Monthly Archives: June 2017

Prehistoric

Posted in CLean and simple, Clean Color Real Brush Pens, Neat and Tangled, Uncategorized, Watercolor, You Tube, Youtube, Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens by

Hey everyone! Today I am playing along with Neat and Tangled’s challenge! The Little Tangles challenge #81 Color Challenge.

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I really love this fun summerycolour pallet they gave us to work with. I broke out my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens and set to work with the Prehistoric stamp set.

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I am so over the moon with this set! I need to use it again with my copics. My son thinks its awesome that I can make him Dinosaur cards! I kept everything really simple following the colour pallet provided. I even recorded a video of making this card for you all!

I have a fun little video of this card. I hope you enjoy!

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Thanks for stopping by,
Hugz,
Jessie


Inspire Me Monday – Washy Watercolour

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Hey everyone! I am here today, hopefully to help inspire your creative week, using an awesome floral image from Power Poppy!

I am all about floral cards, in ever medium ever!! Today I have a video with some super soft watercolour on the Bubbles and Fizz digital stamp!

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I really love this image, I chose to print the lightened version of the stamp and use some light washy watercolours. I really love the way this card came out. In my usual style I blew up the image to fit the front of a card and added the sentiment that comes along with it!
I hope you enjoy my video!

I have always loved how washy watercolours work so well with florals, you don’t have to worry about picking every little detail to come out with a super lovely card front!

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Colours used: (these are all Daniel Smith Colours, but you can use any watercolours you have on hand!)

Cobalt Teal Blue
Quinacridone Pink
Rose of Ultramarine
Moonglow

Sap Green
Serpentine Genuine
Green Apatite Genuine
Perylene Green

Thanks for stopping by,
Hugz,
Jessie

Hold you Close

Posted in Faber- Castell, Polychromos, Prisma Color Pencils, Uncategorized, Whimsy Stamps, You Tube, Youtube by

Hey all! Today I have a super sweet card using the image Hold You Close as well as my latest sentiment set Thank You Friend, both from Whimsy Stamps!

Whimsy Stamps hold you close

Coloured Pencils used:
FC= Faber Castell, PC=Prismacolor,
Skin – Dark Sepia, Van Dyke Brown, Bistre, Cinnamon, Light Flesh, Ivory (FC)
Hair -Espresso, Dark Brown, Light Umber, Gingerroot, White (PC)
Pink – Black Cherry, Process Red, Pink, Blush Pink, Pink Rose (PC)
Teal – Hellios Turquoise, Cobalt Turquoise, Cobalt Green, Light Cobalt Turquoise (FC)
Yellow – Dark Naples Yellow, Cadmium Yellow, Light Cadmium Yellow, Zinc Yellow (FC)
Orange – Light Cadmium Red, Dark Cadmium Orange, Orange Glaze, Cadmium Orange (FC)
Ground – Walnut Brown, Burnt Umber, Raw UMber (PC)
Sky – Prussian Blue, Cobalt Blue Greenish, Phthalo Blue, Light Phthalo BLue (FC)

I kept the finished card super simple just stamping a couple sentiments at the top!

Whimsy Hold you close 2

Thanks for stopping by,
Hugz
Jessie

Sunny

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Hey everyone! I am here today, sharing with you a little card featuring the Sunny Kit!

I have been all into my coloured pencils lately and loving it!

Pencils used
skin – Dark Sepia, Van Dyke Brown, Bistre, Cinnamon, Light Flesh, Ivory (FC)
hair – Beige, Peach Beige, Beige Sienna, Light Walnut, Espresso (PC)
Orange – Light Cadmium Red, Dark Cadmium Orange, Cadmium Orange, Dark Chrome Yellow, Cadmium Yellow (FC)
Purple – Mauve, Manganese Violet, Crimson, Light Magenta (PC)
Sky – Blueish Turquoise, Phthalo Blue, Light Phthalo Blue (FC)
Green – Olive Green Yellowish, Permanent Green Olive, Earth Green Yellowish, May Green

This kit is so awesome!
Thanks for stopping by,
hugz,
Jessie

Krafty Komeback – Let Them Eat Cupcakes

Posted in CLean and simple, Faber- Castell, Kraftin Kimmie Stamps, Polychromos, Uncategorized by

Hey everyone! Today is a fantastic day, as you know Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps has retired from lots of their rubber stamps, and as such are bringing out some of the fav’s in clear!! Today comes a couple of the ladies from the original A Bit Smart Assy set! They are calling it Let Them Eat Cupcakes!

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How awesome are these darling ladies! I love them so much!!

KKS a bit smart assy

I stamped this lovely lady out on kraft paper with black ink and coloured her up with my coloured pencils (I have been on a bit of a coloured pencil kick lately!)

Coloured pencils – all colours are Faber-Castell Polychromos except for the white it is a Caran D’ache Luminance
Skin – Van Dyke Brown, Bistre, Cinnamon, Light Flesh, Ivory, White
Hair – Warm Grey VI, Warm Grey IV, Warm Grey II
Pants- Dark Indigo, Indathrene Blue, Phthalo Blue, Light Phthalo Blue, Cold Grey III
Pan – Cold Grey IV, Cold Grey I, Silver
Pink- Magenta, Pink Carmine, Rose Carmine
Green – Olive Green, Earth Green Yellowish, May Green, White
Purple – Blue Violet, Manganese Violet, Crimson, White
Muffins – Walnut Brown, White

The Kraftin’ Kimmie Team and us guests have created some fabulous projects for you to hop around and check out (they are all listed below), because Let Them Eat Cupcakes is available for purchase right now!

