I loved getting new crayons before school started, loved stretching out on the floor with a new coloring book . . . Mom always colored on the floor with us (and does still with the grandkids). My dad, on the other hand, wasn’t allowed to color with me after he colored penguins green. What was he thinking, huh? Now, I love to color with my kids (not so much with the boy nowadays, though he does love the Copics for his Manga drawing/coloring) and I’m much more forgiving about color choices! And, I have a lot more coloring options than the Crayola 64-pack that I used to coddle when I was younger!
Anyway, when Beate emailed me yesterday and shared the Vera Bradley bag she is posting as an inspiration challenge, I knew just what I wanted to do. I received these stamps around Christmas last year and never mounted them . . . until today! After doing homework and TKD runs and getting everyone fed, I stamped a bunch of random flowers in Chocolate Chip craft ink on a half sheet of shimmery white cardstock, went to help my husband in the garage, and came back to color with some Copic markers. This seemed to take FOREVER to color, but ahhh, what fun that was!
Instead of covering up my hard work, I plan to stamp something inside. Or just leave it as a blank notecard and fill it with my own scribbles. Who knows. Maybe I’ll just keep it on my desk here and ogle it. You know how that goes, I’m sure!
Here’s a listing of the stuff I used –
Cardstock: Wild Wasabi, Purely Pomegranate, Shimmery White
Ink: Chocolate Chip Craft, plus a handful of Copic markers. I used this collection + a nice dark brown (I don’t remember which one). I also used a black Spica pen to add glitter and redefine the lines that got a little blurred.
Accessories: Threading Water Fiskars punch, beautiful green satin from one of Jody’s shares, Pomegranate + Chocolate are both SU!, sticky-back rhinestones are from Kaiser, and I used three colors (celery, pink, orange)
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How cute is this! Love it! Great job! TFS 🙂
Your card looks fantastic! That’s definitely a lot of coloring! I love the scallops, the ribbon, the colors, the bling! Beautiful like always. I can’t believe my card turned out brighter then yours! LOL
I think that’s a first!
DARLING Card!! Great job! Thanks for sharing!
WOW, awesome, love your creation.
One word: GOJUS!!!!
Vera needs to contact you for her next design! Very nice…
Wow Jenn, this is gorgeous! What a ton of coloring!
You colored in ALL of that?! Wowza! I’m impressed…that’s a lot of coloring, Girly! 🙂
WOW Jenn, this is so beautiful. Love those satin ribbons and your scalloped edge.
This is absolutely beautiful Jenn! Love it!
BeaUUUUUUUUUUtiful, Jenn!!!!!!!
I am very new to your blog and received it via e-mail. I just had to say that I love the card, colors and ribbon. Your cards always inspire me.
Beautiful!!!! I love the colors.
I would sit and oogle this one too! Fabulous bold colors to fall in LOVE with! VERY PURTY!
B E A Utiful!! Love it!!
This is soooooo pretty! Love all those ribbons too!
OMG – your card is drop dead gorgeous!!! I love it!!!
I have some odd files in my Reader and I had to put this one in the Wowza ! file. Love the brown as I am earthy.
This is GAW-JUS! I love the scallops and yummy ribbon!!
Awesome card! 🙂
Man! This is jaw-dropping gorgeous!! Absolutely stunning!
Yum, Jenn! Love this so much, and your coloring is delightful. I would totally carry this card instead of my Vera Bradley bag!!! : )
Beautiful…I love the colors!!
wowza – better than the VB inspiration piece
Just beautiful !! What alot of work !! Worth it though huh ??
I LOVE it! Just gorgeous!
WOW! I have no words!!! Total wow!!!
This card is stunning !! Love the bright colors !
LOVE LOVE LOVE your card!!! Soooo pretty! And I’m so with you on the coloring thing. I had my kids just so I could color with them. Oh, and scrapbook them. KIDDING! 🙂 BTW the green penguin thing cracked me up. 🙂
Oh my look at those fabulous colors!! This is beautiful, Jenn.
So pretty! Love your colors and the yummy ribbon!
Jenn, this card is FREAKING GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!
Dang girl! Pardon me while I pick my jaw up off the floor. This is gorgeous!!
Hi Jen, this card is so striking the colours are just gorgeous and bright and bold. I just followed the link to see the bag which inspired this card and I think Vera B should now design a bag using your card. Just stunning!!! Anna
WOW, girl . . . frame it and KEEP it!! I’d keep it and ogle it, too! 😉 Amazing!
I LOVE this card…love the scallops at the top, the gorgeous satin ribbons, the colors…and of course the bling. Wonderful job.
Omigosh that is awesome Jenn! I never would have thought to try coloring like that with Copics – a big solid panel, but now I really want to!
Absolutely fabulous!!
Wow this is sooo awesome, love the colors, the ribbon, the bling!! Fabulous!!!!