Finally, some good news!

Life has a balance and some fun crafting stuff has offset the recent drama with my house money pit.

I'm excited to announce that I'm a guest designer over at Kraftin' Kimmie's Challenges this month, which is a dream come true since I love Kraftin' Kimmie's stamps! I joined their designers (who I think are freakin' awesome) and participated in this week's challenge.

Here's what Kimmie had to say:

Welcome back for another totally fun challenge here at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!!! We've got a great challenge for you again this week!! Come along and play with us!

This week our hostess is KERRY!! Her challenge for you this week is SLIPPERY WHEN WET!! So pull out those mermaids, those beachy stamps, summer papers and embellishments....then create a card (with a Kraftin' Kimmie stamp) and share it with us here! Get creative! Have some krafty fun and join us this week because we'd LOVE to see your KKS designs. We hope you can play along for your chance to WIN some Kraftin' Kimmie rubbah!!!

We've been working on some special stuff at Krafty Headquarters!!! Do you sometimes feel like you're floundering?? Do you feel like you've lost your krafty mojo? Or does it just take you too long to create something....you need some help?! Well, we've got something up our pretty little sleeves and we'll be sharing it with you next week!!! Tee hee!! PLUS next week we'll be starting our AUGUST STAMP PREVIEWS!!! Lots of new goodies!! Spoooooky goodies!!!

Now go ahead and check out the wonderful creations by our Krafty Girls featuring this week's challenge!! If you join us and play along, you could WIN a Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp!!!

Happy kraftin'!

Being me, I had a bit of a different approach in that I did not make anything beach related. So, without further ado, here it is!

My card features the girl bathing the cat stamp from the Feathers and Fur set. The look on that cat's face cracks me up. One of our cats is like that about water. Duchess, my familiar and my avatar  online, loves water. As a kitten, she'd jump into the kitchen sink whenever I ran water, so she had many baths. The only problem is that she HATED the blow dryer. Having a soaking wet, long-haired cat tearing through your house at super-sonic speeds did not thrill me. Nor did having scratches and cuts from fingertips to elbow, so the baths stopped. However,  Duchess still likes to sit in the sink, play with water trickling from the faucet, and recently learned how to turn off the faucet! Fortunately, she has not figured out how to turn it on. 

But I digress. So shocking. The little scene was colored with Copic markers, which I'll list below. I added clear Wink of Stella glitter pen accents to all the bubbles and to the Tiny Bubbles die cut. When the glitter ink was dry, I added clear Gelly Glaze pen to add some shine. I also added the Glaze pen to the bar of soap, the cat's pink nose, her eyes, and the girl's eyes. That sounds kind of painful, but I assure you that I was gentle.

The patterned paper is all from Stella Rose: Hazel 6x6 pad by My Mind's Eye. Those pads are old, but beloved, and are still available at AC Moore, which pleases me.

I designed the card based on this sketch from the Crafting Musketeers.

 

Instead of the strip along the left, I used a Fishtale Flags Die-namics die. I would have sworn that I had pawprint brads, but they must be "someplace safe". So I used some hoarded Rain Drops by Cloud 9. I downloaded a Slippery When Wet road sign from the 'net, converted it to black and white, lightened it, and reduced it using Photo Elements. I cut it out and added it to the card to serve as a sentiment. Now if I had a brain and hadn't procrastinated, I would have added Glossy Accents to the negative space in the Tiny Bubbles die cut. Oh well. Next time!

Thanks for visiting today!

Copic markers used:

Skin: E000, E00, E21, R20, BV00

Hair: E53, E55, E57, E59

Shirt: R20, R21, R22

Capris: BG70, BG72, Custom less-than BG75

Cat: C00, C1, C2, C3, C4, R20

Bathtub: R11, R20, R21

Bubbles: R000, R00, BG000, BG10

Soap: BG000, BG10

Brush: E55, E57, E40, E41, E43

Ground: E40, E41

I shall enter this card in the following challenges:

• Crafting Musketeers #4: Sketch

• Stuck on Us Sketches: Die Cut/Furry Friends challenge

• PaperTake Weekly: Anything Goes