September Sketch For You To Try

I love that Jen posts the SFYTT on Facebook on the Friday night before it goes live on her blog.  I got my Saturated Canary digi images that I won in last weeks FBW challenge.  I spent about 2 hours (and several bazillion Copic markers) coloring this beauty called A Washi Tape Kinda Girl.

And as it turns out this one fits in the Saturated Canary weekly challenge - Dotty this week...the whole right half of the card is dotty !!  :)

I {heart} washi tape especially since I learned to make my own during this year's Stamp-a-faire online event. I used up the last of my home made washi on this card.

Here are the Copic deets:
Hair: YR21, Y26, Y21
Skin: E13, E11, E00, E000, E0000, BV20, R83
Eyes: B97, B95, B91
Shirt: B18, B45, B41, R89, R85, R81
Shoes: R59, R27, R24
Pants: E47, 442, E41, E09, E09, YR65
Shadow: T4, T1

By the time I got to coloring the tape I was pretty wiped so I did not write down the colors.  Y, G, R, and BG but I couldn't tell you the numbers if my life depended on it.  Sorry 'bout that

I {heart} how she turned out.  Our last Copic Basic coloring class lesson was Light Sources and it really helped make her look better I think.  And I {puffy heart} the sentiment ... I've never owned "real" washi tape, but I bet I could love it as much or more than my home made kind!

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Sketch Saturday Camp Card

I'm behind in blogging.  I've had this card done for a day or two, but haven't had time to snap pix and post.  So here we go on the second post of the day

I am having a stamp camp with my best stamping buddy Tara this weekend.  This is one of the cards that will be made.

I used the Sketch Saturday layout (hence the post title) and played with Copics and colorless blender solution to create a gloomy but rainbow brite thank you card

I used the sun ray and retro circles embossing folders from Tim Holtz to add texture to the base. I was going for a sun bursting out from the clouds on a rainy day effect.  I colored the center piece with BG72, BG75 and BG 78 then dribbled colorless blending solution on them to create the bubbled pattern.  This was for a  rain drops-clouds-bubbles-amoebas swarming a light source kind of  look.

To brighten things up I stamped the sentiment form Thanks All Ways and then colored the letters in rainbow colors (not sure if I got them in the right order because my baby girl (who is going on 20) wasn't here to sing me the rainbow song :) )

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CPS and FBW Remix

I'm so excited for some of these new challenges I've found on line - there are no company requirements so I can use what I have / what I want and just follow along with the theme (or layout)

This week I combined the CPS layout with the FBW theme which was to decorate the inside.

Here's my card:

 I started by Coloring the Brella Fairy (from SoG)  I used a new feathering technique I learned to color the dress.  I really like the  way it turned out.

Copic deets to follow:
YG17, 13, 11 (leaf)
V91, 95, 99 (eyes)
BV13, 08, 29 (hair)
R29 (hair tie)
E11, 13, 00, BV20, R81 (skin)
BG11, 13, YG11, 13, Y11 (dress)

To make the plaid I used BB:Retro striped image and stamped repeatedly in Lucky Limeade, Wisteria Wonder and Concorde Crush (all SU!)

Inside I stamped a sentiment form Thanks All Ways (PTI) in Concorde Crush and added the plaid pattern in Wisteria Wonder and Lucky Limeade.  I added the strips of Concorde Crush and Lucky Limeade to give a good separation between the writing area of the card and the decorated part (and to hide the little bit of a biff I made on the top row of the plaid .... creativity at work :) )

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OWH Wedding

This week's OWH Sunday Sketch was perfect for a wedding card I had to make.  The theme is rustic vintage I believe (or rustic elegance one or the other)  Anyway, I helped the bride to be design the invites  - really just supplied some ideas and she took off running.  The invites are gorgeous and I wanted to make a card for the wedding in a similar vein

 I used the same basic colors of the invite (Early Espresso and Fine Linen) as well as the same texture / impression plates (Distressed and Wood Grain).  I dyed some white satin ribbon with Early Espresso re-inker to get the custom ribbon and used linen thread and a vintage wood button to finish off the look.

The sentiments are from Big & Bold Wishes

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FBW - Friends

This week's Flutter By Wednesday challenge was to create a friendship themed card.  Since I did a fairy last week I thought I'd change it up a little and use butterflies

Here's my card:

I used the OWH Sunday Sketch as the layout.  I used my new Autumn Hills set for the focal layer and colored it up in multiple colored autumn hues.  The trees I made a little whimsical and colored the leaves shades of red, pink, orange gold and green.

Colors are Crumb cake, Primrose Petals, Raspberry Swirl and a hint of Midnight Muse (all SU!).  The butterflies are from Beautiful Butterflies (PTI) and the sentiment is from Friends til the End (also PTI)

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More Off To College Cards

Here are some more Off To College cards for my daughter and her friends  I used the same basic layout on all of these and the images I colored here.

This first one is for my Colie.  She loves animals (dogs especially).  I used a Soft Suede card base to keep with the neutral brown theme of the card.  I stamped the card base with BB:Houndstooth and the middle Crumb Cake strip with Grunge Me (both PTI)  Colors on the grunged layer are Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Early Espresso (all SU!) and True Black (PTI)

Since I used a little scarlet jewel on the skull barrettes, I pulled that into the sentiment, which I made as a tab. I edged it with Black Copic 100 and stapled it on the focal layer.

This next one is for Colie's very best friend T who is a Japanese major  Colors are Pool Party, Island Indigo  and Poppy Parade (SU!)

The Kanji stamp is an old SU! set that I keep going back to for the girls since they are all so into Japanese culture.  I thought the Wisdom stamp was appropriate for an Off To College card :)

And lastly this one for Britty, another of Colie's very best friends who has been around since elementary school.  When I colored this image (Poppy from TI) I intentionally colored it Alice In Wonderland-ish because the girls also all LOVE Tim Burton.

  I wanted a whimsical background so I played around with my Copics (B99, B97, B95) and scribbled on some Xpress it blending card.  When I had good coverage I dribbled colorless blending solution on it - being careful not to flood the paper (yes this is my second attempt as I did flood the first one.  It still looked cool, but didn't have the distinct circles on it)

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Off To College

Last year as my daughter and her friends went off to their first year at college I decided to send them cards every few months just so they got mail (and so I had something to do with all the cards I made :).  This year as they head off to their second year, I plan on doing the same thing.  They are all rather different and so I get to create lots of different styles.  I am going to use the images I colored here to make the first round

Here is the first one I finished for The Pink One herself, Miss Katie-bird

I used this week's Saturday Sketch #221 as the layout.  It was just perfect for the card that was forming in my mind and  added a few details I hadn't pictured yet. I LOVE how this one turned out!!!

I used the striped image from  BB:Retrro (PTI) to create the plaid.  I only stamped up to the point where the other layers started for times sake, but you can't tell with the bitty bit of overlap.  The next pattern is BB:Houndstooth also from PTI.  I stamped that in True Black (PTI) on Melon Mambo card stock (SU!) and sponged the edges in black to offset it a little.  The sentiment is from Mega Mixed Messages (PTI) and the 2 little embellies next to the sentiment are hot pink staples.

The girl is Poppy, one of my new digis from TI.

Here is the Copic map:
Flowers: R24, R27, R29
Leaf/stem: YG23, YG25, YG95
Clothes: T1, T4, T6
Hair: RV10, RV13, RV14
Skin: E000, E00, E11, R81

Interesting how I made this for Katie before I saw her all pinked out for the Susan G Komen 3 day Walk For The Cure .... her hair looked pretty close to this for the fund raiser  ;)

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