Cowboy UP!!! You gotta see this image!!!

You all know I love Mo's Digital Pencil Images and I want them all, but once in a while I see an image that I HAVE to have NOW!!!  This was one of them, Tex: 

I could hardly stand it until I got home last night so I could print this little cutie off.  I colored him in "real" cowboy hat colors and the holsters for his double shot of bottles got a little trim of red.  The binkies in the holster are colored in boy colors too, no sissy binkies for this Dude.

For this special card I used some of my hoarded Outlaw dp from SU.   I haven't seen a SU catalog for quite a while so don't know if the dp is still available or not, but I broke down and used two pieces of it for this card. 

The image was colored with copics and sponged with distress ink.  The Sentiments are from my awesomely talented friend, Theresa Momber's  stamp set, called Out West available at GinaK Designs.  Love ya, GF 
When I used the Cowboy Up stamp I intended the sentiment to read more like the Cowboy is Up  Let the Rodeo begin.....On Mo's Facebook page she thought it should have had an inside sentiment of "Ya Big Baby"...that's funny too!!!  Maybe next time LOL.

I finished off the image with a lasso, which I created with twine cut to length and tied, not like a real lasso but it works for the card...

Well, that's all I have for you tonight.  I have been busy coloring and have several images that I need to create the cards but I am going out of town for the week-end for my granddaughter Leigha's First Birthday!!!  It will be fun, busy but fun.  I will be back in time, on Sunday night, to go to work but probably won't post anything until Late Sunday night or maybe even Monday, it depends on how tired I am when I get back.

Thanks for stopping by...Always love have visitors, especially ones I don't have to clean for, LOL!!!

Cathy

No More Snow for Me!! Riley and Company

Okay, I was born and raised in the midwest, Iowa to be exact, and have lived in Nebraska for 15 years but.....this winter we have had 54 inches of snow and we still have at least a foot on the ground and another 4 inches expected tomorrow.  Well Riley and Company has Van Riley and Trailer Riley who have joined together to take me to Arizona....Road Trip!!!

For those of you who are geographically challenged, like me.  Omaha does not have mountains...those are snow mounds!!!!  The sign being held out the camper window says it all.  Arizona or Bust!

The road signs were created by hand, and for that I apologize.  The mountains and sign are from a set created by my good friend Theresa Momber called Happy Camper.   The cactus and cow skull are from another of Theresa's set called Out West.  Of course the Riley Van and Camper Riley are from Riley and Company.

So now you know how I really feel.  I am done with winter, from my mouth to God's ears!!!

Thanks for stopping by,

Be sure to stop by later (after noon) to see if you were the winner of one of the images used to create my Mo's Digital Pencil Celebration Blog Hop card.  Only a couple of you left a way to contact you in the comment so you will need to contact me if you are picked as the winner!!!

Happy Coloring

Cathy

Happy Camper Scene 2 Altered Notebook cover

The one and only Theresa Momber has a new set out this month at GinaK Designs called Happy Camper. Remember the scenes I created with her first set Out West? I can't stop making scenes with her beautiful stamps, makes me feel like an artist!!! :)

I created this notebook cover using her new stamp set Happy Camper.

As you can see I haven't actually gotten the notebook yet but I have used my SU spiral punch and even if I use it for a composition book or scrapbook it will be a nice decorative touch.

I wanted to created a mountain camping scene with the rascally racoon fishing in the nearby stream. I really like the way that it turned out. The mountains and trees were stamped with Momento London Fog because I wanted a subtle line to appear as a distant image. I used my copic airbrush for almost everything except the tent and the racoon. The tent and racoon are cut out and popped up on foam picture mounting tape.

This would be a perfect camping journal or scrapbook cover for those of you who are campers.

It took me longer to photograph this picture than it did to create it. I had to darken the sky 3 times before you could even see it and the airbrushing tends to give off unwanted highlights with a flash.

Thanks for stopping by. Tomorrow I have a summer project for Artistic Outpost be sure to stop back, love to see you.

Have a good rest of the day, I have to get ready to go to work.

Bye for now,

Cathy

Pattern and Texture Potluck Friday Challenge on StampTV

I had time this week-end to create two challenge cards for StampTV challenges.

I have had these Indian images for a long time. I had ordered them online when I was making rag quilts but quit making the quilts before I used them. I thought that this image might go pretty good with Theresa's Out West stamp set from GinaK Designs.

To use the fabric image which came with a 1/2 inch border of fabric around the printed image I pulled the strings to make the fringe. I decided it looked funny with all four sides fringed so I trimmed the top and bottom leaving only the sides fringed.

The SU Blue Bayou cardstock matched the Indian image colors so I only had to add the Top Note die which I used a cream color die and sponged with Vintage Photo distress ink by Tim Holtz. I used the label die cut from Quikutz for the bottom and mounted my skull, cactur and hat around the Happy Trails sentiment.

The leather strip was tied in a knot and added to the bottom sentiment panel.

I already had fulfilled the pattern challenge with the weatherd beige cs for the card base. I had two pieces of texture already as well in the fabric and the leather strips, but I wanted to add the sterling silver dream catcher to the Indian image, I think it sets it off nicely. I just tied the leather strip onto the jump ring for the dream catcher.

I did another challange card as well but I will wait and show you that one tomorrow. Hope you had a wonderful week-end and thanks for stopping by.

Cathy

My Vision-Someone to watch over Me!

