HB2U Francisco

Good morning!


Today I'm sharing a birthday card that I made for my brother Francisco. Chico (Francisco's nickname) has a big birthday today, he turns 30 years old.

Chico is very caring, giving, helpful, thoughtful and a funcle. heehee Chico doesn't have children of his own so he likes to get little toys or books from Walmart or Thrift Town for my kids and my nephews too. The kids could of been having a bad day but when they hang out with Uncle Chico he makes them laugh with silly/corny jokes, most of the time he makes them two or three batches of quesadillas, gives them soda (which we don't buy for our home) or he gives them ice cream and blows up lots of balloons for them likes it's a somebody's birthday.

For today's card I also used my Day: 6 and Day: 26 images of The 30 Day Coloring Challenge. For Day: 6, I colored Buddy Ian from The Greeting Farm. For Day: 26 I colored the HB2U from the Mini-Remix Balloons set by The Greeting Farm and the cloud shapes are from a die I made into a stencil from Land of Oz set by Stamp AnnieThing. Then I tried to draw a little bit of the San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge peaking out from the Bay Area fog. I don't really like the fog when I'm driving but it does really look cool (when I'm not driving. ha) Another thing is that a lot of the redwood trees get watered with fog. I still haven't gone up that hill next to the Golden Gate to take that must do photoshoot that most tourist seem to do. When you look at it in person or in photographs it seems like you're up in the clouds with all of the angels. heehee or at least that's how I think of it.

Oh yea so on to the card, I popped up the balloons with foam tape and drew some thing lines with silver Copic atyou Spica only because it's not really that shimmery and makes pretty thin lines.

Thank you for stopping by.

Katya Bess

LMMS: Things that go Bump!

Hello Everyone!

Hope you're having a nice weekend. New rubber stamps available for a limited time at Little Miss Muffet Stamps. The design team is sharing so many projects we made with these very cute stamps. This time it's with a carnival theme. You can purchase then individually or buy five and receive a sixth ONE FREE. Free Shipping on all US orders. The event starts on Monday March 25th and will end midnight, Central Daylight Time, on April 1st. (No joke!)


The Little Misses will be sharing fun inspiration on the Little Miss Muffet Facebook Group all week so come check out the fun!

Here is my second card with these super cute stamps.

Little Miss Muffet Stamps: Swings 'n Slides: Bump!

I colored this stamp with Polychromos pencils

and used Distress Oxide around the image

then added little stars with a Uni-ball Signo Angelic pen.

Polychromos:
Ivory, Burnt Sienna, Light Flesh, Medium Flesh, Burnt Flesh
Black, White,
Permanent Carmine, Deep Red
Permanent Green, Hookers Green
Cadmium Yellow, Light Yellow, Brown Ochre
Cold Grey VI, Warm Grey IV, Cold Grey III, Warm Grey III

I hope you are able to get your hot little hands on these

and get to play and share your creations with us at

Little Miss Muffet Stamps & Inspiration (Facebook page)

Thank you for visiting. 

Katya Bess

LMMS: Christmas boy

Hello Crafty Friends!

I hope you are all having a beautiful day. For today's inspiration I have a card I created using Polka Dot Pals Eric and  Polka Dot Pals Add-on Faces (digital) both of these are digital stamps from Little Miss Muffet Stamps.

Polka Dot Pals Eric 

and  

Polka Dot Pals Add-on Faces (digital)

Close-up

Polychromos color pencils I used were:

Ivory, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber, Medium Flesh,

Dark Flesh,Brown Ochre, Dark Cadmium Yellow, White,

Cold Grey III, Cold Grey VI, Black, Hooker's Green, 

Olive Green, Alizarin Crimson, Dark Red and Indian Red

For more inspiration from the Design Team and Guest Design Team

over at Little Miss Muffet Stamps check out the 

Little Miss Muffet Stamps & Inspiration Group.

Thank you for stopping by,

Katya Bess 

LMMS: Toby It's a Super Big Day

Hey there!

