Breast Cancer Awareness Month is around the corner

Hello Crafty friends,

I hope all is well with everyone. Today I have a special card that I worked on using a Robert Jackson digi.
The Inks and Such challenge this week at http://jacksonsdigitalexpressions.blogspot.com/ 

is use PINK or the Breast Cancer Awareness theme.

Chana along with several other JDE designers have pledge to donate $0.25 to Breast Cancer Research for every entry on this week's challenge. Please post on your blogs, facebook and or twitter let your crafty friends know to join in on the challenge.

Here is my card and envelope to go with the card.

I used Robert Jackson's two digi images
Sunday Hat and Rose

  For the envelope I only used the Rose and cut off the stem.

If you are going to use glue such as glossy accents or any wet glue make sure not

to glue it on the flap area with adhesive because it will make it wet enough to seal

the envelope... 

I colored with Copic and Spectrum Noir markers.

I used a cuttlebug embossing folder

 The Bible verse was printed on regular printer paper. I cut 

several pages to add to the 3D look on the book. I used 

Spellbinders labels seven (2nd to largest die) I cut the pink

part of the book with the largest die but then it seemed too large

so I trimmed it down with scissors. 

I shrank the rose and printed 3 times then cut a few petals
to give it that 3D look.

I hope you enjoyed your visit. Make sure to participate in this week's challenge at
http://jacksonsdigitalexpressions.blogspot.com/
this week's sponsor is at JDE is Bugaboo Stamps.

Remember both women and men get breast cancer. 
So I won't say get the "girls" checked (this time). Just make sure to do self exams and get checked
by a professional especially if you have a family history.

Here are some fun Breast Cancer Slogans you can use on your card or project:

Big or Small save them all

A feel a day keeps the doctor away

Thanks for the mammories

Stop the war in my rack! 

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death

Show you care, be aware

Real men wear pink

Have fun making something crafty and thank you so much for visiting.

Katya Bess

Challenges I'm linking at:
http://www.linkupforpink.com/2012/09/challenge-no-6.html
create any Breast Cancer Awareness Pink project (unlimited entries allowed)

http://dawn-dawnscrafting.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/welcome-to-my-challenge.html
Breast Cancer Awareness or Think Pink

http://papelitosstamps.blogspot.com/2012/09/challenge-13-use-digi.html
Use a digi

http://paperplaychallenges.blogspot.com/2012/09/12-week-38-choose-holiday.html
Choose your holiday (Breast Cancer Awareness "month" I hope it counts)

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/2012/09/mim-108-with-digi-doodle-shop.html
Anything Goes

http://stampandcreateblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Challenge
Anything Goes

http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/challenge-3-anything-goes.html
Anything Goes

http://www.gingerloftchallenge.blogspot.com/
Dry or Wet embossing

http://www.memascrafts.blogspot.com/2012/09/september-choose-theme-challenge.html
Choose a Theme. #5 Family Affair

http://thecraftypad.blogspot.com/
Breast Cancer Awareness or Think Pink ( see Right Sidebar)

http://stampinsistersinchrist.blogspot.com/2012/09/challenge-158-psalm-13914.html

11th Anniversary card for my hubby

Hello there crafting friends,

I have a card for you with a little bit of  an "adult humor" heehee the image is sweet... just my mind is a little... well twisted LOL. My hubby and I have been together since high school and married 3 years ago. So when some of our old buddies see us they think we've been together for eternity. Our wedding vows say to be together "until death do us part" and we were thinking like wth! lol I still want to be with you beyond that (is that weird?) So what perfect image to use the Addams couple heehee. Wait, did they ever die in the story? I don't know... but I thought the sentiment was rather funny and I know he'll like it. Enough rambling here is the card:

The digi images are from Simply Betty Stamps. 

Christian Addams digi

and Betty Addams digi

I made him tall he's 6'2'' and I'm... well I'm under 5' lol. I flipped 

Betty Addams so she looks like she's looking at Christian Addams.

