Rejoice

We are having a solar day here in South Carolina and I am enjoying the warm sunshine.  So I decided to hang out in my stamp room and create an Easter card (taking breaks to go outside and warm in the sun).  I was at the Michaels store last night after dinner with friends and found this stamp set by Inkadinkado..40% off and one that I didn't have but now I do.  Here is my creations...I hope you like it. Please leave me a comment or just say hi.  Love to hear from my cyber friends!

Rejoice front

Rejoice

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

         Distress Ink Walnut Stain

Paper:  Graphic 45 Renaixxance Faire #4500107

Stamp Set:  Inkadinkado Spiritual Sketches 99548

Spellbinders:  Labels 13 S4248

Punch:  Corner Rounder

             Martha Stewart Scroll Lace 42-40065

Stickles:  Yellow

                Tea Dye (cross)

Embossing Powder Black Fine

Copic Markers:

            B21, B23, B24

            BG0000

            YG01

            Y38

            E11, E13, E15

            V04

Rainy Day

Today I decided to make a card....no surprise you say? Well if you knew everything I should of been doing you would of said, "Are you crazy?"  Yep..guess I am.  One of the things I try to do here is to challenge myself in doing cards that look different.  I sure hope I do that.  I don't want my blogger guests to be bored and I hope I surprise you every once in awhile. So here is another one....Let me know what you think.

I cut this card base 4-1/4" x 11" on a sherbet Bazzil cardstock and folded it to make a tent fold card.  I edged the front using my Ink Applicator and  Distress Ink Stormy Sky.  The image is from Graphic 45 ABC Primer collection "Happy Go Lucky" #4500388.  I trimmed it out and distressed the edge with Walnut Stain and my ink applicator. Then it was attached it to a piece of dark green cardstock and trimmed the green leaving about 1/16" border. The brown crinkled background was created using Tim Holtz' Kraft Glassine paper.  I spritzed it with water, crinkled it up and then opened it up flat and using a craft iron to dry it.  Don't try using double sided tape to attach this glassine paper.  It won't work. I used Crafter's pick glue to attach it to the card base.  Oh, the floral embellishment was colored with my Copic markers so it would coordinate with the image.  Y38, G29 and W9.  Also I used glossy accents to create rain drops on the umbrella.  Thanks for looking! Any questions leave me a comment and I will reply.

Close up of Rainy Day

Showing markers, distress ink and crinkled Glassine paper

Supplies:
Graphic 45 ABC Primer collection "Happy Go Lucky" #4500388
Distress Ink, Walnut Stain, Stormy Sky
Tim Holtz idea-ology Kraft Glassine papers #TH92916
Recollections Floral Embellishments 191319
Copic Markers:  Y38, G29, W9

Tim's 12 days of Christmas Tag 1

Today I was at a new scrapbook store in Greenville, SC called The Whimsy and it is located on Woodruff Road.  We started doing Tim Holt'z 12 tags of Christmas 2011 and today was tag #1 so I thought I would share that with you.  You can find all these tags on Tim's website www.timholtz.typepad.com  We are meeting there on the 2nd Saturday of each month. Hope you can join us. If you are able you should check this new store out.  Carol used to work at Archivers in Atlanta and she is very talented. You should go by and see her work. She loves doing mini books and altered art and of course anything Tim Holtz.  She is offering classes.

The Whimsy 1624 Woodruff Rd Suite 4, Greenville, SC 29607
Hours	Tue: 12:00 pm - 7:00 pm Wed: 9:00 am - 7:00 pm Thu: 12:00 pm - 7:00 pm Fri: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Sat: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Sun: 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Here is my attempt at Tim's tag # 1

Art Impressions Chocolate Shoppe

Good evening blogger friends! The Chocolate Shoppe card is finally finished.  This stamp set has an outside/inside stamps so I had to figure out how I was going to engineer this card.  After a couple of failures I finally decided on this keeper.  I used the Swing card which makes it easy to see both the outside and inside. I hope the scans I made will show this card.
This is got to be a record for the number of Copic markers I used for a single card but because of the stamps used, I felt that many was required to get the shading I like. You can reduce the number of markers by using 2 colors instead of 3 for shading. Just make sure that you choose the markers that give you a greater contrast for blending. Also, remember that Copic markers are translucent and you can layer to get a darker shade.  I hope I haven't made this too confusing.  Any questions, pro or con, please leave comments.  I am no expert by any means....Thanks for looking.

