Ballerina for my niece

I have to apologize for not keeping up with my blog.  I have been doing this and that and I didn't realize it had been so long since updating it!  I've been taking some online coloring classes at Kit and Clowder, volunteering and other stuff.  I really enjoy my coloring classes and I need to post of of them here.  Today is a project that I made using some of my new copic coloring skills.  

I made this ballerina art piece for my niece's birthday.  She has been in dance and ballet so I wanted to make her something to remember her special day. 

I only used one paper from Paper Temptress store on this piece but I used both watercoloring technique and regular coloring with copics on it.  I love this paper because it has a wonderful texture to it that is great for copics, watercolors and inks as well as many other mediums that you may want to try.  The awesome paper is called Strathmore Bristol Bright White.  

I hope you can see the difference between the watercolor background and the copic coloring of the ballerina.

I took this photo a darker and angled it so that you could see the little gems that I added to this project. 

The stamp I used is a digital stamp by AuroraWings called Flower Ballerina.   I LOVE a lot of the digital stamps on this site!  In fact, I really liked that I could make this image as large as I wanted in order for it to be the right size for this project. 

Thank you for stopping by!  Hope you have a fun and craft-tastic weekend!

Halloween Cutie

Hello everyone! I'm here to share a little Halloween Cutie with you.  The little gal is a Sherri Baldy Bestie digital image.  I colored her and the background with copics.  I am taking some copic coloring classes at Kit and Clowder and that's where I learned how to color the background.  Don't get too startled about the prices because they are Australian dollars and it's much cheaper here in US.

I cut out the moon and put the colored image (popped up on pop dots) on top of the Incandescent Candido paper which also served as a border.   I added a little shading to the moon to add a little depth as you can see in the photo below.

I layered the top frame up on pop dots to add even more dimension and attached the bottom layer.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!  Below is a list of all the paper I used.

Copic X-Press Blending Card

Incandescent Candido

Amethyst 

Ruby Mica/Metallic

Blossoms & Butterflies

Good morning everyone!  I have a card for you that could have many purposes.  It could be used as a Sympathy card, birthday card, wedding card or for any other purpose you could think of... except maybe a masculine card.  hehe!

I stamped the image onto Baby Girl Pink from the Basis Pack and then colored in the branch, leaves and the shading on the flowers.  I layered the blossoms image onto Azalea cardstock and then onto Heavenly White cardstock which I had folded over before I cut it out so that it would fold like a card.

The butterflies are punched out of the Azalea cardstock and I added little tiny pearl stickers onto them and the centers of the flowers.

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Banner and Flowers

Happy Saturday!!!  I hope you are having a great weekend!  I'm so happy that I found the time to do some crafting and made this card for my Design Team post over at the Paper Temptress Blog.

My card today uses quite a few fun papers from the Paper Temptress Store.    My card base is Desert Storm Kraft which I stamped with the wood grain stamp by Stampin' Up.  

The banner was stamped in Versamark and embossed with white embossing powder onto the following paper: Sapphire (text weight), Spring Larch (text weight) and Azalea (text weight).  The heart is also out of Azalea and the butterfly is punched from Rose Petal Vellum.  

 I stamped the large flowers onto Heavenly White and colored them with copics.   One of the small flowers I stamped onto Amethyst (text weight) and the other one is on Sapphire (text weight).   The leaves are punched out of Spring Larch (text weight) .  I really like the text weight Glimmer paper because you can easily use punches on them and they are easy to shape.

After I shaped the flowers I glued them onto the background and put 1/2 pearl stickers in the centers.

Thank you for coming by!  I hope you have a wonderful weekend.  Don't forget to check out all the sales at the Paper Temptress store! 

Stampin' Up Stamps used:  Banner Blast, Beautiful Bunch, Hardwood, Flower Shop

Pearls from Want 2 Scrap

Butterflies Everywhere! *mini tutorial included

I am making a butterfly mobile for a precious special needs little girl.  She loves bright colors and butterflies so I've been making them like crazy!  These are a fair amount of work so it's taking me more time than I originally wanted to take but I'm sure she will love it when I finally get finished with it.

I will post another day when I actually have the mobile done but for now, enjoy these butterflies!

