First off if you missed any of the previous Mother's Day posts you can find them all here (YouTube has changed some things around lately and people aren't seeing the latest videos in their subscription feed like they should!):
So today's card is one I made for MY mom for Mother's Day. Like I say in the video she's never online (computers really aren't her "thing") so I don't have to worry about her seeing this before I give it to her.
To see how I made this card check out the following video:
Today's card is yet another "out of the box" card for me - NO patterned paper and NO layering (well technically "no" layering - watch the video and you'll see why it ended up with ONE layer).
I was inspired by all the artwork my kids always give me - whether it's for Mother's Day or "just because":
To see how I made this card watch the following video:
So this will probably be the last of the Easter cards in this series. I do hope to get some "just Spring" cards made so this isn't the end of the series as of yet!
If you missed any of the previous posts you can find them all here:
I get a lot of requests to show "non-Copic" coloring - b/c obviously not everyone has Copics. I do have plans to do videos dedicated to other forms of coloring in stamped images - as always it's just a matter of me finding the time to do them ;).
I color with Copics 99% of the time b/c 1 - I like that method and 2 - now that I've got a perfect system (meaning I have the cardstock and stamping ink that works perfectly for me) I don't have to think about it I just stamp and color.
When you're switching around to other methods of coloring you need to find *other* "systems" (cardstock and stamping inks) that work for that method of coloring - they don't all work together. That's why I don't show other methods as often - b/c it's more work and time to fiddle with other inks and other cardstocks to find which ones work with whatever I'm using to color and that's something I don't have much of!
But yes down the road I will start doing more videos and whatnot on coloring methods as there are SO many options out there and I have a lot of it as I love to color!
Anywho all that to say that for today's card I used Prismacolors and Gamsol rather than Copics:
To see how I made this card watch the following video:
So I have to apologize for the first few minutes of the video - I mention it in the video but I had NO idea that the image was out of focus until I was done coloring it. Rather than cut it out completely I left it in and just sped it up EXTRA fast LOL.
Here's the card:
To see how I made this card watch the following video:
Did you guys have a good weekend? I spent mine playing catch-up and getting things done around the house.
I also took some time to clean up around my stamp area (something I talked about on my Facebook page as I was planning on stamping last week and got busy cleaning and organizing) and decided to take down all of my Christmas/Holiday stamps/supplies and put it all away for next year.
That way I could make room for all my lovey/Valentine themed stuff - which right now is mainly stamps - I don't have a whole lot of papers/accessories for it - but I usually can make my own with heart-shaped punches/dies etc.
And yes still planning on doing a Valentine/Love theme video series. I said that it would start around Christmas time and Christmas is only 6 days away so I better get my butt in gear!
Anywho I was going through my files and came across this card I made a couple of months ago and hadn't shared yet. I made it for someone's birthday but I was in the middle of my Halloween series at the time so I saved the pics for later then completely forgot about it (as usual).
So better late than never here it is now:
Sorry I just noticed now that the card in the picture is completely crooked! I was in a hurry the morning I took the pics as I had to put the card in with the gift before I gave it away and obviously wasn't paying attention when I was editing. oops.
I used a couple of Copics to add the shading around the image then pulled out my Label 9 dies to cut out the image.
The sentiments are from my AmyR Stamps Sassy Sentiments Rubber Stamp set. I stamped them using Brilliace Graphite Black ink onto the patterned paper then cut this one out with the smaller of the Label 9 dies.
The sentiment at the top of the card I punched out with my SU Modern Label punch (the one I ALWAYS forget the name of - in fact I just had to go look at the comments on a previous post where I used this as people always need to remind me - going off to print off a label for this punch right now!!).
*OK label was made and put on punch - check off one more thing from my *to-do list*!*
All the patterned paper is from the Echo Park Happy Days 6x6 Paper Pad. The ribbon is May Arts and the brads and Prima flowers were from my stash.
On the inside of the card I die cut a piece of white cardstock with one of the largest Label 9 dies, and added another sentiment from the Sassy Sentiments set. That one I stamped onto the patterned paper then punched out with a circle punch.
And that was it! I've got some things on the go today and hopefully I will be back with another post later on...have a great day everyone!
OK I'm hoping all the technical issues I was having yesterday were resolved so that it's not taking me twice as long to get stuff posted!
