Good morning! I have 2 cards for you today...and they are very different so scroll down to see them both!!
Both use sketches from Lauren Meader...she is having a "My Time to create" team call...and I love her sketches, so why not enter, right? Plus shes changing her weekly sketches to add on an inspiration challenge, my timeless template challenge and more...how fun! You can see the first post about her call and the sketches to pick from HERE.
First up is a card using a brand new set (to me at least) from Clear Art Stamps. I have always wanted to cave and buy some of their images and Betty is carrying them in her store so its really hard to resist when they are right in front of you!
These images are from "Fairyland"...a large size set (their sets come in 3 sizes) with tons of gorgeous whimsical images! This little beauty is colored in to match the gorgeous Zinnia paper from Little Yellow Bicycle.
Sentiment stamp and flourish used in upper right corner are from the same CAS set.
Heres a closeup lookie-loo at her so you can see all the glitter I added. She's colored with copics (then touched up with Prismacolor pencils on top to really add some gorgeous pigmentation) and then I finished her off with some sparkle using my Spica glitter pens. My favorite part of her is how pretty her silver hair turned out.
For the background circles I got to use my new Impressabilities by Spellbinders. Beautiful embossing! I used the Flowers stencil. Here's a closeup of that part:
After I ran the cs through my Cuttlebug with the Impressabilites Stencil I inked the raised part with a chalk cats eye. I tried sanding it first, but the look was really off for the card...but sanding will work great too!
On top of the ribbon I attached a prima flower with a brad. didn't have the right color so I inked it up a bit with the same cats eye pad. Here's the copics I used for this card, and the supplies are listed below.
Supplies: Stamps: Fairyland (Clear Art Stamps) Paper: Zinnia pp (Little Yellow Bicycle); color cs (Core'dinations); white cs (Neenah) Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko); Wisteria chalk cats eye (Colorbox) Accessories: Flowers Impressabilities (Spellbinders); circle templates (Coluzzle); Dog tag punch (Paper Shapers); Vintage Mix flower (Prima); white tafetta ribbon (SU!); brad (Basic Grey); scallop paper edger (EK Success); markers & Lemon, Lime, clear spica glitter pens (Copic)
My second entry is from another of Lauren's sketches. For this one I used Scuba Changito by Stampendous. I think I am developing a serious Changito addiction. He is just too stinkin' cute!
He's colored to match the brand-spankin new Lime Rickey papers from Basic Grey...LOVE them!! I stamped him once and doodled a border around the panel. Then for the small elements on the sketch I stamped the same little fishy from the big image 3 more times and punched it out. (My elements are a bit off from the sketch, but hey, I have to interpret a sketch to fit my image, or mood, right??)
Here's a closeup at Changito's fishy friends. I added a bunch of glitter with Spica pens to each of these babies too. These elements are all raised on dimensionals.
The sentiment for the card is from H & M Stamps...its been die cut with a Spellbinders tag die.
Here's the copics I used for this card:
ARe you guys visual like me? Does it help to have the photos of the markers or a list of the numbers for color combos? I kinda like when bloggers show the photo for some reason. Maybe its just that I love color, or am I just a dork??
Anywho, thats it for today before I am off to work this afternoon. (Supplies for this card are listed below) Hope to find some stamping time tonight, but I guess I really need to clean my house first. Its been sadly ignored this week.
Thanks for visiting with me today! Have agreat weekend...its going to be sunny & warm here in NC for the next few days!
-Cyndi
Supplies: (Changito card) Stamps: Scuba Changito (Stampendous); Sea Life (H&M Stamps) Paper: Lime Rickey pp (basic Grey); color cs (Core'dinations); white cs (Papertrey) Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko); Wisteria, Aquamarine cats eye (Colorbox) Accessories: 1" & 1 1/8" circle punches (EK); dbl end tag die (Spellbinders); brads (Basic Grey); ribbon (Stash); markers & Melon, Lavender, Turquoise Spica glitter pens (Copic)
