He's Making a List....Have You Been Naughty or Nice?

I think this Santa from the new DoveArt Studios holiday release, Making a List, is one of the best looking Santa's I have ever seen! So I decided to make him the main focal point of my Christmas book this year.  I really love how he looks on the front cover!  

CC Designs ~Making a List by DoveArt Studios

Copics used:

Skin ~  E50, E51, R30
Santa Suit ~  R37, R89
Santa's List ~  E40, E41, E42, E43
Wooden Stool ~  E35, E37, E39, E49
Hair, Suit Trim, Buckle, Feather ~  C0, C1, C3, C5, C7
Boots ~  C5, C7, C9
Belt ~  C3, C5, 100

Thank you for stopping by,

~ Nic ~

Tea for You!

This beautiful card was created by Irene Mendes.  You can check out her whole post at My Own Crafty Space blog.  Using Faber-Castell Pitt Pastel pencils she colored up Tea Time from LDRS Creative.  I love the soft feel of this beautiful card.  I love that you can color this stamp using any coloring medium.

I hope you enjoy the inspiration using this stamp, I know I did!

Irene's Blog

Tea Time - LDRS Creative

Gardener's Card.

Hello,

I'm sharing a card today I have made for my step Dad, as I coloured the image I found myself thinking of him and how much he loves gardening so I'll be sending this one to him just because he is such a good man that I love dearly.

Garden Bench

As you can see I used a LOT of markers for this image and a couple of polychromos pencils. The style of this card went through many changes from straight out CAS to an easel card then finally after all that colouring I decided to chop it into three and create this fancy fold screen card and I'm very happy with it :)

The Garden Bench stamp was a delight to colour.

Bye for now

Andrea xx

Beautiful Bouquet

Hello DoveArt Studio friends,

I'm here to share my 'Bouquet' card from the latest release. I should've shared it here awhile ago, shhhh don't tell the boss! Better late then never right?

The NEW and Beautiful 'Bouquet' & Hello sentiment 

I coloured the 'Bouquet' with Copic Markers
Y06, 08, 19
YR12, 23, 24, Y28, YR16
BV000, 00, V22, 25, 28
N7
YG03, 23, 97.

Andrea xx

Relax

I love that when looking at this card I can almost hear the crashing of the waves and smell the salt air.  This is one of the newly released stamps and can be found in one of your local stores (all you have to do is ask).  They can find it through CCDesigns or their distributers.

For this stamp I cut out the sand portions and layered it 2 extra times to create dimension.  In real life it really does pop.

Enjoy!

Anchor Beach Scene

Hi Everyone,

I just love how this scene worked out using the gorgeous Anchor Rubber Stamp.

It's often difficult to find good images for manly cards that we actually want to colour. ;)  teehee.

I found creating a whole beach themed scene gave me the extra excitement to be creative.

I don't do much watercolouring but decided to have a little fun with this one.

Using a combination of Derwent Inktense pencils and Distress Inks
I attempted to watercolour the scene.

I do like the 'subdued' result but those trees turned into a mess! haha

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Hugs

Zoe

Masking Lilac & Butterfly

Hi Everyone,

I really love this stamp and wanted to try creating a frame around my card by stamping the stamp multiple times. By masking certain areas and selectively inking and turning the stamp, I was able to carefully build the flowers around the edge whilst keeping the butterfly as the main focus.

Lilac & Butterfly Rubber Stamp

The main image was coloured with Copic Markers and then once I had cropped my design using the LawnFawn stitched rectangle dies, I sponged Distress Inks around the edges to darken them, helping to draw attention to the focal point of the butterfly.

I think masking flower images like this and building a frame around your card design is a fun way to extend the use of your stamps in a creative way.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Hugs


Zoe xoxo