Trudy cheers "Everybody say Warriors!!!"

Sneaking you a peek of Trudy...

Hi and welcome to Day #1 of Stamp AnnieThing's December Release! 

This release is all about sports... well SAT style anyway!

Trudy (Cheers)

Everybody in the stand let me hear you clap your hands(Clap hands) 

Now that you got the beat let me hear you stomp your feet (Stomp Feet) Now that you got the groove let me see your body move awooga awooga awooga (Move body from side to side with pomp pomps in hands) Now give me one loud cheer 'cause Trudy is the house! 

Trudy is back and she has loads to cheer about!

Look at her adorable pom poms and she even comes with the megaphone + a sentiment.

Color her to match your favorite team and get into the spirit!!!

Trudy be available in the store Friday along with the other 2

stamps we will be showing you this week!

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Here is my completed card. You can call it CAS.

I kept thinking of the cheerleader photos from high school...

not mine of course, I had a choice of going to cheer camp for the summer

and spending about $500 on that or earning some money with my love of 

visual arts at the Richmond Art Center. The art center won but I do love 

choreographed dancing too so I did that during the school year just not as cheerleader.

Coming back to Copic markers and I even used some

ZIG Wink of Stella pens my angel friend BreAnn, now in heaven gifted me last Christmas. 

I used GI. Yellow because it has a golden shimmer and GI. Blue 

which were perfect in making my Trudy be 

a Golden State Warriors cheerleader. 

I have to rep The Bay okay!  

Everybody say Warriors! 

"Warrrrriors!!!"  

The stickers of the hoop and basketball are from Michael's 

and sorry I misplaced the packaging.

Stamps will be available in the store Friday!

Thanks for joining us for our December Release

Have a great day!

Katya Bess

Let the games begin: II + Summer Fun Mini Hop

Hello everyone and welcome to JDE's Summer Fun Mini Hop!

At Jackson's Digital Expressions, we thought it would by "Jolly" good idea to use this hop to introduce one of our new sponsors. So, in addition to the six wonderful images from our resident artist, Robert Jackson, you have an opportunity to win an adorable image from DigiDarla Designs.

DigiDarla is the brain child of Kim Eskola and her daughter Emilea. 

Emilea and I both enjoy creating and when the idea of creating digital stamps came up, it sounded like the most wonderful way to earn ever! There was only one problem! We are both shy and dislike the center of attention! As a way of "hiding behind the scenes" and avoiding having one spokeswoman, 

DigiDarla was born! 

Working with Emilea on this project has been a wonderful blessing and has stretched both of us. Emilea is a busy teen with her passion for art and training our 2 horses, piano and violin lessons, and squeezing in high school classes somewhere in between! She is also the oldest daughter in a family of 11! 

http://www.digidarladesigns.com/

Here is the DigiDarlas digi I used. On her site you can search for : Soccer Girl 4

I chose to make this card Clean And Simple (CAS card)
I used Prismacolor pencils to color her but I did use one Koh-i-noor color pencil
for the main color of the skin since the Prismacolor one seemed too pink for her skin.
The soccer ball is Xzavier's ball (my son) LOL he kept coming to my desk asking he if could play and I kept telling him I'm borrowing it for a few minutes (So...BACK OFF) lol 

Here is a close-up of the colored image. I customized the uniform to represent the

USA Women's Soccer Team by adding stripes to the shirt and the Nike logo. 

(One of these days I'll have to recreate this with their new uniform and one for my girl Hope Solo)

I added tiny details like grass stains on her cleats and on her soccer ball.

Either winning the National Silver or going straight for the gold you know I'm going for the USA Women's Soccer team. 

The rules are very simple. We are asking this "Burning" question: "What is Red, Yellow, Black, Green, Blue and has Rings?" As you visit each blog, look for the mystery words which are hints to help you answer the question. 

