You can't catch me. I am the Gingerbread Man!

 

 

Sweet adorable Gingerbread Man baking away at more gingerbread cookies! 

Reminds me of the story...Run! Run! As fast as you can't catch me.  I am the Gingerbread Man!

Colored with pencils and Copics.  Submitted to Christmas Kickstart Challenge.

 

 

Christmas Pets

 I was so excited to be invited as a guest designer this week over at 52 CCT.  Its a Theme challenge this week and the theme is Pets!

What to choose from?  I have dogs in many poses.  I have cats.  I have lambs.  I have so many to choose from!  I ended up with this stamp set "Santa Paws" from Art Impressions.  I have used many stamps in this set but today I am working with the group of singing dogs.

 I stamped the image first and masked it so I could do the sky which is Distress Oxides Prize Ribbon, Dusty Concord and Tumbled Glass.  Those colors are my go-to when I make a night sky.  The stars are splattered Dr Ph Martins Pen White Ink.  it comes with a dropper.  I just dipped a brush into it and splattered the ink. It works the best for me for stars.  Next I colored with my Prismacolor Premier colored pencils.  I love that sentiment that was stamped on vellum and clear embossed with Altenew Crystal Clear embossing powder.  I picked the sentiment up from Rubberstamps.com called Christmas Cheer.

I hope you join us over at the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.  Just click the link and it will take you over to the Theme Challenge-Pets.  We all would love to see what you make too!

https://52cct.blogspot.com/2023/07/july-theme-challenge.html

 

Highland Birthday

 When I saw this Highland Cow image at Kit and Clowder, I knew right away the birthday I was going to color it up for.  

The card I made is called a bridge card and the bridge part is the fence in front of the cow.  

I printed out the background on a full piece of light weight white cardstock and cut the pieces to fit and glue over each section. 

The bridge part was a fence image printed, flipped over as an opposite and printed again.  I fussy cut it  and glued the largest fence post to the right side and the left large fence post, leaving the center loose.  I pressed it flat to see where I needed to cut and match up the middle to attach at the perfect length. I was lucky that the both sides and the length I needed ended up being perfectly lined up where the two fence post met in the middle!

The Highland cow was large and I wanted it to be the focus of the card and the barn in the background.  The cow is glued to a crossbar to show distance between the fence and barn.

 The highland cow just looks like she is ready to go to a birthday party with her birthday hat of flowers on her head!

Verse Front:  It's never too late to be what you want to be....

Verse Back:  Unless you want to be younger, than your screwed =)

Definitely not your normal A2 card and it BARELY fits in the 6"x9"manila envelope.   The base was a 11"x 5 3/4" and the two sides were folded at 1 1/2" each. 

 

She got popped into the mail and on her way to wish a dear friend Happy Birthday!

Submitted to Challenge

Creative Creases #61 

Netta

Supplies

•     Kit and Clowder Highland Cow Image from Feb/Mar 2023 Bonus Class
•     Neenah Solar White Cardstock
•     Water Color Waves Farm Fences Clipart
•     Sentiment printed from Computer
•     Silhouette Cut Birthday
•    Altenew Green Heart Gens 
  

Happy Birthday Bicycle Friend

Good morning and happy Saturday friends.  Thank you for stopping by.

I wanted to show you what I colored for a friend who loves to ride. 

 Her birthday is also on 4th of July so I have made her a card just about bikes, the look of 4th of July or combined the two holidays. She has a fancy bike but I thought she would get a kick out of this bike with the basket in the front.  

I put just a hint of sparkling glitter on the flowers. 

 I used one of the Kit and Clowder classes to help me to color and it was a huge help, especially when it came to the basket, tires and the metal shine of the bike.  

I find coloring so relaxing.

This will get popped into the mail for my friend today to make sure she receives it in time.

Enjoy your crafting day.

Supplies

• Kit and Clowder Vintage Bicycle
  
•  Prismacolored Pencils
•  Nuvo Glitter
• Neenah Solar White Cardstock

TASFT May Challenge- Hoppy Birthday

This challenge is the whole month of May challenge.  We had a choice of sketch or Mermaids.  I chose the sketch.

 

 

 

I did not have a background stamp that had birthday words on it so I just used torn copy paper along the edge and kept moving the stamp down.

 I found the image in my computer from long ago and it worked great.  To finish it off, I added a little sparkle because birthdays always have to have some sparkle on it!

 

I used my computer to type and print the sentiment strips. 

Inside: Not Me, that's who!  Hoppy Birthday

 

 

 Submitted to Challenge

 

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.1661615064291684&type=3

 

Supplies

Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Cardstock for Base

Scrap Navy Cardstock

 Versafine  Ink: Habanero, Deep Lagoon, Spanish Moss, Imperial Purple, Satin Red, Majestic Blue

"It's Your Birthday" from Fiskars Birthday Cheer Stamp Set. 

 

Image from Sherry West

 

Copic Markers B000 and YG11

 

Prismacolor Pencils: Goldenrod, Apple Green, Dark Green, Black, 70% Cool Grey

 

Stickles Black Diamond and Eucalyptus 

Pop Dots

Rosh Hashanah

(2nd post today) 

Happy New Year!

