My very first Easel Card!!!

I did it! I made an easel card!

I have been wanting to make one of these bad boys, but would either forget, or be too intimidated, or not have enough time, mojo, etc.

Well, there's nothing like a challenge to make ya do something!

The Greeting Farm is having a little battle of the stampers challenge!

Ok, "little" is not the right word. it's kinda HUGE! There were over 60 teams to start, all with 3-5 stampers per team! Thats a lot of stampers!

My team is named Coast to Coast Stampers since we all live pretty much across the country from each other! Gotta love the online crafting community!

Each week a different team member must complete the challenge and this week it was my turn!

The challenge was to make an easel card! So make one i did! (and it was a lot of fun!)

Here is my card...

I used one of the Wild Sprouts named Stella. I love this girl! The stamp makes me want to cut my hair it's so stinkin' cute! Then i remember i dont LIKE my hair short. hahahah!

Here's a view of the "easel" aspect of the card. By the way, i followed THIS TUTORIAL for my easel card. :)

I used My Mind's Eye paper from the Quite Contrary line. LOVE this paper! It's double sided so you can see both sides on my card (the polka dot is one side and the argyle is the other.

I also decided to paper piece her dress, but then her arms seemed to get lost so i stamped her arms again and layered them on soem foam adhesive so they would actually sit higher than the paper pieced dress.

For my sentiment, i wanted something a little "lovey" since Stella is holding an envie sealed with a heart. Then i remembered this sentiment from the Keep Cozy set (which is actually a set with snowmen, but this sentiment was perfect!)

Ok, so here's my little catch for this post. The battle of the stampers is a voting contest! Now i'm not saying you have to vote for my card. but i know that i will really feel terrible if my Tangii (3rd team player for the Coast to Coast Stampers) never gets to play, so if you do like my card, and would like to vote... you can do so HERE. :)

THanks so so much for stopping by today! A little later i'll have my sneak peek post up for Paper Makeup Stamps! :)

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One of Jack's Cards

I dont have a new project for you yet, but I have been hard at work. :)

It's getting towards the end of the month which means i've got about a week and a half of daily posts coming up! I actually love this time of daily posting and lots of projects, it just takes a bit of prep work!

BUT, my son did make a card to share with you! :)

He LOVES to color with mama's markers (yep that would be my copics). But they are so indestructable, i let him so long as he is coloring at MY table so i know where they are!

Maybe that was even a bad idea because i had dreams all night long that caps were missing and my markers were drying out. These dreams actually WOKE ME UP!

I guess i a smidgen obsessed, huh?

Ok, so here is Jack a roo's card!

he likes to pick scraps out from my scrap drawers to make his cards. And i save even the most onnoxious scraps, like this one that i just the circle out with a nestie. I figured it might make a good mat sometime? So no, he didnt cut his stamped image out, he gave it a frame. haha.

He also quite enjoys creating confetti with the decorative edge scissors (i think i'm posted about that before). So all those bits are glued on there and the whole card HAD to be BLUE since it's his "favorite color like the ocean!".

so thats all i got for today! more to share very sooooooon!

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I finally found it!

My camera! hahaha! My camera often goes missing in my house as my VERY soon to be 4 year old loves to take pictures! I've been hunting for days.... and i finally found it! Ok, so this time it was in a coat pocket, completely not the kiddos fault! Now i'm missing the charger, go figure.

Those who know me, know that i LOOOOOOVE coloring in monotone particularly black and white. In fact, a long while ago i did a black and white copic coloring tutorial that you can see here.

Over the weekend i had the pleasure of teaching the copic munkies at Funkie Munkie Scraps.

I decided to revisit the idea of coloring in black and white but this time used the Cool grey copics.

here is what I came up with!

Although the card is simple (side effect of taking some time off, i always lose my mojo!)

I was please with how the card turned out.

My image is one of the Miss Anyas from The Greeting Farm and the sentiment is from an unloved set of mine from Stampin Up called From the Heart.

I also used my new big polka dot embossing folder from Quickutz. Thanks to Julee Tilman, i saw 1 card of hers using it and i did a quick online search to buy it!

