30 Day Coloring Challenge - Day 28

I'm so sad this 30 day challenge is almost over!!! I have really enjoyed coloring everyday! This is my submission for Day 28. This image is from the Scent-sational set from There She Goes Stamps. Stamped in My Favorite Things Black Licorice Hybrid Ink on Neenah Solar White 110lb card stock, and colored with copics. Of course! 

Skunk: RV10, RV11, RV13, C2 & CO

Ground: BG72, BG75, C5 & 0

30 Day Coloring Challenge - Day 20

Here's my submission for Day 20 of #thedailymarker30day challenge. These images quack me up.... Hehe! So cute! These are from the Lucky Duck set by There She Goes Stamps. 

Stamped with Memento tuxedo black ink on Neenah Solar White 110 lb cardstock, & colored with copics. I never use yellow because I find it really hard to pick "the right yellow" so I figured this would be a good opportunity to practice! 

30 Day Coloring Challenge - Day 16

Over half way done with the challenge and I'm stilllll going strong! This is my submission for Day 16 of #thedailymarker30day coloring challenge. 

 

This is another fun one from There She Goes Stamps. This is "Birthday Bot". I stamped him in Tuxedo Black ink onto Neenah Solar White 110lb cardstock and colored with copics. I went a little nuts on the pointalism after I had an oops...I opened a juicy marker over the image and splat! Shower of light blue dots.... This has happened to me before, so you would think that I would have learned my lesson about opening markers away from my image. *sigh*  Sometimes I need to learn things twice....  Despite my juicy marker splatter, I think this image turned out pretty good!

I also covered the robot with a good coat of wink of stella clear brush pen.  You can kind of see the sparkle.  :) 

30 Day Coloring Challenge - Day 17

Here's my submission for Day 17 of #thedailymarker30day challenge. I tried to be quick today... The images are from a There She Goes Stamps set called "A Drink A Day". I did a little masking so my lady could hold her lemon drop martini in her grip. Otherwise it looks like she is ready to play Rock, Paper, Scissors and crush her lemon drop. =-)

Images stamped with memento Tuxedo Black ink on Neenah Solar White 110lb cardstock, and colored with copics. I tried to mimic one of Sandy Allnock's fabulous backgrounds. For this one I used BG10 and BG70. It isn't as smooth as I was hoping for...but that can probably be solved with more practice. =-)

30 Day Coloring Challenge - Day 18

Here's my submission for day 18! This was my first time trying to color black hair with the Warm Grays. And I have to say that I REALLY like how it turned out. Super cute! I am sure I will refer to that color combo again in the future! (W4, W7, W9, W10 and 100)

These images are from the "Cutie Pi" set by There She Goes Stamps. I think this is another one that @torico27 may have designed for TSGStamps. It came with a bunch of punny sentiments about chemistry and science. Suuuuper cute and giggle worthy! 

Images stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink on Neenah Solar White 110lb cardstock and colored with copics. 

30 Day Coloring Challenge - Day 13

This is my submission for day 13 of #thedailymarker30day challenge!  These cuties are from a set called "Slugger" by There She Goes Stamps. I *think* @torico27 designed this set for TSGStamps. I love her illustrations, they are too cute! Torico designs for My Favorite Things now and continues to put out some fabulous stuff. 

I think I'm going to put these little guys on an accordion card... Not sure yet. 😄

Anyway, these were stamped on Neenah Solar White, 110lb cardstock & inked in Tuxedo Black Memento ink. And of course colored in copics. 

30 Day Coloring Challenge - Day 7

Another Short and Sweet Post!  This is my submission for Day 7 of #thedailymarker30day challenge! 

 

This stamp is from Smarty Pants set by There She Goes Stamps.  Sadly, this stamp company doesn't exist anymore, but I am sure I will enjoy coloring the stamps I have from this company for a really long time. 

 

 

Fave Alert - TSG Stamps

***Fave Alert***

There She Goes Stamps
website: www.tsgstamps.com

I discovered There She Goes Stamps through a YouTube video posted by Darlene DeVries.  She was demo-ing a card using the "A Drink A Day" set and using a masking technique I wanted to try... I had never heard of There She Goes Stamps before , so of course - I immediately went to Google...  

and wham - Love At First Sight!

It was one of those "I NEED, I WANT, I HAVE TO HAVE!" experiences. 

Let me tell you why I had such a strong reaction ---  These clear stamps are just amazing! Clear, crisp images all the time! The designers must have the same snarky sense of humor that I do.  They love puns!  OMG, I totally died laughing while browsing their online store.  The "Lucky Duck" and "Hooked on Quack" sets had me rolling! I'm totally sending out cards that say "Shut the duck up" all the time now...  my friends are going to think I'm ducking crazy.   I'll post one of these cards soon...

The owner/designer of TSGStamps (Jessica Knutsen) works with other designers and releases new sets each month.  The stamps sets range from $9 to $24, I love them all! You really get alot for your $$ when you buy one of the $24 sets, there are SOO many stamps included in each set.  Sometimes Jessica (the owner) puts new releases on sale or posts a coupon code for 15% off your entire order. Shipping is super reasonable and super fast.  If something sells out, you can sign up to get a notification email when the item is back in stock.  Love it! Jessica posts masking tutorials on the website too.  PDF instructions of "stamping/masking order" to get a perfect image.  So useful! They also post challenges and highlights on a daily basis, and then at the end of the week they show "A week in review".  The biggest reason I started this blog was so that I can participate in some of the challenges, if and when, I have some spare time.  *crosses fingers!*


The picture above is a stamp set called "Strut Your Stuff" by designer Wendy Leach.  I made this card for a friend as a Thank You for putting a wonderful craft weekend together (Emma you rock). I thought it captured the creative attitude of the weekend.  :)  I used Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the image onto Neenah card stock and then I used my copic markers to color the image.  When I was half way done coloring in the little girl, I opened the R20 marker to color her hair tie and I must have pulled the cap off too fast... a splattering of ink went across my entire image.  :(  I was soooo upset.  But rather than loose the image, I figured I would use the splattering as a background; I added in more pink spots to fill in the background.  Crisis averted!  I loved the pink spots so much I took a daring step and added in more dots in three more colors.  SUPER CUTE RESULT! 

Here are the materials/measurements... 

Stamp: Strut your Stuff
Stamp Pad:  Tuxedo Black Memento Ink
Stamped Card stock: Neenah (3.75in x 5in)
Card matting: Stampin' Up Rich Razzleberry card stock (4 in x 5.25in)
Card Base: Neenah (5.5in x 8.5in, scored at 4.25in)
Copics:

• skin: E000, E01, R20
• hair: E09, E37 & E34
• clothes: BG10, BG11, BG13
• sock goblins: W1, W3
• shadow: C1
• Dots: R20, BV04, V25 & V28

Size of finished card: 5.5in x 4.25in
Envelope: fits standard A2 envelope.