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Hello everyone and happy Tuesday!! I hope everyone is enjoying the New Year so far! Anyone got any crafty resolutions?

One of mine is to get better at my Copic coloring and to get as many colors as I can without going entirely broke! Coloring is therapeutic and calming whether it be with Copics or crayons, but I've recently fallen in love with Copics and I've seen so many beautiful crafts done with them. I'm excited to see what is to come with the rest of this year and even how my blog will develop! I'm new to the blogging scene and don't know what all it entails, but I suppose we will have to see!

Anyway, enough ranting and onto the card! (Apologies in advance since the lights I use at my apartment on campus like to wash out everything!)

This card did take me out of my comfort zone a little since it's just a one layer card and I used so many sequins, but I like how it turned out! I, as usual, started off with some heavy white cardstock cut at 5 1/4 by 4 and stamped on the flowers (a retired stamp from Stampin' Up! called Blended Bloom). I then colored those in with my Copics, of course! (R20, R24, and YG63 for the petals; Y15, E47, and E34 for the centers with a little clear Wink of Stella for sparkle). While I'm coloring, I always start with my lightest color and work up to the darkest before going back down to my lightest...I feel it gives me the best blending of the different shades.

I then grabbed my Mini Misti (I linked to Amazon's listing, though there are a bunch of places selling them), and lined up the sentiment how I liked it (from Mama Elephant's Birthday Wishes stamp set) and inked it up with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. It came out great so I didn't have to stamp twice! It's the little things that can make a day great, haha!

After that, I spent about twenty minutes trying to get the sequins just right. I just used some shiny clear ones from a previous project and glued them down with some Tombow Mono Multi Glue.

Then I put it onto an A2 card base before stamping the sentiment on the inside. Voila! Ready to go!

I'll be submitting this card to the following lovely challenges (go check them out!!):

Jo's Scrap Shack (Anything Goes)

Catch the Bug Blog (Anything Goes)

Stamp Ink Paper (Black and White with a Pop of Color)

Colour Crazy Challenge (Always Anything Goes)

Mod Squad Challenge (BLING!!!!)

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Pipsy

(Mattie)

I'm back on campus and have one day of classes behind me. Yay! I have a few classes I'm excited for, but I can't say that math and chemistry are any of those. I'm just awful in both subjects and would much rather spend the time at my desk with my stamps and crafting supplies. Speaking of which, I couldn't resist using the time after class to create a little something for a close friend of mine who has a birthday coming up soon.

I started off with an A2 size card base and card front cut at 5 1/4 by 4 in some heavy weight cardstock (I used Whisper White from Stampin Up, though any cardstock would work). Then I stamped out a couple images of this adorable little bear from the Beary Special Birthday stamp set from My Favorite Things just in case I messed up the coloring on one of them (or if not, I would have an extra for another project)!

I colored the little guy with Copics (E34, E25, and E30 for the bear and R20 for his little nose; E30, R20, W1, and W2 for the cake). And since I don't have the dies, I fussy cut him out and colored the edges black with a marker (I suggest testing any black marker you want to use on a scrap piece of the same cardstock to make sure it doesn't bleed into your images...I've had that happen a few times and it is just awful to see the cute image with a black shmeer across the front)!

For the balloons (I used the Stampin Up Balloon Bouquet punch), I used So Saffron Cardstock from Stampin' Up and darkened the edges to add a little dimension with a dauber and some So Saffron Ink. I also used my white gel pen to add a light glare to help make it look less flat. The strings to the balloons were the trickiest part...I wanted to use black sewing thread so I didn't have to draw lines all over the front, but that would have probably been much easier in the end! But of course, I was stubborn and didn't want to stop once I started. I tied the string to the balloon first and taped the small end to the back of the balloon and then left a good sized tail (maybe about 4 inches or so). Once they were all done, I added some foam tape to the back and positioned them how I liked and taped the tails down with a piece of foam tape too which is where I placed the little teddy bear.

The cake sentiment was part of the same stamp set as the bear and it just worked too perfectly with the image and the amount of space I had left so I had to use it! After I stamped that onto the card front, it needed a little something extra so I popped on a few sequins and extra punched out stars I had lying around.

For the inside of the card, which I don't have pictured, I cut another 5 1/4 by 4 piece of the cardstock and stamped a sentiment on it... "Happy Bear-thday" to be exact. I 100% believe that this is going to be my new favorite stamp set for a while...it is just too darn cute!

I am also going to submit this little guy to the Scrapbook Stamp Society Blog for their current challenge which you all should go check out! Even if you're not interested in the challenge, they have some awesome inspiration that could help if you have a bad case of crafters-block!

What are you guys working on this week? Any fun projects?

Love you all!

Pipsy

(Mattie)

Hello everyone and happy Friday! We made it to the weekend, woohoo! For me, the excitement is short lived since tomorrow is the dreaded day of returning to campus to start classes for spring semester. No, it isn't the worst, but I will miss having free time to work on crafting and spending time with the family (and cats of course). For today, I cranked out a few cards and thought I'd share this little lady with you all!

She reminds me so much of Tinkerbell, but alas, my Copic selection doesn't allow me to color blonde hair quite yet. Slowly but surely, my collection will grow...I hope! Anyway, this little fairy is a digital stamp I purchased from Prettygrafikdesign on Etsy and I used the ScannCut2 from Brother to cut her out (highly recommend that machine by the way since it cuts out pretty much all images without needing dies...is that awesome or what?). I colored her in with Copics (G29, G646, YG63, and G43 for her dress; E15, E13, and E18 for her hair; R20, E00, E50, and BV000 for her skin; C0 and C2 for her wings with a little clear Wink of Stella to add some sparkle).

I cut a piece of Whisper White heavy white cardstock from Stampin Up to 4.5in by 3in, and stamped on the leaves on the bottom (Falling Flowers by Stampin' Up). I stamped the flower from the same set on a different piece of cardstock and fussy cut it...not to add dimension, but because I messed up on my first attempt at this card after spilling my tea all over it. Somehow the flower survived so I didn't let it go to waste! So, you can cut it out or stamp it right on the card front. Whatever you want to do! Anyway, I colored the flower in with R20 and R24 and did the Tip-to-Tip (touching the tip of the lightest marker to the darker one and coloring) technique to blend them since I didn't have a color in between the two.

I wasn't quite sure what to do for the background or if I just wanted to leave it blank, but I decided to sponge some Soft Sky ink from Stampin Up (though any light blue ink would work just as well) to make a sort of ombre look...it doesn't show up too well in the picture sadly, but in person it is much more noticeable.

I gave the fairy and the whole card front a little dimension by bumping them up with some foam tape, popped on a few leftover sequins, and voila! It is completed! Sorta anyway, I cut out another piece of cardstock at 5 1/4 by 4 for the inside and stamped a birthday wishes sentiment. Then it was all finished!

Just another lovely A2 card that I think turned out pretty well...and I learned to keep the tea away from the work zone!!

P.S I made this card for the Color Crazy Challenge over at the Color Crazy Challenge blog which you should all go check out as well as the Wednesday Challenge going on over at Simon Says Stamps' blog.

Love you all!

Pipsy

(Mattie)

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