WSC31 My "mane" squeeze& some penguins

I have a bunch of cards for you tonight!  First, here's a cute little Valentine I made for Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge.  You can see her sketch and card at her blog Fresh & Fun.  The little lion is from CC Designs Little Bit Kits "Love Ya Lots" available over at All That Scraps.  Isn't he just adorable?!  I've been playing with some of these cute sets for the last day or so, and just wait til you see whats up for next month!  I can't wait :)

For this card I used Kraft cardtsock for the card base....a small square card...and and also for the panel that the lion is stamped on.  I wanted to try using my copic markes on something besides white cs.  and guess what?  They still look great!  I colored him in with E21 and E29, and used C3 to add a bit of a shadow around him.  I stamped the A Muse small oval in Real Red, and the heart he is holding is also stamped in Real Red (I used Lizzie Anne Designs L'Amour set large heart then cut it out and trimmed it down a bit) and then edged with copic R29.  That still wasn't quite enough pop, so I added  a bit of my Red Spica glitter pen to the edges of the heart as well.

The sentiment was punched out using Stampin' Up!s circle punches.  I added the small heart from the lion set then covered it with Christmas Red stickles.  The pattern paper is Alpine from KI Memories, and the large red brads are from my stash, maker unknown.

The next card also uses this same cute lion and sentiment.  My friend Heather was over on New Years playing with my new stamps and created this card.  Isn't it adorable?  The lion's little mane is all sparkly with the Gold spica glitter pen, but its hard to see.  The card base for this one is Creamy Caramel, and the layers are Really Rust and Papertrey WHite.  She used the Print Pattern stamp for the background and it looks like she used SU! markers in Rust, Caramel, and Cocoa? but I wasn't watching at the time (I was playing the Wii.  He also has Sakura clear glaze on his nose, and the ribbon is SU! Chocolate (retired) and Caramel.

Next I have 2 penguin cards for you.  The first is from "Little Penguins" Little Bit kits from CC Designs.  I got these back in December but never got around to inking them up til recently.  What was I thinking?  They are so cute!  This set is also available at All That Scraps.  There are 4 different little penguins in the set as well as 2 sentiments.

I needed a birthday card the other day, so I came up with this one, even though I didn't end up using it.  It was a bit too girlie for what I wanted, but I have someone else in mind to receive it later!  I used Gable Green for the card base, Pixie Pink and Green Glaore for the layers behind the DP.  The paper is from Daisy D's.  The birthday sentiment is from SU! Eat Cake set.  Also used: copic markers, Bold Bright brads, ticket corner punch, Apple Green grosgrain ribbon, and Palette Hybrid Noir pad.

The last card is one that I stamped a while back that got lost on my desk in a pile.  The penguin for this card is from "Wintertime Fun" by CC Dseigns.  He is stamped 3 times on Papertrey Stampers Select cardstock and punched out with SU! square punches.  The pattern paper is also from Daisy D's, the same line as from the last card.  The card base and layers are Bazzill from my stash...don't know the names.  I used copic markers to color the images.  another thing I like about them is that I can layer my colors.  If I don't have the color I need....in this case a medium shade of orange...I created it.  I started with a golden yellow and then added light orange over the top.  The resulting color is totally different than either color that I started with.  Very cool! 

Thanks for visiting.  Let me know what you think of these little guys!  -Cyndi 

Comments

[Beate]

Cyndi, your cards are adorable. I love he first one though (and no, not just because of the layout!LOL). Love the coloring, the papers you used and that cute, cute stamp.
Hugs and smiles

[Pat S.]

Hi Cyndi!
My favorite card is the last one...I just adore those little penguins...they make me happy :)

[Dee]

Cyndi..These are ALL.. cute..adorable cards!
The stamps are cute [I must check them out] Great..mane squeese!!
Cute penquins..Nice coloring too!
Thanks for sharing.

Dee

[AmyR]

Oh CUTE!! They are all fabulous!! I love the colors on the last 2 and LOVE that you made him holding a heart on the first one - ADORABLE!