PaperFections

Faux Embossed Background

Today in the CLASSroom I'm showing you how to achieve a faux embossed background, uisng your dies! I hope you'll join me there! The dies and stamps I used are from Paper Smooches and the entire PS line is on sale this week at Ellen Hutson (yay)! Just click the banner below to take a look at all of their cute products over in Ellen's store, and save 20%! Sale ends Saturday, April 1 at 11:59pm Pacific. Read more →

Copic Coloring Faces & Hair

I don't often get the chance to color larger images of people, so every now and then I like to brush up on my Copic people coloring skills. This Copic Coloring Foundations: Faces & Hair book helps tremendously! It gives you guidance, tips and tricks on coloring everything from simple straight or wavy/curly hair and simple eyes, to detailed wavy or ringlet hair, braided or dreadlock hair, bald heads, glasses, skin tones with more colors, highlights and shadows! It also covers the Copic color system, using a color chart, and tips on growing your Copic collection. You are given blank images of the images used in the tutorials, so you can copy them onto your own Copic-friendly paper and practice as many times as you'd like! That's exactly what I did -- photocopied one of the pages onto Copic's X-Press It Blending Card. Then, armed with my Copic 6-piece Ciao Skin Set, I got started: This set contains Copic colors: E000, E00, E11, E15, E18, E93 -- perfect for coloring everything from light, medium or dark skin tones. Using a combination of a few different tutorials in the book, I started coloring the left two women with E000: Then I... Read more →

Doily Distress Oxide Cards

It's another fun week over in Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom, using some of my very favorite papercrafting tools, dies! I used my favorite new Distress Oxide inks to create the backgrounds for these cards. I hope you'll join me in the CLASSroom for all the details! I also used some fabulous new-to-me dies from Waffle Flower. And lucky for you, ALL DIES are 15% off this week at Ellen Hutson!! Just click on the graphic below to start shopping. You have until midnight Pacific Sunday, March 19 to take advantage of this sale! Happy shopping! Read more →

More Distress Oxide Watercolor!

Today I have another watercolor project using Tim Holtz's new Distress Oxide inks! I love the soft, yet vibrant color these inks have when watercoloring with them! I also made a shaped die cut card. You can find all the details and instructions for this card over on Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom blog today, HERE. I look forward to seeing you there and hope you have a wonderful weekend! I plan to work on cleaning out my garden and planting bulbs that will hopefully yield a pretty flower garden this summer, much like this card! Has spring sprung yet where you live? What are your plans? Read more →