You Are My Sunshine

I felt in a crafty mood today and after visiting my BFF Jennifer I felt inspired to take on the challenges that she took part of.  

I don't usually work with sketches, it's one of my weaknesses for sure.  When I started thinking of the PKS sketch for this week I came up with an idea.  I also incorporated My Creative Time's color challenge into it as well.  

Hope you like it!

I used my PKS Super Simple Eyes and Noses set for Hello Kitty's face.  HK is from the Hello Kitty Greetings cart.  Have you guys seen this cart is now a fortune on ebay? I'm so glad I got it before it became rare, and I bought it when Michael's had their clearance on carts going on for $10. I should have bought them all :) 

I had a mini shopping spree when PKS had their 30% sale recently.  I picked up this CUTE set that was retired.  It was an additional 11% off so I couldn't resist.  I arranged the twine to follow the sketch and I tried to make it look like the rain drops were falling from the sky.

Recipe:

Carts: Hello Kitty Greetings

Stamps: PKS Super Simple Eyes and Noses, Rag Doll and Teddy Bear Assortment.

My Creative Time: Banner Die and Sentiment

Paper: SU!

Twine: Twinery

Challenges:

PKS: Sketch Challenge

My Creative Time: Color/Photo Inspiration Challenge

Thanks for stopping by!

Hello Kitty Valentine

I saw that Emma was holding a Valentine challenge and I had to join in.

What's better than HK for Valentine's Day??

I cut her out at 4" from the HK Greetings cart.  The sentiment came from MCT's Small Talk set.  I heat embossed it in white.

Her face is from the Peachy Keen Super Simple Eyes and Noses assortment.  A must have if you have the HK cartridges.  Can you see the shine? I added some glossy accents to her eyes and nose.

The black layer was dry embossed with the Polka Dots folder and the pink layer was dry embossed with the Swiss Dots folder.  

I love my pop dots! Lots of dimension here!

A few weeks ago I saw a card by September Ninth and I loved the shapes she used.  I don't have Make the Cut so I improvised with my Cricut. 

The papers and embossing powder are from SU!  The twine is from the Twinery.

I am linking up to:

My Creative Time: Throwback Thursday-Valentine's Day Card

Sentimental Sundays: Dry Embossing

More Than Favors: Let's Get Animated

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #38

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If I could, I probably would use Hello Kitty on every single one of my cards.  She is just so cute! I hadn't used her in a long while, so it was time for her to make a comeback.

On my card I used some new liquid pearls in the Bisque color.  It looks like an off white color in the bottle but it looks a little yellow with this combination of papers.  It complimented the papers perfectly! 

Tons of pop dots used here. You can see the dimension a bit better in this picture.

I really like decorating the inside of my cards.  I used a Pink By Design sentiment and the HK face from  Peachy Keen. 

Recipe:

Cartridges: Hello Kitty Greetings, Elegant Edges

Liquid Pearls: Bisque

Sentiments: Pink By Design

Hello Kitty Face Stamp: Peachy Keen Stamps

Papers: SU! DCVW

Thank you for visiting and I look forward to seeing your card! 

Hello Kitty PKS Face

The Let's Face it Friday challenge at PKS is to use a face on an animal.  I received my Hello Kitty PKS faces a few weeks ago and had to use them! I am trying to limit myself on my HK projects or ALL my cards would have her on them :)

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:
PKS Let's Face it Friday: Animals with a PKS face
The Paper Variety: Use Twine


Here is my card:

Hello Kitty is crafty incase you didn't know :)  As you can see she loves her Cricut! This sentiment from My Creative Time went perfectly with my idea.  It says "Who needs sleep when you can craft?"  

The Cricut is from the Cricut Everyday cart and the bed came from Everyday Paper Dolls. The card base shape is a frame from the Cindy Loo cart.  I hid the inside features and stretched the height to make this shape.  I then welded it with my Gypsy. 

If you own the Hello Kitty carts you must get this PKS assortment!  It saved me so much time and it looks perfect!  All you have to do is color the nose.

 I couldn't find the right HK image for this card so I got creative.  The head is an existing image on the cart and I found her paws on one of the images and cut them out.  This was tricky because they needed the black shadow so I had to cut those freehand.  Very tricky when these paws are so small! 

 I heat embossed the sentiment and dry embossed the black background. I added faux stitching, some twine on the side and pop dots.

Recipe:

Peachy Keen Stamps: Hello Kitty face

My Creative Time: Sentiment

Hello Kitty Greetings: Hello Kitty

Everyday Paper Dolls: Bed

Cricut Everyday: Cricut

Cindy Loo: Card Base

Twine: Twinery

Recollections: All card stock

Fancy Dress

Another late night:) I made this card tonight to enter into the Getting Cricky Fashion-ista Challenge and Scrapbookaholicbyabby Challenge#9- Use bling.

I think it's no secret that I'm a huge Hello Kitty fan! I just had to use her for this fashion challenge!

Photographing this card was so a bit tricky because of the colors.  I hope you can see the details in this lighting!

You can click on each picture for a larger view.

So...Hello Kitty went shopping and fell in love with a fancy new dress:

The top of the dress is shimmery and the skirt has some glittery dots on it.  I added some crystals to give it a bit of a sparkle.  It's hard to see it, but I added some glossy accents to the side of the heart and the little circles that lead to the thought bubble. 

I added some stitching to the borders of the card, embossed the pink background with a large dot folder, and popped everything up with pop dots.  Here is a side view. 

Recipe: 

Hello Kitty: Hello Kitty Greetings cart

Dress Form: Nifty Fifties

Dress, cloud, heart: Once Upon a Princess

Paper: Recollections, skirt of dress: DCVW Playtime Stack

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