Grateful for Everything

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 I am so excited to share today's cards with you today! I have been working on my Copic coloring and wanted to show you this beautiful stamp and die set, Grateful for Everything by Concord & 9th.  I wanted to do a "practice" and then a "real thing" side by side, but I ended up liking them both for different reasons, so I included both. 

 

 

 

 I started by stamping the main image on Xpressit Blend white card stock in Whisper Gina K Designs Amalgam ink.  I colored the flowers (Peonies?) with Copic  RV69, R59, R39, R37, R35.  It is not your imagination that the flower on the right is lighter.  I added a little RV19 to brighten it up. I love love love the detail and dimension came out!  Then I dripped water on the card, which smeared one image.  I'm not one to waste a little "oopsie", and I figured I would cover it somehow, so I moved on.



The next step was the leaves. For the larger leaves I used YG17, YG15, and YG11.  The small leaves were done with YG67, YG63 and YG61.  Its amazing how two different projects done minutes apart can look so different. When I decided to quit "messing" I moved on.


 
The leaves are colored with YR07, YR23, Y35, Y15, and Y13  I added a little W4 to create some depth and it came out WAY darker than I intended so I used a much lighter touch on the other.

 

The wheat was a little tricky.  I colored them with E35, E33 and E31, but they were lost on the page so I outlined them with Stampin' Write Sahara Sand.  Also seen here: a peek at my test color panel! 



You might have noticed in the previous picture that I colored the berries with the same reds as the flower, but they didn't stand out enough for me so I pulled out BV17 and BV13.  Note to self: when you get a new Copic Marker, always test it out before using on your project.  The BV17 bled a pool on the paper and no amount of colorless blender could hide it.  So I decided to do the sentiment in two different ways - one using the beautifully scripted die set in a gold metallic paper and one embossed in gold on vellum.  The vellum was intended to hide the purple color burst, but the sentiment seemed hidden in the floral design so I had to find another option.

To pick the color to use as a background, I pulled out Stampin' Up card stock in Merry Merlot, Cherry Cobbler, Real Red and Riding Hood Red (yep, I keep retired paper and inks because you never know!).  I decided to use Cherry Cobbler.


 

I splattered the cards with black and gold ink. Then I re-stamped and embossed the sentiment on vellum, and adhered it using adhesive dots.  The metallic sentiment was adhered with Tombow Mono liquid glue. Lastly I added a few large gold gems.


 

So, that's all for today!  I hope this inspires you to pick up a marker, paintbrush, or pencil and create something!



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