Serendipity

Well, today is Friday! Grocery shopping, errands day...have to get a package to the Post Office for a publication! YES, this will be my fourth publication!!

Tomorrow is Spring cleaning at church to get ready for Easter services... can you say BUSY?!!

Ok...several more sneak peeks

Another adorable Tom Allen Friendly Kritters, this one is called 'Friends Don't Mind'

Colored with copics, the sky is colored with Prismacolor pencils blended with baby oil.

This is where Serendipity (Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely.) happened. I tried using my Stazon white ink pad on the Reverse Dots Backgrounder, but I think it needs reinked!

So, plan B... I squirted some white acrylic paint on some scrap paper and rolled my brayer through it, rolled the brayer over the Backgrounder and stamped. And that is how it came out.... totally by accident, but I like it!

Who would have thought snails could be cute?! This is from Asela's new line, Garden Friends.

Colored with copics, then I applied Ranger Sepia Accents to the shell! It looks cool IRL. Distress inks sponged around edges... boy, do I love Distress inks!!!

I have to thank Hannah for the flower!! Hannah, if you see this, your flower on the thank you card you sent me matched perfectly and I needed something to 'stick' there!! (as you can see it doesn't have the original pretty bling rhinestone....it popped off and is hiding somewhere on my floor! I searched but, alas, couldn't find it!! hence the grommit thingy with more of the Sepia Accents filling it)

This is also a past CPS sketch, but I'm too lazy to look it up...hehe

This one from Asela's Small Pleasures. I masked the bunny to stamp the daisies and tall grass.

It's colored with copics with the background being sponged with Cloudy Blue ink.

Supplies:

All images Cornish Heritage Farms

Serve One Another- Tom Allen

Friends Don't Mind- Tom Allen

Reverse Dots Backgrounder

Small Pleasures- Asela

Large Daisy Patch

Tall Weeds

Grass

Garden Friends- Asela

Silhouette Blooms 2- Kim Hughes

Cardstock/Pattern Paper:

Georgia Pacific white

Making Memories

Island Mist light, dark- Prism Papers

Basicgrey

Ink:

Adirondack Pitch Black, Juniper, Cloudy Blue- Ranger

Distress Mustard Seed, Scattered Straw, Fired Brick, Shabby Shutters- Ranger

Accessories:

Copic markers- ellenhutson.com

Ribbon

White Painter's Marker- Elmer's

White Acrylic Paint

Brayer

Sepia Accents- Ranger

Flower (thanks Hannah!)

Grommit

Crop a dile 2

Jumbo Daubers- Tsukineko

Prismacolor pencils blended with baby oil

Corner rounder for scallops

Have a GREAT weekend!!! I'm off to town!

Wild Rose Hello

This was for the color challenge (cc152) on SCS again using the sketch from CPS.

Watercolored with reinkers, sponged and faux layered using Copic markers. I stamped off distress Marigold Morning before stamping on Papaya Puree light cardstock.

After lightly tracing the oval, I used one of the smaller flourishes from Beautiful and stamped Faded Jeans around the oval.

The ribbon was colored with a Copic marker to match. Card measures 5x5

• Stamps: - Scripty Words, Kim Hughes Collection by Cornish Heritage Farms - Wild Rose by Cornish Heritage Farms - Beautiful, The Rummage Bin by Cornish Heritage Farms

• Ink: - Jet Black by Stazon- Faded Jeans by Ranger - Reinkers by Adirondack
  

• Cardstock: - Papaya Puree light by Prism Paper

• Tools: - Nestabilities by Spellbinders, www.ellenhutson.com

• Accessories: - Copic markers, www.ellenhutson.com- Ribbon by Offray- Jumbo Dauber by Tsukineko- Waterbrush by Niji
  

• Technique: - Watercolor- Sponging

Every Day A Blessing

I enjoy seeing what the new sketch will be at CPS (card positioning systems) each week and hope to start doing them on a regular basis!
Here is mine for this week.

I colored the butterfly and flower with copic markers, masked them and stamped off the flourishes before stamping them over my image. This softened them and made it possible for the sentiment to be better visable.

Oh, did I mention I got new rubbah today!!

• Stamps:
• Time to Stamp, (sentiment) The Rummage Bin by Cornish Heritage Farms
• Beautiful, (flourishes) The Rummage Bin by Cornish Heritage Farms
• Delicate Winged Thanks (Jan/Feb SOTM), Asela’s by Cornish Heritage Farms

• Ink:
• Pitch Black, Rust by Adirondack

• Cardstock: - Georgia Pacific white
• DCWV
• Patterned Paper - My Mind’s Eye

• Tools:
• Nestabilities by Spellbinders, www.ellenhutson.com
• piercing tool
  
• Accessories: - Copic markers, www.ellenhutson.com
• Grosgrain ribbon by Morex
• Twill, Joann’s
• dimesionals
  

Cheers!

It's been a while hasn't it!

Today I did this fun card for the color challenge on SCS combining the sketch on CPS. It also gave me a chance to play with my Top Score *wink*

I scored the dark gray, cut away close to the scallop and scored again.

The Canned Indian Summer Coneflowers became daisies, colored with copics. I also need to get another ruler and keep it specifically for copics! Mine is black from use with a sharpie marker and even though I've cleaned it, it'll leave a telltale line when using a different marker!
So, brainstorm here! Yes, ONCE in a while I am capable!! LOL

After making a faux layer with my copic cool gray #1 (and having a darker line along the inside), I took my artist pen and ruler and went over the lines extending to the edges. I like the look!
The next layer is a piece of white cs edged with copic cool gray #7.

• Sketch:
  - #49 by Card Positioning Systems


• Stamps: - Canned Indian Summer Coneflowers, Asela’s Flowers by Cornish Heritage Farms, Verses Rubber Stamps


• Ink: - Stazon Jet Black


• Cardstock: - DCWV, Georgia Pacific White


• Tools: - Top Score by Crafter’s Companion, ruler


• Accessories: - Copic Markers http://www.ellenhutson.com/, Ribbon by Offray, Super Fine Artist Pen by Faber-Castell


• Technique:
  - Faux Layering
  - Scoring

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Now I just have to share the newest drawing Timothy just finished! Isn't he just adorable!!

You can see more of Timothy's drawings here.