(Note: Christian's hair is not curly/wavy but I have permission from 

Betty Roberts the owner of Simply Betty stamps for 

changing only the hair texture for this particular card)

This is when I was done coloring. 

All skin tones and flowers are done with Copic markers

and the the clothing is done with Spectrum Noirs.

I used a recipe for this card from Designed to Color 

but we had to hunt for the recipe ingredients.

I hope I got them all correct. 

• A colored image: I colored Christian Addams and Betty Addams
• Something Doodled: I "doodled his curly/wavy hair" I also doodled little white stars. 
• Bling Bling! I used bling for her "wedding ring" and on the left corner. 
• 2 or more patterned papers: I used 4 (LOL) all from DCWC the immortal love stack
• twine: I have one holding the Love you charm that I "died" red with a Copic marker.

I had fun coloring the image; the sketch for the card was a little challenging for me but my hubby likes the card. Hope you like it too. Thank you so much for stopping by.

Crafty hugs,

Katya Bess

Entered my card at:

http://designedtocolor.blogspot.com/2012/09/final-giveaway-two-prizes-up-for-grabs.html

You have to hunt for the ingredients I may have missed one or misunderstood one so make sure to check it out for yourself ;) 

http://simplychallengedchallenges.blogspot.com/2012/09/septemeber-21st-anything-goes.html

Anything Goes

http://www.bythecuteandgirly.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/boysmen-september-challenge-over-at-by.html

Boys/Men

http://liastampz.blogspot.com/2012/09/challenge-25-3-of-something.html

3 of something

http://natalieandamy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/anything-goes-for-our-first-ever.html

Anything goes

http://uniquecrafterschallenge.blogspot.com/2012/09/september-challenge-anything-goes.html
Anything goes

http://forevernightchallenges.blogspot.com/

Monster Mash Party Hop

Hello Crafty friends,

***I'm late :( yes, I know I suck... which is why I chose a vampire (j/k) lol that was a coincidence*** AND please be nice this is my first "Halloween card."

If you're coming from: Irene Sherman  http://irenescardcreations.blogspot.com/ then you're in the right place otherwise start at http://simplybettystamps.blogspot.com/2012/09/monster-mash-party-hop.html

I used Simply Betty (digi) Stamp Verity Vamp and Boris the Bat I chose to color her in in warm grey tones following one of Ms. Betty's YouTube tutorials... this is also my first time using this technique. I only have a very small supply of Copic markers so I substituted the colors with my Spectrum Noir markers. I make my own paper roses and for some reason they always seem to come out different.... For these rose petals I used my Cricut but the leaves I used a Spellbinders die.

The card- Ta-dah! (I got that from Betty's video lol)

Close-up* small elements colored in with Sakura "Red Star" for that shimmery look.

My own paper roses.

Enlarged and cut out an element from Verity Vamp's top hat 

to tie-off the rose bouquet. 

Next up is: Gina Lindsay http://ginasmakingsandmusings.blogspot.com/

Happy hopping and thanks for visiting ;)

Crafty Hugs,

Katya Bess

I'm entering this card at:

http://designedtocolor.blogspot.com/2012/10/october-theme-week-last-day-halloween.html

Freaky and Frightful (Halloween Free 4 All)

Anything but a card: Earrings

Good morning everyone!

I hope your extended weekend was awesome and if you didn't have that extra day I hope it was still jammed packed with fun/family/food and crafting.

This week at Jackson's Digital Expressions the team welcomed a wonderful digi stamp company My Heart Pieces again :) You'll be seeing more from them at JDE as well.

The hosting team was the Altered Art Group that means we work on "anything but a card."

I've seen a few videos here and there online and decided to give bottled cap earrings a go.

Robert has so many neat and interesting digi drawings when I found "Profile 7" I knew she'd make some cool earrings. I copied and pasted the image then flipped one for that mirror image and reduced the size so that I can fit it on the bottle cap.

