Hello Friends, It’s Day 5 already… wow time flies 🙂 I am so proud of you all for finding some you time and LOVE what you all are sharing. So inspiring! Last night I was watching SNL with my sis and I fell asleep while coloring with the marker in my hand lol. I will share that photo below.
Waffle Flowers sweet lil stamp set called, “Bear and Bird” has some many stamping possibilities but, I was not in my studio so I had to go with a one layer coloring session.
My dauber gives me lots of control and the perfect brown in my book is this distress ink. I grabbed the wrong browns for the bear so this am I decided finish the bear off with distress and it’s a great way to add shading easily. (I masking off the bear with some post it notes)
See the red arrow … that’s where I feel asleep with the marker in my hand … not a bad spot. So I added one on the other side and decorated them with white dots. In my haste when cutting this one layer card front down I cut them off accidentally lol.
On another note my 2nd cousin is here for a week and I will be spending more time in the kitchen … she’s here all the way from ND so we are super excited. Have a great weekend. Hugs, Kathy
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WOW Kathy, this is pretty. If you wouldn’t have mentioned the “spot” where the marker touched down during your slumber, we’d have not known the difference. A lovely job!
I love the deep gray corners with the lighter gray under the bear .. beautiful!
How adorable you fell asleep with a marker in your hand! Thanks for having this color challenge! You are such an inspiration!
that makes me smile. I love how you made a stray mark into a design element. enjoy your visit and your visitor!
What a lovely card, with the perfect addition of a “sleep mark” 😉 ;). Great idea to use Distress inks for shading; thanks for the tip Kathy 🙂 Happy Sunday
What a super cute card. Glad to know I am not the only one who falls asleep doing art projects, lol, you are not alone. It worked out fine that to resize the card you cut away the problem area, but your fix worked well and I don’t think anyone would have even known about the “mistake”. Thanks for sharing. Time for me to get coloring!
~Gin K.~
Happy coloring Gin!
Beautiful card! Good to know I am not alone in falling asleep while coloring!
That’s so cute Kathy. Great cover job! I’m sure I’d look like a toddler playing with markers if I fell asleep with one in my hand. I sleep with my hand by my face. Bam! Moustache!
LOL! 🙂
Oh my, falling asleep with a marker in your hand, that’s what I call dedication! Seriously, Kathy, we all know you are trying your hardest to motivate us, but you also need to take care of YOU! Enjoy your time with your cousin this week!
Marianne x
THANK YOU MARIANNE!
Gotta love SNL, That’s my laugh for the week. Cool card, I must be blind I kept looking I couldn’t figure out where the goof was when you fell asleep, funny story though.
Have a great time with your cousin, hopefully she likes to color also?
Happy coloring everyone.
I added a red arrow on the picture showing where I fell asleep. 🙂
Great coloring, Kathy! I love coloring with Distress inks! Thanks for doing this. Love it!
So cute, Kathy! Distress Ink was the perfect way to add shading. I love your story about falling asleep while coloring. That sounds like something that I would do, too! 🙂 Enjoy every moment with your family! ♡
Thank you Dawn!
Such a great idea!
this is beautiful! love the shading & how funny you fell asleep marker in hand- LOVE IT 🙂 Hope you’re having an awesome weekend enjoying family 🙂
Nice tutorial on covering up boo boo’s! LOL!
🙂 🙂 😉
What a sweet card. As always, your shading both astounds and inspires me. I’ve been coloring mandalas on post cards I found in a stationery store the past few days. I’m using colored pencils and am beside myself to shade with them in such small spaces. I managed a lightly scribbled light gray outline is all. Practice, practice, practice as my ND-born dad would say. Are you getting the whole family involved in the challenge? Does your cousin know what she’s in for? 😉
Too funny, Kathy! You MUST BE pushing yourself beyond your limit to fall asleep! LOL But, that is also what you do, when you do what you LOVE! 😉 JUST entered some work on your challenge! I FINALLY pulled out those water colors & I just spent the day PLAYING!!! 😀 THANK YOU KATHY for this challenge! (((HUGS!)))
oh that is so cute stamp!
and great idea to shade with distress!
thank you for sharing!
Your so funny Kathy I have fallen asleep so many times working on something but at least yours was workable. lol. Mine have been all over the place. Hi to your 2nd cousin, have a beautiful time as I know you will and can’t wait for the next day to get here.
Great card Kathy…you know what they say, “There are no mistakes in card making…just opportunities to embellish!” And you my dear are the Queen. 🙂
Kathy, that is way too funny about how you fell asleep and then saved your work with the dots. You go girl. I know you will have fun with your cousin! I’ll be off fixing mistakes with dots if you need me. lol hugs, treen
Too Funny! Get some sleep!!! Love your sweet card!!
