Category Archives: Taylored Expressions

Thank you all for the sweet comments on my Verve Guest Diva post from Monday. You know how to make a girl feel fabulous! Still time to peek and post a comment for a chance to win a Verve voucher here.

I’m finishing up some Copic coloring today, crafting and packing for my workshop classes (Faces & Hair, Vintage Values, and Clothing and Accessories)  in Southern California next week. (There are spaces left in my classes and in Debbie’s classes in Vancouver, Canada – if you are in the area and have time to join us!)

This is a card that I created for another Hope You Can Cling To challenge at Splitcoaststampers! The image is a fun Saturated Canary. I love to color these images. They are fun, and they are GREAT practice for facial shadows, bone structure and clothing. I think this cutie is called Dutch Girl (but I can’t find her in the shop – I’ve had her quite a while!). Her skin is colored with E51 and E21, then I personally use E000 like a magic brush in any places that I need to smooth out. Since the surface area of her skin is so small on this print out, I can get by with 3 skin colors. The larger the area that you are coloring, the more colors that you probably want to introduce to create depth. Her hair is colored with E31, E33 and E37.

Braids are another topic specifically tackled in in Copic’s book, Coloring Foundations: Faces and Hair. Easy to understand text with detailed step out photos. We get wonderful feedback on our classes, and there is nothing quite like hands-on instruction and one-on-one feedback, but these books (there is one on flowers, too!) are a great value for self-guided learning.

This Saturated Canary digital image is called Traveling Colors. I printed it a little bit larger, so there are is room to work more color into her face – E51, E11, E21 and E000. Her hair braids are colored with E42, E44 and E47. She’s a little too big for a card front, so I’ll stick her in my sample image portfolio.

It’s time for me to clean up and clear off the crafty desk. I have had such fun crafting again the past few weeks, but I can’t make another single card until I do a little housekeeping… never a strong suit.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I’ll be back tomorrow…

Have a great day! Good luck!

Back in 2010, I went to Australia with Marianne Walker to teach some Copic education classes, and one of the highlights was meeting Edna15 from Splitcoaststampers. She had come to Sydney from Brisbane to take our class, and she was warm, fun and just all around delightful!

Today, Edna is hosting her own Dare to Get Dirty challenge for Fan Club members at Splitcoast, and I had to play along!

I cut the Ray of Sunshine die from Taylored Expressions to cut Whip Cream cardstock and then used Copic Marker to color the different insets before putting it all back together.

The sentiment is stamped on Whip Cream cardstock with Tangerine dye ink and then accented with a Spica Clear Glitter pen for a little sunshiney shimmer.
Hope that you can join us for fun Dare to Get Dirty challenges this week! Lots of challenges, chatter and prizes for our Splitcoast Fan Club members. You can get started right [url=https://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/dare-get-dirty-f150/]here[/url]. If you need more info on the Fan Club, you can find that here.

A few workmen just left after installing my new hot water heater. I should be back in the dishes and laundry business in the next hour or so. That’s good because I’m tired of playing Little House on the Prairie. Heating kettles of water sounds so much more enchanting than it actually is. Just sayin’.

Will absolutely be back tomorrow with a beautiful new product and cards to share.  Hope you find time to get crafty today!