"Meermin the Mermaid" - a card for Rick St Dennis EDT!

Howzit Everyone!
It's my turn to share some Rick St Dennis EDT inspiration over on our Facebook group, Rick St. Dennis Digi Fans and Friends.

This image called Meermin is a colouring page from Rick St Dennis' latest colouring book, Little Loves, and it's available on Amazon!  If you enjoy colouring just for the fun of colouring then you'll want to check out all the Rick St Dennis colouring books available now too.  However, if you love colouring but colouring books just aren't your thing then think about taking coloured pages a step further and make something with them like cards for example which is what I did for today's share!

  I coloured this little cutie-pie with Copics as well as the background and created watery effects with a light shade of blue and the colourless blender pen.  When I cut the sides to make the card front I trimmed it so that her curls and tail peek out over the edges a bit for just a touch of extra interest.  I then applied Stormy Distress Ink with a foam ink applicator around all four sides to further enhance the impression that she's surrounded by water.

The "sea weed" on the right side I made from cutting blue cardstock extremely thinly on my paper cutter.  I love doing this, I never tire of the fun spirals the cuts create.  The 3 pieces where then stitched onto the card front with a variegated fiber which I then looped and incorporated into my ocean bouquet and completed with a starfish.  I'm currently on vacation and didn't have time to add the extra details I wanted to include before this project was due to share so I will be adding Viva Pearl Magic Transparent White dimensional drops to each pearl on her necklace and Wink of Stella clear to her fins for a subtle touch of shimmer and will share the completed card soon.

The "stitching" bit I added coz our Facebook Challenge for April is "You had me in Stitches" and we challenge you to incorporate stitching into your projects whether they be real or faux so come and join the fun!

Thanks for stopping by to see my project and I hope I've inspired you to come and play us!

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * Rick St Dennis EDT * Forever Dark *

"Spring Fever in Wonderland" - Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Spring Event!

Howzit Everyone!
YAY...Spring is finally here...for some of us anyway, I hope everyone still getting bombarded with snow is hanging in there!  We're celebrating Spring and the upcoming appearance of the Easter Bunny with a Flora and Fluffy Tails event over at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity today, come and join the fun and enter your Flower and/or Bunny themed projects by midnight PST on April 3rd!

  We have lots of flower themed stamps available including our newest ones over on our New Images page at Lost Coast Designs!  You are welcome to use stamps from ANY company on your projects but if you use any of our Lost Coast Designs and/or Carmen's Veranda stamps then your entry will be counted twice in the prize drawing for a

$15 spending spree at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda

Here's my project for the event, a Wonderlandian themed card using Lost Coast Designs stamps
 Doodle Flowers, Rabbit, Cat Face, Hatter, Rabbit with Watch set, Franco Face and Rustic Alphabet set

The Queen of Hearts has Spring Fever with flowers and bunnies on the brain ;0)
I stamped the Franco Face twice with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and used one as the base and the 2nd for the 'brain' stamping.  I stamped the bunnies 1st with black Memento, masked with Pebeo Drawing Gum and then stamped the Doodle Flowers.  Everything was coloured with Prismacolor pencils and then the 'brain' area was fussy cut out and layered on top of the base for a touch of dimension.  I wanted a Tim Burton-esque Queen of Hearts so I drew a heart on her lips, gave her blue eyeshadow and a jeweled sticker heart instead of a beauty spot.

For the floral background I inked up the Doodle Flowers stamp with Dandelion, Cantaloupe and Potter's Clay Memento ink, fussy cut out leaving a narrow border and layered that onto a sheet of black cardstock embossed with a bubbles Cuttlebug embossing folder.  The embossing folder was used twice to create the size I needed.  The corners are punched with a Marvy decorative corner punch.  The words "Spring Fever" were stamped with Lady Bug Memento ink, cut out and edged with black Sharpie and the card completed with a blue satin ribbon and bow.  Everything was adhered and mounted onto a folded card made from white cardstock with Scotch Quick Dry adhesive.

Thank you for stopping by to see my project and I hope I've inspired you to come and play in our Flora and Fluffy Tails event over at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity!

