Morgan's Artworld Christmas Cameo Turned Autumn

The theme is always "Anything Goes" at Morgan's ArtWorld.  
Challenge dates are September 1 to September 27th on Australian Eastern time (Sydney).  
You can use any image or project you have created and enter up to three (3) times.

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Would you believe this is a Christmas image?

I have several favorites, but this beautiful lady is, I think, my very favorite of all time.  She is timeless.  I've used many color combinations, but had never tried yellows, browns and oranges, wonderful warm Autumn colors.  The more I colored, the more the colors seemed to lead me to the next.  I'm sure many of you can relate.  My marvelous Christmas Lady is a natural Autumn Lady too.

Close-up below

Supply:
Morgan's Artworld Christmas Cameo
Copic markers:Face - E000, E00, E01, E11, E30; Yellow Flower - Y08, Y13, Small flowers - YR1, Y13, Bow - YR07, YR09, YR12, Feathers = YR09, YR24, Gloves - Y21, Y23, Collar - YR12, Fur - E0000, Eyes - YR24 Fur - E000
Uniball Signo broad - white dots in eyes
Darice embossing folder
Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 18
Vagabond die cut machine

I will be entering the following challenges:

Colour Crazy Craft Challenge Week 38 Anything Goes
Digi Choosday - Wk 39 Anything Goes Crafting Challenge  - ends Oct 3.
Creative Moments - Anything Goes with option of masculine
The Corrosive Challenge - “Anything Goes” ends October 3

Crafting By Designs - "Anything Goes" ends Sept 30, 11:59 EST
Simon Says Anything Goes ends in one day

How I colored This Image

Last day of September and Die's Digis stamps sponsorship of Die Cut Divas.  You still have time to join in the challenge right here. 

I thought I'd show you how I color and how things change from the beginning to the end.  I'm going to share a set of pictures where I started coloring an image and took photos at different stages of development of the entire card.

I kept a list of all the colors, but after getting organized with my new cabinet, I have unfortunately lost my list of colors.  I am part of a Toastmaster's club and made a Powerpoint to show how I make my cards and color in the images, so I was not as intent on tracking the colors.  Sorry, guys.  But I'll show you the progression from black and white to final card.

I started coloring the second mouse.

I moved from mice to a tube of paint and the paint hanging off the brush.

I'm just about finished here.

I thought an ombre sky effect would give an appearance of watercolor just to make this fun.

Finally, my finished card.

Supplies:

Di's Digi stamps Modern Art Mice

QuicKutz Nesting Scallop Squares

Elizabeth Craft Designs Postage Stamp Squares dies

Copic markers

Vagabond die cut machine

It's National Coffee Day in the US

National coffee day in the United States of America is always celebrated each year on the 29th September. 

 A2Z Scrapbooking is giving away a $20 prize to a randomly selected winner from those who comment on the A2Z Scrapbooking blog.


Visit each of the Design Team blog posts and comment. One randomly selected winner from each Design Team blog post will win two coffee themed digital prizes.

Deadline to comment is Oct 5, 11:59 pm EDT. Winners will be announced on Oct 7th on each of the Design Team blogs.
After I post the winner commenters here, I will advise A2Z Scrapbooking of your name.  To claim your prize email a2zscrapbookingtech@gmail.com with subject line: National Coffee Hop A2Z Arlene

Check out the National Coffee Day Bloghop at Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog on September 29th.

A2Z  DT Blog Hop Order

A2Z Scrapbooking

Annie

Arlene (you are here)

Cindy  (next)

Karen

LeeAnn

Supplies:

Hero Arts Caffeine Fix only at A2Z Scrapbooking

QuicKutz Nesting Rectangles dies
Copic markers:  cup-E81, W2, cup lable E00, E21, E33, rim E21 added to rim, area outside cup B0000, B000
Unibal Signo broad pen
Vagabond die cut machine

Di's Monty Mouse

Die Cut Diva's challenge is "Free Time" and the sponsor for the September is Di's Digi Stamps.  Check out the challenge here.  

Arlene here. and I found the cutest little mouse at Di's Digis one day and have never used it until now.  I thought this mouse was so cute, really just adorable.  I like the extra flowers, but now that I'm looking at the Nuvo drops, I think fewer would have been better.  But the mouse is still adorable.  What do you think? 

