friends from down under

These are images I coloured so long ago I fussy cut them because it was before I had the matching die... it also means they were coloured in promarkers (and not my more usual copics) because it was before I even bought my first comic marker...

(kaboom)

Sometimes I buy stamps and don't use them for years - this cutie from Whipper Snapper must be at least 6 years old but is still as fun today as the day I bought it.

The sentiment is Lawn Fawn and my colouring in is for Day 1 of the current The Daily Marker challenge :)

shake that cute thing

I've spent a few days sorting and tidying my desk... my desk usually ends up covered in scraps of papers, half finished ideas and bits I've coloured in but not used.

Amongst them I found this complete journaling card stamped with Newton's Nook You're Tweet stamps and coloured back when I was still using Promarkers...

I worked it into a card using some American Crafts patterned papers and sequins from Doodlebug Design.

feathered friends - lawnscaping challenge 98

Lawnscaping challenge 98 was to create a background, now I've been looking forward to using the cute  Simon Says Stamp exclusive Lawn Fawn Feathered Friends set for ages so it seemed the perfect excuse... its coloured using a mixture of promarkers and flexmarkers.

Edited to add (010215): this card was placed as a 'top mow it all', thank you <3

take 3 eggs and...

Well I continue to chip away at these old papers using my Lawn Fawn stamps to help me along the way...

covering up the grey

Playing catch up with my copics for carmakers class, and who doesn't wish they had pink hair. One of my regrets in life is when I was a student I never dyed my hair a crazy colour, to this day I'd love pink tips on my hair, or maybe blue. So I suppose this pink colouring was cathartic. I have no explanation for the green skin other than some latent rememberings of either star trek or wicked.

only shades of grey (and other colours)

I'm falling behind slightly in class, what with being so busy in work these last few weeks, but if I can grab 5 minutes of colouring every so often I do, so I was trying day 3 techniques of mixing things with grey on two colours that I find difficult to blend.

Mr Foxy is coloured with terracotta then shaded with either grey squirrel or warm grey 3, the second image isn't quite done, he needs smoothing over, but I left it last night as I ran out of time. The first image is too uniform...

Mr Dog uses the same two greys, but this time the base colour was sleigh bell, I need to add a bit more depth to his tail but he worked out ok. I also got a bit adventurous colouring in the white of his muzzle.

I have to say these lawn fawn images are wonderful, despite owning lots of sets I don't own either of these... yet!

- F

do or do not, there is no try

So in class today we were being taught techniques on how to blend two different colours together, and were shown various techniques. So I continue to colour the flip flops and have to say how disappointed I am with some of my results. I think the difference between copics and promarkers/flexmarkers is now evident.

I started off with my first flip flop colouring with two flex markers, one pale blue the other pink, attempting the tip to tip technique. The colours easily muddied and despite carefully colouring within the lines the colour started to bleed outwith the border. I had more success with latter attempts where I used a mix of promarkers and flexmarkers but the feathering technique doesn't work well with bullet nibs and the colour took a lot of working (in small circles) in order to get the blend, its ok, but has perhaps convinced me a little more that there is a benefit to moving up to copics.

padawan of the copics

So despite not owning a single copic marker I'm taking the online card class copics for card making. I have my promarkers which have served me well, but I've been looking at copics for a few reasons...

principally I really like the brush nib of the flex markers, but flex markers come in a far more limited pallet, secondly copics are far more transparent with blending families and colour codes. My promarkers are in a lot of cases 5 years or more old and drying up, so as I think about replacing them I think about switching up.

This class gives me the opportunity to see copics in action, but also to learn stuff which is relevant for my current crafting supplies.



Unfortunately I didn't plan well enough to have enough Neenah to print all of the required sheets, so I have the first couple from the preview day, and about the last 6 pages from this weeks test page samples, but not the boxes or balloons I was supposed to be colouring in today, alas... so I tried to take some of todays techniques and apply them to the 'prep' sheet of flip flops. I've specifically used the  flick blending to white technique around the edge of the first two sets of flip flops, this has been done with the brush nibs of flex markers. Specifically I think I like Kelly's tip of leaving areas white and colouring in circles when using the bullet nibs of promarkers.

celebrating success

I was so excited to see the Lawn Fawn hats off to you stamps get their own dies (I always get the matching dies if possible) because I've envisioned this card for a while, but couldn't be bothered with fussy cutting all of those graduation hats.

I'm a university lecturer and so graduation is a big thing for me, every year we get to see a new class progress into the big wide world having changed so much in their three of four years at uni. Every year the occasion is bittersweet, on the one hand great because it is the culmination of all of their hard work, on the other my contact with those amazing students is coming to an end.

Anyway, that is why graduation is such a big deal to me.

Lawn Fawn stamps and dies: hats off to you, scattered showers & penelope's blossom

American Crafts simply chic paper

Promarkers

baby, you can drive my car

So I picked up the My Minds Eye Boy Crazy 6x6 paper pad in TKMaxx a few weeks ago and adored how the paper matched my Lawn Fawn Happy Trails. I also used my stitched scalloped boarders and puffy stars.

Mama Elephant femme frames
Lawn Fawn Happy Trails
Lawn Fawn stiched scalloped boarders
Lawn Fawn puffy stars
My Minds Eye Boy Crazy
Promarkers
American Crafts simply chic

domo arigato mr robato

I love how the versamark looks with the stamped sakura flowers on this card, in fact I think the whole card is cute...

lawn fawn let's roll, stitched journalling card

slowly but surely

hello, lets go fly a kite

If I’d planned this better I wouldn’t have a green sky

back to an old favourite

I always fall back on my favourite @lawnfawn sets :)

it's a girl

Whilst I had the @lawnfawn plus one stamp set out I also made this baby card for a little girl. Those papers must be at least 10 years old… They are American Crafts Simply Chic, one of my first scrap booking purchases!

clean & simple baby card

@lawnfawn plus one to the rescue for a baby card

hippo, birdie, stars & stripes

@lawnfawn are definitely my favourite stamp company :)

dad, I like the way you roll

This years fathers’ day card

you float my boat

I’m desperately trying to use up old stash so that everything can have a home. Moving house and unpacking boxes is still going on, but I’m appreciative that I have a creative space, that when it is all sorted will really work for me. Stamp and dies are both @lawnfawn