Congrats It's A Kitten Card (New Baby Girl)

Just a quick post to show you the card I made from the new stamp I released yesterday!

Stamp: Congrats It's A Kitten - Knitty Kitty Digis
Colouring : Polychromo Pencils and Copics.
Papers: Itsy Bitsy Baby Girl - K&Company
Diecuts: Maidenhair Fern by Sue Wilson, Mini 3D Butterfly from Xcut
Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts, Hobbycraft and some randoms from the crafty stash.

Congratulations!

Just want to say "Congratulations" to my friend Susan on the birth of her new baby girl - Sophie Hannah!

To celebrate we have a new digistamp on Etsy - " Congrats It's a Kitten!" Buy it now!

In this version I've coloured it with polychromo pencils and Copic Ciao pens.( You can add your own text to the balloons, so it's fine for a girl or a boy.)


Copics Guide
Sky - B32
Pinks - R20, R22, R02
Yellows - Y06, Y21
Cats - W1, W3, W5
Clouds - 0, B60, C1, C3

Bonkers Nail Art Card

Trying to post from the Blogger App today, not many formating options but I'll do my best :)

This is a customer order to give to a friend who is a Nail Artiste. I'm hoping if she's into Nails she'll get the concept and have a chuckle.

Nails are all painted with acrylic paints with added gems and stickles glitter. I used Pinterest nail art pictures for inspiration.

Another new baby :)

This is a card for a customer order. He is a new grandparent and it had to be something a little bit special, and here it is! :) Relieved to say he really liked it. I've taken out a few of the details but you can imagine that any info could go in the text parts and the layout could be transferred for any colour scheme or a special paper you might want to include.

 I love the All About Boys Stack from DCWV. It's not a new thing but honestly I think I have used it for so many projects it's been worth every penny. The 12x12 pad is still available to buy on line for approx £20.

Sixty Kitties.

Another customer order via Etsy! She had some very specific requirements and it was really good fun to do! Anyone that is happy with kitsch and bling is my kind of customer ;) The recipient was really into cats (Seal Pointed Ragdolls) and bling, butterflies and the expression "Bothered? Not!" I also did a customised inner and back to the card.

I think it might be rather nice to do a digi image of cats and numbers for the milestone birthdays and anniversaries? Good idea? 

Cats coloured with copics, my own design.
Diecut 3D butterflies from Xcut. 
Stickles Candy Cane Glitter. 
Paper from a Nancy Watt collection that appeared in Making Cards magazine. 
 

Happy Retirement!

Another customer order, this time for a large retirement card. All the items in the wheel are things of interest or relevant to him. (List supplied by the customer!)  This card is my largest standard size, not sure I've ever done bigger than 20cmx20cm, might have to give it a go!

Papers are from the Here and There Collection by Studio Calico.

Fishing at the pond - New Version

Colouring up a new version of this picture using copics and polychromo pencils. It's got a lot of detail in it for using it as a small image and I would definitely recommend using it for a much bigger card or project! Here I intend to use it for an A5 card, so a bit bigger than normal.

I originally used this at approx A4 size for a watercolour picture.The digistamp is available on line here.

18th Commission!

So I wasn't given many details for this one, just this brief description-

"Granddaughter, 18th, likes books, not too frilly or fussy!"

I went with some quilling! I know, not the first thought that comes to mind but, I hoped it would give some detail whilst not being overly frilly or fussy. I used pages from an old (already battered) book and it was actually quite nice to quill with. I added some gold paint to gild the scrolls afterwards for a hint of bling. :)

After I had posted it I wondered if she really did love books whether she might be disturbed by my plundering a real book to cut up and make her card? Should I have slipped in a note to say it wasn't possible to save it? >_<

Tiger Pen Haul

Bit of a haul update from Tiger Pens! I haven't used them before but they have been recommended to me lots of times, particularly for buying single copics (rather than sets) and for their reasonably priced copic refills.

The service was excellent. Good comms and quick about delivery. The pens came loose in a jiffy bag but I suppose they didn't really need anymore wrapping than that. The choice of pens on the site is immense. Would happily recommend them myself now too.

I also couldn't resist three of their "try it for ten pence" Uni-ball pens, we get through loads of writing pens in my house...they seem to be transported to work and never return.  I've yet to test the writing pens properly but they all seem super smooth and lovely to use.

As you can see, it was getting jolly hard to colour in anything pale green with my copics!! It's hard to know with copics when it is the right time to buy a refill, just refill the pen once at the shop, or just buy a new pen?

I decided to use the "how many empties of that colour have you got?" theory and it seemed I needed only to buy "Pale Blue Grey" as a refill. (it's the chunky looking grey thing at the bottom of the photo.) Every other pen colour had only needed to be replaced once. I use pale blue grey as my go to shadow colour on almost every pic so it's not surprising it runs out first.

I did try taking my empties to a local craft shop for a refill but it was a waste of time, it didn't last more than ten mins when I started to use it again. Am not sure if it's just this one shop or if it's a problem with refilling in general, but now I have my own refill I can find out for myself!

Labrador Massage

Another Knitty Kitty Digi coloured! I really like using the polychromo pencils for shading after colouring initially with Copics... I think I'm not very brave with my shadow colours using the Copics, so there is always room for some extra shading using the pencils. Can I stipulate that if you are colouring in this image it must be a chocolate Labrador? Can I? :)

Labrador Massage - Available to Download on Etsy.