7 Kids Crafts: Crafty Box

Happy Saturday Crafty Friends,

Today is the kick-off of a month long birthday celebration. Not only it's Kelly Neis' birthday but it's also the 7 Kids Crafts Store 4th anniversary. Tracy Young from the Sweet November team designed a stamp just for the celebration and it will be free in the shop. Thank you Tee for your contribution.
I also, used the Corner Room Scene Builder digital stamp set by Sweet November Stamps - this set is so versatile, you can use it for almost any room in a house.

Since it's a celebration month there will be lots of fun games, freebies, discounts, free shipping that you don't want to miss if you were planning on buying some crafty items.

When I first saw this image I thought it would be fun to create a card for someone who just received their new home. The sentiment I created myself as congratulations and because we know how fun moving, packing and unpacking is. (sarcasm) LOL

Free digi Crafty Box

Corner Room Scene Builder

For all of the fun games check out:

7 Kids Customer's Create! Facebook page

Thank you so much for visiting. 

Katya Bess

Sweet November Guest DT - Tide Mayfin

Hello Everyone!

I'm excited Sweet November has launched their own website and also asked me to guest DT for their opening release. The newest stamp in the shop is called Tide Mayfin, you can use her with or without the little fish. I decided to use Tide Mayfin with the little fish because I wanted to create a Teacher Appreciation card. During the Quarantine the classes have been on zoom and have different classroom times, some are the entire class, some days small groups and some days one on one. Tide Mayfin looks so happy with the little school of fish swimming around her that I was inspired to make a teacher card with her. 

I colored her up with Polychromos and the background with a marker to cover the base. I tried to keep the most detail on the mermaid and the little school of fish by coloring with bright and cheerful colors. 

You can find more info about the new releases and other fun content at: Friends of Sweet November Stamps

Thank you so much for visiting,

Katya Bess

7 Kids Crafts: I love you in so many ways

Hello Crafty Friends!


Today I'm sharing a card made with two sets from the latest Penny Black Inc release, make sure to grab some of these cute stamps sets at 7 Kids Crafts Store while supplies last. For this somewhat simple card I used: Penny Black Inc: Take Me Away and Penny Black Inc: Love Language.

To color these cute bears that are floating away via balloons I first used a Spectrum Noirs as a base and then added shading details with color pencils. I wanted the teddy bears to sort of represent my hubby and I so I made one dark brown and one lighter brown.

Penny Black Inc: 

Take Me Away and Love Language

I used both Polychromos and Prismacolor pencils.

Polychromos: 

Burnt Umber, Caput Mortuum, Black, Burnt Ochre, Dark Red,

Fhuchsia, Rose Carmine, Cold Grey VI 

the sky was done lightly with Light Ultramarine

Prismacolor: 

Sienna Brown

Uni-ball Signo White Angelic

Although I stamped my sentiment with my Misti I did not realize that my ink was kind of dry and attempted to go over it several times but my image shifted and had to go over the font with a gel pen.

I hope you like the card even though I messed it up with how my sentiment came out. 

Don't forget to participate all month long with this new release.
Everyone who participates this month will get an exclusive Tot 
next month or you could possibly win all of next month's release as well.

Also, catch special sales or promotions going on at:

7 Kids Create! Facebook group

Thank you so much for visiting.

Katya Bess

7 Kids Crafts: Nixie Snowflake Fairy

Hello Everyone & Happy New Year!

Welcome to the Beautiful Blizzard release over at 7 Kids Craft Store. There are 3 main fairies and a couple of ocean animals for you to enjoy.

For today and tomorrow there is a special mega bundle deal 2 Day Mega Bundle Deal - Beautiful Blizzard, you get more images to play with but you can also chose to get the smaller sets

Eira Snowflake Fairy
Neva Snowflake Fairy
Nixie Snowflake Fairy
for today and tomorrow Norman Narwhal is free only at the 7 Kids Create! Facebook group
there is also. Make sure to participate by creating something with these images for a chance to win next month's stamps but anyone who participates gets to have a tot digi.

