Time flies when you are having fun...

Hi there and Hello :)

An hour or so ago and I was on the couch struggling to stay awake, check my email and find some amazing news and so not sleepy anymore..but more on that later ;)

As I have so many projects to catch up on I am going to post a lot of photos and try and keep the words to a minimum tonight so I can get my blog back up to date with where I am at with all my projects.  

I hope you enjoy, you may want to make a coffee before you start ;) and if you have any questions on Copic/Distress colours used, or other materials please feel free to leave me a comment and I'll do my best to help you out :)  Links to images used are all the way through to help you out :)

Starting with the two Mother's Day projects I made this year, my Ma's present made with Aurora Wings Image White Poppy and coloured with Distress Inks

For my sister's Mothers Day Card I used a Hannah Lynn Image - Cali Girl

Miss K's birthday is another Hannah Lynn image available through Crafts and Me - Amber Eyes

Happy Birthday Shinks with Kraftin Kimmie's Birthday Friends and background paper made by using Annabelle Stamps - Scribble Scrabble 1

For beautiful new baby Isla I used Saturated Canary's Butterfly Baby masked with Make it Crafty's Daffodil Dell

This one was a commission piece using two Magnolia Stamps masked, On the Road Tilda and Tulip Walkway

For handsome baby boy Kaan - the image is from Little Miss Muffet Stamps - Babe Moon Lullaby

Gorjuss little Ladybird Gorjuss Girl :) 

A card for a very special Miss J using Saturated Canary's Butterfly Princess, zoomed and cropped

Participating in a colouring competition over in the Kit and Clowder Facebook group I bought this beautiful image from The Stamping Chef - Alyce.  I had so much fun with this image and really pushed myself out of my comfort zone with the colours I used and I was super happy with the results!!

This next piece is also courtesy of a Kit and Clowder Facebook group colouring competition.  This gorgeous image is from The East Winds - Floral Kiss  I was lucky enough to be a random winner of two free digis from this competition, one of which you will see below.  This card was for Miss N, which also marks my 1 year anniversary for using Copic Markers.  I used markers on an image for Miss N's birthday for the first time last year :)

My nephew turned 6 on the 16th July and when I asked Mr W what sort of picture he would like on his card he said he wanted a dinosaur.  So I picked this image as I thought it looked like him dressed up in a dinosaur costume.  This image is from Tiddly Inks - King of the Wild Ones

A very soft and lovely birthday card for Miss L using one of the digi's I won in the Kit and Clowder colouring competition. From The East Wind - 'Aurora' Daisy.  I was so, SO happy with how the hair turned out on this image, it shows that my classes with Alyce at Kit and Clowder are definitely paying off!

Next up a card for my best mate's husband, using another image from The Stamping Chef, Miss Smexy.  It was only as I was uploading and watermarking this evening that I realised I forgot to colour her eyes... I want to fix them!!!

For my favourite Miss S's birthday this year I used this cute as stamp from La-La Land - Ladybug Marci - I love Ladybirds!!

This second image shows the gorgeous sparkle from the Wink of Stella brush I used on her wings

This next piece was a step WAY out of my comfort zone.  I keep seeing all these gorgeous 'no lines' coloured images, but hadn't been confident enough until now to try it.  This little cutey from Tiddly Inks - Whatcha Doing?, seemed like the perfect image to try it out for the first time, not to complicated.  Super happy with how this turned out!!

This card for JLo was made using Tiddly Inks - For the Birds

For Miss J another Tiddly Inks Image - Ellie Says Hi

Last up tonight another image from a Kit and Clowder Facebook Group colouring Competition.  This image was offered a free image to the members of Kit and Clowder from All Dressed Up.  I tried to do something a little different by using my gold prisma pencil and add a touch of face paint/make up to her face to try and fit the theme.

We are there, I hope you are still awake ;)

Thanks so much for looking and please feel free to leave any questions below

xx

It's Time for a Catch Up...

Good evening,

Although I can be terrible at keeping my blog up to date, there is still plenty of colouring and card making in the background.  

Tonight's post is all about catching up on the projects I have made and not posted.  This will be very picture heavy, so grab a cuppa and enjoy.

The first project I would like to share is the card I made for my Sister for her birthday.  Being that she is so Awesome I had to make her a spectacular card.  This Saturated Canary Sweater Socks Fairy was a little bigger than a normal card so I had to think outside the square a bit for this project and made her more like a plaque.  There is a little hidey hole behind the Tim Holtz butterfly die cut that I tucked a matching tag with the message.

