Monster Scales

Sorry I have been a bad blogger this past month or so. LOL It has been one thing after another! I have been hard at work organizing my ribbon, which I can't wait to show you! Soon, I will explain WHAT I did and show you PICTURES! It took me a couple weeks! EEEK! THAT is when you KNOW you have too much ribbon! I think I actually reached that point and I didn't think it was possible! This ribbon addict is NOT reformed by any means, but perhaps I can be a TINY bit more conservative in my ribbon purchasing... MAYBE! heehee

For this card, I used my Monsters Ink stamp set by MFT. The little monsters are SO fun to play with. It was fun to make a card that wasn't girly and frilly... or PINK. LOL

The images were stamped in Memento black and colored with Copics. I used YG91, 93 and 95. The sidewalk was drawn in with an SU marker and a ruler. I used W1, 3 and 5 to color the sidewalk. The wispy shadowy thing was made using BG10 and BG13. I followed a tutorial found HERE to do it. I love the textured look on the boy monster. It is achieved using some Copic blender solution.

I wanted to mimic the boy tie on the boy monster, so I created one with ribbon and used it as an embellishment to balance out the card. I did some crazy stitching and added some simple black brads. To play up the sentiment, I cut out one of the girl monster's eyes and popped it up a bit.

To achieve the "scaly" background, I used my Cuttlebug mosaic embossing folder and then embossed in clear over the dry embossed piece.

I have a story about the sentiment used on this card. Kim sent me over the set while it was in the process of being finished and asked if I had any sentiment ideas. I printed out the set and stared at it and couldn't think of anything, so I went and asked my hubby to help me. He was deep in thought for a while and came up with 2 of the 3 sentiments for this set! Cute huh? The one I used is one of them and the other is: "Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder" which I thought was SO cute and fitting! Kim loved his suggestions and used them for the set! I was proud of him for really trying to help and loved his clever suggestions. :)

Stamps: Monsters Ink

Ink: black memento, Versamark

Paper: white, black , kiwi

Accessories: black brads, ribbon, Janome sewing machine, Copic markers, colorless blender refill, rag, SU marker, CB embossing folder, clear embossing powder, black dimensionals

Have a WONDERFUL weekend!

Hugs

Jody