Touch of Spring

It is amazing how fast time fly's.  We decided to put a pool in our yard and that took a lot of time to oversee and get complete.  of course once done and to spend time enjoying.  I have since found out I will be a grandma soon.  We look forward to welcoming our granddaughter into our lives.  Finally have found time to get back to crafting and making cards.  Below is a card with an image from Stamping Bella, love the Uptown Girl collection.  Went through a run of loving the new Stampin Up Coastal Cabana color and some of the designer papers that matched.  She was colored with Copics markers.  

Of course I needed to color some Besties as well.  Had a love of purple as well recently.

My daughter is trying to help me get myself organized the downside of using card making to relax means I have lots of cards in a box.  Need to get them posted on easy so that I can make room for more.

Love of Besties

I have found that coloring with Copics helps to relieve the stress from work.  I love Sherri Baldy's Besties digi stamps.  Here are a few of the Besties that I done lately.  I get wrapped up in coloring and then don't take the time to make the images into cards.  So, here a few of the ones that have actually been put into cards.

I get hooked on doing the cards with my favorite color pink so I have been trying to expand and have started using different color combinations.

I know they all still seem to have a little pink on them.

Red and Black Copic Combos

Love the red colors of colic markers.  They are a little harder for me to use.  Trying to stay within the lines is a little more difficult then I thought and I have not quite mastered the blender marker.  The first is one I colored when I first started with copics she is the first Bestie that I colored.  Loved all the details of the image.

These are few different cards I have made as I started getting ready for Christmas cards.  Yes, I know they are not all the christmas them but if you could see the stack I have now you would understand the need to do some things that are different.  

The first of many Christmas cards that I have done for this christmas season.  This has become my stress relief at night.  When I was talking to someone and told them I needed to color more to cut down on stress she started laughing.  She said she would have to tell her daughter.  I know it sounds funny but works better then eating or drinking all  the time.  

Halloween Witches

Here are some more of the halloween cards I made this year.  All of the cards are cut at 5.25 x 5.25.  The images are from Sherry Baldy's Besties.  Halloween paper is from Stampin Up.  I cut the spider webs with my cricut as well as the purple frame behind the 2nd witch.  All were colored with copics.  I found the second image on the website for the original digital stamp and fell in love with the hair color and cloths.  She is a lot of fun to color and there are so many ways to color her.  Hope you enjoy.  

Used the same colors for her just tried a different layout with different embellishments.  

The fence behind this witch was cut with the cricut and the paper came with the flocked bats on the paper.  Could not figure out how I was going to use it until I colored her.

Learning How to Use Copic Markers

I have slowly been purchasing Copic Markers.  Took me a while to actually get them out and use them.  I have watched several tutorials and finally decided I just needed to get them out and play to see what happened.  Here is the first real attempt at coloring a full digi stamp.  This is a Besties Digital stamp, they are a lot of fun to play to use with copic markers.  My daughters think I am crazy because I have been sitting at night and coloring several of these different stamp designs.