SIP #91 - Andrea's Birthday - Prismacolor Pencils!

Hello!  It's Spring!  Yay!  I hope it is beginning to feel like it where you live!  I was so happy to have some beautiful weather this past weekend!  Did I tell you about winning a fabulous prize?  I entered a card in a challenge over at Stamp Junkies Facebook Group a few weeks back.  The prize was donated by Gina of Gina K Designs and it was a 150 pc set of Prismacolor Pencils!  Well.. I got lucky and won it!  Woo Hoo!  So today I decided for the new Stamp, Ink, Paper Birthday Card Challenge to use my fabulous new pencils. Oh and this challenge is in honor of my sweet friend Andrea Tracy-Tucker so make sure you tell her Happy Birthday! 

I have two different cards to share because I had played around with coloring two different images to get the feel for these pencils.  Here's my first card!

My first card uses the Unity Stamp Co. "Damn.. you're old" stamp set.  I wanted to color in the cake because I thought a larger image would give me a chance to get used to the pencils and try some shading.  I hope I did ok.. I'm sure I'll get better as I play around with them more!

Here's card #2..

This second card uses the Lawn Fawn Stamp set "Hang In There".  I just adore this sloth!  Again.. I'm new at the pencils but I think it turned out fairly good.  

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I wish you'd let me know which card you like the best!  Blessings, Tina 

SIP #89 Sketch Challenge with Lawn Fawn Hang In There

Hello and Happy Tuesday!  Hope your week is off to an awesome start.  We've had a couple of days of wonderful weather.  I'm really hoping that the cool weather is gone to stay.  It's so nice being outside without a coat!  I know that the groundhog saw his shadow but I'm hoping he was wrong!!  lol

So since it's Tuesday, it's time for another Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge.  This week's challenge is a sketch that is pretty simple so I hope you'll head over and check out all of the inspiration and then link up a card of your own.  There are so many possibilities with this one!

Luckily, I still have some Lawn Fawn goodies that I preordered from the Stamp, Ink, Paper Store.  I'm having a blast with all of these adorable stamp and die sets.  I decided to use my new Lawn Fawn Hang In There set today.  I just adore this little sloth!  

So for this one I started with an A2 SU Lost Lagoon (Retired) Card Base.  A 5" x 3 3/4" Whisper White Card Panel was embossed with the SU Woodland Embossing Folder.  I layered it on a 5 1/8" x 3 7/8" Early Espresso piece of Cardstock and then mounted the two layers onto the card base.  I added a 1 1/2" x 3 3/4" piece of Patterned Paper from a 6x6" DOCrafts Paper Pack called Owl Folk. I added a 1/4" x 3 3/4" piece of Early Espresso Cardstock on the side of the Patterned Paper and adhered both of those to the card base.   The blue in the circle was also from that Paper Pack and was cut with one of my MFT Dienamics Zig Zag Stitched Circle Stax.  I heat embossed the sentiment in White on the bottom of the circle.  I stamped my Sloth onto a piece of Whisper White Cardstock with Hero Arts  Black Hybrid Ink that was heat set.  I colored it by scribbling some ink from SU markers onto an acrylic block and adding a little Wink of Stella and then painting in the images with the Wink of Stella Brush.  Once dry, the circle was adhered with Foam Tape on my card front.  

Here's the inside:

Here's a link to the stamp set at the Lawn Fawn Website, if you want to check it out:  Hang In There  I checked to see if the Stamp, Ink, Paper Store had it in stock and apparently they don't.  I love to support the awesome Justin Krieger and buy from his store whenever possible!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina