Tuesday Throwdown Challenge 392 - Crop Your Image

Shock alert. Short post ahead! Tuesday Throwdown challenge time and we want you to crop your image. Kitty Bee Designs is our sponsor. I love her motto: "leave here smiling, inside and out!" 

I am using Flower Love Bug for my card. I cropped, then printed the portion I wanted use. Colored with Copics (listed below) and added some scraps from my stash for background and below the cropped image. Everything is mounted to a white card blank. Sentiment stamped on background paper with black Memento ink.

Babies are love and I think Flower Love Bug is perfect for a baby card!

Please swing by Kitty Bee where there are lots of great images you could use. Of course, don't forget to enter the Tuesday Throwdown challenge and check out the Design Team creations while you are there. One talented group of ladies!

As promised...

Skin

1st 3 are shell, last 2 are belly & cap

Flower petals

Flower center

Leaf (bottom left)

A bit of clear glitter pen added to shell spots and the flower.

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge 370 - Ribbon & Lace

Wait. A Tuesday Throwdown challenge sponsored by Kitty Bee Design. Excited! What? The challenge is to use ribbon or lace? Thanks for catching me before I hit the floor... The mere mention of either makes me weak in the knees.

Luckily, Kitty Bee provided such a cute image to work with that my panic immediately subsided. Snow Penguin is the digital stamp I worked with, too cute for words and seeing that snowball took me back in time, to days of being so bundled it was hard to bend let alone walk or dodge snowballs.

I actually used 3 ribbons, yes I said 3. Here's a photo of what I used.

I know, hard to believe! 

First colored the image with Copics and while I know penguins don't need snowsuits, I colored as if he was wearing one. Successfully fought my urge to draw a zipper on the little guy. Ribbon was cut and pieced onto scarf (not an easy feat), flowers were trimmed off another ribbon and applied to the snowballs at the top and string ends of his hat. Glitter applied to the snowball. Cut him out and mounted to white card with a piece of designer paper as background.

Finishing touches are snowballs I made and stacked in a pile, a piece of chipboard colored with Copic, stamped with sentiment and a piece of ribbon knotted through the hole for mounting.

He makes me smile and I love the bright colors. What do you think?

Now that I've talked your ear off, it's time for you to check out Kitty Bee Design and join us at Tuesday Throwdown for challenge 370, ribbon and lace. I need the inspiration you provide 😀.

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge 341 - Sketch

Did you know May 2nd is the national holiday for both life insurance and truffles. Me, I'd go for the truffles...

Welcome to this week's Tuesday Throwdown Challenge 341, sponsored by Kitty Bee Design; these cute and whimsical images are created by Ruth and can be found in her store. I am working with Kitty Bee Digi Stamp this week and the challenge is to use the following sketch.

I've written in the past how much a sketch can stress me out. I take them so literally and can not get "creative" because I fear failing if I don't follow it exactly. Silly I know, but oh so true. So, I think these challenges are really good; forces me out of my comfort zone. If for no other reason, I hope you play along just to expand your horizon and squash any fear you might have.

I printed Kitty Bee Digi stamp at 3" and cut out with a Nestability die after coloring with Copic markers. A background circle was hand cut to frame the kitty. Since the sketch had 3 dark spots, which could be interpreted as oh...pretty much anything, I decided to print the image 3 more times at 1 inch. These were also colored with Copics. Taking a bit of creative license I left the backing paper under the sentiment a bit longer and mounted the 3 little kitties half on it and half on the yellow background. Sentiment is from The Angel Company and stamped with Memento "Lady Bug" ink. The big kitty is mounted on foam tape for a bit of dimension.  Here is my result working from the sketch.

I highly recommend checking out Kitty Bee Design, so many cute images like this one. While the challenge doesn't require you use an image from there, remember without the sponsors, we wouldn''t have these challenges. Then join the fun by following the sketch your way and entering it here.


Parting thought:
     "Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew."     
                                                                     Cicely Tyson