Wedding Week: Day 3

Its the 3rd day of Wedding Week at InStyle Stamps and the image we are previewing today is called "Couture Cake". Be sure to check in over at the ISS blog to see more samples of this gorgeous and funky image and also to check out the deets on Virginia's newest contests, giveaways and offers. She has a friend in the Wedding business that is being featured this week and you don't want to miss the special offers!

OK, have you ever TOTALLY finished a card that you almost love, then decide it needs one more thing, only to end up RUINING the whole card???? Arrgh! I wanted some shimmer or sparkle, Pulled out my new Vanilla Smooch spray which is NORMALLY not so clumpy and very light. And what do you know...clumps. HUGE wet gooey clumps EVERYWHERE.

Its still ok, but NOT what I intended. Hurumph. Anywho. I LOVE this image! I colored it with copics of course and then cut it out with Labels 10 Nestabilites. The sentiment is from my Favorite ever Verve set, "Anniversary Birds". Papers are by My Minds Eye. And we will not even MENTION the stupid smooch, right?

OK, I will have yet one more post today if you can believe it! Samples for class cards for this weekend! So check back!

Thanks for hanging with me today! -Cyndi

Supplies:

• Stamps: Couture Cake digi (InSTyle Stamps); Anniversary Birds (Verve)
• Paper: Abbey Road pp (My Minds Eye); pink cs (Bazzill); brown cs (WorldWin); white cs (Neenah)
• Ink: Palette Burnt Umber; Topaz Versacolor; Rose Coral Cats eye
• Accessories: gems (Bazzill); Labels 10 (Spellbinders); Vanilla smooch spray; Copic markers: R02, R05, RV11, RV17, E31, E25, E29 & ABS1 (Imagination International)

OHDBCGA

Good morning! This is the first of 2 posts today, so be sure to check back in 2 more hours for my Wedding Week sneak peek! For now I have for you my card for the InStyle Stamps Over the Hump Day Blog Candy Give Away!

Be sure to check over at the ISS blog for details on the giveaway today and to see the rest of the DT's projects! Now, on to the eye candy...

This is Mallory. She's a hot little digi number available over at InStyle Stamps. Our challenge for the day was to use yellow and green somewhere on your card. So I pulled out this funky paper from the Basic Grey "Nook & Pantry" collection. She's cut out with my Labels 10 Nestabilites. I paper pierced around the edges of the frame and then added a few flowers from my stash.

My layout is based on the sketch from a Magnolia challenge blog, LOL, but hey, it worked for what I needed! Okay, check back in a bit! Thanks for the visit :)

-Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Mallory digi (InStyle Stamps); Hey chick! (Unity)
• Paper: White cs (Neenah); Green cs (Core'dinations); Orange dots (Bo Bunny); Nook & Pantry pp (Basic Grey)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Topaz Versacolor (Tsukineko); Yellow Pastel & Olive PAstel cats eyes (Clearsnap)
• Accessories: Labels 10 Nestabilities (Spellbinders); flowers & ribbon (stash); paper piercer & mat (Bazzill); buttons (Autumn Leaves)

Shepherd Tilda & Catch Up

Good morning! Sorry to be so scarce lately. I have been trying to play catch up on doing samples and Class projects for Enchanted Cottage.

For those of you who are local I have a LOT going on in the next 2 weeks before I head out of town for the following 2 weeks. I will put my schedule of classes in the next post for the day!

Also its Wedding Week over at the InStyle Stamps blog this week. There is lots going on including GIVEAWAYS and tons of previews ! I will have a sneak peek here tomorrow for you with "Couture Cake" from InStyle Stamps, and I will also have a card for you for our Over the Hump Day Blog Candy Give Away!

For now, I have a bit of eye candy for you! This is "Shepherd Tilda", one of the newest Magnolia stamps from the latest Easter release. And yes, we DO have these in stock at Enchanted Cottage! I kept the layout relatively simple since this will be one of the class cards for this weekend. Isn't she just the cutest?!!

Heres a closeup for you of the coloring. I matched her up with new papers from 3Bugs in a Rug and NEW Prima flowers from the Watercolor collection. She was cut out with the new labels 11 Nestabilites from Spellbinders. And here's the copics I used. All other supplies are listed at the bottom of the post.