Finished set

 Close up

This was my very first time working on earrings of any kind (please be gentle on the comments (; ) I think I did quite alright so I'm going to have to make a necklace to go with these earrings to make it a complete set.

Well ladies and gentlemen I tried to keep it short and sweet this time ;) I know I blabber too much sometimes on writing but I'm awfully quiet in person heehee. Don't forget to visit http://jacksonsdigitalexpressions.blogspot.com/ for our weekly challenge and also visit this week's sponsor : http://myheartpiecesdigitalstamp.blogspot.in/ a very sweet artist lady to work with.

Thank you so much for visiting.

Katya Bess

Challenges I've entered:

Spoketacular Birthday

Hello Crafty Friends,

Hope all is great! Today is my youngest brother's birthday. Happy Birthday Bro'! {plays song "1st of tha month" in the background since that's his favorite song for hist birthday lol}He turned 21 today- of course to me he's still a little kid.... heehee I'm the oldest of them all. We always sort of called him my mom's birthday present because he was born the day before her birthday. I bought this stamp one because it's cute, second it was on sale 40% off, third because I knew I needed a "bike" stamp and fourth I know I'll be making him "bike" cards for him to give out. My brother
co-manages a bike shop in Richmond, Calif. named Richmond Spokes or some call it The SpokeShop. Photography, bikes and gardening are my brother's LIFE!!! I'm so proud of him doing many positive things in his life and for the community we grew up in.

Well I wanted to make him something that was simple yet have nothing "girly foofoo" heehee as we crafty ladies tend to do.

The stamp is from: Penny Black # 2881J Hedge Delivery

(I didn't know this was a Berkeley, CA 

company which is very close to our city about a 15-20min drive) 

The sentiment was just printed out, no special inks or lining up.

I added gray brads since bikes have all of these special "Machine Screws" 

with socket heads instead of your typical Phillips or slotted screws.

I colored my image with Spectrum Noirs on a this Adirondack Alcohol Ink Cardstock.

They took a while to blend but there was no bleeding or smearing which was awesome for me since this was the first time using this paper. Oh yea, I stamped and colored on the shiny side

(It looks just like shiny photo paper to me...)

Well that's all folks. Enjoy your 3 day weekend if you have a one that long and if not- have fun anyway ;)

Thank you for visiting. 

-Katya Bess

Challenges I've entered:

http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.com/2012/09/simon-says-put-stamp-on-it-challenge.html

Put a Stamp on it - NO DIGIS allowed this week.

http://hookedoncraftchallenges.blogspot.com/2012/08/challenge-24.html

Cards for Men

http://designedtocolor.blogspot.com/2012/11/november-theme-week-day-3-by-air-land.html

feature modes of travel in your colored image/s

Happy Birthday Robert Jackson aka Mr. JDE

Hello Everyone!

I hope all is well and dandy. Guess what? It's Roberts Birthday!!! Happy birthday to Mr. JDE and his twin sister Kezia!!! 

I made my card merging Robert's Logo with Happy Birthday Girl digi which can be found in the special occasions link:

http://fineartsbyrobertjackson.com/special-occasions.html

I think it's fun when we use rubber stamps and switch heads or clothes from one character to another. You can also achieve this with digital stamps but the magic about digi stamps is that you can do it on the computer without using "tangible scissors" or wasting paper and ink. I merged the two images with the program GIMP. I'm still new using this program but it wasn't too hard and the best part it's FREE. I colored the image with Copic markers, one Spectrum Noir, Copic Atyou Spica and Sakura gelly rolls. I used this weeks sketch from Jackson Digital Expressions blog.

Completed card :)

 The sentiment is from My Creative Time stamps.

The few tiny spots like the sleeves and part of the candle that I couldn't exactly merge or were blank spots I just finished off with a Copic multi-liner.  

Hope you like my card and you had fun.

