wedding bells for the newlyweds

Hi everyone,

Wow, I got so involved in what I've been doing for the part few days that I completely forgot to post yesterday! Here's a wedding card that I managed to squeeze in.

I used some wedding papers I bought a long long long time ago for a wedding album project; it's a DCWV paper pack called Wedding Prints. The rest is pretty simple... some light pink Bazzill CS that I had lying around, a little bit of green moss to highlight the stamped image and a scallop square mat.

Where I had the most fun was with experimenting with my Twinkling H2o's to color the image. I first embossed it in silver than I colored in with Pink Cloud, Moss Green and Oyster. I also added a bit of silver Prismacolor pencils on the tolls of the bells. I love the shimmer of the H2o's.

Have a nice stampin' day !!!

sitting amongst the tulips

Hi everyone,

Today, I got to play with a different color combo: perfect plum, dark pink and fluorescent green. My inspiration was the polka-dot paper in the background. This is my last Easter card made for a customer and I'm itchin' to move on to another theme. It was fun while it lasted but I'm so done with it now :-)

 

The girl image is a Magnolia stamp borrowed from my friend Angelle and the bench and flowers are two of my own stash, all from Magnolia. I love the fact that they have sitting characters that are separate from other elements making it easy to layer the images. The tulips were stamped directly on the white CS and the bench and girl were stamped separately, colored, than cut out.

When coloring the hair, I ran into some problems with my brown Copic marker so the left side of her hair is a little bit muddled. Instead of fiddling around with it by using the colorless blender, I decided to leave it alone. I'm going to investigate to see if other people have had a similar problem... it seems that my E49 started pooling on the paper but only after I've finished coloring the bench and the right side of the hair. hmm.... So this image is entirely colored with Copics except for the shadows under the bench and the grass line -- those were done with Prismacolor pencils and OMS.

I accented the stamped flowers on the hat by adding 3 punched flowers out of my homemade glitter paper and added a rhinestone in the middle. This card is definitely very dimensional.

This is how I've added the sentiment inside the card. It's from Stampin' Up!'s Well Scripted set. I added some rhinestones for interest.

Have a nice stampin' day !!!

little easter egg girl

Hi everyone,

Another Easter card for you today. This is a little Magnolia girl and I love her so much. I kept it simple because I wanted the image to be the focus.

The paper in the background is from Stampin' Up!'s Nursery Suite Specialty DSP but I thought the little bunnies were so appropriate for an Easter card. The ruffle around the image is actually a retired ribbon that's glued from behind with a hot glue gun.

The image is almost entirely colored with Prismacolor pencils. Of course, I added a bit of Dazzling Diamonds Glitter.

Have a nice stampin' day !!!

sweet little girl easter card

Hi everyone,

I've been busy last weekend coloring a bunch of little Magnolia girls for Easter cards. I love, love, love coloring; it's my favorite activity. There's something so engrossing about it. I totally lose myself in it to the point where I don't hear anything around me. 

Here's one I colored with Copic markers:

The blue and green shadowing around the image was made using my Prismacolor pencils, OMS and a paper stump. I also added a few strokes with my white gel pen. Usually, I shadow my images with a black pencil but I decided not to this time.

I also added a few clusters of Dazzling Diamonds Glitter to the background image. I really like my little girl. The image was cut out with a Nestabilities die and matted with another one.

Have a nice stampin' day !!!