Angling for Some Love

Greetings!

Just popping in real quick with a fun little card 

I made for Valentine's day.

This handsome fella is from Hellgnome Death Digis.

I colored him using Copic markers.

I created the background using a stencil and some 

Nuvo Glimmer Paste in Black Diamond. 

I fussy cut the fish, added a lovely heart shaped jewel to his

dingly thing, and popped him up on foam dots.

That's it for now.

Pop by the Hellgnome digi shop and pick up some cool images.   

What the actual Hell Gnome?!

Back again with another make using some Hellgnome Death Digis.

This little dude is the Angry Hellgnome image. 

He reminds me of my father in law. 

Minus the peg leg. Although that would be cool...

I colored up the Angry Hellgnome and the Bone Cross images

using Copic markers. Always my coloring medium of choice.

I fussy cut out the little angry dude, and mounted him onto the Bone Cross background.

I added black mattes to everything, and popped on some black Nuvo drops.

The answer to the question posed on the front.

The sentiment is from Hambo stamps. I love their two part sentiments.

Okay, that's going to do it for me today.

Be sure to pop by the Hellgnome digi shop to grab some cool digis

of your very own!

Hellgnome!!!

Woo hoo! I'm back today to share a card I made using a digital

image from Hellgnome Death Digis.

My friend, Stephanie thought I'd dig these images for some strange reason.

And she was so right! These aren't your run of the mill all occasion images.

Unless you're like me and like to create weird stuff all of the time.

This image is called, Skull Monster.

If it's not in the shop, it will be very soon. 

I colored this bad boy up with Copics and matted it onto silver card stock.

I added a few more white dots, and tried my hand at using blending fluid

to add spots in the gray areas. That's kind of scary to do after you've colored

an entire image. Probably won't do that too often.

Finally, I added the word, 'SEEK' and this dog is ready to hunt. 

Check out the Hellgnome Death Digi shop, and both the facebook 

and Instagram pages for inspiration and group shenanigans.

For the Boys and Men

The new theme at Aurora Wings is 

"For the Boys and Men".

Now, I usually craft with a fairly masculine energy. No subtle colors

or super sappy baby images for this chick. BUT, I do have a problem

crafting specifically for men or boys in mind. So, this theme did kind of

throw me for a moment. Then I remembered that I have been wanting to

color in that adorable Zombie Puppy of Mitzi's. He goes purrfectly with the 

Zombie Kitty that I colored up so long ago here.        

I went with a Golden Retriever color palette for this undead pup.

I also just went for it and started my Halloween cards for the season.

It's never too early for me, ya know. In fact, I'm actually running

a bit behind this year...

I thought the feel of this card was pretty masculine, but I did have to

stop myself from adding some Stickles to the green goo dripping out 

this pup's mouth. Some habits are hard to break.

C'mon, even for a zombie puppy this guy is ADORABLE!!

I colored him with Copics and made sure to make his stitched-on leg

a bit discolored to mimic either a different breed of dog, or just a leg well

past it's "best by" date. 

I used various random Halloween papers from my ever growing scraps box

and collection of Halloween themed papers. And the googly eyes are a new

addition to my "collection". I had to use them in some way. I just had too!

I popped on some die cut bones and a spider web for balance and to add more

lime green to the project.

I think any boy, man, woman, or girl would love this card. And now the seal has been 

broken, so get ready for more Halloween themed projects from now until November.

Be sure to stop by the Aurora Wings Challenge blog and check out all of the 

incredible inspiration projects for this new theme.

  

A Queen and her rotting court

I made another ATC for the current challenge at WW ATC challenge. 
We're sponsored by my uber talented, Sister Minion, 
Teri of Delicious Doodles.

I immediately thought of this DD image called, Malice,

when I heard the theme was Tarot Symbols. 

She is G-O-R-G-E-O-U-S!

I colored her effortlessly, with Copics. And what I mean by effortlessly,
is that Teri's images have nice, thick lines, that make coloring much
simpler. Not to mention she provides the shading as well. Nice.
Too bad she didn't provide the writing too. I stamped each letter 
myself with various rubber alpha stamps. 
A little wonky, but it does the trick.

There is still time to enter over at Wicked Wednesday.
I see new Delicious Doodles images in your future.....

I'd also like to share a couple of masculine themed 

cards I made recently using images from Rick St. Dennis.

First up, is the rotting head image, "Going, Going, Gone".

I love this image, but after coloring it up with Copics, I was 

stumped as to how to use this image on a card. 

Rick to the rescue! 

It's amazing how one witty sentiment can bring everything together. 

Perfect!!!

The finished card using a MS iron fence punch, some MS paper 

tape, a Pink Paisley banner border, and some tapestry dp from 

unknown origins. An overall, masculine feel. 

I'm always at a loss for masculine cards.

Next I'd like to share my version of the current 

RSD Airless Chambers freebie, "Singing Zombie".

It was all I could do to not color him in my "go to" zombie colors.

I usually always color my zombies in YGs. Don't know why, 

other than they're my favorite color family, 

and zombies are my favorite monsters.

I used all Warm Grays for his flesh and a bit of RV25, 23, and 21

for the exposed bloody bits. I wanted the tongue to show up, and be somewhat realistic, so I colored it purple. I also chose my 

paper first, which is something I seldom do, but it helped 

tremendously when coloring the background. 

I found the musical note image on the web, half toned it, and 

added the Happy Birthday sentiment in Gimp.

Remember, the free Zombie image is still available here,

and you have until the 24th of May to enter the challenge 

using said zombie image.

More RSD images are up for grabs to the three winners, 

so why not play along? You'll find the place to add your entry 

along the top of the blog, marked May 2013 Freebie Contest.

   

Dino in a Sandbox

How cute is this guy?!

Must be the beady little eyes. I'm a sucker for beady eyes.

I got him, the sun image, the sandcastle, and the "Hugs Sand Kisses" sentiment 

all from Hambo of course!

 

I used Copics to color everything in, and then I used a Sakura glaze pen to give the Dino some shiny texture and I put some on his shovel too.

Then I added Stickles to the sandbox sand and the sandcastle to make it sparkle. 

A fungus among us

Ahhh, mushrooms.

Reminds me of those days gone by, when we (my husband and I) would go to the

Grateful Dead shows here in Sacramento, and sell our tickets for mind altering pieces of paper or foul tasting fungus to take us to a 'higher level of consciousness'.

Meandering through the crowds of patchouli smelling hippies, and curious onlookers, in the summertime heat of Sac-town, just lookin' for a "miracle", man.

Good times.

R.I.P. Jerry.

Jelly good, jelly good

When I first saw this sentiment and the jelly fish to go with it, I fell in oceanic love.

Hambo strikes again!

I love these 2 part sentiments. It is so nice to have a coordinating

phrase to go on the inside as well.

How flippin' cute are these guys?!

They are quite versatile and are great for this masculine card for all ages.

Check out Hambo for more great rubber and digital images

than you can shake a stick at!  

And don't forget to pick up some hilarious sentiments and phrases designed to specifically correspond with their images.