envelope out of extra cardstock using my Scor Pal....love that tool!

Have a great day!

Mushroom Lily

I am so in Love with the new Enchanted Lily set that Pink Cat studio just released and Here's one of the first things I came up with....Isn't it adorable? I'm doing this card for a copics class in march and can't wait!

Lily is colored with copics (of course!) I cut out Lily and the top of the mushroom and raised them with pop dots.
I also added glitter, stickles and diamond glaze. The flowers were custom colored to match the rest of the card!

Have a great day!

PCS LOVE challenge

Here's the card I made for the LOVE my Pink Cat Studio stamps challenge over on the Paper craft planet PCS forum

We had to do something for each of the letters in the word LOVE, so here's what I did:

L - Lily and Lace (which I tried to make the outer edge look like)

O - Orange - the color of Lily's dress and Opalescent stickles

V - Vellum and Valentine

E - Embellishment - dew drops

I didn't take a picture of it, but the layer inside also opens, so the writing won't show through to the front. Thanks for looking, have a great day!

Lily the Fairy

The Pink Cat studio blog had a contest this week using this Lily the Fairy image. Melissa says she's come up with a Lily the Fairy set that will come out next mont. I CAN"T wait!

Here are my entries:

For this card. I printed Lily onto Vellum and then colored her with copics on the reverse side. I cut out a window with one of my nestabilities sets (it's name excapes me at the moment!).

Once the card was put together, I colored the wings with a versamarker and embossed them with SU!s Irridescent ice EP and added a gem in the centre of the wand. I also added stickles to the flowers and held them together with a rhinestone brad.


For the next one, I cut out part of the flowers on the DP and slipped the Lily image in behind.

Lily was colored with copics again and I colored over her wings with a spica glitter pen. It's too bad it doesn't show up in pictures, it looks great IRL! The last step was adding the gems to the centre of the flowers.

For my last card, I colored lily with copics again (big surprise!). I used the Spica glitter pen on all the blue parts.

Here's a close up of Lily:

I think she's so adorable! Can't wait till the set comes out!

Valentine Lily

This is my submission for Pink Cat studios challenge #3 over on papercraft planet.

Solid papers are bazzill and the prints are from bo bunny smitten papers. Lily is stamped with momento ink and colored with copics. I colored over her dress with spica glitter pens so they are REALLY shimmery. The balloon is colored with copics, cut out and then layered with stickles and then covered with diamond glaze. It is popped up on the card with a pop dot.

You can't win if you don't try...

So I tried out for a spot on Pink Cat Studios design team and found out this week that I didn't make the cut. It's funny, I'm more disappointed than I thought I'd be (could also be due to a crappy week and a half before this news:) ). At least I'm proud of myself for trying. So, on to the cards I made for applying...

The images were colored with copics and cut out with nestabilities. A self-adhesive gem was put in each scallop and a row of them on the ribbon. The sentiment label is also from a nestabilities die.
This one looks so cool IRL. I colored the image with copics and then went over it again with Spica glitter pens, so the Kimono is really shimmery, it looks just beautiful! (and I'm not being biased AT ALL!) The dew drops were colored with copics so that they matched the Kimono.

My original plan with this one was to do a tilt card, so that Billy and Lily would move and look like they were actually making snow angels, but their heads moved also and it looked funny, so I changed it. Billy and Lily are colored with copics (big surprise, I know!) Billy's mittens, scarf and the top of his hat were flocked with matching flock. The trim on Lily's outfit was stickled and flocked, and both pairs of boots were covered with diamnod glaze so they look like shiny rain boots. The tag was stamped on acetate with white stazon and then sprinkled with dazzling diamonds glitter for shimmer and sparkle. I cut the tag and the red tag behind it with a scallop circle nestabilities and trimmed it with more glitter! One can never have enough glitter:)

On the edge of the white piece, I put a line of tombo multi glue (I had just gotten it that day and had to try it out) and dumped (technical term) some SU! Dazzling diamonds glitter on top and let it just sit and soak in. I love the look it created.

Wow! I don't know if I have ever been that long winded!
Have a great weekend! I'm hoping ours is quiet and non-eventful!

challenge cards

I spent some of the day today doing the first 2 challenges in the Pink Cat Studio forum over on Paper craft planet. The first challenge was this:

1-2-3 Challenge! You can use any Pink Cat stamps you have, but you must limit yourself to...

1 - ribbon

2 - forms of a background (whether embossed, stamped, designer papers...)

3 - embellishments.

so this is what I came up with:

The 2nd challenge was this:

This is a 3 Part Challenge:

Part 1Project Size:Your Project is to be 6" by 6" Card or 3-D items welcome!

Part 2You are to use 3 of 3 different things example: 3 different ribbons and, 3 different Pat. Papers and 3 different Stamps
The third part was a choice of color scheme and I chose:

Old Olive, Night of Navy, and Ruby Red, and Kraft

So, it's a 6 x 6 card.

The 3 x 3 part is:

3 layers to the image

3 different textures - fun flock, diamond glaze and perfect puff,

the stickles are just a bonus (and maybe a cheat!)

3 different cuttlebug embossing folders on the background

Such a cool challenge! Can't wait to do more!

double viewmaster...a work in progress...

