Ring, Ring??

Hey All! I have to tell you, the last Mo's Challenge was so fun that I HAD to participate AGAIN!! Hmmmmm...I sense yet ANOTHER addiction coming on!! ;)
This week's challenge was to create in all PASTEL colors. For those of you who know me IRL know why this is close to IMPOSSIBLE for me. For those of you who only know me virtually, I wear only black 99.9% of the time. So...THIS was a real challenge.

I didn't want to go overboard and I didn't want it to be TOO soft. That's just a little too far out of my comfort zone...for now ;) So I chose 2 colors to work with, yellow and purple, and simply variated within those two color families.
I chose Melia on her Shell-Phone as my image. LOL! Get it? HAHHAHAH! But seriously? She is THE CUTEST thing EVER. I love her!!! She is colored with a mixture of my Copics, Prismacolor and Pantone markers. Her nails and beads are colored with marker and then overlayed with light purple sparkly, Sakura gel pen. I stitched her main panel to the mat of yellow behind it.

My card base is 5x5, followed by a simple yellow cardstock, then my main layer. I knew I wanted to do SOMETHING else but wasn't sure what. Like I said, I didn't want to fuss with it TOO much.

I decided to paper piece her tail with a scrap of purple DP that I ran through my printer and printed the image again. I trimmed out her tail leaving the very end of her fin unglued and flipped up a bit so you can see my coloring underneath. I love the detailed and dimensional effect piecing has!!!

I then grabbed my 3/4", 1" and 1-1/4" circle punches and just started punching. No particular amount of one or the other. But I wanted them to be able to just mix and match easily representing bubbles for our darling mermaid!!! I had a darling time playing, matching, adhering, and lining up the "bubbles". My very last touches are the silver beads (I'm in love with those lately!!) in each bubble and the 2 tiny ones in the flowers in Melia's hair.
Thanks SO much for reading and following along. I'm so appreciative of every view and comment that I receive!!

I hope you've been inspired and have enjoyed my creation for Mo's Digital Pencil Shop!!

Mo's Digital Challenge!

Hi All!!

Today I am playing along for the very first time over at Mo's Digital Pencil!! My darling friend Kristyn found this site and I've been hooked on Mo's work ever since!! It's just stunning, original, sweet and delicious and just all around beautiful art.

I've been dying to play along on Mo's site for a while and today I had a teensy bit of time to create so here goes!!

Here is the sketch challenge that was issued:

So fun!!

I've been dying to work with a fairy for another site I'm involved with so this worked out perfectly!!! Two creations with one stone! ;)

I chose the GORGEOUS fairy from Mo's "real women" collection. I LOVE HER!!!!

I followed the sketch using textured cardstock measuring at 9"x 9" as my background. My stripes are ribbon, layered with heart punches and stitched on using green thread using a zig zag stitch.
I colored the Fairy with my Copics, Sakura Gel pens and used a touch of glitter adding it on with my Quickie Glue pen. The circle main panel is stitched to gorgeous DP which is also stitched around the border in blue.
The entire piece is stitched around in black to create a nice border to tie it all together. My sentiment LOVE is stamped in Versacolor Ultimate Pigment Ink in Boysenberry, sprinkled with clear embossing powder and heat set. It is punched out with my 1 3/4" circle punch and adhered with 3-D foam adhesive.

I hope you enjoy my impromptu creation this afternoon!!

FIL Bday

Hello!! I have a personal creation to share with you today!! This is a birthday card that I made for my Father In Law for his special day at the end of the month. The image is from a fantastic site Mo's Digital Pencil Shop.

The image reminds me of my FIL and my darling daughter. I kept everything very simple as it is a card for a man. And my FIL doesn't like floof and fluff. The simpler the better. But I know he'll appreciate this image and card.
My base is from my scrap drawer - as that was my New Year's "agreement" with myself. Try to use my scraps before cutting into fresh paper!! The only paper that is not scrap is the paper that the image is printed on. Other than that...all scrap!!

I layered the card base with a scrap of Kraft, another slightly lighter shade of blue and then the image itself colored with my Copics and sparkly Sakura gel pens and 3 mixey/matchy brads.
The interior has a small strip of green, argyle paper for added visual interest and it simply says "Happy Birthday" using an old SU! set.

I can't wait to send this out!!!

You MUST go check out Mo's site!! Her designs are simply stunning!!

Thanks for visiting!!

XOXO-
Meredith