Happy Birthday Tycho!

Hey! My doggie just turned 1! In honor of his birthday, I'm giving away a one-time 20% coupon to my Funkadoodle kit @ Funky Playground Designs: code: funkybday -- only valid till Oct. 4 (EST I think). Happy Birthday Tycho!

More Copics

While in Portland this week, I dropped by The Paper Zone, which I don't recommend to anyone who doesn't want to hear an enthusiastic sucking sound as the cash flies out your pocket.

I there found out that Neenah's Classic Crest (I picked the whitest, which was Solar Crest) was one of the best Copic papers. 1 ream. Kaching! Then, I just had to get some Kromekote (by SmartPapers) to do all the alcohol ink techniques on glossy paper that I learned at my workshops last week. 1 ream. Kachingggg! Plus, some Tsukineko Memento dye ink--used it tonight with the Copics, and everybody is right, it's awesome and smearless--and a Martha Stewart (yeah, I know) Scoring Board so I could recreate some of the awesome folded cards I learned about. KACHING!

So tonight, I got out my cardstock, the Copics, and the Memento, and made this:

The one thing that did smear when I painted the whole thing with a crayon watercolor wash at the end was their hair. I'm not sure if it was because it was a larger area of Memento ink, or if it was the Copic black marker that I used to darken the hair. Ah well, live and learn... =) The card is kind of cool, as you're seeing a scan of the *inside*. The card opens up like a double door cupboard, and is kept closed with some gold cord looped around two buttons attached to the side panels. The stamp is one of mine from Art Neko.

I am guesting at... Funky Playground Designs!

And I have a really fun and funky kit for you, with lots of hand-drawn stuff... Funkadoodle! With over 100 pieces of original art and a nice sale price, you're sure to find something to spend the weekend doing!











Isn't that cute?? And of course, the layouts... oh my!!

By Ulla-May:






By Ona:








By Jean:




By Loni:

By Vera:

By Sandrine:





A card, by Julie:




By Jen:

By Karen:

Charity Collab

Available @ MScraps & 9th & Bloom tomorrow, this is a SUPERB (and I mean it, it's so gorgeous!) collaboration to help raise money for Pakistan. Please contribute!

A Card, For Once

 

Credits: My stamp from Art Neko with Versacraft, embossed with Ranger Clear embossing powder, on vellum. Reverse side colored with Ranger dye inks (Lettuce & Butterscotch). Front then colored in with Copics and white acrylic paint. (Legs and beak were painted in white, then colored with copics, as well as some shading on the bodies.) Fun!

Wherein my ignorance of math shows its true colors...

Cuz, as somebody gently pointed out, when the thingy goes this way: < that means that the number on the left is SMALLER, ms. dingdong heather. *lol*
So if anybody intelligent was wondering why the heck my freebie kit is called Greater Than Three, it's because, uh, I live in a reversible world?

*sigh*

Ampersand

I don't know why I like those things so much. I'm such a type geek... =)

Everything mine. Font: Clarendon Light.