Mojo Monday...on a Sunday!

I decided to play around with the Mojo Monday 148 sketch this week.
It was a little hard to fit everything in. I mirrored it so my sentiment worked the way I wanted...otherwise pretty straight forward.


Sorry the colors are so cool, it was shot outside, but I can't seem to get the right balance of shades.

Here's the starting sketch, in case you haven't seen it...



I've had this CC Designs Swiss Pixie Heidi colored for awhile now, waiting to be used. The colors here are much truer to the "real life card".


Colored with my Copics,
Hair: E08, E09, E35
Skirt: V12, V15, V17
Boots: RV21, RV23

It was designed as a birthday card, so I'm also entering it for caardvarks "My Favorite Things"/July challenge.

Thanks for looking!

Starting to organize (again)!

I've been itching to do some more stamping and playing with my Copics...but first needed to do some prep work and organizing. I got the cutest set of red rubber stamps from CC Designs. I just needed to trim them all so they can be stored more easily.


First, I dug out some old CD cases. I traded out with newer slim cases, so that I could use the thicker ones for my project. The backs of the stamps already had foam and cling material mounting, so that made it easy.


I loaded the cases with the rubber stamps, printed inserts with the names for the spines and the front edge, and stamped an example image for the front.


I'll try and share a sneak of a digi stamp I'm working on later this week!

Swiss Pixies - Nora

I've had some more time to play! I'll share the pics of the card once I finish it, but I got to use a few techniques on the last image I colored.



Once again, used my copics for the coloring...I need to get a few markers in the sketch form so that I can have better colors for hair. I feel kind of restricted to browns and blacks with the ciaos.

Here's the colors I used...



I used Artic Ice Stickles for her wings, hope you can see the sparkle in the photo! It's so pretty up close.



I colored over the boots with a Versamark pen once I was done shading the copics. I applied detail clear embossing powder and melted, then added a second coating. I think it gives the boots the look of wet galoshes.


I'll pop up pics when I'm done! Thanks for looking.

Just a quick note...

Yes, I am alive! Things have just been a little hairy around here is all...I did make a promise to myself to try and blog a little more regularly. It seems to be the only way I can remember what I've been doing sometimes, ba-ha-ha-ha!

So, I've been working on some cards recently. I'll have more about the card I'm working on for Aidan in the next few days...I've got some experimenting to do before I share pics with you!

Here's a little look at the card I did today.



It's a bright and cheery card. I've used my other coloring of Santa Birgitta, this time using the Red Violet copic color scheme (recipe to come later, sorry I don't have the numbers with me right now...). I also used a yellow copic to add some color to the button that was beige in a previous life, LOL!

I broke open my little DYMO handheld label maker and made the sentiment using white-core cardstock fed through as a strip, then sanded. I really liked how it looked, but it was getting smooshed as I worked on the inside, so I used the DYMO font by Manfred Klein and recreated it using the "reverse" method of generating white text.