Have you been to Le Petite Market?

Just wanted to pop in real quick and let you know about

Le Petite Market.

 I have been collecting digital images from their etsy shop for months,

and finally got around to coloring and creating with some of them.

These are two of the four images from the

Magical Crowned Creatures set.

I am in love with this style of artwork!

So fun and kitschy!!

I went with my usual favorites as far as color palettes, using Copics and

keeping with Violets, Blue Greens, Red Violets and Yellow Greens.

I am finding that one can never have too many unicorn images,

and this gorgeous creature is no exception.

I printed these images on a shiny, pearlized, paper making it kind

of hard to see when coloring. And blending is a whole different show, too.

I thought the fancy paper lent a nice whimsical feel to the simple cards.

Too bad it doesn't photograph at all. I also used some rock candy dry glitter

on the horn, but it doesn't show well. Looks more flocked than sugared.

Okay, thanks for hanging in there for the full post.

As a reward for your patronage, I'll let you in on a little secret.

The entire Le Petite Market site is 40% off!!

That's over 800 items on sale!!!

You're welcome.

If you can be a unicorn... why not?

It has become a rare occurrence that I get to create anymore.

With work, chores, and intermittent hand pain to contend with,

my creative outlets have slowed to a trickle.

Which makes this little inspirational plaque even more special.

This is the first time I have played along with Oddball Art Stamps

Progressive challenge, but once I saw this adorable unicorn I had to play along.

There are actually two unis in this set, but I only had room for one on this

particular project. 

I made this for one of my besties who has a craft room with open space on the walls.

I have a problem with open spaces, as I want to fill them with lots of cool

schtuffs like art and toys and crap. It's a sickness...  

I tried to keep this as non-pink and cutesy as possible with the use of black

sequin glitter around the perimeter, and black accents to keep all the rainbow

nausea to a minimum.

I'd love to enter this in the following challenges:

Oddball Art Stamps - A Sky Full of Stars
(lots of stars in the background)

  

Useless Trinkets Easter Addition

It's that time again! 

Jessa at Useless Trinkets has drawn up some super cute and fun 

Easter themed freebies for you to play with.

I know it's hard to believe that someone with such marketable talent

would be willing to just give her drawings away for free, but that's

precisely what Jessa insists upon doing. 

She's just cool and  generous like that.

First up is Gustav, the Easter Monstah.

Gustav is filling in for the Easter Bunny, who apparently has taken ill....

Jessa has also created some cute sentiments to go along with the new images.

Be sure to grab them while you're visiting her freebie page.

I have been wanting to create a shaker card for months now.

I have been collecting sequins and schtuff to fill my shakers, and

I have been watching various tutorials on how to make simple,

Fuse tool-free shaker cards on YouTube. After all of my preparation

I figured now was as good a time as any to give it a go.

I began by coloring up the Easter version of Cookie Jar, the Unicorn.

I went with a rainbow color palette. I thought it went well with the cute cloud paper. 

And unicorns and rainbows kind of go hand in hand, don't they?

I remember my cherished sticker album as a kid was full of rainbow unicorn stickers.

This was one of my favorites.  

Now I did mention that this is my very first attempt at making a shaker

card, right? It's a little rough, but I think I did okay.

Some key advice would be to use a heavier stock of paper

to go over the shaker part. My paper is super thin, so it really

shows the wrinkles and even tore a bit, too. Still, it's not too shabby

for my first attempt. I'll be trying this technique again now that I have 

figured out some of my mistakes. Practice makes perfect.

Thanks for stopping by today. 

I hope you'll pop by Jessa's blog and grab these awesome new freebies.

Be sure to bunneh hop along with the Freebie DT to see all of the clever

ways we've used these great images and sentiments.

Jessa https://uselesstrinkets.wordpress.com/

Birka http://www.mitherzundschere.blogspot.de/

Claudia http://colorfulcapricorndays.blogspot.de/

Gloria (me!) http://creepyglowbugg.blogspot.de/

Julia http://just-one-more-card.com/

Katrin http://projekt-cupcake.blogspot.de/

Tanja http://www.stempelspielplatz.de/

A Little FUN with an ATC

I really miss making ATCs. They are so fun and realativly quick

to whip up. They're a great way to use up those paper scraps, and a good

trial size way to try out new techniques or mediums.

A great ATC only challenge blog is Wicked Wednesday ATC challenge .

Jen always has a fun weekly challenge theme, 

and usually has a fabulous sponsor lined up as well.

This week's challenge theme is :

#194 (almost 200!) 'You Animal!'.

The awesome sponsor is Janet Klein from Vera Lane Studio.

She has some quirky and unusual images. I like that. A lot.

Here is my animal inspired ATC.

This guy is from Little Miss Muffet Stamps .

He is from a set of two unicorns called, 

Boon and Jitters. I'm not sure which one he is.

I'm going to assume this is Boon. But it doesn't

really matter since it appears the image is no longer available.

Yes, I've had him that long and just now got around to coloring

him in. One down, thousands more to go. As usual, I have colored this
image using Copic markers. 

Even though he has a horn that makes him a unicorn,

I decided to mix it up a bit and gave him a cool, sparkly, metal wing.

Let's just assume he actually has two wings. Otherwise he'd just

fly around in circles and that's not cool. 

I backed him onto some OLD dp scrap and an even older rhinestone

flourish. Overall, this is quite a destash heavy project. I like that.

I'd like to enter this ATC in the following challenges:

Wicked Wednesday ATC - You Animal!

Get Creative Challenges - Fantasy/Mythological  

MarkerPop - Anything Goes

Simon Says Wednesday challenge - Anything Goes