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Hello!

Today´s card is a birthday card made using two of the cute
critters from the "Party Animals" set from mama Elephant!

These little bunnies and chicken make me smile every time! 
Today they are celebrating with a glass of white wine!

Colored with Copics and background colored with Distress Inks.

Thank you for stopping by today!

Tina

Hello crafty friends!

I am celebrating today as I have finally finished the
Clothing Class I have been taking over at Kit and Clowder! 

My last photos are uploaded for feedback! Yay!!!

It took me longer than I expected but I only have myself to blame as
I from time to time prioritized other things instead of practicing
coloring pleats, folds and a bunch of other techniques!

I am so happy that I decided to take this class, so much class material,
so many lessons and videos and so much valuble feedback from Alyce!

The final assessment, to color this beautiful image above,
using different techniques learnt from class!

Well, back to the reason I decided to take this class...
as you might know by now, the photo below is the reason
I decided to take this class as I wanted to learn how to color this
particular dress beautifully, as I wasn´t happy at all with the
only way I knew how to color it at that point. 

Not that I will be coloring this dress only, 
but I was thinking more like, this is the type of dress
I want to learn how to color in a pretty way!

After lots and lots of practice, really focusing on the placements
of the pleats and folds, shadows and light,
going over the images two or three more times takes a lot of patience...

 The zig zag technique below is my absolute favorite for this dress!

I am definitely going to take the Skin & Hair class too, but not right away. 
I am thinking January would be a great time to dive in to that as I usually 
find myself totally exhausted from the Holiday card making frenzy and 
my mojo usually goes on vacation that time of year too! 
Looking forward to taking that class! Maybe Santa will surprise 
me with the Copics I need for that class!

Thank you for stopping by today!

 Tina

Hello!

This card is on its way to the other side of the world,
I am finding so much joy in sending Happy Mail and
hope that this card will brighten the recipients day!

When making more advanced cards I like to draw a
quick and very simple sketch, in the end the outcome may not be
exactly like my original idea but I find it helpful,
especially when there is a lot of masking involved!

So...please don´t laugh at my quick drawing skills...
this is my sketch for the card above!

Bunnies and chickens!
The numbers tells in wich order to stamp the images when masking.

The stamp set is "Party Animals" from Mama Elephant!

Colored with Copic markers! The letters on the balloons
are from the alphabet die set "Moxie" from QuicKutz.

These little cuties are so easy to stamp and color on
the envelope as well and if I have the time I think its
worth doing as it makes the envelope super cute!

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Tina

Hello crafty friends!

You can never have too many "just because" cards, can you?!

For this card I colored Miss August from the Modern Misses
Collection, a digi stamp from Lily of The Valley.

Miss August was colored with Copic markers
and I used a white gel pen for the dots on her top!

This card is also my entry for the Daily Marker coloring Contest!

Thank you for stopping by today!

Tina

Hello there!

A little over a year ago I signed up for the on-line Clothing Class at
Kit and Clowder. Now I am finally down to just a few lessons left!
Yay! I probably could have finished the class earlier, but sometimes
its hard to find the time it requires, and not to mention, the patience.

These last few weeks I have been focused on practicing my coloring
and below you can see what I have been coloring!

Sheer fabric...

...iridescent fabric...

...and the no-line coloring technique.

It is so cool how different an image looks coloring it
with the usual black out lines vs no-line coloring!

Thank you for stopping by today!

 Tina

Hello there!

I am trying to get better at actually send cards and
#mailitmonday is a perfect reminder for that!

This one I am going to send to a dear friend who could use
some encouragement and happy mail to brigthen her day!

Stamps used on this card are from the "Rain or shine" set from Mama Elephant,
colored with Copic markers, glitter was added to the flower and the little cloud!

Thank you for stopping by!

Tina

Hi there!

This is my first time participating in The Mod Squad Challenge!

This week the challenge is "Getting in shape", as in;
You may NOT use a rectangle or square as your card base!

My first thought was to make a circle shaped card, but thinking
again I decided to go for a triangular shaped card with a circle!

This is also my first time making a triangular shaped card!

The cute little dog is from the "Rain or Shine" set from
Mama Elephant, colored with Copic markers!

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Tina

Hello!

I have two birthday cards to share today, made using one
of the adorable cats from Basik & Co, and Scrapberry´s!

One is pink/orange and the other one is green/turquoise! 

These cats are just so much fun to color, and great size,
just "lagom", the Swedish word for not too much or too little,
not too big or too small...just "lagom"!

Images were colored with Copic markers.

Sentiment (hooray, hooray, horray) from Gummiapan!

Soon to be listed in my Shop here on the blog!

Thank you for stopping by!