Enjoy your family Kathy
Glad I’m not the only one that falls asleep while coloring. Guess that means it has “relaxed” me. LOL. I always forget about using the small sponge dauber for coloring, thank you for the tip. Beautiful card and if you hadn’t pointed out your boo-boo on the card, I wouldn’t have seen it as an error but a great part of the card. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Too funny!
Love the colors on this image, very pretty
Adorable bear, Kathy, and thanks for the reminder that we can quickly shade with sponge daubers! Great results!!
Wonderful inky bear and card!
LOVE IT … I have some bears waiting to be coloured, might drop my Copics and grab my Distress Inks instead 🙂
PS – enjoy every moment of your visit, family times are the best of times
Hello, Kathy! That is so funny that you fell asleep still colouring! I think you are probably colouring in your dreams as well, especially this month! Beautiful job with the distress ink shading – I still need to try this! Beautiful card and gorgeous background! Enjoy your visit with your cousin!
I’ve never thought of using my daubers along with my coloring! Genius. Such a great way to shade!!
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I love it when our “booboos” become blessings.
My mistakes are never that pretty, lol!!! Awesome card!
Great save even if you ended up cutting it off. I hate when those things happen and most times I can put bling or flower on it.. I like the way you used the dauber for coloring. Fun awesome card as always.
That is true dedication to the challenge! I love the colors used on this card! Especially the brilliant blue on the teardrop type areas! Lovely!
Have a great time with your cousin and cook up lots of yumminess! I didn’t get a lot of coloring time in today because I have been having major tummy troubles and spent most of the day occupied elsewhere! LOL
Looking forward to tomorrow’s post! Would love to see you color a whole image or two with gel pens! I am obsessed with them lately and have gone through two 60 pen sets already and am almost out of my third set! I ordered a full set of 48 gel pens and two sets of refills for them PLUS another set of 100 gel pens! I think I need to buy gel pen stock! LOL have a great night and I’ll see you tomorrow! Toodles for now!
Another fabulous card Kathy, hope the photo didnt involve any dribbling while asleep. Perfect save too.
I did the same thing tonight but I had a water brush loaded with scarlet red ink….
Not good but I kept st it with clean water and a paper towel. Mostly fixed!
You are so dedicated and always inspiring, Kathy! Your card is absolutely beautiful. Thanks so much for sharing how you shaded the bear. Great idea. You are proof that coloring is relaxing, that is for sure! 😉
Boy, you were having a BAD day weren’t you. Falling asleep and then chopping too much off. I’ve been coloring now that I have better paper. I’m loving it.
I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE BUNNIES!!!! Your Place Card Holders are SO SWEET, KATHY!!!! BEAUTIFUL JOB! I CAN SEE your table now!!! ;)I ADORE BUNNIES & this one DOES LOOK LIKE A GENEROUS SIZE! I HOPE, I HOPE, I HOPE I WIN!!!! LOL SOOOOOO SWEET!!!!!!!!!!! 😉
Just adorable. Love it!!
Would never have noticed the boo boo if you hadn’t pointed it out! I love shading with distress inks too! Lovely creation Kathy.
Thanks for sharing very inspiring for us newbies.
WOW!!! Kathy, your card is STUNNING!!! Thank you for sharing and tips. Big hugs! xx
I wouldn’t have noticed the splodge if you hadn’t said! Especially as you matched it the other side lol. Would have been such a shame to waste all that beautiful colouring!! Have a fantastic week with your cousin ❤️
Super cute card Kathy. Again, your coloring is amazing… even in your sleep! LOL!
Great card! It totally made me giggle about the little slumber spot! My problem comes with the computer and slumbering with my finger on the scroll pad on my laptop, I wake up & find myself somewhere else on the web!
Love the coloring. Let your cousin know she’s missing the wind….lots and lots of wind here.
I love in addition to learning about diff ways to color, I get to learn more about stamp companies I’ve never heard of! So many options now (compared to a years ago when I first started). I lapsed a bit but want to get back into it. I did order some beautiful stamps from Waffle Flower recently- so excited to color them.
So cute!!
Kathy you crack me up! That’s like something I would do and then tell everybody about it and my husband would say, “you don’t have to tell everyone about it”! I dropped off while exercising and almost fell off my exercise bike! Thanks for everything!
So funny! I love how you could manage to turn things around. I wouldn’t even have noticed it if you didn’t mention it.