Tuesday, February 17, 2009

No Fair Girl

LOVE this stamp (although, I have to admit when I got her I was surprised at how tiny she is). She is part of the Tiddly Inks line at Stamping Bella. I finally had the desire to ink her up for the first time for myself (she'd already been sent out as images to friends, of course!). I just love the expression on her face, oh how my daughter Tolla often looks at me this way!

This card started with a scrap of DP that caught my eye as I was placing things on my table and just grew from there. I'm very pleased with the finished layout as it's always fun to make a card from scratch when I normally use a sketch for beginning inspiration. She was a bit of a pain to color, I think I'll try to paper piece her next time and those curls!!! OH MY, those were a....., well, you know. LOL I left the inside blank as I'm sending her with a swap I'm in as a thank you to the hostess so I want her to be able to use it if she wants for whatever.

Of course, I'm going to complain about my camera and the lack of sufficient lighting in my house to take good pics of my cards. So she's a bit blurry and the colors are greatly muted.

15 comments :

Dawn B. said...

Oh she is so cute. She looks like my dd when she was little. Super layout for this image.

Laura Pryor said...

Super cute! Love the layout. The stamp is a riot!

Jacquel said...

Too cute and nice colors! tfs!!!

Jan said...

I too, love the expression on her face - she is a cutie, curls and all! Nice work, Carisa! You did a great job coloring her in and cutting her out!

Sprytebyrd said...

Great card and I think your coloring is perfect! She is smaller than I had pictured, but still super cute!

Anjou Krelovich said...

Adorable. I love her even with the blur! And, yes, my DD gets that look too.

Anonymous said...

She is sooo cute Carisa...good on ya for using up some of those deadly scraps...my, oh, my they pile up quickly enough dont they?

Laura VanVleet said...

This is super cute, Carisa!! I also love the expression on her face! Great job!

Trini said...

Very cute! The look on her face is priceless!

Elizabeth said...

So cute!

xiumaiyuki said...

hahha...thanks for the chuckle! she's so darn cute! and that sentiment is sooooo me!!!

Alicia said...

She is so cute and I can think of so many sentiments that would work with her

sumbine said...

Such a cool card, i like all the bling you added.

Sabine

Abi Bundy said...

such a cute image, lol an expression i see regulaly :)

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