Last night was the start of the Jewish New Year.  I made the card last night but I didn't want to post it until I gave it to my Father in Law.  One of the customs of Rosh Hashanah involves eating apple slices dipped in honey.  They believed the apples had healing properties and honey signified hope that the new year would be sweet.  When this class "Honey Jar" was released at Kit and Clowder in February 2020, I knew it was perfect for this holiday.

This honey pot image came with the class.  I found a line drawing online  of an apple so I printed out the size I wanted, colored it up, popped it up and added it to the card.

Inside the card it says...

May you be Inscribed, BLESSED, watcher over,

PROTECTED, covered, LOVED, and sealed...

this year and everyone one to come.

On the back of the card, I remembered what he told me long ago...that older folks fingers do not work as well as when they were younger and sometimes opening a card is difficult.  He suggested cards should always be at different lengths between the front and back to make opening easier.  

I remembered!!

Thank you for stopping and if you celebrate this holiday...Happy New Years to you!

Netta

52 CCT September Theme Challenge

I just love this digital image from Connie Fong.  I was so glad I found it for Rosi's challenge today...use a penguin or polar bear or both.

It was simple to make.  Just color, cut and glue!

I did not want a plain background so I used 3 prismacolor pencils to get the night sky.  A pencil blender pen helps to blend the colors together as it goes from lighter to darker.  To do the snowflakes, first I used a prismacolor white pencil and it gave a soft glow of flakes.  The stark white smaller dots are from a Uniball Signo white pen.

After it was all put together, I used stickles to add the silver, red and gold bulbs on the tree...clear on the pom poms....yellow for the star and glow.

Come on over to https://52cct.blogspot.com/  and join us to see what the rest of the Designer Crew did with Rosi's challenge.

Have a great day!

Netta

Ingredients:

Digital image purchased from Connie Fong of Polar Bear and Penguin
Night Sky Prismacolor Pencils #PC133, PC906, PC1103, PC938 and Uniball Signo

Finesse Colored Pencil Blender Pen

Spellbinders Fluted Tracery cutting Die

Stickles gold, silver, red and diamond

Wall of Flowers

Whenever I create a card and send it to someone, the warm feeling I get is so satisfying knowing that the project has completed its journey and served its purpose.

This card went out to a friend who I thought could use a little pick-me-up!

I used a brick stencil and Distress Oxide Weathered Wood to make the background.  I spritz the stencil that had the ink on it lightly with water and flipped it upside down onto another cardstock and got another background.

The Flowers were popped up to give dimension.

I hope it made her smile...at least for a moment.

Netta

Biker Couple

Cheers today to a very much loved couple.  It's not their Anniversary.  It's their Birthday.  My brother Al and my sis-in-law MJ.  It's been a standing joke for years because...for one day...she is older than him.  Her birthday is today and his is tomorrow.  They both LOVE riding the bike all over USA.   I like to make a bike card for my brother every now and then.  This time I combined their birthday's because I found the perfect image at Dr. Digi.

I had so much fun building this card.  My husband kept coming in to check on me because it took me forever.   Like I said, I had fun!

I even added additional details that I see but someone just looking might not?....like the license plate...Al*MJ

And the glue that dries clear on the top of the glasses and headlights to look real.

and one detail only they will know...their helmets are like what they wear..

This is embarrassing but I am going to show you anyway...the mess on my desk ALL for just one card!!!  All my planning and cutting and coloring and gluing...

*sigh*...thank goodness I know quickly where everything goes so I was able to clean up in a flash.  

                   

It went into the mail early in the week so hopefully they get the card in time for today or tomorrow!

(Update:  they got the card Friday and in time for both birthdays!)

Happy Birthday Big Brother and Sweet MJ.

Love you both.

Netta

Dr. Digi Flossie's Day Out digital image

Ranger Letter it Adhesive Black 3D Foam

Prismacolored Pencils

Impression Obsession "Trees and Lake" stamp 

Distress Ink Wild Honey, Barn door,  Faded Jeans

Sponges

Memento Tuxedo Ink

At You Spica Extra Fine Black Pen detail

Ranger Glossy Accents 

Pump Action Sailor White Writer Pen

52 CCT August Theme Challenge

This was a fun challenge-Under the Sea!  

I knew right off what I wanted to do.

Now Santa goes everywhere delivering packages, but what about the Mermaids who live down below in the deep sea?  

So I imaged Santa diving down deep to deliver.

My card is about Santa swimming in the deep deep blue.

First I colored up the image from Kit and Clowder with Prismacolor Pencils.  I won't tell you how many hours it took me to color. 

 Let's just say, to do my next step was a heart stopper.  

You ever have these big plans towards the end of your creations and your plan could literally destroy everything you just did?

I had no idea if you could water color over pencils.  I had this fear something would smudge and of course I wanted until the last minute to get this card done.  Nothing to do now but to jump in with both feet.  I grabbed my Shimmery LuminArte pots and spritz them with water.  

