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Sunday, July 22, 2012

You're A Great Friend, but...

Hi All!  I've got a little something different for you today- not my normal bright and cheerful card, lol.  I've long been a fan of Cheri's digi stamp sentiments over at Graphicat Designs...they are off key, funny and sometimes a little bit naughty- exactly how my sense of humor works!  I've had this particular sentiment for a while but wasn't quite sure how I was going to use it.  So when I saw the challenge over at Saturated Canary was for Black, White and One Other Color my mind instantly went to Krista's zombie stamps of her kids and this card was born :)   I colored this image called Zombie Niamh with my Copics using mostly my Toner and Warm Grey's and some greens.  I was a little uncertain if I could pull the coloring off the way I wanted but I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.  I'm not really good at doing dark or morbid cards, and my sentiment lent itself to something more on the lighthearted side, so I used a black and green color pallet but chose patterned paper from MME that wasn't to dark and still used the things I love like bling and flowers to balance it all out.  It was fun to step out side my comfort zone a little and I'm so glad I got to use this sentiment finally because it literally makes me giggle every time I read it :)  Mostly I'm just hoping that my coloring and card do Krista's image justice because I know how much she loves zombies so I want to do her proud!  As usual, thanks so much for stopping by to visit- I hope you like it!


Copics:
Skin: W00, W0, W1, W3, W7, G40, G85
Hair: G40, G82, G85, T5, T7, T9, 100
Clothes: G20, G40, G43, G82, G85, E81, T0, T1, T3, T5, T7, T9,W1
Cat: T0, T1, T3, T5, G20


I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Saturated Canary Challenge- Black, White + One Other Color
Craft Your Days Away- Shades of Grey + One Other Color
Diva's By Design- Anything Goes
Corrosive Challenge- Cheeky, Saucy and Sassy
Sketch Saturday- sketch




Supplies: Cardstock- American Crafts, Bazzil; DP- MME; Sentiment- Graphicat Stamps; Flowers- KaiserCrafts, Recollections; Bling- Recollections; Cheesecloth- Fred Meyer; Brads- my stash

20 comments:

Regan said...

Oooo, Katie, this is awesome! Your coloring is fantastic! And Zombie Niamh is the perfect image for Cheri's fun sentiment! Love the bling and the cheesecloth too! Thanks for joining us at The Corrosive Challenge for "Cheeky, Saucy, and Sassy"! :)
{hugs}
Regan

Unknown said...

Love this Katie, my sense of humour appreciates this so much lol. Well coloured and I love the l/o and bling.
Cheers,
Elaine

Eulanda said...

BROL LMAO!! OMG that is so cool!! You did AWESOME!! Has Cheri seen this? If not, I'm sending it to her. Did you know she's a close friend IRL? Nice to see stuff getting out there. Love that image too and you did an AMAZING job coloring the ugly little thing. LOL! I've been putting off but wanting to try these images out. You rocked them!!! Hugs!

Unknown said...

love, love, love!!!!! the sentiment is so perfect! this is just a great card all around! well done, girl<3

thanks for entering the SC challenge! what a great entry!!
xx


krista

Jill said...

Woooohoooah!!!
katie, you crazy chic, this is fantastic!!!
Your colouring is out of this world, and I so want to be like you when I grow up! LOL
Totally smashing my friend
Love it
Hugs

Jane said...

Wowza I love it!! Your colouring is beautiful!

Loopylou. said...

squeeeeee,omgosh ooooooooh! this is so awesome hun and i just adore that sentiment!! he he he!! its fab!!
thank you so much for playing along with us over on the Saturated Canary challenge blog
hugs Lou xxx

Hanna said...

Woooooooooww!!! Gosh, this is sooo AWESOME, Katie, I love it! The colours are amazing, and I love how perfectly spooky the embellishments are. Looks absolutely fabulous, and your colouring is PHENOMENAL.

hugs
Hanna

Ali said...

Hi, just wanted to pop by to say I think this is fab!!! I saw it on the CYDA challenge blog - love the image and sentiment x

SAHLERS said...

love this card fab coloring good luck and thanks for joining in at Divas by Design
-sheryl-

June Nelson said...

Loving this hunnie what wonderful colour choice,its fantastic huggies June xxxx

May said...

Hi Katie, O my word this is Fabulous.. Love it!! your colouring is fabulous great design..colour..detail.. Simply Brillant!! Thank you for your visit today and your kind comments I have joined you as a follower so as to visit again soon... Your blog is Fantastic... Hugs May x x x

Johanna said...

:oD Everything's just perfect, what can I say! Green colour is a perfect choice for this. Have to love this "cutie" ;o)
Oh, and really nice sentiment... lol
Hugs :o)

Berry said...

Gosh this is brilliant! Wonderful work thanks for playing at Divas by design and SC hugs rebekah x

Graphicat said...

Katie!!!! OMG!!! This is SUPA!!! I love your BW and Green card! And THANK you for that awesome blurp about my stamps, it always makes me feel so special to see and hear that others like them. :) I am in love with this SC image too!!! I LOVE the kitty!!!
Great job with all of it!
Big Hugs Girl
Cheri (Graphicat!)

Caz said...

This is gorgeous thank you for joining uas at Craft your days away, and good luck.

Caz xx CYDA DT

Bev said...

Fabulous card. Thanks so much for joining in with the Saturated Canary challenge this time x

Kibbi said...

Lol! Funny and fantastic card!

Unknown said...

Love your black and white coloring! You did a wonderful job and you are a fantastically talented! Thanks for sharin, I just found your blog and I love it!

Lindsey Wood said...

That sentiment is hysterical!!! Love the "cute" zombie girl!