Today I'm worked on a boy card, I was specifically thinking about one my nephews when I colored rubber stamp Polka Dot Pals Toby. I used Polka Dot Pals Add-on Faces clear stamp as well to give him his expression. I really liked that PDP Toby has curly hair like my nephew, he's in his play clothes and in a homemade cape. I like that he looks playful and in super hero mode. I was thinking about how my brother takes him to him on B.A.R.T. rides a lot and he gets to see Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland and San Francisco city skylines on their way home after day care /and after work. My nephew gets excited about all of the people and action he gets to see but also city scapes with the sunset colors on The Bay.

I used the sentiment called Big Day Tobie from Some Odd Girl Stamps, the Make A Card #7 die set from C.C. Designs, and the cityscape is called Super 2 from Paper Smooches, the card rectangle layers dies are from My Creative Time. I colored Polka Dot Pals Toby with Copic markers and I used Distress Inks for the sunset background.

Copic Markers:

E04, E11, E13, E21, R30

E25, E15, Y19, Uniball Angelic White. 

W9, W7, W5, E25

R24, R29, R39

B21, B45, B95, B97

G07, G09, G28

Y19

Mini Distress Inks:

For the background layer I started with Distress Inks: Fossilized Amber at the bottom working my way up, from the very top I used Abandoned Coral working my way down towards Fossilized Amber. Then in between the first two colors I used Spiced Marmalade to blend them out. Lastly I used a very light amount of Black Soot on the top and bottom edges and an even tinier amount on the sides. I really enjoy using Distress Inks to give color for backgrounds I can't wait for more colors. I really need to do inventory because there might be more colors out there that I'm missing out on. Oh yea I really need to buy Re-inkers for them too.

I cut up two sets of the Super 2, Paper Smooches die set and just lined and trimmed them to extend the cityscape and fit the card size. After fussy cutting Polka Dot Pals Toby I made sure to place him to cover up the edges where it was more obvious that I joined the two sets of dies.

The reason I used the squiggly comic speech bubble is because I made a mistake with the stamps. I really meant to stamp part of the Some Odd Girl sentiment, add the super die cut and then the rest of the Some Odd Girl stamp....on the background but somehow my paper got stuck to the stamp and the paper lifted bit [insert internal whine face here. LOL] and the I got an offset stamped section where I didn't want it. So after digging around since I had no time to start another background and cut up more cityscapes I found a way to block it with that big comic speech bubble die from CC Designs that also has the "Super" die cut. Sometimes super hero's don't have capes... sometimes they are in paper form and die cuts to block the bad stamping away. Haha In the end I liked that it gave it more of a small child comic book feel. I think I'm going to play with that die set a little more now.

See my crafty mess... looking over to my desk and there is still a bunch of things I need to put away so that I can start on a new card or project.

Also check out Little Miss Muffet Stamps on Amazon... Whaaaaat?! 

I know some people that ONLY do their online shopping with Amazon.

BUT if you're like me, I like to go to the artist's main site which is here:

 http://www.littlemissmuffetstamps.com/

and don't forget about the challenges (Always ~ Anything Goes!)

Little Miss Muffet Challenges

Thank you for visiting,

Katya Bess

LMMS: Ryker Smile

Good Morning!

It's time for a new challenge over at  Little Miss Muffet Challenges and as always it's an Anything Goes Challenge. Here is what I've created using Polka Dot Pal Ryker and one of the faces from Polka Dot Pals Add-on Faces. I always need some male/boy cards and it seems that I don't have one on hand...yikes... trying to get better at that. This image is perfect for different occasions too so I definitely had to color him up. :D

 Polka Dot Pal Ryker

Polka Dot Pals Add-on Faces

I used Copic markers to color him up. 

I was extremely indecisive on the skin and clothes

for some reason....  Then I decided to go with a 

green even though the background is green and maybe I should of gone with a 

muted red or some type of reddish brown. I don't know maybe I'll do another card.  

I also want to try another card with "mess" with the texture of the hair. 

Back to the green... heehee since I colored his gree and I had already picked and cut

up the paper to make the card I left a white edge when cutting the image.

I typically do not like leaving the white and I didn't like it agains the green

so I glued the image on black cardstock and left an edge around that and to me

it really pops and he doesn't fade into the background.

Oh yea! I almost forgot to mention that the paper is from the Michael's Recollections line.

I bought the big 12x12 when it was on sale I think I paid a little more than $5-tax included.