Here's a closeup shot of the image....

Ok, thats all i have for you today! Now i have to jet to get some things in order for a certain someone's birthday tomorrow! :)

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Happy Heart Day everyone!

I hope everyone has had a truly wonderful valentine's day! I actually do have a card for you today! It's the card i made for my hubster. He giggled when he opened it and said, I love my cards from you! And he truly does. he has each and every one of them on display in his office. I've taken over a whole shelf! haha!

So how was everyone's valentine's day?

Mine has been very low key with a lot of lazy around the houseness. :) Gabe has had a prett gnarly cold so we didnt even go to church this morning. It isnt anything too major, but i wouldnt want to get anyone else sick. And i did take the time to dye my hair! I picked a new shade (ok, so it will look the same to most, but i notice it!) and i'm loving the new shade. it works well against my skintone. Tomorrow is Family Day in Canada and since we are half canadian in our house, i'll be taking the day off to do more fun fam stuff. perhaps i'll have a photo op with my newly dyed hair!

Here's my card using a hodgepodge of stamps... but the largest image is from The Greeting Farm.

I put my card together a little quickly. I have had the image colored for some time, but just hadnt gotten to the card yet. The black striped paper was a leftover scrap on my table from my Moody for Rock card i made earlier in the week. It just fit perfect for the card so i thought, woohoo! The red triangle is also a scrap. I took my favorite heart from the You've Got Mail set from My Time Made Easy and stamped it to mimic the bandanna on the monkey's head. :)

The sentiment is from a studio G dollar set that i've sort of horded away. I stamped the heart again in red ink (without cleaning it off well, bad me). but my booboo of not cleaning it well gave the heart a little bit of shading. haha! here are some close up views...

And here's another fun detail show... it's hard to see in the photos, but it really makes the image pop on the card. After cutting out the monkey image with my standard rectangle nesties, i used my copic airbrush and a light grey marker to give it a little depth. My image was already colored when i did this and didnt affect the coloring at all. My advice is to just stick to airbrushing the edges and you'll be fine. :)

Well i hope everyone had a fantabulous day today!

Here are...

Stamps:

monkey image from The Greeting Farm (sorry, i'm pretty sure this cutie was discontinued)

Heart from You've Got Mail, My Time Made Easy

Sentiment from Studio G

Color with Copics

Reds R24, R37, R29

Grey's N2, N4, N7

Monkey E33, E35, E37

Pink for monkey heart in tail R20

Tools and Accessories

Standard Rectangle Nestabilties

1 3/8 circle punch by EK Success

1 1/2 circle punch by Creative Memories

Copic Airbrush

Rhinestones from $1 section at Target

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You're the cat's meow!

Here is a card i made this afternoon for my Copic Club i teach at Funkie Munkie Scraps.

I dont always make cards out of the pictures we color in the class. Not sure why, i think i forget!

Well this month we are focusing on a different overall look to the colored image. High contrast!

This is leaves the center not colored and then uses the colorless blender to fade out from the center. I'm not going to lie to you... this coloring style frightened me a little! Haha. Well, trying it didnt, but thinking that i would be teaching it did! I love the look when i see others do it, so i just had to play and find my rhythm with it! I'm always looking for ways to go outside of my comfort zone artisically. Whether its stamping, coloring or doing makeup. Expanding your comfort zone makes you a better artist!

Ok, stepping off of my soap box now...

Here is my first card using this new to me coloring style...

I love this stamp image from The Greeting Farm. I've had this set for entirely too long without inking it up! I think they are called gingerbells but for the life of me I cant find them on the website to link them up! Sorry about that!

Here are a few details shots...

I used my copic airbrush inside a nestie to get this look. I do this a lot, but i dont usually use a "bolder" color inside the nestie. I'm kinda diggin' the different effect and how much whiter the ring is!

I would really like to work on the "smoothness" quality of my coloring in this style. Other than that, i think it's a lot of fun! As with any new technique, you gotta practice. Thats what i always tell both my makeup and coloring students. I just dont like it when the rule has to apply to me too! hahahaha!

