Life's a Bowl of Cherries

Woohoo! It's Friday, and I'm off to the CK scrapbook convention in Valley Forge for the morning! Can't wait to see what goodies I can find, although I'm going to try to stick to my shopping list. (Haha. We'll see how that goes!)

I've been playing with Copics again, so I decided to color up this image from Karen Lockhart. Her stamps are fun because there's enough detail to have fun coloring but the images are small enough that there are lots of layout options. I'm sorry...I didn't keep track of which colors I used. I need to get better at remembering to do that. The checked paper is from a Making Memories pack that I picked up at Tuesday Morning. (If you have a Tuesday Morning store near you, check out their crafts aisle. I can often get packs of quality DP for only a couple bucks!) The sentiment is layered on red cardstock cut with the smallest Spellbinders Label Four die. It's hard to tell in the pic, but the zig zag edge has embossed faux stitching along it. Honestly, the stitching is a little hard to see in real life too. I'm a little disappointed with it. Next time, I'll try spraying my cardstock with Paper Glide first
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Here's a close up of the cherries. After coloring them with red, I touched each berry with the colorless blender. It "pushed" the color just enough to give shading to each cherry. It really did make a difference!

Have a wonderful Friday!
Kathleen

Outlines Turtle

I had a stash of this turtle from Outlines colored and finally had time to make it into cards. I decided to do one suitable for boys and one for girls. On the first one, I stamped a sentiment, but I decided to leave some like the second one. The tags are cut using my Wizard and Spellbinders die. The tag is there and ready to stamp, but I left off a sentiment. Some day when I need a card in a hurry, I can just add an appropriate sentiment onto the tag. The turtles are colored with Prismacolor pencils and blended with Gamsol. The embossed line of circles on the bottom of the card is a Cuttlebug folder.,




This one's a little different. Colored exactly the same, but a different card layout. The background is embossed with a Cuttlebug Embossing Folder (done in my Wizard), with a few of the circles colored in the middle with Ranger's Stickles. The patterned stripe on the left side is a piece of ribbon.

Christmas Thank You Cards

Since I took down the Christmas cards yesterday, and the daffodils are blooming, I decided it's also time to take down the snow themed thank you cards that I used this year. This first one is a Magenta stamp, colored with Copic markers. This was a fun image to color. I only wish the blues on the bird had blended a little better. I'm still filling out my Copic collection, so right now, the colors are limited.

This was a super fast card, with barely any stamping. I wanted to use some of the beautiful Memory Box papers that I have. The two patterned layers are Memory Box paper, with the edges shaded with dark green Colorbox Chalk ink. The snowflakes were already printed on the paper, so the only stamping was to stamp the tiny "Thank you" on the tag that I cut with a Spellbinders die. It took me longer to design the card than it did to make a dozen of them.