I used black Onyz for the outline of the butterflies.  I explain that process below.  As you can see in these photos, I shaped the butterflies so that they would be 3-dimensional.  Once they're hanging from the mobile they should look like they are flying.

I ran the butterfly dies through my Big Shot using the Onyz paper  and all the little pieces came out as you can see on the right side of the photo.  I used Heavenly White paper for the background of the butterfly and colored it using copics.  I placed the black outline on top of the white paper and colored in the individual sections.  I then took the black outline off and expanded the coloring a bit so that if I didn't glue the outline exactly where I originally had it, it would still look ok.

When gluing the black outline on top of the colored butterfly cut-out, it's important to shape the card as you glue the together.  If you wait until the glue dries then the paper won't bend right.  The Onyz paper  is a nice, thick and sturdy paper.  When you glue it to the other paper it holds that shape nicely.  I colored both sides of the white butterfly paper so that it is colorful from any angle.  So... I cut out another black outline and glued it to the back.  The front of this butterfly is below.

  

Here is another butterfly using pink, blue and purple copics.  The thick outline of this set made it much easier to glue than the thin outline above - but I like the look of both.

This is the back of this butterfly with it face-down.  You can see how I colored this side and added the 2nd black outline.  You can also see that it's shaped and not flat.

Here it is right-side up.

This is one of my favorite butterflies.  I enjoyed coloring different colors in the outer circle cut-outs on the wings.

Below are the smallest and largest butterflies.  The smallest one is about 1 1/2" wide and the large one is about 3 1/2" wide.  They would be a bit wider if they weren't bent and shaped.  The orange area of the large butterfly has two shades of orange.  I thought it made a dramatic effect if I feathered the darker color on top of the light.

I plan to put pearls or other "bling" onto the butterfly bodies after I get them hanging on the mobile.  I'll be sure to glue them on good so they don't fall off!

Thank you for stopping by!  I hope you have a wonderful & creative weekend!

The butterfly dies that I used are Spellbinders and Memory Box dies.

Stitches & Swirls Thank You Note and a Tutorial.

I usually only post on The Paper Temptress blog once every two weeks but one of the design team members was sick and caring for sick children so I offered to post for her.  I ended up not only making a card but doing a tutorial too!  I hope you enjoy it!

It's always nice to have Thank You notes on hand so I decided to make one for today's post.  I thought it would be fun to show you how to make your own designer paper.  I used a great stamp set by Paperty Ink called Stitches & Swirls.

I used gray ink on the card that I made.  The stamp set is made of clear polymer so it didn't really show up with the gray ink so I made another background using black ink on the stamp shown here:

I used my favorite paper for copics which is Cryogen White.  Cryogen is kind of sparkly when seen at certain angles in the light.  First step is to make sure that you have scratch paper underneath the paper you are stamping on.  Instead of stamping the image in the center of the card, I stamped it in the bottom left-hand corner.  As you can see, some of the ink stamped onto the scratch paper underneath.  The two papers are almost exactly the same so I moved the Cryogen over so you could see the scratch paper.

I turned the paper over and stamped the image again onto the bottom left hand corner.  I placed the one I finished on the left side of the photo so you can kind of see how the stamped image on the right is similar to how I stamped it on the first one.

I colored the flowers and leaves with copics and tries to give it somewhat of a soft touch.

I colored the flowers and leaves with copics and tries to give it somewhat of a soft touch.  I used Amethyst for the frame and the word "Thanks".  I love the shimmer of the paper.  A great hint is to cut out the center of the frame just smaller than the paper that you are framing so that you can use it for other projects as shown in the photo below.

Here is the finished card again.  I added some lace, floral ribbon and some little pearls for a final touch.

Thank you for stopping by!   I hope you have enjoyed the tutorial today.  Have a great week!

Thinking of You

I LOVE butterflies!  Don't you?

I cut the butterfly out of Black Onyz.  I then used the cut-out to trace the outline on Heavenly White #80 and cut it out.  I colored it with copics as shown in the photo below.  I love how wonderfully smooth Heavenly White is... amazing for copics use! 

