Cinema Saturday #27

This weeks movie over at Cinema Saturday is The Lion King, and I am lucky enough to be guest designer!

The Lion King has been a long-time favourite for me, so I was thrilled when asked to be guest designer for it. I was about 18 when I first saw TLK, and initially thought "urgh, a kids movie?" but Timon & Pumbaa won me over, particularly with their distraction of the hyenas during the fight to regain Pride Rock. I'll quite often start singing this at random, and have got my kids hooked on it too - so this just had to be the scene I was going to base my card on.

While my sister has both a realistic meerkat stamp and some Lion King stamps I decided that nothing would really satisfy me, I had to have a big Timon in "drag"... I merged a few images in Photoshop, printed them out and then cut out the various sections for templates to create a paper-pieced Timon. The flower was created with bits and pieces from the Pretties Kit, the skirt is a lot of frayed Old Olive grosgrain ribbon and the lei is a whole heap of Trio Flower punchies. I had no idea what I was going to do for the background until my new catty order arrived with it's Urban Garden paper... this pattern reminded me of the "I just can't wait to be king" scene, where Simba pokes his head through a bunch of long grassy stuff to make it look like he has a bigger mane. I finally squeezed some stamping in with "luau", clear embossed on Bali Breeze paper, cut out and edged with a Basic Black marker.

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Orchid Opulence, Naturals Ivory, Creamy Caramel, Whisper White
Stamp Set: Big Deal
Inks: VersaMark
Accessories: Basic Black marker, Chocolate Chip marker, Close to Cocoa marker, Tangerine Tango "marker", Rose Red marker, Regal Rose marker, Summer Sun marker, Pretties kit, Old Olive 5/8" grosgrain ribbon, Urban Garden DSP, Bali Breeze DSP, clear embossing powder, sticky strip
Show watched while creating: The Lion King

Boo!

This is my card for the third challenge from the Inklings Cyberstamp. The third challenge was a scrap sketch, but since the sketch wasn't going to work with the few photos I do have printed I opted to make a card instead. Lin Mei's directive for those making a card was simply to use a stamp for a theme other than it was intended... owls and Halloween cards aren't unusual, but I have done something different with the owl.

One day while working on a Kristina colour challenge I was trying to use the Celebrate Everyday owl but I didn't feel like the colours were working, so I tossed my scrap (ok, the envelope I had been stamping on the back of to test out different colour arrangements) aside. A little while later I looked back at it and was reminded of some other images I had seen where people had used their owls upside down. One thing lead to another, and Boo was born! Now just incase there are people reading who haven't seen Monsters Inc, or for those that haven't seen it in quite some time, I've found this YouTube clip of Boo in her monster get-up so you can see what I was trying to copy.

To create Boo I inked up the owl with StazOn being careful to avoid the feet. I had previously created a mask for the inner details, which I then used to cover this area so it wouldn't stamp. I stamped a second owl, with no masking, so I had the tummy section to cut out for teeth. I then cleaned the stamp and inked the eyes with my Basic Black marker and stamped those where the feet should have been. I then coloured the body in, using the aquapainter to dampen the areas first to help blending. I threaded some linen thread through for the hair, trimmed and attached the teeth and she was done! Then I had to figure out what to do with the rest of the card! I decided to stamp her name in the hopes that anyone who couldn't tell by looking at the pic should be then clued in enough. A smaller font may have made things easier, but I only have two alphabet sets at the moment and I Big Deal is great for kids stuff. The card has ended up an odd size, 4 1/2" square, but sometimes you just have to listen to the muse.

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Almost Amethyst, Basic Black, Lavender Lace, Confetti White
Stamp sets: Celebrate Everything, Big Deal
Ink: StazOn Jet Black, VersaMark
Accessories: aquapainter, Lavender Lace marker, Sahara Sand marker, linen thread, dimensionals, clear embossing powder
Show watched while creating: Bones

Big & Little

Another quick post... net connection is still playing up so getting in while I can... and I need to get moving with breakfast!

