Showing posts with label kenny k. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kenny k. Show all posts

Sunday, 1 July 2012

Rock Star!

Welcome to July (yes it is July believe it not, the weather isn't much of an indication that we're in the midst of summer!!!) and with the first of a month comes a new challenge over at St Luke's Charity Cards Challenge and this month it's all about teenage kicks - cards for the teenagers in your life.  Something fun, funky and modern (and nothing cute and fluffy as they so don't do that anymore....)

 We have been generously given a £10 voucher by the lovely ladies at The Ribbon Girl as our prize this month too so it's great opportunity to stock up your stash if you're our winner.......


As I so often do with teenage cards, I've gone digi, and used one of the fabby Kenny K images - I use his and Mo Mannings for these kind of cards all the time as they really capture the teen feel.


She's a total rock star so that was the sentiment I used too - I printed the "rock" and cut it by hand (starshine font) and added some sparkle highlights with sakura pens and some tiny gems.  I then cut some stars on my Silhoutte Cameo, white cardstock and coloured them with copics and stickles and used the largest to be the "star" in the rock star sentiment. 


For the layout of the card I used the sketch at this weeks' I Spy as my basis - it's fun so it lends itself to our fun and funky theme http://ispysketches.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/issc22-with-julie-mogford.html  I used some My Minds Eye papers to cut the rounded end strips from and stuck them to the card before attaching the rock star image to the middle.  She had been printed onto white colouring card and coloured with copics and a little puff paint for her fur trim and fussy cut leaving a narrow white border.  To finish I added more stars and some more gems for added sparkle.

I hope that inspires you to join our challenge - our numbers have been a little low this summer - so I wanted to remind you that you don't HAVE to send your card to play along - by playing and publicising the challenge you're still doing "your bit" to help us so please join us if you have the time.


Thursday, 5 April 2012

Get your geek on!!!


I needed to make a card for teenage boy this week and they are always quite tricky but then I saw this kenny k image and thought it was quite glee (boy in question is at theatre school) so I went with it.  I decided to push my comfort zone further by using a colour challenge to set the colour theme and this weeks's Colour Throwdown gave me some lovely bright colours http://colorthrowdown.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/color-throwdown-186.html

I'm also entering it into this weeks Kenny K's Krafty Girlz challenge which is April Fool - an image which makes you smile and this one certainly does!  http://kennykkraftygirlzchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/april-fool.html


I coloured the image with copics, layered onto dp to match the colours from the challenge then made a greeting in word and created a triple layer ribbon from it.  Finished simply with a brad and a few stars cut with a MFT dynamics die.  The final touch was some glaze on the glasses and some glitter on the mirror ball...

Geek Chique nes pas?




Thursday, 26 May 2011

PUCKa!

I needed to make a card for our nephew's birthday this weekend and there really is only one choice for him - it has to be an ice-hockey card as he's a massive Steelers fan.


I got the great image from Kenny K and its has just enough detail for you to be able to add your own team colours - which for the Steelers are orange and turquoise with lots of white.  I wanted some DP and was surprised it was so easy to find a match - its a sheet from the My Minds Eye Fine and Dandy set.  I cut the hockey player out and mounted onto a black oval, and printed a sentiment in a "puck" like font to wish him a "pucka" birthday.  I wanted him to just overhang the oval so his stick was on the DP, so I used a spotty ribbon to balance the otherside and cut a puck from some scrap black.  I think he came out quite well.

Night all, Craftilicious x

Tuesday, 12 April 2011

Starry Birthday

Very quick post today with a card a made for my cousin's son's birthday this weekend.  No challenges this time, just a card because I made it :-)
 

The birthday boy is really into performing arts - so I decided on lots of stars for the background, which I stamped in shades of blue and red with a stamp from the WM way out west set (doesn't have to be cowboy!) and a bit of old dp with stars on too.  The image is a great Kenny K digi, coloured with copics and pencils.  I added some black glitter paper for matting and layering, and used the same behind a MS border punch for the sentiment.

Ta ta for now.
                      Craftilicious x

Thursday, 31 March 2011

You are fabulous in krafty aquamarine!

It's a mega 4 challenges from one card tonight!   The starting point was a fabby Kenny K girl - and their challenge this week was to use aquamarine.  I used this great girl in her fab furry boots and mega hair and coloured her with copics, and cut her out with a couple of nestie layers http://kennykkraftygirlzchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/03/kenny-ks-krafty-girlz-challenge-38-new.html


I used the sketch from http://cardpatterns.blogspot.com/2011/03/sketch-108.html as the basis of the card and as I like aquamarine and kraft together I combined the two so this makes it the perfect entry into the Spotted Chicks latest That's Krafty Thursday challenge http://thespottedchick.blogspot.com/2011/03/thats-krafty-thursday-49.html  The floral patterned paper is kraft paper with an aquamarine foiled flower and then the semi-circle is kraft card edged with aquamarine stickles dots to form a border.  The foiling, the stickles and the gem in the centre of the flower all add sparkle, shine and shimmer which are the requirements for Cooking it up with Katie this week so that makes challenge 4...  http://cookingitupwithkatie.blogspot.com/2011/03/cooking-it-up-55-sparkle-shine-and.html  A whimsey ticket sentiment on more kraft finishes it off nicely.

Well that's me for tonight - back to trying to get my head around flickr groups ready for Saturday's launch of my Charity Card Making Challenge Blog  -  do pop over to check it out if you haven't already http://stlukescharitycardschallenge.blogspot.com/

Night, night
                  Craftilicious x
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