Okay, on to my card... The first image I decided to color is Nixie Snowflake Fairy
A little excerpt: Nixie Snowflake Fairy is  floating among the snowflakes like a fairy snowflake angel! She is delightful and beautiful snowflake fairy!

I love that she looks like she's a snowflake twirling in the sky and looks so happy and loving. Did you check out the dimple I gave her? heehee  All of the fairies from this release also make me think of the Sugarplum Fairies from the Nutcracker or the little fairies from the Disney Fantasia movie. 

With this release I wanted to try and color on blue cardstock because I was feeling kind of lazy with coloring the background but I think I gave myself more work by having to color the snowflakes LOL  (lesson learned.) I did like the effect those because on top of having a solid blue background I added some Distress Oxide around the edges of the card and part of the snow flurries to make it look like she's glowing. On top of the small snow/fairy dust I added Nuvo Dream Drops: Cloud 9 and on the bigger snowflakes I added Gellyroll: Clearstar as well as part of the snowflake skirt just to show how thin the ice is. The sentiment is from Lavinia stamp and is called Fairy Dust is like Love. 

That is it for now. I hope that you enjoy these pretty stamps as much as I do.

Nixie Snowflake Fairy

Lavinia stamp: Fairy Dust is like Love. 

Don't forget to participate all month long with this new release.

Also, catch special sales or promotions going on at:

7 Kids Create! Facebook group

Thank you so much for stopping by,

Katya Bess

Thinking of You

Hello Crafty Friends,

I hope you are all doing well. I have a friend named BreAnn, who had a birthday in Heaven this month. When this time of the year comes around I always seem to think of her mother. I never know just what to say but this time I am sending her a card. I know that this month in particular BreAnn, her family and friends always showed awareness for Pulmonary Hypertension. The PHA or Pulmonary Hypertension Awareness ribbon is Periwinkle but for some reason I had the inspiration to color the roses red and small flowers pink. I will definitely work on cards with Periwinkle or another purpley color for PHA.


I decided to use  a digi stamp called: Ching-Chou Kuik - Love Birds and colored it up with Polychromos and a couple of Prismacolor pencils. To embellish and add dimension to the the image I used Nuvo Crystal Drops. I also used a die set from Sizzix Thinlits by Stephanie Bernard #661116 I purchased the word dies on Amazon but I'm sure you can probably find it in different craft stores. I used the words "thinking," "of," and "you." The technique I used to not have to crop off or cover my image is called Eclipse Technique and I learned that from Amy Young.

Thank you so much for visiting.

Katya Bess

Entering Challenges:

https://cck-digitalstamps-challenge.blogspot.com/2019/11/ching-chou-kuik-digital-stamps.html

7 Kids Crafts: Sweet Summer Life

Hello Everyone!

I hope you got a chance to play with all of the little Tadpoles from the Vault over at 7 Kids Crafts with 3 images by Sweet November digital stamps. Hit the "newest items" button and you'll get right to them and don't forget these vault images are out for just one week... so by this Saturday they go back in the vault. Just three more days until the go back in the vault.

Sweet November - Lily Tadpole
Sweet November - Tadpole
Sweet November - Phoebe Tadpole

Here's a little excerpt for Phoebe:
"It's summer in Sweet November Land and while the mermaids are migrating off the coast we are going to hit the beach and meet some very special pixies who are always up for fun and exciting times when the weather starts to warm up. So grab a towel and slip on your flip flops 'cause we're heading down to the sandy shore where the Tadpole swim team are chillin'. 

Have you ever seen a pixie surf? If not, you are in for a treat because Phoebe is the best on a board in all of Sweet November Land. Just watch as she flies atop the waves doing all sorts of trick moves as she comes back to shore. Phoebe is a little bundle of energy and a total free spirit. She likes nothing more than to spend her days swimming and surfing... always chasing that next big wave. If you are feeling up to it she would be more than happy to give you a lesson or two. ;)"

I used Sweet November - Phoebe Tadpole to create this card as well as Doodlgebug Designs 6x6 Sweet Summer pad. The dies are from My Creative Time except one, the rectangle is from Spellbinders.