Thanks for stopping in! I truly appreciate every visit that I get :) -Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Shepherd Tilda (Magnolia Stamps)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)
• Paper: White (Neenah); blues (Bazzill); pp (3 Bugs in a Rug)
• Accessories: Labels 11 Nestabilities (Spellbinders); silk ribbon (May Arts); buttons (Basic Grey); flowers (Prima); border punch (EK Success); Copic markers: E0000,E000, E00, E11, E31, E33, E35, E55, E57, E59, R30, R32, R35, G20, Y04, Y21, C0, BG000, BG01, R000 (Imagination International)

CACC: Laney

Happy Saturday! Gorgeous day here in NC again! I am teaching Copic classes all day so I don't get to enjoy the sunshine though. Oh well.

But quickie post since I have to schedule this and get to work! This card is for todays color challenge over at the Club Anime blog. I used "Laney", a new image from InSTyle Stamps. The layout for the card is from this week's sketch from Papertake Weekly Challenge Blog.

I also made it into a Birthday card for this weeks Cute Card Thursday challenge: Celebrations. OK, gotta head off. I'll add the supply list later :)

-Cyndi

Painting the Roses Red...

Good morning! I have my card for you today for the Alice in Wonderland Challenge blog. The theme this week was a color challenge...Red, Blue, and Purple! Ok, that was just screaming for me to print out this fabulously creepy image from The Greeting Farm called "Twisted Tea", one of the three new "Creepy Cakes" digi images they released this month.

Twisted Tea was colored with no other than my Copic markers, then I used the sketch from Club Anya & Friends Blog (which I know I can't submit for the challenge, but hey it worked!) for my layout. I added lots of sparkle to her hair and other accessories with my Spica glitter pens. I had to rummage through my old paper stash to find pp's that would work and I came up with this black and white print from Amanda Blu and the red print from an old SU! print pack.

The circle Nestabilites is layered onto a Blossom Nestabilies, then I added a bit of bling around the edges. I layered some Primas then attached them together with these fun Mini Jewel Brads from American Crafts. The black cardstock still looked a bit plain so I ran that layer through my Cuttlebug with the Spiderweb folder. How perfect is that?

The doodling around the circle is by hand to match the kinks in her hair. The sentiment I printed out from a digi file called "Alice in Sassyland Sentiments" that I downloaded from Sassy Studio Designs.

Alrighty, I am finishing up my Latte and then headed home to finish working on class samples for work! Have a great day! Thanks for hanging out with me :)

-Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Twisted Tea digi (The Greeting Farm); Alice in Sassyland Sentiments (Sassy Studio Designs)
• Paper: black pp (Amanda Blu); Real Red pp (SU!); Black & Blue cs (Bazzill); purple cs (Core'dinations; white cs (Neenah)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Warm Red cats eye (Tsukineko)
• Accessories: Blossom & Large Circle Nestabilites (Spellbinders); ribbon &Mini Jewel Brads (American Crafts); Cardinal jewels (Bazzill); flowers (Prima & Fancy Pants); Spiderweb embossing folder (Cuttlebug); jumbo scallop scissors; Copic markers: R46, B14, B18, BV04. BVo8, BV000, C5, Co, C3, E000, & Lipstick red & Lilac Spicas (Imagination International)

Hula Days Previews: Day 2

Good morning! Thanks for surfing back over to my little island. Today is our second day of Previews at InStyle Stamps, and we have my favorite image for you today who is Leila. I actually combined her with yesterdays preview image, Island Sun (the tree).

This card is also for 2 challenges this week. I used the sketch from The Diedrich Dare for my layout and used a wee bit o Green from the Copic Creations Challenge.

Leila and the tree were both cut out after I colored them. The tree is adhered straight to the panel and Leila is popped up. I have a side view below so that you can see the dimensionality of the card. For this card I got to pull out my brand spankin new Jumbo Rectangle Nesties from Spellbinders...Hot dang! Love them!!

I dotted around the edges a bit and then layered the panel onto more of the same fun paper that I had used for the rectangles...its by My Minds Eye, from a collection last summer called Breakin' Free. I thought the colors were just perfect!

OK, so don't forget to surf on over to the ISS blog from here to enter for all of the awesome giveaways this week! also Virginia will have the links to all the other DT who have sneaky peekys for you today!

Thanks for coming by! Have a great afternoon :) Aloha!

-Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Leila digi (InStyle Stamps); Life's a Breeze (A Muse)
• Paper: Breakin' Free pp (My Minds Eye); white cs (Neenah Classic Crest)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)
• Accessories: Rectangles Large and Jumbo Scallop rectangles Large Nesties (Spellbinders); brads (Basic Grey); white gel pen (Sakura); Copic markers: YG21, YG23, Goo, Boo, BG13, R20, R22, R24, R27, 100, C9, C5, E00, E11, E13, E25, E27, E29, E57, E79 (Imagination International)

Hula week Day 1: Island Sun

Good morning Monday! It is the start of Hula Week over at InStyle Stamps and you do NOT want to miss out on all the fun! ISS is releasing 6 new images this week with a Hawaiian flare. Virginia has posted some fun facts on Hawaii today at the InSTyle Stamps blog. Janelle has given us a really fun flower tutorial over at the blog as well for Method Monday.

