Have a ton of Fun

     Hello there my crafty friend :) Do you know what time it is? It's Peachy Keen Challenge time and this week it's "Anything Goes"! Everyone's favourite challenge, right?  Well it's one of mine for sure, free to create whatever I want....oh ya, bring it on :)
     I was excited when I saw what the challenge was because I have gotten so many new PK stamps lately that I just knew I was gonna have fun with it. After much debate, (with myself, lol) I decided to use PK-223 Baby Elephant, it is sooo cute, I just love it. I thought maybe it would be cool to make the background resemble a baby's quilt, and used a variety of pieces from my stash, lord knows I have a ton of little pieces, I don't throw away much.  :)
     I used Memento tuxedo black to stamp my image, sky gray color box for the stitching and copics to colour this little cutie. I cut him out with a Spellbinders classic circle, used a Spellbinders lacy circle for a mat and popped my image on the "quilt". I added an "It's a Boy" charm with limeade We R Memory Keepers bakers twine and a couple buttons for embellies. I used CC-PK4X4-024 Happy go lucky elephant die to cut the "splash drops" and added glossy accents, to represent the milk from his bottle.
Copics Used:  C3: body, E000 toe nails, YR20 nipple, R82 tongue, B00 diaper pin, R20 ears and hooves, W3 for the shadow in front of him and some of the top section of his bottle. EK Success chalk for the cheeks! 

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Peachy Keen 23: Anything Goes
The Paper Shelter: Punches and/or Dies
Scrapbook Sisters Card Challenge 90: Anything Goes
Wish Craft Cards ~Waste not Wednesdays: Week 24
I used old scraps of dp, buttons (rarely use them) the metal 
sentiment from 4 yrs ago and the felt diaper from 3 yrs ago   

     Thank you so much for dropping in to have a peek. Have a great day, big inky hugs my crafty friend! See you soon. If you get a chance please leave me a comment, and I'll pop over to see what you've been up to lately! 

Cindy   :)

You've been framed!

     It's another Peachy Keen Challenge and this time we were to create a 3D object using frames! We could upcycle, use a cheap dollar store one, die cut one, or use our creative imagination to come up with something totally unique!!
     I had two idea's I was working on but neither one of them felt right, and the more I tried to get them to come together nothing was working, it kept nagging at me. I finally had something going late last night after trying for days but I was really tired and decided to finish it when I got up. Thing is when I woke up I had a whole new idea in my head so I came straight to my CR and set to work.
     I told my sister that I would make one of my baby name frames for her grandson's 1st birthday, which isn't until March 2013. They have been going on a hippo/zoo theme for the nursery and I was going to do a large hippo, but when I woke up my mind had kind of expanded on it a bit LOL!!!

I had to take the picture without the glass in because I was getting to many reflections, seeing me and what was behind me in the glass doesn't make for a great pic, lol but it looks great with the glass in....honest.... LOL

Challenges

Peachy Keen Challenge 21: 3D Objects: You've been Framed!

Just keep on creating: Anything goes & travel stories

The Paper Shelter

     What do you think? I think it's way better than just a hippo in the middle don't you? I used my "Puffy Clouds" and "Wrought iron gate" memory box die's. The gate was cut 8X and I made little acryllic things to give them depth without using pop dots so they wouldn't show. At first I cut them out in grey then decided they blended into the hippo to much so I cut them again in white and glued on top of the grey one's so I wouldn't have to make those things again, LOL!

