Magic Mike Merman

I am in love with this card! This is Merman Kody from the Some Odd Girl digi line. He was all abs and saucy smirks and I knew I had to color him! I loved the gills and the fin areas on his arm and I wanted to play off of that and give him some scale patterns all over.

You can't really see it in the picture (Frustrating) but all the papers are super iridescent, which I thought fit the underwater theme pretty well, like sunlight on a bubble or a shimmering seashell. I tried to continue that reflective quality in the trident against his scales. I drew out both wave patterns and cut them on my Zing. (Best birthday gift EVER! My Husband just GETS me!)

The little guy to the right and the sentiment are from the Some Odd Girl Under the Sea Mae clear stamp collection.

Copics Used:
Skin: E00, E01, E04, E11, E97
Hair & Tail: BG70, BG72 BG75, BG78, BG53 & BG57
Seahorse: YR65, YR68, YR16, YR18

Some Odd Birthday Card

I've been in a bit of a design slump lately, and then to top it off, I managed to get my annual hit of strep throat (Boo) which made it even harder for me to drag myself into the studio. To kind of ease back into things, I took the advise of some of the Oddies over at the Some Odd Girl Ning and did a little reorganizing of my space and the ever growing amount of papers and bits and bobs. I also started thinking about what birthdays I have coming up and I remembered this awesome Ustream I watched where Kristi colored Big Wishes Mae by using a birthday candle as the only light source....and BLAM! I had a project. *Cheers*

Copic Colors Used:
Skin: E000, E00, E11, E04, RV95, R12
Hair: E21, E32, E25, E27, V99, YR30, YR31
Cake: RV52, RV63, RV66, BG75, BG23
Clothes: BG75, BG78
Light Colors: YR30, YR31
Shadow Colors: BV20, BV23, BV25, BV29

The trick was to make everything close to the candle super highlighted and to darken everything from there. I like how she turned out.

If I had it to do over, I think I'd go back over the outside area with the chisel edge again.

 Here is the finished card! I used new Fancy Pants Trendsetter papers (I love all their new paper sets!) and some really fun Webster's Pages trim.

It's going to be a fun birthday card for my boss at work. I think the quote on it is perfect. 'A girl should be two things: Classy & Fabulous!' is just perfect for her.

A Smokin' Hot Thank You

Hi there. If you follow me on Facebook, then you know that since the first of the year I've been taking classes at The Bar Method. (Everyone thinks that sounds like a fun fitness class, but I assure you, it's not that kind of bar) It's actually this fantastic ballet based fitness class that sculpts and tones and elongates. It's been kind of incredible for me. I've lost 3 sizes so far, and I've only been at it since January.

So, I decided that the awesome instructors there needed a Thank You card since for the first time in several years, I didn't feel like crying when shopping for a bikini. I used Saturated Canary's Smokin' Hot for this one. She was super fun to color.

Copics
Skin: E00, E01, E11, E04, R20 & E97
Hair: Y21, YR12, YR14, E15 & E 18
Swimsuit: B93, B95, B99

The Mother of all cards

I actually made this one a few weeks ago, but only just decided to post it up here. There are a few techniques I've been shying away from, and I finally broke down and conquered one of them.

Coloring in Black & White.

For my own inner challenge, I chose Umbrella Gwen from Some Odd Girl.

She seemed rather appropriate to color using only grey Copics. I used the Warm Grays, because that's the tone that matched my paper scheme best. and I used Y08, Y18 & Y19 for the pop of color for her umbrella.

Did I mention I'd just recently watched the season finale of How I Met Your Mother? *Giggles* I love that show and getting to finally catch a glimpse of the Mother we'd been waiting like a bajillion years to meet was my small inspiration for this card.

Happy 4th 'Murica!

In celebration of July 4th, have this sweet card with a Saturated Canary Bikini's & Burgers image. I thought it was appropriate!

Now, I'm off to find a juicy burger of my own!!

Dare to BEE

This was my first foray into paper piecing. I used Dare to be Gwen from the recent Some Odd Girl release and Bo Bunny papers.

I need to figure out how to do a little Copic blending without smearing the ink from the stamp.

The bee theme was kind of accidental, but I like it. 

Copics used:
Skin: E00, E01, E97, E11, E04
Hair: E97, E99, E39, E59 & E21
Skirt Trim/Shoes: BG53 & BG57

Music Mae

Another from the Some Odd Girl's recent clear stamp release was Music Mae. They'd teased it on the blog what seemed like ages ago and I'd been biding my time, coveting the whole set. When they finally arrived online, I couldn't even wait for the full blog release. I just had to have them.

I used papers from the Echo Park: Here and Now collection and the Hello Summer collection, some of which I got through my SP Monthly Kit Club for May.

It was done, in part, to play around with a funky hair color for the Some Odd Girl Ning challenge.

Copics:
Skin: E000, E01, E04, E11, R20
Hair: R20, R22, R24, R29, R46 & R59
Clothes: BG32, BG34 & BG57

I just want to pinch her freckled cheeks, don't you?