Folded front

Opened panels showing inside card

Reverse of inside

Swing Card Pattern

Zentangle flower

Had a wonderful time at our card workshop at the church today.  With the holidays behind us many stampers that we haven't seen for awhile were able to come.  We didn't meet during December so it was so good to be back together again. I had this last Loralie stamp that I hadn't used yet so it was what I took to work on.  I picked colors that I don't normally use.  I used those blues and greens to pick out the papers for this card. The panel of stripped paper was set off using my Scor-pal.  The four smaller petals were popped up with glue dots.
I created consistency by picking papers that had dots and stripes. I also picked a "hello" stamp that had a flourish font to go with the bling.

Zentangle flower

Stamp:  Loralie Art Stamps “First Flower 701073

             Inkadinkado “Hello” 97221MM

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

         Distress Ink Broken China

Copic Markers;

BG01, BG05, BG09, G00, G05, G09, E95, E97, E99

Thinking of You

It is going on midnight here and I just finished another card sample for the card workshop tomorrow at Powdersville Community Church.  I just love love love the Penny Black Slapstick stamps and I hope you do too.  I also used a new Spellbinder die that I got last month.  This would be a good stamp for Valentines Day.
Let me know what you think and leave me a comment.

Thinking of You

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

         Tim Holtz Distress Ink Walnut Stain

Stamp:  Penny Black Slapstick PB40025

Spellbinder “Fleur De Lis Rectangles

Copic Markers:

Skin-E0000, E01, R11, R02, B02

Hair-Y11, Y21, 23

Teapot & Tulips-Y23, Y26, Y28; R21, R22, R24; YG61, YG67

Dress-R20, R22, R24

Table-E31, E34, E37

What in the World have you been up to?

This is a card I did last night.  I used two new stamps from Impression Obesession.  My goal this year is to use my stamps, to at least make samples for each one.  When I saw this chicken on the IO website I had to have it...but had no clue how or what I would do with it.  I used the internet and did a search on colors of chickens and got more than I wanted.  When I saw a picture of the Orpington chicken I liked the colors.

Anyhow, I wanted you to know what inspired me and how I got the colors for this card.  I wanted to add a little humor to my blog.  Hope you like this card...sure made me chuckle!  Or should I say "cluckle"!!

 Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
         Memento Rich Cocoa
Stamps:  Impression Obsession Chicken #3, E7596
              Impressions Obsession Wheat #1, E2042
              River City Rubber Works "What in the World" 1729-D
              Art Impressions Teeny Tiny Grass AAA-1374
              Art Impressions Grass clump AA-1378
Punch:  Martha Stewart Ribbon Loop, PAP, 42-60053
Copic Markers:
              Chicken:  E41, E43,
                             YR18, R14, R17
              Outline/Shadow:  W0
Marvy Markers;
               No.15 Olive Green
               No. 40 Brownish grey

Lovely Butterflies in the garden

Here goes...one more before the year's end.  Another one from Loralie Art Stamps.  This time I paired it with a new Spellbinder's die that I got from Flowers to Flourishes ...on line.  If you don't get an email from them you are missing out on some great deals. www.flowerstoflourishes.com  They offer one item a day usually at 40% off so even with shipping it's a great buy. Again, I have had no problems with this site and I have been able to get some of my favorite things, from Spellbinders to Tim Holtz products.

Stamps:  Loralie Art Stamps "Lovely Butterflies" 701081
              Inkadinkado "In the Garden" 93327K
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Die:  Spellbinders "Lattice Rectangles"
Scrapbook paper unidentified from my scrap
Copic Markers: R81, R83, R85, G20, G24

Sunbonnet Sue

The year 2011 is quickly coming to a close and I have one more card to share with you.  This is another Loralie Art Stamp from Loralie Designs.  I purchase these directly from  www.loraliedesigns.com/art-stamps/.

and I have placed several orders with this company and got great service.  

Card Front

Inside w/gate fold

Supplies:
Stamps:  Loralie Art Stamps "Sunbonnet Sue" 701039
              Hero Arts "Sunshine and Flowers"  E4147
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Copic Markers:
E0000, E00, E02  (skin)
E31, E35, E37 (bonnet & basket)
R81, R83, R85 (flowers/dress)
V15, V17 (bows)
C2, C6 (shoes)
C0 (shadow on dress)
Y17 (flower center)
G20, G24 (leaves)

Scrapbook paper from my stash
Cameo hat pin
Gems

Hope you liked my card. Any questions or comments are always appreciated.
Happy New Year!

New Copic colors for 2012

 New Colors! December 27, 2011

This was announced on facebook today!

G43 Pistachio, G46 Mistletoe, BG57 Jasper, BG90 Gray Sky, E84 Khaki, E89 Pecan,
BV34 Bluebell, V22 Ash Lavender, V28 Eggplant, RV52 Cotton Candy, R56 Currant, YR27 Tuscan Orange

In February 2012 these carefully chosen colors will be available in the Sketch Marker style, as well asVarious Ink, bringing us to 358 total Copic colors