Challenges | Copic in the Craftroom

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Michelle — 1 Comment

MFT Sketch Challenge 212 – Closing in on Seattle Copic Workshops

Well I figured I would keep coloring while I was n a roll so here is another card I completed for the on-going challenges over at My Favorite Things. This is my interpretation of this week’s sketch challenge:

I kept it pretty simple today, to me the fun part was using the acorns to form my scallop at the bottom edge. 🙂 Supplies: cardstock; Bazzill Basics and American Crafts, ink; Memento (Rich Cocoa) and Copic (YG61, YG63, E50, E53, E55, E57, E59), burlap banner; Little Yellow Bicycle.

We are coming down to wire for my Copic Workshops in Seattle. If you or anyone you know live in the area and would like to join me for a half day, full day or even two full days of coloring fun make sure to get signed up NOW before it is too late.

Happy Coloring!

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Michelle — 1 Comment

MFT Color Challenge #13

Yep I am still having fun here with coloring. These are such easy fun challenges at My Favorite Things, I can see myself coming back for more of these 🙂 Besides it get’s me building up my card stash which is always a good thing to have on hand. The color challenge gives us 4 colors we need to incorporate on a card. The image I colored and added to my card is really just for fun. the little raccoon really has nothing to do sentiment, but he is too cute!

Supplies include: cardstock; Bazzill Basics and American Crafts, twine; American Crafts, stickers; Bo Bunny, embossing folder; Cuttlebug, raccoon image; My Favorite Things, ink; Copic, C1, C3, C5, C7, C9, E93

Happy coloring!

Posted on January 19, 2015January 17, 2015 by Michelle — 1 Comment

MFT Challenge 211

I was invited to check out the My Favorite Things Challenge blog this past week. They run regular sketch and color challenges for card and stamping fans. You could most likely translate the challenges into other crafty pursuits as well. I figured I am in a coloring, crafty mood why not? Besides a very dear friend of mine is having a baby shower and I would love to make a special card for her as I know she will be appreciative. Here is the tag I made using the current sketch at MFT.

I do not have any shape die cuts so I just eyeballed the oval and the tag but I don’t think my wobbly lines show too bad :-). Supplies for the tag include; cardstock; Bazzil Swiss Dots, patterned paper; Graphic 45, flowers and trim; American Crafts, stamp; My Favorite Things, ink; Memento and Copic.

The flowers are hand colored to match the patterned paper I used Copic markers in R20 and E93. Here is a close up of the fox and a list of the colors I used:

E11, E13, E15, E17, E19, E49. I used Memento ink in Rich Cocoa to stamp the image and even double stamped to keep the lines light and hopefully invisible after I colored. The E49 I used was to go back over the little nose and eyes. I know this is a unique image to use for a baby shower gift but the new arrivals last name is “Fox” and the beautiful mama LOVES her foxes so the image could not be any more perfect!

Thank you MFT for the inspiration.

Happy coloring!

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Michelle — 2 Comments

Ready to do more scrapping?

Believe it or not Get It Scrapped is frantically scrapbooking again! In the midst of a busy month for many of us with school nearing a close and weather getting warmer we are challenging each other to create a page a day in May! Now I know I am not completing a page each day in May BUT I am going to attempt to create 31 pages in May we will see how it goes. I have 3 completed so far and can share 1, the other 2 are for assignments.

Success | supplies: patterned papers and tissue SEI, cardstock; Kraft from Oriental Trading, acrylic letters; Heidi Swapp, ink; Copic and Zig, lace and turtles unknown

I found these little metal turtles at the Creating Keepsakes Convention this past fall and they jumped into my shopping bag, I knew exactly what photos needed them! Originally they were silver but when I added the copper colored thread to the page I felt the turtles looked better in copper as well so I used my Copic markers to ink them up and match them to the page.

Looking back at these photos it is hard to believe that just last summer we were following sea turtles throughout the ocean. It was AMAZING!

We have busy days ahead at the Houghton household but my goal is to check in here once a week still with tutorials and articles as well as the scrapping I am doing for one a day in May!

Have a happy Wednesday!

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Michelle

Calvinball Summery

We are all finished with Calvinball at Get It Scrapped! I finished up with 150 points, I had about 140 yesterday morning then completed a few more layouts, commented on 20 other layouts, loaded 20 pages into page protectors and then into an album and realized I had one more point for submitting a layout to critique 🙂

Overall the moth was incredible productive! Here are a couple of my favorite layouts from the month:

This layout was created not only for Calvinball but a series of challenges over at Jenni Bowlin (JBS) They were running a crop during March as well. I used both her December paper crafting kit and the December Artisan add on kit.

This layout was also created for both JBS and Calvinball. I used chalkboard paint, white Sharpies and black sketch pens to complete all the writing and doodling.

This photo turned out horribly blurry BUT I love the layout. It is a mix of elements from JBS and SEI the title work is done on vellum with Sharpie and Bic permanent markers. The corrugated cardboard was wiped with gesso then torn and the crystals are tied on loops of twine and have small glue dots at the know and crystal to hold them “dangling”. Both the crystals and the beautiful trees are from JBS and they are just the perfect touches (I was really excited to find way to include the crystals!)

I should have a mother post this week with layouts at Get It Scrapped and then next week will be my first post for RubberMoon!

Happy Tuesday!