OLW 64: Color It and Less is More 33

This week's OLW challenge by Susan is to COLOR IT! Stamp an outline image and color it with your choice of color medium. I chose this image from Stamps by Judith and colored it using various Copics. My paper of choice for a Copic colored one-layer card is Gina K's heavy weight card stock . . . wonderful stuff!! 

I'm also entering this card in the Less is More Challenge #33, Anything CAS Goes! Chrissie and Mandi have a goal to reach 1000 cards by the end of this week. Go, go, go!!!

Thank you for the visit today. Comments always welcome *wink*

Hugs,
Colleen

Happy Birthday, Emily!!

This post is a day late, but that's okay because Emily celebrates her birthday for at least a week =)

A simple card using an Inkadinkado dolphin from one of their mini sets, a sentiment from Hero Arts and the wave border punch from Fiskars. I colored the dolphin with Copics and raised part of the waves and the dolphin with pop dots. Added some Crystal Effects on the splash for more texture and dimension, and rounded the corners because I wanted to =D

Thank you for stopping by today. Hopefully, my posts will get more regular again.

Hugs,
Colleen

Some Birdie's Thinking of You

It's late. My team just lost. And for the life of me I cannot remember which clear stamp set I used on this card. I think my brain is turning to mush. I want to say it's Impression Obsession . . .

One item of note: The ribbon is seam binding dyed to match with a Copic . . . B05. (Now that I remember - go figure.) Ok, so my memory loss appears to be selective. I may never buy ribbon again (yeh, right). But I'll no longer spend as long looking for matching ribbon as I do making the card. And a great tip shared with me by my friend Carol is to use the Tim Holtz craft sheet under the seam binding during the dyeing process and then the precious Copic ink isn't absorbed and can even be worked into the seam binding . . . no wasted ink! Awesome tip, Carol!

That's it for me! I appreciate your visit today, and I hope you have a wonderful Sunday.

Hugs,

Colleen

OLW46

I'm so happy I found some time to just play today! Susan's challenge this week "to use an egg or eggs on your one-layer card" got my mojo pumping. I pulled out this little used stamp from Magenta and colored it with Copics. Do you notice anything different in my coloring? I've been reading Marianne Walker's book "Shadows & Shading" and one of the things I've taken away from it is that there should be more contrast between the lightest and darkest areas of your image. So I tried to use a little more of the darkest and lightest

colors. I can see a difference, but I'm not sure the pictures pick it up. I added a little bling with my Spica clear glitter pen, and some "grass" with a few flicks of a Copic. I wish now I had masked the eggs and used a grass stamp, but oh well.

Thanks for the visit today.

Hugs,

Colleen 

Congrats to the New Grandparents!

My sister and her husband became grandparents for the first time Thursday afternoon, and this is the card I made for the wonderful occasion.

This awesome stamp is from Impression Obsession, and I colored it with Copic markers.

Thanks for the visit today. The weather this weekend in Louisville is wonderful for November, and I plan to take full advantage. Have a good 'un! 

Hugs,

Colleen

OLW21 Inspired By Nature

Another fabulous challenge by Susan this week. I'm a little late to the party because I was out of town and am still rushing to get caught up.

This butterfly stamp from Inkadinkado jumped off the shelf and insisted on coming home with me on a recent shopping trip. For someone who is not particularly crazy for butterfly stamps, I certainly have amassed quite a collection.

The coloring (Copics) is not my best. The prototype actually looks better. This one needs more blending, but it was either use this or skip the challenge. My husband expects dinner when he comes home from work. LOL

Thank you for the visit. I hope to spend lots of time in my stamp room in the next few days. I absolutely go through withdrawal after being away from it so long.

Hugs,

Colleen

FOUR Posts In One Week and the "Followers" Widget Added

I'm so on the ball this week . . . four card posts, and I added the "Followers" widget to my sidebar. I'm starting to feel like a real blogger. Any day now someone will share the secret handshake with me lol 

I may have mentioned before that I have a few birthdays and anniversaries in September, so today's card is for an upcoming birthday. I colored this Kim Hughes owl with Copics and then took the white crayon still laying on my desk from the crayon resist technique used below to soften some of the browns a bit. I like the result. You just can't go back to the Copics after adding colored pencils or crayons or it will ruin the nib of the Copic. I used pop dots to layer the party hat and an additional layer for the pom pom. IRL it's very dimensional. The branch is a piece of a limb from a Spellbinders die.

As for the "Followers" widget . . .  I'm not exactly sure how it works, but apparently some people use is to keep track of blogs they visit regularly. Anyway, I'm on board, so come along. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs,
Colleen

It's All About the Presents

Happy Labor Day to my US blog readers! I hope you have a wonderful day with more fun than "labor".

The card I'm sharing today uses a stamp I purchased at Stampaway in August from Stacy's Stamps. It is unmounted and, I don't know about you, but I tend to forget about my unmounted rubber when looking for inspiration, so I decided to ink this up before putting it away. I colored it with Copics and added a coordinating loop of satin ribbon. The sentiment is from Morning Star and is also a new Stampaway acquisition.

Thank you for stopping by.

Hugs,
Colleen