Online Copic Colouring Class- Day 5

Well as you can see its skin and hair colours for this practice session. I ran out of heads to try hair colours so will need to print up some more. I love the idea of different coloured hair and also combining natural hair colours with strips or sections in colour so would like to practice those too and have there for future reference.

I did not have the right colours for all skin tones so still need more 'E' Copics to cover very dark brown, and yellow brown. Also need more greys but that just have to join the forever list of needs!!

I enjoyed doing the colouring but found I drifted towards what I have already been doing in the way I blend the copics.

I have discovered an even lighter skin colour that I really like and I love how the shadow is across the one side of the face.  I did the eyes in three colours which you really can't see unless close up but really like how that highlighted them.

I tried out a brown with red for the hair here and like that as well. Eyes three greens look stunning. I didn't notice to after I took the photos I forgot to do eye shadow at the time of colouring.

I have made one card which is on the next post using one of the ballerina's and I added the eyeshadow. It looks a wee bit strong, not really a young girls eyeshadow but doing it after the other colours are all done means there isn't as much playing room unless you want to start playing with face colour again as well for good blending.

Hope you have enjoyed your visit and it would be great if you pop over to check out Ruth's post at Crafting While the Baby Naps and check out her cards. They look so good, I love them. Particularly the blue dress and the eyes on these girls just look amazing.

Off to do my other post with my ballerina card for a challenge. Thanks for coming to visit and I hope you come again soon.

Welcome to the world little angel

With that Papertrey purchase I made this die was one that I had pined over for a long time. I bit the bulletined added it to my list and now of course I am working my way through the pile.

I think its so cutting done this way nothing else is needed.

My first attempt at making a shaker card after my very complex one done previously.

The hardest bit here was cutting cleanly through the pink glitter material which had a more material like backing than paper or cardstock. I had to put through the Cuttlebug a number of times and increase the layers of shims to finally get a clean cut. After that it was super easy to do with just plain card stock thank goodness.

After cutting out the die cut piece I then used a rectangular die to cut out a window in the pink layer. Onto this I attached the layer of acetate then went through the process of making the shaker card. The glitter die cut I glued to a plain layer to reinforce it then glued that to the pink front.

One the white card base where the window was to be I glued quite a few beads and gems and sequins so they would always be there when the card was standing upright.

I won't go into all the details on how to make a shaker card because they are everywhere now and its probably easier if your learning to watch a video than to try and work out what I'm on about in a description.

What an easy eye catching card. Once you work out all the ins and outs its a great way to make a card fun and interactive.

Would like to add this to:

Craft Your Passion Challenge #287 : Always Anything Goes

Crafting Desert Divas Blog : Craft It Up & Link It Up Make It Sparkle- Week 1

Certainly glitters and sparkles

Virginias View Challenge #20 All About Textures

I'm hoping this is what Virgina is talking about with texture the glitter die cut but if not please remove with my apologies.

Okay its time to go. Thanks for coming to visit and I hope you come again soon.

Disco Dancing Elves

Got these Elves and the disco Ball in the mail at the end of last week and couldn't wait to ink up.

After seeing the card at Muse Challenge #140 I had an idea jump into my head. This is the card:

Isn't it just so cute and it's done by Ardyth. I thought of leaving my elves black and white but

colour won so I have used the little critters in a row, the red balloon and the layer of white card stock on a grey card base for my inspiration.

Instead of a balloon I have used a disco ball (these stamps are from Purple Onion and the disco ball is actually one of three but I masked off the other two). All coloured with copics and after I coloured the disco ball I added some sparkle from a glitter pen and really love the end effect. These little fella's look like their doing a version of 'River Dance'!! 

Finished this layer off by stamping the'Merry Christmas' sentiment.

Once that was done, I layered the white cardstock onto a bit of fun foam to give a little lift to the panel then attached to a piece of grey cardstock.

All ready to enter into:

Muse: Muse Challenge #140

Penny Black and More: November Challenge: Anything Christmas

Art Impressions:Challenge #172: Be Merry Plus

Okay thats it for today. Thanks for coming to have a look and I hope you come again soon.

Happy Thoughts & Warm Hugs

I nearly forgot to post this card. I made this and send to a friend just to let her know I was thinking of her as she was feeling down. I thought I would add it to Jennifer's 'Sharing Handmade Kindness Challenge'

This was a really easy card to do and I have made ones similar to this before in different colours. Its one of those designs that people really seem to enjoy seeing.

Butterflies are Hero Art coloured with copics, fussy cut and finished off with Wink of Stella. The tag is watercolour paper cut into the shape of a tag. The colours on the tag were achieved using Inktense Pencils very lightly coloured on then brushed over with a wet brush. They blended beautifully.

You can see the glitter on the top butterfly in this photo, trust me they are both smothered in it. Drew the little antenna on the tag.

Finished the card off with three pink pearls and stamped 'Happy Thoughts & Warm Hugs' sentiment. Love that sentiment and it needs lots more use.

Finished and sent on Thursday so hopefully it have arrived before this post is up.

Each week Jennifer is doing a different challenge and this one is due to finish in a couple of hours. If you would like to know more click on the image and check it out. I think its a wonderful idea as we all make so many cards but how many actually get posted. Mine tend to sit in a box then when I think about it I make them into bundles and give them to people as a gift for a birthday, christmas, mothers day or just because.

Okay time to link this card up before the Challenge closes:

Share Handmade Kindness Challenge Week 1: Friends & Family

Would also like to add to:

613 Avenue Create: Challenge #149 Anything Goes

Optional Twist RAK

Not sure if this fits the Optional Twist 

New Challenge A Monthly Challenge: Challenge #1 Take Flight

Butterfly fits the bill here

Thanks so much for coming to have a look and I hope you come again soon.

Watercolour Celebrate

I saw the Sketch Challenge over at Always Playing with Papers and I liked what I saw.

I don't think I have played with a Sketch layout before but theres a first time for everything. Lot more thought has to go into something like this.

Unlike the majority of my cards that I just make what I want and find a challenge to fit it here the rules are already set.

I used a background paper that I bought from Papertrey in a set of white and gold designs This one being with big gold dots. The next three layers were all cut with stitch rectangle and circle dies. The green is a pale green weave look paper. The next layer is a piece of watercolour paper that I had previous sprayed with watercolour sprays in colours pink, orange and a smudge of yellow.

This panel behind the stamped and embossed flower was a great match up with the colours I watercolored the flower image with.

The flower stamp is one of the Altenew flowers and I have to say one of my favourite to look at, just so soft and wonderful lines to it.

I spent an afternoon painting this flower that was stamped and embossed in either gold or white on scraps of watercolour paper with my Kuretake watercolours. Whenever I go back to using these I remember why I love them so much. Maybe not so easy to set up as the watercolour pens but such a pleasure to use. The paint is so creamy and delicious to use and results just breathtaking.

I added the watercolour panel with fun foam behind it as I had added the three little gold tags and they would have caused a bump in the watercolour layer. The gold tags were just hand cut as I don't have tag dies (or at least I don't think I have!!)

Finished off with the small 'Celebrate' die cut that had a long swirl in front and behind but I cut off the one in front as I didn't feel it worked this particular time.

I was very happy with the end result.

Would like to enter this in:

Always Playing with Paper: The Challenge #49 Sketch Challenge

ABC Challenge: U is for Unlimited

2 Creative Chicks: 2 Creative Chicks Showcase #4

Fussy and Fancy Challenge #151: Flowers

Thank you for coming to have a look and I hope you visit again soon.

Evening Out

Ok if you follow my blog at all you will know that I coloured this image for Kathy's 30 Day Colouring Challenge at the Daily Marker but said at the time I wanted to build on the background I had started.

Well now I have finished, I continued the very pale blue/green copic colour right out to edge of the card. I love how it turned out, it looks like a lush type of paining style with the colour flicking in one direction then the other but it doesn't really show up here so you will have to trust me on that.

