7 Kids Crafts: Pearl

Hello Everyone!

We are excited to announce our Beautiful Mermaid Digital Stamps under the 7 Kids Craft Store brand! We hope you'll enjoy our creations and be inspired by our talented design team.** To participate, visit each team member’s Instagram account, and leave a comment on their post. When you're finished head to @7kidscraftstore and leave a comment also saying that you completed the Hop! You have until 2pm MTN on Wednesday May 6th to comment. One random winner will win a $20 gift card to the @7kidscraftstore You can check out my IG page here:

https://www.instagram.com/snappykatty/?hl=en

The digital stamps set is called:  Pearl and Finn I hope you're are able to grab this cute set and have a fun time creating. 

I wanted her to fit in this super cute fishbowl die set from My Favorite Things that I've been hoarding for several years. I colored her with Copic markers and tried to match some of the colors from Echo Park paper co. called: Mermaid Dreams. The foliage die is actually a mistletoe die from CC Designs and the tiny starfish and seahorse die is from Craftin' Desert Divas.

Thank you so much for visiting. 

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because there are always fun live videos, giveaways

and special offers going on. 

Thank you for stopping by

Katya Bess

Pierced by a Cupid's Dart

Hello Everyone!

I'm right back with another card. This one is just for a fun challenge over at 

The Wonderful World of Alicia Bel Facebook Page 

This fun digital stamp is called

Sexy Angel

 I colored her up with Polychromos colored pencils.

The sentiment I actually found it in an antique

Valentine's Day card front. I just typed up the sentiment and 

printed it on my computer. 

Thank you for stopping by

Katya Bess

Entering card at:

http://colouringinscrapland.blogspot.com/2019/01/reto-enerofebrero-2019-todo-vale.html

7 Kids Crafts: Nora Northlight

Hello Crafty Friends,

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday break and a fabulous new year. I'm excited to tell you that Kelly form https://www.7kidscrafts.com/ had a design team call so I decided to give it a go. I was shocked that I was one of the chosen designers because I felt there was a tough competition, many talented crafters applied besides myself. Before Christmas I was messaged to see if I was still interested, of course I said yes and soon after I received a parcel with some DT goodness. All of the items I received here in the YouTube video 7 Kids Crafts DT Package are all available at https://www.7kidscrafts.com/.

Here is the card I created with digital stamp
Sweet November Digital Stamp: Winter Fairytale - Nora Northlight
and a clear stamp sentiment from
Witt and Sass Stamp Company Clear Stamp - You Are Beautiful set
both can be found at: https://www.7kidscrafts.com/

Here are the Polychromos (and a couple of Prismacolor) color pencils I used:

Skin: Ivory, Burnt Sienna, Caput Mortuum and Medium Flesh

Hair: Black, Cold Grey VI and White

Cloak and Gloves: Walnut Brown, Burnt Sienna, Beige (Prismacolor), 

            then White, Ivory and Walnut Brown for fur

Dress and Boots: Brown Ochre, Burnt Sienna

Snow: White, Cold Grey III and 20% Cool Grey (Prismacolor)

Sky and Water: Sky Blue. I added Spectrum Noir Sparkle to the water. 

Wings: Copic Y21, Outlined with Cadmium Yellow, added dots and stars with Cadmium Yellow and then added Spectrum Noir Sparkle on top. 

The large rectangle die to cut the top layer and small dies to make the sign post for the sentiments are from My Creative Time tiny tags and the fence that I cut to use one portion of it is from La La Land Crafts. I used a little bit of Gathered Twigs distress ink on the sign post. 

For More inspiration check out the 

7 Kids Create Facebook page

Thank you for stopping by

Katya Bess

LMMS: Starbrite bookmark

Hello Crafty Friends,

Today I have a project for the new challenge over at Little Miss Muffet Stamps, I created a bookmark for my littlest one. Daenerys, will be 6 years next week and she's having so much fun learning and reading new words. It may be a while for her to read chapter books but she's extremely advanced and smart that I'm sure she'll be wanting more bookmarks made to read between school books and personal books. For the bookmark I used Polka Dot Pals Starbright. I colored her up with Copic markers and the blue part of the sky closest to her body is with Copic markers as well. The rest of the background was done with Distress Inks. The stars and dots were done with Sakura Stardust Gellyroll and the white stars were done with Uni-ball Sign White Angelic. 

