Bird (and Monster)

I had a teenage boy birthday card to make just before Christmas and I used the wonderful Bird (and Monster) stamp from Mo's Digital Pencil.  This went perfectly with the copy of Frankenstein that I bought him :) 

 

He was fun to colour and the background I made was fun too!  I had been given some Brusho Powders for my birthday but hadn't tried them yet and I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to use the grey Brusho. It created a really simple but effective background :)

Thanks for dropping by today :)

Kathy

Mrs Claus

I have a card to share today featuring Mrs Claus one of the gorgeous new Christmas stamps from Mo's Digital Pencil.  

This is such a fun stamp and I loved colouring and creating this card :)

I created the backgound using the Gingham stamp from Whimsy Stamps with Citron Distress Oxide ink.  The sentiment is from an old CC Designs set and the Jolly die is from Concord & 9th. I also used the Envelope edger die by Whimsy Stamps.

I added some highlights to the Jolly die and added stars to Mrs Claus' apron with a white gel pen.

Copics used :

R 20, 22, 24, 27, 30, 59

E 000, 00, 13, 21

W 1, 3

YG 01, 03, 13

BG 0000, 000, 72

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges :

We love stamping - Christmas

Dream Valley Challenge - Dies or punches

Paper Funday Challenges - anything goes

Crafty Catz - anything goes

Thanks for dropping by today :)

Kathy

Santa Napping

 I have another Christmas card to share today.  This is Santa Napping, one of the beautiful new stamps from Mo's Digital Pencil.

 I have another Christmas card to share today.  This is Santa Napping, one of the beautiful new stamps from Mo's Digital Pencil.

Copics used :

E 000, 00, 21, 39, 43, 44, 53, 55

YG 17, 93, 95

G 21, 24, 82, 99

Y 26, 28

R 20, 22, 27, 29, 59

B 0000, 00

W 00, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9

Thanks for dropping by today :)

Kathy

Happy Baby Fairies

I had a lovely time playing with some fairies this week :)

These two cuties are from the Mo's Digital Pencil set 6 Baby Fairies (girls). 

I thought they would love to fly amongst some rainbow clouds so after colouring them with Copics I made a special night sky for them :)

To create the cloud panel I used Distress Oxide inks and made a blend with Raspberry, Violet, Peacock and Mermaid.

I then used an MFT Cloud stencil and black Distress ink to create the clouds.

I used a star stencil from CC Designs with texture paste for the stars.

I cut a number of the Whimsy Stamps Happy die from black card and glued on top of each other and then added a white one slightly to the side. This gave the word more impact because of the height and the black outline.  The sentiment is from a Whimsy set called Bunny Balloons. 

I added glitter gel pen to the flourishes on the fairies wings and also some Wink of Stella so the wings are a little glittery although it's hard to tell in the photo unfortunately.

Copics used :

YG 01, 03

B 0000, 00, 02, 04

RV 00, 02, 25

R 22, 30

E 000, 00, 13, 41, 42, 43, 50

Y 23, 26

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges :

Time Out challenge - quote - "Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud" Maya Angelou

We love stamping - anything goes

Paper Funday Challenge - anything goes

Simon Says Monday - Die-cuts

Tall Cake

I have a Birthday card to share today using the gorgeous Tall Cake stamp from Mo's Digital Pencil.

I think it's beautiful, fun and quirky and I loved colouring it!

I decided to keep the card clean and simple to focus on the girl and the cake.

I coloured the image with Copics and I added some white to her dress with a gel pen.

I used a die to cut out the panel and added the Magnolia Tilda Lace die at the top.

I used a gold glitter pen for the candle flames which looks nice and sparkly ( but hard to tell in the photo).

The sentiment is from an old CC Designs set called Birthday Wishes.

Copics used :

RV 02, 21, 23

R 20, 30

E 000, 00, 21, 31, 33, 35, 50

Y 15

W 00

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges :

Allsorts Challenge - anything goes

Crafty Calendar Challenge - anything goes

Word  Art Wednesday - anything goes

Thanks for dropping by today :)

Kathy

Feed The Soul

I have a card to share today using a stamp from Mo's Digital Pencil called Feed The Soul.

I just love this fabulous lady with her beautiful bunch of tulips :)

She comes with a wonderful sentiment but I used a different one that I had in my stash.  I thought it worked perfectly with her and would make a great Thankyou or Birthday card.

