Merry Christmas to You!!



Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas today!

My card today for One Crazy Stamper celebrates this wonderful season of family celebration.

 



 

The image is from Stampendous and is entitled Winter Birds.  I have colored the image with Copics, then added Liquid Applique to the branches of the tree, and several sizes of snowflake dies (Memory Box and Joy Craft) covered with Stampendous Shabby White Embossing Enamel to add glimmer.

 

Card Recipe

Memento Rich Cocoa Ink

Greens - G94, G99

Beaks - YR23, YR24, YR27

Branch - E35, E39

Birds - E30, E31, E34, E43, E44, E47

Reds - R24, R29, R39

Blues - B23, B24, B26

 

Enjoy the day with family and friends!!



Colour Your World

Welcome to my Thursday post for One Crazy Stamper, and today I have a quick and simple tutorial to share with you using your Copic Markers.  Back when I first started my Copic addiction I remember someone telling me that you could use the markers to add color to photographs, so today I played and LOVE the finished result.  Amazingly easy to do and the results are gorgeous.  Here's the before and after photos.

 

 

The photos were printed on pearl (matt) paper.  Start with lighter colors - you can always add a darker color after.  The colors do not blend so just start light.

 

Adding more colors.

 

The above photo is the finished product, while the below photo shows the original with no retouches.

 

Below is the same photo printed in full color.

 



Now that I have tried this technique I think I can see more black and white photos in my future!  Love the finished look that highlights just the items that are important in a photo and it was so quick and easy to achieve.  Try it out and let me know what you think!

Countdown has begun

So today I have something a little different to show you for my One Crazy Stamper blog post - this is one of three advent calendars that I completed last month for friends and family.  I apologize for the poor quality photo, but I needed to get this one delivered before the end of November so that it could be mailed out, and as usual I didn't finish it until the last moment.

The base of the calendar is an older Kaisercraft kit, that you assemble and then decorate with your choice of paper, ink and embellishments.  After painting all of the pieces I choose dp from Simple Stories Cozy Christmas collection to decorate all of the boxes and the sides of the calendar.  All of the edges were inked with  Versafine Vintage Sepia, then the fun began.  I used a mix of embellishments to decorate the individual boxes including ribbon, brads, charms, buttons, Tim Holtz Idea-ology Countdown Charms, while the center scene was built with Tim Holtz bottle brush trees, and a bird bath ornament.

 

Let It Snow Greetings

Hard to believe but there are only 20 days left before Christmas arrives, and I don't know about you but I am not even close to being prepared.  Somewhere I need to find more time in the days!  I did finally get the chance to color and today's card is the final result.

 

My card features another adorable image from High Hopes stamps entitled Hope For Peace Snowy that I have colored with Copics.  Lately I have been seeing cards on Pinterest and blogs that show the image with white lines, so after I finished coloring the image, I took a Sakura white glaze pen and traced over all of the black lines - the finished result really gives a different look to the image.  The image was fussy cut, then adhered to the card front along with the sentiment that is a beautiful Tattered Lace die.  Liquid applique adds detail to the snow around the snowman base, and glitter added to the snowflakes of the sentiment add another element.  Dp is from Simple Stories.

 

Card Recipe

Snowman - BG0000, Y0000, R0000, Colorless Blender

Reds - R27, R29, R39

Greens - G21, G24, G28

Nose - YR04, YR07

Blues - B21, B24, B26

Hat - T6, T8, T10

Scarf - YR23, YR24, YR27

 

Make sure to hop on over to the One Crazy Stamper blog and check out the rest of the design teams wonderful creations and then get creative and enter the challenge to win a fabulous prize from One Crazy Stamper.

Snowlady Greetings

Welcome to the first day of the last month of 2014, and to welcome in the new month it is time to show a card for this month's challenge at One Crazy Stamper.  The theme this month is ANYTHING GOES and I have stamped up a cute High Hopes image entitled Snow Sweet Snowlady.

 

The image is colored with Copics and then I have added Judikins Diamond Glaze to the candy buttons for dimension, as well as added gold pearls with a Viva Décor pearl pen.  After fussy cutting the image I popped it up using 3D foam squares from Scrapbook Adhesive on the card front made from dp and ribbon from my stash.  The sentiment is also from High Hopes.

 

Card Recipe

Snowlady - BG000, E40, BG000

Nose - YR04, YR09

Hat - E30, E31, E34

Greens - G40, G43, G46

Reds - R29, R59

Bird - BG000, BG10, BG11

Beak, Feet - Y19, YR09