Tina

Hello there!

I had to give the under water scene a try as I´ve seen
so many beautiful cards on Instagram lately.
And I even managed to make a card as I had a cute mermaid to go with it!

For my under water coloring I used Distress Inks in three different
shades of blue, Tumled Glass, Salty Ocean and Chipped Sapphire. 

To create the sun rays I used the "Sun Ray" stencil from MFT.
A lot of ink blending and some droplets of water later this was the result! 

The cute mermaid "Arianna" is an older stamp (unfortunately
discontinued) from Kraftin´ Kimmie Stamps.

She was colored with Copic markers and I added a few coats
of Wink of Stella in clear, to her hair and her tail to make her glimmer!

Thank you for stopping by!

Tina

Hi there!

As you may have noticed, the "Party Animals" set from
Mama Elephant is being used quite frequently over here in my craft room!
(More cards to come!)

This card required some masking, but I really like it when you 
chose where the bunnies will appear... in front or behind the other ones...
how the chickens are placed... depending on which one you stamp first. 

Scenes like this takes a bit of planning
(and masking paper!)  in order to get the result you want!

All images were colored with Copic markers!

Thank you for stopping by today!

Tina

Hello crafty friends!

During this last 30 Day Coloring Challenge, sweet Patricia
colored and posted an ATC card every day! The first person to say
"I want it", got it! In return that person had to make an ATC and send to Patricia! 

Such a great idea!
Day 8 of the challenge I was the first person to say "I want it" and shortly
after I recieved an adorable ATC with the cutest of fairies
and a beautiful flower! Together with the ATC Patricia sent
a super cute card!

I decided to make a card that matched my ATC and to
send them in a matching envelope...

Below is my very first ATC...

...not that much of a difference to making a tag, both are tiny in size!

I used the same kittens on the card as on the ATC!

The images were colored with Copic markers and the background
was colored with Distress Inks, Tumbled glass and Moved lawn.

On the envelope I stamped two little kittens,
I added some washi tape right under the kittens (but forgot
to take a picture), and it looked sooo cute!

Thank you for stopping by!

Tina

Hi there!

I have made a set of thank you and congrats cards using some
of the sweet bunnies from the "Hippity Hop" set from Mama Elephant! 

I have used the same layout for all four cards,
all of them matted onto black cardstock, as a thin frame.

Two sets of bunnies were colored grey and the other
two were colored brown! There is a slight difference
of the way I have used the patterned papers. 

The sentiment stamps are from Gummiapan. 

The sky and grass were colored using Distress inks,
Tumbled glass and Mowed Lawn.

The bunnies were colored with Copic markers.

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Tina

Hello there!

Today´s card was made using one of the cute
critters from the "Just sayin´" set from Hello Bluebird!

This stamp set is so much fun and versatile and
can be used for soooo many different occasions as
there are 30+ words to chose from!

Loving these warm grey Copics!

The warm grey Copics are almost brown-ish and
gives the images a warm, soft look.

Copics used on this bunny were: W 7-5-3-2 and 1. 

Thank you so much for stopping by today! 

Tina

Hello!

I was celebrating my crafty friend Ellenor´s birthday, a few weeks ago, 
(@e_emilsson is her name on Instagram, head over and
follow her if you don´t already do, she makes the cutest and most often CAS cards!)

I coordinated the card, the gift tag (from day 2 of the 30 Day Coloring Challenge)
and I even stamped and colored a little chicken and a balloon on the envelope!
I also made a bookmark for the book I had purchased for her!
This was sooo much fun and everything turned out so pretty together!

The cute little bunnies and chicken are from the 
"Party animals" set from Mama Elephant!

I laminated the bookmark, I first tried to heat laminate it but that 
didn´t work, I then tried to cold laminate and that worked better
(yes, I did stamp and color two bookmarks as my first attempt didn´t work!)
but I am not super happy about he result, in order for the lamination
film to stay sealed together I had to cut the edges quite wide. 

This was the first time I stamped and colored on an envelope 
and I wasn´t sure how the Copics would work on this 
kind of paper, but it turned out ok! 

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

 Tina

Hello there!

I needed two cards, a thank you and a just because card
and decided to make two identical ones, the only things to set
them apart were the sentiments and the use of the colors.

As I am in summer and vacation mode I decided to ink up
Uptown Girls Sandy (has a sombrero) from Stampingbella!

I just loooove this skinny character Sandy with the
gigant sombrero and a yummy drink in her hand!

I did use the same color combinations on both cards,
pink, orange and yellow but in different ways!

One card turned out more pink with yellow/orange details
and the other card turned out more yellow/orange with pink details!

They were colored with Copic markers!

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Tina