Wrapped Around My Finger-mummy

I had to have the Halloween Cuddlebug stamps by Tierra Jackson that Unity Stamp Co just came out with. I love the Cuddlebugs to begin with and these are simply adorable. I love that several of them have sentiments that can be used for other things besides Halloween. This mummy is the perfect example

Isn't he the cutest. I colored everything with Prismacolor pencils. I used the warm grays for the mummy and the background. The spider is the darkest cool gray and the outline was sepia. Everything was blended with Gamsol. The sentiment is stamped in Archival Distress Hickory Smoke.

I really wanted to make a mummy wrap background for this image. I took my cue from his wrap and just used a fine tip pen to draw some lines. I used the same warm gray pencils and Gamsol to color it in. I made the edge a bit curvy and cut along it so that it was slightly smaller than an A2 card.

Last week, I made a card using the Count. He is just has fun and versatile as the mummy.

My friend Echo makes the most amazing cards and I had to use her Distress Oxide blended background and make one of my own for the Count. I just used a circle die to make a mask for the circle.  Distress Oxides used: Fossilized Amber, Stormy Skies, Black Soot.

Copics used:

cape-All over with C3, then I used BV23 and BV 25 over that. 

Clothes-C4, C5, C7

Frog & bottle YG06, YG11 & C3 over all the frog first.

Supplies used:

Cuddlebug Mummy

Cuddlebug Count

Double Stitched Inside Out Stitched Rectangle Die

You're my favorite nut!

Hello, I got this adorable tiny, little chipmunk and am having so much fun with him.

Isn't he so cute. I have an Itty Bitty stamp that has acorns on it. I stamped it multiple times and colored them up in two combos and fussy cut a pile of them out. I die cut a wacky stitched rectangle and ink blended Distress Oxide in Mowed Lawn for the grass. The sky was ink blended with Distress Oxide in Stormy Sky and then I used a cloud stencil and the same color to make some clouds. 

I piled the nuts up until I got a pleasing arrangement and then used sticky dots to stick them down one at a time. The chipmunk topped the pile. The sentiment was stamped with Versafine ink and embossed with white embossing powder. I popped that and the lone acorn up with foam tape. I mounted that panel on black card stock.

I made the background by ink blending a light coat of Distress Oxide in Antique Linen. I used a denim background stamp inked in Distress Oxide Gather Twig to stamp over that. I then streaked Distress Oxide in Aged Mahogany along the edges of the stamp and stamped again.

Copics used:

Acorn One-E55, E57, E70, E71

Acorn Two-E12, E15, E17, E42, E43

Chipmonk-E50, E51, E53

Supplies Used

Wacky Stitched Rectangle-die

Acorn Greetings-acorns

Tiny Chipmunk-chipmunk & sentiment

Distress Oxides

Ranger Superfine white embossing powder

I Love You Flower card

I have to say I love coloring flower images the best. I am not an expert, but they make me happy and I usually am happy with how I colored them. That is why buying both sets of Petals for Pittmans made more then perfect sense to me. I get a huge array of amazing flower images to color and I am supporting a family that really needs help. Visit Polka Dot Orchard for all the details.

Isn't this image beautiful. I have wanted a flower image like this for a long time so it had to be the first one I tried. I colored it with Copics and then used lots of dies to mat it up. 

I cut the large Loopy rectangle mat and adhered it to a white A2 card base. Then I cut the Peekaboo Rectangle out of white and adhered the opening around the flower image I colored. Then I trimmed down both layers of card stock to fit inside the stitched line on the loopy rectangle mat. I stamped a tiny "I love you" in the bottom right corner and then adhered it to the card base. Three tiny pearl gems were glued around the flower and it was down. This card is to pretty in really life. The white on white lacy layers are so much better in person.

Copics used:

Flowers-R22, R24, R29

Leaves-G20, G21, G24

Shadow-C00, C1

Centers-yellow colored pencil

Supplies used:

Petals for the Pittmans-set 1

Peekaboo Rectangle die 

Loopy Rectangle die

Always Better Together

This was a very quick card but I love how it turned out. 

A friend suggested the teal mason jar and I ran with it. It turned out to be an absolute favorite way to color a mason jar. I may end up doing many more like that.

I colored the image and then I die cut the panel with a wacky rectangle die. It allowed a bit more of the pink card stock I was going to mount it on show around the edge. I decided to add a layer of white in between and I love the extra texture it gave the card.

When I was doing the coloring, I laid down the brown stems first, using the lighter brown inside the jar and the darker outside the jar. I colored the jar and then used the colorless blender to help add highlights back in. The flowers were done a bit different than I usually color. I wanted just a soft touch of pink so I filled the entire flower with colorless blender, really saturating the paper. Then I used one color of pink along the bottom of the flower and blended out with the colorless blender.

The string was originally white and I wanted it to match, so I mixed a bit of colorless blender refill and R81 refill in a tiny bowl and stuck my piece of string in until I had the color I wanted. I cut the string into two pieces. I threaded one of the pieces through holes I poked on either side of the jar. I tied a the remaining bit into a bow around that string.

Copic Colors used:

Stems-E27, E29

Jar-colorless blender-BG01, BG02, BG05

Flower-colorless blender-R81

Supplies used:

Difficult Roads-image & sentiment

Wonky Stitched Rectangles-die

String

Just My Type card

It's been a while since I posted. I had a lovely mini vacation on the Oregon coast and came home sick with a sore throat. 

I didn't have a lot of energy but I really wanted to make something. This card is what you get when you can't decide what to use so you use all the things. A new paper pad, charms, string, brads and more.

I started with some simple coloring then I die cut the panel and distressed the edges with Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide ink. I mounted it on black. I trimmed the patterned paper down 3/16" on the side and the top and mounted that on black also. I threaded a heart charm on the black string and wrapped it around the card front 3 times and taped it on the back. I mounted my typewriter panel onto that and added the toggles and brads. 

Copic Colors used:

Bird-BV20

Typewriter body: N0, N1, N2

Typewriter keys and accents: W00, W1, W2, W3

Supplies used: 

Type Write-image

In & Out Double Stitched Rectangle-dies

Thin black string-Impress

Charms-Amazon

Toggles & brad 

Wild About You

I created this card by using 3 different Itty Bitty stamps from Unity Stamp Company and a new background from them and Brutus Monroe.

I started by stamping the lion, masking it off, then the hippo and last the alligator. I used Gina K Amalgum ink.

 I used my Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol with some paper stumps to blend it out to do all the coloring. All the following pictures show the colors used.

I cut the panel with a stitched rectangle punch. I stamped the Heart Swirl background stamp in black and then blended a couple of Distress Oxide inks randomly over it. I trimmed that down and mounted it on black card stock. The sentiment is from a 4th Itty Bitty set embossed in white.

Stamp sets used

I'd Be Lion

Hippo Birthday

Later Alligator

Wild About You

Heart Swirl