Bloomin' Beautiful

Good morning! OMG, I am loving these Copic markers!! These things are so fun to color with! I love to color, but a lot of the other methods are just frustrating. I love watercoloring, but I'm not very good at it. Now I just need more stamps that are better for coloring. I've been kind of avoiding them.

I've been reading everything I can find about Copics and watching every video I could find on Youtube. Wow! Have y'all seen the videos by amyreederhadley? She is amazing with these things! You can check out her Copic videos HERE and HERE. She says that she colors on color copy paper. I'm not exactly sure what that is...is that regular printer paper, or something more like Georgia Pacific? Anyway, I started off using PTI, but I got to thinking that PTI cardstock is taking a LOT more ink to color, since the paper is supposed to be saturated and that paper is thick! So I tried GP, and it works great! It actually seems slightly easier to blend, and it's faster to color. I don't know about you, but I am NOT looking forward to they day that I have to fork out a ton of money for refills, lol. so I'm trying to put that off for as long as possible .

Anyway, onto the card . I got this image in WishRak's on SCS. Erin sent me some images a while back, and I loved them so much, I wished for some more in WishRaks. I really need to buy this stamp set, lol. I'm not sure what kind of paper was used. It's not anything I'm familiar with, but Copics work great on it. It's pretty thin, and the color wants to go out of the lines, but as long as you stay away from the edges, it works great! I didn't realize that at first though, so I had to cut this out . I put mini glue dots under it. I just tore some of them in half and stretched them out so they'd fit on the stem.

-Stamps-Bloomin' Beautiful, A Beautiful Thing
-Paper-Riding Hood Red, Kraft, So Saffron, Basic Black and White cardstock; So Saffron prints DSP
-Ink-Black
-Accessories-Paper Piercer, Mat Pack, Black brads, Offray ribbon, mini glue dots, Copic markers.

BTW, Hobby Lobby has their Copic markers 30% off this week (pretty sure they only carry sketch though).

Stamp Something Challenge 9

Happy Friday! It's time for another wonderful Stamp Something challenge! This weeks theme is "Something to dazzle us with"....so bring on the BLING!!

I had a really hard time getting the sparkle to show up in the picture. I put stickles in the middle of each flower, and also in each of the holes that are punched in the scalloped edge. You should be able to see a little better if you click on it though. If anyone has any tips I'd love to hear them. I even tried taking pictures outside hoping the sun would help.
-Stamps-Bloomin' Beautiful
-Paper-Soft Sky, close to Cocoa, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla and Creamy Carmel cardstock; Soft Sky prints DSP
-Ink-Soft Sky and Old Olive
-Accessories-Blender pen, SAB rub-ons, Chocolate Chip twill, Stickles, clear rhinestone brads, corner rounder punch and hole punch.

Don't forget to head on over to Stamp Something to see everyone else's dazzling cards =).

Pocket card

So I was just playing around last night, and this what i came up with. The pocket measures 3 X 5. It was so easy!
-Stamps-Bloomin' Beautiful, Boho Backgrounds and It's All Good, It's your Birthday
-Paper-Soft Sky, So Saffron, Close to Cocoa and Very Vanilla; Rose Red Prints DSP
-Ink-Purely Pomegranate, Certainly Celery and So Saffron
-Accessories-Blender pen, Styled Silver HPH, Corner rounder punch, hole punch. 1 3/8" & 1 1/4" Circle punches, Scallop punch and Saffron grosgrain.

Bloomin' Beautiful

Wow! This set is so fun! I mentioned it a previous post that Erin sent me some images. Thanks again Erin! My favorite sets always seem to be the ones I hated when I first saw them. Fabulous Flowers, Always and now this one =). I've gotta get this set if it makes it to one of the big catalogs. The bee and half of the HPH are popped up with Stampin' dimensionals.

-Stamps-Bloomin' Beautiful
-Paper-Groovy Guava, Really Rust, Chocolate Chip and Very Vanilla cardstock; Fall Flowers DSP
-Ink-Groovy Guava, Really Rust, and I'm guessing brown staz-on.
-Accessories-Paper Piercer, Stampin' dimensionals, Mat Pack, Chocolate Chip twill, SAB rub-ons, Styled Silver HPH and Pewter HPH.

I redid my blog banner and colors Sunday. What do you think? I think I might have to redo the banner though. There are some white streaks through some of the flowers. Not quite sure how I did that, lol. The side bars are a little darker than they should be too. This time I went with Purely Pomegranate, Groovy Guava and Wild Wasabi.