Herberts In Love-Turtle

Hey Everybody,

Wow is it ever hard to keep up with a blog and teach Copic classes at the same time. I can't post the stuff I'm using in class and since most of my time is spent coloring for class.........So, I finally had a chance to color something for pleasure only. Here is a really cute Digi Image from KarensDoodles.com called "Herberts in Love".

Him: I colored his shell in BG93, 96 & 99. His belly is E81 & E87. His skin is W3,5 & 7.

For Her: Shell is YG93, 95 & 97. Belly is also E81 & E87. Her skin is one shade lighter all over. W1,3 & 5. I then went very lightly over both of the skin with YG91 to give it a greenish hue.

Her clothing & shoes & ribbon and the hearts are in RV00, RV17 & RV19.

The table cloth is Y32 & 35. Stumps: E53,25,29 & 35. Grass: YG91, 93, 67 & 17.

Hope you like it. I'm off to check out some of my favorite blogs and see what I've been missing.

My first Official Class Attendee

Hello All,

I am so excited! My first person officially signed up to take my first 3 classes. I know there are others coming, it's just still early and they haven't taken the time to sign up! (pay up!) They will.

I'm frantically getting all kinds of little things done around here so that while I'm away in NY, he won't have too much to do around the house. I just found out that I needed a congratulations card for some friends that got hitched last month that I didn't know about. (not very close friends huh!) Here is the card I made for them. It's a digi by Karen Doodles and I love it. The faces are so realistic looking. I find a lot of wedding stuff has goofy faces and I like wedding pics to be more realistic, therefore, this is Perfect. Yes, I mean to give them a DARK Skin Tone as they are African American. Done in Copics and some various CS and Bling I have lying around.

It's 2:46am and I'm still AWAKE!

Help, I can't sleep! About once a month I have several nights where I can't sleep. Might as well make good use of the time (vs laying in the dark listening to my stomach growl like a lion cause I refuse to eat this late or early). Here are two cards I just popped out.



This first one is for some friends Anniversary next week. The image is from KarenDoodles who I just discovered today(oops! Yesterday.) I really like her images (still love you Tiffany). I cut out the fence the other day from my Cricut Pagoda cartridge and it just didn't work on that project. But was perfect here. Colored in Copics and I almost always use Pearlescent Chalk by Pebbles for my BG. The cardstock is my favorite way to do cards-I buy boxes of pre-done CS & env by DCWV or Bazzills. It really speeds up the process. Most of the time I have 40% off coupons and grab them at HL for around $6 for 40 or 50 cards per box. What a deal!



This second card is for a client. My husband does remodeling and has been working for a really sweet couple. The gentleman keeps on making lunch for our guys. He loves any excuse to BBQ. Not that many customers do this, so he deserves a handmade card. This image is also a KarenDoodles digi. I used a sizzix embossing folder for the brown paper on top. Colored in Copics of course.


Well, I'm still hungry! See ya'll on the morrow.