So we're onto Day #7 of my 2011 Halloween card series and I posted on my Facebook page that I'm aiming for 10 posts/videos - yes I'm crazy. But the ideas have been rolling and even though I'm exhausted (literally - I never thought it would be as much work as it has been) I have so many ideas that I can't squeeze onto just one card!
Keep checking in - I made another card and filmed another video yesterday that should go up tomorrow before I head to the city with my kids for a birthday party for one of their friends (which reminds me I need to get a gift together! AURGH! I'm getting BURIED in sticky notes here people!). If I get 10 vids done then there will be new posts Saturday, Sunday and Monday (you guys will be really sick of my voice by then I'm sure!).
I actually had a LOT of Halloween ideas last year and just never had the time to make the cards/projects. So I'm making the time now and just whipping up as much as I can.
It's insane but in a good way. I've been reading all the comments (and trying to reply to as many as possible) and am SO glad y'all are enjoying all these videos. I may be exhausted but honestly I have been having a ton of fun doing this. The ideas are flowing, the feedback is so positive and my stamp area isn't half as bad as I thought it would be *wink* (I've been making myself clean up after every project and it's amazing what a difference that makes LOL).
And yes I am hoping/planning on doing a Christmas series - prolly end of October/beginning of November (which isn't that far away - ack - not going to think about that right now!) - but no promises. Right now I'm literally taking it a day at a time LOL!
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I had a little more free time this morning and decided to make a card - and since I had the stamps and everything sitting out already I decided to make a Valentine's card.
And not only that I decided to make it a HEART-shaped card as well LOL!
I've had this Tiddly Inks Wrapped In Love stamp sitting on my desk for a couple of weeks now - I knew I wanted to use it but for whatever reason I just came up empty when thinking of ideas for it.
Then all-of-a-sudden this morning I thought why not make a little heart-shaped card and put this image on it?
So I did.
And while I was at it I filmed a quick video showing how I made the card base:
I stamped the Wrapped In Love image onto Bella's bestest cardstock - I originally meant to color her in with my Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol but then changed my mind and colored her with Copics.
The patterned paper is some Heidi Swapp papers I've had for years - I could see them sitting in the container on my table and decided to pull them out and use them!
The 'love' is from my All About Love sentiment set - I stamped it onto the patterned paper with pigment ink and embossed it with white detail embossing powder to make it stand out before punching it out with my SU! Key Tag punch.
The heart brads were from my stash - the smaller ones I know are Making Memories but I can't for the life of me remember the brand of the larger ones.
On the inside of the card I die-cut another heart from white cardstock, then stamped the Wrapped in Love image onto it with pink ink.
I die cut another scalloped heart (same as the front) from the Heidi Swapp patterned paper and matted the white cardstock with it before adhering it to the inside of the card.
I stamped and embossed another sentiment from my All About Love set, punched it out and adhered it and that was it!
And as the story of my life goes: This has to be a quick post as I gotta run off to work right away!
I saw this sketch on the Stamping Bella blog a day or two ago and thought I'd play along this week:
I ended up flipping it and making it a landscape layout instead:
I already had the sketch in mind, and I wanted to use this sentiment so it was just a matter of finding an image to go with it LOL!
Which wasn't too hard since I own nearly all the Bella images (several years of collecting took care of that) - so I flipped through them and found my shopabellas image which was of course perfect.
Since it was an "old-school" image (one of the originals way back when SB was a new company) I went old school with my coloring and used my Prismacolors and Gamsol to color it in (that and b/c the image is so small it'd be too hard to color with Copics).
And of course I couldn't resist paper piecing their shopping bags and glamming them out with a bit of stickles.
The patterned paper is from My Mind's Eye - picked that stuff up MONTHS ago at my local scrapbook store.
I kept the inside simple - just a piece of scalloped patterned paper (which came like that - I used it on the card front too) and another sentiment from the Sassy Sentiments set and that was it.
On the inside of the card I used more patterned paper, and die cut another circle that I stamped the dogwalkabella image onto with mustard ink and that was it!
OK I have to run off to work in a bit (FYI this is my "crazy week" - I have a LOT going on so I have no idea if I'll be able to do regular posts - sometimes I can and other times I'm just too tired! We'll see what happens...) but wanted to get this up as I filmed it early last week.
And don't worry - I plan on doing more "stamping" videos - coloring with Copics/techniques/etc etc. I've just been SO busy and generally when I actually get the time to stamp it's later on in the day and the lighting is too dark for a video. I had actually filmed a couple of stamping videos and when I checked them out after uploading to my computer the lighting was so awful they were useless :o( BUT I will try and figure something out! If there's any tutorials/techniques/whatever you want to see leave a comment - I'm always open to ideas!