My card for you tomorrow is for the Makeup for the Weekend challenge and it's also a card i'm showing tonight in class! So if you are interested in seeing more from this technique, be sure to tune in tomorrow!

Stamps:
The Greeting Farm; gingerbells

Coloring with Copics
Colors used.... YR000, YR12, YR15, YR18, R20 and a LOT of colorless blender

Paper:
Cardstock: Pacific Point (SU_, Tangerine Tango (SU), Solar White (Neenah)
Patterned Paper: Pacific Point designer paper (SU)

Tools and Accessories:
Spellbinder Nestabilities Standard Ovals and Scalloped Ovals

Dots and Dashes ribbon (picked up at Michael's)

Studio G Rhinestones

The Paper Studio brads

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

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The Sky's the Limit!

I have a card that i made for no reason at all! Oh sure, i have sneak peeks to work on, cards for friends i should make, samples for my classes, etc. But i really wanted to use this set and my new paper i got the other day! So this card was born!

At first i was hating it... but in the end i really love how it turned out...

Here is try number 1.... i liked it, but i didnt like how i could barely read the sentiment. I know people stamp on patterned paper all the time and i love how it looks on THEIR cards, but never on my own!


So i restamped it on a scrap piece of white and then matted it. Which do you like better?



This paper is the new paper is all from the new collection called Simple Pleasures by 3 Bugs in a Rug (for my locals... Funkie Munkie Scraps has this paper!). If you loved the In Colors from last year... (which i did) you will love this paper collection! The colors matches perfectly! In fact all the cardstock on my card is Kiwi Kiss, Tangerine Tango and Red Ridinghood. Since i have all the inks and reinkers, and cardstock for eons that i bought because i had all the inks and reinkers... i think i'll be picking up myself some more of this paper!!!!!!!!!!!!!

here some detail shots...

I cut out the balloon with my NEW LABELS 9 nestabilties die (shameless plug, Paper Makeup Stamps has all the new nesties in... if I'm out of stock on anything, shoot me an email because i'm getting ready to reorder soon!) I stamped the balloon image (from Fly Away by The Greeting Farm 3 times. Well, actually 4 times. I stamped once on my neenah and colored it in, then cut it out and set it aside. I stamped it again and just colored my edges because i planned on popping the other cut out on top of it. I stamped it a third time and cut it out so that i could use it as a mask with my Copic Airbrush. The 4th time i stamped it over my cardfront just so that my tail would peek out under the cutout piece. Seems like a lot of work, but balloons are very easy to cut out, so it was no biggie. :)


Last month the Farmerz Club i'm a member of (for fans of the Greeting Farm Stamps) the challenge was to use shrink paper. Well, i knew i wanted to shrink the clouds from this set. I was going to work on it at the club meeting but the heat tool has mysteriously disappeared, and then i never got around to it. But i still wanted to do it at some point! So I shrank my little clouds so they were itsy bitsy and kind of button like. So stinkin' cute!



So thats my card for ya today. :) Now i'm off to Frankie's Fun Park with the fam and then back home to work on all my sneak peek cards for next week! ACK! :)



Stamps:
Fly Away from The Greeting Farm

Coloring:
Balloon: BG10, BG11, BG72, R21, R24, R59, E55, E31, E57
Sky airbrushed with B000

Paper:
Patterned Paper 3 Bugs in a Rug (Simple Pleasures collection)
Cardstock: Solar White (Neenah), Kiwi Kiss (SU), Tangerine Tango (SU), Red Ridinghood (SU)

Tools and Accessories
Shrinky Dink paper
Spellbinders Labels 9 die
Copic Airbrus
Pop Dots

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Happy Anyaversary!

Happy Anyaversary everyone! There are over 80 blogs participating in this super fun hop! To see the big list... You can go to the CLub Anya blog or the Greeting Farm blog. There are birthday ideas galore in this hop! I hope you are ready for all this!

For my Anya birthday card, i decided to make it a total diva card! 1 because everyone likes to be a diva on their birthday and 2, i hadnt gotten the chance to ink up my superstar anya yet and THAT was just a travesty! :)

Here's my card...