Sweet November - Phoebe Tadpole

Doodlgebug Designs 6x6 Sweet Summer pad

I used Copic markers to color her up. 

hair: T8, T6, T4

swimsuit: Y18, E21, E31

Don't forget to join us at:

7 KIDS Customers Create! Facebook page

for exclusive stamps, freebies, games, live tutorials

and lots more fun! 

Thank you so much for stopping by,

Katya Bess

Aloha!

Good Morning! 

Just wanted to share a card I made with the rubber stamp I colored for Day 25: of the 30 Day Coloring Challenge. This one is from the Aloha Kit. All of the stamps in the Aloha Kit are super cute and I have colored only one before this one. I had this Doodlebug paper out on  my desk so I decided to pull out my Aloha Kit- good thing I had already cut the rubber stamps too. The aloha sentiment is also from the same kit I just stamped and cut around. The rectangle die is from Our Daily Bread Designs, the small circle die is from My Creative Time and scalloped die is from

Thank you for stopping by,

Katya Bess

7 Kids Crafts: Thinking of you

Hello Everyone!


I hope you are having a nice day. This time I wanted to create a card with a storybook feel to it. I'm using this super sweet stamps from Hello Bluebird sold at 7 Kids Crafts. The stamps remind me of Calico Critters that my 6 year old loves to play with and also Peter Cottontail book illustrations. I combined 2 different stamps to achieve this look. One stamp set is called McGregor's Garden set and the other is from the Maverick set. The stitched rectangle die is from My Creative Time and the Scalloped die is from Mama Elephant.

                                                                  McGregor's Garden 

+

Maverick

To achieve this look I first stamped some of the images with Memento Desert Sand and masked them, then stamped one more cloud and masked it as well. After that, I used Distress Oxide Tumbled Glass for the sky. Distress Oxide Shabby Shutters for the grass and a little bit of Tumbled Glass and light touch of Pine Needles. When everything looked to my liking then I carefully peeled off the masking tape for future use and I drew in some simple grass lines with a Polychromos pencil. The paper I used is a multi-media paper so instead of watercolor as I originally planned I used Copic marker for the images. Keep in mind that this paper absorbs more of your ink but I used it only because I wasn't planning on covering big areas and I do have the refills just in case. For the eyes I used a Black Copic-multiliner pen and for the birds legs and bunny's mouth I used a Sepia Copic Multi-liner pen.

Copic markers used:

B24, B21, E11, E0000, YR12

E40, E42, E93, R20, 

W00

Thank you for stopping by.

Katya Bess

7 Kids Crafts: Happy Birthday to You

Hello Crafty Friends!

I feel like I haven't colored in a long time and it's only been about a week. heehee I guess it was just a pretty long week being the last week of school I've been running all over the place.

Today I'm excited because today is the first day of The 30 Day Coloring Challenge over at Kathy Racoosin's page. I usually participate on IG and use hashtag #thedailymarker30day After finishing the card I took a break to cook and feed the family and I'm proud I finished the card. I got inspiration from card sketch of a Kraftin' Kimmie card I saw from http://alexiscsmith.blogspot.com/

I'm always in need of birthday cards so I used Echo Park - Lets Party 6x6 Paper Pad from 7 Kids Crafts for a fun and festive look. The stamp I used is from The Greeting Farm called HB2U Anya. I love this sentiment set called called Say Bday from the The Greeting Farm. To color the sweet  HB2U Anya stamp and add dimension to the balloons I used Copic markers. The die balloon die and the rectangle for the card layer are both from My Creative Time.

