Grateful!

I have a lot to be grateful for, but tonight I am not grateful for Blogger! this is the second time I've typed this post! Blogger wouldn't save, and, of course my great words all disappeared! Grrr!!!! I am on my way out the door this evening, too! Back to school for Open House! Long day for teachers!


Okay, on to the cardd! I loooove this IBFS image called Pumpkin and vine border. There is a challenge on the I Brake for Challenges blog starting today! You have two weeks to enter your card in the FALL theme with us! You don't have to use an IBFS image, but if you have any we'd love to see your creations with them!


This would be a great image and card for teaching a card class, me thinks!


I also used my Impression Obsession Gingham cover a card bg stamp in Cayenne on Pumpkin Pie and on Kraft with Expresso.


The pumpkin and vine are colored with copics, which I think you already knew!
I used YR20 and 21, YR12, 15, 18 and a little Y18 for more yellow.
I used YG93, 95,97 and a bit of YG99 for the leaves.
Well, I must be off, but before I go I want to say thank you so much for coming by today! I love when you visit and comments are just icing on the cake, 'cuz I know how busy everyone is!
Have a wonderful Wednesday!
Cheryl

CCC-Pumpkins!

Happy first of October!! I love everything about October-the weather cools (but isn't cold!), sweaters come out, the leaves on the trees are so beautiful, crisp, sunny days, colorful mums-I love it all! This is a perfect challenge for this time-Coloring Pumpkins with copics! I HAD to do more than one pumpkin on my card!! See details at the Copic Creations Blog. (If it's not up yet, it will be soon!) You HAVE GOT to see the work done by the other designers! WOW!!

This challenge is being sponsored by Christine at All That Scraps! Thank you! I got the digital download for the pumpkin (only $2.25!). Then I just kept copying and pasting it onto my Word document until I filled the page. I changed the sizes of the TWO pumpkins in the download so I got all different pumpkins when I printed it out on my Neenah Classic cardstock! Neat, huh?

I always start with a more yellow shade to color pumpkins, rather than orange. Then I layer oranges in the shadowed areas until I get the color I want. I use my light markers (from he last release of new colors) to blend with. They're the ones with 0000 after the letters.

My card is 51/2" x 51/2" to accommodate ALL my pumpkins!

Here are the copic colors I used:

Skin E000, E01, E93

Hair E42, E43, E55, E25

Blue jeans B0000, B21, B93, B95

Greens YG91. YG93, YG95, YG0000. YG97

Pumpkins Y17, YR15, YR16, YR18, YR09. E08, YR0000

Papertrey Pumpkins!

I just love the vintage picnic set from Papertrey and now is the perfect time to use the pumpkins in the basket! Must be a huge basket! My card base is So Saffron stamped in Mustard with the Paisley background from SU. The edges are sponged with Soft Suede. The sp is from Autumn Leaves by Papertrey Ink and the other card stock colors are pumpkin pie and Soft Suede.

I colored the image with my copics and used the following colors.

Pumpkins: Y17, YR15, YR16, YR18 and E08, blended with YR0000

Leaves YG91, YG93, YG97

Basket: E33, E35, E37 and blended with E0000

Today is Totally Stampalicious Monday and the challenge is to make a manly card! Mine isn't done, but hopefully will be tonight for posting soon!

Here are the details straight from Totally Stampalicious.

Thanks so much for visiting! I've been working on coloring, but don't seem able to complete the cards! Have to get my saved sketches out to give me the necessary push!

More posts this week! I hope!

Anyway, thanks for checking in!

Cheryl