I was too late for the Challenge --Bummer

I had a little time last week to play so I decided to play the Copic Creations Challenge, but alas I did not get my projects done in time to submit them for that challenge.  I downloaded two free images from the sponsor site so i thought the only right thing was to give a small plug here in appreciation of the generosity of Elizabeth O Dulema.


Here are the two book marks I created for the challenge which was Reading!!:

The Tim Holtz tag doesn't show up but it says Journey which was Reading for me.  I have always loved to read and instilled this love in all of my girls, My son reads too but not like the girls and only very specific authors.
My second image is my favorite.  It is a darling little fairy reading a book sitting on a stack of books.  Here she is:

Don't you agree this is an adorable image.  You can get this image at Elizabeth's free download site here

Hope you all had a great day.  I have got to get some coloring done, not because I am behind but just because I NEED to color!!!: 

Well, I am off to color, hope you liked my little book marks which may not really be as functional as they are cute but oh well....

Thanks for stopping by...

Cathy

Copic Creations Challenge #4 Blonde Hair

The bi-weekly Copic Creations Challenge #4 is to color blonde hair. I usually struggle with blonde keeping it as light as I would like so I thought this was a perfect challenge for me.

Here is what I came up with. I used the Flower Girl beauty from Dog Gone Stamps and colored the dress mint green with teal shading, gave her fair colored skin to go with the blonde hair. I only used 3 shades of yellow for my hair and then I added some white highlights.

I mounted the main image on soft sky SU cardstock and then mounted that on a dp from SU.

I am so looking forward to this week-end and having time to stamp and play. Thanks for stopping by. Have a great week-end.

Cathy

New Copic Challenge Site Yippee!!

I was surfing the blogs the other night and saw a new site for copic marker challenges called Copic Creations. It was mentioned on Marianne Walker's blog so it must be a good one. I have just submitted my first challenge card for their first challenge. The challenges will be twice monthly on the first and fifteenth. I should be able to manage that. The challenge this time was to use a skin coloring technique. I used my flower girl image and completed a card.

I had colored this image, Flower Girl from Dog Gone Stamps, last week. I used the following copic markers for the skin color. E000, E31 and E33. These are basically the only three colors I use for the main skin color on a female image. I usually use R11 for the blush on a human image.

I completed this image by sponging around the edge of the image with Tim Holtz broken china and vintage photo distress inks. I mounted the main image on brown cardstock, the brown on a turquoise polka dot that I sponged vintage photo on the edge. That was mounted on a final piece of brown. The striped designer paper was some that I picked up at Hobby Lobby about a year ago and seems to be my go to dp when using turquoise. I added a piece of brown borner punched along the left side. Inside that I added a strip of K & Company paper flower border. I added turquoise gems inside each flower. I tied two pieces of narrow satin ribbon between the gems and main image as a boundary (and to cover my seam).

Very quick card. Thanks for looking.

I got a lot of projects done this week-end. Some I can show you and some I have to wait as they are DT work, I know I am soo mean, I think it will be worth the wait.

Did you happen to notice the Dog Gone Stamps blog walk hop button in the upper right hand corner of the page. Be sure to join us on April 25, at 10 am for a walk with the Dog Pound group. We will have lots of fun things to show you.

Back later or tomorrow depending on what else I get done tonight.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cathy