Hello again!

Wow! I have been away much too long. Life sometimes just gets in the way of stamping, how dare it!!! LOL!

Well even though I have been away. I have been playing with my sweet Maggies. I purchased distressed inks about two months ago and was on the search of paper. I know most know what I mean when I say that paper makes it all. I have pads and pads of watercolor paper and nothing made me happy when coloring with distress inks. Well my dear friend tells me she found one that she liked. So I went to Michaels and picked up ANOTHER pad of paper and went home AGAIN and tried AGAIN and this time.....YEAH!!!!!!!!! I went out and bought another pad quickly because my closest Michaels had the Canson Watercolor paper on clearance!

So for about the past two weeks, I have been watercoloring and well now I have lots of images that need a card to call home.

Thanks for coming back and visiting and continuing to follow. I appreciate it so much and always look forward to your comments.


I hope you enjoy my Ballerina Tilda, she is one of my firsts distress inks images. Thank you to all the great bloggers that use distress inks. I have learned soooooo much for you all!

So what do you think?

Thanks for stopping by,

Lisette

Please forgive me...

I have been soooo absent lately. Work is just busy and I've come home too tired to pick up a stamp pad. The girls have had end of school projects, that required my stamping talents in decorating Flat Stanley Journals and a State of Pennsylvania shoebox. TRUST ME when I say I am missing my sweet stamps!

I hope to have sometime to color this week, there's nothing more relaxing than that!! I belong to a some really talented groups and today at my first peek at my email I have over 500 emails of blog hopping to do!

Thanks for stopping by and please come back soon,

Lisette

Distress with Copics

Last night I wanted to try something new. I had seen awhile back Suzanne Dean's video on Distress Look with Copics. I knew that with my limited Copics I would be just flidding and it not really amount to anything but I was pleasantly surprised at how it came out.

Suzanne uses the following:
Skin: E00,E11,E13,W3 I substituted with E00,E33, E21, W5
Hair: E27,E25,E41,E31 I substituted with E29, E37, E33, E43
Clothes and Socks: R000,R00, R2o I actually had R00 and R20

Her little Tilda didn't have a basket, flowers or shoes so I was on my own on those. The basket was the same color as the hair.
Flowers : BV00, BV08
Shoes: C3,C5

I love this Tilda with Lilacs. I have a best friend that just recently found out she's pregnant. I'm so excited for her, she is an amazing person and will be just as amazing as a Mom. I don't really have any maternity stamps but these sweet Tilda's just remind me of little dolls (I'm putting my vote in for a girl) I hope she likes it!


Challenges:
Stamp with Fun: Friends
Everybody Art: Pastel Colors
Friday Sketchers: Sketch
Secret Crafter: Friendship

Thanks for stopping by,
Lisette

Wild Orchids arrived!

YEAH! My first Wild Orchids Crafts order arrived today. I wasn't sure where to start or what sizes to order so I went with an array of sizes from 8mm to 25mm. What do I make of what I ordered? I did pretty good. 25mm are the perfect size. It measures about the size of a U.S. nickel (it's the two-tone flower on my card). The 10mm rose (on the bow and inside) are a great petite size as well as the 15mm. They are perfect to layer on other flowers.

Another first on my card....I colored with Distress Inks! I LOVE IT!!! I want to thank all of you who color with distress inks and list the colors. You were a great inspiration as well as your beautiful work! I have a couple more images that I played with over the weekend. I'm on the search for the perfect paper!


I would love to hear what you think of my first time with Distress inks. Here are some details and some challenges.


Coloring:
Skin: Tattered Rose, Worn Lipstick
Dress: Victorian Velvet, Spun Sugar
Hair: Scattered Straw, Vintage Photo


Challenges:
Just Magnolia: Sketch
Papertake Weekly: Do Something Different

Thanks for stopping by,

Lisette

My Fair Lady

My ultimate favorite movie is My Fair Lady. I have watched it countless times. I know the lines, and the music word for word and yet, I always watch as if the ending is going to be different. Just writing about it now makes me want to put in the DVD and watch it.

When I was coloring this Tilda I was humming "I could've danced all night..." My girls rolled thier eyes that Mommy was singing but I was surprised to see they actually knew the song to hum along too! They probably were born knowing it!

My photos do not catch how shimmery this card truly is . The base card is Stampin' UP's Shimmer White and the DP is DCWV The Luxury Stack, which is all metallic and pearlized paper. Of course I had to shimmer her dress and hair band with Crystal stickles too. Her skin tones are done with Copics, EOO, E21, R20 and the remainder is done with Prisma Pencils. The sentiment inside is from Stampin Up! I have to say this one is one of my favorites.

I'm also very excited about this weekend. I have collected enough colors to give coloring with distress inks a try. I always love learning something new. I recieved this adorable Tilda in my Spring Kit and it arrived with other amazing Magnolia stamps that I will be playing with this weekend. That was the first time I ever ordered the kit and I will definately do it again.

Well I am off the pop my DVD in...I hope you like My Fair Lady Tilda.

Challenge she qualifies for

Just Magnolia: Anything goes!

Thanks for stopping by,

Lisette

Honey Bee Happy!

Hello Everyone! I had a dry spell of a bit but I think this week's challenges helped me out of my rutt.


I have a question, do you color your images first then find the paper to match or do you find your paper then color your image? I'm asking because a week or so ago when my friend Suzanne came over she watched me as I searched for paper to assemble my stamped and colored image. I never really noticed that I color before I pull paper out. I guess I do it this way because I am always excited to stamp and color. I always have in the back of my mind an idea of the paper I want to use and figure that I have sifted through my "stash" for so long I have an idea of what I own.



Anyway , this past week, in giving some thought to what Suzanne suggested, I decided to do the opposite for me. I sat and pulled paper and accessories together...then....I went blank. STUCK in RUTT!!

I guess my brain is backwards, ask my family and friends and they will agree. LOL! Honey Tilda arrived in the mail this week and without second thought I sat down and just colored. I found the paper later...the Mojo Monday challenge just helped in putting it together. She's colored with Prisma Pencils and her wings are stickled. What do you think?

Challenges she qualifies for
Simon Says Stamp: Things with Wings
Mojo Monday: Sketch

Thanks for stopping by,
Lisette

My First Copic Tilda!

I usually color in Prisma pencils but I have a handful of Copics. I have been collecting them slowly via trades and purchasing a little at a time. My color pallette is finally getting closer to colors I can blend. SO here is my first Tilda colored all in Copics! I'm so excited!

I was just playing and decided to put her on a quick card. Somehow I was back on Lavendars again for a base card and since I was playing, I put my Copics away before I can list what I used. What do you think?

This one will need to stay hidden tonight. I need to make one more and sneak them into my girls bookbags but that will be tommorrow, it's way past my bedtime.

Thanks for stopping by,

Lisette