Sweet Baby Card

A friend needed a card to send to England along with a beautiful quilt she had made with safari animals on it. I used a piece of the fabric from the quilt on the card and coordinated the colors. The inside has a cute lion down in the corner.

Angel

Safari Baby Shower

These are the cutest safari animals! There were more stamps to the set, but you can't use them all! This was a time consuming project especially when you have to make 60 invitations. Looking at it now, there a couple of things I would have added if there would have been enough time, but that's just how it goes. We are just glad that they are out in the mail.

The next ones will have the additional ideas added!

Thanks for checking in...

Angel

Cute Little Rabbit in a Basket

Don't you just love rabbits!!?? They are another sure sign of spring and Easter! This cute little guy is from Stampin Up. It is one of my last two swap cards for this go-around. I used quite a few COPIC markers for this card: E11, E15, E17, E25, E31, E33, E35, E47, E71, G000, G05, G09, R32, R35, Y000, RV32, 0 colorless blender. I also used one of my new Nestabilities for the mat.

My last swap card is actually the Wendy Vecchi tulip card below.

I hope that you've enjoyed my swap as much as I have. I'm involved in two cricut classes right now so I won't being doing another swap for a while.

Angel

Copic Class Examples With Wendy Vecchi Stamps

I taught a COPIC coloring class last week and thought I'd share a few examples of what we were practicing during class.

The tulip on the far left was with just one base color on the leaves and tulip flower.

In this example I used: G40, G24, G28, R30, R32, R37 and the blue is Pale Porcelain Blue.

This photo the reds used on the left tulip were R30 &R32. The right tulip were R30,R32 and R35. The greens were the same as above.

I am going to cut these out and use them on a card or scrapbook page.

Sunshine On the Hills...

I guess if I named this piece of art it would be "sunshine on the hills".

Swap Topic: Button Card

I had to make this quickly since it's due in California by Friday and it will take at least 4 days to get there from here! I used nesties circles and one oval. I think next time I would just use my scissors so the hills didn't look so pre-formed. Oh well, it still came out sorta cute don't you think?

Have a great week!

Angel

Just a Little Note and a Valentine...

Swap Topic: Die Cut

Utilizing a die cut somewhere on your card is not too difficult especially when you own a GOB of them! Also, I used gold "Smooch" on the top of the embossing on the background mat.


This adorable squirrel valentine came from Joy and I just had to share her artwork! Thanks for stopping by and for the emails!

Angel

Happy **Heart** Day

This year while making these cards, my mind went WAY, WAY back to 7th grade when we would have a Valentine's Day Lunch Box Social. The girls would make a yummy lunch, put the lunch into an oversized shoe box and then decorate the box. The boys would bring a couple of dollars, mostly in coins, and they would bid on the boxes. Now, the boys were not supposed to know which girl decorated which box, but you know how that usually works! **wink** Then they would enjoy the lunch together. And somehow the boy always knew what kind of lunch he was getting....hmmm...wonder how he knew that too??!! Anway it was a lot of fun during lunch hour.

These cards were a lot of fun and all the center hearts are watercolor paper cut with Nesties, watercolored, then doodled and embellished.
Of course, the cute owl was for my friend Joy since she loves to use them in her artwork!

I hope your V-owl-entine's Day is special.

Angel

Copic Colored Rooster

Swap Topic: Animal

I think my swap partner will like the farm animal I sent to her this week. I used 13 copic markers to color this guy. I started off with light colors so it wouldn't be so dark from the beginning since you can't easily add highlights back in. I practiced on three examples and I printed a photo off the internet to help with the color choices.
Don't you love the french script mat layer behind it??!!

Angel

Inchie Faces

Swap Topic: People
People and faces are sometimes hard to color with copic markers. I think the skin colors turned out well on this card.
I used photoshop to try and show this card at its best, but you are seeing a bad interpretation of the colors in the background paper. The photo also fails to show the glossy accents and glitter pens that I used. I should have done some macro shots of those things with extra lighting...it was late and I was tired...next time......:O)

Angel

Copic and Prismacolor Flowers in Vases

Swap topic: Basket or Vase of Flowers

This was an oversized stamp so I cut it down with a Nestabilities Label die. Most of the flowers were colored with Copic markers, but I also used something new. I purchased some Prismacolor Premier pens with brush tips. They came in a multi-color pack. These brush tips have a very fine point and they can get into the smallest places.

I airbrushed some pale porcelain blue around the edge before I took it out of the die. Then I colored the rest of the image. The yellow background near the vases and flowers was added after the flowers were colored.

Angel

Happy Snowman

Isn't he adorable or what!!! He is so happy! I hope your Christmas is wonderful and that you are blessed in every way. The new year is just around the corner and I am really excited about it!

If you are lucky enough to have some snow for Christmas, go outside and make a snowman....or better yet, make some snow angels!

Angel