Some Animal Lovin' Bella's

Today I made cards with two images from Stamping Bella. These are the first Bella's I've colored and they were so much fun! I just went over and loaded up my cart at their site. Between them and the new releases at The Greeting Farm today, I am SO over my craft budget (budget, what budget??!)!

So, I always thought I was a dog person until I got my cat. I haven't had a cat since I was very young, and I LOVE my cat. She is so sweet and when she crawls onto my lap it's because she wants to be near me unlike my dog who is just checking to see what I was last eating and if I dropped any! This card is for my friend who loves cats in general and mine particularly (she has cat sat while we were on vacation before). I used the stamp Kittycatabella. The DP and the flower are from Prima. I used my Nestabilites to cut out the image and the card stock it's layered on. I colored with Copics:
Skin: E50, E53, R20
Pants:B91, B93, B95
Hair, Cat, and Shirt: E43, E47, E49. Y15, Y17, Y38, YR16. T1, T3, T7, C0, C1.

For my second card I used Dogwalkabella. THE DP is My Minds Eye, the flowers are Prima, and I think the brad in the flower is from Making Memories. I used my white Signo gel pen to make the polka dots on her shirt. The rest is colored with Copics:

Skin: E00, E02, R20
Pants: YG95, G99
Top: BG32, BG34, BG49
Hair: E21,E25,E27,E29
Dogs and Shadows: C1,C3,C5,C7
Flowers: YR65, YR68

Thanks for taking time in your day to visit with me!
Traci

Sneak Peek - Anya and Ian Graduate!

Hi Everyone! I have a sneak peek of some new Anya and Ian Digi stamps that will be available tomorrow (April 1) at The Greeting Farm! Now, normally new Anya's and Ian's will be out on the 15th of each month but with the end of the school year right around the corner Marie wanted to make sure you had plenty of time to work on your graduation cards! There will still be new Anya and Ian's to look forward to on the 15th as well!


I had to do my first card in my old high school colors, just for fun! The DP is retired More Mustard print packs from SU. Anya is colored with Copics:

Skin:E000, E00, E02, R20
Hair:YR07, E08, E09, E27
Cap & Gown: G09, G19, G29


I wanted to make my second card a little more serious-looking. The DP is Me&My Big Ideas (B&W leaf print), DCWV (polka dots) andPaper Pizazz (stripe). Ian is colored with Copics.

Skin: E00, E02, R20
Hair: E21,E25,E27,E29
Sash: R24,R27,R29
Blacks and shadows: C1, C3,C5,C7,C9 SB110

I can't wait to see what the other DT members have done with these cuties! If you would like to see too, here's how to get there:

Jessica Diedrich, Club Anya VP and DT Coordinator

Jacquie Peifer

Janna Hull

Kristine Moldenhauer Biseth

Michelle Oatman-Guest Designer

Thanks for visiting me today!

Anya Welcomes Spring!

Hello! I hope everyone had a great weekend! We had a really fun Girl Scout event on Saturday where the girls got to meet women from different Construction career fields. The girls got to hammer nails, use a drill, and bend electrical conduit!

I have two cards today, and both of them are celebrating Spring. (I have a ways to go before it will be anything like Spring here, but there's nothing like wishful thinking!) I don't know if you have noticed or not, but I don't usually use very many embellishments. Well, I have a confession to make - it's not because I don't love them. I am in awe of the card makers who have perfect clusters of strategically placed flowers on their cards, or have everything tied up with the perfect bow. I have an embellishment disability. They never look right where I place them, so almost every time I put them on I end up pulling them off. But I have decided I am really going to put more effort into embellishing my cards!


For the first card I used Miss Anya from The Greeting Farm. She is popped up on layers of DP by Prima. I bought the brads last year and I think they are Making Memories - I took them out of the package and put them in my brad storage containers! The ribbon is also from at least a year ago and is something I got for $1 at Micheals. I just typed the sentiment and printed from the computer. I colored her with Copics:

Skin: E50, E53, RV21
Hair: Cream Prisma, Y21, Y26, E33
Clothes: BG32, BG34, BG49 (I put these coors down first but they were a bit too green, so I went over them wth B02, B05, B09)
Flowers:RV32, RV34, R85, YG03, YG17
Shadows: c1, C3



My second card uses Pretty Hat Anya by The Greeting Farm. The DP is Sultry by Basic Grey. The flowers are all Prima except the bottom layer of the flower on the hat, which is punched with a Martha Stewart punch. The leaves are also from a Martha Stewart punch. I used two rhinestone brads and the rest of the "sparklys" are Swarovski crystals from the jewelry making section of the craft store. The sentiment was typed on the computer and printed out. Her hat and top are paper pieced and the rest is colored with Copics:

Skin: E00, E02, RV21
Skirt: RV32,RV34,R85
Hair:E30,E74,E77,E79

Thanks for visiting today! I hope it's warm where you are!
Traci

Anya, the Unicorn Princess!

