Glass Jar Colorings...and more

Hey Friends! Enjoying the gorgeous spring weather with plenty of sunshine here in Iowa, tomorrow it is supposed to be 91 degrees. The splash pads are finally open in our area so tomorrow we plan to have a family picnic at the park with some splash pad fun. Zane of course is super excited to wear his new Spider-man swim top. Well on to my colorings, I wanted to share with you some glass jars that I experimented with using various Memento inks and Copic markers. The stamp is from the All Wrapped Up (Stampin' Up) set.

The Memento inks used are: Tuxedo Black, London Fog, Pear Tart, Angel Pink, and Rhubarb Stalk.

    1st row: BV's (BV0000, BV000, BV31)

                      B's (B0000, B000, B00) 

                      BG's (BG0000, BG000, BG10)
  2nd row:  R's (R0000, R00, R11, R81) 

                      RV's (RV000, RV00, RV10) 

                      YG's (YG0000, YG00, YG11) 

                      T's (T0, T1, T3, palette blended T5).

I really love how the Angel Pink with the RV's and Pear Tart with the YG's came out. The ink just really brings out the vibrant color in the Copic markers. I still want to do a jar using Y's, kind of like a firefly jar, and put some little bug embellishments into it. If have you haven't tried coloring glass, maybe some of my color combos and see what you like. It is pretty easy and it gives the image that extra "IT" factor.

Next I would like to share with you some bears that I made for Father's Day. My step dad is a hunter so I am sure he will appreciate the detail on his bear. I am still working on creating a bow-hunter bear. This was my first attempt at paper piecing using an irregular size. I think next time I make them I would like them a bit smaller to put on a card or something. These bears did not take long at all and were fun to create. They remind me of Larry the Cable Guy with the camo hat and vest, so I hope you all like them.

That is all I have for this week. Also if anyone has any paper piecing tips and tricks to share with me feel free to leave them below or on my facebook page. Thanks for stopping by and as always have a Scraptastic weekend! Hopefully you all can find time to color, stamp, alter projects, or do whatever craft you enjoy! Happy Memorial Day everyone! Please remember the veterans that blessed this country. Stay tuned for my newly organized scrap room pictures featuring two awesome garage sale finds!

Zoo Trip

Hello My Scrappy Friends: I just wanted to share a few pictures with you all today from our trip to the Niabi Zoo yesterday. Zane had a ton of fun. We were disappointed that the Lorakeet nectar feeding station was closed. There were a lot of babies born into the zoo in the last six months (baby porcupine, giraffe, sheep). We were sad to read that the female tiger named Asia had passed away recently so that was closed as well. Zane picked up a sea turtle stuffed animal from the gift shop and has been a happy little clam ever since and will not put that turtle down. Here are just a few pictures.

News in my scrappy world, I just received my first package of Twinkling H2O's from ScrapbookPal. I had recently watched a video on YT by Jeantteinkspots

showing the beautiful technique of this product. I really want to try my hand at it since it seems pretty similar to Copic coloring. I was also able to pick up some watercolor paper pads at Michael's yesterday while I was out and about and they were 40% off. So I am hoping to dabble a little bit into coloring with the Twinkling H2O's in the next coming weeks, so there will be more to come with that. While at Michael's I found a free beginner crochet pattern by Lily and Sugar so I am going to try to learn to crochet that. This company has a pretty awesome website which has all kinds of free patterns at various levels. They have so many beautiful and vibrant colors in their yarn lineup that I can't wait to get started on some of their patterns. I am hoping also to get a few colorings in this week to share with you all. I hope everyone is having a great start to their summer. Feel free to share your scrappy projects/ideas with me on FB: karate37t. Thanks for stopping by! 

Hugs, 

 LaTisha 

Haul #1 & Card

I am so excited to share with you all my first order from The Cat's Pajamas. I also was able to pick up the newest release from The Greeting Farm. I was very impressed with the way that The Cat's Pajamas was packaged in this cute little yellow & white striped bag. I have taken a few of the stamps out and tried them out and they are of great quality/stamp very well. My favorite from this haul is Kick Some Grass. This one would be perfect to make a card for one my roller derby friends. I absolutely fell in love with the stamp set called Ewe Complete Me as well. The sentiments are just too cute! Now on to The Greeting Farm I have wanted the Sitting Casual for so long to make some manly cards especially since Father's Day is coming up. My favorite would definitely have to be Cheeky Geeky. It reminds me of the skit from Saturday Night Live with Molly Shannon called Superstar. So might try to come up with a card playing off of that skit.

