Fun Friday with Emily!

Hello everyone and welcome back to another Fun Friday!
Today I'm sharing an awesome card featuring one of our newest Spooky Unicorns!

I love this Mushrooms and Bats image and how you could take it in either the spooky route or the soft and gentle route.  I tried to do a little cross of both by putting the card into a dark scene with the large super moon coming up behind her, but also giving her a playfully colored mane and some shimmer.

For this card, I used my Prismacolor pencils.  With so much coloring and dimension, I find pencils are best for me since I have a lot more control over where the color goes.  And I can use a blending solution to smooth everything out once I'm done if I wish.

Once everything was colored, I layered the whole panel onto a black piece cut to the same size, but shifted them so they criss-cross.  Then layered these panels onto a Kraft mat that I added some brown colored embossing paste through a dot stencil onto.

The sentiment was white heat embossed right onto my unicorn panel and that finished the card! 

You have a little bit of time left to join in our current challenge to use brown or Kraft cardstock on your card!  I hope you will join in!!

Thanks for visiting!! <3

Fun Friday with Emily!!

Hello hello and welcome back to another Fun Friday!

Today's card is..well...FUN!
I have been indulging myself in every type of interactive card style I can think of lately.  They are just too much fun and so much more entertaining than just a flat card.

But I honestly have been scared of the magic slider style...the way I always saw this growing up was that the part you pull out of the card front actually has both the acetate and the colored image attached to it.  So it always made me so nervous to think about how to keep those images lined up properly so they didn't look silly when they were pulled out of the card.  And then all the wonderful examples started showing up where the images weren't on the slider, but right on the card!  How easy!  So I gave it a shot! :)

Isn't this wonderful!  So I totally meant to have the slider go out the side...but I got caught up in just making the card that it completely slipped my mind.  But it's okay because it still looks fabulous being a top slider!

I've used the With You image that is just so precious and created a dark watery background for this couple using some Distress Oxide colors.  I am in love with how Faded Jeans and Cracked Pistachio blend...it's just the perfect combo!

I made sure to do both the background card base and the slider insert in the same colors so that it is all seamless when the card isn't slid open.  But on the card base background, I stamped and white heat embossed a few heart clusters to mimic falling rain around the couple.  Yellow seemed like a nice fitting color for the umbrella, and I kept the rest of the colors in the couple pretty simple to coordinate with the colors I used on the background.

A simple sentiment banner finished off the whole card perfectly!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a fabulous weekend! <3

Fun Friday with Emily!!

Hello and welcome back to another Fun Friday!!
Today I am sharing a super simple and adorable card using an older Sami Stamps image, but one that I absolutely love because in it's simplicity, there is so much that can be done with it!

This is the bowtie from the Striped Tie Set and I just love it!  It's the perfect bowtie!

I decided to print it off several times and colored it up in some fun masculine colors before adding it to am embossed background.  I also wanted to add a bit more embossing since that is our current theme for April, which you still have a few days left to enter!  So I heat embossed my sentiment and flagged the ends.  Then arranged everything straight down the center of my card and added a few little black dots for extra detail. 

And that's it!  Really simple and still adorable!

Thanks for visiting!  Have a fabulous weekend!! <3

Fun Friday with Emily!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!
I couldn't let today pass by without sharing a fun shamrock card with you!!

I really really really wanted to make that shamrock wobble...I tried so hard to get some wire attached to the back...guys...it just wasn't having it this time.  I'll have to try again later.

But I kept this card overall very simple.  I did some fun stripey stamping for the background with a few extra fun bits embossed in white and gold.  There is also some gorgeous gold splatters to check out on that background too.  It's so fun to splatter that stuff, though I forget about it sometimes.  But it really does make a huge impact on a fun card like this!

Nothing fancy with my Little Shamrock Dancer.  I colored her in with pencils and cut her out with a stitched frame so I could mount the whole panel up on some fun foam for great dimension.  A simple embossed sentiment finished off the card!!

Have a fabulous St. Patrick's Day!  Be safe!!
<3 Emily

Fun Friday with Emily!!

Happy Friday everyone!!
Welcome back to another Fun Friday!

Today I decided to share with you some no-line coloring on one of Sami's gorgeous images!

For this card, I used the Beauty Roses image and printed it off several times at varying sizes.

Now, I'm no expert at the no-line coloring technique, but Sami's images are fabulous to give it a shot!  Be sure to print off your image with a really light outline so that it fades away with the coloring.  But don't print them too light or you won't actually be able to see what you're doing...(ask me how I know...)

With your images printed, you're ready to start coloring.  I like to start with the darkest color in the shadow areas and work out to the lightest color, which would be your highlights or where the light would hit the image.  In this case for the roses, the highlights are on the tip of each petal.

I decided to use my Inktense pencils for a little watercoloring.  I absolutely love how they turned out!  There's a bit of purple in some of the blue roses which helps give them just a little bit of character.

To finish off the card, I die cut out a stitched frame and mounted that above my panel, which has my sentiment white heat embossed in the center.  Then just arranged my fussy cut flowers around the outside.  I added foam tape to some and adhered others flat to the panel so that they had different depths.  

Since our challenge this month is to add some sparkle, I added a bunch of glitter dots and Perlen pen around the outsides of the flowers, and also traced along the darkest shadows in the centers of the roses with a shimmer pen.  This card is really sparkly when it catches the light!!

We'd love to have you join in our challenge, or share your projects on our Facebook page!!

Thanks for stopping by!!   
<3 Emily