Freaky Girl

I'm not sure what you call this little girl so I'm calling her Freaky Girl. I saw her at my local scrapbook store and she jumped into my shopping basket! She was just hanging there, staring at me along with all of this colorful Lemonade collection by Basic Grey. I think Freaky Girl is hard to find so good luck! Last I saw, Eclectic Paperie had her packaged up in a little bundle of stamps. Check it out HERE, EP also sells the Basic Grey Lemonade collection of papers and matching embellishments. I was like a little kid making these cards. Just for the sheer fun of stamping.....as Forrest Gump would say......for no particular reason.

If you want to try something new with your Copics, try stamping your images onto Kraft cardstock, then coloring. You just have to use a little more vibrant/darker colors so that they'll show up on the Kraft color. Use a little scrap of paper to test your colors first. And see that shimmer on my little red headed Freaky Girl (she looks like Josey who has more blond in her red hair)? I used Copic Spica markers to add some shimmer. My friend Pine likes to use a Star Dust pen and then smudge it before it dries. Thanks for the tip Pine! For this little card, I used a sentiment from Papertrey's Vintage Picnic and matched it up with a tiny envelope from Papertrey's Mailbox Greetings.

This time I colored Freaky Girl to look more like Jordan who has darker red hair. I love their little blushy cheeks.

I shimmered up her hair too and added a popped up heart, some buttons, ribbon and a little machine stitching. Polka dots on both cards are from Papertrey's Polka Dot Basics II. For each of the main image layers, I used a fine tip Copic Multi Liner in black to outline the squares and have the lines meet at both sides of the sentiments.

Time ran out for me, but Freaky Girl also has a friend. I call him Freaky Boy and I can't wait to color him for some little boy cards. If you click on that link at the beginning of my post, you can see Freaky Boy in that bundle of stamps that EP is offering. Oh boy, did I have some freaky fun stampin' up this little girl, she's SO dang cute!!

Okay friends, I've got to pack up my final stuff for CHA....then vacuum and dust (do you clean before you go on a trip?)......and do our Town Tuesday stuff before I head to Dawn's tonight......hair cuts, guitar lessons, pick up Jordan's new contacts.....oh, and go to McDonald's to see if Josey's new Itouch picks up the free WiiFii there. Priorities ya know. :) Have a great day. I'll be taking photos but won't be able to post while I'm at CHA. Maybe Nichole, Debbie, Dawn or Pine will though so be sure to check their blogaroonies. Later girls!