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Jul
28

A couple birthday cards…

Posted by DeAnna

I apologize for being absent so much the last few weeks.  Rob left for a 10-day tournament in Prince George in early July and the day he left his grandmother passed away.  You may remember her from this post about her 90th birthday party – she was a woman who had a sparkle in her eye and had more spirit than most people that I know.  We traveled to Kamloops the day after Kyle’s birthday for the funeral and then last week we all just hung out.

This last weekend Kyle had two birthday parties on Sunday so I made a couple of cards while practicing my Copic coloring.  I had to make one card for a girl and the other for a boy so I used my new Penny Black flower girl stamp for the little girl and paired it with some Echo Park Springtime from the 6×6 pad.  I have the 6×6 pad for months and hadn’t used it yet – no better opportunity than now!  Here’s what I came up with:

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I had so much fun coloring her in.  I stamped using Memento Rich Cocoa to give her a softer look than using black.  Less coloring of her hair too ;D  I created a mask with a sticky note and inked up my Hero Arts flourish background using Peeled Paint and Tumbled Glass Distress Inks and stamped over the image.  Then I used the same distress inks to color in the grass and sky background then removed the mask over the colored flower girl.  So easy!  Then I used my Spellbinders Labels 8 die and cut out the image then edged it with the same Distress Inks.  I added some stickles to the flowers in her hair, the hearts on her dress, the band at the bottom and the spots on the large flower.  I die cut a Labels 1 shape and heat embossed the happy birthday from Lawn Fawn’s Sophie’s Sentiments.

For the boy card I used the Stampavie monkeys I’ve used before and some of the My Mind’s Eye Stella & Rose Hattie papers from the 6×6 pad.

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This one is pretty self-explanatory.  I used my new Pumice Stone Distress Ink at the bottom and my all-time favorite Antique Linen on the top of the die cut piece then layered it over a larger die cut patterned paper.  I used a circle punch to cut out the happy birthday from Lawn Fawn and edged that in Pumice Stone too.  I did have to do some improvising with my Copics since I didn’t have all the colors I wanted to use to match the papers.  I blended Y21 with W00 to get a color closer to the paper for the monkey’s bellies and also used the Woo with my BG13/15/17 for the present and some of the colors in the balloons.  I used Boooo with W00 for the lightest color in the balloons as well.   At the very end I used a scrunched up tissue with my colorless blender refill to give the monkeys some texture (I didn’t have a cloth handy as they were all in the wash so I had to make do – I’m lazy that way ;D ).

In the end I was very happy with the two cards and hope their recipients were happy with them too.

DeAnna

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Jul
04

Weekend update:

Posted by DeAnna

I finished up preparing a couple of classes for August (including a Copic class), and I had to make a birthday card for my son to give to one of his ball team friends last Thursday.  Since I had my copics out I created a cute monkey card using a Stampavie image that I think is just adorable ;D

I pulled out some My Mind’s Eye paper I’ve used a bunch recently that’s really good for boys from their little robots collection.  I picked it because I liked it but also because I had copic colors to match it!  I colored the monkeys in on white cardstock using E35 and E57 for their bodies and I started with E21 for their faces and bellies but I thought it was too pale so I added Y21 over it to warm it up a bit.  I colored the present using BG13 and 15 but then I didn’t like the way it looked with the blue background so I added B04 over it.  It matched much better that way.  I colored the bow using YR04.  Then I did the balloons using Bo4, B06 and YR04.  I added shadowing using my warm greys because the greys in the striped paper were more warm than cool or neutral (you can’t see the grey in the photo but it’s there ;D).  I used W00, W03 and W05.  I made sure to keep some hard shadows and I was imagining my light coming from directly above (really only to keep it simple for me yet add some dimension).  Once I’d finished coloring it in I die cut the image using a Spellbinders Lables 8 die, the largest one, then added the Hero Arts friend definition stamp using Antique Linen Distress Ink.  I blotted some off in the center of the stamp so it didn’t completely cover the image.  Then I used my applicator tool and applied Antique Linen to the edges and slightly into the center leaving a brighter area around the image.  I stamped the sentiment from Lawn Fawn in Walnut Stain, added the button with twine and put stickles in the star in the center balloon.  Simple but effective ;D

We went camping this weekend for Canada Day in Washington on Whidbey Island (it’s beautiful there) and we went to a ball game to see the Mariners and Padres.  It used to be the Blue Jays always played the M’s on this weekend but not for the last couple years.  It was a good time and Matthew got a ball at the end of the game – our seats were right along the third base foul line out towards left field, right on the wall as it rises to meet the outfield wall.  They were amazing seats, probably the best I’ve sat in before.  Matthew held onto that ball the entire walk back to our van, the entire drive back to Whidbey Island and our campsite and actually slept with it too ;D  He was very happy.  We were at a game on Father’s Day too and it was also Little League day so we dressed Kyle up in his ball uniform and walked the “parade” along the warning track around the field.  Another great day at the ballpark!  Here’s a picture of me on the field (not actually touching the grass, mind you!).  I was in the outfield just about to head back through the gate and I thought I should take a pic with my phone looking back at home plate and the Welcome to Safeco Field sign ;D

I also got a cute pic of Matthew recently after he face planted at the end of our driveway – the boy needs a sign that says “Trouble Just Seems To Find Me”…  I have more pictures of boo-boos with this boy that I knew I could have.  He’s a bit of a daredevil and will try anything.  Almost.  Thankfully almost!

He was all good though – he cried for a few minutes but he didn’t want me to clean him up, he just went right back to the toy he’d been riding on and got back to the business of playing.  I noticed the next day that he’d actually dripped blood into his brand new shoes.  Oh, well, they’ve been broken in!

Kyle’s been busy finishing baseball, finishing preschool and getting into the swing of summer.  I tried not to book him solid with activities this summer since it’s his last summer before he starts school in the fall – I wanted to be able to enjoy spending time together and playing as much as possible.  It goes by so fast.  Next thing I know Matthew will be in school and my babies will be getting big…

Hope everyone had a great Canada Day/Independence Day weekend!

DeAnna

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