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: I'm Dreaming of a Bright Christmas

Hello Crafty Friends,


I wanted to share this cute little elf called Beaming, (back in stock) by Penny Black. There are still more cute Christmas Penny Black clear stamps available at 7 Kids Crafts store. I colored image with color pencils. I wanted to keep the card clean and simple so I didn't add much to the background. I also wanted to light up the Christmas lights by plugging them into an outlet so I drew it in just for fun.

I did a live tutorial on how I colored up this image... 

well it was a second card but same technique and same colors were applied. 

Facebook live coloring elf Beaming from Penny Black
to view the video you must be a member of the 7 Kids Crafts Customer's Create facebook group.

I had so much fun coloring up this cutie. 

Color pencils used:

Polychromos and a few Prismacolor)

Deep Cobalt, Permanent Green, Walnut Brown, Burnt Ochre,

(Prismacolor: Eggshell), Sienna Brown, White), 

Rose Carmine, Alizarin Crimson, Dark Red, Cold Grey III, 

Cadmium Yellow, Light  Phthalo Blue, Black

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

7 Kids Crafts: You've been in my thoughts

Hello Crafty Friends,

Welcome to the Summer Garden by release Sweet November Stamps over at 7 Kids Crafts. The design team has some really beautiful cards to share and I really enjoyed coloring this month's release. Because these images have many details I really wanted to use my colored pencils to give them justice. I am sure that anyone can color them beautifully with markers or other mediums but for my ability I wanted to use pencils. I get a little more control using colored, plus I hadn't used mine in a while. I wanted to use only Polychromos pencils but I didn't realize that I grabbed a couple of Prismacolor pencils as well.... shows my organization heehee but I did like the colors when I laid them down on Kraft Cardstock..

August 1st and 2nd there will be a Sweet November Summer Garden Bundle Deal Just click the link for the special price.

If you checked out the link you'll notice that there are several lovely Summer Garden lady fae in this collection.

Sweet November - Peony Fae

Sweet November - Rose Fae

Sweet November - Dahlia Fae

Sweet November - Gerbera Daisy Fae

Here is an excerpt of Sweet November - Gerbera Daisy Fae:

Next along the garden path the happy Gerbera Daisy Fae welcomes all with a cheery disposition that matches the flowers she so loves. There is a happiness in this corner of the garden that is completely irresistible. One can't help but smile as you watch the daisies sway and dance atop their long stems and Gerbera Daisy dancing right along with them.

To create my card I use 4 different sets listed below: 

Sweet November - Gerbera Daisy Fae

Sweet November - Rose and Gerbera Daisy Background Set

Sweet November ToadStool Background set

Sweet November - Bud and Beezer

I used lots of colors to color my image. 

Polychromos  + a couple Prismacolor Pencils:

Ivory, Burnt Sienna, Walnut Brown, Dark Flesh, Light Flesh, Cinnamon, Indian Red, Dark Chrome Yellow,  Black, Warm Grey IV, Warm Gray II, White, Chrome Oxide Green, Pale Sage (Prismacolor)

Kelly Green (Prismacolor), Limepeel (Prismacolor), Emerald Green, Hooker's Green,

Dark Cadmium Yellow, Dark Cadmium Orange, Deep Red, Dark Red, 

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

7 Kids Crafts: Sweet November - Nixie Surfacing

Hello Everyone!

Today is the big day! It's release day for brand spankin' new images from Sweet November called Surfacing at 7kidscrafts.com

You can choose to get the entire Limited Time Surfacing Bundle Pack or you can buy your favorite ones separately:

Sweet November- Loire
Sweet November - Nerida
Sweet November - Nixie
Sweet November - Talise
Sweet November - Gully
or you can chose a background that includes a fish, frog, two lily pads, post reed and water lily.
Sweet November - Surfacing Background Builder Set which is completely customizable.

Amy Young, will be on live at 7 Kids Customers Create Facebook Page
at 11AM PST and then at 3:00PM PST, today May 1st. Throughout the day there will be games and prizes.