Isnt she super fabulous?! I had a lot of fun coloring her up! I used copic markers (color details are listed in "the deets" at the end of the post. I stamped her background paper using some various stars. They didnt show up much in the picture, but they are there i promise! And i thought this digi sentiment by Paper Makeup Stamps fit the image perfectly!

The inside of the card reads, Have a Fabulous Birthday! It's pretty plain in there besides the sentiment, so i didnt take a picture. :)

Here's a close up view...

I added a black glaze pen to her sunglasses and purple liquid applique to her boa.

Isnt liquid applique so fun. I love this stuff! I seriously need to find myself some brown! I think i have every color but orange and brown! And fall is approaching! ACK!

OH - and i promised goodies didnt i! Well i own a SLEW of greeting farm stamps! So leave a comment here and i will draw 1 lucky winner to receive 30 olus stamped out images! Images will be hand stamped by me onto Nennah Solar White paper using memento ink unless i get a different request (i own a lot of paper!) :)

Ok... enough mumbling.... onto...

Stamps:
SuperStar Anya by The Greeting Farm
We cant all be stars digi sentiment by Paper Makeup Stamps
Stars for Backgroun by We R Memory Keepers

Coloring/Copics
Hair: Custom Color "Y20" (but Y32 is a close match, a little darker, but still similar), Y21, YR23, E99
Skin: E00, E01, E21
Shirt: V12, V15
Pants: B91, B93
Sunglasses and Shoes: RV21, RV23

Paper:
Cardstock only... Purple by The Paper Studio, Pink and Blue are both by Bazzill Bling
White is Neenah Solar White Classic Crest

Tools and Accessories
Bling by Spare Parts, a division of The Paper Studio
Gelly Roll Glaze Pen
Liquid Applique in Purple

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i lost...

But i had fun in the process!  haha!

I'm a member of a club called TGFarmerz.  Its a club for those who love The Greeting Farm.  I am definitely a friend of the farm!  haha.  Each month at our "round up meeting" we are issued a challenge.  This past month was to use more than 1 stamp to recreate an Anya or an Ian.  I've seen MANY altered anyas and ians on the greeting farm blog and the club anya but had never really attempted it myself.  So this was my first!

All the submissions then go up on the blog anonymously and are voted on. So i didnt win... but who cares when the process is fun!

Now, a very brief background story on who i made this card for.... a friend of mine, Dawn Knight, is in the process of adopting a precious baby boy!  When she got the call she then called me to let me know she was headin' to vegas to win a baby!  Now Dawn is as fun and sassy as fun and sassy gets!  So i knew she would appreciate a vegas inspired good luck card!  :)  So this is what i came up with for her!

This process was way fun and could become very addicting!



Stamps:
For my showgirl anya, i used Flutteryby Anya (for the head), Mermaid Anya (torso and part of her hair), Chef Ian (for the trey and martini glass) and Showtime set for the legs. I drew in her fishnets with a multiliner by Copic. I also used Lucky Bunnies for the sentiment.

Coloring/Copics
Skin: E00, E21, R20
Hair: Y21, YR23, E33
Clothing & Trey: R35, R37
Cosmo: R32

Patterned Paper:
Red is Making Memories; Grey is American Crafts

Tools and Accessories
Kaisercraft bling and pearls
Thanks for stopping by! I have a very easy a quick project for ya tomorrow, so dont forget to pop back in!

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Miss Anya and a Copic Munkie Bundle tutorial

I'm going to warn you... this is going to be a long post... with lots of pictures!  :)  But there a reason... a tutorial reason!  :)  But let me first start off with the final product and the deets of this card.  :)  Then if you care to read on about the tutorial.... you can!  :)

Because the rest of this post is going to be long winded... i'm going to skip my usual babble (hey, i hear those of you breathing a sigh of relief!) and get right to....



Stamps:
Rain Snow Shine from The Greeting Farm
Sentiment is a misc stamp i picked up at AC Moore on clearance... sorry i dont have much more info on it.

