Lacy Sunshine-Anastasia Moppet

Since I've discovered the world of Digital Stamps I've been quite impressed with many of the talented artists willing to share their amazing drawings with the stamping community (for a small fee of course), but the images are top quality and so much fun to color.  I have had the pleasure of getting to know a few of the artists and this post is highlighting Heather Valentin and her adorable creations from Lacy Sunshine.  What a fun Facebook group to be a part of.  The ladies who belong are all very talented and Heather the artist is just an all around sweet person.  She does giveaways of some of her images to use in various contests she hosts on her Facebook page.  This is one of those images Anastasia Field of Flowers Moppet.  Please join her group, enjoy reading her blogs and you definitely will want to buy some of her images because they are absolutely darling.  The has the sweet little Boos, the Bugmees, the Emily Raindrops, Flower Pot Pretties, and the Wix to name a few.  Hope you enjoy this card I created and submitted to the latest challenge "Anastasia Moppet" that I colored with copics.
I used E00, E01, E02, E04, and E21 for her skin.  Y21, Y32 and Y26 for her hat, BG49 and BG 78 for her dress, B000 and B01 for the sky, and YG07, YG 17 for the foliage.  If there are some colors I missed please feel free to ask.  Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!
Almost forgot, here is a link to her site: http://lacysunshine.weebly.com/shop.html
Happy Coloring!

Helen

Kit and Clowder

I must say I am super de duper excited about joining the crafting community of Kit and Clowder.  They have wonderful classes available for all skill levels.  I just entered one of my recent creations in their challenge: http://kitandclowder.ning.com/february-challenge using an image from Stamps by AuroraWings called Woman with Masquerade Owl Mask in a Lily Garden.  I am an official collector of Mitzi's images, but they are so detailed and just plain gorgeous, what's not to love?!!

Mo's Digital Pencil

Hello bloggers, thought I'd pop in today and showcase one of my creations using a Mo's Digital Pencil image.  Her images are darling!  I love Bronte, Bella and the baby fairies she draws.  She has quite an arsenal of various images for all occasions.  With all of the snow we've been getting here in Central Ohio lately this little fairy seems appropriate.  I used copics, B91, B95, B97, B000, E01, E21, Y21 and Y32.  I posted her blog badge today on my blog, you can find her at www.mosdigitalpencil.com and on Facebook. Hope everyone is staying warm and cozy.

Random thoughts and a fabulous new digi by Stamps by Aurora Wings

I am pretty new to the blogging world, but have been papercrafting for years.  This seems to be the trend now if you are a crafter is that you must have a blog.  I hope that a few folks will consider visiting my blogspot and checking out my works of art.  I attended my first crop day of the year and usually I make upwards of 15 to 20 cards on these days.  This wasn't the case yesterday.  I only made 7, yes just 7 cards.  Mind you, I colored several and usually my main priority is to get the images I've already colored onto cards, but I had acquired a couple of new images and couldn't resist the temptation to bring them to life.  Two of them were variations on a theme of Anti-Valentine's Day cards for my stepdaughter and her friend who are both single.  It was fun creating them.  The third was Peacock Masquerade by Stamps by AuroraWings' Mitzi Sato-Wiuff which I'm featuring below.  I used my copics, Y28, Y23, Y26, YG67, G28, B37, E01, E21, E04, BG49, BG18, BG11,and some various gel pens for accents.  I love masks, which started way back thanks to my mother.  She loved them too and I still have some of her masks hanging on my office wall to this day.  I have added a photo of them too for your viewing pleasure.
   I do thoroughly enjoy this artist's work and have been mainly coloring digis that I've purchased from her store recently. That being said, if you are interested, she just launched her own challenge blog at: http://aurorawingschallenge.blogspot.com/  Feel free to pop over to her blog and check it out.  While you are there, she is also giving away one of her amazingly beautiful digis called "Sisterhood"!!!
   At some point when I am more adept at the blog challenges, I may join in a few of them.  The competition seems fierce in these challenges, the creations these other ladies make are top notch and being my own worst critic I'm a little intimidated by this.  I truly don't do this to compete anyway, just  for the love of the craft so in the end it just makes me happy to create and share my work with my friends and family.  Enough of my middle of the night ramblings, thank you if you have taken the time to stop by my blog and thank you even more if you should decide to leave a comment.  I hope you have a wonderful week and until next time, enjoy the things that make you happy!

First creations of 2014

The tree is all down and the house looks just like it did before the holidays so back to some crafting!  I created a couple of new cards from my Stamps by Aurorawings collection, one for a ladyfriend of mine who loves to dance and one just in general because the image was begging to be colored.  I do not have a list of the colors I used on these at the moment, but please message me if you are truly interested in knowing.  Thanks for stopping by to check out my latest posts, hope everyone stays safe and warm especially those getting hit by the deep freeze (I'm in one of the lucky states that is).
Happy crafting!

