Happy Birthday Shanna!

Hey!! 
Popping in again to share another card, and no it's not a Halloween card. (hehehe)  Before I do, would Karen & Denice please email me (quikhonu34(at)yahoo(dot)com) your snail mail?  I'm sending you both a "treat" for playing along with my LFF #43 fun.

Now on to the birthday card...  My cousin Shanna celebrated her birthday last week and since my mom was going for a visit I sent it with her.  I wish it was me delivering the card to her as I've missed her a lot.  She text messaged me on Saturday and told me she loved it.  So now, I'm going to share it with you all.

I used the beautiful Analinda from Crafts & Me for this card.  She reminded me of Shanna.  I used Copics to color her.  Kept the layout of the card pretty simple leaving all the focus on the image.  I added clouds to the backdrop behind her and love how they come through on her wings.  It's been fun getting to color images that I've had for a while and put them on a card.

Wishing I was there to celebrate with her, but knowing that she liked the card is just as good.  Thanks again for stopping by.  Have a wonderful day!!

Challenges: Crafts & Me - Fantasy Creatures

Hugs,
Leanne

Friendships - Flutter By Wednesday #179

Good morning everyone! 
Brrrr!!!  It's been so cold the past couple of nights, and as I write this up, my poor hands are freezing!!  I think I've got about 3 layers of clothing on, and in a sec I'm about to grab a blanket, but I can't type with gloves on so I'll have to stop every so often and blow hot air on to my fingers..   hahaha, sorry just had to share that little tidbit with ya!  hahaha
Soooo, guess who was asked by a certain lovely Flutter By Wednesday coordinator to be a guest designer?  Yep, that would be me.  :)  I was really touched that the lovely and talented Danni Bindel, asked me to participate.  I am so excited to share with you my card for this week's Flutter By Wednesday challenge #179!  This week's challenge is to create a project dedicated to Friendships.  If you are not familiar with the rules here they are:

•Challenge this week is to create using the theme~ Friendship along with your butterfly, fairy or angel
•Once you've created your NEW creation, please leave a direct link using the InLinkz button on the FBW #179 post.
•Danni reserves the right to remove any links not linked properly or that she deems inappropriate!
•Enter your link before midnight (PST) next Tuesday, November 15th, 2011.
•Have fun

Pretty simple & fun yeah?  I think everyone has a card or project in mind for this fun challenge.  And if you need some wonderful inspiration, head on over to the Flutter By Wednesday blog and check out what the design team has for you.  They will surely have some wonderfully fluttery friendship inspirations for ya!  I hope you can join us this week.

Now here's my card featuring a Sara Burrier digital image, Lady of Opal, that I purchased from Crafts & Me.  Fell in love with this image and was so happy to finally get to color her up.  Since it's Fall , I decided to go with fall-like colors.  The layout is super CAS as I just wanted to showcase the image with a few accents here and there. 

Isn't she a lovely image?  I love her elf-like features and the beautiful details in her wings.  I had a blast coloring her up with Copics.  I hope you can see the glittery parts.  The leaf is a punch colored with Copics and the sentiment is an AmyR stamp.  Used a combination of Tea Dye and Wild Honey Distress inks for the background.  I thought she would look lovely surrounded by light and I thought I did a pretty good job of showcasing that. The ribbon softened up the card which I was hoping it would do. 

Okie dokie, I hope you enjoyed my card I made for this week's Flutter By Wednesday challenge #179.  I am so honored to be a part of the team this week and want to Thank Danni for asking me to join this lovely and talented group of artists.  Thank you Danni!!

Have a wonderful 1/2 way to Friday day!  Mahalo for stopping by!

Hugs,
Leanne

A Sweet 16 Masquerade

Hey everyone!

I made it back from visiting my sister and my cousins with my mom without any incidents and traffic was pretty non-existant.  I had a chance to go shopping at the Super Joann's and Michaels.  Picked up some punches and some other crafty items that were on sale with some additional off with some coupons.  I missed one of the new stores in the area, Holly Lobby, which might have been a good thing.  Didn't think I could spend any more.  hahaha! 

Natalie from Crafts & Me

So besides going up to visit my sister, my mom & I went there to attend my sister's future stepdaughter's Sweet 16 Masquerade party.  Her name is Selena and she wanted a masquerade theme which I thought was a fun idea.  Not many of those now-a-days.  I wanted to make a card that would be fun, yet a little bit sophisticated for her.  I remembered seeing this wonderful image of a lady with a mask.  I finally tracked it down at Crafts & Me.  Her name is Natalie and she's so pretty! 

Selena's colors were purple, turquoise, black and gold.  I tried to color Natalie using the same colors.  This was a very detailed image and took me a while to color her up.  I still need lots of practice, but that's good, because there is some truth in "practice makes perfect."  :)  So instead of using gold I chose to go with silver,  I thought it worked better than the gold.  This is mostly colored with Copics and since the image was the main focus I didn't do any other embellishments except for the beautiful border around the card which reminded me of the peacock feathers.

I love how she turned out.  I especially love the background I created around her.  It actually looks like a protrait.  I was so excited once it was done.  I also love how the card is framed with-in the beautiful border around the card.  That is a punch around from MS.  First time making a card like this, I know I will be making a few more like this as I now know the dimensions.  You can't really see the glitter, but I used the clear Sakura gel pen to outline parts of the image.  Here's a better angle

This image was something new for me, and lately CAS seems to be my name.  I think Natalie can hold her own on any card, so that's why only the dramatic border was all I added.  hahaha.  I'm so pleased with how it turned out!  YAY!  I also purchased a couple other images from Crafts and Me, can't wait to color them up.

Mahalo for stopping by today.  Don't forget to link up with my candy, ends on Sunday with the winners chosen randomly and announced on Monday.  For details click on the link on the right side bar at the top of my page.  Have a great Tuesday, and I hope you get to play with some crafty things.  :)

Hugs,