Coloring/Copics
Hair, Skirt, Boots, Buttons: E25, E27, E29, Colorless Blender
Skin: E00, E21(shadow), E02(cheeks), E000 (to blend it all together)
Jacket: YR12, YR14, YR18
Umbrella: YR00, YR12
Socks: E40, E41

Paper:
Patterned Paper from Tart N Tangy (or whatever that paper collection was called! Sorry!) from Stampin Up
Cardstock is Chocolate from Stampin Up
White is Solar White by Neenah

Tools and Accessories:
Labels 4 Nestabilties by Spellbinder
Spica Pen in Sand (border of die)
Martha Stewart BorderPunch
Dark Chocolate ribbon by PaperTrey Ink
Flowers by Prima Marketing
Buttons from the jar
White Thread is cross stitch thread by DMC
Glossy Accents (ranger) for dew drops/rain on the flowers

And now onto part 2 of my post... I help to run a copic club at Funkie Munkie Scraps

. You do not have to be a member of the club to see the goodie info on the club blog, you DO have to be a member of the club to get some hefty discounts on marker orders, take free classes (or be mailed the class info) and a lot more. Contact Stephanie thru the FMS's blog to get some more info on how to join! Cost is $10 a month unless you pay for multiple months at a time. :)

It was requested/suggested that I do a little tutorial on the the copic bundle colors for June.  Well, June is about over, but here it is anyway!  You still have time to order your bundle colors from Stephanie!  Just head into the store or give her a shout to order!  Club members of course get 35% off of the retail price of this bundle.  :)

The copic bundle of the month is E25, E27, E29. These are LOVELY rich colors that you can have wonderful results with! But to some, they can be a bit tricky. Which is why it was asked that i do a little tutorial on them! No probbie, i say! But let me first say that there are multiple ways to get some neat effects with this color combo. This tutorial is simply 1 way! Check out THIS POST on the copic munkie blog to see 3 different ways to color the same image using this combo. You'll see 3 very different looks! See how fun copics can be!!!

Alright... now before i begin, i want to say that as you layer E25, it can get a bit darker than you were wanting it to be in the first place. This is just something you should keep in the back of your head. I'm also going to show you a bit of the "flick" or "feathering" method of coloring hair. We also did this in the club class this month, so keep your peepers out for another tutorial using this method and grey markers!

Here's how i started the hair... with E25...

Around the area that you'd like to have your highlight, you are going to flick or drag your marker into the white area.  Let the marker lightly leave the paper in a flicking motion.  This will help you get a gradual fade into the white.  No we arent gradual yet... we will get there.  :)

Step 2... add in E27

In the same flicking motion, add in your E27, but dont go as far as you did with the E25.  Also add some E27 into the bottom portion of her hair as a shadow just as you normally would shadow (around the edges, maybe a few strands of hair, etc)

Step 3... add in your E29

I tend to use my darkest colors sparingly.  Dont get me wrong, they are needed to get that depth, but too much and the whole thing just turns dark on me.  And i like to still see my stamp lines.  So i add E29 just to the very ends and then flick in a wee bit in her "hair part".  Dont forget you can always click on the photo to view it larger!

Step 4... blending them all together... go back to E25.

Go over it all with E25 to blend.  Remember anywhere you layer your E25, it's going to get darker.  If you view closely, there are some spots that i did NOT layer so i that part would remind slightly lighter.  If the area that is left white still have to hard of a contrast for your personal taste, quickly go over that area and the edges of the flicking with your colorless blender.  I actually did this and you can see it in the final pic but i forgot to take a picture of this step.  WOOPS.  Or maybe it was deleted by mistake since there is a number missing from my picture sequence.  In any case... it's easy.  Just remember to "tornado" quickly and take a break as it will lighten up a smidgen more even after you've stopped using the marker because of the "drying time".

Next part of the image... her skirt!

Now again, because this color combo is a darker one, i like to leave some areas white so when i go over the whole thing to blend, it doesnt get too dark on me.  Also, when i add a a dark color as my main color, i do like to start with the edges/shadows first so that i can still see my stamp lines.  Not always, but it is my norm with this particular color family.  In this case, I've started with my shade color of E27 because there just isnt enough space in the image to get too wild with a bunch of different colors.

