Conie Fong Summer Dreams

Welcome back to Robin's Crafting Nest.

This weeks sponsor at Passionate Paper Creations and Friends is Conie Fong Art & Design.  Conie Fong designs beautiful digital images that are so fun to color and design cards with.

I colored the image Summer Dreams and she is really stunning.  I just love this image and it can be used for so many different kinds of cards.

I also used my Creative Basics Dies.  I started with the Fancy Rectangles & Layers Dies to frame my image.  I then created beautiful flowers with the dies in the Allifair Build-A-Card Die Set.  I just cut the flowers out in different colors and layered them on top of one another and added a little bling to the middle.  I really love how they came out and they were so simple to make.

Here are the Copic Markers I used to color the image:

Skin: E50, E51, E11, E21, E04

Hair: E13, E15, E19, E18

Sky: B0000, B000, B01

Dress and Bow: V01, V12, V15, V17

Apron and Hat: V0000, V000, V01

Flowers: RV04, RV06, YG21, YG03, YG17, YG67, Y18

I hope you like her as much as I loved creating her.  Check out Conie Fong Art & Design's Etsy page for Summer Dreams and other great images.

C.C. Designs Lumber Jack

Welcome back to Robin's Crafting Nest.

This weeks sponsor over at Passionate Paper Creations and Friends is C.C. Designs.  They have such a wide variety of Rubber Stamps from different artists so there is really something there for everyone.

Today I am sharing this really adorable Lumber Jack Stamp from Roberto's Rascals Lumberjack Guys Rubber Stamp Set.  They are such a great images to use for a masculine card for a boy. I used my Creative Basics Dies to frame the image and sentiment and to add the wonderful clouds.  To frame the image I used Fancy Squares & Little Things Dies, to frame the sentiment I used Fancy Rectangles & Layers Dies and to create the clouds I used the Allifair Build-A-Card Dies.

Here are the Copic Markers I used to color my image

Skin: E50, E51, E21, E11

Hair: E31, E35, E57, E79

Pants and Hat: B24, B28, B29

Blue Shirt and Shoes: B21, B23

Plaid Shirt: BG10, BG11, BG13

Tree Stump: E31, E33, E35, E57, W3

Sky, B0000, B000

Grass: YG21, YG17, YG67, G03

Come join us at Passionate Paper Creations and Friends where you get awesome discounts to sponsors like C.C. Designs.  There is one in the banner now and you can purchase something wonderful for your collection.

Power Poppy Gladiolus

I love to color flowers and to be outside in the garden.  If you give me a row of stamps to choose from and one is a flower that is most likely the one I will choose to use.  If it is a nice day out you will most likely find me out in my flower or vegetable garden.

This weeks sponsor at Passionate Paper Creations and Friends is Power Poppy and all of their stamps are right up my coloring alley.  The beautiful images are created by artist Marcella Hawley.  I just love her work and there isn't an image that she has that I would not love for my collection.

Today I chose to color the Gladioli Digital Stamp Set.  I love Gladiolus flowers.  They come in so many colors.  I have them growing in my garden here in Maryland and I can't wait for them to bloom.  The Gladiolus can grow to over 3 feet tall so you should stake them when planting to make sure they have the support needed for their beautiful flowers when they bloom.

The Gladiolus grows from a corm instead of from a bulb.  I was new to corms when I picked up some gladiolus at the store so I did lots of research on the best ways to grow them.  If you live in zone 7 or above you can over winter your corms in the ground with no problem but I live in zone 6 so I have to dig up my corms before the first frost to ensure their survival for the next planting season.  

Corms are replaced every year by the Gladiolus with growth of a new corm. The new corm forms at the shoot base just above the old corm.  As the plants grow and flower, the old corm is used up and shrivels away. The new corm that replaces the old corm grows in size, especially after flowering is done.  Corms can form many small cormlets called cormels, from the bottom of the new growing corms.  The cormels are used to propagate additional Gladiolus.  If you continue to dig up your corms every year you will have continuous Gladiolus because of the small cormlets that eventually grow into large corms.  Soon your garden will be full of beautiful Gladiolus.

OK enough about growing the flowers lets show you some cards made with this beautiful Gladioli Digital Stamp Set by Power Poppy.

For these cards I used my wonderful Creative Basic Dies and embossing folders.  

For the first card I wanted to share some pink Gladiolus.  I used Fancy Rectangles and Layers Die Set and the Picnic Quilt Embossing Folder.  I just love the pattern the embossing folder leaves on your card stock.

Copic Markers I used:

Flowers: RV21, RV23, RV25, RV29

Leaves: YG21, YG03, YG17, YG67, YG99

For the second card I wanted to share some orange Gladiolus.  I also used the sentiment from Power Poppy's Loving Tulips Stamp Set.  I used my Fancy Circles Die Set and the Basic Stitched Flags Die Set.  It is amazing to me how different an image can look when you just change a some of the colors.

Copic Markers I used:

Flowers: YR12, YR16, YR68, R05

Leaves: YG21, YG03, YG17, YG67, YG99

Come join us at Passionate Paper Creations and Friends where you get awesome discounts to sponsors like Power Poppy.  There is one on there now and you can purchase a beautiful image by Marcella Hawley for your collection.

Swans

Today I am sharing a card with you that I created for my cousins wedding.  I used the Fancy Rectangles & Layers Die set from the Creative Basics Dies collection to create the lovely background for my stamp and my sentiment.  Both the swans and the sentiment are from Stampendous and I colored them with my Copic Markers.

Here are the Copic Markers I used

Swans: C0, C1, C3, C5

Beaks: Y19, Y38

Water: B0000, B000, B00, B12

Enjoy!

Boy Fishing

Welcome to Robin's Crafting Nest!

Today I am going to share my first card that I made with my Creative Basics Dies. I really love the shape of the Grace Build-A-Card Die Set.  You can do so much with all the dies you receive with this set and it coordinates with the Fancy Circles Die Set to give you even more options.  I also used Fancy Rectangles & Layers Die Set under the sentiment.

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I chose the stamp Boy Fishing from Rubber Cottage and colored him with my Copic Markers.

There are a lot of pieces to color as part of this image so I did use a bunch of Copics.

Sky: B0000, BG0000, BG10

Water: BG45, BG53, BG57, BG75

Dock and Crate: E31, E57, E79, YG97, YG99

Skin: E50, E51, E21, E11

Pants and Hat: BG10, BG45, BG53, BG57, BG75

Shirt: YG03, YG17, YG21, YG67, YG97

Boots: E15, E18, E19, E29, YG17, YG67, YG97

Can: C1, C3, C5

Fishing Bobbers: R29

I hope you enjoy my card!