Mix It Up Challenge Blog + Shaped Card (Optional)

Hey friends, how are you? We are good - cannot believe summer is already here! How's the weather where you are? Leave me a comment, I love hearing from you!!

I'm back with a "Shaped Card" for the Mix It Up Challenge Blog (MIUCB), but if you don't want to create a shaped card, create ANYTHING, we love seeing your creations!

This is a card I made for my hubby to celebrate his birthday. He owns a couple white trucks - none are old OR rusted, lol, but I love making this truck an 'oldie'! The image is from Honey Bee Stamps and makes a perfect shaped card (I used the same image for our son and created a shaped pickup for his birthday also - just a different color 😀).

I used gray Copic markers to give the pickup some shadows, then used lots of brown and orange Copics for the rust. I added some shading to the windows, then used a white gel pen to highlight the windows - I think it looks pretty good, what do you think?

I'm glad you stopped by today, I hope your day is AMAZING!! And don't forget to join us for the MIUCB!!

Mix It Up Challenge Blog + Optional: Diecuts

Boy, do I love die cuts — they’ve basically become my creative language! 😄

And the holidays are the perfect excuse to pull out all the goodies and make fun tags. At Mix It Up, it’s always Anything Goes, or you can add a twist and focus on Die Cuts. You know me… I went with the twist 😉

I made this tag for my boss — total chaos on the loose 😂 — using Spellbinders’ Yuletide Ride and Christmas Cocktails Etched Dies. He loves white cars, so that’s what he got… loaded up with all the things! There’s a peppermint in the backseat (ha!), plus a tree, stocking, gingerbread, Santa hat, lights, candy cane, and greenery. So fun. So crazy.

I added foil using the Sprinkled Glitter hot foil plate with white foil — I love using it as falling snow! ❄️

To finish it off, I smudged white ink under the tires and along the base of the tag, then embossed the sentiment from Waffle Flower’s Family Christmas Sentiments in white.

I hope you join us at MIX IT UP, we'd love to see your creations!