Echo Park - Lets Party 6x6 Paper Pad

HB2U Anya

Say Bday

Copic markers used:

E0000, E000, E11, R20, R30

W9, W7, W5

BG32, BG34, BG18, R05, R17, Y15, Y19 

R22, RV21, RV55, RV32, Y08, Y18, 

Day 1 - The 30 Day Coloring Challenge

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Katya Bess

Entering at:

The Daily Marker (Day 1 of 30 days)

7 Kids Crafts: Nom Nom Nom

Hello Crafty Friends!

I hope you're all having a wonderful day. Today I tried something new, I made a card with Washi Tape. The Washi Tape I used today is called Doodlebug Designs- Washi Tape: Perfect Combo and the stamp set is called Nom Nom Nom from The Greeting Farm.  This month Kelly has items from Dreamerland Crafts and Washi Tape  included in the Vendor of the Month Sale over at 7 Kids Crafts just make sure to enter code: DREAM for 20% off discount.

Doodlebug Designs- Washi Tape: Perfect Combo 

The Greeting Farm -  Nom Nom Nom

These cute little stamps from this set are quick and easy to color 

and even though they are small they are still fairly easy to fussy cut. 

Since it's also June, in the USA we celebrate Father's Day

and I thought it would be cute to make a card for a dad, or any special guy in our lives.

To color the image I used Copic markers.

E000, E00, E11

W5, W7, W9

E25, E27

Y17

YG25

E21, E33

R17, R24

B23, B97

R46, R59

W1, W3

Thank you for stopping by,

Katya Bess

7 Kids Crafts: Hello Spring

Hello Crafty Friends,

Kelly's has a nice offer called The Vendor of the Month Sale over at 7kidscrafts.com is Picket Fence Studios and Cardstock, please be sure to use PAPERHOARDING to save 20% on those items. (Note: This does not include New Arrivals.)

I used some Echo Park 12x12 Collection Kit, Hello Spring 

which is discounted and it's still available at 7kidscrafts.com 

I used Copic marker to color this cutie from

Tiny Plans (The Greeting Farm stamps)

The circle dies are from My Creative Time

and Our Daily Bread Designs for the card layer.

E000, E00, E11, R20

RV32, RV34

E55, E57, E59

E70, YG25, YG67

B01, BG32, BG72

Sakura Gelly Roll Clear Star for the rain drops

and a little sparkle in the puddle.

Nuvo Jewel Drops Sea Breeze for the puddle shine


Don't forget there's a brand new release
coming up May 1st by Sweet November Stamps at
www.7kidscrafts.com
There will be live videos and games going
on at the Facebook page 
7 KIDS Customers Create!

Thank you for stopping by.

Katya Bess

7 Kids Crafts: Mermaid Tot sisters

Hello Everyone!

I had so much fun creating this card for 7KidsCrafts.com. If you don't know,  7KidsCrafts.com has a Vendor of the Month every month and it's usually always 20% discount. This  month the Vendor of the Month is Picket Fence Studios and Cardstock. For the Discount on the endor of the Month items make sure to use code: PAPERHOARDING at checkout.

I hope you were able to grab these super sweet Sweet November Vault images because they were only available for one week.
The three vault images were:

Sweet November - Nami 
Sweet November - Nalu 
Sweet November - Hanalei

Today I used Sweet November - Hanalei and Sweet November - Nalu. I tried to follow along with Amy's video and I did follow many of the colors but because I'm using a different brand of paper I noticed there were was a variation of the way the colors showed up on my paper. I either had to add another color or use a different color altogether. I hadn't tried the skin colors Amy used so I wanted to follow along with that I did have to add R35 to the cheeks because mine weren't as bright as hers. I also had a little challenge following along for the underwater cove so I kind of improvised. heehee Amy colors a lot faster than I do. I still love how these two cuties came out. I went ahead and used my own colors for the hair and for the tails, then next thing you know Amy used some of my blue hair colors on the water so I also had to change the water color in the background. It was really fun following some of Amy's techniques because I really admire her work but but I do love to put my own twist on things as well. For the hair and mermaid tails I used some of my Husband's fish as inspiration for the colors, these little 1 inch fish are called Neon Tetras. Imagine Hanalei and Nalu being that tiny and playing hide and seek. heehee Unfortunately these pretty mermaids went back to the vault today but there are more lovely mermaids to come 1st of the month and on the 20th there will be another set of vault images that you'll want to be sure to grab as soon as they come out.       

