For You

Hello everyone,

This week I will be at Stampaway teaching 3 classes, assisting with another and working the Craft-Dee BowZ booth Friday night and Saturday. I have a post that is scheduled for Tuesday, but after that things will be quiet here at Art and Soul for a few days.

In the meantime, I made this card and thought I'd share it with you all.

I used colored pencils to color the digi image and used gamsol to blend the colors. Pearls and rhinestones accent the flowers.

The ribbon I used is actually a piece of white Hug Snug seam binding and I used Copic markers to color it to match the pink and green colors I used in the card

SUPPLIES USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps: Digital - Bugaboo -  For you Flower Paper/Card Stock: Kraft, White, Pink CS, DP  Accessories: Hug Snug Seam Binding, Copic Markers (CG3, BP1) Colored Pencils, Gamsol, Flat Backed Pearls, Rhinestones, Lace

I am submitting my card in the following challenges:

Allsorts   pearls and gems (#45)

Crafty Calendar  August - bingo (I used-Pink, Pearls/Gems, Ribbons/Lace) (#12)

Scrappers Delights   Always Anything Goes (#30)

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - No. 96 - (W2 of 2) - A Flower In Your IMAGE(#109)

Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge -  No. 237 - Anything Goes (#101)

Crafting-With-Friends - Anything Goes (#90)

Digitally Sweet -  No. 140 - July - Anything Goes (#1)

Jo's Scrap Shack -No.98 -  Anything Goes (#63)

Morgan's Art World -  (must use digital stamp) - (W1 of 2) - Use 3 of Something (#10)

Simply Create Too -  No.91 - (W1 of 2) - Anything Goes (#142)

Try and stop back Tuesday to check out my post for Crafty-Dee BowZ for this month. 

I hope you have a great week. 

Hello Friend

Hi there

Below is my project for the Outlawz Progressive/Freebie Challenges My project is using a beautiful free digital image this month from Anne's Digital Art  Thank you so much Anne.

I printed a 2nd image to pop it up over the bottom image then I used a flower shaper to give the image depth. Here is a side view to better see that popped up image.

SUPPLIES USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  Digital Image - Anne Fenton; Stamped sentiment - Great Impressions Paper/Card Stock: White CS, Orange CS, Black CS Ink: Black Dye (sentiment) Accessories: Ribbon,Colored Pencils, Gamsol, Craft-Dee BowZ  tool, dimensional foam, Embossing folder, paper shaper

I am submitting this project to the following challenges:

• Doodle Pantry  -  Anything Digital Goes (#69)
• Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes(#79)
• Artistic Inspirations - #134 Anything Goes or Twist of Odd (#55)
• Crafting from the Heart -  Always Anything Goes (#77)
• Craft Your Passion - W, E3 - Always Anything Goes (#153)
• Love to Scrap -  Anything Goes  (#221)
• Not Just Cards -  Always Anything Goes (#265)
• Colour Your World with Lucy Sunshine - Anything Goes (#41)
• Fairytale Stampers - #57 Anything Goes  (#66)

Thanks much for stopping in today, have a great day.

Thank You

Hi  Everyone

It's April 1 and its a new month and time for another new challenge over at Craft-Dee BowZ.

Below is the card that I created for the Craft-Dee BowZ inspiration and it's also on the CDB blog site as well.

If you're like me, I have rubber stamps (mounted and unmounted), clear stamps and digital images. So it seems I have a lot of images to choose from. I decided to go thru some of my digtal images and came across this one.(The flower and the butterfly are all one image) I am sorry but I do not know where this came from. I colored it with colored pencils and used Gamsol to blend the colors.

I guess I chose this image because it reminds me of spring, but spring seems to be slow in coming this year.

I used designer papers and added a punched border strip and layered the panel onto the card.

I attached my bow to the panels before layering them on the card front.

Before I forget - Craft-Dee BowZ is hosting a blog hop starting at 10:00 p.m. edt Thursday April 16. We hope you will join us and find inspiration in all of the projects that the designers will be showing off. The designers theme is Living On The Edge - Use a Border Die. Now that sounds like a great theme and lots of fun inspiration.

SUPPLIES USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps: Digital - Unknown  Paper/Card Stock: Black CS, DP Punch Used/Dies: Sizzix Tag CDie, MS Punch around the Page - Traditional Eyelet Accessories: Hug Snug Ribbon, Prisma Colored Pencils, Gamsol, Craft-Dee BowZ  tool, dimensional foam

I am submitting my card to the following challenges:

Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes with a Twist of Flowers (#49)

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - (March) Spring Colours (#354)

Crafting from the Heart -  Always Anything Goes (#66)

Craft Your Passion - Always Anything Goes (#80)

Crafty Cardmakers -- (Week 2) Spring (#107)

Ooh La La Creations -  Easter/Spring (#22)

The Crazy Challenge - Floral (#18)

The Pink Elephant Monday Card Challenge -  Anything Goes (#52)

Fairytale Stampers - #53 Anything Goes/Things with Wings (#41)

Thanks for stopping in today, Hope to see you at the Blog Hop

Poppies

Welcome Back Everyone

My last post showed a class sample from my Techniques class that I taught last Saturday. The technique was Coloring using Colored Pencils and Gamsol.. I just have to share another sample from that class.