Skirt step 2

Go over the whole thing with your lightest color, E25.  If you want more of a gradual blend that you see here, concentrate your E25 color over the E27 more so than when you are adding it over your white space.

Boots step 1

Again, use one of your darker shade colors (in this case, E27) to draw in your shadows.  I actually added in to the tip of her boot to give her those "boxy" knee highs.  It'll help to get some added depth to the image.

Boots Step 2

Go over the boot with your E25.  I actually layered E25 a second time over the far right boot because if you look carefully, it's actually a little bit further back/behind her left leg.  You can tell this because the edge/tip of her boot is actually higher in the drawn image, making it further back.

So thats how i like to color with this color combo.  If you own this color combo, my suggestion is to just play with it numerous ways with layering until you find what is comfortable for you!

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a quick post with the greeting farm

Why does this week seems just as busy as last week?! This week was supposed to be easier! More time! More crafting! So far, not so much! A few wholesale orders have kept me busy, and my kiddos have Vacation Bible School which i was asked to help with. Which i love ot help, but no summer camp/school for my the 3 year old, plus having someplace to be every evening has definitely not helped me be ahead of schedule, thats for sure!

BUT, i realized this AM i do have a card that i didnt post from a few weeks ago. It was for a contest that was put up in a blog poll (for The Greeting Farm club i'm a member of! And since it was to be an anonymous poll, i didnt think it was very far for me to post my creation on my blog as well.

Here's my card...



now this card proved to be a big challenge for me! When we joined the club we were given a bag. the challenge was to use anything in the bag for our project. Now limited supply challenges are normally very fun to me, but i just kept running into obstacles! :) we were given a popcorn bag (which my son stole, handed to daddy and daddy popped all without my knowing, so no popcorn for me, We were also given a bevy of printed digi images. These images did NOT like my copic markers. Which is fine, i'm just so used to using them! And my first choice of printed digi was a no go due to some smearing. So i went with my next option, the Pokey Trio and colored it with prismacolors and baby oil. We were also a 6x6 square of The Greeting Farm patterned paper (super cute, i have GOT to get myself a stack!), and some ribbon that didnt end up going with the rest of my color scheme after i picked out my cardstock (silly me).

So now i felt like i was getting somewhere. I liked my image was colored even though i've used colored pencils and baby oil only a handful of times. Then, i got this hard brained idea to add some black fun flock. In my head i was thinking, the last time i tried fun flock, it didnt totally stick, it just left a light layer of fuzz. That would be cute on here. So i added lines of glue with my glue pen and put the fun flock on top. Um... it did more than left a little light layer of fuzz. A lot was left... leaving me with AFRO hedgehogs. I was dying in laughter. I thought i could use a third digi image, or I could leave my seemingly 70's inspired hedgies. I kept thinking back to a photo shoot i did YEARS ago in Los Angeles. It left me happy. So i decided to leave my afro hedgies. THen i needed to find a sentiment for my card. I realized i do not have very many greeting farm sentiments at all! And normally i have no problem mixing and matching with stamp companies to have sentiments, but since this was a Greeting Farm challenge, i really did want to stick with TGF. But when i looked thru my sets, i noticed Lucky Bunnies has some sentiments and then i saw one said Be Happy. Since the afro hedgies left me with happy makeup feelings, i thought it was only appropriate!

Ok, so thats my loooong story about my card. So much for "quick post" huh? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.



Stamps
Pokey Trio Digi stamp by The Greeting Farm,
sentiment from Lucky Bunnies also by TGF

Coloring Medium
Prismacolor pencils (warm grey's and a little bit of a pink) and baby oil

Paper
Patterned Paper, Sunny Glen by TGF
Cardstock: Red from Creative Memories, Basic Black from Stampin Up

Tools and Accessories
Button by Creative Cafe
Ribbon: By Spool o' ribbon 1/8in black satin
Black Fun Flock

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Wednesday with the Greeting Farm

Good Wednesday everyone. I cant believe it's already the middle of the week! Where does the time go?