I had this vision for this set, Out West, and I think it came out close to what I was trying to achieve. Judge for yourself.

I think the storm clouds turned out better than I expected. I got to use my Tree Silhouettes stamp set from GinaK Designs for the first time. This was the set I chose when I won Donna's 3D challenge a couple of months ago. I love those trees. I stamped them in Momento London Fog ink. Just a hint if you think that London Fog is a grey, wrong, it is misty green which is great for trees and it works for most everything but it was a surprise the first time I used it.

I colored the horse in greys to keep the dreamy vision I had. I tried to mute the grass and ground so that they were like a vision as well.

The horse head was stamped in versamark and embossed with white embossing powder. Not quite as subtle as I was wanting but I was pleased with it.

I finished it by adding a wide sheer dotted swiss ribbon at the bottom, mounted the main image on white cardstock, mounted that on black cardstock and finally mounted all on SU Sahara Sand.

I think this will be my final OutWest card for today :) I love this set and it is so easy to come up with ideas for great cards. I keep wanting to make scenes and not single images, not a bad thing just different because I have to create a lot of the scene elements by drawing them. I can't wait to see what Theresa comes up with next month!!!

Well, tomorrow it is back to work and I have some fun projects in the works. Be sure to keep checking back.

If you ever have any questions about any of my cards that I didn't explain, just send me an email and I will be sure to answer them.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cathy

StampTV Challenge card

Okay, are you tired of seeing horses yet? I have this pretty Paint I did for a challenge card and one more that I am still creating but I think if it turns out the way I plan it will be my favorite.

Cindy Lawrence is hostess of the Color Challenge at StampTV this week and the challenge is to use black, white, and one other color. My colors are black, white, and brown.

The only new set that I bought at the last GinaK Designs release party was Theresa's Out West but that is not the only reason that I am using the heck out of it, I love it! I have one more horse card to make today but depending on what I get accompished today it may be late tonight or possibly even tomorrow.

In case some of you wonder why I am so enthralled with authentic horse images. My kids showed horses in 4H for years and we spent many week-ends at horse shows. They didn't get horses we bought from trainers that already knew everything and the kids just had to sit on their backs, my kids got cheap, broke, but untrained horses and they trained them and all of them loved it and did wonderfully winning more ribbons and trophies than I can house.

In 1990 I decided that I was tired of having all of our spare money going to other trainers for our thoroughbred race horses so I studied and took the Kansas Racing Licence Trainers Test. I passed and was able to train my own horses at the track. I was licensed to race in Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska I trained race horses for 10 years and still have 5 of my old runners at the farm and they will have a home there as long as they live. We are expecting a new arrival any day and I will post a pic when he/she arrives.

I have always wanted a Paint horse, but it never happened, so I just colored one up instead.

At any rate, I got to do some challenges this week-end and that always makes me happy. Now if I could just win one more new GinaK set I would be very happy, I'll be happy anyway, you will just see more Out West projects :)

See you later.

Cathy

Out West Happy Appy!

I promised you another card using Theresa's new Out West set from GinaK Designs yesterday, better late than never :). I also completed it for Melanie's Pot Luck Friday challenge on StampTV:

I wanted to color the horse a little different so decided on appy markings, with the spotted blanket on the rump. I was actually going to make it darker but as I was shading I liked it when it got to this point so there it stayed :)

I also decided that this would be a good card to create a pierced mat for my main image and use my new cutterbug double row piercing tool. The piercing on the black panel under the horse image does resemble saddle stitching holes.

I used the Sateen flowers from GinaK Designs and left the three on the left side white and added black brads and colored the one of the right side with my black copic marker and added a white brad to that one.

The main image is mounted on a piece of Rough and Rugged digital paper which was pierced along the edge. That was mounted on black which was then mounted on a piece of SU designer paper from the Outlaw designer paper pack (which I hoard because they are so perfect for my western or masculine cards).

Once again, thanks for creating this wonderful set Theresa, I'm having a lot of fun with it.

I have a couple more projects near completion which means there may be another post later tonight or a couple tomorrow, depending on what I get accompished :)

Thanks for stoppping by,

Cathy

Out West arrived in the midwest!!!

I had to have Theresa Momber's very first set, Out West, created as a new illustrator for GinaK Designs. Theresa was the first follower on my blog and left the very first comment and I consider her my first cyber friend and I consider her a friend. She is one of the most talented stamp artists that you have ever seen and if you have been to her blog you know exactly what I am talking about. Theresa, here is the first of many cards that I will make with this totally awesome set.......

The set includes many images that can be used to create so many different cards or scrapbook pages, the possibilities are endless.

I masked the boots and stamped the cactus behind the boots. I had masked the skull to stamp the boots and cactus on the right hand side. I drew in the hitching post by hand and cut a slit in the saddle so that it looks like it is sitting on the hitching post. The saddle is popped up on dimensionals so that it looks like it is on the hitching post.

The Howdy sentiment is included in the set. I sponged around the image, added a button and the main image was complete.

When I ordered the Out West set I knew that I wanted the rope paper I had seen in the sneak peeks so I ordered the digital paper pack Rough and Rugged. It is awesome. I print my digi paper on GP cardstock because I usually use it as a card base and love the true colors I get when printing on it. I was able to download and print the paper on Monday and had to wait till today when my stamp set arrived.

Thanks for stopping by and Thanks to Theresa for creating such a totally wonderful horse lovers, not a cartoon, western set.

I'll be back later with an exciting announcement!

Cathy