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * Rick St Dennis EDT * Forever Dark *

Chinese Steampunk Dragon - Rick St Dennis EDT project

Howzit Everyone!
Today I'm sharing a digital painting project for the Rick St Dennis EDT.  I love Steampunk and I love Dragons so I thoroughly enjoyed creating this Chinese Steampunk Dragon with a vintage burnt parchment feel as inspiration for our current Facebook group challenge - Metal Magic.

click to enlarge the photo

This entire project was painted on my iPad with a stylus using the art application called Paper 53.
A Clockwork Dragon for Monique is available in the Rick St Dennis Zibbet store.

Thanks for visiting with me today!

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * Rick St Dennis EDT * Forever Dark *

Lost Coast Designs DT Blog Hop - We're not in Kansas anymore!

Howzit Everyone!

If you arrived here from Lost Coast Portal to Creativity then welcome, you've made it safely to the first stop on your wild adventure!  If you came here first then here's the scoop...we're not in Kansas anymore!

Today we, the Lost Coast Designs DT, are having a Wizard of Oz themed blog hop!  The Tornado to the Emerald City will pass by again in about 20 minutes so you've got time to catch your breath and check out my projects ;0)  Then visit my fellow teamies blogs for more wicked cool traditional and non-conventional Oz inspiration!  Return to the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Blog by hitching a ride with a flying monkey...if you have the courage...and link up your own Wizard of Oz projects in the linky by midnight PST on March 19, click HERE for more info on how to play! 
 

Your entries can feature traditional Oz imagery from any stamp company or you can think waaaaay outside the box and make non-Oz images work too!  The LCDesigners have both kinds to give your brains lots of ideas!  Put your heart into it and have lots of fun ;0)  But keep a look out for Wicked Witches, they're known to lurk around so take a friend, or 3, along for the wild adventure!  The blog roll is below my projects.

Lost Coast Designs has a wonderful set of cartoon Oz characters and Carmen's Veranda has a vintage style set right out of the original movie plus 2 fun background stamps as well as a bunch of monkey images too.  If you use any of our stamps, remember you don't have to have Oz specific stamps to play, then your entry will count as 2 in the prize drawing for a $15 spending spree at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda!

 I'm sharing 5 tags today featuring the following stamps:
Carmen's Veranda Wizard of Oz characters
Carmen's Veranda Flying Monkeys background
Lost Coast Designs large Cityscape

I'll be doing a tutorial in April over on the Lost Coast Review DT blog where I'll explain in more detail how I created the tag backgrounds so for now here's a summary of what I did and used.
All the Oz characters were stamped on Neenah solar white cardstock with black Memento ink, coloured with a combination of Copic markers and Prismacolor pencils and fussy cut out.  I randomly embossed the 5 manila shipping tags with a Darice Brick Wall embossing folder and created my "yellow brick road" by applying Scattered Straw and Mustard Seed Distress Inks directly with touches of yellow Marvy Le Plume alcohol marker added for some details.  I then used Nuance powders in 2 shades of green on the other side of the tags (now sold by Lost Coast Designs).  The powders were randomly sprinkled and then spritzed with water to create the fun effects.  The flying monkeys were stamped with black Memento ink and the Emerald City "cityscape" was stamped with Peeled Paint Distress Ink.  Red glitter glue was applied to all the tags around the edges as well as Dorothy's ruby slippers.  The characters were then adhered with Scotch Quick Dry adhesive and the text "We Are Not In Kansas Any More" was punched out on my vintage Dymo label maker in red tape and spread out among all 5 tags.  I completed my tags with raffia to represent the Scarecrow's straw.  I had a blast making these and I hope you've enjoyed seeing them ;0)

Here's Dorothy with Toto...I just happened to find the little yellow doggie in my crafty stash LOL!
Below is a closer look at her ruby slippers.

Here comes the Tornado, get ready, GO!  Your next stop is Granne!

An InLinkz Link-up

Happy Hopping and have a great weekend!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * Rick St Dennis EDT * Forever Dark *

Steampunk Seahorse ATC - Rick St Dennis EDT!

Howzit Everyone!
Today I'm sharing a Rick St Dennis EDT project, a Steampunk Seahorse ATC.  The Seahorse is actually a partial of the gorgeous digi stamp called Atlantis especially for Miranda and it's currently on sale!  Our new Facebook group challenge for March is Metal Magic so of course I couldn't resist creating with a Steampunk theme.  

