15th card

This card is made using the 'chilled out' Mikey image from the new download.
I used Copic's for his colour and a cropadile for the eyelets, all these are ofcourse available from Charmed Cards And Crafts.
Nicola.x

Prom Prince Mikey

Hi Folks, Louise here,
I'm afraid I've been busy with a magazine commission so I haven't made anything new to show you today, crafting for a living may be a dream job but it doen't half take up a lot of time!
I do have something that I haven't shown here on Dottie's World but if you're a visitor to my own Blog you may have seen it already. Here we have Prom Prince Mikey, he's one of my fave Mikey images- isn't he cool!

It's a very simple layout but I'm really pleased with it, I've used my Tim Holtz distresser again along with some BG Ambrosia papers. Everything you see here is available from Charmed Cards and Crafts.

Thank you for dropping by, Dottie's World followers are simply the best Blog followers in the World!

Monday Mojo - Joining the Images (and Challenge Winner)

Hi gang! Karen here with Monday's serving of Mojo, intended to stimulate your creativity and getting those juices flowing :-)

Today I am combining images. Most digital cameras, graphic tablets and printers etc comes with imaging software. It is a good idea to play around with yours and find out what's what, you'd be amazed what you can do once you start playing. For this image I used the software that came with my camera (Photoshop Pro), MS Paint and MS Word.

The Madion in Venice image had elements that I didn't want to use here, so I "erased it" with the eraser in Photoshop (you can also do this in Paint but be aware that this also removes the transparency of the image so save a copy first). I needed to make Mikey solid with only the background transparent, or Madison would show through, so I filled the body with white in MS Paint, then opened it up in Photoshop and removed the background around Mikey.

The images were then inserted into Word; Madision was set to float behind the text (double-click/Layout) and Mikey in front of text. They could then easily be resized and moved into the required position.

Alternatively you could of course print both images out separately and cut them out to arrange them. I think this is great for any "couple occasion". Make her dress white or Ivory and it's a perfect wedding card - even leave it as it is if the bride is somewhat "unconvential" :-)

Pop over to my blog for a list of products used. I wont keep you in suspenders anymore because I now have to draw the winner from my Sunday challenge. Not many of you enjoy a Christmas challenge in April it would seem but then there is of course more chance for those of you who did enter :-) Using random.org here is the winner:



That is CRAFTYANNY. Congratulations to you. Let me know you address and I'll get your prize off to you as soon as I can.

Have a wonderful week xx

Beach Boy Mikey

The latest release "Mikey" was perfect timing for me this week as my son has a party to go to later on today. With the birthday boy being a 10 year old footy fan I thought I'd try out Beach Boy Mikey. I rumaged around and found some BasicGrey papers I have had for ages and I just couldn't resist the "grungy" colours.

I added detail with the little calendar stamp from Imaginisce- a fabby little stamp at a fabby little price. I covered the cupcake in the corner with a stapled on ribbon....didn't think a cupcake was boyish enough for this 10 yr old. (Goodness they grow so quickly. LOL)

Good luck at Uni...

The new set of downloads are amazing!Mikey-For boyz,teenagers, students, men!! I thought I would use two of the images for this card, one for the studiuos student and one for the fun time student!!
I used copics for the colour,the bookshelves are from Clipart on microsoft,where there are thousands of copyright free images! I used gold hot foil on the spines of the books.

The backing paper is Hot off the press and I embossed with a 'script' cuttlebug folder available from Charmed Cards and crafts

For Mikeys jeans, I used one blue copic,coz thats all I have at the mo and then used the blender pen to let the colour spread,which gives a great denim effect.

Nicola.xx

Meet Mikey!!

Ooh I do love introducing new collections. Louise has created a super new collection to go with the Holly & Madision bundles, featuring Mikey, boyfriend of Madison - although I am sure the girls will fight over this hunky dude!

On this card I layered the image on several mats cut out with Nestabilities Label Three dies. I tried to make the smaller patches at the back look like jean pockets. All the chipboard is by Rusty Pickle, the stars were coloured with my Copics, and the rest inked with Tim Holtz Distress Ink "broken china". The ink was also used for inking all the edges on everything else. The dotted paper is K&Co Broken China.

TOP TIP:
I created the "Cool" sentiment in MS Word, using the Word Art facility. To enable me to layer it on my image I double-clicked on Mikey and chose his layout as "Behind text". This then meant I could move him to where I wanted him in relation to the text. Once I was happy with position I simply printed it out. Again this illustrates the versatility of the digi-stamps.

The new collection will be available to buy next weekend.

Have a lovely Monday. Remember - if your week drags then just daydream a little of Mikey, you're going to get your mitts on him soon enough :-)
Karen ♥♥♥