showcasing "Saffron" from Little Miss Muffet!!! FREEBIE!

OK I'm back with a special showcasing!! Yup this is late too lmao!!!!!!!!!!

WE'RE ALL LATE LEAVE ME ALONE LMBO!!!

Anywhooo my buddie Barbara ((colouring genius btw) from Little Miss Muffet invited me on this special occasion.So many things going on at her Challenge blog  from DT call, Anything goes challenge and your chance to this freebie!!!!

So jump right over HERE to get the deets and so for.

NOW to introduce you to this adorable gal omg!

 she is called Saffron and is part of the Sugar 'n Spice Dolls theme.I enjoy the whole collection actually  and enjoy what the LMM DT comes up with.Their a bunch of talented gals!

KUDOS TO THEM :)

HIYA GALS :)

Ok so my card is not your regular size due to my Make It Crafty Ice Skating Lake background. I wanted to use the line of forest trees to capture the winter storm.My easel card is about 8" wide. So many textures going on here.From Acrylic paint,flocking powder,snow fluff,glossy Accents,fine glitter and here and there of pearl liquid.

MIC Ice Skating Lake digi was cropped and I kept the background trees.

Saffron solo and you might get a glimpse of her fluffy warmers.

Ok well I hope you like my creation and if you have any questions please feel free to ask.

Have a wonderful New Year in case I don't make it back before then.I have a few things already in mid progress to come and showcase perhaps on Jan 1st.

so leaving you with much THANK YOU'S for visiting me and even though ya are quiet I see you LMBO!!! SO I'm glad I inspire you enough to get some eye candy :)

(SMILING FROM EAR TO EAR)

Thanks for visiting me and comments are always appreciated ((hugs)) Ruby

BYE 2011

and bring it on 2012 whoooooooohoooooooo!!!!!

CHEERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

copics recipe:

Saffron: Skin E000,E00,E01,E21,E23,YR000,R20

Hair: C1,C3,C5,C7,100

Coat: R39,R89,RV34,RV69,E25,E29,E31,E34,E37,E41,Y11,Y26,Y28Y32,Y35

Sky combination of B00,B02,B14,BG15

Spruces YG03,YG63,YG67,YG97,

MY CHALLENGES

Crafts and Me  Christmas

Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes

Deep Ocean Challenge  warm wishes

Little Darlings Challenge # 13 Christmas

Hello everyone I'm back with another creation for Little Darlings.

This time around we're asking you to do something,"Christmas" UMMMM CAN YOU DO THAT??!?!! I think so lol! :)

As usual running late with my post :( 

Ya don't even want to know what I've been through. 

IT'S NEVER A DULL MOMENT HERE I TELL YOU.

As I'm typing this I have a little girl practically chocking me trying to do God knows what to my hair and what not. My hands are always full and ALWAYS ON THE RUN.

I just hope I get a brake soon.

God knows I need one SIGH... I just want to sit in peace,drink coffee and colour :) Maybe create a card here and there lol!

Anyhow here is my latest and if you DON'T look closely I cheated in the colouring department LMAO! Yup I , Ruby Montes have cheated in colouring, LOL!!!

I will feel guilty if I didn't pointed that out.I have paper pieced and even coloured with smooch lol!!!! oh oh and how about that texture white stuff on my snowman!!!! COOL HUH LOL!

I actually did like result but the only thing I regret doing is putting that fluff stuff before colouring.The reason being is because the liquid ran on my image a bit. Other than that I likies :)

My image is called Snowy Friends and you could find it in the Love to Stamp store.

The smooch I used on her clothes was ocean soul and sassy pink.Her pants are paper pieced.

Oh her shoes have smooch also.

here you could see the fluffy texture of my snowman and guess what I used!!! I love this stuff...it's a marker by MARVY  UCHIDA. 

All you do is lay it on where you want it then go over it with your heat gun and it rises up like MAGIC! 

It's called Snow Marker and  bought mine at Archivers. 

Fun stuff I tell ya!

Well that's all for me folks.Thanks for stopping by and always a delight to read all your nice comments :)

Have a great week :)

Little Darlings and NEW Cardmaker blog

Have you heard the news!!!

CardMaker is launching a new blog at http://www.cardmakermagazine.com/blog/ .  You have to check it out!  To top it off, today, they are featuring Little Darlings rubber stamps!!

 You can also find a Little Darlings feature spot in the "Our Favorite Products"section in the January issue of CardMaker, currently on sale.

To help celebrate the ocassion Angie has decided to give away 5 LD stamps, One from each of the first releases, and they are...

Up, Up and Away

Catch A Falling Star

Art 101

Pumpkin Races

Every Stocking Counts

to a random commentor on her blog HERE!!!! The prize winner will be drawn on Dec 15th.

Good luck to everyone and make sure to check out the new cardmaker blog also  :)

Chantelle at the Races for MIC WHITE colouring challenge

I'm back and this is another creation that needed to go up this past weekend :(

It was done for the white colour challenge for Make It Colourful.

OH DO YOU KNOW THIS CARD ALMOST DIDN'T HAPPEN!!!

OH EM GEE!! I lost her at HOBBY LOBBY(craft store in the States) LAST WEEK!!!!

I took her halfway coloured I only had her skin and dress done.That alone took me days I would say 4 to 6 days lol! Well I was colouring during the Thanksgiving rush so I kept stopping and picking it up.

I tried adding small details to the blank spaces and that's what made it challenging lol! When I realised I had lost her UGH I WAS SOOOOO MAD BUT MAD AT MYSELF!

I had her inside a sleeve with my copic chart so I knew they were together.I tried calling the store that was @ 35 min away from me but they wouldn't answer.I guess cuz I realised late in the evening and they we're getting ready to close.

