Sunday, December 7, 2014

This is the best I could do . . .

 Hello Crafters!

Long time no talk . . .
I feel like it's been forever since I posted. 
I know I did post last week for the PC&S blog hop but that post was awful. 

In my defense I was posting from my phone on sketchy wifi without all my pictures. See I had to go out of town for training last week and I get to do it again this week. Lucky me. That's sarcasm in case you couldn't tell. 

Want to see what I learned last week? 


Yes, I am a woman in her thirties. Yes, I doodled the whole day. 
Despite the evidence I did actually listen to the people talking. Some of it was interesting, some of it wasn't. I survived it. 
While I was off living in the land of high school girls who doodle in their margin during history class my poor husband was a single dad all week. I came home and they were both alive. AND they didn't have any noticeable injuries. That husband of mine is pretty awesome. 

Why was the blog so scarce last week if I knew I had training?
That's easy. I'm a procrastinator. I plan ahead for pretty much nothing. ever. I run late to everything and I'm hardly ever prepared. Keeps like interesting ;) 

Need an example?
I had several cards to create on my weekend home. One of which was for my church. We are sponsoring a family for Christmas and I volunteered to create a card to go with the gifts. I made the card on Friday night. I then made seven other cards. I didn't want to have to move all my crap around to take a photo for one card so I just kept telling myself I'd take a photo of it when I did the rest. Yeah, Sunday morning came and I still had not photographed it. So it's gone. AND I had intended on entering it into the Simon Says Stamp Flickr Challenge to use stencils. Bummer. 

However . . .I wanted to emboss the sentiment onto my card but wasn't sure about the placement so I did scan it into the computer. Dawn Woleslagle once told me to do this so I could printout out some copies to practice on without ruining my original image. Brilliant idea by the way. Also comes in handy when you never photograph your card. You know for people who do things like that . . .

So here's the scan. It's not as rich as the original but I really loved the card and wanted to share it. As you gathered from the title this is the best I could do :) 



I used the Nativity set from Simon Says Stamp. First I stamped Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus. I masked them and stamped the manager. I wanted a little more of the background to show through so I added some beams to the manager to make it an open structure. Recently Sandy Allnock did a video where she talked about coloring a night time scene and I knew I wanted to try that. Go look, it's a little elfin masterpiece! I used Simon Says Stamp Make A Scene Stencil for my hills. I did my copic coloring on the ground, hills, manager, and people. I'm no Sandy with knowing where shadows are supposed to go so I cheated :) I masked the people and then created my sky with distress inks. Since I didn't mask off any other areas it gave everything a blue night time glow. I added some details with my copic multiliner and a white gel pen. The sentiment is from the same set and was heat embossed in white. 

In an effort to be a little more forward thinking I have several things scheduled for this week. Unfortunately, I probably won't be able to visit any of you this week :( Damn wifi. 

See you soon though!!
Thanks for visiting!

XoXo

9 comments:

  1. *thud* That's the sound of me hitting the floor. This is STUNNING! I'm still marveling at your "added some beams to the manger" thing. WOWza!

    Oh, and I hope to take a Zentangle class as soon as my new-found LSS schedules one!

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  2. Oh...Em...Gee!!! Honestly, Kelly I had to pick my jaw up off the desk when I saw this card! I'm amazed at your beautiful sky, and still can't figure out how you got the ground and hills to look so fabulous! And, the shadows? WOW!!! I also love how you colored Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus...you are a wizard with Copics...seriously!!! When I grow up, I want to color just like you :)
    By the way, love your doodling! So glad to know I'm not the only one who does that during boring lectures, too! Oh, I just read Leslie's note...see what you're doing to us? You're causing injuries!!! Ha! Have a great week, and don't worry about getting around in blogland...hugs, Barb

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  3. sooo festive
    looks like you painted it wooooowwww
    4 thumbs up for you ( I used the one from my feet too LOL)
    your doodled sketch is cool
    I did too as I was in highschool
    but never made picture and never shown in public LOL
    its adorable Kelly
    you should make stamp too
    it can be a great stamp
    ask Christine maybe then it can be your debut for first stamp set..
    hugs, Monika

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  4. Wow, your doodling is fabulous! And your card is wonderful, too! Hope your second week of training goes well (& flies by!)

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  5. Awesome doodling and gorgeous inking on ur card :)

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  6. Amazing coloring, Kelly! This is one beautiful card. So glad you had a way to share it with us!

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