7 Kids Crafts: Fearless Pursuit

Hello Everyone!

I hope you had a nice weekend! We've had a 3 Day weekend, Memorial Day, in honor of the men and women who have died while serving in the U.S.A Military. My Husband's Grandfather Celsus Yopp enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1951 and continued to served for over fifty years but passed away last year.

I didn't get to do very much crafting as I hoped but I did get work on a little ink blending. I used this pretty cool set called Catherine Pooler - Fearless Pursuit along with some Distress Oxide and some blender brushes, you can find some here: Picket Fence Life Changing Blender Brushes. With some good tools it doesn't have to have to be complicated to create a very colorful card.

I wanted to create a sunset with the colors and I wanted to be a beach scene so I used a marker to block in a section to make it look like a silhouette of an island. Then I used the Palm leaves and used the same marker that I created the island for the palm tree trunks. The Catherine Pooler - Fearless Pursuit comes with the palm tree trunks separated but I wanted to be a different angle so I drew the trunks myself. When I finished I added a few water ripples with a White Gelly roll and it was dry I added a little bit of clear star right above or under the white lines.

Distress Oxide:

Scattered Straw, Fossilized Amber, Fired Brick, 

Broken China, Chipped Sapphire

Versafine Clair:

Nocturne

Sakura Gelly:

White and Clear Star

Thank you very much for visiting.

Katya Bess

7 Kids Crafts - Have a Snappy Day!

Hello Everyone!

Happy Earth Day! :D

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 sale is Picket Fence Studios & Select Carstock. I purchased this Beautiful Girls - Isabella from 7KidsCrafts.com a while back, and I believe it's not available at the moment but there are plenty of pretty stamps from Picket Fence Studios. Remember to use code: PAPERHOARDING for the 20% off discount. 

For my card I used Sweet November Background Builder, City Park - If you purchased Picket Fence Studios - Beautiful Girl, Kate you would get it free while supplies last but you can also purchase the digital background by itself. I purchased Beautiful Girl, Kate but while waited for my package to arrive I started to color the background. Then when planning my cards I noticed that Beautiful Girls - Isabella fit perfectly in the foreground and I decided to used the Sweet November Background Builder, City Park with Isabella instead. I think it came out alright.

Sweet November - Background Builder, City Park

Picket Fence Studios - Beautiful Girls - Isabella

sentiment: Kraftin' Kimmie - Oh Snap! (retired stamp set)

I love how it came out! Isabella is out on a beautiful day

sitting at the park admiring all of the beauty around and taking 

lots of photographs. Down below you will see some of my process.

First I colored the background, then I colored Isabella. 

I was trying to figure out where I wanted to place her and of course

photography is another hobby of mine so I framed her with the 

"Rule of Thirds" in mind. If you don't know what the Rule

of Thirds is, picture a tic-tac-toe or a hashtag, you 

want to set your focal image in of of the points where two lines meet.

I decided to stamp it straight on to the background because

she has wispy hairs flying around from the light refreshing breeze...

and those little whispy hairs are hard to fussy cut around. 

That's my trick on keeping little whispy hairs or other small details. heehee 

When all was glued down, I added a little bit of Ranger Ink - Inksentials, Glossy Accents

to her glasses and camera lens for added interest. But before I added the Glossy Accents

to her glasses I used a white Gelly Roll to give her eyelights. 

For the necklace and bracelets,  I also colored them in with a White Gelly Roll,

waited until dry and then added color with a Copic marker and finished

off with Glossy Accents to make them look like shiny beads or stones.

 I hope you liked my card and got a little inspired to 

work with stamps that have intricate details.

Thank you so much 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 

7 Kids Crafts: Kylee's Unicorn

Hello Everyone! 

I hope you all are having a lovely day. Today's project is for 7 Kids Crafts and I am working with a clear stamp called Picket Fence Studios - Kylee's Unicorn. This is a really cute set to work with. The images are adorable and the sentiments can be used with many other stamps or projects.

I haven't done this in a long time but I colored with pencils on white paper... it's a little scary but doable. heehee When I saw the little girl "Kylee" I immediately thought about the collectible Blythe Dolls which I think are super cute and I wish I could afford a real/custom doll for my"inner-child"self and to put in my craft-room. I have a factory version (still pricey) of the Blythe doll with a long wig but still needs clothes because well I spend my money on stamps, paper and dies. LOL 

Picket Fence Studios - Kylee's Unicorn

I colored this image with Polychromos 

I didn't write down the colors for skin and fur

 but here are the ones for the hair, the crown, horn and dress

Hair:

 Light Phthalo Green, Phthalo, Hookers Green

Light Phthalo Blue, Ultramarine

Permanent Carmine, Madder

Blue Violet,  Violet, Light Magenta

Fuchsia, Light Purple Pink, Middle Purple Pink

Crown/horn:

Cadmium Yellow, Burnt Ochre, Walnut Brown

Dress:

Light Magenta, Violet, White

The dies are from My Creative Time

and the chunky glitter is from Recollections

Here's a close-up

Don't forget that January's Vendor at
7 Kids Crafts are the Santoro Gorjuss Girl stamps
Kelly carries the larger sets as well as the mini sets.

Check out the Facebook group at:
7 KIDS Customers Create!

Thank you for stopping by

Katya Bess