The Second project was a card I made with an image I have shown previously.  This card was for my gorgeous and fabulous hairdresser.  I thought Melyssa from Make it Crafty with all this gorgeous hair was just perfect for a hairdresser :)

My third project was a card I made for my youngest Nephew Alexander for his second birthday.  This little Rocket Boy image and sentiment came from Tiddly Inks and the planet I found in a free colouring page.  The star was a standard shape from Pages :)  The stars on this project look a little grainy and funny, but that is because they are covered in glow in the dark embossing powder, works a treat!!

The fourth project was a birthday card for a friend of mine.  This one was a week or two late unfortunately, but thankfully B didn't mind - he knows how terrible I am lol.  This little monster was put together using the Monster Elements sets available from Little Miss Muffet Stamps.

The fifth project was a card I was asked by B to make for his Mum.  For the last three years I have been making cards for him for his Mum's birthday.  My Ma had given me this gorgeous Flourishes Cherry Blossom stamp set for my birthday, and I thought it was just perfect.  Embellished with lovely Wild Orchid Craft flowers and a Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page plaque, simple and elegant :)

My sixth project was for my friend J's birthday.  J loves everything Tinkerbell and has a whole display of all her Tink trinkets and cards.  Using the Butterfly swing from Make it Crafty I merged a free colouring page image of Tink.

My seventh and eighth projects to share were from Easter this year.  I had promised my oldest nephew a Bookmark to use when reading his Harry Potter series I had bought for him.  I was planning on using Wizard Boy from Tiddly Inks, but when I was showing him the picture he liked the Tiddly's Be My Mummy better, so I used it to make this bookmark for him.

Just before Easter I was lucky enough to win a free digital image from Little Miss Muffet Stamps for my anniversary card I made (Shown in the post titled Weddiversary).  I chose this gorgeous Easter Bunny Hiding and made 3 cards for my 3 little men to put with their Easter presents.

My ninth project was a piece I coloured with my Copics using a Hannah Lynn digital stamp called Cali Girl available through Crafts and Me.  I love the style of Hannah Lynn images,  one of the first stamps I bought when starting to colour was Hannah's Genevieve, and it is still one of my absolute favourites. I actually realised after I had taken this photo that I hadn't finished off her eyes properly. Since taking this picture I have coloured the centres in black and added back in the white reflective dots off centre from the middle of the eye.  I was so happy with how this turned out, and especially her eyes and skin.

The last two incredibly cheeky ;) projects I have to share use the same image available through Redonkadoodles called Cheeky Greeting.  These cards have been made for colleagues of mine, both have a great sense of humour and cheeky personalities, so I couldn't resist this image for the lads :)

Phew... and we are there!!  I think I may be caught up on blogging all my recent projects!!  All of these images have been coloured with Copics, if you have any questions on colours used, just drop me a line and I will see what I can do to try and remember the combinations, note to self, must write this stuff down!!

Keep an eye out for the upcoming Mother's Day projects, I have spent all day in the craft room today working on one of my images in distress inks, and there is still more painting to go!!  I wish I could share the progress as I am so happy with how it is looking, but I know that my Ma looks here to see what I have been up so I'll just have to wait.

Thanks for looking and I hope you enjoyed today's photo gallery :)

xx

March Challenge Entry 2

Hi, Hello :)

My second post today is to once again enter the following challenges

Make it Colourful Challenge 7 Spring is in the Air
Kit and Clowder March Challenge Wings.

This little piece is making it to a card very, very soon for my friend who is expecting a little girl.

The little scene below contains Butterfly Baby from Saturated Canary and Daffodil Dell from Make it Crafty suing Copic Markers as my medium.

Thanks for looking :)

xx

Backyard General

Evening all,

I hope you have had a lovely weekend.  The weather here in Adelaide has just been awesome, beautiful warm sunny days which is a nice change :)

Last week my oldest nephew turned 9 making Aunty Milly feel very old ;)  I had bought the gorgeous little Backyard General Saturated Canary Stamp from Little Darlings many months ago now ready to James' card with.

I wanted to paint him with army camouflage, but just didn't have any paper to match so I decided to make my own using my distress stains.  I was really happy with how it turned out.