Hi everyone! I had this idea that it would be really sweet if Princess Anya (from The Greeting Farm) could ride the Unicorn (also from The Greeting Farm, in digital form). So I thought I'd make her standing next to the Unicorn, getting ready to ride. The problem was that with the Unicorn printed to a size where he didn't take up the whole card front Anya just looked way too big to be riding on him. So I placed Anya on top of the frame, and I like to think that she's looking across the field, and getting ready for her first Unicorn ride!

I've been asked a few times to list the marker colors I used and so I will try to keep track of them from now on. I don't want to scare anybody off who is thinking of starting to use Copics, because I have seen many beautiful cards made using just a few markers. I am not much of a "less is more" girl, though, when it comes to coloring! So, for this card I used :

Skin: E00, E02, RV21 (Cheeks)
Hair: (Cream Prisma Marker - I do not yet have a pale yellow/almost off white Copic that would be good for the lightest part of the hair here. I tried Y000 at first but it had a slight green cast. If anyone has a suggestion, I'd love to hear it), plus Y21, Y26, Y28.
Blues (on Unicorn and Dress): B000, B01, B02
Pinks:RV21, RV23, RV25
Green:YG03, YG17
And I forgot to mark down what oranges I used on the flowers, sorry.

The DP is Little Yellow Bicycle. The flowers are Prima, with Swarovski crystals (from the jewelry craft section) glued in the centers. The pink flower was white and I used my Copics to make it match. And, finally, there is LOTS of Dazzling Diamonds glitter (SU) on the Unicorn, crown and wand!

I hope everyone has a great weekend, filled with whatever makes them happiest!

Meet Charlotte

Hello Everyone! I am using another Ketto Image today from Stamping Bella - Charlotte! I just love her! I have to admit, I have a hard time resisting images with striped socks. I don't know what it is! Maybe they all look like cute little witches to me, and I love Fall and all things Halloween!

It is a pretty straightforward and simple card. Charlotte is colored with Copic markers. The DP is Fancy Pants Designs. You may have noticed I don't use a lot of sentiments on my cards. Mostly that's because I enjoy making cards so much I am usually way ahead of what I need. So I just tend to make most of them so they can be used for a number of different things.

Thanks for sharing a portion of your day with me! Hope yours is wonderful! ;-) Traci

Superhero Ian!

So all of this altering Ian or Anya into a Rockstar has been so much fun, both to do and see! (If you don't know what I am talking about, head over to Club Anya and check out the fun contest going on right now!) I had to share this other altered Ian card. Last week my husband said to me," You should try to make him into Batman and Joker." He's always been a Batman fan and it's kind of a reoccuring theme in our lives together. Teh first Tim Burton Batman movie was one of our first dates. We both wore Batman t-shirts to our wedding reception. When our daughter was a baby, you were guaranteed to get a big grin by going "nananananana Batman!" and she had Batmand pajama's as a toddler, that she wore as her first Halloween costume. So, anyway, I had to try!
I made the images last week and I was so tickled to see Batman and the Joker with Ian's sweet face! They are both made with Dress Me Ian. For Batman, I traced Ian's head and drew a mask for him. I also traced his body twice and drew the Batman costume and the Joker costume. I really wanted a city scene behind them and I didn't have one (you'd think I'd just draw one, but I am way better drawing things that concern people - clothes, hair, people themselves. ) but I found 2 different ones at Starving Artists Stamps. I used Doodlefactory Rooftops Backdrop. Then while waiting for it to arrive, the Joker got something wet on him and got all smeared, so I had to do him again! (I'm so grateful it wasn't Batman - he took so much longer!) . Everything is colored wiht Copics.

Thanks so much for coming to see what I have done and all of the wonderful comments that are left - Traci

Some Ketto's

I intended to post this late last night, but I had a horrible headache. I ended up going to bed when my 9 year old daughter did!

I have two cards today, both made with Ketto images from Stamping Bella. These images are so sassy and fun if a little smaller than I expected (yes, I know it lists the size right on the site, but you know when you picture something in your head a certain way...)

The first uses Tatiana. I colored her with Copics and mounted her on some SU cardstock cut out with Nestabilities. The DP is Sassyfrass Lass. I somehow missed this stuff when it was new and had to track it down when I saw some (not the same print, but same line) used on a card by The Whimsical Butterfly. The photo corneres were punched with an SU punch.


The second card uses Suzette. I suppose she turned out a little Fall-ish but I just couldn't help myself when I saw all of those pretty sunflowers. The paper is Basic Grey. I got the idea for the flower from Melissa who makes the most beautiful home made flowers for her cards. I have a lot to learn and a ways to go before I can even come close to her gorgeous creations. Mine uses paper towels, coloerd with Copics to match Suzette, a circle of cardstock and a swirly paper clip (I'm sure there's an real name for those things, but I don't know it!)

Thanks for visiting today! I hope your day is GREAT!