Copic Thursday - Coloring Brunette Hair

Well we've all been trying to get the hair right haven't we? Your challenge this week is to color an image with brunette hair.

Here are some tips and tricks to coloring hair... not specifically brunette but a good into to coloring hair in general...

Coloring Straight Hair

A video tutorial from Suzanne Dean

Here is a PDF of copic hair colors that I found EXTREMELY useful! (I printed it out)
And finally a gallery of brunettes!

For this dark brunette I used E55, E57 and E59

OK girls let's get coloring brunettes! I can't wait to see all your samples!

Crop4Kids - Calgary

Come out and join me and  Jess at Crop4Kids this weekend! Jess and I are both teaching classes, sponsored by Scrap Shotz and all proceeds go to the Alberta Childrens Hospital.

I am teaching an Introductory Copic class.

Jess is teaching this super cute mini canvas album...*drool*

We hope to see you all there!!!

National Craft Month - Rolled Stamping

 seriously under-utilize my stamps! *blush* I love them; I can see the versatility in them; and, I happen to have a lot of them! *blush*

I was recently in the very hurried need of a card and challenged myself to make a stamped card. One of the techniques that I like and have not used much is Rolled Stamping. Now I am not sure if that is the "official" name of the technique but it certainly describes the following pictures!!!

You will need a stamp set that is NOT a lined drawn image; 2 colours of ink and of course paper.

Cover your stamped image with the LIGHTEST colour first.

Then with the now inked image, tip the stamp on its edge and "roll" the edges of the image on the darker ink so you are only inking the EDGES.

Then stamp! I used 2 very different colours so you could see the areas of the ink and stamp. You may prefer a more subtle look and use shades of the same colour.

I randomly stamped the image on my card front and then embellished each of the flower centres. Voila! A quick and easy card for a special birthday girl!

Can you show me your stamping???

Spotted in the Gallery!

Well Laurel has been dazzling us with a beautiful array of cards this week so I wanted to share a few with you... I know you will love them as much as I do!

This one is perfect for summertime!

A little something for that special teacher...

Anyone up for a road trip???

There are many more fabulous cards waiting to inspire you in the Scrapshotz gallery... go take a look!

Fabulous Friday - Chromotherapy Challenge

Oh boy! We are in for a treat this weekend! Our challenge this Fabulous Friday is a Chromotherapy challenge from the lovely Heather.

One of my favorite colour combinations is pink and brown. I love it so much it's actually the color of my daughter's bedding. :) It looks good as it is or with other colours thrown in too - pink/brown/white or pink/brown/blue or even pink/brown/green. Next time you go to scrap something try using this combination. It's such a happy combination :-)

I personally love pink - brown - and anything! What about you????

Copic Thursday!

Well we had a lot of practice coloring skin this week. I still don't think I have it mastered but it's coming along!

Lorraine did this one for the challenge and decided to try leaving part of the skin just white and I think it turned out great...

This week our challenge is to color something to look black. You can see the challenge in the forum here. I gave this guy a totally "black" wardrobe for extra practice... it's actually all shades of grey but I think it gives the impression of black...

Hope you can join in this week... make sure to link me to your challenge sample in the comments section!

Happy coloring!

National Craft Month - Super Fast Cards

I aspire to being an intricate and beautiful cardmaker but I personally find the smaller real estate of a card to be horribly intimidating! *blush* I seem to do better by keeping the card simple and sincere.

Below is a set of cards I made in 15 minutes with only cardstock, glimmer mist, a special stamp and a few snippets of organza ribbon.

Here is a close-up

I hope to see your set of simple and sincere cards!!! Please link me up, ok?