Lately I have also been working on more distressing techniques and learning to color jars/glass with my Copics.  I attended a class last night for some extra tips and tricks and this is what I came up with.

This image is stamped on Copic Xpress-It paper with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. The background paper was ran through the Cuttlebug with the damask embossing folder and then distressed using Tim Holtz's distress ink Peeled Paint and spray with Perfect Pearls for some shimmer. I also distress inked around my image with Old Paper and Iced Spruce for a greenish blue tint. The image was colored using the following Copic colors:

Vase: BG0000, BG000, BG00, BG10

Tulips: RV21, RV23, RV29 (palette blended)

Tulip stems: YG61, YG63, YG67 (palette blended)

Shadow: W00, W1, Colorless Blender. 

I had a great time learning to color glass jars, if you haven't tried it yet it is fun to do with some of the colored Memento inks. My personal favorite is Pear Tart using YG0000, YG00, YG11. So give it a try and let me know what you think. Well I have many errands to run today and hope to grill out this evening so have to get things ready for that. I hope the rest of ya'lls day is Scraptastic!! 

Hugs <3 

           LaTisha

TGIF!

It has been cold and rainy here the past few days so not much mojo for Copic coloring, but I am still organizing my scrap room. Today I wanted to share a couple organization methods that I use for my stamps.                                

              Organization Tip #4.

This first method I adopted from You Tube for my 1.00 stamps. They fit perfectly in these 9 pocket trading card sleeves. I leave the acetate sheets on the front and back of each set for extra protection and for ease of getting them out of the pockets. These sleeves were purchased from Amazon in a pack of 100 for only $13.00.

               Organization Tip #5                                                                                                                                       

I used the same 4x6 sleeves and 5x8 sleeves that I used for organizing my Spellbinder Nestabilities. They work perfect for the 4x6 sets of stamps (i.e. Some Odd Girl). The Penny Black stamp sets are a bit wider so they fit in the 5x8 full sleeves perfectly. What I like about this method is that you do not have to cut up the stamp sets to place them in CD cases or zipper pockets. I keep the acetate sheets on the front and back of these sets as well. Right now I have these in a 5x8 binder from Staples but they only come in a one inch binder width so I am hoping that I can find a larger width 5x8 binder so that I can keep all the same brands in their own book. So far this is working beautifully for my craft area and with all of them being in clear fitted sleeves I feel that I can see all my stamps and will probably be using them all more. I hope this helps some of you, who were frustrated like I was, to organize and see your stamps. If anyone has any other suggestions or ideas for me feel free to comment below.  I hope to get alot of crafty things done this weekend and that the weather gets warmer because I love working in a sunlight warm room.    

Thanks for stopping by today and have yourself a creative weekend!!! 

LaTisha 

                            

Happy Tuesday!

Hello scrappy peeps! I just returned from visiting my family up north. It was a busy weekend to say the least. I helped my mom clean and organize her scrapbook room more like a one stall garage smile. So that was a task in itself. I meant to take pictures to post on here but my phone was dying and wouldn't take any picture or video. While I was there I did find some good deals at various places up there. There was a Dollar General that was going out of business so everything was 50% off so found a few summer fun things for Zane. I did managed to make it to Hobby Lobby and Joann's since I do not have either of those scrappy places in my area. Hobby Lobby was Spellbinder heaven so I managed to pick up 2 new ones. At Joann's they had a sale on stamps and I found a vintage paper pack in the clearance bin Mainstreet by DCWV plus I had a coupon for an additional 20% off. So it was a pretty sweet haul trip. I also managed to find a magnetic board for my scrapbook room to stick my scissors and such to so I will be hanging that up soon and taking a picture so you all can see. In between all this traveling and organizing I did get some coloring in.

 I used a Some Odd Girl stamp and Mo Manning image for these to colorings. I really loved out they turned out. I also made my first attempt at black hair on this Greeting Farm Cheeky Rockabilly. I was really surprised at how well I got it to blend out and show that vintage look. So I can't wait to get her on a card.