I wanted to make her clothing very girly and colorful.

Luckily I had a twine/tassel with similar colors. I was looking

for my white and gold and saw this colorful twine and thought it would 

perfect for this bookmark.

Here's a close-up so  you can see a few of the spots with Sakura Gellyroll 

Stardust pen- it does look a little weird on the phone but in person

it looks very sparkly and more uniformed. 

I think what took the longest to color 

was the hair and ruffles. It was actually pretty pretty quick and easy to make.

My older daughter's friends are already asking for bookmarks from the last time I made her 

some bookmarks. 

That is all for now. 

Don't forget to visit the blog at

http://littlemissmuffetchallenges.blogspot.com/

and you may also check out the Pinterest gallery at

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

Thank you for stopping by,

Katya Bess

Playing with COPIC markers and Color pencils

Hello Everyone,

"Espero que este bien de salud y en sus finanzas...." my grandma always starts her letters when she writes to me LOL Basically  she hopes that I'm in good health and doing good in my finances- I'm also hoping that for you my crafty friends.

Speaking of finances.... I bought more Copic Ciao markers.... just 24 more... lol I only had a set of 8 Manga Skin Colors (which I hadn't even used) and getting frustrated with lack of vibrancy or just having to color and go over it again with pencils and OMS which also takes too long. Sometimes the pencils work for me and lately it hasn't- more so because of time blending. I probably just should have gotten a larger set of Prismacolor pencils and different point sizes of tortillon blenders so I won't have to stop and "sharpen" (nail file) my one point.

After playing with my Copic markers I see why there are so many people talking about Copic classes and certifications- but I tried. Only because they're more expensive and the "best" out there doesn't mean it'll color wonderfully like you want them to.... you have to also know how to color and have special strokes and know what colors to blend. LOL it's weird because I know how to paint I mean I can blend well and not make lines or make a blotchy mess all over the place (aka the face- the most important part) with paint. I guess I just need more practice with these markers. Overall I like them. I also need to watch more YouTube tutorials and one day if there is a class nearby I may attend. If I just lay down one color I'm fine no streaking but blending is where I need help. In the meanwhile I'll keep practicing.

Coloring some of The Greeting Farm's

Cheeky Beach girls

Here is my attempt at blending but off the paper and bringing to the paper instead of blending straight on the paper.

This one I am planning on making her look like she's wearing a dress 

and I'm cutting off her beach ball. I used colored pencils and OMS for her hair 

and eyes (which I changed from green to blue.) 

The skin, flower, slippers and swimsuit were done with Copic markers.

The lips with a gelly roll.

 I don't know what I was thinking with the hair but it made

me think of those retro posters where the color is a little bit exaggerated so I'm keeping it as is.

I used Copic markers for everything on this Cheeky. 

This is more obvious where my blending skills are lacking on the face.

Trying to work on African American skin too... but don't have many of the Copic "browns"

So I didn't do anything to blend the skin. The hair, eyes and ball are colored with pencils.

The flower, slippers and swimsuit were done on a sparkly cardstock. 

Gelly roll lips. 

This one wasn't as bad coloring since the lightest skin tones felt a little easier for me. 

The hair, the swimsuit, ball, flower and slippers were done with colored pencils

and no OMS except the hair.

With my family life I color here and there so I didn't get to color and cut out in one sit; just took the pictures all at once. Plus looking at some of my older post my lighting really seems to suck so I took my Cheeky's outside in the mild sun to snap some photos.

Here is a card I made with the first Cheeky Beach I have post if you scroll up, you'll see.

This is for Mother's Day- a 'Mum' I met from the crafting world. I sat her at what I call an English Garden the paper is from Recollections All Seasons 12x12. The crackle paper I printed the bench on is from the Pastel, Heart Warming Vintage Collection- Crafty Secrets.

