It's National Ice Cream Day! Celebrating with Frenchie Valerie!

I purchased this cute image this last month, not knowing that today is National Ice Cream Day!  Isn't this image perfect!! Ok, if you are reading this please, please comment below with your favorite ice cream!

I will tell you mine..  Vanilla!!!  Why??  Because i can add anything to it.  LOL.  My favorite toppings?  Hot fudge, melted peanut butter, chocolate chips and peanut butter cups!

Here is my card with a "movable" part ... pinwheels!

Close up:

Dies used:
Eiffel Tower- Doo Hickey Die Limited edition

Copics used:
skin- E000, 00, 11, 21
cheeks- RV21, 23
hair- C1, 3, 5
dress/hat- R35, 37, 39, W1, 3, 5
Ice cream cone
Cone- E41, 42, 43
vanilla- E50, 51, 31
chocolate- E25, 37, 74, 77
cherry- R35, 37, 39

Watercolor Pencils- Hair /purple, hat/ gray, vanilla/light brown

We Are 3© Digital paper- Into The Night, Dreamy Creamy and Raggedies

Challenges:
Make It Crafty- CAS/Make it Move

If not at first you succeed try, try again! Blurred Background - So Happy!

Yesterday, i tried to create a card for a challenge and silly ole me..i thought it was "Anything could be blurred".  It was a coloring challenge so i needed to color the blurred part for the challenge. 

Ah, ha!  Today i gave it another try.. couldn't really find the tutorial i wanted so i really went wild with this idea. 

So first, i thought i would try the technique that Tim Holtz shows when he uses his ink..i know that his is water based but i thought i could still "swirl" the ink and get the look i wanted.  LOL... wrong..i got blots and they weren't really blurred they just bled.   Oh yeah, and i was using light weight water color paper and my mat that you can "put anything on"  (except not drops of copic ink which is what i did..and now i have some permanent looking blots.)

So, like i said i swirled my paper, not too happy with that look so i got out some markers and drew lines.. still no good.  So i wadded it up.. and stuck it in a small amount of rubbing alcohol.  Still nothing.  It gets better, i then squirted dishsoap on it and wadded it all up.  My paper was still holding together.   I brought it to the ironing board and ironed it.  At this point the paper could be pulled apart in two layers.  I took the layer i liked best and brought it back to the work table. Next???  i got out my fingernail polish remover and started to apply that with cotton swabs.. and now i started to like it.  Then i added circles around my blots and added more fingernail polish remover.. and then small dots all over and more fingernail polish.. and finally, i liked it.  Whew!!

Here is my finished card..

The circles look like balloons and confetti so i thought it would be perfect to add the word "Happy".

Dies used:
Happy from Marianne Designs

Copics used:
skin- E000, 00, 11, 21
cheeks- RV21, 23
hair- E50, 51, Y21
top- R81, 83, 85, 35, 39,
jeans- B21, 23, 26, 02
shoes- R35, 39
Highlights with Prima Watercolor pencils
Background paper Copics:
B02, R85, R35, B23, Y21

Challenges:
Make It Crafty- Out of Focus

We Are 3© Digital Paper- Garden Dance - Monet style

I have been creating several NEW We Are 3© Digital Paper packs but i don't have the time to create with all of it.  I had wanted to participate in Make It Crafty's last challenge, but i misread their challenge, it is a coloring challenge "out of focus" and i thought ANY element could be out of focus. However, the coloring is suppose to be "out of focus".  Oh well.. i love this card anyway.  LOL


I decided to take the card i created for Make It Crafty June challenge and blur the photo of the card and use it as "part of the paper".  It's totally "out of focus".  Then i wanted something "in focus" and chose to use the pocket found on the blurred image called, Evelyn.  I enlarged the pocket and printed it 3 times.  I colored the areas i needed to make a 3D image.  

Close up of the 3D and blurred element.

Dies used:
Memory Box- Buckle doily

Copics used on pocket:
yellow- Y19
blue- B21, 23, 24, 00, 02
pink- R81, 83, 85
purple- BV00, 11, 13
pale yellow- E50, 51, Y21

We Are 3© Digital Paper Pack- Garden Dance available here.

Challenges:

Gorgeous Make It Crafty Evelyn- CAS

I fell in love with this Flower Girl collection at Make It Crafty.  This image is called, "Evelyn"!

The joy of digital images is that you can change their size.  I enlarged this sweet image and used the PNG version that was sent when i ordered the image and placed it on my digital paper i created.

Digital paper is called, "Dandelion Wishes" and "Burlap Beach" and will be available here.

This image was colored with Copics and highlighted with watercolor pencils.

Dies used:
Acrylic die- Marianne Designs

Challenges:
Make It Crafty- CAS- use Acrylic