Hello friends and family! Here for a little Monday morning inspiration.

Yesterday we started a brand new monthly challenge “Thanks” on the Dare 2B Artzy Blog. Make sure to get your project uploaded so you have a chance to win some D2BA goodies!

I have a new video for you today over on the D2BA YouTube channel. I created an inky background to go behind a beautiful D2BA die cut frame.

Here is a closer look at that background:

One of the things I love best about this die cut and this technique is I can easily change the colors in the background for the seasons and the occasion!

Here is a link to the video over on Dare 2B Artzy on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=2gHyLIWzp1g

And here is a link to the beautiful Die Cut!

Have a Happy Colorful Day!

Hello friends and family, I am hopping on today to share the latest monthly challenge over at Dare 2B Artzy. The theme is Thanks, you of course may interpret as you wish. A thank you card would be perfect, or a card for Thanksgiving mine is a little less obvious. I am currently thankful for a gift of time with a loved one.

So in honor of that thought I have a card with the new Cuckoo Clock stamp set. I used my Copic markers to color the image, I kept it really simple since the areas are very small.

Here is a closer look at the coloring:

Then I added a little sparkle and shine:

Close up on that sparkle!

And here is the card:

Thank you so much for dropping by today! The month of November is a good one to remember to be thankful, weather you make a note each day in your planner or on your calendar or even make a little list you hang on your fridge, make a point of it find joy and be thankful this month!

Have a Happy Colorful Day!

D2BA supplies used on this card:

 

 

Hello and happy Monday friends and family. Bringing you a little D2BA inspiration to start your week.

This month’s D2BA challenge is “Fall” so make sure you take a few minutes and create a project celebrating fall to enter to win a fun prize!

Today though I am headed straight to the holidays! I chose to work with the Holiday Rose stamp set and my Copics as well as some of the new D2BA patterned papers. Here is a quick shot of the colors I used. Cindy made coloring easy she added cross hatching lines to show where shading should go.

Here is a close up of the rose so you can see the coloring, I added a little sparkle onto the berries as well. When coloring a stamp that has a lot of details like this one I look for sports to push pieces back and lift other’s toward the viewer. For example on the pine needles or evergreen boughs I used darker colors on the needles that are sitting to the back, further away from the viewer. This not only adds depth, it also allows the viewer to more easily too all the pieces of the image.

The card as a whole uses some of the beautiful new papers from the D2BA fall and holiday release. I added very thin borders of solid cardstock to define the edges of the busier patterned papers.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! make sure to swing by the D2BA store to check on the latest additions and come back here to the blog this week for more D2BA inspiration.

D2BA Products I used on this project:

Have a Happy Colorful Day!

Hello all my friends and family! I have some new inspiration for you today using one of my all time favorite D2BA stamp sets, Alpaca Cake.

He he I am so excited to share my card today! I created a shaker card using the Alpaca Cake stamp set and I also used the wavy squares die cuts to create the window for my shaker. The shaker portion not only has glitter and beads it also contains a swinging piñata!

Here is a close up of this little guy!

I realize it is a little hard to appreciate a moving part with no movement however… surprise, surprise there is a video as well!

If you have not had a chance to check out the Dare 2B Artzy YouTube channel yet make sure to stop by! We would love it if you would “like” the channel so you will get notified every time we add a new video. We are just starting to build an inspirational gallery and are excited to build up our viewers!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! make sure to stop back by for more D2BA inspiration each day and check in at the shop for all the fun new Fall and Holiday products!

Have a Happy Colorful Day!

Products used on this card include: