Wanda and Friends

 Happy Sunday!

This was a great crafty weekend. I was able to participate in a local “Crop for a Cure” event, but on by an amazing group of ladies.  I look forward to this event every year.  My mission for this crop was to work on the latest Art Impressions bi-weekly challenge It’s Raining Cats and Dogs.  

I pulled out some Halloween stamps, I am going to turn Halloween in April a thing, similar to Christmas in July 😁. I used Art Impressions stamp sets #5190 - Fright Night and a retired stamp set, I believe the name it Wanda Witch. I love Wanda, she is very sassy!  I also used 5378 - WC Stone Creek Scene,  and #4967 - WC Fence Die. From La-La Land Crafts I used #8462 - Grass Patch die.

For this card I did a combination of Copic coloring and watercoloring.  I used Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers and a palette to do the background and sky scene. The rest was done with Copics.  

There is also sparkle pen and it didn’t photograph well, I’ve learned for the next time.  I really need to figure out this photography thing, I guess that will come with time, at least I hope it will.

I appreciate you stopping by and seeing what I have done.  Hope you have a great week!

Spring Color & Create Workshop Weekend

I had an amazing time last weekend participating in La-La Land Craft’s Spring Color & Create Workshop.  It is a fast paced virtual workshop, that is recorded so I can go back and rewatch anytime I want to, which is amazing for me.  

I am a bit on the slow side 😁, unlike many of the other crafty ladies who participated in the event, and I only finished two of the nine cards.  My others are still a “work in progress”, but I wanted to share the two that I did get done. 

The three teachers during the event are amazing artists, Irina Blount (owner of La-La Land Crafts), Martha Tucker (makes amazing mini albums and cards) and  Tamara Potocnik (all her coloring is watercoloring and is stunning).  I have taken several of these virtual workshops and have not been disappointed. 

Sorry for the fuzzy photos, not sure why that keeps happening ☹️. If anyone has suggestions on how to fix it would be greatly appreciated!!

Thank you for stopping by ❤️. 

Girlfriends - Giant Cake Birthday

Hello everyone, I am back with another bi-weekly challenge from Art Impressions.  This is for their Pop It Up! Challenge.  

With Pop It Up in mind, I decided to make an easel card that would fit in a 5x7 envelope with a lot of dimensional elements to it.  The stamp set I chose were Girlfriends stamp 4382 - Giant Cake Set for the main event, 5722 - Birthday Journal Set, 5793 - Mini Journal Birthday Set and 5455 - Birthday Buggy Set for the embellishment pieces.  

This is the card popped up.  I used double layer mounting foam on the sentiment for a solid base to support the card.  

This is the top of the card, how it looks when you take it out of the envelope. 

I added a layer of shimmer on the layer behind the image.  I used Celebration Layering Stencil from La-La Land Crafts and Nuvo Glimmer Paste in Moonstone, shimmer is always a must!  I also used the glimmer paste as accents on the candles, confetti, and packages to give it a little dimensional sparkle.  I also used my Karin DecoGel MilkyWay pen in white, I really love this pen.  

Copic colors used:

Yellow: Y11, Y13, Y15, Y21, Y23, Y30, Y31, Y38

Brown:  E11, E15, E18, E50, E51, E93

Pink:  RV17, RV52, RV55, RV66

Purple:  V91, V93, V95, V99

Blue:  B91, B93, B95, B97

Gray:  C1, C2, C3, C4, W1, W3, W5

I appreciate you stopping by!

Llama’s Fresh Flowers

 

Since I had so much fun with last weeks Art Impressions challenge card  Color Challenge #373, I decided to do a second card for the same challenge.    The colors for this challenge were navy, light blue, garden green, sunny yellow and a neutral.  I chose shades of gray as my neutral color choice. 

For this card I used #5511 - Floral Truck set as the primary stamp set.  I thought this set was cute until I started using it, then I fell in love, there are so many different ways to use it.  The second set I thought would be perfect to use for my vision was #5458 - Llama set.  These llamas are very fun and I used the small llama as the driver of the truck, isn’t she a cutie! From this stamp set I took the sentiment “Drama Llama Mama” and masked the Drama and Mama words, leaving only Llama to create the “Llama’s” Fresh Flowers sign.  I wrote in the ‘s.   

I used dimensional foam tape to pop up the flowers, side of the truck, butterfly, and llama sign to give it texture. It really added something to the look of it.

Karin Deco Gel pens in milky way white, and metallic silver, gold and red were used to add designs to the flower pots.  I used  Crystal Drops Gloss in Bubblegum Blush, Dandelion Yellow, Berry Blue, Apple Green and Sweet Lilac as a little drop flower filler (say that 10 times fast 😁).  Crystal Drops Metallic in Dirty Bronze was used for the “Llama’s” sign nail.  The coloring was done with Copic markers and since everyone loves a little sparkle, I added some Wink of Stella on the flowers and gray areas of the truck. 

As usual, I used every crayon color in the box, I tend to get a bit carried away🤣… Here is the list of the Copic colors I used:

Yellow: Y11, Y13, Y15, Y19

Green: YG01, YG03, YG05, YG09, G40, G43, G46

Blue:  B21, B23, B24, B26, B28, B29, B0000, B000, B01, B02, B04, B06

Pink: R81, R83, R85, RV52, RV55, RV66

Purple:  BV000, BV01, BV02, BV04

Gray:  C0, C1, C3, C5, C7, C9, C10, W0, W1, W3, W5, W7, W9, W10

Llama:  E40, E42, E43, E44, E70, E71, E74, 

I appreciate you stopping by to take a look!

Let the Party Begin!

After a long haitus, I have been back creating again as a well needed stress reliever.  

It works in miraculous ways. I was recently on the Art Impressions Blog and have decided to 

rejoin their fun challenges.  When I first started doing them I believe they were monthly, now 

they are bi-monthly to really keep me busy.

The week’s challenge is Color Challenge #373 utilizing navy, light blue, sunny yellow, a soft

 neutral and garden greens.  I choose to use stamp set 5280 - Practically Perfect Girlfriends set and 

5722 - Birthday Journal set for the balloons and banners. My mom loves the Girlfriends stamps 

and is always a request when she sends cards to her friends. 

I used Copics for the coloring and went a bit overboard on the amount of colors, oops 😂

• Greens: G40, G43, G46, G20, G21, G24
• Yellow: Y11, Y13, Y15, Y18
• Pink:  R81, R83, R85
• Blue:  B21, B23, B24, B26, B28, B0000, B000
• Gray:  C0, C2, C4, C6, W4, W6
• I also used Karin Gel Pen - White.  These are the best white gel pens I have used to date, they also have refills.  

If you enjoy challenges you should check out Art Impressions for some fun ones!