A Year And A Day...

What was I thinking, signing up for not one, not two, but THREE 12+1 spots in Christy's Year of Rileys swap?! I guess I just love that little moose. But OMG, it felt like these took forever. In fact they consumed me so much that now that they are done and gone I have to force myself to remember I have other responsibilities (read: other swaps to finish)

For Group #1 (July), I chose Campfire Riley. He is colored with Prismacolor markers and made good use of my Nestibilities. Behind the Skeeter Spray (SU) is a pop-dot and the Skeeters (also SU) in the background have Crystal Stickles on their wings. The marshmallows and the spray of the Skeeter Spray are colored over with a glitter gel pen.

Group #3 (September) is School Riley. This first photo is what I sent. The second is my original prototype, but as I live with a Physics Professor, the ABC/123 line did not seem quite appropriate. Also, I figured people would probably want to customize thier own sentiment, so I left the blackboard black. The ABC/123 is included inside the card if anyone wants to add it, but the crayons are not. You can blame Crayola, as they do not sell a box of white only crayons, or I would have included one for everyone. Hopefully you ahve a box of crayons kicking around and can root it out. I imagine any other light color would work just as well, but I only tried the white. Looks just like chalk to me!

All cardstock is SU; all coloring is done with Prismacolor markers, except the sponging around the blackboard is done just by rubbing the ink pad (SU) across the cardstock. Her eyeglasses are Cotton Candy Stickles and there is a pop-dot behind both Riley and the stack of books.

When I signed up for Group #5, all I told Christy was that I wanted to use Tea Riley (OK, he is actually called Coffee Riley, but I don't drink coffee, so round here it is all about the tea) and I would take whatever month she needed to fill. I ended up with March. There are two versions of this one only because I ran out of the original dp and had to buy more, but the store no longer had a match...

...but as I ended up with tulips, I think that worked out just fine. Prismacolor Markers again were used as were the Nestabilities, though the scallop behind the dp is from SUs scallop border punch. Behind the (Vippies) sentiment there is a pop-dot. Cotton Candy Stickles top off the cupcake.

Why do all the groups have odd numbers, you ask? Linda took the even numbered groups (lucky duck, there were only two of those!). When all is said and done, between us we will receive ALL of the cards made for this swap. We are going to be flooded with Rileys!!