Lorie's Mocha

Can you believe two posts practically back-to-back??? Me either - lol! This one is kind of a three-in-one: 1) the Outlawz Challenges Progressive Freebie for this month 2) the Outlawz Challenges Wednesday Sketch and 3) a Halloween card for my granddaughter!!! How great is that, to get a three-for-one! The image for this month's Progressive Freebie challenge at the Outlawz Challenges is actually 4 images and like 18 different sentiments you can use with it, all from Imagine That Digistamps! The image is Lorie's Mocha For All Seasons, however I decided to make her a little more ghoulish, ha ha ha! I used the Copic BV08, BV13, BV11 markers for her dress, bow and shoes; YG and G markers for her hair, E70, E71, E000 for her skin. I then used the YG03 for the green highlights among the BV markers. Oh, and I added a sentiment on her cup and a spider sticker (in place of the cherry). I made a couple of eyeballs from circles, copics and googly eyes and put those on top of spider web washi tape and orange/black twine. I cut the oval from some old Halloween paper I had and colored it with the YG01 copic marker. Take a look - so much FUN!!

Hope you get some fun ideas for your Halloween cards!
Have a Spooktacular Weekend!

Yorkshire Terrier

Well, ALOHA! I know, I know, it has been over a month since my last post, but there have been SO many things going on. I've been working on another lauhala hat (pictures when it's finished!), my husband and I went to some WCS dance workshops in Arizona and another card (today's post!). I've been wanting to color this image for my sister's birthday card, as she used to have Yorkies. But, I was also afraid I would mess it up because it requires those small, tiny flicks with a copic marker and I have not mastered those yet - they come out in all different sizes, usually tooooo big. But, my sister's birthday is getting pretty close, so I HAD to bite the bullet and start coloring. This image was from Kit and Clowder's February 2019 monthly pencils class, so the first thing I had to do was convert the pencil colors she used to copic marker colors. Then I carefully watched her videos (yes, the pencil coloring videos) and kept the picture of her coloring next to mine as I slowly got started. I finally finished and put the card together, and I can say that I am pretty happy with it! My sister's favorite colors are blue and green, so I tried to keep that color scheme going. Take a look and let me know what you think!

I didn't use too many embellishments; three sequins which I filled with stickles and a double-sided ribbon that I hand-sewed a stitch and gathered and then made a double bow with the rest of the ribbon.

Have a wonderful day!