     I used a bunch of those acryllic things I made behind the boy and the tree as well. I love these 3D shadow box frames from Michael's, you can add so much depth to your designs. There is still room, the leaves of the tree don't touch the glass yet :)

    I made the hippo using the "Animal Kingdom" Cartridge and the PK-750 Animal Faces (sm) that co-ordinate with it. For the sun I used PK-M16- You are my sunshine, and PK-450 wide eyes kids for "Colton"  :) The grass was cut several times with a Cherry Lynn "grass border" die and over lapped. I cut the tree by hand then punched all the maple leaves with a small fiskars punch :}
     The outfit is a Jolee's sticker, I removed the arms, glued to white paper and cut out, drew on the red stripes on the reverse and reattached to the body of the sticker backwards so I could bend the arms. I made the neck and pop dotted the head off of it and added the hands, both from the "Everyday Paper Dolls" cart. Those little overalls are so adorable :) I made the running shoes using two circles cut from the smallest spellbinders circle die. I cut the rocks using "Plymouth Rock" from the "My World" cricut cartridge, I just hid the numbers that are on it, and a couple of the lines, as well as cut out twice.
     I added some little things for him to find when he's a little older, lol, like the pond, (if you look closely the hippo is standing in it ), the bird in the tree, (MS punch n stamp), the butterfly on the fence (small fiskars punch) and three ants (hand drawn) walking off with some of the hippo food that fell out of the little bag Colton is holding. :) He won't be able to find it probably but on the tree I drew a heart and put his parents initials in it, M+J, lol! I also added a tiny pop dot behind each of the hippo's ears to make them pop forward. And drew a couple birds flying in the distance :)
     I used several ink pads, markers and gel pens to add highlights, shading and edging here and there. I hope you like it, I have more baby names frames I made last yr and the yr before in another post here, here and here if you'd like to take a peek! :) I just realized there are two more I haven't blogged about that I made for my grand nephews :) Oh well, some other time....I am beat, this project has consumed my whole day!
     I'm so glad you came by to check out what I made for this week's challenge, I hope you like it and maybe you've been inspired to make your own for your kids or someone else's, they are fun and when they get older you can change up the theme for them, you are only limited by your imagination which I know is awesome, I've see your stuff....LOL! Take care, see you again soon I hope, please leave me a comment so I know you were here, I'd love to come see what you've been up to, bye for now my crafty friend. Keep your rubber in the ink!!! LOL LOL


Cindy   :)

Splish Splash

     It's a "Pool Party Bash"!  This weeks Peachy Keen challenge is Just cards and I have been trying to come up with a card for this adorable stamp! PK-M08 mini piggy tubby time, isn't it just to cute.

     I wanted it portrayed as a pool so I cut it out and layered it several times omitting the bubbles and covering the ones in front of the wash tub with a beach ball :) I thought about colouring the tub in different colours to make it look like one of those rainbow blow up pools but didn't want to change it that much!

Challenges

Peachy Keen Challenge 20: Just Cards 

Colour Me Creative Challenge 44: Pinks & Greens

I layered it several times so the right piggy would be stuck out in front of the left one and so the tub itself would stick out in front of both of them giving them dimension and depth. The umbrella is cut from my Shower Peepers die CC-PK4X6-005. I love the dies just as much as the stamps, and they can all be co-ordinated with each other so well. I used PK-150 Accessories Assortment One to give them sun glasses :) I was so happy their was a pair small enough, ty Kathy J!  :)

     I painted a round toothpick white to be my pole to my beach umbrella but couldn't find it when I went to add it, no idea where it ran off to, lol so I cut the centre out of a q-tip and used that instead :)  

     The very back scalloped circle mat is a quickutz die and the pink and top ones are the two largest spellbinders Peony dies. I used copics to colour my grass, tub, piggies, beach towels, umbrella and two bottom mats. I don't have blue so I used prismacolour pencils to do my sky. :)  I drew and coloured the splashes on then covered with baby blue stickles, added stickles to the water in the tub as well to make it glisten. I randomly added some "stickles puddles" of water on the grass. :) The beach towels are a See D's stamp, they were to wide so I cut some off of them. The patterned designer paper is a very old piece of BoBunny from my stash, (I hope I remembered that right, it's the only thing I didn't write down, I noticed the name when I was added the double sided tape) 

     I am so happy you had a chance to drop by and check out my latest PK challenge card, it took me forever to make this one, including starting several other cards, lol! I have some background for other cards ready now LOL! Let me know what you think. Thank you so much, hope you have a great rest of the week, keep the rubber in the ink and stamp, stamp, stamp!  

