Bears, Bears, Bears...

I love bears (I collect Boyds Bears) and for those of you who know me, know that my nickname since childhood has been Kerbear...

I've been trying to catch up on the color challenges I missed over my vacation and oh my how I love the colors in this challenge. Copic Color Challenge 21 had cardmakers create something using the colors YG03, B45 and Y28. I used these colors and added some shading colors to give them depth (G99 and B47) then colored the bears (Stampington G1409 Getting Ready) using E 15, E31, E50, E53. I went into my patterned paper stash and found some paper that fit perfectly with the colors. THe PP is from Paper Loft (I love their papers!) and is called Well Worn-Pocket full of Posies. I also used Bazzill papers and the green floral cardstock is by Hanko (Yummy too!). Hope you enjoy!

Back later with more goodies!

Sweet Magnolias!

Before I left for vacation, I received my order from 7kidscollegefund.com. They have a great deal on Magnolia stamps and I just love them so much. I got 10 little ladies (I would have gotten more but I had to stop somewhere!). I've been having lots of fun coloring these little girls today. I've colored four images, but this is the first one that has made it onto a card so far. Two others are in the layout stage and the other one I have to go shopping for just the perfect patterned paper. I couldn't believe it but I had NO patterned paper that worked perfectly for her.

Well, here is this little lady. This TILDA is named STYLISH TILDA . She's from the Fall collection and I can't wait to color her with blues and reds...for some Christmas cards.

I used the Copic Color Challenge 19 colors for her clothes and also used the Challenge 22 layout for this card. I used patterned paper from my stash (I think I got it from Michael's a LONG time ago), some Primas and the tag is from a TAC set that is one of my favorites...Sorry, it's a retired set.

Here is th complete list of Copics used on this image:

Clothes and Shoes

BV00, BV04

G00, G02

RV02,RV11

Skin and Hair

E000, E01, E51

E09, E15, E44

I think I have the perfect person in mind for this card...I wonder if SHE visits my blog???
I'll be posting a few other cards tomorrow as I have them finished. Just gotta get them together and figure out the perfect layout for each image.

Ker

I'm baaaaack!

My Florida vacation is over and I'm back home to spend the rest of my summer relaxing. Whew...A two week vacation is so relaxing and fun. I think it'll become a yearly tradition for me. I did take a few photos of the beach on the evening of July 4, but darn, I didn't take a picture of the beach during the day. I was scared to bring my camera to the beach because I thought it would get sand on the lens or get salty water inside. Anyway, I did take a few mini videos while I was there so I'll have to post one later. The water was really pretty!

I don't think I went through any stamping withdrawal while I was gone but did think of it a few times. I came home to a box of goodies from my TAC demo Chelsea so I had to get to my room and make her a thank you card. Here it is:

Looks like Christmas to me but acutally, it's not. Chelsea was so nice and sent me a new catalog and lots of empty clamshell boxes. I store all my wood mounted stamps in clamshell boxes and I really needed some more. That was one of the perks I had as a demo...LOTS of clamshells after putting my TAC stamps into CD cases. Well, I was totally out of the perfect sized ones and Chelsea rescued me! Any time you have some extra ones, please think of me...I need about 100 more! LOL.

I'll be back later with more GOOD STUFF I got the day I was heading out on vacation (and was really wanting to get them inky).

K