Thank you for stopping by,

Katya Bess

P.S. Don't forget about Robert's Birthday Special to celebrate, he will be offering a Special Birthday Kit with 5 exclusive images to everyone who orders between now and August 29^{th (more details on my previous post)}

Mr. Jackson's Birthday Special

Special message from Robert Jackson:

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am very excited this week because I am offering a birthday special.  Yes, my birthday is coming up! I will be turning 36 years old with my twin sister, Kezia, on August 29th. To celebrate, I will be offering a Special Birthday Kit with 5 exclusive images to everyone who orders between now and August 29^th.   To make it a little more exciting I will be offering an additional bonus birthday image to the first 36 individuals who place an order this week.  I just uploaded 15 new digital images for the week so there are a variety of choices.

http://fineartsbyrobertjackson.com/new-digital-arrivals.html

Feel free to spread the word to your friends and fellow scrappers.  I will send out the Special Birthday Kit and bonus images on August 29^th.  I will also be offering 2FREEBIES instead of 1 for anyone who purchases 10 or more digis (this week only).

Be sure to stop by Jackson’s Digital Expressions to view my upcoming images.

www.jacksonsdigitalexpressions.blogspot.com

Thank you,

Katya Bess

Super Hero in the Toilet

Good morning Crafty Friends!

How all is well! Please excuse me for my little rambling at first... I'll get to my project in a minute or two...  you may skip if you want after the the "line" I created. Okay up this early during the school year... yeah I don't know why I'm doing this to myself I know I'll be sleepy when it's time to pick up my daughter from school. So yesterday I didn't get to do my little post because I had called in a plumber. Okay one toilet backing up hmmm... okay... but two toilets backing or flushing slow? Oh heck no!!! Before any doodoo or pee "spillage" I had to call a plumber in... asked the hubby for help and for some reason wasn't listening or reacting so before I had major clean up to do so I had to do it. Twice I found my little rascal one and half year old son trowing toys in the toilet (I took toys out and threw them straight to the OUTSIDE garbage). What's up with kids under 2 years putting things in the toilet?  It happened with my daughter, Jade, when she was his age at our old house with a red block and a toothbrush. My son Xzavier around 1, I know much younger he started walking AND climbing at 10 months. So now my son Tiberius is up to no good. I took these toys out the toilet hoping and praying there were no more in there.... but NO... couple of days later the toilets don't function properly... ugh! The plumber finds Avatar the Airbender and calls me... but who comes running after me? Tiberius and Xzavier; they want to know what was pulled out of the toilet! Excited over seeing that toy... before taking chances on the little one grabbing that nasty thing again had to throw that sucker OUT. The other toilet had a larger lego. Sometimes I hate legos and hotwheels I find those things everywhere in my house... not to mention all of those ABC magnets. Sometimes I wonder was I as fascinated with the toilet as a little 2 and under child? Maybe, I do have a toilet or say "outhouse" memories... LOL.
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Okay on to my little project heeehee. 

So school is in... I know not the only time to read books but I just kept hearing the word book or books and reading... not to forget Hunger Games, Twilight, True Blood Sookie Stackhouse Series... LOL so I had to come up with another bookmark and really need to make more. This time a more traditional styled bookmark and with a Robert Jackson image :)

I used the image Uh-Oh once again. I hope you don't get tired of her... at first I didn't know what to create with her but every time I look at my folder with Robert Jackson images I keep thinking of a new project to make with her. You can find Uh-Oh here: http://fineartsbyrobertjackson.com/lil-folks.html I feel that now-a-days you get surprised about a lot of things and this image is perfect for a lot of occasions. LOL Like: OMG He proposed!!! OMG my top college picks chose me!!! OMG by baby/child is going away to college!!! OMG you're pregnant! OMG I'm pregnant! OMG I'm getting old/ getting wrinkles... and the list goes on... my OMG this time is:

I came up with the sentiment and printed it over Kraft cardstock and 

ran it through my Cuttlebug with a Spellbinders rectangle die. I used Broken China

distressed ink around the raised edges of the triangle.

I used the Kraft cardstock to Copic color in my image 

because it gives it a different look and feel... I don't know dark and vintage sort of. 

