Hang in There - Pretty Pink Posh

 Hello Crafty Friends! I am here with this fun no line coloring featuring the new Monkey Friends stamp set. These were done on Bristol Smooth cardstock with Zig clean color real brush markers. I have the set of 26. I also used the new Jellyfish ink from Lawn Fawn to stamp out my images. Overall they are a pair of clean and simple cards (for me at least!) I hope you like them!

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Hang in There - Pretty Pink Posh June 2020 Release

Hello there crafty friends! Back with another card from the new Pretty Pink Posh June release. There is a fantastic new die out with this collection called Nature Essentials Dies that can be used to create so many scenes. There are just so many ways each piece can be used. They really maximized the space when designing it too. 

The dies do not cut apart, instead you run it all through at once and it cuts all the individual pieces you need. I die cut mine out of white cardstock and then used ink blending to color each section. Super quick and easy! And they are so versatile. I also cut out the vine from the Stitched Leafy Borders dies for my monkey to swing from. The Monkey is from Monkey Friends stamp set & the Hippo buddy is from Jungle Additions. 

Distress Ink colors:

Spiced Marmalade 

Wild Honey,

Twisted Citron

Mowed Lawn

Lucky Clover

Shabby Shutters

Broken China

Salty Ocean

Copics:

BV04, BY01, BV31

Y13, Y11

E49, E47, E44, E53, E50

R20

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Its Bananas! - Mama Elephant

Hello Crafty friends! I have been loving the Whimsy Alpha set from Mama Elephant so of course I had to make a Banana's card! I used the new Zodiac Monkeys & the vines from Swinging Boarders. And use the new Slim card basics for my first slim line card!



First I lightly ink blended twisted citron distress oxide over the bottom of my panel that I die cut with the new dies. Over that I added cracked pistachio distress oxide to create a new green color. I did the same with stamping the vine. I stamped first in twisted citron and then over the top with the cracked pistachio. I added a hint of tumbled glass for the sky and then splatted my panel with the same colors. I die cut the letters with the alpha stamps and did an ombre inking to the letters with scattered straw.



Lastly I colored the monkey and banana with my zig clean color real brush markers. I only used one color per color family and blended out with my blender. Of course I ordered two new blender pens and then found my missing one! So now I have three. Ha!


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Cu-Tea - Mama Elephant

Hello Crafty Friends! Well you know how I am about coffee but I'm also a huge fan of Bubble Tea too so I just had to have this new Mama Elephant set. My son Gage thinks Bubble Tea is the best so he was also excited to see this set, especially the one with the kitty cat. I stamped a few card fronts for him to color so we can give to Grandma.



I wanted something simple and sweet that I can send to friends. I made a few in this design in different colors. I love how easy it is to mix Mama Elephant sets! For the background I did a simple ink blending with distress oxide in Worn Lipstick. I then stamped a pair of hearts from the sets & my sentiment that I thought would be great to send to friends.



For the Monkies I did some basic copic coloring with E27, E25, E23 for the bodies & E53, E50 for the faces. I did the Boba Tea in the same way. For the lid on the cup I used E41 to give it a light tint of brown. The straw I did in R11.

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Monkey Business - Mama Elephant

Hello Crafty Friends! Im here today with a Mama Elephant card featuring Little Monkey Agenda and Swinging Boarders. I mean these were just a perfect match, which I suppose is the point! I also used a sentiment from Birthday Messages.

The background I die cut using Framed Tags die. Once it was die cut I taped it from the back so I could do some seemless ink blending. You can wait of course, but I like the definition it gives doing it first. I started with a layer of cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide in the middle of the panel, then I brought in Lucky Clover and on top of that I added Evergreen Bough. I stamped the background vines in the same Evergreen Bough ink to fill in the top 2/3rds of the panel.

I stamped and die cut several of my favorite monkeys from the Little Monkey Agenda and one more vine border for the focal images. I colored them using copics.

Browns: E47, E44, E43, E53 & E51
Pinks: R20, R11 & R00
Greens: G02, G00 & G000

Lastly I white heat embossed the sentiment on black cardstock and added three green heart enamel shapes to finish it off. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

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Just hanging around - Hello Sweetums

Hello Crafty Friends! Here with this ridiculously adorable Funky Monkey stamp set from Hello Sweetums. Its got some super cute monkeys paired with a bunch of punny sentiments. Also includes some scene builder elements which I always appreciate.

I started with a base of distress oxide blending in twisted citron and mowed lawn. I stamped the solid leaf stamp from the set just to give the top edge some texture. The monkey's are copic colored with E47, 44, 43 & 41. The leaves are YG67, 63, 61 & a top coat of YG03 to brighten them up a bit. Bananas are YR24, YR30 and Y11. I stamped the solid leaves again in the mowed lawn. The sentiment is white heat embossed on black cardstock.

Can you get over how cute they are??