Super Boy - Etsy Shop

 

New BOY card up in the ETSY SHOP.  I left this one blank.  It can be whatever you want it to be Birthday, Father's Day, Encouragement or just a note to that special boy/man that you think he's a Super Hero!

I loved coloring him with my copic markers and fussy cutting him out.  The brick wall behind this city and the diamond embossed pow in yellow add texture to this fun card.

Thanks so much for visiting my blog.  Happy Thursday!  Stay Safe and Well.

America The Beautiful - Stars and Stripes Card Series

It's that time the last card in this series but not least at all.  The girl is a free digital stamp by Whimsie Doodles Stamps.  I love these stamps illustrated by Melyssa Connolly they are so adorable!   I love this little girl.  She is waiting for the 4th of July Parade don't you think.  I loved coloring her with Copic Markers and got on a bit of a coloring kick with the previous card in this series.  The Copic colors used are in the photo below.

For this card I have die cut the patterned paper (Pebbles Let Freedom Ring series) with the Lifestyle Crafts Banner die set.  The girl I fussy cut and positioned onto the John Adams paper so that I can have her holding one of the sparklers which I have Stickled.  I've just drawn a line with my Copic Multiliner and  a ruler.  The America the Beautiful banner is cut from the Samuel Adams paper and popped up on the card.  I've also added a bit of twine at the top.  I almost forgot the red stars are from the USA in the last card.

So now we've reached the end of this series.  The next series of cards will be Tropical Summer cards Fun Fun Fun I can't wait for you to see what all of the fun cards and a special surprise!  Can't wait Can't wait Can't wait......  Ok enough for now hope your having a Wonderful Start to your week.  Hugs! 

Copic Coloring People

Today I'm teaching Copic Coloring

Pets and Animals Galore!

Monday Monday & Stuff

Excited to share a new GDT spot for Bombshell Stamps coming in May.  I  am so excited.  Love Love Bombshell!  Check out all of the New Team and GDT here at their Blog.   

 This is the Mermaid Treasure stamp from Bombshell.  Love her she's my all time favorite.  I colored her with Copic and then cut her out.  I used some of my new Lawn Fawn Papers and dies as well as one of their greetings.  The sea weed is  new die by Impression Obsession which is perfectly frawny.    She will be a special birthday card for someone I know very into Mermaids.

Colors used Skin - E00, E11, E13, R21 Hair- Y21, YR23, YR24, YR31

I tried like mad yesterday to get my Instagram pictures onto my blog.  I know I have done this before but suddenly I cannot remember how.  UGHHHH  Back to my research!  Hope everyone had a Happy Easter!

Thank you so much for stopping by.

A Little Bombshell Fussy Cutting

 I have a few of these Bombshell stamps!  Love Love Love them!  They are perfect for my Copics and for my favorite Fussy Cutting techniques.  Here I did a little paper piecing with her bathing suit and some Jillybean Soup Papers.  Then I cut her out when I was done.  I have a couple little tricks first is shown below.  I am not good at doing inside parts so I just matched a marker to background paper I was putting her on and colored it in.  Easy Peasy, and I don't need to stress out.  The other is to go around the outside cut edges with a Momento Tuxedo Black marker when I'm done in case I got a little over zealous with the lines.  All better and pretty.

Copics Used  Skin - E00, E21, E41, R21  Hair - E35, E57, E99, Y21

I know I've been MIA lately but we've had the stomach flu as of late so I've been dealing with that.  Hopefully it will be ending soon.

Thank you so much for stopping by hope everyone is well!

Ice Princess Copic Coloring

 For the card set and tag above I used Copic Markers to color the MFT Ice Princess stamp.  Below is  a step out of that coloring.  I chose my colors from my patterned paper and then used my swatch ring "ring of fire" to match it to markers.

Hopefully this all is as clear as mud.  These step outs are a work in progress for me.

 The skirt is stamped and cut out from patterned paper.

The only thing I did not include are the skates I added a little W1 to the skates and C0 to the blades.  They barely requried coloring.  The shadows on the complete images are done with B0000 and C0.  

Hopefully this was helpful to someone.  Have a great day.

Copic Coloring Class

I'm teaching a copic class today featuring stamps from Claudine Helmuth, Lawn Fawn, Penny Black and Memory Box.

Last sneaky peak

Last card for Copic Skin & Hair this summer.  Love love surfing Ian he's a cutie.  The I-Roc made the bubbles super cool.

So the Dr. put Abs on antibiotics for the next 2 weeks then we see him again to find out more.   Now it's just a waiting game. 

Dave is off to Manasas VA for the battle of Bull Run and we're having a party on Sunday for a bunch of little girls.  Fun Fun Fun!

Phew Wednesday

Another sample for Thursdays Copic Skin & Hair class at CraftFancy. 

 Yesterday was home improvement day around here.  The Handyman came and cleaned and sealed our deck, fixed my melted siding(I did it grilling), and painted all of our wood trim on the house.  Everything is all freshened up a bit.  Later we will put the furniture and flowers back on the deck we have to wait 24 hrs though so not until this afternoon.

