7 Kids Crafts: Annie and Sandy

Hello Everyone!

I hope you are having a lovely day. Here I'm sharing a card with the latest Sweet November Stamps release, this digital stamp is called: Coco and Pebble. The sentiment is from Penny Black Stamps.

When I first saw this image I was inspired by the hair and I had a few ideas in mind for her. One of the scenes I wanted to re-create was one from the 1982 movie called Annie. In the scene Annie beats up on some boys messing with a street dog, later they end up being great pals and she names him Sandy. I love that after rescuing him she says that she only did what any decent human being would have done. I resonate with that scene because I dislike when injustices are happening and nothing gets done. Another reason I like this scene was that all of the pets I've ever owned have been rescued from the street... oh yeah and the part that she sucker punches that one boy- that was too funny. hehe

Sweet November Stamps -Cocoa and Pebble

Don't look too closely at the alleyway... 

I just wanted to fill the scene with color and show where

the event took place. I also drew the garbage can, the wood pallet,

the food cans (that the boys had tied to Sandy's tail.)

Colored up the entire image with 

Copic markers. 

Another this I wanted to mention is that there are

new clear stamps and dies released at 

7 Kids Crafts

Don't forget to participate all month long with this new Sweet November 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: 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: You're TuTu Sweet

Hello Everyone!

I hope you are all having a nice day. I know it's not Christmas but Nutcracker performances are still going strong. In anticipation for the Penny Black stamps and dies to arrive from 7 Kids Crafts, I decided to use one of the Penny Black stamp sets drawn by Mo Manning that I already had. Isn't this stamp tutu cute? heehee I definitely need to make more cards with her and the other cute stamps from the same set. I decided to pair it with some Graphic 45 8x8 clippings from the Nutcracker Sweet Collection.

Penny Black - tutu sweet

Graphic 45 -Nutcracker Sweet Collection

I colored this sweet little ballerina with Copic markers

but added a little shading with pencils.

The oval die is from Spellbinders which I used a little bit of distress ink 

to the background. The tutu sweet sentiment comes with the set

and I used VersaFine CLAIR: Rain Forest so that 

it compliments some of the green in the background details. 

I hope you liked the card and I 

hope that you can grab some 

Graphic 45 papers and Penny Black stamps and dies

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: Bundled Buddies

Hello Crafty Friends

Happy Veterans Day! Today!

I wanted to share a card using this cute clear stamp set called Bundled Buddies by Penny Black. Many of the Penny Black are so cute but I especially love working with the images drawn by Mo Manning. This stamp can be used as a Christmas card but also as a Autumn/Fall or a Winter card.
Time I put this bundle cutie in an autumn colors setting using the Hello Bluebird - Winter Woods Overlay die and I copic colored in some lines to make them look like birch trees. The leaves are left over from my previous project and that die is also from Hello Bluebird - Oak Tree Scene Die which I colored with ColorCraft Brusho powder pigments.

I really enjoyed creating this autumn scene and I hope that you get a chance to grab these from the 7 Kids Crafts store and have some play time as well.

Bundled Buddies by Penny Black.

Hello Bluebird - Winter Woods Overlay die

ColorCraft Brusho

I created this card using the stamp I colored for 

Day#12 of The Daily Marker 30 Day coloring challenge. 

I colored this cutie up with Copic markers.

The background was created with Distress Oxides

and the front overlay I colored with Copic markers.

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: Monsters Only

Hello Crafty Friends,

I had used this stamp on my previous post here: Dreaming of a White Christmas and I got so many questions about the coloring that I decided to do a facebook live with it even though I don't think I'm an expert at color pencils at all. You can check out the live here if you have time: Katya's Facebook Live at 7 Kids Customer's Create using Beaming elf. Kelly has ordered more of this cute elf from Penny Black and you'll be able to color him up too when it's restocked. During my live coloring I had a crafty friend, Sheila Fisher said she was planning to use him with Halloween colors. I thought this little elf colored in Halloween colors was a brilliant idea and after the live I had to ask her if it was okay to use that idea and she said yes. Yay! The first thing I thought was to color him up in green skin to make him into a little cute goblin and give him candy corn colored stripes. haha

The colors are listed below.

The Doodlebug papers are still in the shop and you can find them here:
Doodlebug Designs- 6x6 pad Candy Carnival

The banner and the sentiment which are all part of a 90 piece die cut set are available here:
Doodlebug Designs - Chit Chat Die Cuts - Candy Carnival
(note: I did trim the white from the banners/pennant.)

