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The Night Before Christmas

Posted in Cards, Christmas, Copic Coloring, Prisma Coloring on December 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »

It’s the night before Christmas Eve, the day we exchange gifts here in Sweden. A day of food prep, candy making and gift wrapping.
And if you are a papercrafter you might be finishing up a few last minute Christmas cards. :)

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These are the last two card I made.

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The first one is colored with Copics and the second one with Prisma Pencils. I distressed them just a bit before adding glitter mist and embellies.

Well, I’ll keep this brief since it is, after all, the night before Christmas…

I wish you a Merry Christmas and Gods blessing as we celebrate the birth of the Savior, Jesus Christ.

Sara

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Fall Inspiration

Posted in Cards, Copic Coloring, tagged , on October 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I finally finished putting a card together using an image I colored with Copics a while back. I intentionally worked with both patterned paper and die cuts to create a front for my card. After all, practice makes perfect.

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Since moving to Sweden I have discovered a whole slew of European paper craft blogs. One common design element that keeps popping up are little “piles” of embellishments wrapping around the focal point, be it on a Scrapbook page or a card. Some of my favorite card designers (Dawn McVey for example) also layers die cuts in a similar fashion. Well, I just had to give the “pile technique” a try too. =)

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The most important thing I discovered during the creation of this card -  I am playing, really playing with my supplies! And you know what, it’s really satisfying to do so. I am learning so much in the process. What I like and dislike, what works and a whole lot about what doesn’t. It’s a good thing, as Martha Stewart would say. =)

Thanks for stopping by,

Sara

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Card Camp Color Challenge

Posted in Color Challenge, Copic Coloring on July 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Summer is in full swing and I’m enjoying the warmth and long summer evenings together with my family. I also wanted to take the opportunity to further my card making skills a bit so I signed up for an online card class. The focus is color and I’m finding it a real challenge…in a good way. I’m most comfortable making monochromatic cards so I am really glad that I have the chance to stretch myself. Here’s the colors used this week:

Yes, that’s five colors!! Not including any neutrals. Here’s how I put it together.

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I found that coloring an image with Copic markers is a good way to incorporate many colors into a card. I stuck to the five colors adding only brown for the hair (I thought of it as a neutral) and skin tones for the face. Here’s a close up.

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I am pleased with how it turned out. And most of all, it was really, really fun try something new!!

Thanks for stopping by,

Sara

Supplies: Stamps and Leaf die from Magnolia, Cardstock from SU! and PTI, Copic Markers (I used the PTI color trios), Banner die from PTI.

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Spring is in the Air! Oh How I’ve Waited.

Posted in Cards, Copic Coloring, PTI on March 26, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Today was such a beautiful day here in Sweden. Spring is beginning to be felt in the air here and the sun is slowly causing the earth to soften and yield to crocuses and daffodils. It feels especially nice after the cold and snowy winter, the likes which we have not experienced while living in Portland. We just had to get out for a while to enjoy the sunshine.

With two little ones every outing seems to bring its fair share of trials, but at the end of the day I was so grateful that we didn’t just stay home (we’re real homebodies) and that we didn’t just settle for a walk (easy way out), but instead we headed to Gothenburg. While we didn’t stay long, it was still so nice to do something different. And not to worry, once we came home we were able to fit in a walk too. =)

I wanted to share my very favorite card I created during the Scrap-a-thon last weekend. Perhaps I should save it for some sort of grand finale Scrap-a-thon post (LOL) but sometimes you just have to share your happiness with others.


I practiced with my copics on the fabulous tulip image from Papertreyinks “Friendship Jar Spring Fillers”. Oh it was so much fun! I shamelessly tried to emmulate Debbie Olson’s beautiful coloring job on that same image. It took me over an hour and I know there is so, so much to learn but I just think it’s the cat’s meow! ha ha. Copics has got to be the most fun craft supply I’ve used in a long time. Fun, fun, fun! I even did some sowing on my card for the first time ever. You’ll be seeing that again for sure.

Here’s a close up too:

I can tell you that I look forward to try this again. There is something so rewarding in learning new things. Now that I have my own little craft space to work in, I hope that I’ll get lots and lots of practice.

And just for fun I have to show you the same image taken with my iPhone Instagram app.

So sweet. And did I mention FUN?! =)

Thanks for stopping by,

Sara

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