I also carried the soft orange of the dress down to the bottom of the page. Once all the copic ink had dried I then drew on the edge of the cardstock with a versamark clear marker, added gold embossing powder and heat set. Then I also add a line of gold embossing around the waistband and the top of the dress.

Now to decide what to do on the card. I ended up deciding on dark blue as I felt that highlighted the card well.  Finished off with two gold dots and a piece of shear ribbon I had. I tied it in a bow and then glued down with Glossy Accents. Also added a dot of glossy accents on the length of the ribbon that was hanging down to keep the two pieces together.

I love the ribbon, feel it finishes this card off perfectly and no sentiment was needed. (Actually if you know me you know I didn't think of the sentiment till after the photo was taken and I couldn't for the life of me think of what sentiment I would add :)

I knew that Therese had inspired me to add the ribbon as I saw it on a card she did recently (in the last year is recently to me) so went on a search to find the post and was surprised to see it wasn't that long ago. Check it out at Lostinpaper. Thank you Therese.

Would like to add this to:

Southern Girls Challenge: Stick Together Through Thick & Thin

Use Twine, Tape or Ribbon

Creative Knockouts Challenge #115 -Use Twine, Tape or Ribbon

Paperback Weekly -Anything Goes

Think that will do.

Thanks for coming to have a look and I hope you come visit again soon.

A little PS here:

I have had a win on Less Is More

with this card Celebrate with a bit of Sparkle

Very very excited about that.

Also had a win with this card :Make A Wish

 This was a random pick but still very, very noice I reckon. 

I got to pick out some lovely background digital papers as my prize.

The Trifecta being my win at the Hop to Stop Domestic Violence

with this card post

Again this was a random pick but I have to say a very very noice pick again as I have won $200 worth of stamps from Unity (yes $200 worth) and I cant wait for my little parcel to arrive.

Hows that for a wonderful month. Will have to show mum the laptop when I go down now that I have updated. She will be very excited about it. Sorry, as I was writing that I was thinking I can show her again a week later and we can share the excitement again as she won't remember what I showed her this week.  A bit of humour there as we are always trying to see the funny side of life and she is finding it easier some days when I make jokes about memory or the lack there of, not only for her and dad but some days it feels like there is so much overload going on I cant remember things either. It's easier to laugh and see the fun side of life than to stew over what isn't any more.

Congrats Masterpiece

Does that title sound like I have tickets on myself.....hehehe couldn't think of anything catchy and just 'Congrats' didn't do it for me. Ok this card idea came from this challenge -

I loved the colours and played with a couple of ideas flitting around in the old noggin. I have done one with flowers and watercolours but still procrastinating on that one. Saw Lin's card this morning and commented and then thought I had missed the challenge. 

Okay lets look at the close up here. I have used the stamp from Winnie and Walter and embossed with gold. I then used the Zig watercolour pens and I went with the four colours you can see in the Challenge photo. The gold trim is the gold chains the bridesmaids are wearing. Each time I just scribbled a wee bit of colour in the corner of three triangles then added water to help spread the colour. I really really like how turned out, the colours are vibrant and just ended up laid out perfectly.

I cut a frame for the rectangle of watercolour but of course it was the wrong size so rather than fiddle around trying to redo and resize I decided to go with the look that the picture/abstract is falling out of the frame.

To me this looks like a framed abstract that has issues. Finished off with a gold die cut 'Congrats'. Made the frame from a stitched rectangle die cut.

I love it and may just enter this the challenge as I am so happy with it.

Can you see it?? My masterpiece!

Anyway time to add to the challenge:

Sparkle and Shine Challenge #17 - inspiration from the image

Virginia's View Challenge: #20 Texture

I gold embossed to add texture and I die cut for more texture so I hope that fits the bill for texture.

Since I have used the Winnie and Walter stamp I thought I would add to their Join in on their blog

Winnie and Walter Blog: Join in to win!

Thank you very much for coming to have a look and I hope you come again soon.

