More Changito & AMYRS26

I recently got a few new Changito stamps and really wanted to play with them, so I picked this one and it coincidentally fit pretty well into Amy Rysavy's latest Friday sketch:
Little notes: I did some sewing which doesn't show up too well unless you enlarge, and also I airbrushed the sky and the light part of the grass. I did mask the flower, leaves and Changito's body, but not his hands or feet. I knew that I would be coloring them with a dark brown that would go right over the blue and green airbrushing. The reason why I masked his body was because I wasn't sure that light brown color was dark enough to cover. I also didn't bother masking the line between the grass and sky so that they would blend nicely together. Lastly, I drew in a few blades of grass to extend that line to the edges of the rectangle.

Thanks to Amy for another cool sketch!

Materials used: Changito Thank U - Stampendous; white cardstock - Georgia Pacific; patterned paper - My Mind's Eye; Swiss Dots embossing folder - Cuttlebug; Copic markers and airbrush; ribbon - May Arts; Nestabilities.

I got me some Changito!

Edited to add:
Here's a link to show you what all comes in the clear set:
http://www.stampendous.com/stampsfdr/clear/pcsChicks.html

I got him at our local Ben Franklin Craft Store, but you could probably find him at lots of other places that have Stampendous stamps. HTH!

Our local craft store had a 40% off coupon last weekend so I went just to look for something to buy! C’mon… I know I’m not the only one! Lol! I was lucky enough to come across the last Changito clear stamp set that they had! I’ve been wanting it so bad but hadn’t gotten around to ordering it from the ‘net and it’s lucky I waited!

I had to make a card with it right away and here it is:
I stamped the vines with Stampin’ Up!’s Garden Green ink and all the rest of the images are stamped with my usual black Brilliance ink. I had to manipulate the word stamps a little to form that curved shape. I colored everything with my Copics, including adding little detail lines to all the leaves. You can see them a little better here (as well as the coloring of Changito):
Hope you like him as much as I do!

Other materials used: white cardstock from Georgia Pacific; Garden Green & Yoyo Yellow cardstock from Stampin’ Up!; Nestabilties from Spellbinders; chocolate satin ribbon from May Arts.

A Cherry Hello

I got the cutest little Stampendous clear stamp set for ½ off at my local craft store recently so I thought I’d share a card made with it:
The focal image cherries actually had a background of little cherries and triple-dots that I thought was too busy, so I cut the main cherries out because I thought that was easier than trying to mask or use markers. I did save the background though, so if I ever want to stamp it in its original form I can.

I am so loving this Papertrey Ink set Polka Dot Basics. I used a bigger dot on the red cardstock, then a smaller dot on the green cardstock. It wasn’t too hard to keep lining up the stamp, and even if the spacing was a tad off, you can barely tell! I also used a little single dot to stamp in each of the scallops, and then I used a needle to pierce in the middle of each dot.

BTW – this is my first attempt at making a ribbon blossom following Pam Bassett’s tutorial. It’s not *quite* a blossom because I didn’t use enough ribbon bits, but I’m still pretty happy with it anyway because it adds such a cute touch. Thanks so much to Pam for her awesome tutorial! I’ll definitely be making more of these!

Other materials used: markers from Copic; white cardstock from Georgia Pacific; all Nestabilities from Spellbinders; white polka dot ribbon from May Arts; all other ribbon from local craft store; white ink from Tsukineko; circle punch (to make "ticket" corners) from Stampin' Up!; red half beads unknown.