The bench is a digi stamp from http://digitaltuesday.blogspot.com/2011/03/digital-two-for-tuesday-79.html the blog name is  Digital Two for Tuesday.

I love this bench and Also because I haven't bought the newest TGF stamps 

with those cute little seats. Plus this one has that vintage feel. 

The Sentiment is from the "Mom" collection from Our Daily Bread Designs- http://www.ourdailybreaddesigns.com/mom.html I love that site!

Here is a close up of the Cheeky sitting on the bench. 

This also makes me think of that song, 'Sitting in the Park' waiting for yoooooooooou by: Billy Stewart 

LOL so not related to the card.

The inside may be a corny (belated) Mother's day poem but it came from me so hopefully she likes it.

Well that's all folks.

Crafty hugs,

Katya Bess

I entered my card at:

http://scrapbitzcopics.ning.com/group/cmccopicchallengegroup  - Anything goes with Alcohol Markers and Colored Pencils

http://www.farmfreshchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/spring-cleanings-gone-retro.html  

-dig out something VERY old  that you have from TGF 

For the hubby - Just for fun

Hello Everybody!

Here's a little card I made for my hubby, just for fun. It's his lol but I have it displaying on my side of the office... teeheehee! I had pre-colored this Cheeky Kitty a while back and gave it a twist by drawing a "Catwoman" mask. This was inspired by my love of  watching old Catwoman and Batman scenes as a kid and often would "borrow" my some of my brothers comic books.
Here is a link of where I got my digi image from: http://thegreetingfarm.com/digital/chibi-farm-helper-digi.html

The Cheeky Kitty I colored in colored pencils and the faux stitching was done with a white gelly roll and the lips with a gelly roll too.

The Sentiment I printed that on the computer and used a Spellbinders die from the Ribbon Tag Trio Two set - I just cut off the ribbon holes. 

I added some Darice Self-Stick Gems 'cause our Catwoman is all about her diamonds!

The Cityscape was cut with my cricut and tweaked the width and height to fit the card.

The Moon was also cut with the cricut but that can be any circle shape from any cartridge that has circles.

For the moonlight in the sky I lightly colored the blue cartdstock in the area of the moon.

For the whip.... oh yea!!! lol j/k... more like ouch! I used embroidery floss and just make a chain by doing  simple slip knots like the first row of knitting. Then I used some of the hubby's black electrical tape lol and made the whip handle. The very end of the whip has a few speckles of stickles glitter glue.

I hope everyone enjoyed the visit. Thanks for stopping by. Grrrr....... or Meow!

Hugs,

Katya Bess

Happy World Card Making Day

Hello Everyone and Happy World Card Making Day!!!

All day I've been on The Greeting Farm Release Chatter Day which is at Splitcoasters now and I'm a newbie there too. I've been on bloghops, dealing with my kids and making cards --- wheew no housework. Oh yea, I take that back... I did wash clothes at 7:00AM-ish but that was it because I was determined to get some cards done today.

This one I'm entering on http://www.mypinkstamper.com/2011/10/christmas-card-challenge.html

Here you can see the items I used to color and cut my digi stampCheeky Kitty from The Greeting Farm

http://thegreetingfarm.com/new-products/chibi-farm-helper-digi.html

Here's a close up of the colored image - a little bid of bad lighting though.

 For the Christmas background specialty paper I used K&Company: Yuletide

I typed my own sentiment. All I want for Christmas is Santa's bad boy list

I also typed the "scroll" for Santa's Naughty list with bad boy character names 

from" Being Human, True Blood and Twilight lol Can't you tell I'm a Vampire

and Warewolf tv show fan?

Okay, for the fireplace and for the Poinsettia I used Cricut Cartridge Joys of the Season.

I really hope you gals and guys liked my card. It's a little more for the nice but sometimes naughty ;)

Thanks for stopping by and hopefully everyone is have a fun time!

*hugs* 

Katya Bess