The 'net'  I made using some hessian and pulling out strands until I was happy with the effect.  I put some eyelets in and attached it to the card using some chocolate brown string I had in my stash.

For my camouflage paper I started with a white piece of card, and added a layer of Antique Linen distress stain over the whole piece.  Once the first layer was dried I added a random patter with Shabby Shutter, Frayed Burlap and Walnut Stain Distress Stains. I then went back in with a sponge and the same colour browns to 'dirty' it up a bit, for the green I used Forest Moss instead of the Shabby Shutters as it was a darker, browner green.  The stamp around the edge is from Kaisercraft called Distress.

A close up shot of this cute little guy :)

Thanks for stopping by :)

xx

Miss Sammy

Hello again,

For Miss Sammy's birthday this year I really want to give her a card made with a picture coloured with my Copics, however I had a slight problem... I was still suffering really badly with my back so sitting and colouring for any decent period of time was really difficult.  So this piece was done over a few sittings to try and finish it.

I love the Saturated Canary images and Honey is one that I have had my eye on for awhile, and now that I have Copic markers I can use the digital image and make it any size I want :o)

Honey has been coloured with the following Copics

Skin: E000, 00, 21 and 11

Hair: E11, 13, 15 and 18

Clothing: Blue - B93, 95, 97 and 99.  Aqua - BG000, 01, 05 and 09.  Dark smokey Purple - BV20, 23, 25 and 29.  Pink - RV91, 93, 95 and 99.

Rabbit - T3, 4, 5 and 7 and RV91, 93, 95 and 99.

The picture above shows her shoes with the original soles, the same colours as her hair, but I thought they were too bright so I coloured over them with a toner grey.

I think the soles of her shoes look much better after I coloured them with the grey, what do you think?

The next photo shows the gorgeous DCWV paper I used.  I love this paper stack, beautiful, purples, greens, turquoises, greens and yellows.  It also shows my awesome personalised Whimsy Stamp :o)

Thanks for looking.

xx

A Copic Afternoon

My collection of Copic markers is still rather limited, but thanks to the Manga Arts Store in Australia, it is growing steadily. However my lovely Ma has quite a few already, and she loves to share :o)  Lucky me!!

Yesterday afternoon, my sister and my three nephews came to visit for the day it was nice seeing the boys and just chatting and catching up.  Towards the end of the afternoon I decided to practice my colouring.  I already had an Alice and Queen of Hearts from Saturated Canary printed so away I went.  I know Alice is supposed to be in Blue, but I had just received my RV91, 93, 95 and 99 from Manga and was dying to try them out, so we have the slight unconventional Alice and Queen of Hearts.

I was so incredibly happy with how they turned out, it took a good four or so hours and a really sore hand (I'm not used to colouring for that long, when I am painting I usually do a big image like that over a couple of days!!) to achieve the finished product.... Now I have to work out what I am going to do with these ladies :o)

I think this post brings me completely up to date, well until I start the two projects I need to work on for this week lol.

Thanks for looking.

xx

It's started....

As you can see from my blog, my colouring to this point has been done with distress inks.  When originally looking into colouring in images for my cards, i started with the distress inks as I already had them on hand.  I have stuck with them for awhile now, resisting going anywhere near Copic markers as my poor bank account couldn't have handled it (believe me it is crying really loudly at the moment lol!!).

Then my Ma bought some Copic markers, and I started to have a play to see what they were like to work with.  I loved that they are a completely different medium, and completely new technique for me to learn, and obviously they give a completely different effect to the distress inks. So i bit the bullet and bought some.... and now a few weeks later my bank card is crying ;o)  I have been watching tons of colouring videos, Alyce from Kit and Clowder, thank you!!  You are my colouring guru, through your videos I have learnt so much!!

A friend Nicole was having a birthday last weekend, and the theme was Alice in Wonderland, so I went on to the Saturated Canary page to buy some images, I bought Alice and the Queen of Hearts, and I also came across Jules.  Jules ended up being the image I decided to use because of the cat, we affectionately refer to Nicole as our crazy cat lady so it was very fitting :)

Please don't look too closely at the colouring as this is the first card I have made with a Copic image, i really enjoyed it!  Backgrounds papers are from Kaisercraft, and that gorgeous vintage lace has made a reappearance.

The hair gives me the most problems, HEAPS more practice to do on that part!!  Love that shabby blue frantage too :)

Thanks for looking

xx