Friday, April 26, 2013

Color Me Creative 3RD Birthday Bash

Hello Everyone, And welcome to My part of 
Color Me Creative Classrooms 3rd Birthday, 
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Today the CMC DT is kicking things off with a fun Blog Hop featuring those cute Saturated Canary

images 
And if you join in on at least ONE challenge each of the 4 days (4 total) you will be entered to win a $75 Gift Certificate to your crafty online store of choice!!   
**Remember if you comment on each Design Team members blog post, Suzanne will be giving away  2 GC prizes for random commenters on our blogs (thru Tuesday!
Now onto the hop.........
If You have come from Andi's blog you are on the right track, I have included the line up below if you get lost
Our theme this time is all about Celebrations
I would like to thank Saturated Canary for allowing me to have this adorable image called "The Parade" For creating my CMC Birthday Bash Card:-)



Below is a closeup of my adorable Image.
Supplies Used:
Copic colors: E11,00,000,R20, E57,53,51,B21,24,BG01,000,0000,R22,24,E44,42,Y11,YR23,G21,24,Shin Han TT BG1,BG3
Deisgn Paper: MME Sweet Girl 6x6 pad, '
Flowers Wild Orchid Crafts
Image: The Parade
Swirl Die was a Magnolia die
Scallop circle punch: Stampin Up

Other Challenges I am adding my card to are:
Saturated Canary: All things bright and beautiful
Copic marker Europe: Girl image
Now don't forget to move on from here to Brook's Blog to keep going on the Birthday Bash hop!
Go HERE for all the Details for the Hop:-)
Have a wonderful time hopping and I hope you have enjoyed my inspiration today:-)
Hugs
Michele




Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Red's Red's and More Red

Welcome to a new week and new challenge for 

Your challenge this time is all about

**Reds, Reds &; More Red**

color ANY IMAGE but it must

Have Some Red In It 

We want to see you use YOUR COPICS, ProMarkers, other alcohol markers or Colored Pencils!!
Our wonderful sponsor this time is 
One Random winner will receive a one year subscription to the magazine!

I decided to use a Saturated Canary image Called "Ava"
I used a combination of Shin Han TT markers and Copic
I don't know why,  but recently I have had a thing for "Red and Yellow,"  they are bright and fun colors to work with!
Add My favorite My Minds Eye papers and that sends me into a tail spin LOL Read more below:-)
Please make sure you all go over to the challenge blog to see all the Fabulous projects the rest of the Team came up with, and don't forget to join us also:-)
Other Challenges I would like to join are:

Saturated Canary: Anything goes:-)
Bunny Zoe's Crafts: Favorite color challenge: I used Red and ; Yellow
Sparkle & Sprinkle: Use digital image
My Craft Spot: Anything goes
Crafty Bloggers : Anything goes 
 "Reds" can be a pain to work with and also the way the camera takes the pics! My balloon looks sketchy with the red on the pictures but in person it looks more blended:-( I left it as is in the pictures since I didn't want to distort it with any other means.
Supplies used were
Image: saturated canary: Ava
Paper: MME 6x6 Springtime pad
Tab punch: We R Memory keepers
Shin Han TT markers: R15, BG1,BG3
Copic Markers: R27,24,22,20, E44,43,42,41,Y15,17,W0,BG0000, B21,24
Flowers Wild Orchid Crafts
Thank you for stopping by today!
Here's to a great week to you all!
Hugs
Michele

Monday, April 1, 2013

It's All About the Hair

Hi to Everyone!
Here we are with a new Challenge for Color Me Creative 
All About Hair!

color ANY IMAGE but it must
include HAIR of some sort 
We want to see you use YOUR COPICS, ProMarkers, other alcohol markers or Colored Pencils!!
Our Sponsor for this challenge is 7 College Kids, 
they will be giving one random winner will get a $15.00 Gift certificate:-) 
Please go look at all the wonderful creations the DT made:-) and join us!
I decided to to use my Shin Han Twin Touch markers for my "Hair" and a new image I bought from My Favorite Things called "Far Out" 

 I added MME Sweet Girl paper and I will put the rest of my supplies below:-)

Other  Challenges I would like to enter are:
613 Avenue Create: anything goes with flowers


Crafty Ribbons challenge: add some ribbon


SUPPLIES
Image: Far Out by MFT 
Shin Han Markers for hair : BR99, BR100, BR102, BR104
Rest of image: Copic markers: E55,57, BG0000,BG000, R20,R22,R24
DP: My Minds Eye: Sweet Girl
Daisy flower: Prima
Peach flowers: Wild orchid crafts
Brown dot ribbon and border punch; Stampin Up
Leaf punch : MS

I hope you all have a great week!
Hugs
Michele

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Spring Is In The Air

Hello To All!
I have gotten so carried away this week with things that needed to be finished that I forgot to set my post to go live Saturday:-( I am so sorry!
This is a new Challenge for Color Me Creative Classroom:-) 
It will run through March 29th and it is to use 
Spring Colors
Our Sponsor is Digi My World

