Nick Pitera!!

So... I drew Nick Pitera. I'm not sure if it's done yet or not...
But I like it :D
I think I will try and get some more drawing stuff and eventually fill in the background :)


If you don't know who Nick Pitera is....
Here's a sample :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wceKiDBjFM

He's singing the Glee version of Don't Stop Believing.

Getting back to the basics

Well I'm back at school now and consequently living away from the crafting and card supplies. So, I've been left to my own devices and gone back to drawing. Here is a drawing of Spock I did over the early part of the summer. I have no formal drawing education or anything like that, so try not to judge me too harshly :)


(In actuallity it is much lighter since I drew it in graphite, so I used the computer to darken it )
I apologize for it looking kind of blury. But I don't have the original file on hand so I had to save a copy of a smaller image of it and then enlarge it in this window.
Anyway. I really kind of like it and I think it's the best thing I've drawn to date.

ciao for now
Melissa

Red the blood of angry men, black the dark of ages past!

Today's challenge on 365 was to use only black, red, and white to make our card.
Well, I was not feeling at all inspired by this, so I just made this up real quick.
The way it scanned the polka dots makes em look orange, but they are SU Real Red with red stickles on top. And the rose was done with SU Real Red and SU Riding hood Red re-inkers with a water brush thing on watercolor paper.



Melissa


This Card:
Paper: SU Black, cheap white, watercolor paper.
Ink: SU Real Red, SU Ridinghood Red, black Stazon
Stamps: Polka Dots and Paiselys, happy harmony, and that one with this rose ( sorry forgot it)

Today's Challenges!!

Todays 365 Challenge: Windows!
First things first. Guess where I got the color scheme...... Anyone??? I'll give you a hint, It's from a t.v. show. ( stay tuned for the answer at the bottom). ANyway, the cat and the coral paper is on the inside of the card, and I cut the windows out of my window. There is acetate between the front and inside, but it didn't show up in the scan.

This Card:
Paper: SU Ivory, groovy guava
Ink: Bermuda bay, chocolate chip, black stazon
Ribbon: groovy guava
Stamps: SU Best Yet, SU Window Dressing, SU Polka Dots and Paisleys ____________________________________________________________

Next, The Crafty Creations Challenge. (#23) This challenge was to involve birds. Here's my bird!! Not that this is important... but I was watching the movie "Death by Murder" while making this... That is a Hilarious movie! OH, and don't you just love when you don't stamp straight? Fun isn't it?


This card:
Paper: SU groovy guava, perfectly pomegranate, river rock, flower print paper
Stamps: Clear bird set, Polka dots and Paisleys
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And now the Mojo Monday sketch!( week 95) I've been stuck in a tropical rut lately, if you've seen my other posts you would now what i'm talking about.


This Card:
Paper: Bermuda Bay, night of navy,old olive, hhhhh, copper paper, happily ever after print paper
Stamps: MFT tiki lagoon, SU Do the Hula
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Last, but certainly not least, The Creative Belli Blog Challenge: Texture! (69)
This is one of the first stamp sets I ever bought, so I was pretty excited to get to use it again. My texture is the flowersoft on the lettuce! That fancy paper I used for the Chef's jacket was paper my mom has saved from an old fabric sample book. It's fun to use old stuff :)

This Card:
Ink: SU chocolate chip, SU more mustard, black stazon
Stamps: SU Voila! and Voila to Go, Inkadinkado clear stamps, harmony
Accessories: green flowersoft

Thanks for looking!
Remember my question at the begining? About the color scheme for my 365 card?
Well, It all come from "The Golden Girls". The pink paper is more of a coral color in person, so combine that with the bermuda bay spots and the off white paper, you get the colors used in the living room ( and most of the house) on "Golden Girls". Just a fun fact for ya ^_~

Melissa

Sweet Sunday Sketch

Here's my card. It looks like a halloween card doesn't it? I didn't mean for it to be, but it is now. I just wanted to use the cracked-glass technique on that tree.

Melissa


This Card:
Paper: SU Old Olive and Elegant Eggplant



Didn't have time to put up the link to the challenge yesterday, here ya go!

In the Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki room...

Todays challenge on 365 cards was a sketch. Initially I was going to try and make a card that combined 3 other challenges, but then when I was looking at other peoples cards for this sketch, someone had a picture of a tropical resort on the side of their blog, and then I knew I had to make a tropical card. So, This took me over an hour, maybe two. I think I over-stickled, but I like it. Enjoy.

If I were to do this card again I would probably rip the Bermuda Bay down further so that more of the photo paper showed, and buy a different color of stickles for the purple flower. Other than that, I'm pretty happy with it.

ON BRACKETS:
Oh! I didn't have anything to make the brackets with, so I punched a scallop, then stuck the scallop into a circle punch. Of course, the two times I did it they didn't come out even so I had to trim them a little. ANYWAY, then I was looking through the new cards people entered for this challenge and found Catstamps. Thanks to her entry I learned how to make brackets without a bracket punch!! If you have time check out her blog. If not, I'll tell you real quick that you use a tab punch. So you are using the side of the center ( where you will see it dips and bumps like a bracket) and you just punch once onto paper, and then again lining it up about a centimeter from the first time and it should leave you with a bracket. Pretty cool, huh?

Melissa



This Card:

Ink: SU tempting turqoise, rich razzleberry, crushed curry, pink passion, pacific point
Black Stazon
Stamps: SU- Do the Hula, Circle Circus, My favorite things- Tiki Lagoon
Paper: SU Bermuda bay, Craft paper, white, beach photo paper
Stickles: dark blue, star dust, yellow, fruit punch, waterfall
Accessories: Cuttlebug bubble folder, dimensionals

By the Sea...

Noticing a theme in my challenge cards today? Totally unintentional. Anyway, This one was for a sketch challenge, Sketch Saturday to be exact. I knew immediately that I wanted to use this stamp. This stamp, which my mother says she "hates it to death". Do you feel the same way I wonder? Anyway, I finally used up some photo paper on this one both the dark blue, and the beach scene were from the same sheet of paper. My image is stamped on SU! Ivory paper, colored, and glitzed with yellow Stickles. My phrase is from the SU set "Crab and Company". I threw some stickles on that as well to make it a little better. At the bottom are some pearls, and a crystal brad in the center of the flower. There is also some Lace Stickles on the foam of the waves in the photo paper, but you can't really see it with this scanned image. I'm not really impressed, satisfied, or happy with this card. It didn't come out at all as I had hoped. But I guess it isn't half bad. Anyway, here it is.
Sketch:

Card:


So what do you think? Is the stamp really so horrible?? I know my coloring job leaves something to be desired but....


Melissa