Hello Friends, How are you? It’s a busy time of year and I appreciate you visiting …especially today. My Favorite Things has blessed me with an honor and asked me to guest design for them today and Friday. 🙂
The Pure Innocence stamps from My Favorite Things have been a long time favorite of mine and it’s super fun to play with the new release. (If you click here you can see some of my vintage cards created with the Pure Innocence stamps)  I find these sweet images good for beginners or the advanced colorist and I love how the personalities shine through the stamps as you color them.
Love this one called, “Dashing By” The texture on the sweater was achieved by adding lots of dots as you see in the mini tutorial below. The die cut tree has an oh so beautiful sparkly and textured shine thanks to rock candy distress stickles. The Radical Stitched Circle really stands out especially with the pattern created with this stencil for the background. I used a B00 and B02 to highlight the snow.
After adding the dots and more dots with my alcohol markers I used some blending solution to mute the dots. Rock candy distress stickles were generously added to the tree. Â (I didn’t use the solution on the sweater)
Such a sweet girl and I love the birds included in “Season Tweeting’s“. I decided to use one of the “The Winter Wonderland” stamps to create a “toy” candy shop for the cardinal to perch on. (I cut the opening in the door. Wouldn’t it be fun to have another bird peeping out of the door?) The sentiment is a die called, “Pop Up Holiday Greetings“. It’s not often I used patterned paper but, I loved the chevron pattern & the colors in this 6×6 paper pad.
The brush tip on the Copic markers is perfect to create dots. Just hold the tip down and pause on the paper with the tip and a dot will appear. The longer you hold the tip the larger the dot. Add color around your dots and you have a fun pattern!
If you live in the US I wish you a blessed Thanksgiving with lots of love and happiness. Thanksgiving or not I wish you all many blessings with a life full of love and happiness. A super big THANKS to My Favorite Things and the very warm welcome on their blog. I  will be back Friday with a GIVEAWAY 🙂 and announce the winners to my other two giveaways. Thanks again and feelin’ blessed . Big Hugs, Kathy
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Beautiful colouring yet again, Jo x
Love your dotted tree but I especially love the heather sweater knitted with dots. No white dots! LOL Adorable scene. MFT chose the right person to showcase their products.You always amaze us with your talent. I am thankful for you. Hugs
Wow Kathy, the sweater texture and color are just stunning.
Great job with the sweater. It looks so real 🙂
Super cute!
Super cute! I love her polka dotted coat!
Your cards are adorable. Thanks for sharing.
Crafty hugs,
Dawn
DesignsbyDragonfly.blogspot
Super adorable card! I love how the Rock Candy Distress Stickles leaves such sparkle on the tree. I never used this product before but will be adding to my list. Thank you for sharing. Have a Blessed day!
These are so sweet! I love the Pure Innocence stamps too! They remind me of my niece!
I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving and I will see you on Friday’s post! TFS!
Your coloring is awesome.
Beautiful cards and coloring, as always Kathy. Thanks for the tutorial on the dot tree, I’ll definitely give it a try, love how that looks.
I saw these on the MFT blog this morning, so darn CUTE and of course fabulous coloring!!
Another cute card! I really like the look of the tree. Happy Thanksgiving!
Kathy, these cards are amazing. I really love all the little extra textures you added. It just helps bring them to life. ^_^ ♥
Well, Duh! And all this time ( about three weeks ) I’ve been drawing dots?? I’ve got so much to learn about these Copic markers! They are not like anything I’ve ever used before. Love the effect you achieved on the tree Kathy. It’s the sweater technique that blew me away.. “hold marker in place”
Gorgeous work and
wishing you a very
Happy Thanksgiving!
Carla from Utah
Adorable cards and great technique. I love MTF products and have a number of the Pure Innocence stamp sets….so sweet. Love what you created. Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Beautiful coloring!! Happy Thanksgiving to you!!
-Berina
Moxie Craftie
So lovely x
Beautiful work as always Kathy. I love the tips & techniques you’ve shared. I definitely need to get more Copics and some larger images to practice on! TFS these tips.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!
Darling cards! The coloring is fabulous as usual. Love how you created the christmas tree and I especially love the inking on the Ho Ho Ho panel.
SUPER CUTE cards Kathy!!!
Your scenes and colouring are DELIGHTFUL, LOVE the layers splash of sparkle & shine too 🙂
Your cards are just gorgeous. Love the mood you created.
Your cards are beautiful. I have no doubt that the little elf Color you much more beautiful than I am. I found many beautiful inspiration on your blog.
hugs,
BozenA