Okay on to my card.... I colored her with Polychromos coloring pencils and one Prismacolor. Around the edges of the water and sky I used Distress Oxide. For the Glowing fireflies I used a Sakura Gelly roll and smeared it with my finger, then added yellow Polychromos on top. The sentiment is from Kraftin' Kimmie stamps. I've been very excited since I fist saw these stamps. I need that I wanted to color them with color pencils to be able to work on blending skin more. I love my Copic markers but sometimes I can't get them to blend the way I want compared to the way I can with color pencils. Yes, color pencils are much slower... it's like a miniature painting but I love it either way and it's so much more relaxing.

 Sweet November - Nixie

I used Polychromos (+1 Prismacolor):
Ivory, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber, Caput Mortuum, Rose Carmine, (Beige), Cinnamon
White, Black, Cold Grey VI, Ultramarine,
Permanent Green, Hooker's Green, Chrome Oxide Green
Earth Green

Distress Oxide:
Black Soot, Pumise Stone and Broken China.

It's usually a little difficult for me to capture color pencil on photograph 

but here's a pretty good close-up of Nixie

Also for May over at 7kidscrafts.com 

Make sure to use code: Mama to save 20%

(please note that this does not include new arrivals*)

Thank you so much for stopping by

Katya Bess

Kraftin' Kimmie: Do I Like Coffee?

Hello Everyone,

It's been a while since I just sat to color or focus on making a card. Here is what I have created this week. I used a retired stamp from http://www.kraftinkimmiestamps.com/ her name is Angie and  Coffee & Friends! set for the sentiment. I can't believe it's retired!!! I will surely miss Annie Rodrigue's new releases at Kraftin' Kimmie- she is definitely one of my favorite artists. Anyway, I used marker paper and I wanted to experiment using colored pencils on marker paper to see how it looked. I'm still not sure how I feel about it, so I I only colored the skin and hair with pencils and then I colored the clothing with Copic markers. I stamped the same image on a Scrapbook paper I trimmed down from Michaels, it's called Garden Party from Craft Smart. I then fussy cut the image I colored and carefully glued her on top with some Glossy Accents.

Here is my completed card

I colored her up and fussy cut her and glued her on top of the 

uncolored image since I can't colored directly on the Design Paper

and I knew I was goin to loose some of the curly hair. 

Here are the Copic Colored I used:

Here is a close up of Angie.

Thank you for stopping by.

Katya Bess

LMMS: Polka Dot Pals Febiana

Hello Everyone!

I hope you're having a lovely day. Today I am showcasing a card using Polka Dot Pals Febiana, one of the newest digital stamps from Little Miss Muffet Stamps shop. I also, used one of the faces from Polka Dot Pals Add-on Faces set.

Here is what I've created for this Inspirational Thursday. I had so much fun coloring Polka Dot Pals Febiana I colored Polka Dot Pals Febiana as my interpretation for Storm from X-Men. Storm is very powerful and a leader among her mutant and human peers. Because she is so powerful I decided to add that hashtag #girlpower instead of leaving the card without a sentiment.

Copic colors: 

E13, E17, E27, E29, R35

Y23, Y26, Y28, R30, R46, R39

C9, C7, C5

C3, C1

Copic Multi-liner Black

Prismacolor: 

PC PC1063 and PC938

I colored her up with Copic Markers and to add a few gold details I used the Uni-ball Impact Gold, as well as a little bit of Prismacolor to give her some hair strands to her white hair. For her eyes, I colored over the pupils and added Glossy Accents over the entire iris.

For the background I used Distress Ink Weathered Wood from the center and up, then Evergreen Bough to represent an ocean or large body of water. When I was satisfied with covered I went in with Black Soot on the side edges and the top. 

When I was done adding color to the background, I drew tiny lines with my Uni-ball Signo Angelic white pen going in one direction to represent rain.

 Then I mapped out where I wanted to add lighting bolts from where she is lifted in the air. 

The lightning bolts were too light so I used a white Prismacolor to make them stand out a little more- not quite as white as I had hoped but it was good enough. 

It was a pretty simple card to make, the only thing that took me longer was the coloring because I was experimenting with other colors. 

I hope you are able to join in on the 

Anything Goes Challenge 

hosted at Little Miss Muffet Stamps Challenge Blog 

and also check out the other fabulous designs from the 

Design Team and Guest Designers.