Close-up below

Supplies:
Di's Digi's Monty Mouse
Die-namics Pierced Circles STAX
Little B Handwritten
Copic markers:mouse W2, W3, W5, R11, flower stems G03, G05 leaf G03, G05, G07, lips E04, flowers Y03, Y19, YR19, flower center R59, Y19 ribbon R22, R24, R27, multiliner (blck) to create floor
Glossy Accents on the eyes & nose
Hero Arts flowers (years old) colored with Copic markers
Vagabond die cut machine

A2Z Scrapbooking and Poetic Petals

I don't know if you're like me, but sometimes I'll go through older cards and pull them apart, toss something I'm not happy with, and make a new card with part of an older card.   Whatever was on the front is long gone and I thought this would make a good Fall card.  I printed the petals out, colored this goodie here and decided to fussy cut the petal to put against the black and brown panel so the petals would pop.  Be sure to visit A2Z Scrapbooking here.

Close-up below

Be sure to go shopping with my discount code Arlene15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.


 Please join in this month’s “Anything Goes” challenge for your chance at a free digital stamp set AND, if you used Hero Arts or Sugartree Stamps, a $20 gift card to our etsy store. Our current monthly challenge can always be found in the menu bar, and runs from the 1st to last day of the month

The a2z scrapbooking store carries a wide variety of Hero Arts products as well as a nice selection of digital stamps! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from the store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations.

Use my discount code Arlene15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.

•  Hero Arts Poetic Petals only at A2Z Scrapbooking
• Sizzix thinlits "friend"
• Scrap papers
• Vagabond die cut machine

Di's Digi's Free Time

The sponsor for the September Challenge is Di's Digi Stamps.  Check out the challenge here.  

I wanted to use two new dies with this wonderful digital image.  I used three different stamps, "a note to say hello, Good Times and an anchor on the top panel.  I cut the bear image out and adhered him on the bottom panel.  It was such fun coloring this bear and I thought he should have that "5 o-clock shadow" look since he's having a snooze.  That's how it feels to me.

Close-up below

Supplies:

Di's Digi Beer Bear

Kat Scrappiness Backdrop die

Your Next Die 

Copic markers

Vagabond die cut machine

Distress ink sponged background - not sure of colors as I sponged two entire sheets with all the distress inks I had.

I'm entering this card in:
Creative Knockouts - anything goes (first time I've seen their challenge blog)

Thinking of Hero Arts Tiger Lily

Be sure to check A2Z Scrapbooking for the challenge this month.  You can't do better than an "Anything Goes" challenge, now, can you?

I think I sponged Mustard Seed distress ink through the stencil on the entire background panel.  I had created this flower more than a year ago and knew I wanted to use it this month with my newly created lilies for this month.  I wanted a more CAS style card, but with the flower popping off the page.  I quite like the style which is entirely different from my other tiger lily cards this month.  My first card was posted on our A2Z September 1st post and the second card on the September 3rd post.
I think most stencils such as the Hero Arts Scrollwork stencil would work well with this flower.  It's a simple design that can be repeated over and over again.

Close-up

I used a similar design and background on the card below September 1, 2018.

Be sure to go shopping with my discount code Arlene15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.



 Please join us in this month’s “Anything Goes” challenge for your chance at a free digital stamp set AND, if you used Hero Arts or Sugartree Stamps, a $20 gift card to our etsy store. Our current monthly challenge can always be found in the menu bar, and runs from the 1st to last day of the month
. Use my discount code Arlene15 to get 15% off your purchase of 
$25 or more.

• Hero Arts Tiger Lily at A2Z Scrapbooking Stamp and Die Set here
• Hero Arts Tiger Lily Die-Cut at A2Z Scrapbooking here
• Hero Arts Spiral Stencil at Hero Arts
• Hero Arts stamp set Everyday Sayings - sentiment
• Flower - unsure which Hero Arts inks I used
• Vagabond die cut machine

Hero Arts Fans Scramble on Facebook

Cindy Chiu has instituted a Hero Arts Fans Scramble on Facebook.  Look for it and ask to be invited.  This is my card for the scramble that starts today and ends September 25, 10:00 EDT.

Here is my card for the 90 minute scramble (choose your 90 minutes and go for it).

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Hero Arts Coffee Cup Tag Frame Cuts
Hero Arts Coffee Cup Tags (sentiment)
Elizabeth Craft Designs Garden Patch - 1-inch & Mini Daisy & Chrysanthemum
(I glued another row of the Garden Patch on to the 3 row die-cut in order to lengthen the panel)
Scrap papers from stash
Vagabond die cut machine

A2Z Scrapbooking Poetic Flower

Join the A2Z Scrapbooking challenge of Anything Goes.  That's the greatest thing since Stamping, almost.

