Happy New Baby!

My pastor recently became a grandpa for the first time so I made this card for him. While I was coloring the super cute image (by TAC) it occured to me that I don't color correctly with my copics. What I mean is, according to Marianne Walker and Suzanne Dean, you are supposed to color with the flat side of the brush tip of the marker, not directly with the tip. (COPIC TIP) I never really thought about it until now...but I have not been doing that. Apparently you can actually ruin the marker tip and eventually bend or damage the nib if you color directly with the pointed tip all the time. So I tried to color with the flat side of the nib as best I could with out going outside the lines, I mean obviously you need to use the tip to get inside the really small spots. This is definitely something I will have to keep practicing with and will change my coloring technique dramatically.

I really like this sentiment from The Angel Company. I think it fit perfectly for this card.

Ingredients-

Stamps- The Angel Company, Stampin' Up!

Paper- Bluebell cardstock from the Paper Source, American Crafts Glitter Cardstock, Prism/Bazzil Simply Smooth, DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Boy

Ink- Memento Tuxedo Black, Memento Bahama Blue dew drop ink, Antique Linen Ditress Ink, Copics: B000 B00 B02 B04 E33 E35 E37 Y17 Y21 Y32 Y35

Accessories- Sandylion Essentials Baby Boy Special Delivery and ATD Flutter Puffy Msg Happy stickers, Standard Circles Spellbinders Nestabilities

An'udder Birthday?

I was feeling really sleepy last night so I decided to make a very quick card. I used Mojo Monday Sketch # 127 as my roadmap.

Last month, I ordered a bunch of stamps from The Angel Company. One of the sets I picked up is called "An'udder Birthday" and it features these adorable cows. Now anyone who knows me knows that I love cows. I moo at them out the window of my card and I swear when I see them, it means I will have good luck. I even went so far as to choose the artwork that is hung on our wall infront of my desk at work.... out of 100's of painting, I chose the one with cows grazing on the side of the road. Needless to say, when I saw this set, I had to have it. Tell me Buella is not cute...I named her Buella... I don't know why. I finally found a use for my black copic marker....cow spots!

Recipe: An'udder Birthday from The Angel Company, PTI Sweet Blush and Stampers Select White cardstock, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, October Afternoon papers, SU! Kraft Cardstock, Ribbons Rhinestones Pearls and Flower from RAK, Copics used:

Baby Time

Here is a Baby Boy scrapbook page I made during the snow storm Saturday. I used my Sew Mini to do some zig zag stitching to jazz up the page a bit and added a cute little giraffe stamp from The Angel Company. (Copics used: Y32, Y35, Y38, B41, B0000, B02)

Close ups:

As promised, here are pics of my new baby "neice" Ava- only 10 days old...