 Today I'm also finishing up notes and we've moved cards.   Tonight is the Chicago land Craft Collective Meeting so that should be fun I think we're showing and telling.  I'll put together my flip book of my copic class from Sunday so my Copic students can peruse it tomorrow. 

Really I'm just excited about the Dr's apt to find out more on the lump that yesterday afternoon got lots smaller.  You can still feel it but now you can't see it suddenly unless you look really close.  Abbi says it only hurts now when she looks up and bends her head back so that is encouraging to me anyway.

Hope every ones week is going swell and your surviving the heat.

AAHHHHH Dr.'s Offices

Another installment for this Thursdays Copic Skin & Hair Class. 

So yesterday was frustrating after finding out our Surgeons Appt wasn't going to work out Abbi's Dr had to call and work out some issues then I spent the rest of the day trying to get appt's with an office that knew what they were talking about.  It's a crazy amount of time spent dealing with just trying to make appointments.  Most of yesterday afternoon and all of this morning.  Finally an ENT's office called and told me they had a cancellation for tomorrow so we can get her in then to figure out more of what is going on........

Anyway last night we had yummy enchiladas(I made this from leftover taco dinner) and went to a movie with Mihoko and Annie just us girls.  We saw Monte Carlo which was very cute.  Apparently the Dad's went to the Lucky Monk for beer and pretzels.

Today is repairman day.  The siding I melted a couple of summers ago is gone and replaced the deck is cleaned and getting stained and all of our painted wood in the front is cleaned up and getting painted!  Phew.

Anyway that is Tuesday how boring hope everyone is having a great day!  Take Care.

Crazy Weekend - Crazy Monday

This is one of the Copic Skin & Hair cards we will be creating in class on Thursday.  There are 3 more I will share as the week goes on.  Super fun coloring reserve your spot today.

So this past weekend was speedy fast.  I taught all day Saturday Flowersoft and Copic Christmas we had a great time and everyone made some beautiful cards.  Sunday I took the Intermediate Copic Certification class.  Phew that was a long one from 9am-8pm.  I was a little concerned by the length but really time flew Debbie Olson and Lori Craig  made it seem like we were only there for a couple of hours coloring and having fun.  I met some wonderful ladies and we laughed and learned lots.  It really was a day of coincidence.... I sat next to a very sweet lady from Crown Point...who remembers my mom from her banking days,  had lunch with a a wonderful woman that works for Siemens in my current hometown (my husbands employer), was at the same table with the cutest lady that I happened to teach Copic Basics to and got her hooked,  plus got to spend the day sitting next to and chatting with amazing and clever Suzanne McNeill .  Who could ask for more?  Really.....but boy was I tired last night. 

We had planned to go to the pool today with our neighbors however it's a gloomy gus outside so I will work on my step outs for class this week and continue working on a custom order of We've Moved Cards along with some Wedding invite samples for a soon to be new bride. 

Update on Abbi - the lump seems smaller however Dave and I think it may be just that we keep staring at it every single day.   Thank you everyone for your thoughts and prayers.   She is over all of the attention and I'm not sure she's telling us the truth when we ask if it hurts.  We currently have an appointment with the surgeon for next week but they are trying to fit her in sooner... As long as we might get an appt. for her we're a bit in limbo.    She did learn to ride a bike on Friday in total determination not to be outdone by her Sister that learned th day before while she was making the dr./hospital rounds.  Now we are onto finding bikes for everyone since we can all now ride.

Ok that has to be all for now hope everyone has a FABULOUS Monday.

Copic Class This Saturday

A quick post with some of the cards that we will be making at Copic Class this weekend at Craft Fancy.  We are working again on Hair and skin tones. We will be coloring 4 different hair colors and 4 different skin tones.    There will be a handout to class attendees giving them step by step "how to" color each of these skin tones and hair colors.

Copic Skin Tone & Haircolor Chart Work

So if you've been in the store you've seen this chart that I've started for various skin tones and hair colors.   I'm having a fun time creating my little girls and guys in various colors.  This is what I have so far.     I am going to do an entire class teaching coloring Greeting Farm Images this month.  To that end I have been working out more colors of course, but how to go about teaching it?  And I actually think I  came up with a good idea.  It's a work in progress.

 

OK now don't forget tomorrow is a Free M&T over at Craft Fancy and to celebrate there is tons of new product in the store like Pink Paisley, Eco Green Crafts(new sample pics coming soon) and Tim Holtz.   Not to mention tons of new Memory Box(I feel a class coming on).  Hope to see you there.    Ooooh did I mention what a huge success our Garage Sale was?  Everyone loved it and can't wait for it to return........

The weekend is coming up quick.  Dave & I have a lunch date today.  The girls are going to be stuck inside is seems most of the weekend which is good.  Em needs to work on her book for publication and it has to be done Monday uggghhhhh.  Anyway hope everyone has a great one!