   You can check out Amy Young's tutorial on  7 Kids Crafts FB video tutorial of Hanalei

                       

Sweet November - Hanalei and Sweet November - Nalu.

   

some of the Copic Colors used:
skin: E31, E55, E57, E04, E35

Eyes:YG03, YG63, YG67

Neon Tetra tail/fins: C1, T2, B04, B12, B01, R17, R14, R22, R30
hair on Hanalei : B01, B12, and a tiny bit of B04
hair on  Nalu: R17, R14, R22, R30
(Gelly Roll Stardust: 725, 719 and 700)

Towards the end of my card making I decided that I didn't want to trim down
the background scene to fit on a A2 sized card so I left it alone and just glued down
on at 6x6 card. I then added little embellishing dies.
Some of the dies are from My Creative Time and the smaller ones are from Craftin Desert Divas.

For the seashells I used a tiny bit of copic and some Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen

Here you can see the Sakura Gelly Roll 

pen details, I used 3 different colors for the effect I wanted.

For the little pearl I first added Sakura Gelly Roll 

Clear Stardust pent and then I used a Nuvo Drops Jewel Drops

for the jewel on her chest cover. I really need to buy some pearlescent 

Nuvo Drops from 7kidscrafts.com so I can give her a pearl next time.

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Katya Bess

                                                                 

7 Kids Crafts: Nami Never Stop Dreaming!

Hello Everybody!


There is lots of fun going on this week over at 7 KIDS Customers Create! Facebook Group there are three vault images (originally released in 2013.) These vault images will be available only for one week, check them out here: Sweet November stamps.

For today's card I'm featuring: Sweet November - Nami you can also chose her little mermaid sisters Sweet November - Nalu or Sweet November - Hanalei or you can just get them all because they are all just so adorable! Another way to get these cuties is by playing along during the live videos or playing along in the games for a chance to win one or all... I think it depends on the game. Remember the games are here: 7 KIDS Customers Create! Facebook Group

I wanted to create a simple underwater scene. Nami is already in a seated position so it was easy to draw/color sand under her without too much technical thinking.  I colored her up with Copic markers, I added a little shimmer to her tail with a Spectrum Noir sparkle pen and added a little Stampendous! embsossing enamel powder to the sand to give it some texture. The "Never stop dreaming!" sentiment is actually from a retired Kraftin' Kimmie stamp set called Serena Sparkles.

Sweet November - Nami 
I randomly freehand some starfish and a shell,
one of them looks like a wonky banana starfish... lol

Some of the Copic colors I used:
BG32, BG34
YR61, YR12, YR24, Y,15 Y17, Y06
Y23, Y26, Y28

Many of the colors were repeated throughout and
some I may had added one more color,
for example the ocean, the eyes and seashell. 

Here I turned off some of my lights and only left one so you can see

the shimmer a lot better. 

The colors I chose for her were inspired by some of the gold fish

in one of our tanks. My daughter Daenerys says she looks like a

mermaid Repunzel. heehee

Thank you so much for visiting.

Katya Bess

Friend life would be boring without you

Hello Crafty Friends,

I been looking at all of the stamps I've been hoarding for years and thinking of ways to use them.
I found a few sets I wanted to mix and put together to make this cute little scene. The large "friend" word is from CC Designs: More Scripted Sentiments ARI095. The small sentiment phrase is from The Greeting Farm called: Because of You. The cute turtle and bunny is from The Greeting Farm as well and it's called Down by the Pond. In the background I sort of colored in a little wonky pond just to set the scene. I used Copic markers to colored everything and I added a little bit of Spectrum Noir sparkle pen on the turtle's shell. The rectangle die is from My Creative Time.

