Saturday, June 26, 2010

Two Cards for Connor

When I saw this fabulous character from Simply Betty Stamps, I just knew I had to have him!  His name is Miller, but he reminds me of my BFF's 13-year-old son Connor.  PLUS--the Miller stamp comes with a lizard stamp AND the real Connor has a bearded dragon lizard for a pet, so it was meant to be!  And BTW--Simply Betty Stamps is having an amazing sale this week, so check them out!

 My first card uses a sketch from Card Positioning Systems--CPS 172.  Here's the sketch:


And here's my card:


I'm also entering this card in another challenge--Fun with Shapes and More.  Their challenge was to use anything punched--my circles--and distressing.  I scissor distressed the white cardstock and the patterned paper.  Then I used a sponge dauber and black ink to distress the edges of the brown and white cardstock.  I really like scissor distressing on cards for boys--it just adds that extra "messiness"--lol!

My second card uses Sketch 62 from The Sweet Stop


And here's my take on this one:


Both cards are made with the Max and Whiskers paper from Basic Grey--I LOVE the colors of this paper, and even though I'm not crazy about the pet theme, I bought it with these stamps in mind.  I thought it would work well for masculine cards AND for beach layouts.  Miller is colored with Copic markers except for his hair.  I had to use Tombow watercolor markers for his hair because I am just beginning to collect Copics, and none of my browns were dark enough!  I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Sew Many Cards--Anything Goes!



7 comments:

  1. Very fun!!! Thanks for playing along with The Sweet Stop!

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  2. WOW awesome cards Toni! I am going to put the top one on the blog to showcase it! Thank you for sharing!

    Betty

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  3. Fabulous male card! Thanks for playing with Charisma this week.
    xx Vee

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  4. SUPER CUTE!! Love the colors!!! TFS at SMC!

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  5. Great card! I LOVE those papers!

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  6. I just saw your post on Sweet Stop and I recognized the name, wasn't sure from where....I'm on the same team as you for CTMH ;-)) Anyways, so cute and you did a great job with the hair without using copics on it!!

    Tracy Valure

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