Gecko/ Happy Birthday Ryan!

Happy Saturday everyone!  Well, we arrived home from Florida on Monday afternoon, had an earthquake on Tuesday and a hurricane headed our way today! Gesssshhhh who's bored?  Let me tell ya about the earth quake!  We have a two story home and we made an office out of one of the upstairs bedrooms. My hubby and I are sitting there and he says "the house is shaking."  We look at each other and both go and look out the window! Smart huh? It felt like you were in an old building next to a train and it was rumbling by. It started out with just a small rumble and kept getting stronger.  The walls were shaking and my first thought was  possible an old coal mine shaft was shifting underneath the house and DH says "your not in PA anymore!"  Since he is from Florida he thought it might be the beginning of a sink hole. Have you ever seen a sink hole? A huge hole in the ground suddenly appears and anything standing there sinks into the hole including houses. Egaddds my heart started racing like a jet plane ready for take off.   After we didn't sink into oblivion DH says "that was an earthquake" I looked at him like he was nutz!  Who the heck would think it could be an earthquake in MD? I sure as heck didn't!! But low behold it was! EEEEkkks!

I had awesome news!! I won the Color Me Creative Challenge #24!! My prize was 4 Copic refills and a Gilli Stamp!! I was so excited for I never win anything! It's a fun challenge with friendly members!! This week is winged thing!

The card I am sharing today is a birthday card I made for our son, Ryan. He loves snakes, lizards and has both in his house. Not me!  I don't even like worms near me all alone a snake! I found this cute Gecko on a coloring page you can download for children to color...adults too!!! Isn't he cute!

Copics: G28. G16, G14, YG23. Y11
Paper: My Minds Eye: Stella Rose Hattie

TIP OF THE DAY:  I have several tips for you today!  Many times there is a too much space between one die cut to the next size. This is using one die! 

• Using a black Copic-multi liner, I traced the inside of the die onto my cut out piece.  As you can see  above it makes a nice frame surrounding my image.
• Using a cutting blade, I laid the die onto a piece of card stock and cut around it.

 

LOL, I switch to another color. I used painters tape to hold the die in place.

 

 I have a beautiful framed Gecko using one die. On the card you will notice I have a butterfly ...it wasn't planned! I goofed up the top of the die cut by cutting too short and my ink tracing wasn't the best right there!!

I made this card the day we were leaving for vacation. To anchor my image by just dotting around it with different colored markers. If I were to do it again, I would have only used colors specs you see in sand.

Would you like to win? 

A $50 gift certificate to Oozak

A $25 gift certificate to SCACD

A Gilli Goodie bag from Anary

 A special Paper Temptress package put

together for The Outlawz

All you need to do is enter one challenge over at The Outlawz!! That's it...so easy!

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Did you see the new Fall Fairies Collection at SCACD?  Check these cuties out!

 

Challenges:

•  Challenge Up Your Life:Male Card
•  CMC Copic Challenge:  Must use Copics and have a winged something!
• Crazy 4 Challenges: Male card
• Ellephantastic Challenge: Layering
• Sugar Creek Hollow: Male Card
• Digi's With Attitudes: Anything goes/ ends August 31.
• If The Shoe Fits: In the jungles: Lizards are in jungles and butterflies!
• Fun With Shapes and More: Water
• Joyful Stamper: Anything Goes
• Jelly Park Friends: Die cuts or punches
• The Poodles Parlour: Anything goes
• Show and Tell: Anything Goes
• The Outlawz: Copic/ Promarkers Anything goes
• Flutter-by-Wednesday: Must have a butterfly, angle, or something with wings.  Anything goes this week

Hope you enjoy!  I want to welcome all of my new followers and thank those who have stayed with me!!