I went the next day and I asked by the copic section and nothing. A lady that works there was helping me look around.I started tracking back my steps for it then the nice lady finds me by the Scrapbook section and says,"IT'S IN THE FRONT"!

I WANTED TO CRY OF HAPPINESS AND HUG EVERYONE IN THE STORE LOL!! I got my sleeve and ran home (well drove lol) to finish up the card lol!

So Chantelle at the Races had also a day out in Chicago too, LOL! 

Ok so here we are with Chantelle at the Races you could find her at the Make It crafty store. I have coloured her with copics. I wanted to use her as a Christmas card theme so adding the traditional colours and sentiment was a great token. It also has pink all over but it's coming out as red.So you have red, green,white, pink and black so a little mix up :0

Her dress was coloured with the C family group. I tried so hard to zoom in on all the thin lines created to cast the shadow. Hmmm... I think I could of gone a bit darker for the shadows but was afraid it will start to look more like a grey dress lol! The darkest C was C3.

I added thin lines to what I think could be a shadow or just a continuing pleat line. So a white plain space is great to add your own touch and could be fun to play with *_*

Oh almost for got you could do the same thing with plain skin. Kick it up a notch and enhance those muscle tones, lol! 

Oh I added a black feather on top of the bow to mimic her hat

I hope you like my translation and if you want to check out more ideas and get good eye candy visit the MIC gallery.There you would find massive inspiration by the designers and followers.

Thank you for the sweet encouraging words and definitely thank you for stopping by.

My challenges

Create Me Pink Challenges Christmas colours red,green and silver with my bling

Creative Craft Challenges Faux or real stitching

iCopic Challenge Colour black hair

Craft Your Passion Anything goes + glitter

Shabby Mini Magnolia Christmas Tree

Hey, I know where I've been and it's been taken me a while to get this one done.I had it ready over the weekend but then our real Christmas Tree was bought so I had to put this one on hold for a bit :D

I've been hard at work with my real one with the kids help this time lol!

Ok so I'm one of those peeps that over loads their Tree lol! Oh but I have a good excuse .. you see I use to work at Merchandise Mart in Chicago which has showrooms after showrooms of GORGEOUS GORGEOUS numerous things.Anyways I worked for this well known company that wholesales Christmas Decor.We have designers come in and work on the showroom floor etc... Well I assisted and learned so many of the tricks.Although I won't put a chair in my tree LOL! Yup we had big wooden boats,chairs and all these unusual things in them lol! BUT THAT WAS ART I TELL YOU!

People would pass by stunned how pretty and unreal the scenes looked. My most memorable moment is helping out creating the most BEAUTIFUL PINK SHABBY CHIC TREE EVAR!!! I mean jaws dropped so hard sigh..... I wish I had a camera to have taken a picture. EVERYTHING WAS SO GIRLY! It has flowers,pink lights,tulle, glass ballerinas,BLING and the softest feather Boa I've ever seen. Well the  image has never been erased and that's what inspired me to attempt to create  one out of paper lol! Not exactly the same but it's something and quite pleased LOL!

My Tree is about 6" or a bit less so you could only add so much.

Ok so what I did is cut

6 strips of 

2 x 12, 1 3/4 x 12, 1 1/2 x 12, 1 1/4 x 12, 1 x 12 and 3/4 x 12.

trimmed the edges with MS punch,Using my Scor-pal scored each strip on the 12" length on the 1/2 the inch mark.

 then simply accordion folded,glued the ends and folded inward to create the circle. I then glued the center with my glue gun. Yup, so Just keep to built up your tree and play with the sizes to your liking.Honestly It's really not that hard at all.

If you know how to do a simple Rosette flower than you could do this.

OH I almost forgot to tell you.I did do an extra 3/4 x12 (and this is optional )

but I did cut down on it so it could be smaller so it was more like a 3/4 x 8 I want to say. I wanted to mount my Wrapped Tilda a bit higher.

Decorate as you please.

In case you haven't heard of the contest going on at Magnolia-licious Highlities Blog you should check it out.I hope I have encouraged you to play and and and ((whispering)) Ahem.....

maybe you could out do me and create a whole village of trees ROTFL!!!! 

there is so many things that could be done but YOU MUST include Unwrapped Tilda and  Wrapped Tilda into your project.

At a special price their available at the Magnolia-licious store.

If you need more good ideas please visit my teammies as they had some juicy projects themselves!!

Here are many pictures because I went MAD trying to get good angles lol!

and here we go

At the bottom left we have #242 Mini Glittering Tilda, #3098 Mini Tilda hiding Gift and 

#161 Lightening Edwin trimming the tree.

here is a side view and you can't tell much but it has white crackle paint on the ends and lots of MS  pink glitter.

On the top the one and only #3001 Wrapped Tilda

Oh remember my other Tree!!? Well it got a white Tulle skirt  :) I  had to do it  

and that's the end :)

Oh goodness did I waffle on here today lol! That's what happens when you don't do enough postings. (sorry)

Ok so I'm gonna be doing more Trees cuz I'm addicted and I want to ask you if you have a special theme you would want me to achieve of course It would have to include Maggies.

I'm already working on a big tree for the regular size Maggies but that will come later :)

Ok well thanks for stopping by and I'll be back tomorrow to share something something that it's already  really really late!!!!!!!

My Challenges

Creative Card Crew Tis the Season

Sweet Stamps  Christmas Bling

The Stamping Boutique Non traditonal Christmas Colors

Tuesday Throwdown celebrate the season

Incy Wincy Designs Non traditional Christmas colours

Ooh La La Creations Lots of Sparkles

Paper Creations Ink  Bling it UP!

The Ribbon Reel Anything Goes must use Ribbon

The Shabby Tea Room Photo Inspiration "The magic of Christmas"

The Cutie Pie Challenge pastel Xmas