 I started out by deciding on how much of the Steampunk Seahorse I wanted to see and then sized the image to ATC size, which is 2.5"x3.5", in Photoshop CS6 and printed it out onto Neenah solar white cardstock.  The entire ATC is coloured with Copic markers and I began by scribbling 3 shades of cool grey Copics and then randomly dripping Ranger Alcohol Ink Solution on the background area to create the fun watery effect.

The Seahorse is coloured with various warm greys, cool greys and yellows to achieve the various metal looks and then enchanced with metallic silver and gold gel pens.  The water background was also enhanced with 2 shades of blue-green Copics and metallic blue Promarker.  I tried to capture the metallic shimmer in the photo below.  I completed my ATC with simple punched corners (Marvy punch) and edged with the metallic blue Promarker.

Thanks for visiting with me today!
Happy Stamping and have a fabulous weekend!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * Rick St Dennis EDT * Forever Dark *

Lilleth and the Lillies - 3D paper art!

Howzit Everyone!
It's time for our new challenge over at Forever Dark...sadly March is the last one due to entry participation not being what we had hoped for :0(  
Thank you to all the wonderful sponsors and to all the fans that did support us, we enjoyed creating with your digi stamps and appreciated all the fabulous dark art you shared with us!

I now have 3 new Facebook Groups that you might like to come and join and I may start up a dark art challenge blog in the future, I'll see how things go!

DREADPUNK - For Fans of Gothic Art and Design!
EVERYTHING-PUNK! For Artistic Fans of all the Era Inspired Subcultures!
Which covers everything from Steampunk to "insert-cool-historical-period-or-innovative-concept-here-punk"!
EGYPT - Share your Egyptian Inspired Art & Design!

Now for my inspiration project for Forever Dark!  March is Anything Goes and the side theme was to be Sinister Easter but coz it's our last challenge the theme was dropped.

Our fabulous sponsor this month is

Lilleth and the Lillies

I had an absolute blast creating this piece and I'm very pleased with how she turned out.  I made a paper art project that is approximately 8 x 10 inches in size.  Her hair consists of a 3 layer cascade of fussy cut curls and the flowers consist of 1-3 layers of fussy cut and curled dimensional layers too.  The full image is matted onto colour coordinating cardstock and then onto black, the mats were cut with my Perfect Paper Layers tools. 

I printed Lilleth and Lillies out onto Neenah solar white cardstock and coloured her with Copic markers and highlights added with a white gel pen once the entire piece was completed.  I scanned the coloured image into Photoshop CS6 and printed her out 3 times.  I selected all the elements I wanted to layer and fussy cut out all the pieces which were then curled and adhered in place with a combination of Scotch Quick Dry adhesive and black pop dots. 

In the photo above you can see all the glorious curls!

 The collage photo above shows all the other layered areas - the 3 large Stargazer lillies, the bottom left Calla lilly and the floral-pearl  hair decoration piece.

Thank you for stopping by!
 
Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * Rick St Dennis EDT * Forever Dark *

Monster Egg Hunt - Easter Contest Rick St Dennis FB Group!

Howzit Everyone!
We're currently hosting an Easter Contest over at the Rick St Dennis Digi Fans and Friends Facebook group.

Here's my project for the contest which had to have the following criteria:
Use a none Easter Rick St Dennis image - check
Include a hidden pocket or compartment - check
Use 3 embellies - check
Include a famous quote - check
Mission accomplished!

MONSTER EGG HUNT!

 Nightflyer the Succubus was hexited to find her Easter Eggs!

She was even more eggstatic with her surprise critter...I made the monster version of Kinder Eggs with a surprise inside ;0)  The Easter Eggs form a pocket and the little critter tucks inside.  All digi images are by Rick St Dennis except the Easter Eggs which I drew myself.

Nightflyer the Succubus
Snake in the Grass
the Venus Flytrap you'll have to ask Rick about!

