Life is Good...Still!

Hello Folks!  Hope you had as great a weekend as I did!  Mother Nature cooperated and Hubby and I played around in the High Peaks of the Adirondacks.  The sun was shining and while the leaves were past peak it was still a gorgeous few days.

I even found some time to hit the craft room.  In my happiness I decided to color up Diane Duda's Life is Good. 

The smile on this chicklet just makes my day!  I colored her with copics after stamping her onto Bella's Bestest paper.  Shading was added with prismacolor pencils blended with gamsol.  I then cut her out using a Marvelous Square Nestabilities die.  A little doodling with a black marker along the edges adds a little fun flair.  I backed it with black bazzil cardstock and placed it on top of Confetti design paper.

That's it.  This was nice and easy.

Hope you have a great week!

Cath

Photo Inspiration full of color!

Hello folks!  For today's photo inspiration challenge there was lots to work with.  Take a look again.

 

I can't wait to see what the sistahood came up with.  Me, I loved the blues with the pop of green so I went with that.  And I loved the wall with frames of different shapes.  So I added buttons with varying color and shapes.  Check out my take.

 

 



The image is The Way you Move by Diane Duda for Stamping Bella.  The design paper is My Mind's Eye Notable 6x6 - grosgrain ribbon and colorful buttons add dimension.  An EK Success punch was used for the scallops.  Coloring was done with copics but I did add shading with prismacolor pencils blended with gamsol.

Next week we have another sketch.  Hope you can find some time to play along.  Be sure to send a photo of your creation to Emily@stampingbella.com so you can be in next Friday's lineup.

 

 

Have a wonderful weekend!

 

Cath

Yours Truly,

Happy Bellariffic Friday Folks.  Hope your weekend is off to a great start - that's how I see Friday's anyway...the start to two days full of running errands, sleeping in and having some fun.  Usually in that order too!  Tehe!  For today's challenge we were given a great sketch.  And you had a choice to do a rectangle or circle.  I almost did a circle since this looked pretty easy but I had a vision and decided to run with it.

I colored up a Diane Duda image released in rubber through Stamping Bella called Yours Truly.  I love these images!  They're so elegant and are so girly.  I colored this one with my copics and I still love the way it looks.  As you may recall the last image of Diane's I colored with Distress Markers on Watercolor paper.  Today I stamped the image onto Bella's Bestest paper colored with copics and added shading with prismacolor pencils blended with gamsol.

Design paper is In Bloom by My Mind's Eye, black cardstock is Bazzil and white is Neenah Classic Crest Solar white.  I flip the sketch and added some vintage crocheted ribbon I found at the Country Living Fair in Rhinebeck, NY last weekend.  I had a ton of fun and thought this find was just beautiful.  A double sided satin bow tops it off and some half crystals in the right hand corner finish this off.  Finished card size is 5 x 6 1/2.

For next week's challenge it's Sizzin' Summer.  Just color up your favorite Bella Summer stamp - there are oh so many that can fit this one!  And I'm looking forward to summer if only the dang rain would stop coming down here!  It's been raining for a week now.  I know it means the flowers and veggies are happy but there are pools of water all over my yard!

I'm patiently waiting for my new release stamps to arrive in the mail.  Hope you were able to find something in the latest release that caught your eye.  Or your smile - I love Christine Grove's humor!

Stay dry and have a great weekend!

Cath

Life is Good!

Hello Folks...I'm so happy to be sharing this card with you today.  I love the new Diane Duda images released in rubber through Stamping Bella and Life is Good is no exception.  I've been saving this to color once I hear the most awesome words - No more cancer and treatments are done.  So guess what?  My treatments are finally done and the cancer has flown the coup!  Can't tell you how excited I am to share that news with you.

I'll be sending this in the mail so I wanted to keep it flat and I have quite a few to share with family and friends that have helped me through this journey so I also kept it pretty simple.  I started by stamping onto Bella's Bestest paper and colored with copics.  Shading was added with prismacolor pencils blended with gamsol.  A simple ribbon topped with a button are the only adornments.  Final card size is 5x7.

Hope you enjoy the rest of your week!

Ciao for now,
Cath