Copics used:  Piggies:  RV10, E21, E00 cheeks, R20

                      Grass: YG17, YG03, G17 colourless blender 0

                      Umbrella and pink and green mats : R81, YG03

Prismacolour Pencils used :  Sky  304, 364, PM-121 colourless blender

                                           Water: 305, 320     baby blue stickles

Cindy   :)

Souper Fun PK Challenge 16

     Hey there my crafty friend, ty for stopping by to see what I have for you today. The new Peachy Keen Challenge this week is to make a 3D project using a soup can! As soon as I saw that I knew I just had to make a luminiere. (At least I think that's what it's called, lol)

Here's my can before...

after

    A couple of  holes on the eyes got away from me, it was really hard to hammer a pin on the line when you can't see if your on it when your hand is in the way holding the pin. LOL But I didn't do to badly :) I used my copics for the nose and the cheeks, but the cheeks weren't showing up like the nose was so I used a pink sharpie.

    At first I was making it so it would hang from a branch or something and I'd put a candle in it for the light to shine through, then I thought ohhhhhh all the rain is going to get in and it will get all rusty. Plus I didn't want to use real candles because I painted the inside of the can white. Flames would wreck it and the can would get hot and black inside. I wanted to paint the outside to but it isn't easy stamping the face on a soup can,  it can slip giving you shadow lines, which happened to me on my first attempt. I am using Staz On black ink, luckily I can fix mishaps with a q-tip and some goo-gone but if I had painted it white, I wouldn't be able to do that. I had to erase the image a few times and start over trying to get a good impression. 

     You have to carefully ink up your stamp really well, position your can so it can't roll and lay your stamp over the area you want the image. Carefully press all the inky areas and try to push some of the ink pad into the ridges. I got really good coverage and only had to fix a few spots with my black sharpie. The first one I made with the opening at the top, and I used a small finishing nail to make all the holes but I could only manage to get the holes in the valley's of the ridges instead of the hills. The holes were all different sizes and although it was really cute and completely usable I started over.

    This time I turned the can upside down and made it into a table top ornament, I used a pin to make all the holes, they are more uniform, smaller and I could put holes in the hills and the valleys, it was much easier.

     To punch the holes I had an old Ferero Rocher container, I set the can in there with a plastic lid from the nails so it wouldn't move as I was hammering the pin, this worked out awesome.

     After I got him all full of holes I thought he needed something so I gave him a hat from half of a plastic bubble container I picked up at M's a while ago with lace in it. I just painted the inside of it with blue acrylic paint, and wrote my sentiment on the outside with a black sharpie.

         After all this I can't find my little battery operated candles, they must be packed away with my Christmas stuff, but I always have a few in here for different projects I make, no idea what I did them after change my rm around a few weeks ago, hmmmm. Oh well, no biggie, my MIL bought these light up footballs to put in some candle holders I altered a couple yrs ago for a wedding shower I put on, they glow blue and have 3 settings, I left it on the constant glow setting so it wouldn't be flashing, to hard to take a pic that way, LOL! 

I tried but can't get a good shot in the dark, I wish I had a tri-pod

     It's my youngest sons girlfriends B-day in 2 weeks, and he wants to give this to her, she will love it, she saw me making it and kept saying how cute it is, and that she wants to make one :) Her fave colours are blue and green, that's why I made a blue hat with green trim for it :) She doesn't know she's getting it, the hat fits perfectly, like it was made for this project and look what will be going inside!  :) She's gonna freak LOL How exciting!

     I hope you enjoyed my project today, and maybe you got some cool ideas floating around in your head now to make something like this. I actually want to make a bunch of these but with different faces, now I need the whole set LOL and I want them in my Gazebo hooked to the mini lights, that would be soooo cool :) I guess we better eat more soup, we rarely eat soup, usually only use it to make my noodles and sauce, mushroom pork chops or scalloped potatoes. But I need a bunch of these! LOL Thank you for dropping by, please leave me a comment so I can visit you too, I love to see what your up to and leave some love! Happy Scrappin!

Cindy   :)