Just One Of My Coloring Books

I mentioned that I have been doing a little coloring in one of my coloring books.

I've chosen to share with you one of the pages I did from this fabulous book,

I love this book because it focuses on a bible verse on the left hand side and then the coloring page on the right. This is a great start for a daily/weekly devotional and then you can study more on the Bible verse throughout the week.

The left side of the book where the verses are have small borders and areas you can color if you'd like.

I use Prismacolor Premier pencils for this book so I can color each side of the page without a bleed thru of color. The pages are 9 1/2 inches square, making it hard to add to my Journaling Bible, so I will keep them in the book for now.  I have thought about cutting the pages out and then putting them in a frame in my craft room.  

Here's my page for 

PSALM 23:3

He Restores My Soul

This took me several hours to color and not totally sure I'm finished,  I do like the areas that I left white, plus the simple color palette I selected.

I hope this gives you some inspiration and thanks for stopping by today.

Blessing, Nancy

Happy Sunday

Lazy day here in Iowa with the cold rainy weather again today.  After our standard Starbucks run after church this morning I've been able to spend most of my day in my craft room.

Needing to catch up a little on Bible Journaling, I colored a few pages with pencils and did a little studying. I will share a few pages a little later in the week.

I played with a little stamp set from jillibean and created this shaker card.

This set has the pre-made shaker shape which is nice but it does stand off the card base which will make it harder to mail.  After making it, I have a few more ideas of how to make this work a little differently, so you will probably see this again.

I stamped a few lemons on the card base then stamped and colored more lemons, cutting them out to include as shaker bits.  Adding a few sequins and glitter to finish it off.

Hope you had a great day!

Blessing, Nancy

Watercolor Look With Copic Markers

You are probably seeing a trend with my cards the past two days, but todays Power Poppy image was colored on watercolor paper with Copic Markers.  Once again I created the background around the image and them added texture with various fabric.  

I then colored the image as usual.

I hope you enjoy.

I hope you've had a great weekend and its not as chilly and rainy where you are.

Blessings, Nancy

Copic Butterflies

After taking a break from my blog,  I've got a couple of cards to share with you today.  I've chosen to feature an older stamp from my stash.  This is a rubber stamp from Memory Box.  

Lately I've looked at my inventory of stamps and images and have decided to really start using what I have instead of purchasing so many new things.  It's been refreshing to look at my images and re-invent them into new designs.  

I like trying new techniques and also it's fun to just color with no purpose other than enjoyment.

I've used the same basic techniques with these two cards by coloring the background and then using a texture technique with Copic Colorless Blender and a piece of terry cloth.

I hope these two cards inspire you to show those old stamps some love and create something just for fun.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Blessings, Nancy

Elf'n around

Have you ever lost a digital image in your computer?  I feel almost certain it should be there, but I just can't find it.  I know it will show up after the project has been completed and its not  needed anymore.  So while I was looking at every image, and I mean every image stored on my PC, I came across these cute little Elf images. I hadn't planned on coloring them all today, but since all those red and green markers were laying on my desk, I just kept going.  I had alot of fun and also got to practice on coloring those reds.

So here's what I did today...

Using Copic Markers, Wink of Stella and a little flower soft on the Elf's hat

Front of card using a circle window to get a sneak peek at the Elf inside

Fun Elf on the inside

This little elf is so cute with his holiday garland.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Nancy

I Love Power Poppy

What a great weekend at the Indiana Paper Art Gathering.

I had the opportunity to visit with my sister and meet many new friends. 

Catching up on some of my coloring and practicing new techniques, its was also time for a Power Poppy release.

The digital image below is

Partridge in the Pear Tree

Using Copic Markers, I selected basic holiday colors and used a simple layering technique for my card.

  I want to thank you for stopping by today and wish you a Blessed Day

Nancy

Catching Up

Just wanted to check in for a quick post.  It's been awhile since I was here.

 I think my editing program is now fixed and updated.

Today I'm sharing my 2015 Halloween shaker card.

This was my card design and they were made by using scrap paper so they all looked somewhat different. It was fun to use my Fuse Tool for the shaker portion.  I have found that I love this tool as it reduces the thickness of the card which keeps the mailing cost down.

I'm headed out this weekend to the Indiana Paper Arts Gathering in Indianapolis Indiana.

It will be held at Camp Camby, Hosted by Creek Bank Creations.

If you're in the area stop by and check things out. 

 All vendors are open for shopping.

Thanks for stopping by and sticking with me in the lack of posting.  Hopefully I'll get better and back into the swing of things.

Nancy