Thankful

Hello Everyone!

Hope all is well! Kind of feels like I haven't been blogging much, too many minimum days and days off at school for my kids which is cutting into my coloring and cutting paper time. LOL Normally I try to do my crafting in the middle of the night or very early in the morning but I'm been trying to catch up on other things. So about a week ago I heard Noelle the owner of Quick Creations was having a Guest Designer Call and it's only for one month in the second half of 2017 so I decided to give it a shot. One of the cards I made is for Thanksgiving. The stamp I used I purchased at The Greeting Farm a long time ago but I noticed that it was listed at Cheeky Cherry Pie @ Quick Creations. The paper is from Doodlebug Designs, the roses I bought at Not2ShabbyShop and I just colored them with Copic refills. The small Thank You dies I also got from The Greeting Farm.

Okay here is my  card using Cheeky Cherry Pie. 

I didn't mention above that at the end of the night on the 15th I noticed that I did make it as 

Guest Designer for the month of December 2017. Woot Woot!!!

I'm very thankful to Noelle for giving me a chance. 

I hope you liked my card.

Have a wonderful day. 

Katya Bess

I'm entering my card at:

http://thegreetingfarm.com/?p=7000

Fall Colors

http://audsentimentschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2016/11/168-anything-goes-sentiment.html
Anything Goes + a sentiment

For Someone Sweet and Deer

Hello Everyone!

I hope all is well. I've been working on some Christmas coloring and decided to share this card I made with Lucille - What a Deer, she is one of my favorite Chibi Kids to color from Stamp AnnieThing. On one of my previous posts I decided to color her as a red head with cute little freckles and this time I'm coloring her as an African-American with sort of medium tone.

Lucille - What a Deer

I used Copic markers

the colors are

B34, E11, E37, E34, R22, R30

R27, R29, R46

E42, R43, E84, E33

N2, N4, N6 and N8

The papers are from DoodleBug Design: Sugarplums line

the dies are from 

My Creative Time

CC Designs

and Craftin Desert Divas

The sentiment is from 

Brooke- For Someone Sweet

and the DEC. 25th I fussy cut from 

the DoodleBug Design: Sugarplums 6x6 paper pad. 

Here are some close-ups.

I hope you like it.

Thank you so much 

for stopping by.

Katya Bess

entering card at 

http://artbymiranchallenge.blogspot.com/2016/11/challenge-71-anything-goes.html

Anything Goes

Latte Birthday Wishes

Hello Everyone!

I'm latte! I'm latte! I'm latte for a very important date.... LOL  Today I have a coffee themed birthday card for you... it's a little belated birthday card. I'm thinking I need to make more of these (when I get time) with different skin tones and different hair colors and just have them ready for when I forget a birthday or just cause I'm busy. ha! I found this coffee themed 12x12 paper at Michael's and I had a few coffee cards for friends and teachers in mind but I love how clean and simple this one looks.

I colored her up with Copic markers

some of the colors I used are:

BV000, E55, E53, E51, E50 E21, R21, R20 and R30

for the clothing G07, G46 and G94 also N6, N4 and N2

The dotted circle die is from My Creative Time 

as well at the new sentiment.  To make the black outer layer 

I just traced around the die and cut with scissors.

the design coffee paper is from Recollections (found at Michaels)

and the base cardstock are from Michael's as well only the black

cardstock is the 110 lb paper I love to use for bases and the

white is 65 lb I like to use for simple layering. 

I was going to go for an otter bounds image and circle so I had cut out the face

and the latte/coffee but the head ended fitting inside the circle because

I didn't align it right LOL    so the only thing that is outer bounds is the 

latte/coffee but it ends out working out because the person receiving it doesn't

wear skirts or dresses and now it just looks like a trench coat which she does wear

sometimes. LOL   

Anyway, I hope you liked my card.

Have a wonderful day. 

Katya Bess

Stamp AnnieThing Preview Day #3 Lucille

Hi and welcome to Day #3 of 

Stamp Anniething's November release!  

