Thursday, August 14, 2008

Just hanging around...

Howdy all and welcome back for my 3rd week as Melanie's guest designer! I can't believe its been 3 weeks, and then only one more...:(. I have enough Little Tees made up to last for, oh, about 2 months at least of posts! LOL! They are sooo much fun to make and design! I will glimpse something on TV and think, oh, I can do that on a Little Tee! Am I obsessed or what? I have a my cigar box just full of the tees I have made up, one day they will ALL be made into cards. Ok, on to the card for today!

Does anybody remember THIS shirt? Weellll, couldn't leave out the girls!


What inspired both of these shirts actually was my BIL AND SIL. They came over one day in matching camouflage shirts, lol! She had on a pink one like this...I've never been much of a fan of camouflage, but the pink was too cute! For the solid pink shirt, I just colored it with my copic markers (hint: to get a good even coverage on large areas, just keep going over it, till it saturates through on the back, that way you know you have enough color on it!), then just drew a little line and added some brads as black buttons. For the hangers, I took my fun wire bought at Michael's and followed around Mel's hanger in the stamp set for the pattern. This wire is VERY flexible and soft, so it was easy to bend. Strung some more fun wire between the eyelets also for them to hang on. The brads were made the same way as the boy ones, just used my copics in the same colors as on the Tee! All done! (Well, mostly, lol) Stamped the butterfly from the set, used spica glitter pens on it and cut out...used my circle nesties with the sentiment and layered a few times. Also did a bit of scoring with my scor-pal and then used a piece of vellum over it just for fun, little extra added detail, lol.

Whew! Didnt mean for that to be so long! If you stuck through it, THANK you so much for putting up with my long-winded self! LOL! Be sure and stop back next week for my final (sad face) week as Mel's guest designer! I have been so honored and humbled for this position...and have thoroughly enjoyed it! How could I not, with such an awesome stamp set!
Card Details:
Stamps: Little Tees bye Melanie Muenchinger from Gina K Designs
Papers: SU! cardstock
Accessories: eyelets, brads, fun wire all from M's, copic markers, copic spica glitter pens, pop dots, scor-pal, vellum, circle nesties



p.s. I got lucky yesterday! The Hobby Lobby that I shop at had the Nestabilities! woohoo! Well, not all of them, but got the ovals I had wanted! (it was the very last ones too!) And a couple of the new embossing folders, that skinny one..forget the name right off and houndstooth...yay!

8 comments:

Donna Baker said...

wow, the HL here doesn't even carry the nestabilities! Cat, this card is ADORABLE! the camo looks so stinkin' real & I LOVE, love, LOVE the card on Melanie's blog today - wow you are one HOT MAMA! smokin' up our computer screens with your Little Tees creations!!

Jennie said...

You are doing a great job as Melanie's Guest Designer! These cards are just adorable!
I like the pink camo one.

I haven't checked out our Hobby Lobby yet. I am scared to see how much I *need* there! SU/GinaK is taking too much money...I wish there were money trees!

Annapurna said...

How cool. If I had to do a guest designer spot, my brain would have froze. Thanks for sharing your great ideas. Love those brads and beautiful card.

Lee said...

Wow! My HL doesn't carry them! What an adorable TEEEEEEE card! I LOVE pink cammo!!!! You're so amazing with the Tees and showcasing Mel's stamps to perfection!!!! I LOVE your idea of a boxfull......you smarty!!!

Catherine said...

too cool that your HL carry nesties. BTW, love your t card...way too cute!

Janine said...

What a great card Cat!!!

Unknown said...

Beautiful card, Cathy! I love those hanging T-shirts!!

Love your cards!!

Theresa Momber said...

Wowza! I haven't been to your blog in about and week. You have been rockin those Gina K stamps. Way to go!

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