Thinking Inking

Roses in a Teacup Post on the Classroom Blog Today

Hello! Today I have a stepped-out coloring post for this little Lockhart Roses in a Teacup image here on the Classroom blog. Monday I should be able to post some new Cosmo Cricket pieces. :-)  Have a lovely Sunday!

Tattered Florals Poinsettia Card on the Classroom Blog today

Welcome! Today I have a Christmas card posted on the CLASSroom blog here. We got our tree up this weekend--yay! I hope you are having a fabulous Sunday. Thanks for stopping by.

Printer Tray Family Collage on the Classroom Blog

Welcome! I have a fun little altered printer tray project up here on the Classroom blog today. It uses a 7 Gypsies tray, Cosmo Cricket Circa 1934 papers, and some family snapshots that I took in October. I'm thinking that this would be a perfect grandparent-gift. . . What do you think?

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Hostess Thank You on the Classroom Blog

Good morning! I have a hostess thank you card (Lockhart Daisy Apron and Cosmo Cricket Pixie-Licious Mini Deck) posted here on the Classroom blog today. I hope you are having a fabulous Sunday, and thanks for stopping by!

Peonies in Summer

I got back from Chicago late yesterday afternoon. Other than having a hard time getting out of town, the trip went well. Have you ever had your GPS tell you to turn right when it's too late to get into the right lane? Okay, how about twice? Man, I was praying that I'd get out after that second time! Then there was the "Stay left, stay left, stay left" incident that meant I accidentally skipped one toll plaza. Thankfully I have seven days to pay it online. I am definitely not a city girl!

I will try to get some pictures of the Papertrey booth posted tomorrow, for those of you who are waiting for that. :-)

Today I have a little 4-1/4" square floral card to share with you. I wanted to participate in Ellen's Flower Parade today, so I chose a newer Lockhart stamp image, Peonies, and combined it with some Webster's Pages paper from the Postcards from Paris/Sweet as Cherry Pie Petite Pad. I stamped the Peonies image in Tuxedo Black Memento ink and colored it with the markers shown below. Card size is 4-1/4" square.

 

I liked these bright greens until I started looking for some coordinating patterned paper. I toned them down a bit later with a more muted green family.

 

Here are the pinks, as well as the muted greens and the colorless blender that I used to enhance some highlights.

Finally, colored the flower container, the shadows, and added some pale yellow  (that blank capped marker, a mixture of Y21 and colorless blender) and some pale violet on the shadow side around the outside of the flowers.

I die cut the colored image with a Spellbinders Labels 1 die and matted it with a new Lace Squares die. I like the Lace Squares and Circles! Ribbon is some Hug Snug seam binding dyed with Copic Various Inks R32.

Do you have time to work on a flower card? If you do, we would love to have you play along with us.Check out the information in this post. Thanks for stopping by!

Cuteasaurous Rex

Welcome!  Today I have a boy-card to share, as well as some tips on tweaking marker colors to coordinate with patterned papers. 

First I chose my image; I love this little dinosaur from the CHF Kim Hughes Little Guy set! When I looked at the spots on his back, I remembered my Cosmo Cricket Mini Deck  Joy Ride paper with the spots. There was just one problem: would you believe that I didn't have the right Copic marker colors for my little dinosaur? Jeepers--I have them all plus a few made up in custom colors! Still--no muted blue-green that was *just right.* Time for a little marker magic.

I started with my YG41 and YG45--nice colors and blend, but too green for my patterned paper. Usually I would tweak colors by adding grays to them, but I had a feeling that a cool gray wouldn't be quite enough in this case. 

Next choice: a trio of muted blues, B91, B93, and B95. See how the blues on top of the greens pull it around to the right color? This is why I LOVE Copic markers. I mixed directly on the paper--no palette blending, no ink blending in an empty marker--I just colored muted blues right over the greens to make it right.

The rest is just normal stuff--coloring his dots and adding shadows. I added a tiny bit more contrast after this picture, and I probably should have added more. . . but I didn't want to have to go back over the whole thing again to blend it smoothly. ;-)

Back to stamps for a minute: If you are looking for any CHF stamps (that's what I had used here), you might want to check this sale category; Ellen Hutson is clearing out her CHF line at 40% off of all the inventory in stock. It's a deal if you're looking for rubber. If you click on a link and it isn't there, it's probably out of stock already. I checked my links when I posted to be sure that they were working.

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Altered Canvas Camera Bag posted on the Classroom today

Good morning! To help kick off Ellen Hutson LLC's Crafting with Kids week, I have an altered canvas camera bag posted on the Classroom blog, complete with step-by step instructions, mistakes, fixes, and all. It's a work in progress. I think I'd better put a Copic Multiliner pen in the bag so that I can doodle when the urge strikes.

Maybe you don't want to hand a pristine canvas camera bag to your preschooler to decorate, but teens might enjoy doodling, coloring, and airbrushing on canvas!  

From June 27 through July 3, use Ellen's coupon code KIDS10 to save 10% on all in stock items in your shopping cart. Thanks for visiting.

Butterfly Pendant Necklace and Earrings set on the Classroom blog today

Just a note: I have a pretty little vintage-looking pendant necklace and earrings posted here on the CLASSroom blog today. I used both Vintaj Brass and Vintage Groove pieces, together with Glass Glintz. All hardware pieces are linked in the article above, if you're interested. Thanks!

P.S. Looking for the Card Creations 8 post? Click here, or go two posts down--good luck!

ATC's Post on the Classroom Blog today

 

Good morning!  Today I have a post here on the CLASSroom blog. This week's challenge was ATC's, Basic Grey papers, and CHF stamps. Since I don't generally make or collect ATC's, I thought I would make them up as card focal images and package them with card fronts for a great little gift. 

Thanks for stopping by, and have a wonderful Sunday!

Vintaj Brass piece posted on the Classroom blog today

Good morning! I have a stepped-out tutorial for this Vintaj brass necklace here on the CLASSroom blog today. Vintaj brass was a product that several of us were really taken with at last CHA, and it's finally in stock. This is my first experiment with it, but I can see myself using a lot more Vintaj brass in the future! Thanks for stopping by, and have a lovely Sunday.