My card for you today is a simple one, but i really liked how it turned out. I used another image that we colored for the class i taught at Scrapbook Heaven this past saturday. Man images that are already colored make for quick cards! haha. The image is from The Greeting Farm. Isnt he just the cutest??


No spiffy techniques for this card (other than copic coloring) so the layout is pretty self explanatory. I used the Nestabilities petite scallop circle for the image mat. I also chalk inked all of my edges with a Cat's Eye Chalk Ink in Charcoal.

COPIC COLORS
Owl Tummy & Eyes: First with E33, then shaded with E35 with a smidgen of E37 on the tummy. Also used the Colorless Blender on the eyelids for a highlight.
Rest of the Body: E30 then shaded sparingly with E33.
Leaves: First with G21 leaving the tips bare. Shaded with G24 and then blended everything (including bare tips) with G20.
Outlined entire image and inside the white of the eyes with N0.

Other essential elements
Cardstock Base: Kraft by Papertrey Ink. Green is Grasshopped by Bazzill, Orange is Festive by Bazzill. White is Neenah Solar White.
Stamps: Image and Sentiment by The Greeting Farm
Tools: Nestabilties Petite Scallop Circle large, Window Word punch by Stampin Up.
Accessories: Bellas Baubles in Espresso

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Welcome Back, Teacher!

Thank Goodness for precolored images! OK, so let me tell you a little secret... i love to color. hahahaha. Like you didnt know that. I'm often very wary of my card layout skills. But coloring i can handle. So often i just sit around and color images. Then i end up with a big stack of colored images that never get made into cards!

Well... sometimes when you need to make a card in *GASP* about 5 minutes... these precolored images can come in very very handy! That's what i did here. I remembered jack's teacher was going to be back from her 3 week leave (she had surgery). I love Jack's teacher. She's actually a friend of mine from the church. And i had wanted to make her a card for when she got back. This precolored Teacher Anya was just perfect! :)

Here's my card...





Deets:
Stamp: Teacher Anya from The Greeting Farm
DP is tart n tangy from Stampin Up.
Cardstock is Bazzill
image colored with copics

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full of empty promises

well sheesh... i've been full of empty promises huh? I said i had been coloring so i'd have a lot of cards turned out soon. Yep... no cards. bad me! Actually, i do have 2 cards. And i will post them here in the next few days that wont have much craft time.

I've actually had a few makeup things this week along with the recent April release from Paper Makeup Stamps and i had a coloring class yesterday plus one tomorrow. Whew. tiring week. :)

Ok, so i dont actually have a card to post right this moment, but while my mother-in-law was in town, we decided to play with colored pencils and baby oil. I've really only tried this technique 2 other times. One was a bit back and in my opinion, a bit disasterous. The other turned out really cute at my friend Rachel's stamp camp, but my charming 3 year old took scissors to my colored image before i ever got it on a card. I was actually pleased the with result (much more so than the first time) but it took me about 3 times as long to color than it does with my copics. maybe it's just because of what i'm used to.

Then i used the same image yesterday when i was coloring with copics (and was playing with light reflection to use as an example in my color class). I like the copic version better but i'm very interested to hear everyone else's opinions! :)

THe colored pencil version is on the left and the copic version is on the right. it would have been a better side by side if i had used the same colors, but oh well. :)




My goal is to actually get these put on a card! But Lord knows i have countless colored image sitting all over the place that never make it to cards! haha.


Recipe:
Stamp: Miss Anya, The Greeting Farm

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LOOOOOONG Week

Holy Moly it's been a long week and i have to admit... i'm reeeeeally glad it's over!!!! I have barely had time to these past 2 weeks! First starting with kidney stones, then trying to play catch up with designs for my Funkie Munkie card classes, then the rubber for Paper Makeup Stamps coming in (yippieee), then getting those prepared, then going out of town to teach at the American College Theatre Festival (teaching makeup workshops) and then back to a LOT of ez mount and other products for the site), onto a lot of mounting and trimming for custom orders and then off to packing and shipping. Yes, i am very very VERY tired. Can i tell you how glad i was that my Mom came into town this week! She leaves tomorrow though. *heavy sigh*

Ok, so now thats all my excuses for where the heck i've been for the past week. Sad thing is i've had stuff to post, just no time to do it! Sadly i've missed reading some of my favorite blogs too and i missed Hip Hop completely! (ok, i ducked in to say hi, i couldnt resist).