Thanks card

This is the second card I made using the flowers from the practise sheets for the Copic Online Class Day 4. With these ones I had coloured the pink and dark red flower. I cheated and added the other pinky/orange coloured flower that I had originally put on Card 3 but then threw away cause so much went wrong. I was able to pull part of the flower cluster off and cut this one out and it fitted perfectly.

I did this as this card is a bit bigger than the other and the two flowers on their own looked rather lacking so an additional flower and some additional leaves and it was saved.

Again this card came from the pack of erect and embossed this time in a scalloped cut. Again I added the blue textured card stock behind the flowers and if you look really closely you can see I coloured the white between the flowers and matched pretty well with the card stock. I did this on both cards and it was much easier than trying to cut with scalpel.

Finished off with silver sentiment that looks more white here but above you can see its silver and  a couple of silver sparkly gems.

Would like to add this to :

Addicted to Stamps and More: Challenge #169 - Clean and Simple  

Crafting From the Heart: Challenge #84 Anything Goes

Paperback Weekly challenge: Anything Goes

Before you go if you have been following Ruth and I doing the Copic Online Colouring Class we were both a bit late posting so this is my second, go back a day to see the other and if you like click here to go check out Ruth's. I'm sure she would appreciate it and she has made a couple of really pretty cards.

Well thats it for this one thanks so much for coming to have a look and I hope you come again soon.

Thanks for everything

These are the practice flowers for the Copics Online Class Day 4. At least three of them. The fourth wasn't worth taking a photo of as it was just wrong wrong wrong.

Looking at the top image you can see why you should never just pop the lid off as your holding it over the white clean paper you are going to colour in.

Was quite pleased with the two different coloured flowers and the leaves.

This section again four different colours but I forgot to write down the pink colours on the 2nd example, sorry. Love the greens I used on the first example here, they were new ones I received just as I was about to colour.

This is one of the cards I decided to make from the examples. I fussy cut the flowers and then had to decide how to use.

I had these pre embossed card bases that I bought at Big W (I think thats like your Walmart in America). Found it was quite pretty but not very thick card stock. Anyhooo I added a bit of blue cardstock

This card stock has a nice weave to it, I just cut it a bit bigger than the window and attached on the inside. Tucked the flower in the corner and glued. The centres of the flowers are done with a white pen and blend in quite nicely.

Finished the card off with a die cut 'Thanks' in a bronze/gold and I layered it with three plain white ones and then stamped the 'for everything' sentiment.

I quite like the look. Will share the other thats on a different card base later and the 3rd one, well that ended up in the bin so you cant see it.

I would like to enter this in:

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

613 Avenue Create: Challenge #148 Anything Goes 

w/optional Host/Hostess thank you

Its been awhile since I entered their challenge.

Simply Papercraft: Challenge 16

Always Anything Goes

Had to share a photo of my beautiful grandson, the one who just turned one. Check out the fangs, now the proud owner of six.

Thanks for coming to visit and I hope you come again soon.

The world can be amazing......

To finish off the 30 Day Colouring Challenge I decided to

 finish with Zigs on Watercolour cardstock.

These two beautiful pieces are from a set that Simon Says is (was??) selling.

They are brilliant. Done onto really thick wonderful watercolour cardstock, 12 different pages with Suzy's Doodles. I received them in early October and have finally started to watercolour. The zigs

are working perfectly on them which I was not sure was going to happen as when I have tried Tim Holtz Watercolour paper with the Zigs I found they didn't work their best and I assumed its the same paper.

I just place a thin line of which ever colour I want and then use a wet brush to blend or move around. Really enjoying this and love how the two I have done have turned out. Basically two card fronts done.

Just have to decide how to use them now but I will worry about that later.

Time to post to 

The Daily Marker - 30 Day Colouring Challenge - October - Day 30

And thats the end of another challenge. Got some great cards out of the challenge and some great images painted or coloured ready for use later.

I would just like to thank Kathy for doing this brilliant challenge. It must be huge to organise this around everything else going on and I am sure everyone feels the same when I say 'Thank you Kathy, another great Challenge completed'.

Thank you for coming to visit and I hope you come again soon.