Thank you for visiting,

Katya Bess 

LMMS: Vega Rise Above and Shine

Hello and welcome to another Inspirational Thursday over at Little Miss Muffet Challenge Blog

Today I'm showcasing a card I using Polka Dot Pals Vega

I used Kraft Cardstock and to start off I used

Copic markers. To brighten up the eyes, background,

star and skin I used a little Prismacolor over the Copic marker.

(Not a good idea to do it the other way around

if you want to keep a good Copic brush any. I Actually purchased a Prismacolor

colorless marker to blend/melt away Prismacolor Pencil wax but I hardly ever use it.)

It's a little hard to see but I added a little bit of Sakura GellyRoll Metallic Gold

to line the inside of the star that PDP Vega is holding. I then added some

Glossy Accents to the star to give it a 

little shine and emphasis to whomever looks at the card in person.

Another part I like to focus on especially with the 

Polka Dot Pal images is the big beautiful eyes. 

I used a White Prismacolor to color the sclera (aka whites of the eyes) 

then go in with the Black Prismacolor pencil to line and highlight

the eyes, eyelashes, and eyebrows. I used a little bit of PC 947

and a little more with PC 945 to define the her facial features such as:

jaw line, chin, sides of cheekbones, hairline, temples, eye crease, sides of nose

and a little for shadowing the ears, hands and legs.
When I was done coloring her face I went in with
Uni-Ball Signo Angelic White pen for the eyelights.

For the background I used Distress Inks:

Evergreen Bough and Black Soot

then I used a PC1011 PDP Vega to illuminate the area around her.

Then I added little stars all around with my Uni-Ball Signo Angelic White pen
when I was done just for a little more interest.

The clear stamp sentiment and square die is from My Creative Time.

The scalloped die is from Craftin' Dessert Divas

Remember to link up your cards or projects over at

http://littlemissmuffetchallenges.blogspot.com/

The challenges are ALWAYS Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting. 

Katya Bess

March Kraftin' Kimmie Krafty Peeks Day 3

Welcome back to Day THREE

of our March Krafty Peeks

at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!

Today is the final day of peeks and the release party is

THIS AFTERNOON at 1pm EST on Facebook!  

Are you going to join in and help us celebrate ALL the new sets?

Our last stamp set is from fabulous artist Becky Pearce!!!

It's called DINO-MITE PALS!

I'm sure you'll agree with me when I SQUEAL with delight at this adorable set! Think of all the quick and simple cards, tags, gift bags, party decorations and suplies you could design and all the fabulous scenes you can create with this set! So easy to add to scrapbook pages, pocket pages, bookmarks and lots more! It's totally up to YOU what you create!!

The set comes with FOUR main images, LOTS of accessory stamps and also SIX fun coordinating sentiments! There's a total of SIXTEEN cutie pie stamps!!!

Now don't forget!!! It's also CHALLENGE DAY and as always, during release week the theme is ANYTHING GOES!!! So create a card, scrapbook page or altered item with a Kraftin' Kimmie stamp!! Use any sketch, any design, any embellishments because Anything Goes! Have some krafty fun and join us this week because we'd LOVE to see your KKS designs. You have a week to play with this challenge (until March 16th) and at the end of the month, we'll announce a WINNER from all of the weekly challenges for March! We hope you can play along for your chance to WIN a $40 Gift Certificate to use on ANYTHING you want in the shop!! Wanna win??

All the Krafty Design Team members and Guests listed below have lots of stunning creations to share with you today featuring the DINO-MITE PALS! stamp set! Be sure to hop around and leave lots of love at each and every stop because one lucky commenter will WIN a gift voucher to the krafty shop! The winner will be announced at the LIVE Online Release Party this afternoon, so don't miss it!

Happy hoppin'!

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Hey there welcome back to my blog for Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps' March Peek Day 3 and Release Party.

The Prismacolors I used to color both dinosaurs are actually the same.

They are actually like a negative image of each other like they way I see a black and white photo and black

and white film strip. I'm not sure how to explain myself. LOL 

Basically I used the same colors but in a different amount.

All colors listed below are used on both dinosaurs. 

Prismacolor Premier Pencils:

PC915, PC1002, PC921, PC1033, PC902, PC903

and PC935 to outline the black lines to make them stand out again.

I used a little bit of the Uni-Ball Signo Angelic for the eyelights 

and for the frosting on the cupcake.

Oh yea! I also used PC109 and PC911 for the tall grass.