Sakura white Gelly Roll for the eyes, shirt, petticoat and stockings.

I know I'm horrible at lining things up so I'm trying to 

"perfect" my fuzzy cutting...  and gluing as center as I possibly can....

still working on that too. 

I used an eyelet for the ribbon hole. 

The Ribbon is from Galena and it just says "Metalic" for the name 

but it's more like an iridescent than a metalic. 

The back layer paper is from DCWV's 

The immortal love stack 12x12 paper 

and I also ran than through the Cuttlebug with 

Spellbinders die Deckled Rectangles.

Well that's all for now folks.

Have a great day ;) and thank you for stopping by.

-Katya Bess

Back to School Card for Kindergarten teacher

Hello Crafty Friends.

I have created a "back to school" card  with one of Robert Jackson's digi images. This digi name is
"Lil Back to School" You can find her on the Lil Folks gallery: http://fineartsbyrobertjackson.com/lil-folks.html I love this image.

I think the image is super cute for my daughter's Kindergarten teacher card. 

Or even a scrapbook layout for 1st Day of School.

 Somewhat detail of the "wooden desk."

I used Copic markers for the clothes, books, apples and skin. I used Spectrum Noir markers for her hair much cheaper than Copics- they did bleed a tiny bit but I wasn't using special paper... just plain old card-stock which is why I had to change my whole "card plan." (Can't throw my coloring away... I know it's just paper and ink but I'm slow at coloring and I barely do anything crafty so just make something different with the image right?) So I cut it and gave it a slight pop up look by fussy cutting her . I reprinted the image in brown for the desk and used a zebra embossing folder moving it slightly 3 times to give it a "wood" look but the embossing was too deep so I ran in without a folder to flatten it out a bit. I used glossy accents on the hair knockers/balls as well as on the mug to give it that ceramic look (sorry my photography didn't capture that.) The sentiment is from Emma's  My Creative Time, Gift Card Sentiments.

Thank you so much for stopping by my page. I hope you check out more of Robert Jackson's digis. Also, there are Weekly challenges always "Anything Goes." http://jacksonsdigitalexpressions.blogspot.com/

Much Crafty Love,

-Katya Bess

I've entered my card at the following challenges:

http://www.retosabby.com/2012/08/reto-4-escuela.html
Theme: "Escuela" which means "School" in Spanish. - I hope I still qualify for the challenge.

http://sentimentalsundays.blogspot.com/2012/08/challenge-115-clean-and-simple.html
There is a sketch provided on the link. "Clean and Simple (plus a sentiment)"
I'm a little CAS challenged so I hope this works too ;)

http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/2012/08/happy-birthday-linky-party-win-pretty.html
Anything Goes

For you/ Anytime card

Hello Everybody!

Hope all is going great for you! This week a Jackson's Digital Expressions we're having a another challenge using a sponsor's digital image with a twist: optional challenge using brads or eyelets. Of course if you wish it could just be "Anything Goes"

For my Anything Goes Challenge# 17: Optional brads/eyelets, I used: My Heart Pieces digi stamp- Beautiful Nature
You can check out her images at: http://myheartpiecesdigitalstamp.blogspot.in/

• To color my image I used Caran D'Ache Supracolor II Watersoluble Pencils
• Designer paper from Heart Warming Vintage's Collection: Classic
• Spellbinders: Fancy Tags
• Spool O' Ribbon 
• White eyelets sized at 1/8"
• Double bow technique was with my fingers (lol no special tools needed) video example:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHYE3EZj3NQ

Please make sure to visit: http://jacksonsdigitalexpressions.blogspot.com/ 

Thank you for stopping by.

 close up of My Heart Pieces Digi Image: Beautiful Nature

Thank you for visiting. Hope you enjoyed it.

Hugs,

Katya Bess

I entered my card at: 
http://myheartpiecesdigitalstampchallenge.blogspot.in/2012/08/use-designer-paper.html
Use Designer Paper