Start at Jacksons's Digital Expressions, post your entry into the challenge and then begin the hop. Here is the order:

Start at JDE: http://jacksonsdigitalexpressions.blogspot.com/

Kim - http://kimskuties.blogspot.com/

Sheila- http://lalacrafts.blogspot.com/

Rj - http://thriftycrafterdude.blogspot.com/

Lawren - http://ahobby-holic.blogspot.com/

Katya - (You are Here)

Carol - http://happyexpressions.blogspot.ca/

Sharon - http://sharonshowcase.blogspot.com

Vicky - http://www.crafting-vicky.blogspot.ca/

Francine - http://confiseriespapier.blogspot.com/

Chana - http://redoralee.blogspot.com/

End with JDE: http://jacksonsdigitalexpressions.blogspot.com/

I hope you are having fun and thank you for stopping by.

Many crafty hugs,

Katya Bess

I've entered my card at: 
http://divasbydesignchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/challenge-42-red-white-and-blue.html

http://craftingforallseasons.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/challenge-30-patrioticmilitaryfireworks.html
"Patriotic/Military/Fireworks"

http://milkcoffeechallenge.blogspot.ca/2012/07/looking-for-sports-creations.html
Sports

http://blog.oozak.com/2012/07/challenge-4-bright-colors.html - Use bright colors

Let the games begin: I

Good morning crafters and all alike!

I hope you're having a wonderful day. Just to let you know today is the kick-off of a wonderful month at www.JacksonsDigitalExpressions.blogspot.com (J.D.E.'s blog) with the DT showcasing

the July release also the introduction to new DT members.

Here is my take on  "Lil Street Baller II" one of July's releases.

With all of the rave about the 2012 Olympics I decided to use this image.

I made this a 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 sized card. 

I got to use some Prismacolors this time (woohoo). 

I ordered a box of 72 prismacolors and still not here yet...

The weird part is that a friend of ours is moving from his larger home to a smaller place so 

he was getting rid of stuff... he gave me some dishes (I want them but I don't get excited over no dishes LOL). So in the box he put some marker pens didn't check if they worked or not but there was a  box of 36 Berol Prismacolors. I must say I love them; even after I use the OMS the colors still look vibrant! The only place I use my Kho-i-noor was the skin since I didn't like the browns for the skin tone I was trying to achieve. Don't get me wrong I still love my Kho-i-noor pencils they all give a different hue from the Prismas so I'm not giving them to my kids like I did with my Crayola pencils LOL.

My hubby also bought me an Otte-Lite (he surpised me with one) I guess the YouTube video worked. He knew what to get me and they were on clearance at Michael's. I guess if I want something I'll have to show him YouTube videos so he can see what I want and what I want to use them for. Still working on my staging though.

For the background with a combination of laziness and too much work to do around the house and with my kids I didn't build anything special like a "box" I just used 2 blank canvases I have.

The "gold" medal prop is my daughter's pre-school graduation medal (the front side has a teddy bear and it says "graduate") 

The quote I just had to come up with one I kept trying to find one online and I guess I was giving myself a headache yesterday trying to find something "adequate" and today I just thought of that without even really thinking about it (it's like what the heck why didn't that happen yesterday?)

The reason I said "it tastes like gold" is because I noticed (when did watch the Olympic games I will try to watch more this year...) when a winner was presented with a metal they would bite it. I don't know if it's tradition or if the're really testing if it's real gold/silver/bronze or not. I recall my parents use this bite technique to check their gold. I don't know if that really works or not I know I'd be fooled so I'd rather take it to a professional if I really needed to check something being "real."

Sorry for the long post. Have fun and thanks for stopping by!

Remember to stop by at Jackson's Digital Expressions and join the "anything goes" challenges; you can use ANY stamp (Using any of Robert Jackson's digis is always a plus though.)

bye for now,

-Katya Bess  

I entered my card at: 

http://createwithtlc-createwithtlc.blogspot.com/2012/06/lets-party.html Use a "patriotic theme"

http://kennykskraftykrew.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/welcome-to-challenge-100-and.html "use colors of your flag"

http://craftingforallseasons.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/challenge-30-patrioticmilitaryfireworks.html "Patriotic/Military/Fireworks"

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