7 Kids Crafts: Some Bunny to Love

Hello Crafty Friends!

I hope you are doing well. Today at 7 Kids Crafts there is a super cute Vault Release with Sweet November stamps. For today's card I used Sweet November: Baby Bunny I had a joyous time coloring this adorable little image. I wanted to bring out my Polychromos pencils because I haven't used them in a while I get a little rusty when I take really long breaks. I also used Distress Oxide and Distress Inks. The sentiment stamp is from a retired Clear Stamp set from Some Odd Girl called "Bunny Girl Gwen" 

There are 3 total Sweet November "Vault Images" this month:
Sweet November: Baby Bunny
Sweet November: Baby Bunny Butterfly
Sweet November: Baby Bunny Egg

Sweet November: Baby Bunny

When I sized the digital stamps I wanted to use, 

I made sure to save my document file so I can print 

it again in the same size with both the paper I planned 

on using to color as well as on printer paper

to use as a basic mask. I also had washi tape to help hold it

down in place. 

After, I inked up the background...

I know it's not covered completely but I wasn't 

going for full covered this time. After that I started

coloring the skin, bunny and the bunny suit.

Here you can see some of the close-up details. 

Polychromos used:

Ivory, Burnt Sienna, Light Flesh, Medium Flesh

Black, Cold Grey III, White 

Light Flesh, Medium Flesh, Caput Mortuum 

White, 20% Cool Grey (Prismacolor), Cinnamon

Permanent Green, Hooker's Green, Burnt Umber, Cadmium Yellow, White and Cadmium Orange 

Distress Inks:

Walnut Stain, Mowed Lawn

Distress Oxide:

Broken China

Colorbox:

Frost White

Since it's Vault Week with 

Sweet November Stamps there are 

fun games, polls, stamp winners- 

all sorts of things but you have to 

join us at 7 Kids Customers Create! Facebook

page to find out about all of the happenings and events. 

Everyone on the 7 Kids Design Team has their own

style and uniqueness that you can learn from,

so take a little time to check out their blogs

see what they came up with. 

I hope you liked my card.

Thank you for stopping by,

Katya Bess 

Passionate Paper Creations: Fighter Gwen

Hello again Crafty Friends,

This week as stated on my last post, at Passionate Paper Creations, Some Odd Girl is our sponsor. I love the versatile images found at Some Odd Girl and this one happens to be a digital stamp called Fighter Gwen. I love this one because it focuses on her strong pose and face.

Fighter Gwen

skin:

E50, E21, E53, R21, R30 and Polychromos Caput Mortuum

eyes:

 E29, E25, E97

lips:

R21, E04, Polychromos Caput Mortuum

head scarf:

 R27, R46 and R59

hair:

E79, E29, E25

jumpsuit:

B41, B97, B99

For the background I used 

Distress Ink: Mustard Seed

I chose these colors to look like the iconic 

"We Can Do It!" Poster by J. Howard Miller who created

it to boost worker morale during Word War II. During those

times women were encouraged to take wartime jobs in defense 

industries. 

I also used this quote I've seen many times before:

"Here’s to STRONG WOMEN.

May we know them.

May we be them.

May we raise them." 

To color the hair I colored in long strokes following the hair lines

drawn by the artist, 

for skin and headscarf I blended them as smooth as I could

and for the jumpsuit, to create the jean texture, I made hatch lines.

For more inspiration check out:

Passionate Paper Creations and Friends Facebook Page

Thank you so much for visiting.

Katya Bess

Passionate Paper Creations : Love U

Hey there Crafty Friends,


This weekend on Passionate Paper Creations, Some Odd Girl is our sponsor. I love the super cute images she comes draws up for us to color. I want to share a CAS card using a clear stamp from Some Odd Girl.  The clear stamps are only available in surprise grab bags now but I'm sure if you don't have one you'd love to get one. The grab bags are available here: Some Odd Girl "Grab Bags"  To color her up I used Polychromos color pencils.

This Stamp is called: Crushin Gwen

Polychromos Colors pencils (+ one Prismacolor)

Here are the colors I used:

skin: Light Flesh, Burnt Siena, Ivory and Medium Flesh

Lips: Caput Mortuum and Light Purple Pink

Eyes: Ultramarine, Sky Blue and Black

Dress: Light Purple Pink, White and Caput Mortuum

Hair: White, Burnt Siena and (Prismacolor) Jasmine

Thank you for stopping by,


Katya Bess

LMMS: This Little Light of Mine

Hello Crafty Friends,

I've been working on some Christmas cards... crossing my fingers that I don't run out this time. This is a simple card I created with Jr. Hatter Kit with the new Jr. Hatter Add-on Faces Set A (Digital.) I'm really loving all of the new faces to customize them all. To decorate the bottom portion of the card I used an accessory of Christmas string lights from the Holiday Truck set.

