PMS sneak peeks day 3 - NEW FAIRIES!

Holy cow, am I ever beat! Too many late nights in a row have caught up to me! Mix that with going downtown tonight with the fam (so fun!) and having to get up early tomorrow to work (makeup)... forgive me if i'm not as chatty as i sometimes am! I know, you're devasted that it wont take you 15 minutes just to read thru my post! hahahah!

Ok... so today the PMS team is peeking all of the single images being released this month.

This include 3 new fairies, 2 new cuties critters, 1 new wordart and 1 other image that actually coordinates with one of the fairies. I love them all so much, i used 2 of the fairies and the coordinating pinwheel stamp!

Let's start with Kat... the pinwheel fairy (named after fellow Paper Makeup Artist Christi Snow's daughter!)

For this card layout i used the sfytt (thats sketch for you to try) from Jen Del Muro of I{heart}2stamp. Jen has such fun sketches and a killer design team that will have you salivating with creative envy... it's sure to get your juices flowing!

My bigges regret on this card is i stamped my sentiment too high (after adhering everything mind you) so it's a little hard to read under the bow.

I colored the image with copics.

Hair: Y21, YR23, E99, "Y20" custom

Skin: E00, E21, E000

Shirt: YR12, YR16, YR18

Dress: R32, R35, R37, G14, R30

Shorts: BG45, BG49, BG01

Grass: G12, G14, G16, G19

Sky: BG10, BG11, "BG100" Custom

I also used a white colored pencil to add in some highlights since i wanted some subtle highlights. I often use a gel pen, but given that this image is colored so brightly as it is, i didnt want to give competition to the eye.

This can be acheived by using a colorless blender, but with the CB you risk pushing some of the color so that you also get a darker line. The white colored pencil avoids that!

This photo just shows off the sentiment a little bit better. This is the freebie sentiment with all purchases made this month while supplies last. :D

My paper on this card (and the next) is by Echo Park (yeah... dont act surprised i know you're not) and it's from the Summertime collection.

Ok... next card...

Meet the Hugging Fairies! I love these girlies so much!

Again, this paper is from Echo Park, summertime.

I love the bright fun colors in the pack! The scalloped border (which i'm just NOW noticing is barely seen!!!) at the top is actually one of the cardstock stickers. I know those paper packs with cardstock stickers can sometimes trip up us stamper folk. Well they need not! This one was a 12 inch long strip but i cut it to fit my card.

The flowers you see on my card are some of my favs! But i just got them from AC moore and pulled them off the floral stems! for like a buck a peice and i FILLED an empty prima jar! Lots of bang for your buck!

Here's a close up of the image.

Now in the PMS design team forum the other day, one of the gals asked what everyone's nemesis was when it came to copics. Well... i didnt want to be like HA, i dont have one! as i toss my hair over my shoulder because that certainly isnt the case! But as i tried to answer i thought, well this is TOUGH! And thats because i like to meet challenges, so it's hard to say there is a nemesis. BUT i will say, i have a hard time breaking out of the box when it comes to colors! I own all the copic colors available and have even created many of my own. So why do i use the same ones over and over? Why are all my colored fairies with the same hair colors? I guess i get comfy in my go to colors. I do this with makeup too. I know what i love, and sometimes it's really hard to break away from it. SO... thats my nemesis!

And because i've figured out what my nemesis is... i'm challenged by it! So i wanted to use DIFFERENT colors than my go to colors. Now of course i wanted to match to the paper so i did do that, but i did still want to branch out. I used different blue greens than i hardly ever do... but the biggest thing for me was hair color. I DEFINITELY have my go to hair colors! And i'm not sure i've ever colored hair quite as brightly as today. But there are indeed some bright red heads out there! So why not?! And truth me told... i LIKED IT!

Here is my list of copics used....

Blonde: Y21, YR23, E97, E99 (i added 97 to keep it warmer like the red head!)

Red Head: YR12, Y15, YR24, YR18 (the YR24 kept it from getting toooo bright)

BG dress: BG45, BG48, BG01; Y32, Y35

Pink Skirt: R30, R32, R35, R37

yellow shirt: Y32, Y35, Y38

WINGS: R00, R0000

(i also usually always color wings in blue tones... why? i dont know... so this time i went pink with an added peach spica pen that is hard to see... but very pretty in real life)

Ok, so i told you it'd be a short post. I lied. What can i say... i like to hear myself type. And i got started talking about colors! I LOVE talking colors!

Ok, so the sentiment on my card is from the same set i showed yesterday called When There's Nothing Left to Say. I love this set so much! What can i say, it's my baby. :D

Ok, so there is a hidden prize on one of the DT's blogs today. Go to the company blog to find out more! Until tomorrow... Have a wonderful day!!!!!