Perfect Blend

I love playing in mixed media and adding texture. When you add color to the texture you can go a whole new level to your card crafting. This texture paste was mixed with just a drop of tan reinker and created a textured card with real coffee looking spills.

Copics used: C1,C3, B00 & B02

Perfect Blend

Market Day

Another super fun image from Heartfelt Creations. Colored with copics and picking up some other fun items on my desk to finish off the card. The flowers, peddle and ladybug were already stamped and die cut and sitting in my UFO projects (unfinished objects). The ribbon was a great scrap my mom gave me that she was unable to use on one of her craft projects as she uses much larger pieces for her sewing projects and the smaller pieces are great for adding to my cards.

One thing to note, saving smaller pieces of paper can be a great way to save money. The added white lace trim is a cut off piece from cutting down images and then run through the lace punch. It adds tons of depth and eye candy to a card and is a cut off from other projects. So save those pieces because you can use it for another project. Go to that bag first when creating a card and see what candy you can create on a card.

Copics used: 0, V12, V15, BV00, B32, B34, Y11, Y13, Y17, YG13, YG17and YG95

Market Day

BFFs

Some of my cards are inspired by places, objects and in many cases I think of a certain person. In this case I was thinking of my wonderful friend who I recently moved away from and while I was creating this card she was the inspiration. Using the masking technique I was able to put these ladies close together to create the close friends for this picture in the Polaroid frame setting. Adding a sky line really finished off the picture.

Copics used: B00, B01, V12, V15, V17, E09, E11, E13, E15, E33,C4, C6, C8, R24, R29, R32, Y21 and YR23

BFFs

Masculine Sport Birthday

Teen boys can be a tough crowd to create cards but using fun images like skateboarders or any sport could help with a card for that group. This background came together nicely with spraying and using powders and adding some water to have them react together then putting cling wrap over the top to create the fun lines on the card base. I love the way the grunge background turned out and I am sure going to play with that again.

Masculine Sport Birthday

Happy Harvest

Heartfelt Creations is one of my favorite companies. I just love their images and love adding color to them. These applies turned out so life like once the color was added. I wanted to pick them up off the page when I was done coloring them. Adding the distress ink around them really popped them on teh card.

Copics used: 0, R20, R24, R29, E35, E39, YG11, YG13, YG17 and YG67

Happy Harvest

Enjoy the Boat

Oh how I would love another boat ride to be on the water enjoying the breeze.

Masked off the card added some blue and yellow. Added white gel pen for waves. Sponged on some clouds. Stamped the image and the sentiment. I like to add the stitching die cut to the edge to add some extra texture and focal to a card. It can be used for masculine and feminine cards.

Enjoy the Boat

With Love

House Mouse has some super fun images and this one is one of my favorites. The mouse on top is having a great time jumping and the other two are very content sleeping.

To keep up with the challenges on Splitcoast Stampers for Dare to get dirty I used this image again as I had it already colored in my stash. We did 42 cards in 7 days and that can be a huge challenge for any crafter.

Happy Mice

Copics used: 0, C0, C2, C3, E21, E43, E51, R24, R29 and R32