I used a similar written background on a card here.   I had printed everything right side up on that card.  You can see that I somehow copied the "Play in the Sunshine" and turned it upside down, not realizing it until I printed it.  I still saved it and I'm using it now.  I think the flower helps cover that part of the message enough that it won't be noticeable when I give the card to a "one of a kind" friend.  That's my reasoning, anyway, and I'm going to stick with it!



Previous card on June 11, 2018 where I printed everything right side up.





Please join in this month’s "Anything Goes" challenge for your chance at a free digital stamp set AND, if you used Hero Arts or Sugartree Stamps, a $20 gift card to our etsy store.   Use my discount code Arlene15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.

• Hero Arts Poetic Petals Printable PT004 Digital Kit
• Hero Arts Summer Travel Words DK104 Digital Kit
• Hero Arts tag die (out of stock - (old HA die)
• Hero Arts One of a Kind  DKo103 Easter Bird Digital Kit - Sentiment (One of a kind)
• Copic markers
• Nuvo Crystal Drops Gloss - Red Berry and Dandelion Yellow
• Vagabond die cut machine

A2Z Scrapbooking Tiger Lily is Much Appreciated

I really like heat embossing the last layer on this tiger lily in white.  I know it's not a natural look, but it's quite riveting in real life.  The flower becomes the stunning focus on the card.  So happy to share this flower with you.

Be sure to join in on the fun at A2Z Scrapbooking

You know that feeling when you know something came together just right, just the way you wanted?  That's what happened here.




Please join in this month’s "Anything Goes" challenge for your chance at a free digital stamp set AND, if you used Hero Arts or Sugartree Stamps, a $20 gift card to our etsy store.  Use my discount code Arlene15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.

• Hero Arts Tiger Lily at A2Z Scrapbooking Stamp and Die Set here
• Hero Arts Tiger Lily Die-Cut at A2Z Scrapbooking here
• Hero Arts Anytime sentiments - old set
• Kat Scrappiness Background Die here
• Distress inks Mermaid Lagoon & Blueprint Sketch
• Hero Hues Unicorn pigment ink
• JudiKins Embossing Powder Opaque White
• Papers - Navy Blue scrap paper & distressed background in broken china to lighter colors
• Vagabond die cut machine

A2Z Scrapbooking is having a BIG SALE

I took advantage of the big sale, so check it out as you only have one more day to take advantage of our huge Labor Day sale!  Be sure to visit A2Z Scrapbooking HERE!

A2Z Scrapbooking Tiger Lily in Bold Colors

I thought tiger lilies can be bold and used deeper colors with embossed white for centers & leaf.  Hope you enjoy.

 

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• Hero Arts Tiger Lily at A2Z Scrapbooking Stamp and Die Set here
• Hero Arts Tiger Lily Die-Cut at A2Z Scrapbooking here
• Elizabeth Craft Designs "Thanks"
• Scrap papers
• Vagabond die cut machine
• Distress inks
• JudiKins White embossing powder

New Challenge Day at Die Cut Divas

Die Cut Divas' sponsor for September is Di's Digi Stamps and I've used a pre-colored image to which I added some more color and created a snow globe effect.  This was my first try on the snow globe and it may not be perfect, but I think it's rather cool.

The prize for September's winner will be a $6.00 voucher to Di's Digi Stamps.

The September Challenge is "Free Fun Time".  You got it.  What do you do with your free time that is fun for you?  I have a friend who makes the most fabulous quilts and has sewn for many years.  It's relaxing for her and I wanted to create a card for her and an inspiration for Die Cut Divas.

I shaded the globe to make it appear to be glass, my first attempt with coloring a globe.  I am taking the monthly classes at Kit and Clowder to develop my coloring and with practice, I will do even better.  It's better looking in real life, so that's a good thing.  I also cut 3 more butters to glue dot on the card.  I shaded the thread a bit darker too and added some "snow" with a Uni-ball Signo white pen. 

A little more light on the card.

Supplies:

Di's Digi Stamp Stitched for you col . You can use the B&W version here

Sizzix Snowglobe # 2

Elizabeth Craft Designs Thinking of You Stand Up Helper

Copic markers for the glass - B91, B00 & BG10 blending with 9 

Copic multi-line .03 (lines on snowglobe base which is a scrap of dull silver)

Uni-ball Signo white pen