Tropical Thank You w/Kara

Hello! It's Kara and I have something a little tropical to share with you today. I love all of the different ways designers are using tropical leaves recently. I've been seeing these large leaf designs on all kinds of homeware: pillows, dinnerware and even wallpaper! If you're like me and not bold enough to add them to your home we can certainly enjoy them on our cards.

I love this large leaf stamp from the new Modern Calla Lilies set. It reminds me of the kind of leaves I've been seeing in these trendy designs. I decided to stamp the leaf several times, overlapping the image, but also leave a lot of white space. I colored in the leaves with green Copic markers. I chose 3 coordinating greens. I colored each leaf a different shade and where they overlapped I got even more color variation.

I created black panels to go on top of my designs using the 4 Bar Stitched Rectangle Die. By die cutting the words 'thank you', using the No One Else die set, it allowed the leaf design to peek through.

I added a stamped sentiment using the No One Else stamp set on both cards. For the card on the left I created a little tab to stamp my sentiment and added it to the side of my black panel.

I hope you enjoyed and it inspires you to bring a little of the tropics into your craft space! Thanks for stopping by!

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Copic Coloring Detailed Leaves with Dawn

Hello! Today, I've got a labor of love for you. Yep, no sugar coating it here. LOL You all know that I'm a slow colorist, so this beauty was definitely a long one for me.

And it was worth every hour! I worked on coloring these images over several nights while catching up on some TV, and in truth, it probably took me about 5 hours to color everything. I didn't time it, but that's my best guess.

I stamped out several of the images from our Modern Peonies, Modern Anemones, and Modern Petunias stamp sets in Antique Linen Distress Ink on Neenah Solar White 80 lb Ultra Smooth cardstock - and got lost in coloring with Copic markers.

I did want to share a little of my process with you all. Since I've shared several versions of the florals, I decided to share how I approached coloring the leaves. Fair warning - it's a longer video and I did struggle a bit with voicing it over. I'm not sure why, but it is difficult for me to articulate what I'm doing when it comes to Copics.

Watch above or watch in HD at YouTube

Hopefully you will be able to pick up a few tips from the video none-the-less. And remember, there is no "right" way or "wrong" way, just the way that works for you!

I didn't keep track of the colors I used. When it comes to coloring florals, I rarely do. I've tried. I usually start out good...then, intuitively I will grab a random marker and forget to write it down and then remember 3 colors later...and well, yeah, you know how that goes. But, if there is a particular one, that you'd like me to create a video for, just leave it in the comments below and I will try to work it into a future video.

After I colored everything, I used their companion dies to die cut everything. I die cut a circle from masking paper and inked through it with Warm Wool Pure Color Dye Ink and then over stamped it with a Polka Dot background using Versamark Ink. The Versamark Ink actually "bleaches" our inks when applied over them, similar to the way the 0 Blender Copic marker works.

I then stamped my sentiment using our Pure Color Dye Ink in Black and adhered my arrangement of flowers. I adhered some elements directly to the card base and others with foam tape for a bit of dimension.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed!

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Colorful Little Dreamers with Kelly

Hello Crafters! How was your weekend?

We had wonderful weather here, which was a welcome change from the two straight weeks of rain let me tell you.
I may love Spring, but my naturally curly hair does not. Yikes!

On a happier note, Spring always makes me want to break out the pastel colors when it comes to card making. The new Little Dreamers stamps was the perfect set to get those pastel colors on paper!

There's lot of ink blending and die cutting on this card. Nope, I haven't been possessed by aliens. This card just called for it - and who am I to tell a card no?

You can watch the card come together in the video below:

Watch above or watch in HD at YouTube

I'm pretty sure these little charmers would be adorable in any color combination, but I'm absolutely smitten with them in these unconventional colors! Those sweet pastels just make the card for me.

Thanks so much for dropping in!

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