Winnie and Walter playdate no 4 revisited

I made a card for Winnie and Walter playdate no.4 in the beginning of the month. While I had the stamps out I made a couple of other cards. This first one is actually following the color inspiration even though it doesn't look like it since I stamped with white under. There is two different tones of teal/green and red/pink but it looks hopelessly pastel. I hope it'll pass as a less saturated version of the inspiration image. And it's not a christmas card, since I don't have any christmas stamps from W&W. I'll enter this card in the challenge.

Well, this other card started out fab, most of all as therapy coloring while listening to an audio book. Then it went downhill from that. I kind of like it but at the same time I don't. Well, since I already have two cards for the challenge I decided to blog it but not enter it. I think it's because the text doesn't show up on the very loud background. Ot it's just the mess I made when trying to make it pop by adding some white gel pen. Who knows. You can't be totally happy with everything :) 

That's it from me today, I'll be back tomorrow with some Art Journaling. I was debating weather I was going to blog my AJ or not but since I use the blog as a kind of creative journal to see all my stuff in one place I'll blog it all in one post and be done with it. I also decided not to blog my Project Life spreads since they are a pain to photograph. Maby when I've done a few I'll change my mind but they aren't all that interesting anyways. 

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Time for a new coloring video. I colored a mermaid from Saturated Canary this time. I'm just loving Saturated Canary at the moment, they are really fun to color. After coloring her up I just cut a couple of wavey forms from post it tape and sponged different colors over it to make this fun ocean background. I hadn't planned to make a card when i printed her out (its a digi stamp) she is kind of big, not a lot of room for decos and the card is a bit larger than standard size. 

Enjoy the video!

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9Tdwi1MkIM] 

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Today I wanted to share a coloring video I made this weekend. If you have followed my blog you might know I have taken the ECCP Copic coloring classes and got really inspired. I decided to practice my coloring every day, and I have. Well, most days anyway. I'm really enjoying it too. So to make it more fun I thought I would make some videos, just sped up Copic coloring for those of you who are interested in that sort of thing. I usually just color up an image and put it in the pile of colored images (that might come in handy when I'm in a pinch for a quick card), but since I got the setup to record I thought it would be fun to see the progress. And to be honest, I've got this new MacBook Pro and I wanted to play with iMovie. After figuring it out I'm totally happy with it. It was way quicker to edit the video AND to upload it. But I miss the free soundtracks that came with my old program so it's a bit repetetive. I'll try to find some new music online that is free to use but I wanted to share my video ASAP so I hope it's not to annoying.

This is the card I made from the image I colored. The stamp is Saturated Canary. I love their digis. I usually print out 4 on a A4 sheet of paper and cut them apart to color one at a time. I carry all my markers in a camera bag so I'll ust pop a bunch of images in one of the side pockets along with the materail from the ECCP-classes and a color sheet where I can see all my colors at once. I'll take the whole bag up to the living room and color while watching tv with hubbie or between dinner and bed time when the kids are happy occupying themselves. Oh, I should mention that the video is sped up 4 times so it took me about 1 h 10 minutes to color this image. 

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEyyb1w2TT0]

I hope you like it. I'm curious if you would like more coloring videos or more general cardmaking/scrapbooking videos? I'm not a very organized cardmaker so editing the cardmaking videos takes a bit more time than just editing out the parts where I can't find the right markers in a coloring video. ;) 

Well, that's it from me today. If you are wondering where my regular wednesday-post was missing this week it's because I'm stupid. My memory card reader died on me when I was going to import my pictures and I was a bit slow and did not realize I could connect the computer to the camera and just get them that way. I'm blaming school, I'm just finishing up my last engineering assignment and my brain hurts from all the thinking. I might have broken it in a few places. 

See you another day I hope, thanks for stopping by!

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Here is a couple of cards I made from images I colored while practicing with my Copics. I love the Tiddly Ink images, they are so cute. I do have a hard time making cards with the images I’ve colored. they all tend to be kind of... square.... I’ll have to practice that too if I’m keeping up the daily copic coloring practice, it’s a shame to let the images go to waste.

Same picture but with the addition of a mailbox. The strips of paper on the side of the envelope paper is actually gold foil, I have no idea why it turned out this way on the image. Very odd...

So, do you have any tips on using colored images on your cards without it looking so... boxy? I do like to keep it kind of CAS, no flowers and stuff... Ideas?

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I’ve been trying to practice coloring with Copics every day since I took the Copic certification classes. So, I’ve got a ton of colored images and had to make some of them into cards. This was just a colored image with a silver embossed Winnie & Walter greeting on top. I think the image is so busy it’s hard to embellish. I added some sequins, not that it really needed any but I like them. All of the flowers are covered in clear wink of stella pen and I also used some glossy accent in the middle of the yellow flower and on top of the small roses in the background.

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I made this whimsical card for DESIGN in PAPERS this week. And if you think I’m nagging about the great Spectrum Noir Blendable Pencils I actually did not use them this time. I used Copics. Why did I do that? Well I went to take the last two classes for my ECCP Copic certification this weekend and I needed to practice before I went since i have not been using my Copics at all since I got the new pencils. Guess what? It was really hard switching back! So, if you want easy, fast, fun coloring go for the Spectrum Noir Pencils. If you want more challenging, slower, fun coloring go for alcohol based markers like Copics. I like both. And you can combine them. Wich I have yet to try. I will do that, maby for next weeks post.

The rest of the card is pretty stright forward. Some lovely new papers from Studio Calico, some enamel dots and a glitter embossed strip of paper I had left over from another project. And a stamp from my stash that I think works well with the stamp from Stampendous.  Fun!

Over and out from me. See you soon, I do have a bunch of cards and some pictures from the Copics classes I wanted to show you but they are all in my new computer currently being fixed. And the cards are on their way to UK, lucky them. They will be showed on trade shows around the world, like CHA. Lucky them. I want to go too :)

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