Here is a card i worked on before the hoopla of this past week really started. It is for the Greeting Farm's Valentine challenge and it uses one of Marie's new digi images.

First of all, it's an anya and an ian all in one image and that just about enough cuteness to make your heart explode. I had so much fun with this. As i started to color the image in i thought of how much the two looked like 2 of my closest friends kiddos. So i decided to color them accordingly. Once I was done, i love the image even more!
My card layout was a little more of a get 'er dun layout. haha. I used some scraps (i think the bigger piece of background paper is basic grey. the polka dot paper is american crafts i know. I added some pearls to the card because they were a must (my friends daughter's middle name is Pearl).

Ok, thats all i got. I actually have more to show but i need to upload more to my computer. I havent even stamped since i started this card on tuesday. It's killing me! So maybe tomorrow night if i'm lucky. But first i gotta clean this room!!!!!!

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I cant say i wasnt warned.

Ok, i have another greeting farm card for you. Because i dont have anything else i'm supposed to be working on! HA! But when i downloaded the cute unicorn for the challenge (see post below) i couldnt help but download an Anya as well. I've thought she was cute, but didnt buy yet (darn spending freeze). I can already feel i'm going to have another stamp addiction. Like i need another one? But i was warned. First by Rachel and then by kel. it's gonna be dangerous. Thank goodness my local store is going to sell them so i can get quick fixes!

These gals are very fun to color! I especially had fun coloring her hair. :)



This is Alice Anya. It's another downloadable digi. You cant beat 3 bucks man. So easy. Right there for ya. No waiting for shipping. Now THATS a quick fix. hehe.

So anya was printed out (thank goodness my new printer works like a dream with copics) and colored with aforementioned copics. I left some white showing in her hair to show the shine (same style thats used often with anime and manga). I could not find patterned paper i wanted to use for the life of me, so i pulled out a stamp set by Inque Boutique called Monarch. I had almost forgot i had this set. Its actually a clear stamp set, not the norm from the Inque Boutique sets. The sentiment is a Stampabilties stamp from Hobby Lobby. A few extra rhinestones finish out the card.

Thanks for stopping by, i gotta get back to the things i'm SUPPOSED to be working on!

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Remembering my childhood with The Greeting Farm

Marie at The Greeting Farm is hosting a super fun challenge using one of her digi stamps. You can read all about her challenge here and you have until this wednesday (Janurary 21st) to enter! What have ya got to lose? Marie's drawing style is just awesome and all the images are fantastic. You should really check it out.

Ok, onto my card.

I was really feelin' my childhood when i made this card! The colors are very atypical for me but after maria mentioned My Little Ponies, i was so there! I was actually a bigger fan of Rainbow Brite! Seriously, i was rainbow brite 2 or 3 different halloweens! My mom just had to keep re-adjusting the costume so it would fit me the following year! So when i saw this cutie unicorn, i thought of Starlight ("the most magnificent horse in the universe"). Of course starlight wasnt a unicorn but his hair was multicolored. After i colored the image, i just went from there to make the card.
And at that point i have no idea what i did because i made this card at midnight while everyone else was asleep! So i may drag a little bit today, but at least i had fun last night cardmaking, right? :)

ETA: sorry, other deets on the card. The cardstock is PTI. I have no clue on the patterned paper. haha. And the sentiment is by stamping bella. :)

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free stamps to military stampers

Marie, owner of The Greeting Farm, is doing something spectacular for all those who have a dad, brother, sister, son or daughter in the military... she's giving away a free stamp set! And adorable Ian stamp set at that! Take a look here...

Isnt he CAH-UTE! It's just such a great thing she's doing! You can read all about the makings of this stamp set

here and here

But while you're at it why not look at some of the other fabulous stamp sets marie has and support such a generous new stamp company! :)

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