Beach Thug Life

Hi again, I mean, yo yo what up yo? (yeah, I'm not very gangsta am I? lol)

So I kept playing with my Crazy Birds, This time I dressed them up hip hop style. So funny...I laugh every time I look at them with their shirts and sunglasses.  I sketched a cap for Long Beak. Once I had it attached, my head went off into a Bird gang direction.  Isn't a bunch of crows called a "murder"? Which led to Gangsta, which led to Beach Thug Life.
The palm trees were cut on my Silhouette and I cut the title with Tim Holtz alphabet sizzlets.
Kaisercraft paper was used in the background, and I actually made the "sky" paper with Watercolor paper and Color Burst powders from Colorbox.

Well that's about it, peace out yo.

12 Days (or so) of Christmas Cards

Here's some "heavy metal"  Christmas cards for you.

Sizzix embossing folders and the foil paper from Ranger. The card on the left has a Spellbinders EF.

I used Tim Holtz' 3D star and the holiday greens thinlit die.

These 2 were made the same, only using white paper and the Simple Stories line.

I really love the way they turned out. Same style but a totally different look.

For the Birds (stripes)

Hi again

A big shout out to Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge blog. Thank you for giving me something to challenge my creativity every week. This week's challenge is stripes.

http://simonsaysstampandshow.blogspot.ca/2013/06/challenge-stripes.html

 Of couse I love stripes. Stripes can make you look thinner, make a room look bigger, or add a designer touch of class. The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of stripes, (ok wait for it... ) Cabana stripes. By now you might have noticed that I have a little obsession with tropical inspired pieces.  Whatever, hey, it's been raining for a month straight here, so any excuse to pretend I am on a beach somewhere is a welcome escape.

I got the fabulous birdhouse die from Sizzix last week and have been making little houses for a few days. I made 4 in total. Each one looks different. You can totally change the look of something just by using different paper or color schemes.

So here is my take on the stripe challenge featuring my tropical cabana bird house.

I would be a happy bird if I had a cabana house like this one (haha)

Closer look at the striped base. Hot pink and lime green are my fave color combos.

Closer look at the roof of the house...

Thanks for stopping by, I will post some more bird houses tomorrow hopefully. See you soon.