I have two birthday cards to get done this week for my stepdad and aunt so I hope that mojo is on my side and I can get those whipped out. Hope everyone has a wonderful Tuesday and as always have a Scraptastic day!

My first Odd Girl Stamp!

Hello scrappy friends!  Hope everyone had a wonderful & blessed Easter. The Easter bunny stopped by our house and left Zane a huge bucket of goodies and he got to do several egg hunts. He was super excited to get his crabby boat from the movie CARS 2. With that said, I was finally able to sit down for a few minutes before Zane woke up this morning to color up this Some Odd Girl stamp. I got this stamp because it reminded me so much of Zane and his dog Tito. I will be putting this on a card sometime in the near future. Maybe I'll give it to Zane for his 3rd birthday or to his Dad for Father's Day!

I am still not sure how I will do his eyes since my son has steel gray/bluish eyes and I do not have a good combo for that. So if anyone has any suggestions for that please do let me know.
 Supply List:
      Paper: Copic X-press It and I plan to use Echo Park's: A Boy's Life for the card base.
      Ink: Memento tuxedo black
Copic markers:
      skin: E000, E00, E01, E11  (cheeks: R01, R20)
      hair:  E50, E53, E55
      dog:  E31, E33, E35, E37 (spots: E35, E37) 
      tongue/nose: E93, E95, R20
      clothing: BG02, BG05, BG07, BG09, W1, W3, W4, W5 
                     T0, T1, T3, T5, T7 
      
Thanks for stopping by and have a Scraptastic Day!

Organizational Find #3

Happy Monday Everyone! I wanted to share a great find with all of you who may be looking for a storage solution for your Copic Markers. I wanted to get something that I could display my markers at home to make it easier to work on cards/projects. I was at Target the other day and found the perfect solution. It is a  made by Rubbermaid. It is a cube 12.1 in x 12.1 in x 6.4 in called Bento. It has flex dividers built into the cube which allow you the freedom to decide the size of the cube you want to use. The great thing I loved about this cube was that it is stackable and also they sell a cover that goes over the top which is great because I have a 2.5yr old that I do not want getting into my markers. The height is perfect for Copic Markers as you can see below so that you can still stack them if you wish. Rubbermaid makes 5 different sizes and shapes of these boxes with the flex dividers.

So in this cube I have 258 markers and it doesn't even fill up all the dividers. I thought it would be more difficult to have them out of numeric order as I used to keep my markers in the 72 marker wallets, but I have been coloring several images over the past few days and I have been able to find my colors quickly and easily just like before. So I am really excited to have found this item. I hope this helps some of you.

Happy Scraptastic Monday!

More Organizing

Here is another organizing project that I tackled the other night. If you all are anything like me I can't help but buy the 1.00 stamps out of the bin at Michaels and before I knew it I had a whole tub of these stamps. I have been thinking for several weeks now "how could I store these so that I can see what I have to use them for little sentiments/tags on projects. So after a quite a lot of thinking and a little inspiration from Amy Rysavy on YT, I came up with this storage system for my stamps. It took me forever as I had to cute down most of the images and put double side tape on each stamp to ensure they would fit inside the case. I was able to fit 8 sets   in each CD case. I liked the idea of inserting a scrap of white cardstock into the CD case for easier viewing so thanks for the idea Amy. This was a tedious task but I do like how clean and organized it came out.

     So luckily I only have about 10 more sets that I need to categorize and then I will be finished, but it is getting late here so better save it for tomorrow. I am sure tomorrow I will find more organizing projects to tackle since I have been in de-clutter mode lately. Happy scrapping everyone!

Certified Professional Organizer?

    Lately I have been on this organizing kick and trying different methods for storing my stamps and nestabilities. So after messing around with this Avery wizard program for a few hours I was finally able to figure out how to do labels and spines for my stamp/nestabilities dies binders. Here are a few pictures showing what I came up with. I did take some inspiration from Chris416ward on YT so thank you Christina. I had to make a few tweaks due to my space constraint. I do not know what I would ever do without my Brother Label maker. So I hope this helps some of you with your storage needs as well.

Have a Scraptastic Day!!