Thank you for stopping by.

Katya Bess

Will enter this card at:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/103832353026882/

April Challenge: Bunnies

7 Kids Crafts: Hibiscus

Hello Everyone!

Here is another new image I want to share with you using Red Hibiscus Designs - Botanicals - Hibiscus by artist Luisiana Lowry, who also designs for www.7kidscrafts.com. You can find the rest of her beautiful digital art here: Red Hibiscus Design digial stamps

Red Hibiscus Designs - Botanicals - Hibiscus

Copic Markers:

RV21, RV23, RV25, Y08, T1, N2 

Y14, YG17

Distress Ink: 

Mowed Lawn

Taylored Expressions 6x6 Designer Stencil:

Mosaic Leaves

The Greeting Farm sentiment: 

Bloom Kit

Rectangle dies is from:
My Creative Time

When I saw this hibiscus, I thought about Hawaaii and it's lush green landscapes

with many colorful flowers and yummy fruit. 

I have this stencil from Taylored Expressions that I wanted to use. 

First I masked the hibiscus with a printer paper mask I made. Then,

I used Mown Lawn Distress Ink all around it but tried not to be

too heavy. When I had enough coverage I place the stencil over the 

card layer and used the same Mown Lawn Distress Ink. I wanted to have

leaves in the background but I wanted them to be subtle. 

I used a rectangle die from My Creative time and sort of gaged

where I wanted to place the sentiment and chose one from The Greeting Farm's  

Bloom rubber stamp kit. I used Gold tinsel embossing powder from Martha Stewart.

Here you can see the tinsel embossing a lot better. 

I hope you liked the card and I hope to see you all over at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/7kidscreate/
for all of the fun stamp releases and events going on.

Thank you for visiting,

Katya Bess 

7 Kids Crafts: When Life Brings You Troubles

Hello Everyone!

I hope you're having a day without troubles. I had fun creating this image with Distress Oxide and water. I created another card with a similar technique which I talk more about here: 7 Kids Crafts: My Heart Belongs To You. I'm really loving this cute little image from Picket Fence Studios this one is called Kylee Boo - S118. To color her Kylee Boo and the grass, and bubble I used Polychromos color pencils. After I colored the bubbles I added Glossy Accents on top to give them the round and wet appearance of soap bubbles. Even though the image seems very small and the lines are like loose sketches, when I started coloring I felt it was pretty easy to color especially with pencils. It was really easy to follow the artist's lines. I had partially worked on this image since February (Day:18) for #thedailymarker30day challenge.

Before I forget this month's 

Vendor of the Month Sale over at 7kidscrafts.com is 

Picket Fence Studios and Cardstock, 

please be sure to use PAPERHOARDING to save 20% on those items

(Note: This does not include New Arrivals)

Here is my card:

Picket Fence Studios: Kylee Boo - S118

The rectangle die is from My Creative Time

I hope you gathered a little inspiration and maybe you can grab

some of these cute stamps with the discount while they last. 

Don't forget that there are always lots of inspiration

from the lovely DT ladies over at 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/7kidscreate/

Also, lots of games, prizes, limited time free digis sometimes.

Thank you for stopping by and 

colorful and bubbly day. 

Katya Bess

You're a Khaleesi

Hello Everyone!

Just having a little fun with the stamps and stencils from Stamp AnnieThing's Conquer The World - Grab and Go! set Many of the Crafty friends that interact with me know that I'm a Game of Thrones Fan. Before anyone told me just by one hint that Annie gave I knew this set would be a Game of Thrones themed set. LOL It was too easy to guess but she wouldn't tell me when I asked the anticipation was eating me up and next thing you know it was sneak peek time and she showed us the stamps. I am over the moon with the Daenerys and the Jon Snow stamps alone and then to get a whole package full of Game of Thrones themed goodies made it even better.

Anyway, here's my card. I colored her up in the color she wore to her wedding to Khal Drogo. 

I colored her up with Copic markers.