A couple weeks later I saw the same stack but in the 6x6 pad but I didn't

buy it cause I was trying to quickly buy something else while I was supposed to be

grocery shopping... (shhhh don't tell my husband... or my kids) 

but also the 6x6 paper cost more than the 12x12! What's up with that?

The 6x6 paper cost $5.99 and no good coupons available that week. LOL

Here is a close up. 

I added Glossy Accents (that I did but with a 50% off coupon a different week LOL) 

to the lens to give it that "glass" look and same with the flash.

The "Smile" die and the "polaroid" die with the sentiment are all from My Creative Time.

I hope you liked my card and didn't get bored with my rambling.

Don't forget to check out

http://www.littlemissmuffetstamps.com/

for digis, clear and rubber stamps

AND don't also check out the very talented ladies

on the design team and make sure to link up

your creations at:

http://littlemissmuffetchallenges.blogspot.com/

Thank you for visiting.

Katya Bess

Hip Hip Hooray

Hi there!

Hip Hip Hooray! I finally get to post a card again! I know it's been a long time since I last posted or even made a card. I had so much fun coloring this image from Kraftin' Kimmie - you can find the stamp here: Carly Cupcakes

I colored the image with Copic markers on 

Crafter's Companion Spectrum Noir White Ultra Smooth Premium Cardstock

(man that's a long name!)

The paper is from Doodlebug Design Inc and it's called Hip Hip Hooray

Here is cropped image.

Carly could be making birthday cupcakes or Easter cupcakes...

I used the Kraftin' Kimmie's April Sketch

I just rotated the sketch sideways.

You can see the sketch below

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog.

Katya Bess

entering card at:

http://kraftinkimmiestamps.blogspot.ca/2017/04/challenge-376-easter.html

Back to School series

Hello Crafty Friends!

Today I am showing you a card with sort of a school theme. I used the fun papers from Doodlebug Design called: Back to School. The stamp I used is James - Happy Birthday to You. This stamp comes with a sentiment but I did not use it this time. 

James - Happy Birthday to You

 I colored him with Copic markers, 

the eyelights were done with a Uni-ball Signo White pen

and the card sketch is very simple to recreate.

I used a sketch from Kraftin' Kimmy Stamps

I hope you liked the card.

Thank you for visiting.

Have a nice day. 

Katya Bess

Entering card at:

Stamp AnnieThing July Release Day 1 - Tony

Hi and welcome to Day #1 of 

Stamp Anniething's July release!  

I love the carefree days of Summer and hope you find this release to reflect on that.

Meet totally rad and gnarly Tony!

Tony will be available in the store Friday along with the other 2 stamps we show  you  this week!!

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Here is the project I made with the new stamp Tony!

Before we moved to our current house

we lived in a tiny 2 bedroom house

and we met one of the coolest persons ever- his name is Karl Watson.

Not only he was very nice and easy going,  he was always 

very happy and positive about life and he loved people especially kids.

I would say he was pretty famous but my husband and I 

just saw him as a very nice neighbor and friend. 

Kids and grown ups would often come 

to skate or see him do a trick or two. 

As  you know already this stamp does not come

with dreads I just decided to make his hair that way.

I colored with Copic markers. 

For skin I used colors E11, E13, E21, R30, R20

For hair: E23, E35, E59 and E79 

the hat and clothing I colored a different day and I didn't write

anything down and me having my kids home all day for the summer... sorry. 

Here is a close-up of Tony! (aka Karl Watson) LOL    

If you search for him online or even Instagram you can see

pictures and videos of him in action but I didn't take any photos... I know...

bummer! LOL Okay I took one... but only because we were near our

old house and we were showing our kids where we used to live...

then what do you know? We catch Karl outside on the front yard

playing with his kids.

Here is the picture I have with my husband DeAndre Bess and with Karl Watson

I hope you liked my card. 

Also, in case you didn't know 

there is a BIG sale going on 

from July 4th-July 8th 2016

"Some stamps discounted DEEPLY... and EVERYTHING is on sale !!  

