Sunshine Flowers

 

For once I was able to complete a card quickly and efficiently...to which I promptly celebrated by having a glass of wine and watching an episode of "Bones".  Finishing a card under a couple of hours for a class doesn't happen often...so I was pretty happy!  Usually I pull my hair out for an excessive amount of time and say "woe as me" too often! 

The flowers have a yellow that shows up great!....but the soft "heath" color doesn't come through except as a shadow to the yellow in the photo.  

The wonderful thing about copic markers is their ability to hit you in the face with color!  Sometimes...the simpler the better!

 

I've learned a lot about finishing the insides of my cards by seeing what other people do in their blogs!  I think I should add some of my favorite blogs to mine so that hopefully you will see what I mean.  I am so grateful to be able to learn at home from other people's sharing so that I can "apply and try" myself!

If you would like to take this class you can sign up at "Destination Marysville" Marysville, MI
(810)388-0500.  There are two cards included in the class. $18

Dates:

Monday Feb.14th 5:30pm
Wenesday Feb.16th 12pm

SUPPLIES:
Stamps:
Penny Black / 3868J / "Portraits" / Wood Mounted
PennyBlack / 3865K / "Gossamer" / Wood Mounted

Copic Markers:

YG63 Pea Green
YG03 Yellow Green
Y21 Buttercup Yellow
V01 Heath
0 Colorless Blender (for erasing mistakes!)
C1 Cool Gray No.1 (for outlining the images in shadow)

Cardstock:

Copic's Blending Paper
Bazzill Fourz/ Bouquet / 6-665
Bazzill Prismatics / Sunflowers Light / 19-4007

Other:

Crystal Glitter Glue (or any glitter glue that is clear and sparkles!)
May Arts Ribbon / NE30 / ButterCream Sheer 3/4"

Copic Flower Overload!

 I need to start coloring something other than flowers!  What else is there to color that has simple lines and open spaces??  It's time for me to start looking.  Pictures of kids on skateboards and teddy bears don't count!  It's time to expand my horizons!  I'm going to look at Whippersnapper Stamps after this!  Maybe Outline Stamps and Magenta too!  I'm excited!

The tinier 3D flowers on the front of the card are the same stamps done with Shrinky Dink.  (What a Name!...who thought of it?  No-one's going to forget what it's called - that's for sure!) I haven't used it for quite a while and I just had to do something else ya' know?  The shrink plastic is problematical because you can't really stamp with Staz-On since the copic marker will react badly with it.  But if you stamp in a dye based ink...it won't dry until it's melted.  Coloring on the back of it doesn't cut it either.  I settled for sanding, stamping in dye, drying just enough not to shrink, cutting without sticking my hand in it, shrinking it, and then adding the copic marker coloring when it's fully shrunk. Whew!

I didn't realize I had stamped the inside of the card as though I would be putting it in a card that was longer height wise than width wise.  Nice change though!  I think I'll leave it!

If you would like to take this class you can sign up at "Destination Marysville" Marysville, MI
(810)388-0500.  There are two cards included in the class. $18

Dates:

Monday Feb.14th 5:30pm
Wenesday Feb.16th 12pm

SUPPLIES:
Stamps:
Penny Black / 3868J / "Portraits" / Wood Mounted

Copic Markers:

YG63 Pea Green
YG03 Yellow Green
Y21 Buttercup Yellow
V01 Heath
V15 Mallow
V17 Amethyst
 0 Colorless Blender (for erasing mistakes!)
C1 Cool Gray No.1 (for outlining the images in shadow)

Cardstock:

Copic's Blending Paper
Bazzill Fourz/ Bouquet / 6-665

Other:

Black Glaze Sakura Pen (for the pistils of the flowers)
Crystal Glitter Glue (or any glitter glue that is clear and sparkles!)
Liquid Pearls / Petal Pink (for the inside of the shrinky dinked flowers)
May Arts Ribbon / NE30 / ButterCream Sheer 3/4"

Colorful Flowersoft Weeds!

So I was hanging out with a group of really sweet and talented ladies who book a class with me once a month to make cards together.  One of them requested that we use "flowersoft" as the techinique they would like to explore. At first I wiggled my nose a bit and wondered what one does with flowersoft beyond the obvious?  On the other hand...if you don't want to paint or color...you might want to dump some of this on top of some glue and make a card very quickly while looking like a genius.  I like to look as much like a genius as I can (chuckling deprecatingly!) and so I was happy to discover that a very pretty card emerged from the fluff!

 

Since the card was very quick to make (only after I designed 5 that didn't work!) I decided to finish the inside with flowersoft as well.  Why not??!!  It matched and didn't take much effort!  Yay!

 Here's a look at what was outside my door this morning!  The church is always there... that's not what was different about the picture.  This amount of snow is not the usual...It's reminding me very much of Manitoba, Canada where I spent some of my childhood.  Feels almost as cold too!  (not really...Manitoba is colder!!)

I'm so behind on making cards for classes that I'm going to forgo the usual list of supplies as I might need that 20 minutes to do something!  (I'm not sure it will help!)  Cross your fingers!