Thank you cards!

Awesome b-day gifts breed awesome b-day thank you cards!

 

Cities!   Yellow Owl Workshop stamps, bought at Impress

 Cuttlebug cards, washi tapes, distress ink!...

 Washi tapes, Copic markers, Magenta stamp!

 Washi tape, Memory Box stamp

 More washi!  Copics.

Quick Project

So, I dug this stamp out of an ancient box. It is a PSX stamp I picked up somewhere.  I thought it would be great with Copics, so I tried it out. 

Here's the 5 minute result!

Jan is my hero!

Behind on my crafting, but a good excuse to craft was that I bought some "extras" of craft supplies, (actually duplicates on accident), and I was going to give them to Jan as a treat.  Soooo, I used my Copics, Magenta Stamp and Tsukineko "Goosebumps" to make a card...

I also had to make another card for my Godmother, so I got out the Copics again, and darkened up a prior image I had done.

Finally, I started on pieces for another card.  Not sure if it will ever get done.

At any rate, had a nice lunch with Jan, who gave me her old Cuttlebug as a present!  Jan is my hero.  I can't wait to make cards with it!!!  Also, my other hero of the week is Felicia, who send me a Stampin' Up Catalog.  She knows it's like giving crack to a crack addict.  I'm going to study it this weekend and decide what I want this year! Awesome to have great crafter friends in my life. 

cards and scraps.

Had to make some cards again, so here was a baby card I sent my friend Jen. 

(No, not you, Jenn, but yours looked similar didn't it!)

Then I messed around with my new stencils and pan pastels, and here's what I came up with.

I'm going to have to add something to these, but I wanted to try them out.  The above pastels are done on black pastel paper, and the one below is on white mixed media paper.



This one was hand drawn with Sofft applicators on Black Pastel paper.



spring rush

Well, it's Mother's Day soon, and also a lot of birthdays.  These cards were simple, but fun to make.  I love the new washi tapes.  Let me know what you think about the quick cards!

 

the fan moves too, so it will fit in the envelope!

but wait, there's more. This is what happens if I stay home on a Friday. Copics.

Nice, huh.  Some Magenta stamped flowers.  For the curious people, the middle row:  Y17 and Y18,  then my favorite, E0000 as a base, with E04 and B45.  Finally the orangish one, YR02 and YR15.

And then pastels.  Too bad it is not spring, however, I'm sure it'll be spring before I get to sticking these on a card.  Will be nice to stick a brad or something in the middle and layer.  It's almost killing me to be good and stay home tonight...

cards and color chart

Well, I've been busy... working, golfing, stuff like that.   Travel... getting rid of "excess baggage", you know.  That takes time.  In the meantime, I did finally glue a couple things together.

I think I really need some inspiration, since these are pretty plain, but maybe I'm just trying to simplify things... life included.  It's like I either do Copics or Cricut, not both.  I've got to figure out how to incorporate that. 
In other news, I don't know why I'm OCD, but I hate "missing" collections.  This is getting expensive, considering that it appears I'm using my favorite colors over and over.  I need inspiration.  In life and in crafting.

Works in progress...

Baby card for Julie!

Made with some shimmery brown paper (you can't really see that detail), edged white with Wild Wasabi Stampin Up Ink, (same ink for stamped background on green paper), itty bitty tags tied on (knot hidden under green layer) with brown floss, Copic YG23 for baby outfit.

Muted gray vs bright Magenta Flowers with Copics.

Here is the same flower by Magenta, with 2 different techniques. 

LEFT: The one on the left is muted, stamped with Memento Gray.  Now I know you are supposed to use Warm Grays with living things, but until my order comes (justifying more Copics), I used cool gray as that's all I have, and I thought the ink was a more cool gray as well.
Did Y00 over all, then YG63 for the leaves and C0 (gray).  Then flowers were B63 plus the Y00 again. I also used the C0 around the side of the flowers and leaves as shadow, ok, actually, to erase mistakes.  Simple and fast.

RIGHT:  I tried some brighter colors with the image stamped in Black Memento.  Used Y000 all over, then YG11 and YG23 for leaves.  Used B63 and B66 on flower using B63 on all, then feathering B66, then blending again with B63.  I added Y02 on the middle of the flower and side flower for brightness.  Again, simple and fast.

I've also been using the Artist Marker Pad from Bee Paper Company Professional Series that I got at Spokane Art Supply.  I like it better than the Neenah used in class.  It's 30 sheets for $10.25.  Works well. 

I'm going to eventually mount these, but I just had some time to kill before dinner and wanted to try out some different color combos.  Hope you like it!

Copic Roses and how to...

So, here's what happens when you leave me at home on a Saturday night... bought 45 new Copics online, and then played with what I have.  Here it is, step by step.  I first stamped the pic with Magenta ink.  It obviously missed the middle of the stamp, so I stamped again, and cut out that portion.  I did it on glossy, just because I had a scrap of it, but it was kind of neat as it stood out a bit.  I mounted it with mounting dots after cutting it out.