Here is a close up of the image.

This stamp is from Stacy Stamps and as a lover of poppies I absolutely love this image.In coloring this, I chose to use more of the oranges instead of the vibrant reds that you typically see for poppies. I used 4 or 5 different colors in the blossom.  I also added some of the orange/red color to the bud to try to make it more lifelike. Hope you have enjoyed this card.

I have another class this Saturday and we will be making masculine cards. Seems that we all have a hard time with that theme. I will share those cards with you next week. I think you will like them.

Thanks for stopping in today. 

                                    Hope you have a wonderful day

                                                                                I will be back soon. 

I am submitting this in the following challenges:

• Artistic Inspirations - Challenge 74 Anything Goes and/or Feminine (#66)
  
• Card Mania - Challenge #38  (Week 1) Anything Goes (#137)
• Crafty Boots -  (Week 2) Anything Goes (#239)
• Creative Creations Challenge Blog -  (Week 2) Anything Goes (#122)
• Digi Sketch Challenge - 2W - (Week 2) Sketch* and/or Theme: Flowers (#54)
• Imagination Crafts -  Challenge 7 (January) Anything Goes (#34)
• Lexi's Creations - Challenge 107  2W - (Week 2) Anything Goes (#163)
• Love to Scrap - Challenge 21 -(Week 2) Anything Goes (#143)
• Make it Monday -#174 - Always Anything Goes (#116)
• My Craft Creations -   Always Anything Goes (#75)

Roses

Hi Everyone
Saturday I taught a class at Simply Said Rubber Stamps in Loveland Ohio. My class was a techniques class that focused on using colored pencils to color . I love coloring with colored pencils. Using gamsol and stumps to blend the colors is such an easy way to color and I wanted to teach the students how easy it really is. You can even layer colors which can add additional interest and depth to your image. Have you ever tried coloring that way? If not, give it a try. Let me share with you one of the cards that I used as a class sample.

Here is a closer view of the roses and the coloring.

There are so many coloring agents available today and this is just one of them, one that is such an easy way to color. Try it, you may like it.

Supplies I used:

Stamps - Just Rite Stamps With Sympathy

Pencils - PrismaColor

Gamsol

Glitter

Pearls - Fab Scraps

Spellbinders Die - Octagon 

Punch - Fiskars

Ribbon

Bow Maker - Craft-Dee BowZ

I am submitting my card in the following challenges-

• Challenges 4 Everybody - Challenge #37 Anything Goes (#322)
• Dragonfly Dreams 1st  Challenge Thoughts of Summer (#13)
• Lacy Sunshine -  #24 Digi available.  (2nd Week) Anything Goes (#87)
• One Stitch At A Time - #195 Starting New (#16)
• Robyn`s Fetish - CHALLENGE # 194 - No Pattern Paper/Card Stock only (#16)
• Sunday Stamps - (1st week)- SSC67 It's a pop of Pink (#5)
• The Corrosive Challenges - Challenge #190 (2nd week) New Beginnings (#46)  

I will be back soon, have a great week.

Friends Who Last

Hi Everyone,
I can't believe it, it's February already. And what happened to January??? It just flew by didn't it!!??!! And tomorrow is Groundhog Day. Hmm..... will we have an early spring or do we get 6 more weeks of winter. Tomorrow we'll know for sure. LOL

Hope you are having a great week so far. I thought I'd use one of those Art Impressions girlfriend stamps. These ladies have so much personality, don't they.

It's always fun to get together with our girlfriends and have a fun time laughing and catching up.

I got out my colored pencils and gamsol and colored and shaded these hot mama's. They are a "hoot".

Make sure you stop in at the Art Impressions online store and check out all the stamps in all the different lines that Art Impressions offers.

Supplies used:

Stamps from: Comfy on Couch set-UM4050

Prisma Color Pencils

Gamsol

India Ink

Sizzix Embossing Folders

Inka Gold - Gold

Cardstock- Core'dinations CS, Teal Blue CS, White CS

Yellow Gold Ribbon

Stop back tomorrow for another great Art Impressions creations.Hope to see you then,

Barbara

The Rose

I just recently received this stamp from Sparkle N Sprinkle. The stamp is really pretty so I decided to stamp it using India Ink and use colored pencils to color in the rose. I also used gamsol to shade the colors. Seems like every time I use colored pencils, I automatically get the gamsol out. I rarely use my pencils without the gamsol anymore. Gamsol allows the colored pencil to melt, so to speak, and gives you the capability to shade. I generally work from the outside to the center. You will need to work with paper stumps and I usually get mine at Hobby Lobby.

Added a little glitter some ribbon and now the card is done.

Have you tried any of those Martha Stewart corner punches yet??? They are great!!! I have quite a few an they really add a great look to the card.

Well, that is it for now, thanks for stopping by, see you soon,

Barbara