I loved colouring her but I especially loved colouring the tulips!

I cut her out and placed it on an oval cut from Spellbinders Opulent Oval die set.  It's one of of my oldest dies and I haven't used it for a very long time but I just thought it suited this stamp so well.

The sentiment is from an old Stampin Up set.

Copics used :

B 95, 97

YG 03, 13

RV 02, 63

V 05, 06

R 20, 22

C 1, 3

Y 23

E 000, 00, 21, 33, 35, 37, 42, 43

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges :

Word Art Wednesday -  sentiment

Paper Funday Challenges - anything goes

Creative Fingers Challenge - anything goes

Thanks for dropping by today :)

Kathy

Merry and Bright Penguin Chicks

I really can't believe that it's July already, this year is going by so fast!  I decided that I really needed to make a start on my Christmas cards this week with this cute stamp from Mo's Digital Pencil called 2 Penguin Chicks.

These penguins are fun to colour and are great when you want to create a quick clean and simple card :)

Copics used :

W 1, 3, 5

R 24, 27, 29, 59

Y 15

YR 14, 18

YG 03, 06

G 24, 28

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges :

Allsorts Challenge : animals

Aud sentiments - anything goes

Thanks for dropping by today :)

Kathy

Journey

I have made another page for my art journal this week.  It features a gorgeous stamp from Mo's Digital Pencil called Journey. 

I had fun colouring the image with Copics and then got crafty making the background.

I used kraft card for the base and used ripped tape around the edge to create a blended panel with Distress Oxide inks. I used Speckled eggs, Peacock feather and Mermaid lagoon and then blended Squeezed lemonade over the top using a sunburst stencil.  I then stamped a couple of stamps on top of this.

For the waves I used a wave die with some patterned paper and some paper I created myself with the Distress Oxides and splashed a little water on top.

The sentiment is an old one from Stampin Up, I thought it worked so well with this image. I used a ticket die to cut it out and made a sketchy white border with a gel pen.

Copics used -

W 1, 3, 5, 7

E 000, 00, 13, 21, 33, 35, 37, 43, 44, 47, 53

BG 10, 11, 15, 72

B 95, 97

Y 23, 26, 28

R 20, 22, 30, 56, 85

I'd like to enter my page into the following challenges :

Dragonfly Dreams - Outdoors

We love to Create - anything mixed media

Allsorts Challenge - so girly

Crafty Calendar - anything goes

Word Art Wednesday - anything goes

I loved creating this page!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Kathy

Amanita

 I have a card to share today using one of my favourite stamps from Mo's Digital Pencil.  

This is Amanita, isn't she gorgeous?!

I had a lovely relaxing time colouring her with copics :)

I used a woodgrain embossing folder and enhanced the grain by applying white and brown inks.

I also used a scrap of paper by Simple Stories and a vine die from Whimsy Stamps.

Copics used :

YR 14, 16, 18

R 20, 22, 27, 29, 30, 59

YG 03, 91, 93, 95

BG 10

Y 000, 23, 26

W 00, 1

E 000, 00, 13, 21, 42, 43, 44, 47

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges :

Colour Crazy Challenge - anything coloured goes

We love to create - anything mixed media

Thanks for dropping by today :)

Kathy

Life is like a balloon card

I have a card to share today using Life is like a balloon by Mo's Digital Pencil.

This is such a great stamp set, it actually includes a dog with balloons and a sentiment too. I've used the whole set before on an art journal page but this time I decided to make a card with just the girl.

I coloured her with my Copics and then I created the cloud background in a different way to what I generally do.  I used a light blue copic marker to colour a sky but did it in a "rough" swirly way, not bothering about trying to blend it smoothly or evenly.  Then I used a darker blue Distress Oxide ink with a cloud die.  Finally I drew along the top edge of the clouds with a white gel pen and smudged it a little.  I was really happy with how the sky looks :)

At the bottom of the card I blended some Pistachio Distress Oxide ink and also added it to the bottom of some grass I die cut.

Copics Used :

B 0000, 00, 02, 21, 23, 24

R 20, 22, 27, 29

YR 18

Y 13, 15

W 1

E 000, 00, 21, 41, 42, 43, 44

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges :

Crafty Catz - anything goes

Colour Crazy challenge - anything coloured goes

Thanks for dropping by today :)

Kathy

Woe Is Fay

I had some fun with my art journal this week :)  

I used a wonderful image from Mo's Digital Pencil called Woe is Fay. 

