Crayons!!!

Okay, today's card has me pretty excited!  It is another birthday card using a very cute puppy dog digi I got from the Operation Write Home blog, which is an incredibly awesome blog striving to help our military men and women stay in touch with loved ones.  You can check out the digi and the blog here and check out my card below.

I decided to use craft colored card stock as the base, which then lent itself to the colors used on the dog.  Are you wondering why I am so excited about the card?  Well, the coloring, of course!!  Here is a closer picture of my coloring -- get a better look...

I used my Crayola Crayons and blended the colors with Goo Gone and a Q-Tip.  I have been doing some searching and have found some other techniques and supplies that I need to try.  When I figure out what medium works best for blending crayons, I will let you know.  However, as of right now, I am pretty excited about the way the Crayons, Q-Tips, and Goo Gone work together.

The rest of the card was all scraps with a very short piece of paw print ribbon, which was a big pain to tie, and of course, some Stickles.  So what do we think, will my best friend's daughter like this card?

A Birthday Card

So, today's card is pretty exciting because I randomly came across a new to me coloring/blending technique.  I am sure it is not new and many out there know about it.  However, it makes me so happy because it uses one of my still to this day absolute favorite things - Crayola Crayons!!!

My best friend's children both have birthdays coming up, so this card is going to her son.  I am "hopping" he likes it.  

All the paper is from the scrap files once again.  I ran the card front through the Cuddlebug.  The word stamp is actually from SU Unfrogetable Set, and the frog was a freebie digistamp I got some where along the way.  For the life of me, I can't remember where, though.  I pop dotted him to give some height to his hop.  The white flower is actually a dollar store stemmed flower that I bought to mess around with.  I took the stems off and separated the layers.  I have been rather surprised with how well they have been working out.  To top it off, I added a Prima on top, and Stickles to the brad because Stickles always make it better. 

I have another birthday card for you tomorrow and more information about what I am learning about the crayon coloring/blending technique.  

Can't wait!!

A Get Well Card

Today's card is actually on the opposite end of the one from yesterday.  I put this one together in just about 10 minutes.  I wanted to keep the card simple since it was going to a child.  I used all scraps because I do have a ton.  (Maybe at some point I will post pictures of my craft room.)  Amelia's closest friend here in Florida had surgery Friday morning.  Poor girl actually had to have her tubes taken out because they had been in her ears for so long, and the doctors had to do a little work to ensure the holes would close up.  Amelia wanted to do something to cheer her up.  Of course, when we saw her that evening, she was back to her sweet self.  

Oh, to be young and bounce back like nothing happened.

I am fairly new to the Digistamp scene, but one of my favorite digi artist is Nikki at MelonHeadz.  You can find this cute freebie here.  You really should go have a look.  She has tons of super cute stuff!!  I know there are some really talented people with really cool techniques to shade/color the digistamps.  I am definitely not to that level.  Plus, I really enjoy coloring the good o' fashion way, so this time I used dollar store colored pencils.  Of course, I had to add some colored rhinestones because what 7 year old girl doesn't love rhinestones?  Thus, like I said, this is just a card to make a sick little girl smile.  I think the goody bag the card was in got more of a smile, though.

Thanks for looking!