Happy Amelia calendar & some winners!

Hello and Happy Sunday!

Today I have a happy calendar to share.  Hopefully it will make you smile...

Featuring another Amelia stamped image from the Greeting Farm (OA -Summer Fun), a Heidi Swapp die-cut word, and some fun washi paper this calendar was a whole lot of fun to put together.  The koi washi paper was gifted to me from my cousin SharGD (thanks Maine!) and I thought it would make the cutest back drop for this sweet summer fun Amelia.  After coloring her with Copics and fun cutting her with a white border I glued her down flat to make it seem like she's wading in the water and the fish are nibbling at her toes.  I cut out a few extra fish and positioned them around her feet.  She's giggling because they are tickling her toes.  (hahaha)

CANDY TIME!!!!

Here are the winners of my 1000th post candy giveaway: Linda, Kathi, & Karen I.
Congrats ladies and thanks for participating in my candy giveaway.  Send me an email with your snail mail so I can get your goodies in the mail next week.  I would love it if Truddabells and Colleen K also emailed me, I have a little something for both of you for participating.  Thanks again to all of you who left me a comment, it's not every day that you reach such a milestone.  Here's to 1000 more! :)

Amelia (OA - Summer Fun)

Now I'm off to UCLA to be a spectator and cheerleader at the Special Olympics World Games volleyball venue.  Woo Hoo!  Hoping to have some pictures to share with you all as well as some stories.  Thanks for stopping by, have a wonderful happy Sunday!!

Koi Fish Card for Lisa

Hello!

Hope you all had a nice weekend.  I certainly did.  Saturday was my friend's, Lisa, birthday party.  She turned the big 4-0 a few days before and we were getting together to celebrate.  She told me that the theme would be fish and lots of flowers, hibiscus, plumerias, etc...  So I told her that I would make her a birthday card with fish and boy did I ever!!  Here's the card featuring 3 separate dies.

I know! It's so busy yea? hahaha!!  Well once I started I really couldn't stop!  I made this in to a shaker card and boy it was not easy!  (sigh)  First up I used a Memory Box Clever Koi die and cut out 8 of the fishes.  There is a lot of cool details once you cut the fish out.  I googled koi fish images because I wanted to color them up as close to the real ones as possible.  Using several different Copics I had a fish party.  I think I did a pretty good job, what do you think?

I don't know which one is my favorite... Possibly the orange with the black dots and the gray fins.  I had a blast coloring these up.  Using mostly the stippling technique.  I chose to use the same background stamp I used on this card, for the background on today's card.  Inked the stamp up with both brown corduroy and peeled paint because all koi live in dirty water. (eww right?!) I left a 1/4" white border around the whole piece.  

Next, I positioned 6 of the koi randomly, as if they were swimming in their own little pond.

I just realized that I adhered the top part upside down! hahaha! Oh well it's so busy you can't really tell.  I used a Swirls cutting plate from Taylored Expressions.  I used the same background stamp and inks to ink up the swirls piece.  I cut a piece of acetate to fit the cover and added the dimensional adhesive all the way around the border.  So that it wouldn't collapse on the inside I added some pieces of dimensional tape underneath parts of the thicker swirls.  Next I poured in bitty beads in turquoise, green, copper and clear then closed up the last part.  The last two koi went on top of the card.  I added them to the corners along with some cherry blossom flowers from La-La Land Crafts to the corners and underneath the koi.  Colored them with Distress inks (worn lipstick and mustard seed) and added Hero Arts flower gems to some of them for some bling.  The sentiment is a laser die from Island Scrapbooking which I colored with Copic YR09.  Down below is the koi fish I really liked and you can see the beads...

Here's a close up of the top part of the card where I added more of the cherry blossoms and the last gold koi fish.

Can you see the details on the koi and the cherry blossoms?  These are really great dies, that give awesome details. I'm pretty sure I'll be using all the dies on this card again and again... And with that I'll stop.  Whew! I appreciate if you read all the way through, thanks.  I hope you enjoyed it.  Thanks for stopping by, have a great week!!