Crafting Vicky

Well Christmas is at our door!!!  And that meant that I really really had to finish off my calendar in order to be able to mail it out as a gift and have it there in time!  I'm very lucky the great Art by Mi Ran image came to the rescue for the month that I still had to finish! For this make I decided to play with the adorable  Sophia . I used the theme of the month which was use gold or Silver.  In my case I used some gold with the washi tape border.  I also colored the butterfly in a yellow gold color.  I colored my image using some copics and then I fussy cut her out. To make this I used some paints, I also played with scraps napkins as well as papers :)  The calendar was found here . I'm entering this little mixed media calendar in the following challenges: Clear it out challenge  - anything goes - I used scraps of papers and paint from my stash :)  I'm also using some cereal box cardboard as the back so recy...

I'm really happy tonight.  I found something else to inspire me.  Heavy metal ;)  I found a few challenges that required metal use. That's much different from my other cards that were all about spring, easter...   I went all out with little Sophia from Kraftin Kimmie.  I paper pieced the dress so that I could use glitter paper for her.  I used some metal brads to hold the sentiment and some metallic corners at the top.  I also used paper with metallic accents so that it would really be "heavy metal" lol I used this sketch to make it: I'm entering this card in the following challenges: Crazy 4 challenges  - Sketch Tsg clear stamps  - metal embellishments Kraftin kimmie stamps  - Heavy metal Catered crop  - use brads Paper take weekly  - Anything goes That's it!  I just looove looking at all those blogs with the amazing challenges.  The DT do such a tremendous job on the card that it is quite an inspi...