 Since our July release begins Wednesday, it will NOT be included in the sale.. however if you plan to buy it, we can HOLD your order and ship everything at once to you on Friday.. just leave a note in the box at checkout!   " - Annie

We got a sale for July 4th going on.. some stamps discounted DEEPLY... and EVERYTHING is on sale !! 

Since our July release begins Wednesday, it will NOT be included in the sale.. however if you plan to buy it, we can HOLD your order and ship evverything at once to you on Friday.. just leave a note in the comment box at checkout!  

Thank you for joining us for our July Release

 and have a great day!

PEACE!

Katya Bess

Stamp AnnieThing June Release Day#2: Sam and Best Bud

Hi and welcome to Day #2 of 

Stamp Anniething's June release!  

I love animals and my furbabies.... so this release is homage to PETS!

Everyone know Dog is Man's best friend, so here is Sam and his best bud!

Sam will be available in the store Friday along with the other 2 stamps we show  you  this week!!

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Thank you for joining us for our June Release

 and have a great day!

Sam best buds

 Here is my card. 

I colored Sam and his doggy with Copic markers

but I paper piece Sam's clothes with paper from 

Tiny Tatty Teddy: Me to You paper pack

The papers from the background are all from the

same paper pack as well except for the 

brown Kraft Cardstock.

Kind of simple but it came in good time to make

a boy card since I was very low on them 

to give out. LOL  

Here is a close-up of the coloring and on the 

paper piecing. 

Thank you for visiting

and don't forget we have one more

day of previews then you can buy them all! :)

Have a great day.

Katya Bess

Happy birthday to you Brother

Hello there!

Today I  have a boy birthday card for you. I used the James - Happy Birthday To You stamp set.

I wanted a simple but cute card for a male/boy.

James looks so cute and the sentiment is included

and it fits perfectly with my card sketch. Woohoo!

I used Copic markers to color him up.

Skin: Lipstick Natural, Egg Shell, Baby Skin Pink, Milky White, Pale Yellowish Pink

Clothes: Sky, Light Grayish Cobalt, Pale Grayish Blue, Night Blue

Hair and shoes: Warm Gray No 5, No 7 and No 9

The paper is from Doodlebug 6x6 pad called Hip Hip Hooray

The balloon die are from Our Daily Bread Designs called Happy Birthday Dies

but instead of using their string die I just hand drew some because of

the varying heights I wanted to place the balloons. 

I must say that I finally opened my tiny Xyron Sticker Maker

and oh my goodness!!! I love that thing... See I'm so messy

with glue or I get glue coming out from the sides and ugh...

too much too clean up and then I always seem to forget to close the cap

but this was so good and clean! My only complaint is that 

I try to use as least possible but there still some wasted sticker sheet.

Unfortunately James head is too big for the sticker maker. LOL  

but it's not all bad it's actually a great size for coloring if you're

a beginner or up there with the coloring pros out there. 

Anyway, what I want to say is I recommend the sticker maker for those tiny little

pieces oh yea I also used it on his shirt (not the vest I colored that part.)

I fussy cut the inside shirt from the same paper pad.

That is all folks!

Thank you for visiting.

Have a great day!!!

Katya Bess

James - October Release Day #2

Hi and welcome to Day #2  of Stamp AnnieThing's October release!

This release is all about being a hipster and trendy, so without further ado, here is...

Totally hip James!

Here is very Trendy James. In his beanie cap and scarf, holding on to his smart phone.

James is so very hip!

James be available in the store on Friday along with the other 2 

stamps we show you for this week!!!

Check out the awesome creations the design team made with the hip James!

Just click Here be taken to the blog post.

Here is my card.

 I wanted to look like an iMessage with the blue bubble with white text.
My mom knits sometimes and so does a crafty friend named Trish. She lives waaaay up in Canada...
I was thinking of her and her son when I made this card. She is a cool, strong and trendy
single mother that loves to craft especially knitting/crocheting all sorts of stuff.

I handwrote "Hi Mom" for his iMessage

I added glossy accents on top to create the cool iPhone look. ;)

I was up all night creating this card but I had so much fun doing so. LOL   

Also, I said I enjoy creating scenes but with all of the details in the coloring...

I think it packs a lot of punch. (Is that how the saying goes? LOL )

Stamps will be available in the store on Friday

Thank you for joining us for our October Release.

