Milk Coffee's Monochromatic.

Good evening, peeps!

Or if you are on the other side of the world from me, good morning! :)

It's time for another Milk Coffee Challenge. This time it's all about Monochromatic!

I chose differing shades of brown, but you can see that there are tones of gray and black as well. Let's just say the brown part is still there, hee hee!!

I loved playing with all the burlap components here too. The textures they consist of are eye-catching, don't ya think? For the image, I used up a birthday freebie from a while back. Sorry, I tried finding the link of her but I couldn't locate it. Don't you just love how Milk Coffee gives out freebies?! They're terrific!!

I hope you all play along for the next two weeks. Remember that you can use any stamped image. But only enter up to three times! Please the MC Blog for the other DT's creations!!



Toot-a-loo!!

Hats and Sherbet.

Hi all! And good evening!

I've made this pretty colorful card featuring Time for Tea Designs' Super Cute Hat digi. She is super cute and flirty! I love her clothes and her stance.

We are very lucky to live in Cali, but I'm getting sort of tired of the dreary surroundings. I was inspired by the upcoming Spring and sherbet and so decided to make this a colorful card!!

And, of course, what better way to finish off this card than by using a whimsical sentiment. Suzy Plantamura's stamps are a new fave! This one is from Celebrate Life.

Jo from T4TD just showed the DT the new releases and trust me, they're going to make you swooooooon~!



See you later, alligators!!!

FFF's Bling.

Good Friday morning, everyone!!

Today, I'm playing along with this week's The Greeting Farm's Farm Fresh Friday. It's all about Bling!

It's quite hard to "bling it on" when you're going for a mostly masculine card, so I went for the more subtle embellishments that are not quite as shiny. I still added in the sparkly stars DP and reflective stickers to enter the challenge though.

This card was made for my son's Taek Won Do masters! I'm quite embarrassed at how I messed up coloring in the faces of Karate Anya and Karate Ian. But I am a full-time working mama of two, and I don't like wasting colored images, LOL!

Have a great weekend, folks! I will be working so I hope it goes by fast :).

Challenge 29 at Yumi and Fumi Handmade!

Good Sunday morning to ya!!

The Holidays are over and it's time to get back to "real life." Which doesn't necessarily mean bad things. In fact, it's back to our DT work over at Yumi and Fumi Handmade, and boy, we've got lots of inspiration for you!! Y&FH want all of us to "ease" in into 2014 so how about an Anything Goes Challenge for Challenge 29?? Don't you just love that Aloha spirit/ laid back vibe? Tee hee!!

For my Anything Challenge, I've colored up Winter Yumi. She is so cute in her little puffy jacket, leggings, and hat! I colored her up a while back, and when I was looking for paper, I came across these lovelies that dear Renate has sent me. (For those of you who don't know, she's "Yumi" of Yumi and Fumi Handmade, and she sent each of the DT members a Holiday Gift pack filled with lots of goodies!! Thank you, Ren!). It just so happens that they are Valentine-themed but this was an accident because V-day is the farthest thing on my mind! I still have our Christmas tree up, hehe!!

The sentiment stamp is again from the talented Suzy Plantamura, and her Sunny Day Doodles stamp set is sold by MFT. I think her stamps are perfect for Y&FH...they are both so adorable!




I added some washi, some rose pins, and vintage circular/ flat beads I bought at the Rubber Stamp fair a month ago in Newark, California. And voila!

Please visit the Y&FH blog for more inspiration and rules. Renate makes the best graphic icons for the winners.. be sure to play along!!

Love ya!

Celebrate!

Happy 2014 to you all!!!

For the Milk Coffee Celebration Challenge, you can make a creation using a New Year's theme, a birthday theme, a card for a new baby.... basically any celebration counts!

I decided to use the freebie shown here. They are Javanese Dancers from Indonesia, and what better way to show a celebration than to dance and wear festive clothing?! I also enjoy working with ethnic images so this was perfect!



To decide on colors, I googled Indonesian dancers and found bright outfits. I also added gold by using this special Sharpie marker -- that crown on her is drawn! :)



Now y'all know that I am super bad at using sentiments on my cards. But I really love Suzy Plantamura's Sunny Day Doodles stamp from MFT. Her designs are so whimsical and fun, and the fact that I can color them in with Copics??? Ah...YES, PLEASE!!!

I used her stamp "Celebrate Life" up there, which is part of the set. I colored it in with the same colors as the dancers' costumes to tie in with the card's theme.

The background vellum paper is once again from Tina Azmus Holiday pack. Love it!!

Now, go on over to Milk Coffee to learn more about the challenge and see more inspo from the other DT!

Hope you all have wonderful celebrations!!