Making my own coloring pages.

So many stamps so little time.  But one thing I definitely enjoy is coloring.  So for these cards I make my own coloring pages with stamps I had on hand.

For this first card I used this beautiful floral image from Concord and 9th.  I colored with copic markers and added some white gel pen.  A perfect flat card for mailing.

This was actually a card I made before the holidays.  I couldn't resist this nostalgic set from Inkadinkado.  I'm pretty sure I had a Rudolf and Friends coloring book when I was younger.  

Stamps- Concord and 9th-  Inkadinkado

Cardstock- Papertrey Ink 

Sugar Pea Designs Love

Hello everyone,
I feel like I need to do some catch up blogging. It seems cards I've been making have been going out in the mail very quickly so blogging them hasn't happened.  That and the holidays and I traveled to spend 10 days with a friend.  So life has been busy.  

I love this cute little set from Sugar Pea Designs.  I have a thing for cute little penguins and I just love the size of this stamp for the Happy Mail set.   Perfect for coloring for everyone.  I used copic markers to color this penguin and finished the card by adding some sequins.

I love making matching enveloped for my cards.  This set has all the perfect elements to do just that.  

I made a few of these envelopes using my Misti Stamping Tool.  

The envelopes are colored with colored pencils.  

Thanks so much for stopping by and see you soon! 

Sugar Pea Designs Happy Mail 

Split Coast Stampers Mystery Image Swap

Happy New Year!

I joined a monthly swap on Split Coast Stampers.  Each month a different Member of the group send out an image for everyone to make a card from.  Our January image came from Imke.  She sent us Avery Elle Sweet Sweet image along with some sequins. I love these fun images and had so much fun coloring them with lots of copic markers.

For this image I added some white dots with a gel pen to the chest of each bird.  

And for this card I mixed up the colors just a bit and again added some details with the white gel pen. I also added some white to the straw hut to give it some dimension.  

The patterned paper is from Studio Calico.  

Thanks Imke for the sweet images! 

And thanks for organizing the swap.  

Have a great week! 

Image- Avery Elle Sweet Sweet

Coloring Medium- Copic Markers, white gel pen

Cardstock- Paper Trey Ink 

Patterened Paper- Studio Calico 

30 day coloring challenge Week 1

Hello everyone, I'm having so much fun taking the time to color each day.  I hope you can join me.  If you want more information on the challenge visit the beautiful Kathy's Racoosin's blog The Daily Marker.  For several years she has been doing this awesome challenge and it just grows and grows each year.  To play along just upload a card to Instagram or Facebook with the hashtag #thedailymarker30day.  Here are my cards from the first week.   

I started with this image in my post card coloring book.  

I used spectrum noir colored pencils.  

Next up is the beautiful card with dies from Concord and 9th someone had gifted me.  

The sentiment is PTI. 

I water colored the die cut flowers.  

Next up I decided to color these cute little doggies from Sugar Pea Designs.  

I just love them! 

The Cat's Pajamas challenged us this week to make a tag, or something with a tag. 

I just love this kitty in the big sweater, so I made this tag and sent it off to someone with a little pre Christmas gift already.  

And I couldn't wait to send some happy mail to my card swap partner, so she should be getting this cute little penguin today.  

And I decorated the envelope to send it.  

And there you have my first week of coloring for 10 minutes a day.  I think it was a pretty successful week and lots of fun!

Thanks so much for stopping by and see you next week for my coloring adventure!

Papertrey Ink October 2016 Blog Hop

Today I am sharing my projects for the PTI Blog Hop.  This months project was a photo inspiration with beautiful fall colors.  You can find the photo and more information on the challenge on the 

PTI blog.  

The first card is made with the Garden Gate Kit and the fun bicycle. 

And the second is a simple water color card using the beautiful Sunflower Cover Plate.  

Thanks so much for stopping by.  

All products PTI or from the PTI Store. 

Altenew August Inspiration Challenge

Hello everyone, 

Happy Monday! 

Today I am celebrating 24 years of being married to my favorite person! 

My husband is truly my best friend and we have grown so much over the years.  

Even as I sit here crafting and blogging he is making us dinner.  

How does it get any better then that! 

I love the colors in this months inspiration challenge at Altenew. 

Click here for the blog post and play along!

I pulled out my Altenew Red Cosmos Mini Cube inks and they matched perfectly! 

No Flamingos in the house so I decided to go with flowers. 

I know, shocking! 

I masked off the area for the sentiment, then stamped the roses and leaves.  

I finished by adding some small flowers from the Altenew set and using the same ink and a brush to color them in. Then I stamped the sentiment in Moon Rock and added some lines with a silver gel pen.  I finished by adding some dots using a brush and water along with the Moon Rock ink. 

I finished by layering the card with coordinating pink and red cardstock. 

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great week! 

Altenew Build A Rose Stamp set

Altenew Beautiful Day Stamp Set

                                              Altenew Red Cosmos Mini Cube inks

Moon Rock Ink

Video Contest! Share Your Altenew Love

Hello everyone, Today I'm sharing my video for the Video Contest! Share Your Altenew Love.  Grab some popcorn and join me for a few minutes of chatting from my studio.

Thanks for stopping by. 

MFT Camp Create

And our final day at Camp Create has come to an end.  

I had a great time and want to take a second to thank MFT stamps for hosting camp create and being so generous with prizes! 

Today's camp craft is Shadow Stamping. 

I've never stamped shadows, I've always used markers to make my shadows so this was a new technique for me.  

Another one layer card for ease of mailing.  

I stamped the image in white and then stamped the same image in the same color as the patterned paper.  I also tried shadow stamping with my sentiment.  

And with that I have earned all the camp create badges for this week! 

 

And here is one last look at my group of cards for camp create. 

Thanks again MFT for a fun week! 

Hugs and love, until next time!

MFT Camp Create

And our final day at Camp Create has come to an end.  

I had a great time and want to take a second to thank MFT stamps for hosting camp create and being so generous with prizes! 

Today's camp craft is Shadow Stamping. 

I've never stamped shadows, I've always used markers to make my shadows so this was a new technique for me.  

Another one layer card for ease of mailing.  

I stamped the image in white and then stamped the same image in the same color as the patterned paper.  I also tried shadow stamping with my sentiment.  

And with that I have earned all the camp create badges for this week! 

 

Thanks again MFT for a fun week! 

Hugs and love, until next time!

MFT Camp Create Farewell Bonfire!

Camp week is quickly coming to an end and who doesn't like a good 

Bonfire to celebrate an awesome week!

 Bonfire Craft – Single Layer Savvy

I love the simplicity of a single layer card.  I stamped the images from Sweet Rose then colored with polychromas pencils.  Doesn't get any easier then that!
And now I have a card perfect to mail from camp.  

And the badge for attending the closing Bonfire. 

And all my badges this week!

See you tomorrow :)

MFT Sweet Roses

MFT Kraft cardstock

polychromas pencils