I really love her and she was a lot of fun to colour. The fabulously dramatic words in the speech bubbles come with her also :) 

For the background I applied pink, grey and white paint with a dry brush.

I added some stencilling using paint and Distress Inks with Tim Holtz Bubble and TCW Ethereal stencils.

I drew a border around the edge and added some splashes of watered down gesso.

I paired her with a sentiment from a Dina Wakley collage words set.  I thought it was a perfect sentiment to go with her.

Copics used ;

W 1, 5, 7, 9

YG 01, 03, 17

G 28

B 37

BV 00, 02, 04, 08, 13

RV 02, 21

E 000, 00

R 20

I'd like to enter my page into the following challenges :

We Love 2 Create - anything goes

We Love Stamping - favourite stamps

Thanks for dropping by today :)

Kathy

Pussywillows

 I have a card to share today using the Pussywillows stamp from Mo's Digital Pencil.

This stamp is so beautiful and I thought it would be great to use for a Thinking of You card.

I had a lot of fun creating this card :)

Firstly I created a mask to cover the girl on the stamp.

Then I created the background by brayering some distress oxide inks onto my gel press.  I used Ripe Persimmon, Squeezed Lemonade and Speckled Egg for the sky and pressed it onto the cardstock.

It looked pretty good except that it looked a bit more like three stripes of colour than a sky.  So I just used a sponge with the same distress oxides and blended a little between the blue and yellow and the yellow to persimmon.  

This was easier for me and gave a much better result as I find blending oxides smoothly onto copic card a bit difficult.

Then I blended Twisted Citron and Pistachio Distress Oxides for the grass.

I flicked on some gesso mixed with water and also "painted" some whispy clouds with it.

I removed the mask and coloured the girl with Copics and used a white Posca pen on the pussywillows.

Copics used :

B0000

BG 000, 72

YG 93

E 00, 13, 21, 33, 35, 37, 53

I'd like to enter my card in the following card challenges :

Wednesdays Creative Inspirations Challenge : spring flowers

Paper Funday Challenge : anything goes

Thanks for dropping by today :)

Kathy

Flower Jar

I have a card to share for Mo's Digital Pencil today using a gorgeous stamp called Flower Jar.

I haven't coloured flowers for a really, really long time but I loved it!

This arrangement is just so warm and homely and I decided to leave the card blank because there's just so many occasions I could use it for.

I decided to go for orange Iceland Poppies with white Daisies and found some old paper from my stack that coordinated quite well :)

Copics used :

BV 0000, 02, 04, 13

Y 13, 15

YR 14, 16, 18

YG 01, 03, 13, 17

BG 01, 10

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges :

We Love Stamping - anything stamped with option of stencilling

Crafty Calendar Challenge - anything goes

Paper Funday challenge - anything goes

Thanks for dropping by :)

Kathy

Superhero Baby

I have a card to share today featuring Superhero Baby from Mo's Digital Pencil.

I needed a card for a baby boy and I wanted it to be fun and a bit different.  This stamp was so perfect and I loved colouring him and creating the background too.

The background was created using distress oxide and distress ink with the Sun Rays stencil from Whimsy Stamps and then splattering it with gesso.

The Superbaby sentiment comes with the stamp and I just typed the other part of the sentiment on the computer and cut it out.  

I wanted to have Superbaby standing on a cloud but I don't actually have a die like that so I used a cloud stencil instead.  I just sponged ink along a cloud edge and then cut it out myself.  It's amazing that I have never thought to do that before! haha :)

Copics used :

R 20, 24, 27, 29, 30, 59

B 04, 06

E 000, 00, 13, 21

Thanks for dropping by today :)

Kathy

Make a Wish

 I have made a cute card this week with an adorable stamp from Mo's Digital Pencil called Make a Wish.

You could use this stamp for so many different occasions and I thought a Best Wishes sentiment would work for most of them.  I stamped the word 'best' from an MFT set I have and die cut the 'wishes' from a Pinkfresh Studio die called Sending. I cut the word out a few times and glued it together for some dimension.

The background was done using an "old school" product, an embossing folder.  I still use them occasionally because I love the look. Especially when it's sanded back like I've done on this card.

I loved colouring her with my Copics.

She's just so cute!!!

