Christmas Fairy Holly is Ready for Christmas!

Happy Tuesday and thanks for stopping by...

Christmas is so close, I can taste it! My son's are sooo excited and today is the last day of school before the Christmas break so now it's on to baking and more decorating with them. We have to have our Christmas cookies. YUM!

I'm going to enter a few more challenges before Christmas. Here's my entry for Mo's Digital Pencil Design Team Fantasies and Fairies Challenge. Hope you like it...

She is colored with Copic Sketch and I'm still using my Ellen Snowflake Christmas Paper Pad. I used just a touch or two of Crystal lacquer for her snow globe and used a very simple card sketch. It was so simple, in fact, that I made four cards before 10 A.M. !! Wow! Now that's easy peasy.

I'm also entering this card into a few more challenges: Fab 'N Funky Quick and Easy Does It, Friday Sketchers Challenge #133, Stamping for the Weekend "Christmas" Challenge and
Cute Card Thursday "One for the Kids" Challenge

I hope your holidays are blessed and beautiful!

Thanks for stopping by...See you next time!

Thanksgiving Cards Almost Done

Isn't she the cutest??? Here's my second Copic Sketch marker coloring image. I just adore Mo's Digital Pencil Too images. This little girl is called Sadie with Apples. Mo's images are mostly digital and are a breeze to work with. I didn't have any trouble with ink bleeding (which was my initial hesitation with using Copics). I think she turned out really cute. I feel really proud of myself, knowing that all of my Thanksgiving cards are almost finished. So far I'm ahead of the game.

This is actually my first attempt at an easel card. It was so easy, I may do lots more of this style in the future. I'm also thinking about trying one more Thanksgiving card style. I'll post my results. Have a great Saturday!!!

New Copic Sketch Markers

A few years ago I took a card making class at my local scrapbook store and discovered water color brush pens. I used them with great success for a while, but I kept coming across fantastic cards that were colored with Copics. So I saved up my pennies and pranced into the art supply store ready to make a major Copic purchase. Boy, was I in for a surprise! The Copics were waaaaay out of my price range! I opted for the Prismacolors instead. These seemed to work out fairly well, but I was still coming across images online that looked so much more vibrant and layered than the work I was creating; each one done with Copics. So finally, a few months ago, I decided to search YouTube and find out if anyone was demonstrating Copics, so I could find out what was so great about them; the secret that was obviously alluding me. I found tons of tutorials and I watched them over and over; fascinated by the techniques and results. But the price still just wasn't right.

I scoured the internet searching for the best price on Copic Sketch markers and I discovered www.carpediemstore.com. They had a GREAT sale on Copics and I bought a good batch to get started. I've been playing around with them all week and I wanted to share my results with you. I'm just getting started so I know my work needs improvement, but I'm on my way and I am officially HOOKED ON COPICS!!!