I haven't posted much since before Christmas, but the holidays tend to demand our time and energy.  I hope everyone had a nice holiday!  This time tomorrow we will be making preparations to celebrate the New Year.  I am hoping by then the cold I've been nursing will be nearly gone since I'm on day four now.  I'm not one to publicly whine so enough said about that, the world has enough tragedy in it and there are people going through things so much worse.  2013 started out rough at least in job land, but in the end it was a decent year. I made some new friends during my tumultuous time at said job as well as learned some valuable life lessons.  Even in the worst of circumstances we can take away priceless pearls of wisdom to carry with us throughout life.  Thanks to a good friend I was hired at my current job in May working as a Microbiologist for a hospital laboratory and I love my job!  I learned to use Copic markers and I'm thankful for an angel named Becky Machniewski for being my instructor from afar.  I have had the pleasure of discovering digital stamp art and getting to know some of the artists.  Some of my favorites include, but aren't limited to: Stamps by Aurorawings (http://www.etsy.com/shop/AuroraWings), 2 Cute Ink (http://www.shop.2cuteink.com/main.sc), Kenny K (http://www.kennykdownloads.com/), Hannah Lynn (http://www.hannahlynnart.com/digi-stamps.html) and there are so many more!  I am waffling on whether I should begin a Master's degree program which will take time away from my art, but may help me professionally at some stage.  I had my BRCA story published in  a book called "Pink Moon Lovelies" by Nicki Durlester as well as some of my quotes published in another book called "Letters to Doctors" by Jonathan Herman and Teri Smeija.  For those who are unfamiliar, I am BRCA 1 positive meaning I have a mutation on the genes in my body that suppress breast and/or ovarian cancer tumors.  I had risk reducing surgeries approximately four years ago, but have since had some developments in my BRCA journey, but that would be topic for a different blog on a different day and I'm not sure if I'm even ready for that commitment.  I'm more about supporting others who are going through their journey or just beginning.  This is mainly my blog for my crafting, but I'm sure it's nice to get to know a little bit about the person doing the blogging.  If you want to know more about BRCA just message me, I'm happy to share.  I love paper crafting probably more than any other craft I've tried.  Believe me when I say I've just about tried them all (save knitting).  I do still make jewelry from time to time and my family likes to receive the handmade gifts not to mention they don't have to display it in their home somewhere like some of my other crafting endeavors.  I hope that each and every one of you who read this have a very happy and safe New Year!  A new year always holds the promise of being better than the one before.  I will leave you with this wintery card I made using a Simply Gorjuss snowman stamp, colored with copics B000, R20, Y000, RV66, RV69, and BG49.  The wording is a Kaleidacolor stamp pad called Blue Breeze along with some snowflake stickers. Happy New Year and happy crafting!!

Christmas is on our heels!

I really had every intention of making all of my Christmas cards this year, but my best laid plans fell short.   Maybe this year's bounty can be a start on next year.  My card list is in excess of 70 people so you can see how one might get sidetracked in the card making realm.  I figured today would be a good day to post another of my Christmas cards to keep in the holiday spirit.  So here is yet another of my latest creations. I believe this reindeer was a freebie from one of Whimsy stamps Friday freebies.  I love this guy..so much fun! I used Copic for him in E25 and E 29,  R20 and R13 for his tongue and B000 for the snow shadows and of course stickles for the glitter.  I used a paper towel and a stamp pad for the sky.  The background paper came from Paper Temptress in a sampler as well as some random snowflake sticker jewels.  This was a pretty easy card to make.  You will probably notice I like deckle edges quite a bit.  My favorite Stamping Up scissors from way back when.  I also like to take a stamp pad and frame my images for contrast.  If you ever have any questions on my techniques please just ask. :)  Thanks for taking the time to stop by today!

Christmas time

I probably could have launched my blog with an image of one of my Christmas cards, but that would be too easy so I will go ahead and add another post to keep my blog holiday savvy.   This card was also made with a Stamps by AuroraWings image (here's a link to her shop) https://www.etsy.com/shop/AuroraWings.  This one is called Mistletoe Fairy colored with copics R46, R39, YG67, G94, E11, E21, E40, E41,G24, YG09, B000, R20 & C2 with stickles glitter, glossy accents and  jewel embellishments.

Joining the blogosphere

I want to thank Tammy at http://handmadebytlc.blogspot.com for helping me join the blogging world.  
I am a paper crafter at heart. My love of papers go way back, I worked in the commercial printing world for many years, but now I spend my working time as a Microbiologist.  My playtime however, is devoted to coloring with Copic markers as well as Prismacolor colored pencils, Tombows and the occasional gel pen for added zing. I like to make paper novelty purses and have a Facebook page as well as an Etsy site called You've Got Purseonality. I also enjoy making greeting cards. This year I discovered the wonderful world of digital stamps and have had a wonderful time adding color to many various artists images including but not limited to: Whimsy, Kenny K, Hannah Lynn Designs, 2 Cute Ink,, Saturated Canary, Mo's Digital Pencil, and most recently Stamps by Aurora Wings. I hope you enjoy my creations as much as I enjoy sharing them! To start my blog off properly here is one of my may creations using Las Calaveras from Stamps by Aurora Wings. I used Copics: R02, R05, R08, BG18,RV66,B06, E40, E41, E42, E01, E11,YG63 and G94. The words are in spanish basically saying "I'm not able to forget you" Welcome to my blog!