The Mini Distress Inks: 

Fossolized Amber, Abandoned Coral, Spiced Marmalade,

Mowed Lawn, Gathered Twigs

and lightly with Black Soot all  around the edges.

I did go a little heavier with the Black Soot above

the sentiment to dim down the brightness and bring eyes/attention back to the 

sentiment and dinosaurs. 

Both of the layering dies are from 

My Creative Time

I hope you liked this card as well as the previous peeks. 

Don't forget to hop along to see what the rest of the 

Krafty Krew + Krafty Guests have Kreated.  :D

Thank you for stopping by.

~Katya Bess

KKS Guest: Happiness is Reading

Welcome to another fabulous Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge!

Are you ready for some krafty fun??

We've got a super easy theme for you this week and we hope you can play along!

This week our challenge to you is to make

.....a ONE LAYER CARD!

Now this may be a big challenge for some of you who love lots of layers!! Haha! Use any one of our stamps and try really hard to limit yourself to ONE LAYER! How fun is that??

Submit your design for your chance to WIN! You have until Friday, March 9th to enter this challenge! Keep in mind, all entries are welcome but you must use a Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp in order to win.

Each Saturday we post a new challenge and you can enter as many times as you like!!! And each submission during the month will enter you into the monthly prize which will be....

a $40 gift voucher to spend in the krafty shop!!! 

What do you think? Worth playin' for? ;)

We've also got a fun sketch for your inspiration for March! You don't have to use it but if you need a little extra kickstart in your mojo, feel free to use it any time!

Be sure to hop on over to the Krafty Shop this weekend because our FRUGAL FRIDAY SPECIALS are up with FOUR of our amazing stamp sets on 40% OFF! Plus we've got a bunch of fabby sets back in stock and some of them will not be restocked!

ALSO the Krafty Vault has been OPENED! We have rereleased a retired stamp set and you can NOW get it in unmounted red rubber! GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN is back in the shop for a limited time so if it's on your krafty wishlist, add it to your cart this weekend!

Can't wait to see your krafty kreations!! Happy stampin'!

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Hey Everyone!

I'm delighted to say that for the month of March I will be guest designing for Kraftin' Kimmie!  Yay!

For my first card, in honor of Dr. Seuss Day, I decided to color up a cute little stamp called Happiness Is Reading. I love the cute little images Cheryl Grant creates for Kraftin' Kimmie so my collection is slowly but surely getting bigger. While we were at Bible Club and since it's not at our own school, I stay with them but tucked in a little corner and sometimes I take a little nap but usually I spend my time coloring. This time I decided to pull out my Prismacolor Pencils again.

 t has been raining a lot but the sun decided to come out for a bit so I decided to take another shot with some natural light. 

Here is a close-up.

My Prismacolor Recipe is:

PC947, PC945, PC997, PC1013, PC929, PC140

PC908, PC909, PC913

PC925, PC924, PC923

PC915, PC942, PC917

PC903, PC208

PC1102, PC933, PC208

PC935, PC1099, PC1058, PC1060, PC938

Distress Ink:

Vintage Photo

I hoped you liked my card and hope that you can enter the Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge at:

Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge: One Layer Card

Thank you for visiting!

Katya Bess

Entering this card to:

http://kraftinkimmiestamps.blogspot.ca/2018/03/challenge-420-one-layer-card.html

create a one layer card

KKS: Do you love me now?

Hi Everyone!

I worked on an image for the 30 Day Coloring challenge. I haven't colored every single day but I have colored more that I usually do which made me quite happy. For this one I did challenge myself to use my Dr PH Martin's Hydrus watercolors. My watercolors have been in the box for a really long time.  I opened it months ago but didn't actually use them. Watercolors are more challenging to me because I don't have much control with them, I need better paper and of course I need lots and lots of practice. This time I colored two stamped images using the same colors but two different days with the same pallet- that's one thing I like I can just re-wet the pallet and boom! I reactivate the pigments.
Another thing I did this time is I blindly grabbed one of the rubber stamps I have in a section drawer just for Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps one section is all Clear stamps and one section is all Rubber Stamps. Most of I still haven't colored (sad to say) but I grabbed a random rubber stamp and it just so happens to be Drucilla. This stamp is kind of fun and sort of spooky to me. LOL I stamped it with StazOn (solvent ink pad) called Saddle Brown. This type of ink is perfect for watercoloring and I chose the color because I was trying to do an almost no-line color effect but it was darker than I wanted. I will have to find a lighter color but this time the color worked well with the colors I chose.

