I WON!!!!!!!

I won the I Brake for Stamps Sketch Challenge over at The Paper Crafts Planet. So excited.! A Thirty Dollar gift certificate for IBFS. Placed my order last night. Wait till you see what I have coming. Of course I had to buy a few stamps too. Couldn't resist. Next week I will be working on cards using my new stamps.

an I Brake for Stamps Challenge

Over on Paper Crafts Planet Della from IBFS is having a sketch challenge. The winner gets a $30.00 gift certificate. Since I LOVE I Brake for Stamps I couldn't resist and sat right down to create something. Here's my card.

It's time for the BEACH!

First I need to get some business out of the way. Here is my Mojo Monday sketch card. I went right for my new Flourishes rose stamp. This is quickly turning into my favorite stamp. I stamped it on water color paper. Took Copic # R 29 and colored all the shadows on the image. Then took # R 27 and blended out a bit from the first color. Then took # R 17 and filled in the whole image coloring over the other 2 colors. The leaves I just stroked all the veins with a dark olive green and filled in the whole image with a lighter green.




Now I have been feeling real beachy. LOVE!! my Cuttlebug and Spellbinder Beach sea shell and sea horse dies. Can't get to the beach myself right now to pick up shells so I have been using my background stash and punching them out with my Cuttlebug. Have a huge stack. So lots of shells without all the sand mess everywhere. The first card was made with a background called Frog in a Blender. What it is is the shaving cream tehnique only no shaving cream. Instead you use Future floor shine. You end up with a softer colored background. 3 different techniques on the shell, star fish and sea horse. And the shells at the top were stamped in Versa Mark and then chalked to blend into the background.



This next card started out being a collage that I was going to distress. It quickly went another direction. Again the sea shells on the side were stamped with Versa Mark and chalked. My sand castle and bucket are inked with daubers and distressed inks. The 3 sea creatures were cut from 3 different techniques. On both cards I used a mesh to hang everything from. Sort of a fish net type look. The beach images can be found at I Brake for Stamps.


And now before I have to leave for work I am hoping to get a few more Beach cards put together.

Mojo Sketch

This should have been done on Monday. I was off work at 1:00 but I came home and sat down for just 2 minutes and off to sleep I went. I never nap but I have been so tired. So this morning before I left to make the burgers I worked on this one until it was finished. My sunflower die came the other day and I knew that was what I was going to use for the circle. Both pieces of background I found in my stash and were made with Glimmer mists and webbing.

Copics and paper

I have collected Copics like the rest of you but have not been real happy with them. They always seemed to bleed outside the lines of my image when I was coloring with them. Couldn't control it. Frustrated me and I would put them away and get out my pencils. I read a number of blogs weekly and lately the ladies have been talking about the Classic white card stock from Flourishes and how well it works with the Copics. Now I know everyone thinks their paper is the best. And I'm not usually easily convinced but I needed white card stock and the price was right so I bought some. It was worth a try I told myself. You can find it here: http://www.flourishes.org/servlet/the-1102/paper%2C-cardstock/Detail. Of course I just couldn't buy one pack of paper. Their stamps have been on my list for some time so I got myself 2 of the sets and I want to show you what I colored this evening. This paper is awesome. No bleeding! Colors blended easily. I'm so glad I ordered this paper. I'll bring my Copics out more often now. I was so pleased at how my images turned out. The rose is from the set. I Love Roses. I cut it out and attached it to a background I found in my stash. Not sure what technique it is but the colors matched. I used Copic #s YG 03 & 06 for the leaves and R 22, 27 & 29 for the rose. The stawberries are from a brand new set called Strawberries and were colored with R 22 & 27 and the leaves are YG 03 & 06 and the strawberry tops were done with YG 06 & 63.




Now to turn my pretty strawberries into a card.

It's Monday and I'm actually finished!!

It's been a great morning. I had the day off so I cooked meals for 2 days, cleaned the house and finished my Mojo Monday Sketch on MONDAY!! WoooooHooo. I do have to go to work at 4 but my sketch is done. The image is one I received in a swap. I colored it with my Prisma pencils and Gamsol. The sea shells are from Spellbinders. I cut them out of of a webbed background and then rubbed some color ino both of them. The backgrouund I had in my basket. It's a resist technique done on glossy card stock. Using Versa Mark stamp your background stamp and then emboss with white EP. Then water color over it with ink and a water brush. The embossed part resists the ink. Wonder if I can get anything else done before I leave.

This weeks Mojo

I was determined to get this done today. I missed last weeks due to my schedule. But today I had off. Taught a class and enjoyed some restful play. This card has 2 techniques. The crow is stamped in black on a Saran wrap technique. He's from I Brake for Stamps. The piece behind him is just sponged with Stonewashed Blue from Adirondack. It's actually a rejected sky for an upcoming Stampscapes class. The main background is sprayed with Glimmer Mists and then with Webbing. It was fun to get some play time today.