Fantasy Magic... Happy B'day Gena!

Happy 15th Birthday Gena!
Scott and I are dancing a celebratory jig in your honor!

I am in love with the Mo Manning images of dwarves and gnomes... her images are so delightfully detailed and realistic [they look like all the gnomes who live in my woods!]
I have wanted for a very long time to color this threesome that I merged with the png files purchased at the Digital Pencil Too.  This piece represents hours of meditative, soul-soothing, total escape coloring!  After all three were completed with Copics, I started creating the background scene using the "Fern" stencil [KaiserCraft] and Distress Inks.  Would you believe I have not used a stencil before this??  Next was the rock 'floor' [source unknown] of their living space, adding three dragonflies  [PSX] and finally inking the edges with the same Distress Inks.

I created this for the new 613 Ave C  challenge starting Aug 5:  "ATG/ optional Twist: "Fantasy / Magic"  You have the month of August to show your creative talents!   For details of the challenge and for some very creative ideas from the DT's incredible inspiration concepts -  click HERE!

Create wildly and color with abandon!  
~ginny

CHALLENGES:
Crafting From the Heart -#217 ATG Always DT Favorite
Tuesday Throwdown #403 – stenciling
Crafty Sentiments – ATG
Through the Craft Room Door - ATG Always
Crafty Creations - #371 – ATG Always
Simon Says Wed – Make your own Background
Penny's Challenge #391 – ATG
Oddball Art – ATG/Twist: Lost Souls of Innocent Dolls
 Aurora Wings #69 – ATG
SheepSki Designs #17 – Your Fave Things [Coloring with Copics & Gnomes!]
Pile it On #145 – New Technique [Stencils]

Fantasy Zum Zum

 A neighbor printed out this image for me to color in honor of the many Hummingbirds here.  We estimate 165 Zum Zums [the name for hummingbirds in some South American countries - isn't that descriptive??] or more in the summer.  In the winter the number drops to around 50.  We make the sugar solution and fill up to 9 quart feeders everyday in the summer.
I colored the image with Copics [BV11, 13, 17 BG45, 49 ] and then used a Uniball Signo white pigment gel pen for the dots and wink of Stella to create sheen on his throat.  The vine is from a Martha S. punch and the flowers are from a Hanko punch with a light blue jewel for the centers.  
The "Hello" stamp is from SU.  
I used this card as a Thank you for my brother and his wife.




CHALLENGES:
Through the Craft Room Door - ATG Always
Crafty Sentiments – ATG
Simon Says Wed – ATG
Crafting From the Heart -#173 ATG Always DT Favorite
Sisterhood of Crafters – ATG
Tuesday Throwdown #359 – Punches or Dies
Crafty Creations - #349 – ATG
Oddball Art – Life in Technicolor/ATG
Pile it On #134 – Feathers &/or Scales
MarkerPOP L:10 –   #128: Use Dark Berry colors

Create wildly and color with abandon!  
~ginny

Year of the Rooster!!

 Happy Chinese New Year!

This image is from 

A Day for Daisies 

- definitely one of my favorite digis!  Love the Asters that balance his tail feathers and those Farmer Johns are so unexpected!

The fold is a simple Z-fold and the background CS has been embossed with a folder from Cuttlebug.

Copics were used to color the image - I had no idea how to do a realistic rooster and this is what I came up with...

What??  You don't believe I captured the colors right??  Take a peak at the photo of my inspiration rooster on the bottom right!

The inside sentiment was simply
 typed out on my computer.

Inspiration Photo of
actual rooster.

This card should be eligible 

for the following CHALLENGES:

Through the Craftroom Door – ATG Always

Crafting From the Heart -#144 – ATG Always [DT Favorite]

Incy Wincy Designs – Man in my life

Addicted to Stamps & More - #226 – ATG

Tuesday Throwdown #327 – ATG

Simon Says Wed – ATG

Penny's Challenge #313 – ATG

Inspiration Destination #120 – ATG

A Day for Daisies #158 – 2 or More Layers

Crafty Girls Creations – #32 ATG Always
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge – Always ATG + DP

Crafty Creations - #333 – ATG
AI Challenge #200 – Spring Colors
Winter Wonderland – Spring Fever [Sun, Flowers, Romance]

Art by MiRan Challenge #74 – ATG

Scrapper's Delight #62 – ATG Always
Aurora Wings #42 – Asian Inspired

Get Creative Challenges – #54 ATG Always

Aud Sentiments #172 – Male card + Sent

As You Like It – Favorite Flower & Why [small purple Asters so hardy and beautiful!]

