Hunting Anyone?

Another great time saving way to create a card when in a hurry is to color a few images in advance and build up your stash of ready images to add to a card. This fun image was colored in advance and when I needed to create the 42 different cards in a week for the dare to get dirty challenges on SCS having this image ready was a great time saver. Also keeping track of the colors used you can take pictures of them or write them on the back of the image in pencil then before cutting down and mounting the image keep track of the copics for future coloring to save time.

Copics used: C2, C5, B37, B41, B45, E00, E29, E31, E35, E57, R24, R29, R37YR23 and YG67

Hunting Anyone?

Halloween

Here is a great tip, when you need a fast card with an eye catching detail try sponging on a portion of the card then stamp the image and throw on a few sequins. It can be a fun, fast and eye catching CAS (clean and simple) card and takes only moments to create.

Halloween

Grillmaster

This image is one of my favorite from AI stamps. It can be really fun to see what this guy is battling with his tongs and this fire bomb was such a fun addition. The fire bomb was added with three sprays a deep red, a pink and a yellow.

Copics used: E00, E11, E13, C2, C4, C5, C7, C10, R20, R24, R29, Y06, Y11, YR14, B12, B14, B18 and BG11 

Grillmaster

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