The Creative Life

So I saw this quote a few weeks back and thought it would be great on an art journal page. And since the quote was about living a creative life, I thought the Tiddly Ink's Little Artist was perfect for it:

 The quote is a little hard to rid in that shot, so here it is up close...

I think you can see behind the quote that there is some beautiful papers, stamping, misting/masking, some white gel pen.  Before putting anything down though, I knew the papers wouldn't cover the whole page (the pages are 5.5x8.5 each so the two pages was 11" wide and I used a 6x6 pad!), so I covered both pages with some lavendar and indigo acrylic paint (plus it hides the seems where the papers didn't line up perfectly ;))

The adorable little artist is colored with copics then fussy cut and adhered with multi medium - as are the rest of the papers and stickers.  While coloring her, I thought she'd be super fun to layer like the fairy I did a couple weeks ago (you can see that post here) so stay tuned... ;)

--Angie

SUPPLIES:
Mixed Media art journal, Paper from Authentique, Copic Xpress It Blending Card, Uniball Signo White Gel Pen, Dylusions Stamps, Archival Ink, Multi Medium Matte, Stickers, Acryllic Paint

Tis the Season

And here's my card:

I made to go along with a few challenges:

Some Odd Girl Novemember

Thanks for stopping by,

Angie

SUPPLIES:
STAMP - Some Odd Girl Warm Wishes Tia
INK - Memento Tuxedo Black
COPICS - Skin: E00, E01, E11; Hair: E35, E37, E29; Clothes: G82, YG63, G94, R39, R59, R89, C1, C3, C5; Gifts: G03, G19, R29; Shading: C1, C3, C5, C7, 0; Jingle Bells - Spica Buttermilk
PAPER - Authentique Festive 6x6 paper pad, Stampin' Up! Old Olive card stock
OTHER - Authentique Festive Details, 3/8" and 1/4" Corner Chompers, Pop Dots

B&W Happiness

This week's challenge over at MarkerPop is Black and White/Sepia.  When I saw the theme, I wasn't too excited.  I've never colored just black and white or sepia and it was never really something I wanted to do, but I was up for the challenge.  I stamped some images, grabbed my Copics and plopped in front of the TV.  I colored some with my C Copics and some with my Ws ending up with 4 images that I was pretty happy with!  

When it came time to putting the card together, I decided to use the sketch from this month's Some Odd Girl Challenge.  But as I was putting it all together, I realized my images were too large for the sketch, so I printed out a digi image of Dancin' Mae and sized her so she'd fit just right :)

And here she is!

And she does make me happy :D  I love the image.  I love how the B&W looks.  I love the background paper.  It all just makes me happy.  Here's a close up of Miss Mae in all of her glory - 

And the challenges she'll be playing in - 

             

Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend!!

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 

STAMPS: Some Odd Girl Digital Dancin' Mae; Sentiment from the Michael's $1 bin

PAPER: XPress-It Blending Cardstock, Stampin' Up! Basic Black, Authentique Celebrate 6x6 Paper Pad

COPICS: C00, C00, C1, C3, C5, C7, C9, 0; Pitch Black Spica

OTHER: White Embossing Powder, Stampin' Up! Brights Buttons, UniBall Signo White Gel Pen