Super Hero Smack Down

Tho they be small, they be mighty.
Today's post features the Mini Heroes from the Greeting Farm. These adorable guys and gals are standard super hero characters, but with a bit of ingenuity you can model them after other trademarked heroes. I've tried Spiderman and Deadpool. With the different masks the set has you can do Star Saphire and kudos if you can figure out how to make a Batman lol. I have had no luck with that. But granted I hadn't tried very hard.
With this set I wanted a bit of girl power! So she's NOT, but the one girl is colored very Supergirl ish and then the other girl is very Black Cat. For all my fellow comic book fans, I am so sorry about mixing the teams *DC VS Marvel lol. But hey- I don't play either team- I love both.
So of course I got more work out of My Favorite Things Dienamics Blue Print 27. I will rave once again how awesome they are for making comic panel layouts.That paired once again with My Favorite Things You're Super city scape background is just so COMIC!
 Unlike my last post I did the inside of the card more subtle. So I just layered the cityscape, did the sentiment and added an extra hero because- heroes are awesome!

Well I hope you have a super day. thanks for stopping by!
~Brandie~

Comic Capers

Hello,

Today is all about super heroes! It has taken me a long time to finally get a bit of a super hero stamp collection, thanks to the movies that are coming out, the genre is becoming more popular in mainstream and the arts- so now we have more companies (thankfully) creating fun and imaginative sets. When paired with some of the Blueprints die sets from My Favorite Things, they make great comic bookesque themed cards.
These cards feature Caped Crusaders from the company Craftin' Desert Divas. A wonderful set that incorporated DC's popular characters with a childlike flair with animals. I used My Favorite Thing's Die-namic Stitched Collage frame. LOVE IT. It's perfect for comics!
I used 'Batman' and 'Wonder Woman' as the characters for this card from the Caped Crusaders set. Pairing that with My Favorite Things stamp and die set: You're Super. The skyline made a great panel for the comic. I also loved all the sentiments from the stamp set and how they coordinated and covered different celebrations. It worked really well for the exclaimation POW! panel.
I also used the sentiments from The Greeting Farm "Little Heroes" stamp set. The hollow letters allowed me to color them in.
With comics it's very traditional coloring, so my primary colors were ... well primary colors. Red, Yellow and Blue- and of course black. So I used Real Red, Daffodil Delight and Daper Denim from Stampin' Up!

The inside featured 'present stacks' from a couple different My Favorite Things stamp sets and the Die -namics Blueprints 29 from My Favorite Things.  The background is pieces from the Comic Heroes paper pack from Recollections. One of the fun things I found out, is stamping a polka dot background in Daffodil Delight before stamping and die cutting the exclamaition piece. Ties the whole comic theme in together. The inside of the card really does look like another cover for a different card so I don't think I would do that again, but it was fun to play with!

I hope you enjoyed!
~Brandie~

Flower Power

Hello all!

As I stated before, a friend of mine was looking for donations for silent auction items for a very dear organization called Tiny Hands of Hope. To recap, it's an organization that gives support and awareness to pregnancy and infant loss. It's such a tabboo subject because of what it is, but it can't be. Women and men need to have that freedom and support to be able to talk openly and grieve.

It was definitely an honor to be part of that.
I went all out to make something that I would want to put a bid on myself. I got a LOT of use out of my Tim Holtz Tattered Florals for this one. I have made the tattered roses a bunch of times (big shout out to my girl Rhonda for showing me how! and for the die- she's too sweet!) but I wanted to get more out of it so I broke out my stylus and piercing mat to manipulate and form the paper and just layered them up. The boxed set includes 9 3x3 notecards that DO NOT fit in the envelopes. Sigh. Lol the flowers were just too big. So I had added photo mounting squares on the backs so they could be adhered to gifts.

I also created 9 greeting cards in 3 different styles. One was the traditional A2, one was a Z fold card with the 'z' part just cut off and the last one was a fun one. I did an A2 tent fold card, but then I cut the front to only 1 inch, and then had a 3.5x2.5 layered sentiment 'floating' in the middle and attached to a 1 inch strip on the bottom to keep the traditional A2 size.

The other thing I wanted to do to create the colors was take my copics and actually color the flowers instead of just inking them. I took the darker shade and starting with one petal working inside out, I flicked the color outward. I then took the next color- a few shades lighter- and blended towards the edge leaving a bit of the whisper white left to use the lightest shade to blend it all. If you wanted to you can even use a coordinating color to dot the petals with a darker color to create floral dimension.
Then, of course, finish it off we got some clear Stickles.
So this beautiful boxed set was inspired by the new bridal colors of the season- navy (Daper Denim), blush (Powder Pink), and Vanilla (Very Vanilla).

I used the Hardwood background stamp which is perfect to create rustic and shabby chic cards. Especially partnered with the Gorgeous Grunge set because it gives that... well 'grungy' chic.
I also love the Beautiful Bouquet set. Not only am I all about those flowers ;) but I adore versatile stamp sets for a variety of ocassoins with the same font so you can interchange them. And the font on this stamp set is absolutely gorgeous.

I created a box that was 8.5x11which was really hard to construct. I used the book binding technique to peice together the base in separate parts. It's tough because scrapbook paper to bind the pieces together only comes in 12x12 so I didn't have much to work with for edges. But I think I made it work!

Well that's it for me! I hope you're all inspired.

~Brandie~