Have a Great Day

Katya Bess

Digi Galore DT: Summery / Bright

Hello Everyone!

[Still playing Terminator's drumming beat in my head] Just got home from watching Terminator Genisys :P Hmm... what can I say... I'm an 80's kid LOL :) Okay on to the details of my card and nothing at all from the new Terminator movie... but then there is a scene where you see a big.... Ha! Won't tell ya- You'd know what I'm talking about when you see it. LOL ;)

Today I'm showcasing a card and also brand spankin' new design team member for the Digi Galore Challenge Blog. I am featuring a stamp from http://digitaldelightsbyloubyloo.com/

This month's them is Summery / Bright. 

 Ice Cream Roxy 

Isn't it a sweet looking bear?

I think it's supposed to be a girl bear by the name but I intend to give it to a male. I did use bright colors but for a "boy." I colored everything with my Copic markers.

The papers are from a Echo Park and it's called: Splash Collection Kit

I hope you like my card. Make sure to stop by Digi Galore's Challenge blog at:

http://notrealstamps.blogspot.com

Thank you for stopping by,

Katya Bess

entering card at:

http://oddballstamps.blogspot.ca/2015/06/summer-fun-challenge.html

Summer Fun

SBS DT: Teen Eras 2 Release

Hey Everyone!

Just popping in to show some cards.


Today is release day over at http://simplybettystamps.blogspot.com/ hop on over and you'll see the rest of the line up. Today I'm showing a couple of projects that I have created with these super cute digi stamps.

I'm using
Arabian London Princess click on the link to find her on the shop
http://simplybstamps.net/item_3099/London-Arabian-Princess-Digi.htm

Christian The Kid click on the link to find him at the shop http://simplybstamps.net/item_3096/Christian-The-Kid-Digi.htm

Here are my projects:

Arabian London Princess

 Colored Arabian London Princess with Copic markers

I used some K& Company Bling I got from JoAnne's 

The Flowers are from Recollections

The Paper is from DCWV (I think)

The lace was from Walmart

 I tried to give her some abs... you know from all of that belly dancing. LOL

I also tried to make her pants and sleeve sort of transparent.

Christian The Kid

 Here is Christian The Kid I also colored him with Copic markers

The pebble paper is from Recollections (I think) 

The Cowboy paper is actually vellum.

My Mom found this scrapbook paper I believe at a yard sale....

I wasn't sure when I was going to use this paper she got it for me years ago

but it was perfect with this image- it's from 

K&Company and it's a 12x12 Cowboy Printed Embossed Vellum

For the vellum booths and hat I just fussy cut and glued them on white paper so 

the colors can pop a little since they were too dark by themselfs.

Here is a close up of Christian The Kid

I tried to go for the weathered looking jeans and colored the hat so it can look old and worn.

I also made it a toy gun. heehee

King Chris

Rio Queen of the Nile

Don't forget to go to 

http://simplybettystamps.blogspot.com/ 

and you will see more inspiration from all of the DT gals

they all have done a beautiful job.

Thank you for looking

Katya Bess

TGF: Boys only

Hey Everyone,

Just popping in with a boy card.

I haven't made many male or boy cards so I decided to join in on the challenge. I made it a CAS card just to be a little safe since I make them all girly if I start embellishing.


I used a rubber stamp called Dante fromThe Greeting Farm

I colored him with Copic markers

The paper is from Recollections

The dies are from 

My Creative Time 

Stitched Rectangular Fram Dies & More set

Hope you liked my card

Thanks for visiting. 

Katya Bess

Will enter card at: 

Happy 5th Birthday Xzavier Luigi Style

Hello My Crafty Peeps!

Just coming in for a few minutes since I have house work to do... you all know how fun that is.

Well tomorrow is my son Xzavier's 5th birthday. He loves Luigi and he loves the color green. He is will be starting kindergarden soon and he is just so excited about everything. :D

I made him a card using:
  A Journey  rubber stamp set and Fairy Princess clear stamp set from The Greeting Farm

The step card is from the silhouette store, the grass is from My Creative Time  and the rest I created myself with the Silhouette D.E.

