Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenges #20-Interactive Cards!

Welcome to the November 2018 Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge!  This month we're challenging you to create an interactive card!  Anything that requires movement from you to make something happen with the card...from Pop-ups to Shakers to Reveal Wheels... let's get them moving!  Here's how I was inspired:

I was so happy to finally ink up these adorable pups from the Frenchie Stamp Set from Tracy Hey! I took them to a crop a couple weeks ago and I decided to try a little No Line Coloring with them.. I started by stamping them with some Fadeout Ink from Inkon3.  Then I used my Copic markers to color them... just like I normally would but covering over the light lines with the marker.  I love the way they turned out! 

And then this morning I took out my Prismacolor pencils and added some depth and detail... something I learned during my visit with Kathy Racoosin from the Daily Marker when i was lucky to attend one of her Road Trip stops!  I love this way to add to an image and make it better without having to worry about losing contrast and making all of my images too dark by continually having to go over and blend with my markers.  Aren't these too SOOO cute!

We should probably talk about the background!  I decided to make a shaker for our Interactive Card challenge this month.  I've been dying to use this new plaid die from Lil' Inker Designs for a while and decided I needed to use it for my shaker.  I cut two of the plaid layers and flipped one around which creates the cool plaid look.  One plate... two layers... awesome!  Then I layered some acetate behind those two layers and added some foam tape to that.  I added my sequins into the well and then attached the back orange layer.

Finally I cut a window from the kraft top layer and used the CAS-ual Fridays Bubble Box dies to create a window, embossed the kraft and layered that on top.  You just have to know ahead that your popup tape won't show through the window so I cut mine all first and layered them in a practice run to be sure.

Then I layered all of my pieces on... my adorable pups, the heart balloons I cut using some dies from MFT and the awesome Balloon Strings and that cute Celebrate word die from Lil' Inker.  I always like to add a few of the sequins from shaker on the outside...almost like a few escaped!

That's it for me today!  And don't forget that the 30 Day Coloring Challenge has started!  Today is Day 3 and I'll be doing some more coloring and sharing on Instagram in a while.

I'm playing along with the Anything Goes Challenge over at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge and Anything Goes at Word Art Wednesday and I'm playing along with a special 100th Challenge Celebration Challenge over at Scrapy Land Challenges!  You should check all of these out!

And you should also check out what Donna has made for you today and also we have a special guest designer this month.. see what Alyson has put together... I think you're gonna love it!  And then be sure to hop on over to the Three Amigos Blog and play along!

Be A Warrior!

As soon as I saw the adorable designs by Tracey Hey on Instagram I knew I had to have them... especially this adorable Brave Lion and another that you'll be seeing soon.  And if you fall in love too, you can find them at the Alpacapals website here!  I can honestly say there is not one set that I wouldn't love to have!

I'm so not over the rainbows and I thought it would be fun to give him a beautiful rainbow mane so I used my watercolor pencils and colored him in.

  I wanted a rainbow background also, but didn't want it to compete with the little guy too much so I printed one of the fun digital backgrounds I recently one over at the Outlawz Challenges from We Are 3 digital shop on Etsy!  You should check it out... lots of cool stuff!  I decided to give foiling on Kraft a try... and I love the way it came out... the foil didn't seem to transfer solidly and not sure if it was my heat settings or just the kraft paper, but it worked out perfectly because it looks a little distressed.  I cut my foiled paper out using the Crazy Stitched Rectangle dies from CDD.

Isn't he just the most adorable??  I added a few leaves cut with some MFT dies because of course he'll be in the jungle!

Love the sentiments on this set and I used my favorite banner dies from CDD... I also decided an arrow would be appropriate for a warrior, but since this guy is obviously a lover and a fighter, I made it a heart arrow from CDD.  I took a stab at covering the die cut with adhesive from a decofoil pen and ran that through with some foil... it took came out a little distressed looking.... maybe I didn't cover it completely... but again!  Happy accident!

So that's it for me today!  A quick one!  And I highly suggest you check out the stamp offerings by Tracey Hey!  I'm positive you'll fall in love with at least one set... but probably more...lol!

I'm playing along with the Outlawz Twisted Thursday today!  No twist for me... got a little to carried away with the color...lol... as the twist is Primary Colors, Red, Blue and Yellow... but you could go for it!