Merry Christmas Surprise Pop Up Card

I have just finished making my first surprise pop up card - visit Splitcoaststampers for some instructions on how to make one of these cards.

Here is a photo of the card closed and then open showing its surprise!

For the card, I used Kraft card stock from Franchville (Spotlight), then I covered the actual card with a green paper from Silly Season by KaiserCraft. The Merry Christmas sentiment is also from Silly Season by KaiserCraft. Red and white Baker's yarn is from KoKoVanillaDesigns.
Christmas Elf Luka from La-La Land Crafts is digitally printed on X-Press It card from Lime Tart and then coloured with Copics pens.
I used the following colours:

• skin: E00, E11
• hair: E31, E33, E35
• hat and clothes: R20, R22, R27, YG00, YG03, YG17, YR16 (buckle), clear spica pen
• presents: B00, B02, B05, R20, R22, R27, YG00, YG03, YG17
• background: BG000

Luka is attached to the card with pop up adhesive dots for dimension.

The card is blank inside, I'll need to make an envelope for it.

I will link this to the La-La Land Craft Customer Gallery and also submit this to a new challenge: Addicted to Stamps and More - ATSM Challenge #49 - CAS and a challenge from a site I have participated in before - Paper Makeup Stamps: Digi Makeover Challenge #92 - Kraft.

Have a sunny day with Summer Luka

Here is another card for this weekend.....

I drew inspiration from Paper Makeup Stamps again this week and used the sun from Jen's Sunshine.
The theme at Paper Makeup Stamps was "keep cool". I have had Summer Luka (La-La Land Crafts) for a little while now and wanted to use him, so after looking at the La-La Land Craft Blog, I saw a beautiful card by Debra James with an awesome background of beach huts, with Summer Luka and the sentiment "have a sunny day!" I tried to draw a beach hut, but then I remembered I had this palm tree stamp from Nitwit Collections (freebie with my Australian Simply Cards magazine).

Summer Luka is digitally stamped on to x-press it paper, as is the sun. The palm tree is stamped directly on to the card, which reminds me that I should adhere a piece of paper to the underside! I have also coloured the background with blues for the sky and yellows for the "sand".
The Copics pens I have used for Summer Luka are:

• skin - E00, E11, E02
• hair - YR20, E33, E35, E37
• clothes - R35, R37, B02, B05
• floaties - Y02, Y15, YG03, YG63
• turtle - G02, G05, Y00, Y15
• flippers - Y02, Y15
• goggles/snorkel - BG000, BG10, BG15

For the sun, I used: Y11, Y15, Y17, R02 (cheeks), E02 (tongue).

For the palm tree, I used: E35 & E37 (trunk), E08 (coconuts), G02, G05 (leaves).

For the background sky, I used a combination of BG10, BG000 and B00. For the sand, I used Y02.

The sentiment is hand written in pitch black Spica pen.

This card will also be displayed in the La-La Land Crafts Customer Gallery and on the La-La Land Crafts Facebook page.

This card will be for sale on Etsy in my shop: JemLou Productions. The link to follow.

Thanks for looking! :)

Riding by to say Hi with Tricycle Marci

Here is my latest creation using inspiration from Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #171 for the colours: blue and yellow, Cupcake Craft Challenge #203 and Paper Makeup Stamps Challenge #47 for the theme: The Great Outdoors and Endless Summer, respectively.
So here is my card:

Here is the inspirational photo from Cupcake Inspirations:

I have used a square white card and envelope from Envelope Solutions.
I have digitally stamped Tricycle Marci, the sentiment "Riding by to say Hi" and the fence from La-La Land Crafts and the sun from Jen's Sunshine, part of a set of digital stamps for charity from Paper Makeup Stamps.

I have printed on X-press It paper and coloured everything with Copics pens.
The Copic pens I used are:

• Tricycle Marci 
• skin: E50, E51 and lipstick Spica pen
• hair - E31, E35, E37
• shorts/headband - B02, B05
• top/hair bow - Y11, Y15, Y17
• bike - BG000, BG10, BG15, C1, C3, C5
• basket - E31, E35
• panda - C1, C3, C5, R20, lipstick Spica pen
• Fence
• wood - E31, E35, E37
• stones - W1, W3, W5, E35
• grass - YG63, YG67
• Sun
• Y11, Y15, Y17
• cheeks - R02
• tongue - E02

Everything was coloured on the edge with B00.

I also made an addition to this card, as I thought it was lacking something in the middle!

I digitally stamped the sunflowers from La-La Land Crafts, then coloured them with the following Copic pens:

• stems/leaves - YG03, YG63
• flowers - Y02, YR07, Y28, E37

I think next time, I'll add the sunflowers and fence together before I print! Too much fussy cutting!! :)

This card is for sale on Etsy in my shop: JemLou Productions. Here is the listing: Riding By to Say Hi! Card.

This card will also be displayed in a few places:  La-La Land Customer Gallery and the La-La Land Crafts Facebook page.