Southwestern Charm
Paper Smooches

Welcome!   

I hope everyone is having a great week!  The weekend is almost here!

I would love to share my shaker card with you.  I am going to demonstrate  3 Copic Techniques
that can be used  to create  Intense Shading.
I love high contrast and extreme shading can help make that happen.

What are the techniques?  
1.  Natural Blending Family
2.  Adding Gray to the Shadow
3.  Adding the Complement

My other video tutorials can be found HERE

Shaker Card

Supplies

Stamp Set
Southwestern Charm by Paper Smooches

Ink
Copic Alcohol Ink Markers
Memento Tuxedo Black Dye Ink
Tuxedo Black Memento refills
Copic Multiliner – Wine
Vintage Photo Distress Ink

Paper
X-Press It Blending Card
Neenah Premium Heavyweight Cover Yardstick – Solar White
Bazaar Card Shoppe paper – Banana Split
Authentique  Collection- Grateful

Other
Advanced Tape Glider and tape
Pretty Pink Posh Sequins – lime
Pretty Pink Posh Cupped Sequins – Bronze

Isn’t it amazing all the things you can do with Pretty Pink Posh Sequins?   

Thank you so much for stopping by.

I hope you enjoyed my little shaker card.

The 3 intense shading techniques are fun to try and I hope you will try them all and see which one you like the best!

Hello everyone!  Marie here  and I want to wish everyone a Happy Friday!

For today, I thought I would do some Copic coloring of a sweet Magnolia image.
I have linked some super cute Tilda images that will be perfect for the 4th of July Holiday!
They are fun and easy to color!     I have all ready decided they are
going to be added to my “must have”  shopping list!

My other YouTube Tutorials can be found HERE

Supplies

Stamp:
4th of July Tilda (Magnolia) – not available
 4th – 15 American Star Tilda (Similar – I am drooling over this one!)
American Bow Tilda  ( Similar – a “must have” as well!)
– I know, I am such an enabler! LOL

Ink
Copic Alcohol Markers
Memento Tuxedo Black Inkpad Opaque white ink pen
Black 0.03 Multiliner by Copic

Paper
X-Press It Blending Card
Neenah Paper Premium Cover cardstock 110#
Bazaar Card Shoppe paper – Whirlypop
 Doodlebug – Patriotic Picnic  – (Similar designer paper)

Other
Scotch ATG (Advanced Tape Glider and Tape)

Copic Markers Used
Skin: E000, E00, E11, E21, R20
Hair (Toner Gray): T3, T6, T8
Pants: B21, B23, B26, B28
Shirt: T0, T1
Flag pole E000 E11, E13, E15
Flag:  B21, B23, B26, R20, R22, R24, optional R39 (just a small amount), T0 T1
Hat:  B21, B23, B26, B28, R20, R22, R24, R39 (optional), T0, T1

The layers were applied and I stenciled stars to the background of my focal image.
The flowers were sponged with distress  ink  and shaped using a molding tool.
I used the fun designer paper and cut out the flags with my left over paper to adhere as embellishments.

I hope you enjoyed this and thank you so much for stopping by!

Hello everyone.  It’s Marie here with another Friday Tutorial for you!

When I saw the gorgeous clear stamp from La La Land Crafts called Praying Marci,   I just couldn’t help myself –   When I spotted  the fabulous folds on this stamp, I had to order it and try it out!    Love , love, love the folds…..   And did I say, I love the folds! LOL  The image also comes with some really great sentiments:

• Rejoice
• On your Confirmation
• God bless you
• Praying for you

I think this is such a great image that it could be used for any occasion – proms, weddings, and parties to name a few.

My other Video Tutorials can be found HERE.

Supplies

Stamp
Praying Marci – La La Land Crafts

Ink
Copic Alcohol Sketch Markers
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad
Vintage photo Distress Ink sponged on the flower edges
Tumbled Glass Distress Ink sponged on edges of the focal image.
Clear Wink of Stella – on flower

Paper
X-Press It Blending Card
Neenah Paper Premium Cover Cardstock 110# for card base
Bazzill Card Shoppe Paper – Candy Buttons
Heidi Swapp Paper Pad – Mixed Company for layer D.P.
Silverton Hall – Wild Rose Studio – for flower
Bazzill Card Shoppe – French Mints – for flower leaves.

Other
Scotch ATG
Scotch ATG Refill
Flower Die, tools  and molding pad
pearl
Butterfly Stencil
Rhinestone for bling!
Clear glue

Copic Color Palette

Skin Tones – E000, E00, E11, E21, R20, B000
Hair – T1, T3, T6, T8
Dress – B21, B23, B26, B28
Background Butterflies – B0000, B00

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope you give the folds a try and take a close look at the adorable stamp  – Praying Marci.  I think you will agree that it is a super fun image to color!

Hello everyone and welcome!

It’s Marie here and I am just so excited to share this quick and easy card with you that I created using Mama Elephant’s clear stamp – Freestyle Florals. It’s so much fun and easy to color.

One thing I am really excited to share is how you can step up the stamping by using  the same stamp in MANY different ways  with a simple masking technique.  That’s right! This  technique will open up a ton of new possibilities on how to use those older stamps that you may have and still use all your new ones! It opens up so many endless possibilities for using the same stamp in a million different ways! The possibilities are endless!

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Supplies

Stamp
Mama Elephant – Freestyle Florals

Ink
Copic Alcohol Ink Sketch Markers
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Paper
X-Press It for my focal image
Bazzill  Card Shoppe Easter Grass for my mat layers
Neenah paper Premium Cover Heavyweight  110# Solar White for my cardbase

Other
Scotch Advanced Tape Glider
Scotch ATG Refill
Divine Baker’s Twine – Green Apple
Pearl colored with my Copic Marker
Spellbinder’s Border Die ( Pretty Pink Posh Craft Die with 3 Stitched borders is very similar.  I ordered this one and I am waiting for it to arrive in my happy mail any day now! )
Martha Stewart Micro Beads

I hope you will give this a try.  Take your new stamps and see how many ways you can use it to give it a new look!   Pull out some old stamps and see if you can mask them with one or two of your new stamps!   This can be so much fun and a really great way to keep using all those supplies we have in our craft room and still add the new ones we really want!

Stay healthy and take a little time for YOU!   Craft a little!