Used a stencil that comes in the Grab and Go! set and 

I just used Distress Oxides to lightly dab on and then

added more colored around the edges to frame the image.

The sentiment is also from at stamp set in the same box. 

I then added some Frantage embossing powder from

Stampendous! Lastly I added few silver sequence.

Thank you for visiting.

Katya Bess

I've entered this card at:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.2470769132933514&type=3

Sequins and or Adornments

7 Kids Crafts: Mermaid Kisses in watercolor

Hello Everyone!

For today's card I decided to work with watercolors. Some of my favorite watercolors to work with are Dr. Ph. Martin's Hydrus - I love to use these because they come in these small glass bottles with droppers and they are already liquified.

The Greeting Farm Stamps at 7 Kids Crafts

I tried to keep a small color palette to tie everything together. 

Dr. Ph. Matin's Hydrus colors used are:

Phthalo Blue, Hansa Yellow Light, Quinacridone, Phthalo Green and Venetian Brown

Normally I set my water color to the side and work on something else

but this time I had my heat gun ready so I can lay down the next color/s. 

I wanted to created like a mermaid lagoon and a waterfall in the background.

To define their cute faces, I went to trace over the faint stamped lines with a color

that matched or was somewhat darker than the watercolor paint. 

I hope you liked my watercolored card using these cute little mermaids.

Also, don't forget that there are 3 total Sweet November 

"Vault Images" this month but only until 3/22:

Sweet November: Baby Bunny
Sweet November: Baby Bunny Butterfly
Sweet November: Baby Bunny Egg

and if you join the 

7 KIDS Customers Create! Facebook Page

you can find a 4th Baby Bunny for free!!!

Thank you so much for stopping by,

Katya Bess

Life is a Circus

Hello Crafty Friends,

This time I decided to make a card with a coloring challenge. The image is called: Swinging by AliciaBel.com 

Swinging by AliciaBel.com 

Here's a close-up and you can also see the shimmer better.

I colored the image with Copic markers + 1 Distress Ink:

skin: E21, E11, E13, E21, E37

eyes: W1, W00, E99, 

lips: R21, R22

hair: W7, W5, BG13

clothing: C0, C1, R81, R83, RV34

star: Y23, Y08

background: BG13 and Distress Ink Evergreen Bough

I then added shimmer to the star, stockings, bustier and hat.

Thank you for stopping by,

Katya Bess

7 Kids Crafts: Unicorn ATC

Hello Everyone! 

I hope you are having a nice day. I want to share some Artist Trading Cards I've been working on this month. They were a labor of love for sure. This is my second time making ATCs ever and both times I've done them were for 7 Kids Customers Create! Facebook group. I used a stamp called Kylee's Unicorn, it's not longer at 7 Kids Crafts but there are plenty more items from Picket Fence Studios @ 7kidscrafts.com  I definitely want to buy more of them they are really fun to color. 

I used mostly all Copic markers to color them.

I colored in the pupils, the eyelashes and some of the grass with 

Polychromos pencils. Some of the flowers I colored up with 

watersoluble pencils Supracololor II from Caran D'ache.

I didn't list the skin colors this time but I did record the rainbow colors

and some of the grass colors because it's what I used on all of them mostly.

I wanted all of them to have different colored hair, eyes, skin and dress colors. 

They all have these colors in common for the background
(some varied if my marker was drying out and it's where I put "or")

Rainbow:

V15, B05, G09, Y06, YR04, R17
Sky:
B01 or B000

Meadow:
YG07, YG17 or YG09, YG17

Here's a closer look at each one:

I hope you like the Artist Trading Cards I created
and it would be nice if you would participate in the next 
7 Kids Customers Create! ATC swap, I'm told that
it may be a Coin ATC, it's still to be announce.

I also make a YouTube video, I still get nervous
making / speaking on videos I don't know why but
you can see them there as well, just click the link:
Unicorn ATC Swap YouTube video


Thank you so much for visiting. 

Katya Bess