 

All the images were printed out onto Neenah solar white cardstock and coloured with Copics.  For a touch of magical sparkle and dimension I embellished the flowers, eggs and the critter with a Viva Pearl Magic Transparent White pen which is a dimensional gel with a pearlescent shimmer.  The succubus was printed on her own so I could make the folded card and she was then masked with liquid mask so I could add the background.  I just played and randomly applied Peeled Paint and Tumbled Glass Distress Ink with a foam applicator and a touch of Memento Tangelo applied directly.  I hand drew the Easter Eggs, added "landscaping", handwrote the quote and drew the lines around the card with a black Copic fine liner.  The flowers, eggs and critter were all fussy cut out and adhered with Scotch Quick Dry adhesive.  I finished my card with the fancy fibers and two paper flowers, one of them was attached with a yellow brad and embellished with a little pink jewel heart.

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * Rick St Dennis EDT * Forever Dark *

Queen of Hearts February Calendar Page - Rick St Dennis EDT!

Hello Everyone!
Today I'm sharing a February wall calendar page with a pocket I made for the Rick St Dennis EDT.
This stunning Queen of Hearts design is by Rick St Dennis Mfa and is a freebie colouring page available for download in our Rick St Dennis Digi Fans and Friends Facebook group!

I started out by colouring her with a stylus in my fave art app called Paper 53 for iPad and I'm very pleased with how she turned out!


Click on my photos for a closer look.

Every year I get a wall calendar with the handy pocket but I missed out on getting one for 2016 so I decided to make my own page for each month and this is my page for February!

I got a freebie desk calendar I decided to cut up so the size of the calendar determined the size of the monthly pages I'll be making.  I printed out my coloured image and matted her and the calendar onto black and red cardstock using my Perfect Paper Layers tools.  For the pocket I enlarged one of the rose trees.  I made the pocket out of black cardstock and used a circle punch to cut out the notch in the front.  All the pieces where then adhered to black cardstock to create the calendar page.

Thanks for visiting with me today!
Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * Rick St Dennis EDT * Forever Dark *

Crazy Queen of Hearts - 2 cards for Rick St Dennis EDT!

Howzit Everyone!
I'm back today to share 2 cards I made as EDT inspiration for the February challenge over on our Rick St Dennis Fans and Friends Facebook group!  The theme this month is Hearts or Arrows (or both).  Come and join the fun, the challenge post is pinned at the top of the wall! 

This gorgeous lady is The Crazy Queen of Hearts digi stamp and she's available in the Rick St Dennis Zibbet store HERE!

 You know I'm a huge Alice in Wonderland fan so I had an absolute blast colouring her in my favourite iPad art app, Paper 53, with a Sensu stylus even though it took me like 10 hours to complete her.  I'm thrilled with how she turned out so the time spent was totally worth it ;0)
Click on the photos to enlarge them for a better look at all the details.

 Once complete I moved over to Photoshop CS6 and designed my cards.  I decided to make clean and simple cards (CAS) because I wanted the image to be the sole focus and of course the senti is Valentine and AIW inspired.  I added the sentiments and the red frames and printed them out onto white cardstock, trimmed and adhered them to folded cards made from black cardstock.

Thank you for visiting with me today and have a fabulous Valentine's Weekend!

Challenges entered
Dream in Darkness #10 - always anything goes!
Ike's Art Challenges #56 - Love Actually

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Rick St Dennis EDT * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * Forever Dark * Altered Eclectic Challenges *About Art Accents

"Let Love Fly" ATC - Valentine's Week project #3!

Howzit Everyone!

We are counting down to Valentine's Day with a week of LOVE and sharing over at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity!  Stop by daily for fabulous Valentine inspired projects by my fellow LCDesigners! 

Would you like the chance to win a $10 shopping spree at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda?  We'd love to know what you love about our rubber stamps and what you think of our activities at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity so write us a little review on your blogs and include some of your past or new projects featuring our stamps.  Then share your review with us via the link-up on the Day one post HERE!  

Now for my 3rd project made for the event!

"Let Love Fly" ATC

 Featuring Lost Coast Designs Cracked Chicken, Grunge Border 2", Hearts and Curls border, Hearts border, "Love and Fly" from the Misc Words set and "Let" is handwritten.
 

I started out by applying Fired Brick and Shaded Lilac Distress Inks to white cardstock with foam applicators, cut out the ATC and then stamped the Hearts border and Grunge Border in Fired Brick, making sure the Heart was prominen.  I then stamped the Hearts and Curls border 4 times along the bottom edge of the ATC in Shaded Lilac DI.  The "Love and Fly" text was stamped with black Versafine onto a piece of scrap background and I handwrote the "Let" word to match the others with a black Micron pen.  The Cracked Chicken was stamped in black Versafine Ink and I coloured him, the text blocks and the background heart with PrismaColor pencils and included some metallic gold details.  The Cracked Chicken was fussy cut out and adhered to the ATC with pop dots.  For yummy dimension and sparkle I applied Vive Pearl Magic Transparent White pen to the chicken and all the hearts.