We got some really fun new Chibi Kids to share with you today!

Lucille is available in the store Today along with the other 2 stamps we show you  this week!!

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Good morning Crafty Peeps!

Today is is the release day for all of the cuties we showcased this week. 

I like them all but one of the ones I love most is the Lucille chibi

she is so adorable with her little curls. 

So this is my card:

I colored her up with Copic markers.

Doesn't seem like it but I used a bunch of colors with her. 

skin: Bv00, E0000, E000, E21, E50, R20, R30 and R33

for the eye lights I used Copic White

hair: E08, E35, E23, YR27 and Y35

for her clothing: N4, N6, N8, R46, R29, R27 and R24

for the vest hoodie I paper pieced from a 

Recollections Christmas 8.5 x11 stack called

Frosty Cabin I 

found some year or two or three years ago. [gulp]

I really don't need any more Christmas paper

unless it's from Doodlebug Design or Echo Park

those I  use up really fast. LOL 

The die is from Craftin Desert Divas.

Oh snap! I could have made the hoodie brown

just like her deer hat. I didn't even think about that 'til

now... Now I have to color up another Lucille. ha!

but that's okay I love her! :P

My mind has been every where ATM with my kids'

school meetings and events, and CCSA meetings,

church choir rehearsals and other functions for the kids. I 

love all of that stuff but now we are also house

hunting and that has been taking up most of the time

and it's actually becoming overwhelming or really a little bit

stressful since we don't really know the neighborhood.

On the flip side of that I most likely will have my own 

craft room where I can close the door and my things

will be untouched by kids- keeping my fingers crossed for that

and I love my hubby but I hope that I won't have to 

share that space with him either.... so he won't have to look

at all the scrappy things I have bought or use my scissors...Seriously!!! 

Y'all know how that is. LOL 

okay too much of my unorganized, unscripted, unplanned... or just plain crazy 

crafting mom life. ha! 

Here is a close-up of my colored up Lucille.

I hope you enjoyed our November release!

All the new stamps are available NOW in the store! 

Woot Woot!

 Have a great day!

Katya Bess

Stamp AnnieThing Preview Day #2 Paige Holiday Magic

Hi and welcome to Day #2 of 

Stamp Anniething's November release!  

We got some really fun new Chibi Kids to share with you today!

Paige is available in the store FRIDAY along with the other 2 stamps we show you  this week!!

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Here is my card with Paige Holiday Magic- She's so cute!

I used some Copic markers

N8, N6 and N4 for the hair.

Greens are G05, G07 and G85

R24, R29 and R46

Y08, Y13, B04 and B05

I used some of the papers from my favorite paper company

Doodlebug Design it was actually two different Christmas papers

The dies are from CC Designs and from My Creative Time

The yellow in the background is 

Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Mustard Seed.

Here is a close-up. 

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We hope you enjoyed our Novemberr release!

All the new stamps are available NOW in the store!

 Have a great day!

Thank you for visiting.

Katya Bess

Stamp AnnieThing Preview Day #1 Brooke

Hi and welcome to Day #1 of 

Stamp Anniething's November release!  

We got some really fun new Chibi Kids to share with you today!

Brooke is available in the store FRIDAY along with the other 2 stamps we show you  this week!!

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Here is the card I created with Brooke she is looks

so sweet holding her giant candy cane so I had

to use the Christmas paper from Doodlebug Design

that has all of that sweet candy and kept the 

card pretty simple. 

I colored her with Copic markers. 

I used blends of

R39, R29 and R24

G05, G06 and G85

Y08 and Y13

As you can see I kept it very simple but she still pops

against the busy candy background IMO.

Here is a close up of the coloring.

I ended up fixing her eye lights with Copic White after I 

photographed it... I might come back to show how it looks

my Uni-ball angelic white is not being my friend lately. LOL 

I hope you enjoyed our November release!

All the new stamps are available NOW in the store!

 Have a great day!

Thank you for visiting.

Katya Bess