Create wildly and color with abandon!  ~ginny

Christmas couple...

'Snow Ornies' Digi by Sandra Caldwell 

About three months ago I printed out a whole bunch of Christmas images that I could color at the bedside of a friend while she dozed.  There were about six different images on each page and I just colored with which ever Copics I had with me that day.  That led to some adventuresome combinations - but in this case, fortuitous!  I really like the Blue-green with the red.  Adding the gold to the hanger, the orange to the carrots and the warm browns to the twigs and fur of his hat was just enough to warm up the image a titch.  Sometimes a 'titch' is all I need to make something likeable to me!  LOL!

This card should be eligible for the following 

CHALLENGES:
Inspiration Destination #115 – ATG
Crafty Ribbons #179 – Christmas w/ Ribbons or Lace
Really Reasonable Ribbon  #154 – Winter Holiday w/ ribbon or trim
Oddball Art – Fantasy Element
Through the Craftroom Door – ATG Always

Crafting From the Heart -#140 – ATG Always [DT favorite]
Tuesday Throwdown #323 – ATG
Crafty Sentiments – ATG
Art by MiRan Challenge #73 – ATG
Pile it On #123 – Any Celebration
OSAAT #277 – ATG w/ Lots of Sparkle
A Day for Daisies #157 – Add Sparkle
Addicted to Stamps & More - #224 – CAS

Create wildly and color with abandon!  ~ginny

Fairy History...

 "The Enchanted Professor" can be
found here at The Paper Shelter

I have four grandkids who LOve school!!  So this qualifies in my opinion for "Fall Fun" - the latest Aud Sentiments challenge.   The sponsor provides 2 images for the DT to use - or we can use a TPS image from our files if we have any - and that is what I chose to do here.  You have one more week on this challenge to enter up to 5 projects for a chance at the prize.  Take a look at what the other DT have done - it is really interesting to see how an image can be used so many different ways.

PROCESS INVENTORY

IMAGES: 

• "The Enchanted Professor" is from The Paper Shelter.
  
• For the focal image I used Paper Tole Technique to 3D it.  I printed 3 copies, colored them with Copics, fussy cut and 'paper sculpted' [this is dry embossing the image from the back with a large ball tool].  The layers were both glued & elevated with foam tape to achieve dimension.
• The quote is actually not by Carl Sagan, but by Sharon Begley  according to The Quote Investigator:  "...based on current evidence Sagan did not create this quotation. Instead, the reporter Sharon Begley constructed the phrase. The quotation has been ascribed to Sagan because the passage at the end of the 1977 Newsweek profile article has been misinterpreted."  Either way, I find the quote quite delicious and sooo appropriate and I hope it inspires the grandkids!  

PAPER:  

• Neenah "Classic Crest Solar White" 80# Cover Wt. used for the image.
• DP used is from "7 Gypsies" and Tim Holtz'  "Ideology". 
• Inside layered with paper scraps left from the front.  Finished the 'frame' by drawing lines reminiscent of the wide lines used for kids to practice their penmanship - and then wrote the sentiment & reason for the card.

EMBELLISHMENTS: 

• The square Copper Brads are from stash.  
• The ruler is cut off one of the DP sheets.
• Diamond Glaze used on his glasses.

INKS:

• "Old Paper" Distress Ink used to ink all the edges & the pages of the book.
• Images were printed on an Epson WF-3520 printer 
• Hand colored with Copics:

This card should be eligible for the following 

CHALLENGES:

Clear It Out – ATG / Stash: ATG

Sweet Stampin' – School Days

Art by MiRan Challenge #39 – ATG

Robyn's Fetish #279 – Use Square Cards 

Crafting from the Heart #75 – ATG Always WON a DT Favorite

Sisterhood of Crafters – Back to School

Papertake Weekly – ATG/or Upcycle-Recycle

Through the Craft Room Door – ATG Always

Crafty Sentiments – School TOP 3 

Paper Shelter – #217- Embossing of Any Kind [dry embossed the image - see explanation above]

Fab & Funky #271 – Doodle a frame or Hand Written Sent. [See inside - hand wrote the sent. & drew the lines to finish the frame]
Inspiration Destination #49 – ATG

Lacy Sunshine #66 – Back to School

Sweet Stamps #237 – Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - Always ATG + DP

Create wildly and color with abandon!  ~ginny