To pick the colors, I tried it on the paper scrap.  The Copics look different on different papers.

See how I missed the middle?  Oops.  Anyway, did all background in YR000, and roses in R0000 to start.
Tested some colors, and thought R85 would look good with some earthy E70.  I know those colors typically don't "go" together on the Copic Color Wheel, but hey.  I was told to experiment.  Here's the mix, above.

I thought they were kind of "dark", so I added some RV42 to "blue" them up a bit.  Started testing leaf greens to see what would go with these pinks.  I mean, come on, I only have so many colors to work with here...  I did all on Y00, then added YG03 and YG23.  I didn't think it was dark enough, so I added YG 17.

After I stuck on the middle piece with the dimensional dots (well, actually, the scraps saved from in between the dots, cut up with scissors...) you can't tell there was a "mistake".

Basically, I colored with the dark colors near the black shadows, then used a lighter color to blend it in.  I didn't love the green, so I colored over all of it with another YG to change the color a bit.  Basically, I just keep playing and adding/taking away color.  By the way, I didn't use the "blender pen".  I just kept coloring darker, then blending (or removing color) with the lighter pen.

I then added shadow with B00 around the flowers where I messed up and went outside the lines.  It just kind of adds a shadow, and hides the mistakes.  I went over it with YR000 to blend in with the background, and went over the entire background again with it to make the light background "darker". 

What to mount it on?  Both.  Finished product on top!  I guess I can sleep now.  Maybe.

Happy Father's Day!

Well, I'm now Copic Certified, and will have to start practicing my techniques more.  Here is my little Copic table at home, right in front of my TV. 

So, on the left, I finally put this card together.  This was done before my certification class.  I should have done something with the background, but was more about testing the Microglaze for the window to act as a resist from my Tsukineko shimmer spritz.  I also used gel pens for the detail.  I also tried using my Stampin' Up air blower with a Copic Marker. If you unscrew the blower and take out the inner thing holding the pen, it will make the hole big enough to hold a Copic.  It worked ok.  Not great, but I'm trying to talk myself out of a Copic Airbrush system.  I think with some practice, I could make it work.  Well, it didn't work any worse than my clogged Tsukineko shimmer spritz...

On the right, just used Copics after the class. Tried some of the feathering techniques and color lessons.  It's subtle, but I kind of like it.

Then, I got around to Father's Day.  Here's the pic before I glued it on a card.  I did one darker, and one lighter.  Stamps by Magenta.

Then I tried to make a girl.  Fail.  Oh well.  I tried.  Hair just came out too dark compared to the rest.  But anyway...  Happy Father's Day!

Nothing like a little procrastination to catch up on the blog.

So, here's the latest in the craft arena...

So I used the large Magenta stamp (all 3 panels combined), and stamped twice. I glued on blank panels (sides) on with the border colored blue, then I cut out the image exactly the same without the border (some fancy detail cutting around the branches as you can see in picture #2) and then used dimensional dots to raise the image off the card.  The back panel (middle) is just colored in.  Really, it happened by accident, in that the large stamp didn't ink right the first time.  I like the dimension, though.  It'll be a great Mother's Day card.

Of course I used the Copics.  Of course I went and bought some more after court last week.  Nothing like working to buy more art supplies.

I also stamped pears.

I think you saw these earlier, but I finally put them together.  Clockwise, starting at 11:00, the pear was stamped with Tsukineko Memento London Fog (gray) ink.  The background was A Stamp in the Hand pear background writing.  (not on the pear, that writing is on the main stamp, which is by Stampers Anonymous). After the pear dried, I colored in with my Copic Markers. 

At 1:00, you will see the spattering.  First I took my finger and rubbed it with Microglaze onto the pear. I used a spritzer with Walnut Ink and Pearl Ex mixed in.  I added some Potion #9 by Tsukineko to the spritzer, because, you know, that's the new thing.  Anyway, I then noticed when I dabbed the Microglaze with a paper towel (to get the wet off the Microglazed area) it left a ring around my pear. So I then colored over it with a gray Copic.  Looked kind of cool.  I sponged the edges of the cutout and the yellow cutout with brilliance green ink to make it shiny.  Cool.

At 4:00 is a blue cuttlebug background that was sponged with green Brilliance again to make it stand out.  All edges on yellow, blue and white were also sponged with that.  Just colored in pear with Copics, because on glossy paper.

7:00  Copics.  Black Memento Ink.  Basic.  The background line stamp is Magenta.

And here's what I finally did with that poor Magenta flower that needed a home.  Sponged edges of white (matte, marker paper) with purple Brilliance Ink.  Used a yellow Brilliance (that you can't really see) on the background over the yellow.  Trust me, it shines subtly.  White portion was sprayed with the newer Tsukineko "Goosebumps" before gluing on... sort of looks like rain.  Awesomeness.