And don’t forget that it is also Frugal Friday, so check out the deals to make the most of the shipping!

1. Jasmine Turandar 5. Deborah Deruyck 9. Danielle Vincent
2. Marilyn Webb 6. Jammie Clark 10. Jessie Banks
3. Mindy Eggen 7. Alexis Smith 11. Carolyn Cochran (Krafty Guest)
4. Larisa Hohman 8. Delphine

Thanks for stopping by,
hugz,
Jessie

My Favorite Things – Camp Create Day 4

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I know I am doing them out of order, but I am here with another card for Camp Create 2017 over at My Favorite Things stamps! This card is for Day 4 Sensational Sliders!

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I used the rest of the images from the Farm Friends set! I really am enjoying doing videos colouring the whole set, then making cards with all the parts of the set!

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I used the Surf & Turf slider dies to create this card, it was my first attempt. I learnt a lot going through this process, I attempted to put the two slider elements together with bakers twine, but that flopped them all around so I went with a think piece of cardstock. Worked like a charm!

There is the colouring video (if you watched the video on the prior card you have already seen it)

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Thanks for stopping by,
Hugz,
Jessie

My Favorite Things – Camp Create Day 1

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Hey everyone!  I am a little late getting started, but I am hoping to finish all the badges I will have two of them for you all today, the first one is Wonderful Watercolor! It is one of my favourite mediums (who I am kidding they all are!)

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So for today’s card I pulled out the My Favorite Things – Farm Friends stamp set (I am going to try something new on my blog and link all the products used at the bottom of this post so they are easy to find) and coloured it all up, There is a video of me colouring all the images attached at the bottom of the post.

Copic colouring on the cow, watercolor background. Be sure to check my blog for a colouring video!

I kept everything super fun and washy in the background, which is something I have really been enjoying doing for the last little while. An awesome sentiment from the same set and a few dots using my Nuvo Drops and this card was complete! That is why I love doing this backgrounds cards and super fun and easy!

This video also includes colouring for a card that will go up following this one!

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Thanks for stopping by,
Hugz,
Jessie

Kraftin’ Kimmie Saturday Challenge #386

Posted in CLean and simple, Faber- Castell, Kraftin Kimmie Stamps, Polychromos, Uncategorized by

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Hey everyone! Happy Saturday! Today it is time for a new challenge over at Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps. Make sure you play along, you could win a gift card to the store!!!

This weeks challenge theme is Mermaids! One of my favourite things to colour (okay everything is one of my favourite things to colour. I coloured up Florence Finbottom for today’s card!

KKS Florence Finbottom

I pulled out my Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils and spent hours working on this no lines mermaid. I love how she came out and that the background is like bubbles filled in to allow there to be lots of white space. I did not keep track of the coloured pencils used for this one as I just kept layering and colouring and did most of it outside enjoying a fire.

Have you joined the Kraftin Kimmie’s Krafty Friends fb group?? It’s the best place to keep up with all of the goings on as well as sharing YOUR creations and getting inspired by other Krafty Friends’ creations!!!

The June release is in the Krafty Store NOW!!! Happy shopping 🙂

Are there some older Kraftin Kimmie images that are still on your wish list? Well tomorrow (Sunday) Kimmie is having another RUBBER PARTY!

In addition to the great Krafty Challenges & Wonderful Wednesday, each month we will post a Sketch. The sketch will last all month long and if you use it in ANY of our Challenges or WW’s during that month you will get an additional chance to win a store gift card! You do NOT have to use the sketch, it’s just a little extra boost for your mojo if ya need it!

june sketch

Now create a card, scrapbook page or altered item with a Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamp or any other stamp and be sure to use our THEME as a starting point for your creation!!! You will have until June 23rd at 11:55 pm EST to get your entries in!
Pull out those fabby stamps and play along! Have some krafty fun and join us this week!!

Coloured in colour pencil, using the no lines Technique

Thanks for stopping by,
Hugz
Jessie

Playing Marbles

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Hey everyone! Today I have a card to share featuring Playing Marbles from The Paper Shelter. This was a special request card and it took me forever to find and image I liked with kids playing marbles.

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I coloured these little guys up with my copic markers, unfortunately I did’t write down all the markers I used, this was a last minute card. But it turned out ever so sweet.

I created the sentiment myself, so that it fit the event and humour of the family that asked for the card.

TPS Marbles 2

Thanks for stopping by,
hugz,
Jessie

The Greeting Farm June Release Blog Hop

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Hey all! It is new release day for The Greeting Farm, and we have a blog hop to go along with it! There are three fantastic sets being released Call Me Ian, Mega-Mini Go Time, and Text Me Anya.

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I coloured up these little cuties from the Mega-Mini Go Time using my copic markers, and again I played with my watercolours for the background doing a little bit of an ombre yellow backgrond. A little bit of washi tape and I called this little card good!

Be sure to leave a comment on each designer’s blog, and then head back to The Greeting Farm Blog to let us know you completed the hop. You have until Wednesday, JUNE 21st at 12pm CST to leave your comments. We will announce the random winner later in the week.

TGF DESIGN TEAM:

BRIANNA
CARISA
CAROL
CYNTHIA
JESSIE
MARTHA
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Don’t forget you must leave a comment on each blog listed in order to be eligible for the prize drawing. We will have more cards featuring the new stamps from our DT Leaders starting tomorrow, the 16th so be sure to stop back by for more inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by,
hugz,
Jessie