So, I've had this idea in my head for a while. When I first saw the Lily and Billy accessories set from Pink Cat studio, I thought 'How cool would that be if you could make a card where you could change Lily's outfit?'

Then I thought 'It would be even cooler if you could change her outfit AND the sentiment to go with it!'

So, the double viewmaster was made. I'm not totally content with it. I think the card itself should have been a solid color so it didn't compete with Lily and her changing outfits.

However, it does work pretty cool. Lily herself is colored with copics, cut out and glued to the background and her outfits are colored, cut out and glued between 2 pieces of acetate (so that the edges don't catch when you turn the viewmaster to change her outfit). The second viewmaster piece is done on white cardstock and colored with copics.

Don't worry! She's wearing a dress, so she's never completely nude! I'll probably be re-doing this one at somepoint, but I thought I'd share it now anyway! Have a great day!

Kitty Christmas angel

Yet another card using scraps from the bin. I wanted to keep the angel super simple and wanted to try NOT using the bright yellow on the eyes like I usually do! Love how simple she is! The Kitty is from Pink Cat Studio and is in the Christmas Kitty set.

Lily builds a snowman

Here's one of the Christmas cards in the stack that I made. It is made with stamps from Pink Cat studio. I'm positive I cased it from somewhere, but I have no idea where. If you know...let me know! Anyway, I love that it's non-traditional christmas colors! I used perfect puff for her earmuffs and for the trim on her outfit.

Have a great day! The sun is shining here, so I'm off to go enjoy it while it lasts!

Pink Cat Studio September Release

It's release day!

Be Warned! This post has a LOT of pictures!

The new Christmas Kitty set from Pink Cat Studio is being released TODAY!

Isn't it adorable? I just love all the images and how versatile it is for cards and projects throughout the year!

I love the angel kitty that I made another card with her. I masked her and then sponged the navy around her. Added flock, diamond glaze and stickles. The little gold starbursts are an additional stamp in the set and are perfect for this little angel!

As soon as I saw this set I thought the tree would be so cute flocked in green so that's what I did on this little card. The glittery brads are some more of the doodlebug sugared brads. They are just perfect for the ornaments!

The last card here kind of happened but accident! I wanted to try a never-ending card that I saw on Dawn's blog and happened to have the Christmas kitty set out, so I used it and just LOVED how it turned out so much I decided to use it for one of my classes in september! All 3 of my girls can't stop playing with it!

Hope you enjoyed all the cards! I had so much fun being a guest DT member! Thanks so much Melissa for this opportunity!

Pink Cat Studio sept release day 2!

The next 2 Pink Cat Studio images in the release are the kitty in the christmas tree and the kitty with the fish bowl. Here's what I came up with:

I love the kitty in the christmas tree! I think she's so funny! She is colored with copics again and then all the ornaments were decorated with stickles and once that was dry I gave them a thin layer of diamond glaze. Copic markers are perfect for this because they don't run AT ALL when you put stickles or diamond glaze over them! I layered the image with the green and red cardstock and then attached them to a tent style card. At the last minute I decided to try my hand at piercing the corners and messed up the last one! Go figure! Despite my mess up I love how sparkly the ornaments and shiny the candycanes came out!

The next image is the Kitty with the fish bowl. This is another image in the set that can be either christmas or non-christmas. The santa hat in the first picture is cut out and attached to make it a christmas card.

I intentionally used exactly the same papers, colors and layout in both cards to show you how easy it is to change it into a christmas card! She is colored with copics and the eyes are covered with diamond glaze (I think this really makes them pop and looks super cool!). The christmas kitty is flocked the non-christmas isn't (for no other reason than to show you that it's optional!)

The second I saw this image I wanted to do my bext to make the fishbowl look glass! So I stamed it with stazon onto a piece of acetate, cut it out and attached it to the card with diamond glaze. I love how that glass-like look is captured in the first picture! I tried to re-create that with the other pics, but that wasn't happening! I have since tried just covering the fishbowl with diamond glaze and it aslo works just as well! The brads are sugared brads (I think they are by doodlebug!)

Pink Cat sept release day 1!

To say I was excited when Melissa asked me to be one of Septembers guest designers for Pink Cat Studio is a TOTAL understatement! I was over the moon! I absolutely love their images and the Christmas Kitty set is no exception! So here is 2 of the images in the new set....

The Christmas angel is so cute! She is lightly colored with copic markers and then her body was flocked with white fun flock. Her wings were stickled and then fun flocked so they sparkle underneath. Her Halo, dress and horn were colored with spica glitter pens and then the horn, halo and collar got a coat of diamond glaze. The ovals are cut with nestabilities and the shadow was then sponged. The daisies are one of the new cuttlebug border embossing folders with sugar brads (doodlebug I think!). I added more stickles to the outside of the oval and the daisies for extra sparkle!
I used the kitty with the gift twice to show how versatile she is! The first one is an everyday card and the second a christmas card. Both are colored with copics again and the grey cat is flocked. The gift is paper pieced to coordinate with the paper on the card.

The santa hat is one of the stamps in the set and is really what turns the christmas card into a christmas card! The holly was hand cut and the berries are just sticky gems that I had in my stash!