 Jr. Hatter Kit 

Jr. Hatter Add-on Faces Set A (Digital) 

Holiday Truck

I colored her up with Polychromos color pencils:
Skin: Ivory, Walnut Brown, Burnt Sienna, Indian Red and Medium Flesh
Outfit: Alizarin Crimson, Middle Cadmium Red, Dark Red, Caput Mortuum
Hair: Black, Cold Grey VI, Cold Grey III and White
For the lights:
Alizarin Crimson, Dark Cadmium Yellow, Cobalt Turquoise,
Dark Cadmium Orange, Crimson and Emerald Green +
Olive Green Yellowish for the light wire sockets.
For the lights of the eyes I used a Uni-Ball Sign Pen Angelic White.
For the background Distress Ink: Mowed Lawn
The rectangle die is from My Creative Time.
The sentiment is a clear stamp from Some Odd Girl.

I hope you liked my simple card and don't forget

to check out the 

Little Miss Muffet Challenge Blog

Thank you so much for visiting.

Katya Bess

LMMS: Toby It's a Super Big Day

Hey there!

Today I'm worked on a boy card, I was specifically thinking about one my nephews when I colored rubber stamp Polka Dot Pals Toby. I used Polka Dot Pals Add-on Faces clear stamp as well to give him his expression. I really liked that PDP Toby has curly hair like my nephew, he's in his play clothes and in a homemade cape. I like that he looks playful and in super hero mode. I was thinking about how my brother takes him to him on B.A.R.T. rides a lot and he gets to see Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland and San Francisco city skylines on their way home after day care /and after work. My nephew gets excited about all of the people and action he gets to see but also city scapes with the sunset colors on The Bay.

I used the sentiment called Big Day Tobie from Some Odd Girl Stamps, the Make A Card #7 die set from C.C. Designs, and the cityscape is called Super 2 from Paper Smooches, the card rectangle layers dies are from My Creative Time. I colored Polka Dot Pals Toby with Copic markers and I used Distress Inks for the sunset background.

Copic Markers:

E04, E11, E13, E21, R30

E25, E15, Y19, Uniball Angelic White. 

W9, W7, W5, E25

R24, R29, R39

B21, B45, B95, B97

G07, G09, G28

Y19

Mini Distress Inks:

For the background layer I started with Distress Inks: Fossilized Amber at the bottom working my way up, from the very top I used Abandoned Coral working my way down towards Fossilized Amber. Then in between the first two colors I used Spiced Marmalade to blend them out. Lastly I used a very light amount of Black Soot on the top and bottom edges and an even tinier amount on the sides. I really enjoy using Distress Inks to give color for backgrounds I can't wait for more colors. I really need to do inventory because there might be more colors out there that I'm missing out on. Oh yea I really need to buy Re-inkers for them too.

I cut up two sets of the Super 2, Paper Smooches die set and just lined and trimmed them to extend the cityscape and fit the card size. After fussy cutting Polka Dot Pals Toby I made sure to place him to cover up the edges where it was more obvious that I joined the two sets of dies.

The reason I used the squiggly comic speech bubble is because I made a mistake with the stamps. I really meant to stamp part of the Some Odd Girl sentiment, add the super die cut and then the rest of the Some Odd Girl stamp....on the background but somehow my paper got stuck to the stamp and the paper lifted bit [insert internal whine face here. LOL] and the I got an offset stamped section where I didn't want it. So after digging around since I had no time to start another background and cut up more cityscapes I found a way to block it with that big comic speech bubble die from CC Designs that also has the "Super" die cut. Sometimes super hero's don't have capes... sometimes they are in paper form and die cuts to block the bad stamping away. Haha In the end I liked that it gave it more of a small child comic book feel. I think I'm going to play with that die set a little more now.

See my crafty mess... looking over to my desk and there is still a bunch of things I need to put away so that I can start on a new card or project.

Also check out Little Miss Muffet Stamps on Amazon... Whaaaaat?! 

I know some people that ONLY do their online shopping with Amazon.

BUT if you're like me, I like to go to the artist's main site which is here:

 http://www.littlemissmuffetstamps.com/

and don't forget about the challenges (Always ~ Anything Goes!)

Little Miss Muffet Challenges

Thank you for visiting,

Katya Bess