Here is my card:

As you can see this card was totally inspired by Mario Bros. Luigi character. LOL  

I colored my images with Copic markers. I didn't have any other little boy TGF stamps

with overalls so I kind of made them into overalls by drawing a line near the chest and coloring it blue. 

I created a little Green Toad by cutting a toadstool and cutting up a fairy. 

I know my son is going to love it! Well I'm hoping anyway. He has been counting down the days for his birthday to come... OMG all he does is count numbers all day and math problems all day. He drives me insane sometimes he has a thing for numbers but I still love him. 

Anyway, I hope you all liked my little birthday card too. :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Katya Bess

Will be entering my card at:

http://thegreetingfarm.com/blog/?p=1881
Shaped Cards or Tags

A Teen Dark Knight's Birthday

Hi back again!

Hope everyone is having a fantastic day. Just posting another card I created this week using another Simply B Stamp. Joining Day 16 Challenge with Corinne Jones and Sharon Brown I chose the second challenge: For Teen Scene Hollywood: We were to recreate a movie scene on our project.

The stamp is called Christian the Dark Hero and you can get it here:
http://simplybstamps.net/item_1504/Christian-the-Dark-Hero-Digi.htm

I love Batman movies and my favorites are the newer Batman versions especially The Dark Knight. In this scene The Joker crashes a party then grabs Rachel and tries to intimidate her with his knife and tells one of his thousand stories of how he got his "smiley face" but then Batman (Bruce Wayne) comes to her rescue. The Joker of course always wants Batman to take off his mask.

Since this is a more kid friendly image I felt like the party should have more kid friendly beverages and decorations. I fast drew the party scene myself since I couldn't find a table digi background that wasn't girly or too much stuff going on. Drawing my own backgrounds and elements is another favorite thing for me to add to my cards or projects. I colored the background with Copics and Batman with both Copic and Spectrum Noir markers. The Sentiment, I found online but typed it up on my computer and cut the endges to make it look like torn edges. I hand cut up an image of a bat then inked the edges to make them look like sharp edges... this is my version of a Batarang. Silly, I know. LOL

Hope you like my creation. Thanks for stopping by,  

Katya Bess

entering my card at:  http://simplybettystamps.blogspot.com/2013/06/birthday-celebration-day-16-corinne.html

Kids Cricut Valentine's Day cards 2013

Hi there Crafty Peeps!

A little late posting on my blog... some of you gals may have seen these on Facebook where I posted before Valentine's day. These are the little cards I made for my Kindergartner daughter:

Using Create A Critter Cricut Cartridge and a Peachy Keen Stamp for the eye

Using Create A Critter Cricut Cartridge and Peachy Keen Stamp for the face

 The little cards measured 3.5" x 4"

from an 8.5 x 11 sheet of cardstock I made 

3 cards and only had to trim off half an inch.

Originally I made 17 boy cards and 8 girl cards

but the decided to make a few more (not pictured)

Along with the cards she gave Valentine's Day heart candy boxes.

Yup, there were lots of cards but surprisingly didn't take as long as 

coloring. I "coached" my daughter into choosing characters that

didn't have too many layers... 'cause at first she wanted Hello Kitty 

cards for all of the girls. If I hadn't started as late as I did I sure would 

have 'cause I love Hello Kitty. Maybe next time... Easter maybe.

Thanks for visiting.

Katya Bess

Places I entered my creation:
http://www.cardztv.blogspot.com/2013/02/exciting-news-at-cricut-cardz-challenge.html
challenge #125 Critter Cuties (I'm entry #36)

My Creative Time Thursday Throwback Challenge - Sports

Hello Everyone!


I created a card for Emma's challenge at My Creative Time.


 *** This challenge is a SPORTS CHALLENGE! Use any sports cartridge you have & if you don't own any sports theme carts, just use anything you have & just make sure it has something to do w/sports!:)


Here is the actual link: http://www.creativetimeforme.com/search/label/Throwback%20Thursday


My choice was: MOTORSPORTS!
It's masculine, it's valentine-ish and it's a sport. Hope you like it. 
I use Paperdolls cart to create this card I really tried my best to use only one cartridge and I did!

I use a watermark and clear embossing powder to make the helmet shiny.

Thanks for stopping by,

Katya