FFF Roses Are Red (farm post)

TGIF farm friends, this week we have a "lovely" challenge, that is near and dear to my heart for you guys to play along over at The Greeting Farm and I seriously cannot wait to see what you guys come up with! This week's challenge theme is Roses are Red, how romantic right? As I mentioned before, Valentine's day is my absolute favorite holiday so the month of February may as well be Valentine's month in my book :D Since one of my absolute favorite crafty gals is the super talented Rosemary Bridges, its only fitting that I let one of her awesome picture frames inspire my project this week, themed after my favorite holiday. Check out my frame

50's Sweetheart Digi

I used so many random paper scraps I'd saved that I couldn't begin to tell you where they came from so I wont even try! The adorable image in the lower right corner is a digi available in the TGF Store called 50's Sweetheart and I love it! I've been practicing my coloring of hair especially and I think it really shows. I've also been experimenting with different color combos for skintones. The sentiments in the center are from various TGF sets and the flowers are from my stash, all heat embossed with white embossing powder. The gorgeous paper flowers are from iamroses.com and I used my distress markers to dye them the colors I needed to match my frame.All the different dies I used are from various companies, the heart and flourish are from Memory Box, the heart banner is from La La Land Crafts, and the butterfly is Joy! crafts. I hope this inspires you to join in the FFF fun at The Greeting Farm and let your inner cupid out! Stop by and see what inspiration the rest of the DT gals have and check out the rules for playing along.

Lots-O-Love,

-Krys

I've Got the Blues...and a Little Green too!

As you know I don't mean the sad kind of 'blues' or the music either, I mean the colors! Have you ever thought about how many shades of blue are out there? Hundreds? Who knows, who cares? All I know is that just about all the blues can be paired together with beautiful results, and when you add a splash of green as an accent? GORGEOUS! Today I bring you a good example of this (I hope) in a gift that I created for a friend of mine, who has always been there for me, in the form of a picture frame (the gift is the frame of course, not the friend ^.^).

Cheeky Geeky

 

 

I started with an unfinished balsa wood frame from my LCS (one of the things I mentioned a few posts back) and painted it with a really light green almost seafoam acrylic paint. once that was dry I got out my homemade mod podge and cutter and pieced a few different scrap pieces with similar color schemes to get this patchwork kind of look. Since I didn't have much DP in the shades I needed, I created the leopard print by running it through an embossing folder and inking it with pigment ink a few shades lighter. I did the same with the swirl pattern, embossing and inking in shades of blue to get the effect I was going for. I colored Ms Cheeky Geeky from The Greeting Farm with my copics and gave her a blue leopard print skirt with matching tie and headband and fussy cut her out. The sentiment is from Close To My Heart (CTMH) 'Friendship' set and the other embellishments are from my stash. I wish I could take credit for this lovely idea but I am actually CASEing this project from one of my personal favorite blogs, Rosemary's Creations, ( you can go and see her project here!). I plan to enter this in the following challenges; Splendid Stamping FFF, 'Cut it Out', Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, 'It's a Mystery', and 7 Kids Challenge, 'Anything Goes'. Thanks for stopping by,

 

-Krys