Beaming - Penny Black

Doodlebug Designs- 6x6 pad Candy Carnival

Doodlebug Designs - Chit Chat Die Cuts - Candy Carnival

Polychromos used:

Permanent Green, Deep Cobalt Green, Cadmium Yellow, White, Walnut Brown,

Cold Grey III, Rose Carmine, Burnt Ochre, Black,
Orange Glaze, Light Cadmium Red, Purple Violet, Mauve

Memento Dual Marker: Tuxedo 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: 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

May Theme Week: Florals

It's time for another Theme Week!
Let's get crazy with Florals!

We would love for you to participate with us in our THEME WEEK, and its quite easy to do so!
Simply create a project using ANY Stamp Anniething product (as your main focal point) in the set "theme" for that month.

Post your project to the corresponding album over at our Facebook Group page (Stamp Anniething Stampers)!

You may enter as many projects as you wish, but you will only be counted as ONE entry person.

A minimum of 5 people (not including DT Members) is needed in order for a prize to be given.

So here we go for May'sTheme Week!

Make ANY project using florals!!!

All projects must be uploaded by midnight PST June 3rd to qualify

Again, a min of FIVE entries for a prize win!

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Hello!  I'm back with Day 6 of

May Them Week: Florals

I used Jessica - For You stamp set and colored her up with Copic markers.

Jessica - For You

Some colors I used

B93, B91, R30, Y23 and Y21

Y13, Y15, E33, C9, C7 and C5

BV31, E0000, E000, E01, E21, R20 and R30

This is a 6x6 card

I tried to embellish with as many roses I could

without going too crazy with it.

I also colored the white roses with Copic markers

E13 and Y15

to match her clothing, bow and roses in hand.

The design paper is from 

Penny Black: Coco Style 6x6 pad

I used the colors from the papers as a contrast 

to the colors I colored her with. 

Here is a close-up of the coloring.
I've been experimenting (as usual) with certain colors
and intensity of which ones I want to stand out more.
I made this card for a technology teacher
at my kids' school that is leaving to pursue
a medical career. She is always very nice and always
happy to help... We will miss her. 

I hope you liked the card.

Thank you for visiting. 
Have a great day.

Katya Bess

Spoketacular Birthday

Hello Crafty Friends,

Hope all is great! Today is my youngest brother's birthday. Happy Birthday Bro'! {plays song "1st of tha month" in the background since that's his favorite song for hist birthday lol}He turned 21 today- of course to me he's still a little kid.... heehee I'm the oldest of them all. We always sort of called him my mom's birthday present because he was born the day before her birthday. I bought this stamp one because it's cute, second it was on sale 40% off, third because I knew I needed a "bike" stamp and fourth I know I'll be making him "bike" cards for him to give out. My brother
co-manages a bike shop in Richmond, Calif. named Richmond Spokes or some call it The SpokeShop. Photography, bikes and gardening are my brother's LIFE!!! I'm so proud of him doing many positive things in his life and for the community we grew up in.

Well I wanted to make him something that was simple yet have nothing "girly foofoo" heehee as we crafty ladies tend to do.

The stamp is from: Penny Black # 2881J Hedge Delivery

(I didn't know this was a Berkeley, CA 

company which is very close to our city about a 15-20min drive) 

The sentiment was just printed out, no special inks or lining up.

I added gray brads since bikes have all of these special "Machine Screws" 

with socket heads instead of your typical Phillips or slotted screws.

I colored my image with Spectrum Noirs on a this Adirondack Alcohol Ink Cardstock.

They took a while to blend but there was no bleeding or smearing which was awesome for me since this was the first time using this paper. Oh yea, I stamped and colored on the shiny side

(It looks just like shiny photo paper to me...)

Well that's all folks. Enjoy your 3 day weekend if you have a one that long and if not- have fun anyway ;)

Thank you for visiting. 

-Katya Bess

Challenges I've entered:

http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.com/2012/09/simon-says-put-stamp-on-it-challenge.html

Put a Stamp on it - NO DIGIS allowed this week.

http://hookedoncraftchallenges.blogspot.com/2012/08/challenge-24.html

Cards for Men

http://designedtocolor.blogspot.com/2012/11/november-theme-week-day-3-by-air-land.html

feature modes of travel in your colored image/s