Copics used :

RV 02, 17, 25

R 20, 22, 30

V 04

E 000, 00, 11, 13, 21, 35, 39, 53

C 1

YG 01

BG 0000

Thanks for dropping by today :)

Kathy

Life is Like a Balloon

I have made something other than a card today using some wonderful images from Mo's Digital Pencil.

I LOVE this stamp set! It's called Life is Like a Balloon and I thought it would work beautifully in my art journal.

I started off by making the background. I used some acrylic paints and a cloud stencil for the sky and some distress oxide inks for the ground with a fern stencil. I also used some black ink through a text stencil and darkened the edges of the pages with it too.

I then brushed gesso over the top to soften the look and with markers drew a border to frame everything.

I used copics to colour the images and fussy cut them out and I cut the sentiment into strips and drew a border around these also.  I left the "balloon" word out of the sentiment and instead used a die to cut this out for greater impact.  I also added some black ink splatters and some highlights with white pen.

This is a gorgeous stamp and I love the sentiment too!  I will definitely make cards with these two sometime soon.

Copics used :

RV 02, 52, 55

B 93, 95, 97

BV 000, 00, 02, 04

R 20, 22, 30

E 000, 00, 11, 21, 42, 43, 44, 55

Thanks for dropping by today :)

Kathy

Skateboard Schoolboy

Recently I had the difficult challenge of making a birthday card for a teenage boy!  They can be tricky but I had a look through the wonderful boy images at Mo's Digital Pencil and found this one called Skateboard Schoolboy and thought he would be perfect.

I coloured him with Copics and cut him out.  Then I used a Tim Holtz brick stencil and sponged Speckled Egg Distress Oxide onto black card. I love the way this turned out :)

The sentiment is from a great die by Pinkfresh Studio called Sending.

Copics Used :

E 000, 00, 13, 21, 41, 50, 53, 55

B 000, 93, 95, 97

R 20, 22, 30

YG 91, 95

W 1, 5, 7, 9

C 1

Thanks for dropping by today :)

Kathy

Warm Christmas

 I have a cute card to share for Mo's Digital Pencil today.

I do love creating wintery Christmas scenes but that is really the opposite of what an Australian Christmas is, so this stamp called Warm Christmas was such a perfect one for me.  She is adorable and I love the Christmas Bush flowers blowing about too :)

I coloured the scene with Copics and added some wink of stella to the outside of her wings and the white flowers. The sentiment is included with the stamp and I simply cut it out and added a hand-drawn border to it.

I added Pinkfresh Studio's Stitched scallop square die to it and mounted it onto a sheet of LawnFawn watercolor paper.

Copics used :

E 000, 00, 13, 21, 42, 43, 44

R 20, 22, 24, 30

YG 0000, 01, 03

B 0000, 00, 21, 23

Thanks for dropping by today :)

Kathy

Candy Cane Bear

 

Hi :) I have another Christmas card for Mo's Digital Pencil to share today.

If you're like me and have a lot of Christmas cards to get made and not much time to do it, then this stamp is the one for you :)

This is Candy Cane Bear he is super cute but also super quick and easy to colour.

 

I decided to print the bear and the sentiment out separately. I used a large tag die to cut around the stamp. Then I cut out the "Hope your holidays are" part and mounted it on black card and used a "sweet" die to finish off the sentiment.  

At the top of the tag I used some gorgeous Making Merry washi tape by Simple Stories. It's something I bought recently and I fought my urge to buy the matching paper.  But using the tape really made me wish I hadn't paid attention to my logical side when I was buying.  I really wanted new Xmas paper and it is beautiful, but I didn't "need" more. So I was trying to be good :(  Anyway it did go pretty nicely with this old paper from Little Yellow Bicycle that I had in my stash.

Copics used :

W 1

R 000, 22, 24, 27, 59

B 0000

Thanks for dropping by today :)

Kathy

Katie and Bear

I have another Christmas card for Mo's Digital Pencil to share today.

I love, love, love this stamp!  It's called Katie and Bear. And it just might be my favourite of all of Mo's stamps :)

 

This was a fun stamp to colour!

I decided to take my inspiration from some cute paper I had in my stash.  It's from Carta Bella and is  called Winter Fun.  It's old but still gorgeous I think.

The beautiful sentiment comes with the stamp too :)

Copics used :

E 000, 00, 44, 44, 47

W 00, 1, 3

BG 0000, 00, 10, 72

R 20, 30, 39

Thanks for dropping by today :)

Kathy