I couldn't find a sentiment that I wanted in my stash nor I could find something online 

and I didn't want it to be mean in any kind of way... so I created the sentiment myself on the computer. It was pretty simple as long as my program didn't crash on me. This usually

happens when my Mac needs to install new updates. LOL 

Drucilla - Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp (retired gray rubber stamp)

As soon as I grabbed this stamp I thought about a Crafty Friend on the other 

side of the country that loves spooky and twisted books, movies and tv shows.

She also doesn't like Valentine's Day haha she's 

Anti-Valentine haha which is funny cause I love Valentine's Day.

Here is a close-up of the image. 

Very carefully I added Glossy Accents to the heads of the pins

to give them dimension and shine.

Oh yes, I forgot to mention, I tried to keep a 

minimum palette and it was actually the leftover 

paints from stamped image (same stamp actually) I colored the day before.

The Dr. PH. Martin's Hydrus Watercolors I used are:

10H Venitian Brown, 2H Gamboge, 6H Pthalo Green,

5H Quinacridone Magenta, and 11H Carbon Black

After a bunch of mixing here and there from a day old watercolors...

this is how it looked without added shading with Prismacolor Pencils

plus the lighting is a little weird.

As you can see I only needed a tiny bit of watercolor paint

because the colors are super intense- very little goes a heck of a long way.

When the image was dry I went over certain sections with 

Prismacolor Pencils just to give the coloring some accent and definition, 

for example shading around the face, the hair, dress and the voodoo doll.

The hardest part was trying to find paper that sort of matched the colored image.

Good thing I didn't use too many colors this time. heehee

The dies are from Craftin' Desert Divas, CC Design,

The Greeting Farm and My Creative Time.

I hope you like my card

with slight twisted humor.

Thank you for stopping by,

Katya Bess

LMMS: PDP Kyree Ice Cream Shop

Hi Crafty Friends!

Hope you're having a very blessed day. I'm excited to show you a Little Miss Muffet DT card I created with a super sweet image called Polka Dot Pals Kyree and Flavors of the Month Sentiment from http://www.littlemissmuffetstamps.com/ The digis is currently on sale for $1.00 as well as a some other sweet images- you gotta go check them out for yourself.

I had a fun time coloring Polka Dot Pals Kyree, I also stamped a face from Polka Dot Pals Add-on Faces. I ran out of printer ink right after a test printing on a Kraft cardstock since I planned to some Copic Coloring. I have some ink now but I ended up coloring on that Kraft cardstock and it's a little challenging since the colors show up different than on a white piece of paper. I never throw away stamped paper- there is always a way I can use my stamps even if it's not the paper I intended to use- I can always work on it another time. The good thing is that it gave me an idea (Ding! Lightbulb above my head LOL)  I attempted for it look like one of those vintage Polaroid pictures. I have some pictures from the 1980's that have a certain look to them that I gathered inspiration from.

Polka Dot Pals Kyree

Flavors of the Month Sentiment

Polka Dot Pals Add-on Faces

Copic markers I used:

E000, E13, E11, R22, R21, R30

E23, Y32, E71, E27, Y19, Copic Multi-liner Sepia, White Uni-ball Signo Angelic, 

Y35, E35

E35, E15, E79, Copic Multi-liner Sepia, RV21, RV14, R29, E41, Prismacolor White

BG49, BG15, BG13, BG34, Y35, YR14 and YR16

Prismacolors used

White and Black

Distress Inks Used:

Evergreen Bough

Vintage Photo

Here's a better look at the coloring.

Here is a little snippet of my creative mess. LOL

I was happy just to finish the polaroid picture but I really need to create more cards 

to have on hand for friends, teachers or people appreciate. 

Polka Dot Pals Kyree looks super happy with her massive ice cream cone

and the background sentiment made me think of an ice cream shop.

It's never too cold (even in winter) to eat ice cream, especially if it's indoors. LOL

I sketched in some lines to make a black and white checkered floor.