BUT the best news is this...you can get a FREE Leila digi image by helping us spread the word about Hula week, PLUS you could be one of 6 lucky winners to receive ALL 6 of the new releases! OR you could be the lucky Photo Contest Winner! There are lots of ways to win :) Be sure to hop over to the blog to check out all the details!

So, now on to my card. Todays image that we are previewing is "Island Sun", this adorable palm tree! I used the sketch for the week over at Friday Sketchers blog for my layout. Again I pulled out my new Labels 10 from spellbinders for the main image. well, actually the main image is cut from Large Ovals, the it was matted on Labels 10. The sentiment is from Stampendous! and was cut out with a die from Ribbon Tag Trio, then I trimmed the ribbon ends off.

Here is a side view. The main panels and the sentiment are both popped up on dimensionals. The large circle element was cut out with my Curvy Cutter from EK Success. My paper is from an old pp pad by K & Co. All my supplies are listed below along with a pic of the copics I used. Please stop by all the other InStyle Stamps DT's blogs to see more previews all week! The list is on my sidebar to the right------>

Thanks for surfing by today! Have a great week and check back in tomorrow for another preview fro Hula Week!

-Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: island Sun digi (InStyle Stamps); Summer Messages (Stampendous!)
• Paper: Happy Trails pp (K & Co); white cs (Neenah)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)
• Accessories: Labels 10, Large ovals & Ribbon Tag Trio 2 (Spellbinders); Fresh Mowed Grass Dew Drops (Robin's nest); ribbon (stash); Curvy Cutter (EK Success); Copic Markers BG0000, BG11, BG15, YG0000, YG01, YG03, YG05. E0000, E31, E33, E35, E55, E57, E59, E79 (Imagination International)

Texturizing Jeans Tutorial

I have a cool tutorial for you today! This is a technique that I show in my Copic 102 class at Enchanted Cottage. I thought it would be fun to show you all here. Below are the supplies you will need. (Note: i also use the Copic ABS1 airbrush system to do the background later, but that is optional for you)

For this technique I love using this adorable Changito image from Stampendous! He's hugging his daddy's legs...which are of course just right to make into jeans. After he is stamped, go ahead and color him with the copics of your choosing. The colors I used are shwon and listed at the bottom of the post.

After your image has been colored fully then you are ready to texturize! You can make all kinds of amazing textures with Copic colorless Blending Solution. For jeans I cut a small piece off the cuff of some old jeans. I put a small amount of Colorless Blender solution in a Mini Mister from Ranger. Spray the jean scrap pretty thoroughly.

Then apply the jean scrap to the image, trying to keep it just over the jean portion of the image, so you don't make Changito look like jeans too! Press down pretty firmly. You can move the scrap and repeat as needed.

Here is a close up so you can see how well the texturizing works! Pretty cool, huh? A special thnaks to Sally Lynn MacDonald for suggesting creating Jeans texture. She did my Copic certification last year.

Next I masked off the Changito image as well as all around the outside of the block so that I can spray the area with my Airbrush system.

Here is what the image looks like masked off as well as what it looks like before I trim the panel and finish off my card.

ANd finally for my finished card. I used papers from My Minds Eye Abbey Road Collection. The sentiment is also from Stampendous! All supplies are listed below and all the copics I used are also pictured at the bottom of the post.

Well, thanks for stopping in today! Be sure to check back in tomorrow for my first peek from Hula Week at InSTyle Stamps!

-Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Knee Hugger Changito, Hang on to You (Stampendous!)
• Paper: Abbey Road pp (My Minds Eye); white cs (Neenah); Kraft cs (Bazzill))
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Versacolor Pinecone & Mountain Lake (Tsukineko)
• Accessories: buttons (Basic Grey); Copic markers: 0, E11, E15, E25, E27, B41, B45, BF72, G82 & ABS1 (Imagination Internatioonal)

HULA WEEK!

I have copied and pasted this post straight from the InSTyle Stamps Blog, but be sure to click HERE to go see the cute card with Leila that Virginia made! I will be joining in these peeks during Hula week, so stay tuned!

ALOHA!!! This will be a long post, so thanks for not falling asleep or clicking away!