 I used one of the Bunnies from the Short Ear Bunny Collection for my card 
 Wild Orchid Crafts flowers and a few white from LCS were used with Stampin up Striped ribbon 

Other Challenges I would like my card in are:
Party Time Tuesday: Color challenge

The Pink Elephant: Easter Theme

Pinspirational Challenges : Color theme


Supplies used were:
Copic Markers: R22,20,24,YR12,
DP: Hello summer by Echo Park
Image: Digi My world short ear bunny collection
flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts, 
Ribbon & Circle punch : Stampin Up
Have a wonderful Day and Please go check out the Color Me Creative Challenge going on now and join us:-)
Hugs
michele

Saturday, March 2, 2013

It's a Buggy situation

Hi All
 Welcome to another Challenge for Color Me Creative Classroom!
We are going Buggy this week:-) actually 
Your challenge this time is all about
**ANYTHING GOES**
(optional twist is to use bugs/butterflies/reptile images)

color ANY image in any style or color because its
ANYTHING GOES 
We want to see you use YOUR COPICS, ProMarkers, other alcohol markers or Colored Pencils!!

The Team is using Digital designs Louby Lou who is our sponsor this time:-)
ONE (RANDOM) WINNER WILL WIN A $15 GIFT CERTIFICATE
TO SPEND AT DIGITAL DELIGHTS BY LOUBY LOU

My cutie is called "Forgetful Fran" 
 I used my Copic markers and added some pretty wild orchid flowers and ribbon with the sentiment that came with my image:-) 
Supplies used were:
DP : Basic Grey: Hey Girl
Flowers: wild orchid crafts
Green& Redish color CS: Stampin Up, Blue Bazzill
circle dies: My Favorite Things and scallop circles Spellbinders, Flourish MFT
Oval & scallop oval die are Stampin Up
Copic Markers: E31,34,35,R81,83,W1,B0000,
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend:-)
Hugs
Michele

Monday, February 18, 2013

Girl time

Hi Everyone!
I'm back with Color Me Creative's next challenge which is :

 GIRLY & FEMININE!!! 
We want to see you use YOUR COPICS, ProMarkers, other alcohol markers or Colored Pencils!! 
Please go and have a look at all the wonderful creations from the team:-)
Our Sponsor this time around is :

One lucky winner (at random) will win a
$10 Gift Certificate to Guylou's Digi Store
*and*
2 NEW 6x6 pads of Spring paper (from CMC)
I was able to use one of the "Leah" images and enjoyed creating my card with her! Thank you GuyLou:-)

I added MME Paper and some paper flowers from my stash pile, and my favorite Border punch from Stampin Up 
Heres a close up 
Supplies used were:
Image: GuyLou "Leah"
DP: MME Dolled Up
Copic Markers: E44,43,42,B97,95,91,R20,22,24,YG97,95,91,E53,51,50
Other Challenges I would like to add my card to are:
The Joyful Stamper: anything goes
One Stitch at a time: Make it girlie
Have a Great week my friends 
Michele

Friday, February 1, 2013

A Textured Honey Bunny

I'm back with a brand new challenge for Color Me Creative Classroom!
We are looking for "Texture" Coloring your image to give it an effect of Fur,or wood texture, or bricks, whether it be flicking for a furry Animal or the dotting effect I added to my sweet bunny!
Our Sponsor this week is The Stamp Fairy 
I was able to play with one of the  Clementine Love images, Thank you to The Stamp Fairy, I enjoyed creating my wall hanger piece with my image:-)
Please go over to CMC to see what all my fellow Team mates have created! They are all beautiful

I'm showing you all the closeup first since the full view doesn't show enough of the texture I tried to create to make my Bunny look lumpy LOL You can see a cute chip Embellishment "Love" peeking at the bottom, I was given by Zoe from Make it Crafty to smash with, but I saved this one to add to my project 
as it worked perfectly!

Here is a full view of my wall hanger I created. I decided to move out of my normal and make a wall hanger instead of just a card:-) I had bought this wooden heart in my Local craft store and decided to work a card base around it, and it ended up as a Valentine you can hang up:-)

Other Challenges I'm adding my project to
Di's Digi Designs: Valentines
My Sherri Crafts: Valentines
Hiding in my Craft room:Reds
Pumpkin Spice:Something with a heart
Sweet Stampin:Love is all around
My time to craft:Love is in the air

Supplies used were:
Ribbons: Stampin Up
Doily: Wilton
Image: The Stamp Fairy 
Copic Markers: E41,42,43,44,R89,39,37,35,R20,E00, W0
Design Paper 6x6 MME Love Me
Florish Die:My Favorite Things
"Love" Diecut Chipboard embellishment was a gift from ZZoe over at Make It Crafty
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and week coming up!
Hugs
Michele