Here's a card I've made for my nephew's birthday, colours inspired by kids clothing (what a surprise!), Taken with Teal, Soft Sky, Basic Gray and Whisper White. I've used the Big Deal alphabet set to stamp the letters for his name on Whisper White, cut them out and mounted them on a plain piece of Soft Sky with a Big Pieces image behind the "d" and a clear rhinestone brad from the Pretties Kit in the centre (oooh, if only my brother knew ). The background piece of Soft Sky has been stamped with various Little Pieces images in Soft Sky, and the various feature images from Big Pieces have been stamped on Whisper White, Basic Gray and Taken With Teal in Soft Sky, Whisper White, Taken with Teal and Basic Gray inks. Drew is 8 this year and I find it tough to make cards for boys as they get older, but I was quite pleased with how this came out... no hint of "little boy" at all.

Blingy Birthday

The girls have a birthday party to go to tomorrow, and lucky for the birthday girl loves purple and things that sparkle. Needless to say, I had lots of fun making this card! I used Orchid Opulence, Almost Amethyst, Lavender Lace and Lovely Lilac to stamp the Beg Deal alphabet stamps, first inking each on with VersaMark. I decided to stamp, emboss with Heat & Stick powder and apply Dazzling Diamonds glitter to each letter separately so I wasn't placing the Stamp-a-ma-jig or the imaging sheet over the sticky letters. I then stamped the body and head of the little girl (from All in The Family), coloured her face with an aquapainter picking up ink from the Blush Blossom inkpad and coloured the rest of her with markers. I used some Crystal gem stickers and sparkly non-SU! ribbon to finish off the bling. The card base has been stamped with the Scribble wheel.

Don't forget that the Spring Mini catalogue (featuring the Scribble wheel) is about to end! You only have till the end of November to order products from it. The All In The Family set (which you can read more about here) will also only be available till the end of November for the special price of $65 including postage. If you wish to purchase these, or any other Stampin' Up! product, please contact me. Remember, orders are shipped straight from the warehouse, so it doesn't matter where in Australia you live!

ETA: The card design was based on a Di Hickman sketch! I can't believe I stayed up late last night tracking down a link to the sketch and then forgot to post it...

Merry & Bright - Big Deal

Now, this card was inspired by someone... but for the life of me I can't remember who! I thought I had seen it in a blog post and "starred" it in Google Reader, but apparently not. So... there's a good chance you'll something else like this around somewhere.

One day in fiddling about with my cardstock swatches (I have made A6 sized swatches of all the Stampin' Up! cardstock) I came up with this colour combination: Regal Rose, Certainly Celery and Cool Caribbean. Being a twist on the traditional Christmas colours, I decided to go completely non-traditional and something a bit funky, using the Big Deal alphabet. To stamp this, I cut my Whisper White cardstock to size, then using my Stamp-a-ma-jig, I started stamping from the outside in: m, then y, then e, then the rose r, and lastly the celery r. To finish off the sentiment I used an All Year Cheer I stamp, inked first with the Tempting Turquoise marker for 'bright', then I used a blender pen and Cool Caribbean ink to ink up the '&'. To finish the card off I went for a silver circle clip (not from SU!) and a bit of ribbon: Celery, Turquoise and Rose Red (from the Sweet Shop Ribbon Originals set).

More Father's Day cards

This card was for the girls to give to Glenn. It was for a challenge from the Elite stampers cyberstamp, a male card using patterened paper, mine has also ended up being a CASE of a card by Leigh O'Brien. I stamped the letters in Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron and Tempting Turquoise on Whisper White and layered on matching cardstock. The card base has a piece of Part Pieces patterned paper, the letters on top (some on dimensionals), and the stars from On Board Accents are sponged with Barely Banana, Apricot Appeal and Certainly Celery, then stamped with the asterisk from All The Best in Saffron, Pumpkin and Olive and attached to the card front.
This was for another elite cyberstamp challenge, a CASE of a card from page 5 of our Spring Mini catalogue. I used the Letterpress alphabet, stamped it on Creamy Caramel using Buckaroo Blue ink. The Buckaroo Blue card base has been stamped with the Linen background using VersaMark, with the sentiment from All Year Cheer I stamped with Buckaroo Blue ink. The More Mustard layer has the Print Pattern background stamped in VersaMark, then it was scrunched up a few times, swiped across the More Mustard stamp pad, torn, wrapped with natural hemp twine and attached to the card front. I attached the Caramel layer with a couple of dimensionals and used a couple of Antique Brass HodgePodge pieces to finish it off.