 I glued the black outline onto the colored paper and bent the wings so that the butterfly would look as though it was about to fly right off the paper!   The butterfly is mounted onto Razzleberry cardstock.  Doesn't it look yummy??!!!

I like the quote "Thinking of you" because it can be used for many occasions such as everyday, sympathy or offering a friend some strength during a rough time.

Thank you for stopping by!   Hope you are having a wonderful weekend!

Other products used:
Cheery Lynn die- Exotic Butterfly med.#3
Copics RV000, RV02, RV52, V12, V15, V17
Stamp: Stampin' Up Gifts of Kindness

The dimensions of the card are 3.45" x 4.25"

Let's Go Fly a Kite

The theme today at CropStop to use a kite on your project.  I knew I just had to use my Tilda flying a kite stamp - which is so cute!  I also wanted to use the kite die that I have so I only stamped Tilda and left her kite un-inked and then fussy-cut Tilda out.  Somewhere I saw a kite-shaped card and thought I'd take it to the next level and turned this project into a wall-hanging.

(click on the images to enlarge)

I paper-pieced Tilda's blouse and then used a coordinating copic to shade on the patterned paper to give it depth.  I also pierced a hole on Tilda's right hand and threaded the twin through it so it gives a more realistic look of her holding it.  I glued the twine onto the backside of both her hands.

I know that when you fly a kite the line between the person and the kite is taunt but I thought it would be fun to put some loops in the twine.  I put a small dot of glue on the paper where the twine touches it to keep it in place.  You wouldn't want to smash it though.

Some decorative flowers on the bottom corner of the kite.

I love how this turned out.  I wanted the small kite to POP against the large one but I used coordinating papers so I made this sun to go behind it.  I love the striped yellow paper in the back and the circle in the front is embossed in a dot pattern.   

Here is a better photo to show you the 3-D areas of the project.  The small kite and Tilda are popped up with pop dots.

Thank you for stopping by today.  I'm sorry I've been MIA for awhile.  I took a break from crafting due to some health issues I'm having but I hope to be able to post more often.  I have a couple of projects that I made but haven't posted yet.  I appreciate each and every visit and comment.

Head on over to the CropStop blog and see what the other designers have made for you!  I hope today is bright and full of hope & happiness!

What's in it:

Honey Bee 5" Scissors,  Tim Holtz Tonic Studio Scissors,  Score-tape,  Spellbinders Blossom Two ,  Spellbinders Standard Circle  Large ,  Copic,

Die-namics Fly A Kite, Tilda with Kite

Here is my card that I made for the Spellbinder's Pendant Project Challenge. I didn't win but that's ok, there were many really amazing cards and other projects! I enjoyed looking at all the entries. I just love my Spellbinders dies.

The girl in this card is one of Whiff of Joy's Summer releases. Her name is Willow with strawberry basket and she has some really intricate designs which made her more difficult to color.. but my copics worked great! The ribbon was fun to use and guess what? The bling is actually an old button from my button box! How fun is that? As always, click on the photo to enlarge.


I used several Spellbinders shapes on this card and gave it dimension with pop dots.


Here is the inside. More Spellbinders shapes including the butterfly and the border. The center of the flower is a great place to write your own sentiment.


More fun dimension.


I had forgotten to use my glitter pen on the flowers on Willow's dress so here's a picture showing that little sparkle and a little of the glitter on the designer paper.


I really enjoyed making this card. I can't wait to color some of the other Whiff of Joy images and make more cards.

Thanks for stopping by!

A new card for a new challenge!

This card was a lot of fun and evolved over time. I wanted to do two challenges with this one card so I used the sketch from "So Sketchy" (From Dec 13). I also wanted to enter the 'Lovey Dovey" challenge at "Our Creative Corner" so I got out my things, made a huge mess and viola! This is my creation! I like it. :-)



I used Kim Huges fun stamp set U R A Hoot!, colored with copics and topped it off with some basic grey brads and a clear acrylic heart with a pink button. The owl and branch are on pop dots for dimension. I added the strip at the bottom to accommodate the "Who Loves You?" sentiment. I'm quite new to copic markers but I'm coming along. They work much differently than the acrylic paints I've used for years but I'm sure with practice I can improve.

Thanks for stopping by!