Chibi Cupcakes and CCC26

Good morning! Mary revealed another Copic creatios Challenge yesterday! It's to color black hair with your copics. Not an easy thing for me, but sometimes you gotta tackle something like that! Here's the result: This is Chibi Cupcakes from The Greeting Farm. This is a digi image but they carry rubber too and The Greeting Farm is offering a nice price to one lucky winner! You can read more details on the Copic Creations Challenge Blog

My card uses My Mind's Eye paper from the Quite Contrary collection and Paper trey Ink ribbon. Chibi's hair is colored with all the cool grays that I own! Co, C1, C3, C5 C7 and C9! I like to start light with my coloring and add darker and darker colors until I get what I want.

No sure what's up for the weekend, but Monday is the Magnolia-licious Blog Hop-we are showcasing the stamp "Right through my Heart" and Diana has a contest going on right now if you use that stamp and show her your card.

You can also check out details for being a guest designer for Mo for the month of May Here are the DETAILS.

Well, we have had some beautiful weather lately in Western New York! I guess that's changing for a couple of days, but I don't card, cuz we have next week off for spring break! I'm sooooo happy about that! So much to do!

Find something to be happy about today!

Cheryl

Second card-Snow in Blue

Good morning! Wow, thank you so much for all the great comments yesterday! Weren't all the snowman cards just terrific!

As promised, here's my second with the snow colored with blues and a similar layout. I did make this one as an easel card which is so fun and easy! I used Baja Blue and Celery to match my Wintergreen (SU paper which I have hoarded! I love it so much! I think it was made to match Sage Shadow, but it is perfect with Baja! The layour on the front of the card is a sketch by Cindy Lawrence in a past VSN on splitcoast. It's a real keeper for large center images. I used my copics to color the snow. I started very light with BG0000, then BG10 and sparingly BG72 for the darkest. I used the cool greys for his hat and YGs for the vest. Here are the YGs I used YG01, YG21, YG93 and YG95.

Remember the team wants to see how YOU color snow! You can check out the details on Copic Creations Challenge Blog. You can win 25.00 from Whipper Snapper!

Lest you think this has become a snowman blog-tomorrow I will have a Magnolia card with one of the new Maggies!

Thanks for visiting!

Hugs, Cheryl

CCC-Let it Snow!

We are supposed to get some snow tonight so this challenge is perfect! I love coloring snowmen! You just keep it light with a little color and voila! Actually, coloring snowmen reminds me of many nights when I tole painted wood. Snowmen and Santas were favorites of mine! They still are! This challenged is sponsored by Whipper Snapper. They have so many great stamps! They are donating a 25.00 gift certificate to the winning cardmaker! I decided to make the snow "brown" on this card and go with an antique look. It was lots of fun to coordinate with this wonderful Cosmo paper called Winter Wonderland.
I used E43, E42 , E40 and E000 for the snow.
I even used distressed stickles in linen for the muted sparkle!
Anna Wight's snowflakes are favorites on cards like this and Nicole Heady's packages of buttons have buttons of the same color but different sizes which are perfect!

Now I really had fun with this and made another card using a similar layout, the same snowman, but completely different colors with a focus on BLUE snow! I hope you'll return tomorrow to see him.
Thanks for visiting! Be sure to check out the art from the other designers! Copic Creations Challenge is HERE! (If the post isn't up yet it will be soon!)
Have a great day! SIL is doing better! I am so grateful for your prayers!

CCC challenge (Oct. 15) Color Something Black

Mary gave us free reign to choose an image that we could showcase how we color black. I think if you check out the blogs, you'll find that most of us use grays to make black~ Who would want to cover up the detail of all the wonderful images out there! Mine is no exception. My gray and black striped cat is made of of the Warm Grey copics. W00, W-1, W-3, W-5, W-7 AND C9 (for the darkest). In case you haven't read it before, you really don't NEED all of the gray shades. Getting every other one will serve you fine whether it's the cool or warm grays. I don't have many Neutrals or any Toners so I can't speak about them, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same with them.

It's no secret that I love my Tilda and Edwins! Really, I do! Magnolia also makes some great "Accessory stamps" and Diana (Magnolia-licious)
carrries lots of them! This Hanging Cat and Tag are BOTH in stock now. If you are in our Magnolia-licious group and mention that in the comment section you can get 10% off! (check details at the store, please)
I used my new cosmo Cricket Nutmeg paper (found it at Croppin' Paradise). I love the dep, earthy tones. This card is only 4 1/4x4 1/4 so it could be used as a gift tag, but can also be mailed in an A2 envelope. I think I could also have put a small "Merry Christmas" in the tag space and made it a holiday card. Endless possibilities! I will also be putting the walking cat inside and will color that one like our orange cat, Charlie.

You can still enter my blog candy by checking THIS POST and leaving a comment before Sunday, 10/18 at 9: oo am.

thanks for visiting! I'll be back Sunday with my winner!

Have a great day and WEEKEND! Be sure to check the CCC blog for the other designers Fabulous work! the post may be delayed a day or two so I hope you don't give up! It'll be worth the wait!

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

Have you seen Mo Manning's Art?

Well, you should check out her illustrations! They are amazing! She is the sponsor for our Copic Creations Challenge today! Her website is Digital Pencil Too Or Mos' Digital Pencil.
She is giving away a store gift certificate for $20.00!!

I chose Mummu's bike to color for the challenge. We were to use any of our favorite colors/combinations. I love aqua AND my own bike is that color! I also love soft yellow. The skirt was trickier. I love green and orange but neither seemed like they would work, so Rose pink it is. (And, I do love pink, too!)
I wanted to contrast this active granny with a vintage card otherwise so I went to my K& Company pad of paper and found the perfect pattern! The card became 6" x 8" so I could show off the wonderful roses and aqua stripes! A little lace and one of my crocheted flowers, some ivory satin ribbon and I was all set.

You have until September 14 to join in this challenge with us! Please check the details on the Copic Creations Challenge blog linked above.

Colors I used:
Yellow: Y0000, Y21, YR21, YR24
Aqua: BG0000, BG10, Bg72
Rose: E93, R30, RV42, R32, R24, E53
(The pinks were just too bright. Don't forget when you don't want a bright color you can "tone it down" with a light grey or brown.)

Thanks for checking this out! Tomorrow I have another of Mo's illustrations to show you!
I'll be at work all day-can't wait to read what you think when I get home!

Cheryl