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you are having a wonderful Thursday.

I'm so excited to announce something going on here next week! It's all Leila inspired.

I love Hawaii. I have a few friends that are from there and we have a lot of Hawaiian customer love too. This summer we are planning a trip there (hopefully it pans out) and so I thought what a wonderful way to showcase how beautiful the Islands are by creating a few new Hawaiian inspired images. In fact we came up with 4 to be exact.

So all next week, we will have a Happy Hula Day's week. Each day will feature a tid-bit of the islands as well as a few favorite design team projects featuring our old and NEW digital stamps we are releasing.

You will be seeing Ariel our mermaid, Leila our dancing beauty and 4 new ones that will make your summer projects come alive.

Also during the week, we will have a special hula skirt for sale created by none other than Janelle, who is one of our dt members (she also created the button for the event.) And get this, it will only be $1.00. So yeah you will even be getting some bargains!

And just to jump start the festivities, if you grab the button and post it on your blog from now until the end of next week, we will be giving a free Leila digi away! Yay! I love Leila, she is too cute!

Simply follow us (if you are not already) and grab our button and post it on your blog/website for the entire week starting the day you visit us. Then leave us a comment along with your email address (leave some spaces so you won't get spam) and I will be sending lovely Leila straight to you.

Also, if that isn't enough, if you leave a comment each day, we will be choosing 6 lucky winners to receive all the digitals being released on Saturday!

And lastly we will have our favorite Island photo drawing. We want to see what makes the island special for you. All you have to do is post your favorite island photo on your blog/website and post a link to it. Make sure you tell us why you like that photo so much in your post too.

All those that participate will be entered into a drawing for some great prizes including some new spellbinder dies! Woo hoo! That's all I can say for now. But you won't want to miss it. I will be back on Monday with a photo of the giftbasket of goodies. The total value of the prize will be over $150.00. That's a lot of money honey!

Here are the drawing rules:

*The photo must belong to you. Either you or someone in your immediate family must have taken the photo. Please don't snag photos off the internet to enter.
*You may enter as many photos as you like.
*The photo must be family friendly.
*A post about the photo must accompany the picture.
*You must have the hula days button on your sidebard the entire week.
*You must leave a comment ON THIS post with a link to the photo along with your email address. You can leave it like this: amy at yahoo.com That way you won't get a bunch of spam. If you leave a comment about the photo link anywhere else, it won't count.
*You have until 6:00pm PST March 18th to enter your photo.

The prize will be sent out once all the items become available (some of the spellbinders are pre-ordered).

That is all for now! I hope you are just as excited as we are. Make sure you stop by on Monday to join in all the fun!

To recap the prizes:

*Free Leila for those that follow us and put the hula days button on their sidebar
*6 lucky participants will receive all 6 digital images just for leaving a daily comment
*Photo drawing for a prize valued at over $150.00!!!

Mahalo!

Oh Alice! I'm Mad about you!

OK, so its down to 2 days and counting til we get to go see this movie! I simply can't wait! Can't be late! Have you stumbled upon the new Alice in Wonderland Challenge blog yet? How exciting that there are other fanatics out there :0 And all the lovely companies are inspiring with all the new releases of Alice & friends images!

This weeks challenge is "Running in a sketchy Circle"...and you can see the sketch HERE. I ordered up a few digis just for the occasion and the first one I couldn't wait to color was this jolly mad hatter called "A touch of Depp" from Pixie Dust Studio. Mwaahh! Love him, and what better name could he have I ask?

I colored hi with my copics to match this fun and quirky Sassafras Lass paper called Monstrosity. It just seemed to work! I added a touch of ribbon and buttons and of course a Ribbon Tag Trio sentiment. The sentiment is from a digi set called "Sassyland Sentiments" from Sassy Studio Designs. Warning! I got a couple of digi Sassy Alices while there I will use soon!

OK, I am outta here! Gotta long day at work tomorrow (Thursday) so you'll make my day if you say hi! I can read comments on my Blackberry while trudging through the day! Thanks for stopping in!

-Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: A touch of Depp digi (Pixie Dust Studio); Sassyland Sentiments digi (Sassy Studio designs)
• Paper: Monstosity pp (Sassafras Lass); white cs (Neenah), other cs (Bazzill)
• Ink: none
• Accessories: Large and Small Circle Nestabilites & Ribbon Tag Trio (Spellbinders); buttons (Bo Bunny); ribbon (stash); Copic markers: E0000, C3, C7, C9, 0, Y15, Y19, YG13, YG17, R27, YR68, BG10, BG15, BG45, BG18