Ayana's Creations

Robots!

Note: Second Post of the Day. Please scroll down or Click Here for my Lawnscaping Challenge #7 Card. 

Hey Everyone!... Today I'm sharing a card for the newest DeNami Theme Challenge #6: "BOY":

Ahhh! Aren't these little robots just the cutest things ever! :)

LoL... I totally love them! And they are SO perfect for any little boy themed cards. I had a very fun time coloring them in with my Copics. I decided to give them each a sort of gradient color scheme. Some change shades from left to right, and others go from top to bottom. LoL... I wasn't very consistent with each one, but I kinda like how they all turned out different. :)

I sure hope I've inspired some of you guys to play along! Stop by the DeNami Blog today, for all of the challenge details and for more fun inspiration from the rest of the DT too. 

Thanks so much for spending some of your day with me! :)

SUPPLIES:

Robot Card

Paper: "Solar White" (Neenah Paper) and "Smokey Shadow" (PTI)
Stamps: "Friendly Robot" & "Under the Sea" (DeNami Design)
Ink: "Tuxedo Black" (Memento)
Other: Copic markers, white gel pen

Tall Flower Card and a Small Giveaway

Hey Friends!

Hope everyone is having a great day so far. Today has been pretty special for me, since it's my birthday. I took the day off from work and was able to sleep in late for a change. I hung out with some friends last night to celebrate and tonight i'm going out to dinner with my family. Other than that, I don't have any big plans. But i'll probably end up doing something else over the weekend. I don't have to go back to work until next Wednesday, so i'm veryyy excited about having few days off! :)

Anyways, my card for today is one that I made up "just for fun". No specific challenge or theme. I just really like this Tall Flower stamp from Hero Arts, and I wanted to do some more practice with my Copic coloring. I stamped the image twice and then used dimensionals to pop up the flowers. Hope you guys enjoy this card and hopefully gain some inspiration from it.

Ok, well on to another note.... I recently won a giveaway contest a couple of weeks ago from Hero Arts and they sent me a package full of some fun stamps! I was so excited when I got the package. It was as if Hero Arts took a peek at my wishlist, because they sent me some images that I was already planning on getting. They are so awesome and generous for doing all of their giveaways for their fans. THANKS Hero Arts!

Well, the reason for explaining all this is because one of the stamps that I received is actually one that I already had in my collection. So now I have a duplicate of this Artists Butterfly image below:

Basically, I don't want the image to go to waste and I'd love for it to have a good home with someone who loves it as much as I do! :) So in order to keep the generousity going, i'm going to pass it on to one lucky reader who leaves me a comment on this post.

No need to answer any questions and you are not required to start following me... (unless you want to, of course). :) .... So just a simple comment about anything will do. You have up until Tuesday, July 6th to enter, and then I will choose a random winner after that.

***UPDATE: Giveaway has already ended for this post. Thank you to all who entered! :)***

In addition to the stamp, i'm also going to give away two other small items. I recently went to a stampshow and came back with lots of goodies that I had bought there. This is a bit embarassing to admit, but I actually ended up coming home with two items that I had already purchased before, and I forgot that I had them. (I know... I'm pretty bad, huh?).... So i'm also going to send the following two items below, to whoever wins the stamp.

Lavender Stickles & a "Shabby Shutters" Distress ink pad. Both by Ranger and both brand new. 

Oh, and if you'd like some inspiration for this stamp, here is a card that I made with it a while back. You can find the post for it here, or just click on the thmbnail pic below.

Ok, well that's it for now. l'm off to go get ready for dinner. Hope you all have a fabulous evening! Thanks for stopping by! :)

SUPPLIES:

Tall Flower Card

Paper: Neenah Paper (Solar White) and PTI Cardstock
Stamps: "Tall Flower" (Hero Arts)
Ink: "Tuxedo Black" (Memento) 
Other: Copics markers, Stampin' Up border punch

One Layer Birthday Card

Happy Friday! :)

Today I just wanted to share a super quick one-layer card that I made up for the One-Layer Wednesday Challenge #7. This week, the challenge was to incorporate "repetition" into your one-layer card. So I simply reached for some of my Hero Arts stamps & some Copic markers, and came up with this quick and easy birthday card! Hope you guys enjoy!

Hope everyone has a fabulous Friday and a fantastic weekend!!! Thanks for stopping by! :)

SUPPLIES:

Friendship Butterfly Card

Paper: Neenah (Solar White)
Stamps: (Hero Arts)
Ink: "Tuxedo Black" (Memento) & "Jet Black" Archival Ink
Other: Copic markers & black permanent marker

Blue DeNami Butterflies

Hello Friends! :)

It's finally Friday!.... Yaaayyy!!!

I just have a quick post here today with a card that I made up for the current 2S4Y #52 Sketch Challenge. I used the Fancy Butterfly image from DeNami Design, and colored them in with Copic markers. I also incorporated the "Ruffled/Pleated Ribbon Technique" that has been pretty poplular lately in the "crafting world". If you'd like to see some great tutorials for this, you can check out these two videos here and here.

Hope you all enjoy this card. I had fun making it. Especially because I used two of my most favorite colors... royal blue and pink! Love it! :) I actually ended up making two cards for this particular challenge. So I will probably be making another post later today or tomorrow in order to upload my other card. It will be the same sketch, just different colors and stamps. Hope you get a chance to come back later, and check it out!

Have a fabulous day! :)

SUPPLIES:

Blue DeNami Butterflies Card

Paper: Neenah Paper- "Solar White" & Razberry Fiz (Papertrey Ink)
Stamps: “J78 Fancy Butterfly” (DeNami Design)
Ink: "Tuxedo Black" (Memento)
Other:  Copic Markers, Royal Blue satin ribbon (AC Moore), pink rhinestones, EK Success Scallop Edger punch

Copic Butterflies

Hello Again..... 

Today I would like to share a card that I created for Kristina Werner's One Layer Card Challenge. The challenge required us to make a card with only ONE layer... No buttons, no ribbon, no brads, no pop-dots... Nothing!.... hmmm.... Well, I will admit that this is not usually my type of style, being that I always LOVE to add dimension to almost all of my projects. However, I have never done one of Kristina's challenges before, so when I saw that she had posted this one, I was determined to enter, no matter what!

Then, when I was stuck trying to come up with an idea of what to make, I figured it would be a great time to reach for some of my newest products in my craft supply..... My COPICS! =) Haha, I was excited to practice with them, since they are still fairly new to me.

I used one of the butterflies from the Antique Engravings set from Hero Arts. In order to make the butterflies overlap, I made a mask of the stamp by stamping the butterfly on a piece of scratch paper first, and then cutting it out and placing it over the already stamped image, while I stamped over it again.

I have to admit... I was surprisingly pleased with the results that I got with this card. So I then decided to make another one.

This time I only stamped one butterfly and used this "hello"sentiment from the set: Truly Appreciated by Hero Arts. It's a clear set, so I just love the way you can bend it to form whatever shape you prefer.

    

Then, once I was done with the first two... I felt like I was on a Copic streak! haha... So, I went ahead and made one more card with the same image....

For this last card, I went a little over-board with the masking technique... haha! I thought it would be fun to make more wings appear to be coming out from behind the initial butterfly in the middle. Then, even though this was supposed to be a single-layer card, I just couldn't resist adding those three black pearls to the bottom. I thought the card looked a little too plain without them.

Well, that's all for my post today. I hope you were able to find at least some inspiration with these cards and using Copic markers. I'm still learning a lot about them myself, but it has definitely become one of my new "addictions" and I hope to produce more projects with them in the months to come.

Hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!!! Take Care! =)