Amanda's birthday

Inside

Somehow the cat on the inside ended up looking evil, even with a party hat.

Glass teapot

The Tuesday Pot

my drawing

My card, colored with copics

Juliet oh Juliet!

Tomorrow is my day at Paper Temptress and I am giving you a sneak peek at the bookmark and card I made for the occasion. The bookmark is courtesy of a tutorial provided by my good friend Juliet, so of course I named her Juliet!

Here is a link to her tutorial ...

Pop on over to Paper Temptress tomorrow to see my whole post.   Link to Paper Temptress

You can use this link if you would like the free digi file.

Teapot Tuesday .. a couple days late

A mice cream cone, of course!

Running late for the teapot bash, but I spent more time searching for the perfect joke than I should have. This card is going to a little boy with cancer and we all made joke cards.

I drew the kitty in the jester hat and used my new copic skills to color him.

Whaddaya do?

Whaddaya do if you are sending a thank you card to the QUEEN of copics?

You draw a picture of her and write a poem. I gotta play to my strengths!

Here Stands Suzanne and she's ready to dance

But our well-behaved class never gave her a chance

She taught us to flick it and flittered about

There were no stupid questions, or she’d call you out

Take off all the caps, there’ll be no sound of clicking

And all you will hear is the sound of us flicking

Suzanne told us stories all meant to amuse

As we learned all the colors that we should choose

We learned to do shading, we learned to do hair

She showed us the steps then she asked us to share

As we looked at our work from beginning to end

We all felt good reason to call Suzanne a friend.

I was extra lucky, I felt like a winner

Because I got to go along out to dinner

This wee little poem, this drawing of you

Is my way of saying, Suzanne,  THANK YOU!

Teapot dots

I will be the first to admit, I got a bit dotty doing this card. But it was fun.

Now that I look at it, I wish I had put something brown behind the flowers.

Happy 4 of July!

Today was my day to post over at PaperTemptress, and if I scheduled it right, my post will go up on time.  You can pop over there to see some close up shots of the detail.  But here are the cards I made for the occasion.

There would have been 3 more cards if my CAT HAD NOT gone crawling up on top of a bookshelf and into the rafters above my stamp room in the basement and under main floor of the house.  I had a panicky hour while I tried to entice her to come out and wondered if Mike would allow the house to be torn apart 2 x 6 by 2 x 6 just to get her out.

She did eventually emerge, dusty and ready to find another place to explore.

Somehow my muse abandoned me during the hunt!

Spotted background ... my favorite

Shadowed background

Create a scene

I have 3 more flag toting Tillies to make into cards ... another day.

BeeGees ... nope, not the singers

These are all my BG colors

Some of my favorite combinations using the Blue Green Copic Markers.

Elaine's Birthday ... and I am late again!

card front

Inside

It's Elaine's birthday, and I forgot to get her card in the mail.

IF she looks at my blog, she can see that I at least have her card finished and ready to mail!

HEY ELAINE ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Singing the blues

B60 is a light gray blue, doesn't show in the scan.

I have organized my blue copic markers so I will know which ones I need ... yeah, I said NEED.

Mike asked how many blues I have and when I knew immediately and told him I have 9, he was spooked. "You mean there are that many blues," he asked?

Can't you imagine coloring water with these!

I decided not to mention the blue greens and the blue violets. ...

Here are some of my favorite combinations ...

Tuesday Teapot

Here's the pot and here's the drawing ... I really had fun with this one!

Guess you have to use your imagination to see how I got the drawing from the pot ...

If I tried to sync my swimming

I’d be drowning in the drink

I can barely keep on floating

It is harder than you think

I can sync my mac computer

And my ipad in a blink

But the sync that I don’t want to do
Is dishes in the sink!

One Birdie, two birdie, three birdie, four

The challenge is feathers!

I was playing with copics and backgrounds, then outlined with a sharpie and got the nice black edges; then added some copic .03 lines. The trouble is always knowing when to stop.

Then I had to choose which one to enter in the challenge.

I picked the dotty one. But now I think I like the one with the clouds even better.

Winged things challenge

Just created this card for a winged things challenge. I am not so sure how to color feathers although both my parrotlet and my cockatiel were happy to share some rejects for me to use as models.

Here is the challenge link:

It is good practice for the feathers challenge over at CMCC.  I think I can use a bit more practice!

Farewell to Diane

Free digi image

We had a great Yoga instructor and this is the farewell card I made for her. At the end of every class, she would say, "Remember that yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. But today is the present so take it and enjoy it as a gift."  Her take on Eleanor Roosevelt got amended into the text on my card.

You can grab the image if you need a yoga card

copic practice

free digi for you

Coloring white is a real challenge. I tried it here ... and it is ok although I do think it looks like the girls are wearing gray dresses.

I am taking a class from Suzanne Dean ... wa HOOOOO ... in July and hope to see what she does to make her whites work so well.

I colored this card for a Do-It-In-White challenge at her copic classroom ... anybody can enter!  Click ...here.

Digi is here if you wanna try coloring ...

Coloring in Black and White

Free digi for you

Using only my c3, c5 and c7, I made a girl with black hair and a white blouse. How cool is that! Not as cool as the fact that you can have the digi I drew to practice!

Coloring hair

Been practicing hair ... and I am amazed at how differently the inks work on different papers.

Colleen's Anniversary

Does it look like  a beach ball?

I keep making square cards and then being frustrated at how to mail them. This one is going in a big envelope as it seemed to grow as I worked on it.

 Digis are yours to grab ... I am particularly proud of the umbrellas!