This is one of my favorites from the Halloween cards I've made so far.
The trickortreatabella image is another one that I had stamped and colored in last year.
I used my Koh-i-noor colored pencils and OMS to color her in and even added a little fishnet detailing with a brown pencil - did that turn out fab or what?
And then of course I had to add some Orange Peel Stickles to her outfit and her little treat bucket.
The 'Halloween Wishes' sentiment is from the Spooky Sentiments set. I stamped it onto orange cardstock then cut it out with the Labels 9 die.
All of the patterned paper is from the Basic Grey Eerie collection. I still have so much of it left I think I'll be using it for next Halloween's creations too!
I even used some of my orange velvet ric rac on the card. It is SO soft and I don't use it too often for some reason but I thought it was perfect for this card!
Finally to finish off the inside of the card I used more BG Eerie patterned papers.
I stamped trickortreatabella onto white cardstock with orange ink, die cut it and matted it then stamped the 'Happy Halloween' sentiment from Spooky Sentiments onto a strip of orange cardstock, adhered it into place and that was it!
Is it sad that I bought a bag of candy corn JUST so I could use it in my pics of my Halloween cards??
LOL
I honestly don't even really LIKE candy corn - I can have one piece and that's it (one of the rare types of candy I can keep around without eating it LOL!!). It's just too sweet. I love the look of it tho.
Plus keeping it in my little stamping studio and away from my kids is a good thing. THEY don't think it's too sweet (in fact they each had several when I first brought the bag home) so I try and limit their intake b/c otherwise they get a total sugar-high *wink*
Anywho:
This witchybella image is another one I colored last year (one of the nice things about Halloween - the colors stay the same and I don't have to worry about trying to match papers or anything later on - so even after a year the coloring I did is still good!) with my Koh-i-noor colored pencils and OMS.
I used one of my petite oval nesties to cut the image out then left the die in place and sponged a little lime green chalk ink around the edges.
And of course I had to bling it up a bit with some stickles :o)
mmmmmmm Candy Corn......LOL
All the patterned paper is from Basic Grey's Eerie collection (again got that last year). I LOVE LOVE LOVE these papers for Halloween! I didn't even know I still had them 'till I pulled out my stash of H'ween papers and embellishments that I've had sitting since last year and came across this collection. Needless to say I've been having fun with it!
The ribbon is May Arts and the black spiderwebs were done with the Martha Stewart punch I got not too long ago (which FYI you have to set on a table and put your weight into it when punching it to get it to punch through heavier-weight cardstock (which is what I used here) - but it works!!). I don't know WHY I didn't order the large spider punch at the same time - kicking myself for that now!! :o(
On the inside of the card I added more patterned paper, die cut some ovals and scalloped ovals then added another sentiment from the Autumn Sentiments set and that was it!
For once in a LONGGGGGG time I actually have *several* pics saved on my computer of cards I've made recently to share on here.
Now my only issue is finding the time to post them ROFLOL!!
I'm at work (as usual) and between clients for the moment so let's see how quickly I can type this up! (obviously not fast enough! I'm at home now after a LONG day and finally finishing this post off)
This card belongs with my "set" of Bella cards that I made with the Basic Grey Max & Whiskers collection. You can click on the pics to be taken to each post with the others cards I've made and posted so far:
This is the parisbella image from Stamping Bella (one of the first bellas I ever got - like 4 or 5 years ago? It's been forever...). I stamped her onto CCD CQ80lb cardstock and colored her in with my Copics.
I added some polka dots with my white gel pen to liven it up a bit.
The sentiment is from my All Women sentiments set. I stamped the 'Friend' onto a piece of sand cardstock, left a bit of a space then stamped the 'Happy Birthday' (from the same set). The little paw strip was just cut from one of the scraps of patterned paper I had sitting on my desk while I was making the card.
I used one of the BG M&W stitched brads to attach the prima flower - it's got itty bitty rhinestones in it!!
I used some buttons and a ribbon doily from the collection to dress up the card front then moved on to finish the inside.
I cut some white cardstock with my labels 5 die (which I also used on the front of the card) that I stamped the parisbella imago onto with mustard ink. I used the scraps of patterned paper left over from the card front and added a bit more of the ribbon doily and that was it!
