Water-coloring with Pencils

Hi, I am back to share another card with you today, another

Christmas card.  Trying to get some stash saved up.

I was sent some products to review from a company called

MAPED that has a lot of crafts and school products.

I have a 6-year-old great-granddaughter that loves to

draw, color and most of all paint.  Well we all know that

painting with a 6-year-old can be pretty messy, so I thought

using watercolor pencils with give her the feeling of painting but without

all the mess.

They are called Aqua Color'Peps 

I thought I would try them out coloring a stamped image before

I had a chance to color/paint with her, so here is what I made.

It was pretty easy to do, just colored in a bit and then used a water brush to                                                                spread the color.  

I did use some glitter pens to add some accents to it.  I matted the

pieces of paper with gold paper.  I stamped on a small tag using

a Hero Arts stamp then tied it on with some twine that has gold thread in it.

Back to those pencils, one thing I really liked about them is they have

slightly flat sides which means they will not roll off your workspace. 

The flat is not so much that you have problems sharpening them.  I also

got some pencils sharpeners to review.  I really loved the one

I got that has an eraser on one side of it, so convenient and the

eraser works great. 

I received a variety of pencil sharpeners and am anxious to try them

out with my PrismaColor pencils, we all know they can be
difficult to sharpen.

#maped

Monster Love!

Well Hello, it is that time again, time for another

Bugaboo Crafty Challenge over at the 

Crafting Circle blog.

It is a fun challenge, starts the 15th of each month and runs all

month long.  You can make anything you would like as long as you

use a Bugaboo image, the images are so cute that is easy to do.

Plus Jodie has a Freebie every Friday.

The image I chose to use is call "Love Monsters" and it is

just too cute. 

As soon as I saw it I knew I wanted to color it in bright colors using only

primary and secondary colors.  Felt like I was going back to school, ha ha ha.

I colored him using my Copic markers and layered him on a bunch of matching colored paper that was embossed with a variety of patterns. 

The card matches the sketch this week over at 

Tuesday Morning Sketches, with the addition of a couple

small elements. 

I added a corner die cut from My Little Paper World, this was an afterthought to cover up a small tear that happen in the corner of my picture after

I colored him(don't ya just hate when that happens?).  I had used washi tape

to tape the Gina Marie die so it would cut exactly where I wanted it, well when

I lifted it up it torn the paper.   I added a Spellbinder die cut in orange

so I would have some where to stamp the sentiment using a Unity Stamp from the.........So Glad you were Born set.

A little funny story about this image, I had it colored and laying on 

my desk when my 2 1/2+ year old great grandson came in and saw it.  He

picked it up and got all excited and tried to take off with it "OH NO".

So I knew right then and there what I was going to use this for,

his birthday card. Perfect!!!

So that is my card for today, be sure and head on over

to the Bugaboo Crafty Challenge and join in, you have till

April 14th to post your project. 

Challenges entered:

Tuesday Morning Sketches - sketch - ends 3/19
Creative Moments - anything goes/twist blue - ends 3/21
Inspiration Destination - anything goes - ends 3/28
Fab n Funky - Children - ends 3/21

Collage of Flowers

Hi, glad you stopped by.

A few weeks ago I made this card following a challenge and one of the extra credits was to make a collage card.  So the images on this card came up when I 

Googled collage images.  Not sure it was what I had in mind as a collage but I loved them nonetheless so I used them.

I do love the look of this card.  Background paper is from the K& Company Best of Brenda Walton stack. 

I matted each layer using a rust like color.

The "happy birthday" I wrote using my sketch pens in my Cameo.  

Well I hope you enjoyed looking at my card and will leave me a comment.  Thanks!

A Window Card

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a fabulous day!

I have to say I totally scraplifted this card from Kimberley at

My Craft Spot.

If you have never visited her blog you may want to go check it out, she does amazing work and always shares instructions.

I think it came out so pretty.  I cut the base card using Cricut Craft Room just as Kimberley explained.  Then using Art Philosophy I cut the scalloped circle to go around the window.  I used a piece of the clear clamshell that the Cricut cartridges come in for the window.  The Cricut will cut this acetate but you will have to do multi-cut 2 because it is pretty heavy.  

The label where the happy birthday is stamped is a two piece Spellbinder label, I love the fancy edges that it has.  I added a couple of pearl brads to the ends.

The flowers are Jolee stickers, and I like the transparent look to them for being on the window.

This is what the window looks like from the inside, I placed a couple flowers on the inside to cover the glue dot.  There was only one butterfly in the pack so I didn't have an extra to do the same there.  

For now the inside is totally blank until I can figure out how I want to finish it.

Thanks for stopping by I hope you like my version of Kimberley's card.

Challenges for this card

Simon Says Stamp  Die cuts/Punches   ends - 10/17

2 Sisters Challenge  Anything Goes   ends - 10/19

Make it Monday  Always anything goes   ends  - 10/21

Spoil Yourself Silly - Prismapencils MCPT

I receive images every month from Aprile on the Cricut message board, that we are suppose to color using pencils and Odorless Minerals Spirits or MCPT (magic color pencil technique).  If you want more info on this challenge just let me know.   Once we color the image we are to make a card and post it on the message board.  This technique is a lot of fun and produces some very nice results.  This month (August, I am late) I really struggled with this image but in the end I am pretty pleased with it.

I colored the kitty image using my Prismacolor pencils and blended it using the gamsol or OMS and blending stumps.   I cut the image out using Spellbinders label ten and then cut the blue label the next size up.  I Cuttlebugged the blue label but you can't really see it.  The balloons I cut using "Alphallicous" cartridge, 3 for the red one and 2 for the blue & yellow, popped the layers and added Glossy Accents to the top layer, with a small amount of stickles glitter for shading.    Then I tied string to the balloons and tied all three strings in a know and glued it to the card.   This is an odd sized card it is 8 1/2 x 4 1/4, a little wider and shorter then the #10 size envelope so I made my own envelope.    I tried so hard to keep this card male looking, and I think I did!  Would love to read your comments they are always appreciated.