Stop by again tomorrow for my 4th project and I hope I've inspired you to pop over to the Portal and join us for Valentine's Week!

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Rick St Dennis EDT * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * Forever Dark * Altered Eclectic Challenges *About Art Accents

"Love Adventure" Wonderland ATC - Valentine's Week project #2!

Howzit Everyone!

We are counting down to Valentine's Day with a week of LOVE and sharing over at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity!  Stop by daily for fabulous Valentine inspired projects by my fellow LCDesigners! 

Would you like the chance to win a $10 shopping spree at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda?  We'd love to know what you love about our rubber stamps and what you think of our activities at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity so write us a little review on your blogs and include some of your past or new projects featuring our stamps.  Then share your review with us via the link-up on the Day one post HERE!  

Yesterday I shared the first of my 4 projects and now here's my 2nd, a Wonderland inspired ATC!

"Love Adventure" Wonderland ATC

Featuring Lost Coast Designs White Rabbit - Rabbits, Cat Face, Hatter, Grunge Border 2", Love Dictionary, Hearts and Curls border, Hearts border, Heart Diamond Spade Club border and "Adventure" Misc Words set.

I started out by applying Fired Brick and Shaded Lilac Distress Inks to white cardstock with foam applicators, cut out the ATC and then stamped the Grunge Border in Fired Brick, making sure the Heart was prominent, the Hearts border in Shaded Lilac Distress Ink and the card suites border in black Versafine ink.  The Love Dictionary was also stamped in Fired Brick with a subtle Fired Brick/Shaded Lilac background.  The "Adventure" text was stamped with black Versafine onto a piece of scrap background with a portion of the Dictionary stamp on it, I thought that looked pretty cool.  The White Rabbit was stamped in black Versafine Ink and I coloured him with PrismaColor pencils and included some metallic gold details.  I used the Hearts and Curls border to make the little flag on the left side which was also coloured with PrismaColor pencils and the hearts coloured metallic gold.

Rabbit was fussy cut out and adhered to the ATC with pop dots.  For yummy dimension and sparkle I applied Vive Pearl Magic Transparent White pen to all the metallic gold areas and clear Wink of Stella to the large LOVE, card suits border, the rabbit and the Adventure text.  I completed my Wonderland inspired ATC with a brass clock charm and a tiny white button brad.

Stop by again tomorrow for my 3rd project and I hope I've inspired you to also pop over to the Portal and join us for Valentine's Week!

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Rick St Dennis EDT * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * Forever Dark *

"Love Me Love My Cat" ATC - Valentine's Week at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity!

Howzit Everyone!
We are counting down to Valentine's Day with a week of LOVE and sharing over at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity!  Stop by daily for fabulous Valentine inspired projects by my fellow LCDesigners!

Would you like the chance to win a $10 shopping spree at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda?  We'd love to know what you love about our rubber stamps and what you think of our activities at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity so write us a little review on your blogs and include some of your past or new projects featuring our stamps.  Then share your review with us via the link-up on the Day one post HERE!  Today is Day 2 and its my turn to share, I've got 4 projects to show you :0)

First up
"Love Me Love My Cat" ATC

Featuring Lost Coast Designs stamps - Cracked Party Cat, Grunge Border 2" "Love" Misc Worlds, Love Dictionary, Hearts and Curls border and Hearts border.

I stamped the ATC background with Fired Brick and Shaded Lilac Distress Ink, the "Love" word and the cracked kitty cat in black Memento Ink and coloured with PrismaColor pencils with some metallic gold details.  The words "Me, My and Cat" I handwrote with a black Micron pen.  Kitty was fussy cut out and adhered to the ATC with pop dots.  The words, the dictionary LOVE and the kitty are embellished with Vive Pearl Magic Transparent White pen for lots of yummy dimension and sparkle.

I'm going to share my other projects in separate posts so I hope you'll stop by to see them and also pop over to the Portal and join us for Valentine's Week!

