30 Day Coloring Challenge #4: Day 14 – Some Coloring Practice with Copics

logoHello Everyone! I squeezed in some coloring today – Yipee!! Not as much as I would have liked but I like that this challenge doesn’t have a time requirement.

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This is a bird that I had from the online copic cardmaker class. So I played around with some funky color combos for these birds.

day14bThe technique I was practicing is called tip-to-tip coloring. It’s when you use two colors that are far away from each other and then take the lightest color and place it on the tip of the darker maker to make a shade that’s in between the two colors making for a nice blend. It’s great for when you have limited colors.

Tomorrow, I have to run the boys on some errands so prepare for another late post tomorrow. I’m just glad to still be at the challenge on day 14.

Happy coloring my friends!

Belinda

30 Day Coloring Challenge #4: Day 13 Playing catch up!

logoHello Everyone! I had a date weekend with my man and coloring kind of got pushed to the side. My in-laws took the boys on Saturday. So Leao and I spent the day together relaxing and reading (yup, he’s a closet bookworm!) and then we ordered Japanese food from my favorite Japanese restaurant and picked it up for dinner and a movie at home. It was perfect because the weather was -9 degrees!

dinerandmovieI love how they include a live flower in the meal. So pretty even for take-out they make the effort.

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So you see, coloring wasn’t going to work. So what I will do is extend my coloring for the challenge to make up for the two days I missed.

This is also school vacation week so I have to be clever to squeeze in time to color. Today I used some digis from Mayzy Art. A great designer who is sadly closing her shop. I have had fun coloring up her images and really sad to lose the talent.

day13eThis one will be perfect for a ‘get well’ card. I love the cute little bunny and slippers. day13dI used some of my current favorite color combos for this one.

This next image I knew I had to have for my new ‘breast cancer and cancer cards’.

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I have to go back with my gold Wink of Stella to color over her armlet and earrings.

day13cWell it’s late and I need to get these boys in the shower. I just wanted to make sure I posted my coloring for today. See you tomorrow!

Happy coloring!

Belinda

30 Day Coloring Challenge #4: Day 12: Forever my Valentine Card

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Hello my craft-lovin’ friends! It’s day 12 of the color challenge and I am still at it. Yesterday was a long day and so I was unable to complete my card. So this morning I was on a mission to finish coloring my image and pull together a Valentine’s day card.

One of the fun things about this craft is that from time to time, you get faced with a mistake that you must find a creative workaround to make them work. Sometimes, It might be my color combinations don’t work as planned, sometimes, it’s a stamping error, etc. Well I printed up multliple digi images on Copic paper to color for various projects. Sometimes I print them up with space for me to incorporate a drawn background and other times, I lay them out so that I can maximize the amount I can fit on a sheet with the intention of fussy cutting them out after I color them. Well in haste, I forgot to print a test view to see if everything fit on the page. So the balloon on this image was clipped.  I don’t like to waste paper and products so as a rule I find a way to make it work for the project or use on another to avoid wasting anything.

day12aSo I pushed the imaged flush right and cut off a little more of the balloon to line up with the right edge of the card.  Problem solved!! I also designed two sentiment designs (love, forever) on my Silhouette and played around to ensure the digi when cut out, would fit nicely with the word. I used the print and cut feature on my Silhouette (yes I use a Cricut cutting mat – don’t judge) to cut out the cards and then placed the image on each to see which sentiment I would use for this card.

day12bI ended up using the ‘Forever’ sentiment and matted it on American Crafts ‘Everyday’ patterned paper.

I think I might just use this card for my husband. That way I can still see her cute face around the house!

It’s really cold here (18 degrees) and I am thinking of stopping work early, making tea and grabbing my book and heading to my reading nook for a little comfort.

I will be back tomorrow for day 13!

Have a lovely weekend!

Belinda

30 Day Coloring Challenge #4: Day 11 – The Beginning of a Valentine’s Card

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Today was pretty crazy so here I am uploading my post at 8:30ish! I did get some coloring in but hadn’t had the chance to prepare a post.

day11I picked out a digi from Saturated Canary, picked some go-to colors and printed her up on some copic paper. Then I realized the balloon was cut off a little. Tomorrow I will show you how I can create a work-around once I finish coloring and complete the card.

Good night and happy coloring!

Belinda

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