Useless Trinkets Easter Addition

It's that time again! 

Jessa at Useless Trinkets has drawn up some super cute and fun 

Easter themed freebies for you to play with.

I know it's hard to believe that someone with such marketable talent

would be willing to just give her drawings away for free, but that's

precisely what Jessa insists upon doing. 

She's just cool and  generous like that.

First up is Gustav, the Easter Monstah.

Gustav is filling in for the Easter Bunny, who apparently has taken ill....

Jessa has also created some cute sentiments to go along with the new images.

Be sure to grab them while you're visiting her freebie page.

I have been wanting to create a shaker card for months now.

I have been collecting sequins and schtuff to fill my shakers, and

I have been watching various tutorials on how to make simple,

Fuse tool-free shaker cards on YouTube. After all of my preparation

I figured now was as good a time as any to give it a go.

I began by coloring up the Easter version of Cookie Jar, the Unicorn.

I went with a rainbow color palette. I thought it went well with the cute cloud paper. 

And unicorns and rainbows kind of go hand in hand, don't they?

I remember my cherished sticker album as a kid was full of rainbow unicorn stickers.

This was one of my favorites.  

Now I did mention that this is my very first attempt at making a shaker

card, right? It's a little rough, but I think I did okay.

Some key advice would be to use a heavier stock of paper

to go over the shaker part. My paper is super thin, so it really

shows the wrinkles and even tore a bit, too. Still, it's not too shabby

for my first attempt. I'll be trying this technique again now that I have 

figured out some of my mistakes. Practice makes perfect.

Thanks for stopping by today. 

I hope you'll pop by Jessa's blog and grab these awesome new freebies.

Be sure to bunneh hop along with the Freebie DT to see all of the clever

ways we've used these great images and sentiments.

Jessa https://uselesstrinkets.wordpress.com/

Birka http://www.mitherzundschere.blogspot.de/

Claudia http://colorfulcapricorndays.blogspot.de/

Gloria (me!) http://creepyglowbugg.blogspot.de/

Julia http://just-one-more-card.com/

Katrin http://projekt-cupcake.blogspot.de/

Tanja http://www.stempelspielplatz.de/

Useless Trinkets new freebie release

Today is the release of new images at Useless Trinkets.

FREE, new images. Along with all of the other adorable and FREE

images already there. If you haven't checked them out yet, you should. 

And if you already have, then you need the new images and matching sentiments.

Did I mention that they're FREE? Don't even get me started. I have no idea

why the heck Jessa isn't charging for these images, but hurry up and grab 'em 

before she comes to  her senses and realizes she has a goldmine on her hands.

First up is "Harriet".

She is unassumingly psychotic. I like that in a girly image.

Gives her a nice edge. 

Kinda sharp and rusty, like old garden shears...

I found a fitting sentiment and a cool charm to go with it.

I paired it all up with some super old dp I have had for years. I loved it

so much I bought a shit ton of it, and still have at least a half a

shit ton of it left.

So, I kinda adore little miss "Harriet".

She's fun and great for all ages and occasions. 

My new favorite image from the imaginative and adorable mind of 

Jessa is, "Fluffy Gustav". 

He is adorable, no?

I am relatively new to coloring fur, but I don't hate how this came out. 

It's fun fur!

Since "Fluffy Gustav" is so much fun to play with, I thought I'd use

him in another card you can never make too many of, a 'get well' card. 

I went with a dot technique for this version of Gustav.

Much faster and easier to color fur this way. 

Plus, it's more whimsical.

Jessa came up with some super cute and sweet Valentine sentiments

for this fluffy monster, so I was inspired to make a couple VD cards.  

Who can resist a cotton candy monster?

Bearing gifts, no less?

I went for a more classic color scheme here. 

Tryin' to class up the joint, I guess.

It's gonna take more than a fancy color scheme to class

up this chick and my ridiculousness. 

I broke out the big doily and a smaller black doily with some

pearl spray on it. I am so happy to be using these things. I have quite

a few of them, but can stand to use up a few. 

So, Gustav is super cute. You need him in your stash of awesome FREE

images. He comes in various versions with different accessories and don't

for get the cool sentiments and Harriet, too!

Here's the hop order in case you get lost along the way.

Thanks for dropping by!

 Jessa - https://uselesstrinkets.wordpress.com/

                                     Birka - http://www.mitherzundschere.blogspot.de/

Gloria -  http://creepyglowbugg.blogspot.de/ - you are here

Julia -  http://just-one-more-card.com/

Katrin and Lisa from Projekt Cupcake -

 http://projekt-cupcake.blogspot.de/  

Stampotique realness

Our awesome sponsor this week at Wicked Wednesday is

Stampotique Stamps.

I have been a fan of their unique and fun stamps for quite a while.

I have also got a pretty good collection of their wood mounted stamps, as well.

This is "Snowy Fran", and the fun sentiment is also from Stampotique.  

I used some liquid applique for the snowy drifts on the sentiment and under Fran.

I also used another Stampotique stamp called, "Heads" in the background.  

I'd like to enter Snowy Fran in the following challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge - #106 Purple and Turquoise

2 Sisters - Uncommon Christmas

This is "Molly". Bless her heart. She is from the creative mind of Daniel Torrente. 

There is much more to Molly, but I trimmed off her bottom half to fit the ATC.

Molly wishes she's worn panties (also available from Stampotique),

and I wish I hadn't tried to double emboss black over white. What was I thinking?

I used the "Owl Tree" stamp by Kira Nichols, embossed it in white and then 

used Distress Inks to color the background.

Thanks for stopping by.

Keep it creepy!

Oh no, there goes Tokyo.....

With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound

He pulls the spitting high tension wires down

Godzilla!

Helpless people on subway trains

scream bug eyed as he looks in on them

Godzilla!

He picks up a bus and throws it back down

as he wades through the buildings towards the center of town

Godzilla!

Oh no, they say he's got to go

Go go Godzilla!

Oh no, there goes Tokyo

Go go Godzilla!

How cool is this card?! I am very pleased with how it came out.

Not too far off from what I had originally envisioned.

I have had the cityscape stamp for quite a while and never quite knew

how to incorporate it into one of my projects. I won the stamp (and others) from

the Hambo Hogs and Sketches challenge.

Once I saw the 'monster' image from Hambo I just knew I wanted to create a

scene using the cityscape and then the sentiment was just a fluke all together.

I think it's the perfect sentiment for this card.

 

I added my own smoke and then backed the whole thing up with this cool

flame paper.

I really like how vivid the colors came out.

In retrospect, I should have used some Asian inspired papers to give it

a touch of Tokyo, but no matter.

 

Looooooooooooong card!

I needed a wide angle lense to catch the whole thing!