My plan was to color side to side to give a sense of being underwater.  I used the colors Blue Ice along the bottom, Sea Breeze in the middle and blended in Sage to the top.  After swiping the color across, I dabbed with a paper towel.  After it dried, some of the prismacolor pencil coloring had dulled so I took a few of the Prismacolor Pencils and quickly went over the corals to bring the color out.   

The image of Santa was something I had in my computer so I printed him out and popped him up.

The card came out like I planned.

Perfect card for someone living in Florida.

Now come join us over at https://52cct.blogspot.com/ and hopefully you will get inspired to give this challenge a try.

Thank you

Netta

Kit and Clowder-Rainbow Rose

  I took a lot of images to color on vacation and I always print two of everything.  My youngest granddaughter wanted to color with me so I gave her my extra rose.  She took out her own pencils and tried to match the colors that I was using.

This rose was a free class from December 2018 at Kit and Clowder. 

Can you tell which is hers and which is mine?

She did so well!!!

I ended up fussy cutting my rose out and created this card for my granddaughter's other grandmom who's birthday is today!

I thought she would get a kick out of the rose.

Happy Birthday Nanna!

Netta

Guinness World Record Birthday

This card was made for my co-worker who's birthday 

is tomorrow July 18th.

Happy Birthday Cameron!

I am hooping for the best for you!

I am not sure if Cameron likes basketball but I do know he is in the Guinness Book for spinning a basketball the longest on his finger.  Impressive! 

This image was the only one I could find that came close. 

 I found it on Dr. Digi on Esty. 

To help bring attention to the basketball (for him), I used a stencil called Warp Speed.  

 I am getting faster at coloring with pencils as this image only took me 3 hours.  For some of you, you will say "that took forever" but for those who understand and color...you will say "Way to go!"

Thank you for stopping by!

Netta

Ranger Distress Oxide,Mustard See, Salty Ocean

Altenew Warp Speed Stencil

Cuttlebug Happy Birthday Folder

Image Dr Digi image Slam Dunk Duncan

Colored with the following PrismaColor Pencils:

    Burnt Ochre

    Sandbar Brown

    Beige

    Peach

    Eggshell

    Light Peach

    White

    Ginger Root

    Dark Brown

    Sienna Brown

    Chocolate

    Light Umber

    Indigo Blue

    Powder Blue

    Cloud Blue

    Periwinkle

    Neon Orange

    Pale Vermilion

    Pumpkin Orange

    

    

Happy Birthday Future Farm Girl

I have a co-worker who is into growing her own veggies, growing beautiful flowers, has chickens and some day wants a big ole cow.  There is a big But.....this girl was the girl who got her nails done, hair done, never got dirty and definitely did not want a big ole cow!  

This card is for you Sarah!

May all your dreams come true....

Happy Birthday

Netta

Colored with Prisma Pencils

Image from Sheri Baldy "Lil Girl & Daisy"

Distress Oxide for background

Turning the Big 7-0

Happy Birthday Ron! 

You hit a milestone this year.

The BIG 7-0...

Enjoy it to the fullest.

Sky: Memento Summer Sky
Sponge

Stampscapes stamps: Grass and hanging leaves
Distress Inks Pine Needle and Forest Green
Copic Nile Green

Image from Doctor Digi "Big Archie"

Prisma color Pencils
  Skin: White, Eggshell, Light Peach, Peach, Birnt Ochre
  Shirt: Cloud Blue, Blue Slate, Blue Violet Lake, Violet Blue
  Pants:  Cool Grey-10,30, 50, 70, 90%
  Shoes: Cool Grey-50, 70, 90%
  Dog and Cane: Beige, Burnt Ochre, Sienna Brown

Birthday Flowers

Love this way of having an image come in from the top and up from the bottom! 

So easy..especially with a Misti.  Just place your rubber stamp in your Misti, stamp, flip paper upside down and stamp again!

It's even best if you do not remove your rubber stamp from your Misti.  You can color, place your paper back in the Misti where it was before and re-stamp back down again.  It gives the image a nice edge or you can stamp with Versamark and emboss. 

 Another birthday card done..so many more to go!

Netta

Kit and Clowder-Flight of Fancy Birthday

I have so many birthday cards to make for the next couple of weeks.  Staying home came at a perfect time!  My hope is to get them all done within this next week so I can get them ready to go into the mail.

This is the second card...a birthday card for my granddaughter since she loves Fairies.  I am enjoying using my prismacolor pencils and coloring with Kit and Clowder and learning a lot!  It took me 3 days of trying to color in my spare time.  

This image came from Jannafairyart and these are how many colored pencils I needed to color the image!

Update 6/26/20:  I have since made this into a birthday card for my granddaughter and mailed it off to her..

I have to tell you, I am so excited!  I finally got a pencil bag after many weeks of  searching.  

I bought the Arteza bag and was able to put all of my 150 Prismacolor pencils and 42 Derwent Intense set in the bag.  You can see my review of the bag here...which is very positive.  No more trying to make sure I do not drop the trays of pencils as I pick out my colors.  

Now...off to my next card!

Netta