Katelyn, my youngest granddaughter, celebrated her 2nd birthday yesterday. This is the card I made for her.
Lucky for me, I got to give it to her in person a few days early. My whole family.. all 4 of my sons and their families met in Las Vegas and brought in the new year together. It was a wonderful way to start 2011!
The little bear’s dress has been paper pieced. I used Copics to color her and to shade parts of the paper pieced dress. I also used a white gel pen on the dress to dot and accent different areas and fill in the collar and ribbons.
The second card was for my sister-in-law, Patty, whose birthday was a couple of month’s ago.
I used some Flower Soft on the sunflower’s center and then dabbed it with a Copic Marker which was a shade or two darker than the original color of the Flower Soft. This created an interesting look of depth and shadows.
This striped designer paper from the Webster’s Pages “Wonderfall” collection was close but not the exact colors needed to match the sunflower. So, I colored parts of the designer paper with the same Copics that were used to color the sunflower image. Now it matched! lol
And here are the Copics used for Patty’s card:
My next post will be offering some blog candy with a fun Valentine’s stamp set.
Thanks for dropping by today.
Happy Crafting!
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Katelyn’s Card:
Stamps: SU Beary Best Friends and Beary Nice Wishes
Papers: Papertrey Ink Plum Pudding; SU Whisper White and Razzleberry Lemonade Designer Series Paper
Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black; Sakura Gelly Roll Purple Star (sparkle on balloons not visible in photo); White Gel Pen; SU Basic Black Marker; Copics:
Accessories: Kaiser Pearls; Gingham Ribbon
Patty’s Card:
Stamps: Inkadinkado Harvest Clear Inchie Stamps; SU Sincere Salutations
Papers: Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream and Dark Chocolate; Webster’s Pages Wonderfall Designer Paper
Inks: Memento Rich Cocoa; White Gel Pen; Copics (see photo above)
Accessories: Flower Soft; Inchie Arts Inchie; Vintaj Wildflowers Hardware; Spellbinders Border Fleur de Lis; Ruffled Elastic Ribbon; Brad; Cuttlebug; Paper Piercer; SU Corners Punch
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Your granddaughter’s card is adorable with the paper piecing and those tiny pearl accents! The card for your SIL just dazzled me with all the great details and rich colors! The flower is gorgeous, but I just LOVE how you did that sentiment panel! You just gave a whole new life to the sincere salutations set for me 🙂 Beautifully done!
Oh my, what beautiful work! I love your granddaughter’s card, Susan. I bet she had a wonderful birthday surrounded by the family.
Your sister’s card is a work of art. Absolutely stunning design. Your coloring is top notch!
The bear birthday is just adorable and I bet she loved it. The pearls on the balloons is a great touch. Sounds like the New Year was fun and glad everyone got together. Too bad it was here in the TC, but Vega is a lot more fun and warm. hee hee Your SIL card is rich and warm feeling, I am sure she appreciate it as well.
great cards! I like your altered paper better than the original! lol.
Susan I love both cards, FABULOUS!!
You still blow me away with your creativity :). I am making a new year “goal” to get around to more blogs…. so hold me to it, ok? 🙂 Hugs!
Oh my gosh, Susan, I cannot believe Katelyn is already two . . . where does the time go??? What an adorable card for her, so sweet! A gorgeous card for your sister-in-law as well! {{{hugs}}}
What wonderful cards, Susan! So glad you rang in the New Year in such a wonderful way!!!
Totally cute cards I know she will love it! And the others you have created are amazing too. You do such beautiful work!!!!!!!!
I bet Katelyn loved her card Grandma!!!
I love the Build A Bear card!!! Definitely need to get that set before SU gets rid of it.
Your little bear is just tooo cute, Susan…the hilighting on the dress looks beautiful and what a darling sentiment!!! Your SIL’s birthday card is gorgoeus, too…sooo elegant with lots of fabulous details!!! Sounds like you had a wonderful New Years with all your boys and their families togehter…can’t get any better than that!!!
I love all the details you put into the bear card! So sweet!
But then I really love the eclectic-ness of the second card! So fun and WOW to your editions! 🙂 That’s great!
Wow what delightful cards you have made and what lucky recipients. Your Grandaughter’s card is gorgeous, I especially love the detail on the paper pieced dress. And I love the card for your sister-in-law. Fab idea and effect using the flower soft for the centre of the sunflower. You are a talanted card maker for sure. Thank you soooooooo much for sharing your creations with us.
Adorable card for your granddaughter! Yes, that sounds like a great way to ring in the New Year – being in a fun town with family. TFS!
Katelyn’s card is so cute, and I love the bears’ pieced dress!! The card you’ve made for Patty is gorgeous, and I love all of the details!! What a great idea to alter the color of the Flower Soft too!!
Awwwww, that first one is adorable with the popped up balloons and pearls as highlights…love the look of that! Great, rich colors on the second one..mmmm, mmmmm! 🙂
That little bear is too cute! And the sunflower is just amazing! So many details!!!
your granddaughters card is too cute, like the dots you added to the dress and the pretty pearls on the balloons!
Is that a metal flower flourish in the background, is that ever pretty and a neat way to use it, love the all over vintage feel to it 🙂
One totally cute, and the other full of interesting and fabulous design elements. Love what you did with the Flower Soft!
Awesome cards Susan! So perfectly sweet for your grand daughter and wonderfully textured for your sil!
A card for your granddaugter is so sweet! Love how you added extra touch to little bear dress! So creative!
I am so glad that you had fabulous time with your family! 🙂
Love the gorgeous card fr your sister-in-law! Great ideas with the flowers soft and DP!
OK, first of all you look way to young to have grandchildren! That said, your card to your granddaughter is adorable! What a perfect image and you colored it beautifully. Your paper piecing is absolutely perfect. Your second card is just full of detail. I’m so impressed with the “re-coloring” of the flowersoft to better match. That is just genius. And your extra effort to make the DP match is amazing. Finally, how wonderful to celebrate the new year in Vegas. It is my favorite place on the face of the earth. Best, Curt