Gina K Designs New Release: Beautiful Butterflies 2

Heyooooo! It's Gina K Designs release day and boy do I have a beautiful stamp set to share with you! Today I will be using the new Beautiful Butterflies 2 stamp set. It coordinates with the existing Beautiful Butterflies Dies set and the new Beautiful Butterflies 2 Dies.

I started out by inkblending a piece of white cardstock in Abandoned Coral and Wild Honey Distress Oxide Inks. Then I heat embossed the butterfly using Versamark Ink and Clear Embossing Powder and cut it out. I added some white detail using a gel pen just to add a little bit of contrast and show off the gorgeous design inside of the butterfly.

Next, I inkblended a piece of watercolor cardstock using Blueprint Sketch, Broken China and Tumbled Glass. I sprayed this with Iridescent Shimmer Spray and then splattered it with White Metallic Ink while it was still wet (this allowed the white to bleed and spread a little). I cut this panel down to 3.75" x 5" stamped my sentiment before adding it to a black cardbase with foam tape.

The final step was to attach this gorgeous butterfly to my card with foam tape and some embellishments to up the pretty factor.

Ok, that's it for me today you guys! This card was super easy to pull together quickly as there was no coloring involved and the rest was pretty straight forward. Let me know if you decided to give something like this a try!

Have an awesome day!

Maria

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Crafty Friends: Gina K. Designs and a Discount!

Hey everybody! It's the 20th and if you follow my blog you know that means it's time for another My Crafty Friends Hop! Today we are featuring products from the fabulous Gina K. Designs and she has offered to give our readers a 20% discount at the Gina K. Designs shop when they shop with a Crafty Friend! All you have to do is click this link to shop and use the code CRAFTYFRIENDS20 to receive your discount (more info below).

Now onto my card! Today I decided to use this gorgeous collaboration set from Gina K Designs and Hero Arts. I love that the crafty community comes together to support each other and work together. This stamp, Friendship Blooms, is the result of one of these beautiful efforts. I stamped my image in copic safe black ink on to Hammermill cardstock.

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I used my copic markers in a variety of colors to create a floral rainbow. I have been wanting to do this for some time now I really enjoyed the process.

After I added all of my color I went back in with my cool gray markers and added shading to the flowers. Then, I grabbed a fine tipped copic marker and had some fun adding shadow, lines and dots.

The sentiment on this card is one of my favorites after stamping that some clear sequins were the perfect touch to finish off my card.

That's is all for today folks! You know my Crafty Friends have a ton more Gina K. inspiration for you so I hope you'll continue on with our hop by heading over to Becky's blog. If you prefer to follow the blog list I'm adding that below for you too.

Before you go here's a reminder that if you shop today or tomorrow you will receive a 20% discount if you shop with me at Gina K. Designs and use the code CRAFTYFRIENDS20 at check out. Enjoy!

Bye for now and I hope you all have an amazing day! 

Maria

BLOG ROLL:

Jenny Hall

Tanya Boser

Ilina Crouse

Maria Willis: YOU ARE HERE.

Becky Roberts

Sandi MacIver

Sue Plote

Sara Sherlock

Lydia Fiedler

Jill Hilliard

Crafty Friends: Gina K. Designs and a Discount!

Hey everybody! It's the 20th of the month and that means it's time for the Crafty Friends Blog Hop where we offer you a 20% discount to shop at our featured company. This month we are featuring products from Gina K. Designs and Gina was generous enough to give us a discount code for you to use when you shop using this link and code:

SHOP GINA K DESIGNS- Code: CRAFTYFRIENDS20

For my card I decided to use the Majestic Peony set. This set has the most gorgeous flowers and coloring them was a ton of fun. I used my Copic markers in a variety of yellows, oranges, reds and browns. Then I colored the background in shades of blue and added drop shadows with my Cool Grays.

After my flowers were colored I wanted to add even more depth and dimension. I grabbed a fine tipped Sharpie and added depth, some scribbles and some random dots. I also added some highlights with a white gel pen too.

I heat embossed the sentiment in white on black cardstock and adhered it with foam tape. Then I added some Moonshine sequins from Simon Says Stamps and called it a day.

This Majestic Peony set is one of my favorites but there are so many more beautiful stamps over at Gina K Designs. There are also all kinds of amazing products for inking, foiling and glittering your cards. If you are looking for beautiful products to add to your collection I hope you'll head over there and take a look. Remember that if you use my link (CLICK HERE) and use the code CRAFTYFRIENDS20 you will receive 20% off of your entire purchase from now through February 22, 2020.  

Ok, that is it for me today. Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you'll continue hopping along with us today. I know my Crafty Friends have more amazing Gina K. inspirations lined up for you and next up on the hop is the fabulous Becky Roberts.

Have an awesome day you guys!
Maria




CRAFTY FRIENDS BLOG ROLL:
Becky Roberts
Sandi MacIver
Sue Plote
Sara Sherlock
Lydia Fiedler
Jill Hilliard
Jen Timko
Amy Kolling
Jenny Hall
Tanya Boser
Ilina Crouse
Maria Willis: You are Here.

The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge: Days 1 & 2

Hi Everybody! I'm popping by with a quick share today. I'm participating in The Daily Marker 30 Coloring Challenge hosted the fabulous Kathy Racoosin. If you haven't heard of this challenge I urge you to go check it out and participate if you can. The idea is to try to get a little coloring in every day for 30 days. You don't have to finish a project or even color an entire image... just sit down and take ten minutes for yourself each day. Here's a link to Kathy's blog where you can read about the challenge and participate if you want. She has some great giveaways and a team of encouraging people helping her out.

Kathy's Day One Post for The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge (click here).

I decided that when I can (meaning I have time to both color and blog) I will share some of my coloring challenge posts. Today I am sharing both my day one and day 2 coloring. I used a gorgeous stamp set from Gina K. Designs called Majestic Peony. I colored the floral image with my Copic Markers in yellows, oranges, reds, pinks and greens. It had been a long time since I've last colored with my Copic markers and I felt really rusty. It took a little while to find my groove. If you look closely you can see that on the upper floral images I tried to add some depth and extra shading with my pencils. I was not thrilled with how it was looking. By the time I got to the largest flower I was feeling a little bit smoother and instead of grabbing pencils for shading I grabbed a brown marker and that helped a lot with the depth and contrast. I ditched the pencils on the larger floral and was happier with the look.

For day two of the coloring challenge I decided to try to keep working on the same piece and take it up a notch. I added a blue background with deeper shading behind the flowers. Then I grabbed my cool grays and added even more shading with drop shadows to try to pop the image forward. The last thing I did was to grab a sharpie and add some extra depth and some extra detail to the image. It worked much more easily on the large flower than it did on the upper ones. Can you guess why? Yup, the pencil shading I had laid down created a barrier which meant that the paper wasn't taking the ink the way I wanted it to. Live and learn. I do love adding pencil shading on top of my coloring in a lot of situations but with this image it didn't turn out the way I had hoped.

Looking at this coloring piece I have some things that I'd like to work on and improve at... and, that's what this coloring challenge can be all about! Using our coloring to just relax or to improve our skills...Whatever works for each of us!

Alright guys, that's all I've got for today. I'm sure you'll see this image on a finished card at some point soon. Let me know if you're participating in the coloring challenge this time around. I also want to know if any of you have have successfully finished a coloring challenge? Truth be told I've never completed all thirty days even though I've tried. 

Ok, bye! Have an awesome day/night and I hope you find a little time to color!

Maria

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