I'm entering this kitty cat over at SUYP for challenge # 3!

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Rick St Dennis EDT * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * Forever Dark *

"Dark Etchings" Domino Book for Rick St Dennis EDT!

Hello Everyone!

I'm super stoked to now be on the fabulous Rick St Dennis Elite Design Team!  Rick's images in both digi and rubber are simply stunning and there's a huge variety of imagery to suit every possible taste!  Check out all the digis in his Zibbet and Etsy stores and some real rubber is available Here!

This is my first EDT post for the Rick St Dennis Fans and Friends Facebook group.  February sees some changes regarding our challenges which you can read about HERE!  We also have 2 fun blogs for more EDT inspiration too:
Airless Chambers and Sparkle and Glitter

 My project today is a Domino Book and is another addition to a series of "Dark Etchings" I've been having fun with for a while now.  I call them 'dark etchnings' because I create monochromatic black and gray pieces that remind me of traditional etched prints.  Previous ones were done with Black Soot Distress Ink on watercolour paper and this one is done with Copics and Sharpie markers.  Check out my other Rick St Dennis ones HERE!

The dominoes are stamped with black StazOn ink and coloured with gray and black Sharpies.  The edges and sides with the dots are coloured solid black.

Here's the pages of the book.  The scene is a compilation of Rick St Dennis "Haunted Places #1" digis coloured with Copics in shades of gray.  Sadly the rubber is no longer available and the digis aren't up in the RSD stores so ask for the digis if you need them but this technique is well suited for lots of the images that are available!  Check out all the digis in the Zibbet and Etsy stores.

UPDATE:

Haunted Places is now available at the RSD Zibbet store here:  https://www.zibbet.com/rick1949/haunted-places-one-digi-sheet

The edges of each page have Black Soot Distress Ink applied and the black background has a metallic silver edging which you can see in the photo below.

Here's the completed Domino Book with a black ribbon tied in a bow, the ribbon has silver wire wrapped around the ends.

 Thank you for visiting with me today!

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Rick St Dennis EDT * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * Forever Dark *

"I've Been to London and Now I'm Queen" Pocket Letter DT project for Lost Coast Designs!

Happy February!
It's time for our new monthly blog challenge over at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity!
February is ATC Pocket Letters!  Google "Pocket Letters" if you haven't a clue, there's loads of photos on the web but we have fab DT projects to share plus a video and more info in the challenge post HERE!

Here's my DT project to inspire you!
 My inspiration for this project is the 80's song Puss 'n Boots by Adam and the Ants!
 I used the chorus for my handwritten text but changed mice to birds!
  

"Pussycat, Pussycat
Where have you Been?
I've been to London and now I'm Queen!
Sitting pretty, I don't wear suits,
and the birds all call me Puss 'n Boots"

I used the following stamps by Lost Coast Designs:

Cat and Bird, More Cats - a set of 3, (Happy Cat is also available as a single),
 Journaling Letter Guide ATC size stamp, Set of Crowns, Doodle Circles,

Cityscape 7" and Lost Coast Designs Journaling Stencil 

I drew up my ATCs (artist trading cards) on white cardstock and started by creating my Union Jack background by masking and applying Distress Inks Fired Brick, Stormy Sky and Tea Dye.  All the imagery was stamped with black Versafine ink except for the Doodle Circles which was stamped with Stormy Sky DI and the ATC sized Journaling Letter Guide was stamped in Fired Brick DI.  All the lettering was handwritten with a black Micron pen and a white gel pen.  I also added some metallic gold detail to all the crowns with a gold gel pen.  All the ATCs were then cut out and inserted into the trading card sleeves.  The sleeves are available online at craft stores, sport memorabilia stores, eBay, etc, but I got mine at my local comic book store.  I finished off my project by making a matching envelope.

I also made a matching envelope

We are accepting 3 variations on the theme for this one:
1.  a 'true' Pocket Letter comprising of 9 ATCs displayed inside the trading card sleeve with oodles of goodies in the pockets
2.  without the additional 'goodies' or
3.  just the 9 ATCs without all the goodies and the display sleeve.
So you can have loads of fun with this one!  See you over at the Portal!

I've entered this one in:
SUYP #3

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Rick St Dennis EDT * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * Forever Dark *