I could have done the black tiles with a copic marker but I wanted it to have the same

texture or look... I hope I'm explaining my self correctly. I just used Prismacolors

black and white and I colored lightly and maybe adding a little more coloring around the

edges of some of the tiles. After I glued my image on some colored cardstock

I finished it off with some Fun Tickets stamps and dies from 

My Creative Time and attached them with a little brad from BoBunny Isabella collection.

I hope you liked my card.

Make sure to check out the other very talented ladies at

http://littlemissmuffetchallenges.blogspot.com/

the challenges are always ANYTHING GOES

Also don't forget for the mega discount on some of these

super sweet images at

http://www.littlemissmuffetstamps.com/ 

Thank you for stopping by.

Katya Bess

Entering card at:

http://asyoulikeitchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/anything-goes.html

Anything Goes (show us your style)

http://ttcrd.blogspot.ca/2018/01/ttcrd-challenge-for-week-of-january-9th.html

Anything Goes

http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.co.id/2018/01/challenge-170-anything-goes.html
Anything Goes

http://inspirationdestinationchallengeblog.blogspot.com.br/2018/01/141-ag-kinda-cute-by-patricia.html
Anything Goes

http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.com/2018/01/challenge-358-anything-goes.html
Anything Goes

LMMS Christmas Vega

Hello,

Today I'm showcasing a card with image Polka Dot Pals Vega digi and Polka Dot Pals Add-On Faces from Little Miss Muffet Stamps and I used a background from Make It Crafty called Penelope Watching Santa Digi. I cropped the Make It Crafty Image and used the version without the Santa in the background.

I had fun coloring this scene even though I  have been sick... (whaaaaaah) I would have colored much faster if I wasn't sick though and on top of that busy Mom schedule. I started coloring the image with prismacolors but some areas that needed more coverage like the curtain, the night sky and Vega's dress I colored with Copic marker first. I did not need to use markers first but I found that it was a slight cheater method to lay down some coverage. I mostly used Prismacolor pencils though.

I tried to color Polka Dot Pals Vega digi to look like the person I am giving the card to. 

Here is a close-up of the image 

To view more inspirational cards from the other talented designers

as well as entering your card for the Anything Goes Challenge

check out the link below

http://littlemissmuffetchallenges.blogspot.com/

Thank you for visiting.

Katya Bess

LMMS: Lamb and Star

Good Day Everyone!

I hope all is well. I've been working on a few cards behind the scenes and this one is one of my simpler cards at the moment but it has a powerful meaning to me. I got the idea to make it a card from a bible verse. Matthew 2:10 (through verse 11)

The name of the Little Miss Muffet Stamp is Lamb and Star. The image was separated because I originally meant to add a die cut in between the mountains and the pasture but I ended up liking the image centered and I will have to make another card or two to show my original idea as well as the layout in which it was intended to be used by LMMS artist Barbara. The inside of the card is a rubber stamp from Our Daily Bread Stamps and it's called "Come Let Us Adore Him" 

I colored background with mostly distress inks straight on to the paper and then blended by using the mini ink blending foam. I made sure to block the image with a removable sticker or masking paper. When my background distress inking was done I colored in the star, the lamb and added a little shading and a few lines on the grass with Prismacolor pencils. I finished off the coloring by adding stars with a Uni-ball Signo Angelic pen and tracing over the black lines on the star. See! Easy peasy! :D For the sentiment in the front I hand wrote that myself... Every time I tell myself to not put my sloppy handwriting on the front for the next card... next card comes around if I don't have a proper stamp or die for it I mess it up with my sloppy hand writing LOL I don't know why I do it! Aaaaah! 

Here is the inside of the card. I ended up not using Kraft cardstock inside and went with 

plain white since I didn't need to use color pencils.

I know the stamp inside says it differently but I liked it a lot and the meaning is the same.

 9 When they heard the king, they departed; and behold, the star which they had seen in the East went before them, till it came and stood over where the young Child was. 10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. 11 And when they had come into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His mother, and fell down and worshiped Him. And when they had opened their treasures, they presented gifts to Him: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

I hope you enjoyed this card as much I enjoyed coloring and making the card while playing 

Norman Hutchins - Emmanuel song on a loop. heehee

Thank you so much for stopping and don't forget to stop by the links below for more inspiration

 

http://littlemissmuffetchallenges.blogspot.com/

and

https://www.pinterest.com/LMMStamps/

Katya Bess