The Mermaid`s greeting

 Hi,

Today I`m sharing my second inspiration card over at the Copic Marker Norway blog.

Summer is slowly going to an end where here where I live, so I wanted to make a really summery card holding on to that summer feeling as long as possible. And what better image to use than a mermaid creating that under the sea vibe to achieve that.

The image is from Aurora Wings, Starfish mermaid, and I used the Mermaids lagoon background set from Sweet November Stamp but you can only see it at the top corner after I changed my mind on the card design having to cut most of it off.

Copic colors used:

Skin: E000-00-21-11-04

Hair: B12-14-24-18-39

Starfish and pearls: Y02-35, YR14-27 and I think E15

Coral: V01-04-09 

(I got a little ink blob at her skin, but I camouflaged it with a little pearl. Shhh.. It`s our little secret.. 😉)

Seashell: E01-E41, E15

Plants: BG70-72-78 og  BG39

Background: B41, BG0000, 0 (blender)

I`m entering this to:

Challenge #605 - Holiday Time ~ The Paper Shelter

Simon Says: Happy Birthday, featuring Simon Says Stamp Exclusive Products! | (simonsaysstampblog.com)

I hope you liked my card and that you got inspired to create yourself a happy day crafting too.

Thank you for stopping by.

Hugs,

-Christine💮

Beautiful Orchid flower slimline card

 Hi,

Today I have a beautiful Orchid flower slimline card to share with you. I just love how the Copic colored Orchids really pops against the black cardstock.  A simple yet very pretty card design.  

The image I used is Elegant floral trim I belive from Aurora Wings stamp. I couldn`t find this exact digistamp on her Etzy shop anymore, but I`ll link to her shop where you can find lots of fun and beautiful images to color up yourself.

I used my favourite coloring medium- my Copic markers to color these beautiful Orchid flowers.

Colors used: For the Orchid flowers   RV10-55-63-69 

                A little in the flower center  Y11-13 

                                                 Stems  YG17-25-67 

As always a used my white Sakura gelpen to add some highlights at the end.

                     

I added some gold acrylic paint splashes and some halfbeads and bling that mached the gold.

The sentiment "klem" means Hugs and is a older die from kaBoks. 

I`m playing along again this week at Simon Says: Flowers | (simonsaysstampblog.com)

I hope you liked my card and that you got inspired to create yourself a happy day crafting too.

Thank you so much for stopping by,

-Christine

Forever by my side - Art Journal

Hi everyone,

I`m so excited to share this art journal page with you today. I`m totally in love with how this one turned out, even though it might be on the darker side for some of you. For my focal point I used an image I colored up myself, combining two of my favorit things, Copic coloring and art journaling. I just love the outcome and you will see me doing this more often in the future.

I`m sorry for the poor photo quality. The bright daylight wased out the colors a bit, I will try to take better pictures when I have time during this week. Hope you still like it :)  

The beautiful image is actually cut out from a coloring book I have from Mitzi-Sato Wiuff called Midnight Gardens. She is the artist behind Aurora Wings stamp. I don`t think the coloring book is still available anymore, but there are many stunning digital stamps on her Etzy shop. 

I used quite a lot of markers on her dress and I may have used hintes of markers not mention here as I was looking for the color combination I wanted, but here are the once I mainly used:

Skin: E50-51-11 - BV20 - R20

Gold: Y15- YR24-27-E15

Red: R20-22-24-29- Grey T7 for deeper shading 

Orange dress: YR000-00-31-38-16

Flowers: RV00-55-66-69 - R22

Green: YG03-17

Skull: Grey C:0-1-3-5

For my background I used some blue shaded distressinks on a plastic sheet, spritsing it with water and then dabbing the plastic sheet on y pages. Then I used a background stamp from Stamperias Create happiness stamps and stamped randomly with Tumbled glass and Faded Jeans. Then I used black Archival ink for the text stamp and the cute flowers I stamped along the bottom of my pages, also from the same collection. I decided to color my flowers with gold acrylic paint to get a more ancient Japan feel to my pages. As a finishing thouch I splattered with gold acrylic paint, used my white Sakura gelpen for some highlights and my black Copic multiliner for some black details and I also wrote my text for hand since I was crafting at the cabin and didn`t have anything else to use for my quote. 

I love the contrast of the beautiful lady with her stunning kimono holding a skull in her hand as she looks back at you. I think the words " Always by my side" fits the image well as she walks holding the skull, but I guess it also has to do with the date as today was my wedding day. This summer it will be 8 years since ha suddenly past away and he would also have had his birthday the 23th. So I guess you could say that these days every year he is in my thoughts more often.

I`m entering this in :Simon Says: Art Journal | (simonsaysstampblog.com) (second entry)

I hope you like todays art journal, and that you got inspired to create yourself a happy day crafting.

-Christine

Poppy Fairy

Hi,
Made this card last week and the image is the beautiful Poppy fairy from Aurora Wings.  My first try at no-lines. Found it challenging and timeconsuming, but also really fun.

Copic colors I used:

Skin: E000-00-11-13-21

Hair: E08-09-11-13-15

Flowers: YR00-12-15-16 E08-09
YG:93-97-99

My second entry to Copic Marker Norge - Bloghop and autumn


SO EXCITED AND HAPPY that this card was choosen to be among the Top 3, and was SO lucky to have my other entry picket out by random org to win the main prize!