fresh & fun

Julia is killing me with her Bold and Bright challenges. Today’s Way to Use it challenge dares you to use YoYo Yellow. I can’t even remember when I used it last. It has to have been over a year at least!!! It’s so bright, I never reach for it.

I really didn’t think I would participate in this challenge. It’s just too much out of my comfort zone. BUT…I had my latest order from Eclectic Paperie on my table. I had ordered the super cute Changito images. One of them is a monkey with a banana. I thought I might be able to work YoYo Yellow into a card with that image.

I tried to make it into a rectangle card, but in the end, the chocolate chip card base was cut back down to  4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″. I just can’t help myself. I love square cards.

I stamped the little cutie pie in Black Palette ink on shimmery white cardstock. I started by coloring the banana with my YoYo Yellow marker. Then I added some Summer Sun and More Mustard so you could look at it without sun glasses. I went over it with an aqua painter to blend them a little bit.

The monkey was colored with creamy caramel Marker. I added several layers over most of his body part, just colored the lower face region only once to make it look lighter.  I then punched  a small oval out of a post it note and used the negative image to color the shadow under the monkey with aqua painter and Bordering blue ink from the ink pad. Next I went all around the monkey with bordering blue.

I layered the image first on More Mustard, then on Chocolate Chip cardstock. I use the small oval punch to make the two tabs out of chocolate chip cardstock and added More Mustard brads.

The background started out as a 4″ square of YoYo Yellow. I added circles with my sponge dauber and More Mustard and Summer Sun ink. then I stamped the Palm image in Summer Sun over the dots.

The horizontal strip is a scrap piece of Au Chocolat Designer paper I had laying around. I added Summer Sun and More Mustard ink over it with my daubers.

The saying is also from Stampendous. The stamp comes as “Hang in there”, I used the stamp-a-majic to make the Hi on shimmery white cardstock. I punched it out with the 1/2″ circle punch, cut a chocolate chip mat with the coluzze and adhered it overlapping the main image just a bit. Then I stamped there from the saying on the bottom right.

I didn’t get to stamp at all yesterday. After the whole bird drama, I just didn’t feel like it. I grabbed a book and sat in the backyard.

Here is another card for A Muse’s 4th challenge. I made this one, along with the nurse card and another card I will post tomorrow. When I made these cards I cut my Pristine Paper Salon paper  to make enough for three cards. That way I wouldn’t have any left over of the two 6×6 pieces of paper. So you will see the same layout in all three cards, just with different main images.

 One A Muse card a day…keeps the doctor away. Okay…cheesy. Just popped into my head. I love that doctor stamp A Muse carries.

For this one I first stamped the little frog (2-2218C) in Black Palette ink on a Whisper White cardstock circle. I masked him off and stamped the Tree Stump (2-7109E) underneath. Next I added some grass with my black journaling marker. Once everything was dry, I colored the image in with my new Copic Markers. I am still playing with them and trying to get used to having so many colors….I made myself a chart so I would have an easier time finding the color I am looking for.

I layered the finished circle on a Whisper White punchout from the Uchida Giga Scallop circle.  The card base is a 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ Close to Cocoa cardstock folded in half. I sanded my Pristine paper and adhered it to the card base. Next I tied this gorgeous reversible satin May Arts ribbon around the card and layered the image over it with dimensionals.

It took me a while to come up with a phrase for the frog….I am a bit dissappointed that I couldn’t come up with something cooler. I had some suggestive ideas with the word Jump, morbid ones with the word croaked…..but nothing really fun! Let me know if you can think of something.

The sentiment is stamped with 1/4″ Karen Forster  casual Snap stamps. I cut a strip of 3/8″ whisper white cardstock, stamped the saying and then rounded the one end with the Window Word Punch from Stampin’ Up!.

Heather Stevens send me this gorgeous RAK. She is in the Blogger RAK club with me. Check out her sweet blog A Secret Garden Grows here. Thank you, Heather!