Artful Angel Color Palette Challenge #321

 Hello friends!  It has been  bit since I've blogged; life has a habit of doing that to you sometimes :)

However, today I am back with a burst of color and a card to inspire you for the Color Palette Challenge with Artful Angel.  Each month Charis chooses randomly a color palette from The Color Catalogue by Sarah Renae Clark, and this month it is #321.

This color palette contains shades of beautiful oranges and reds and yellows with some muted greys as well!

For my project this month, I stamped piut the girl mermaid from the Mer-Mazing Friends stamp set and colored her using my Caran d'Ache Luminance pencils.  The color catalogue has given us the colors to use from the Prismacolor Premiere pencils, but I have converted them myself.  I used the following Luminance pencils:  

Skin:  069, 866, 862, 872, 801
Hair:  407, 808, 803, 802
Tail:  599, 350, 583, 872, 801, 034

I will see you again soon with more inspiration and don't forget to come and join us each month for the color palette challenge using Sarah Renae Clark's The Color Catalogue!

Oddball Moth Girl with Stamping Bella

 Good day my friends!  Remember when I said there are certain stamp sets that you just can't help but color over and over again?  Well, this Oddball Moth Girl stamp from Stamping Bella is another one that I just love and could color her in many different colour palettes!

This was the first image I coloured with my Kalour colored pencils when I first got them and fell in love with them.  I didn't keep track of what colours I used sadly.  I paired it with the AALL & Create die set called Intricatags as well as sentiment stamps from Artful Angel and Impression Obsession.

Birdbath Friends with Colorado Craft Company

 Another sweet stamp set from Anita Jerum and Colorado Craft Company!  This stamp set is called Birdbath Friends and I have paired it with the Postage Stamp dies from Waffle Flower and a sentiment stamp from Artful Angel and semntiment die from an SCT Sampler set.

I coloured this image using my colored pencils but I didn't keep track of which pencils or colors I used!

King of the Jungle Color Cube Challenge with Artful Angel

 Good day my friends!  The new Color Cube Challenge has started at Artful Angel and this month we are using color palette number 317.

What a gorgeous palette.  And I decided to pair it with the King of the Jungle stamp set from Artful Angel and coloured it with my Prismacolor pencils in the following colors:

Pink:  930, 994, 1014
Coral:  926, 939, 927
Grey:1058, 1054, 1052, 1050, 938
Yellow:  947, 945, 1033, 1002, 917, 916, 1011

That's all for me today, I'll see you again soon!

Flutter By with Artful Angel

 I am here to share a watercoloured card with you today using one of my most favourite Artful Angel stamps called Flutter By.

This is such a versatile stamp, and by not including a sentiment...this card could be used for any situation, including just a notecard!  I've also coloured this image many times, and each time I do, it looks unique.

I painted this card using my Beam Paints, created right here in Northern Ontario Canada.  I am currently within a stone's throw from their shop and I plan to treat myself with a few more colours ;)

Beam Paints, colours used:

Robin's Egg
Blueberry Mountain (new and old)
Wild Salmon
Mars Violet
Harvest Wheat
Cub Brown
Mars Black
Wintery Night

Have a great day!  I will see you peeps again soon :)

Garden Gnomes New Release with Artful Angel

 Do you love gnomes like I do?  I love gnomes!  I especially love to color them :)  Artful Angel is releasing some new stamps today and one of them includes these fun Garden Gnomes!  Aren't they sweet?

To challenge myself, I used The Color Catalogue from Sarah Renae Clark to color these fun gnomies.  I used an online random number picker and was given the number 004!  Ok, sure!  I also colored with my Kalour colored pencils (WHAT?!) using the Prismas Color companion.  When you get to know your pencils really well, you can pick out the proper colors in other sets to match certain ones.

So the color combinations I used from Kalour are following:

Skin Combo #3:  181, 175, 197, 195, 048

Antique Navy:  296, 374, 378, 464, 381

Dusky Green:  174, 168, 116, 108, 118

Harvest Yellow:  039, 041, 056, 053, 204

See you again soon my friends!

Abominable with Artful Angel and The Color Catalogue

 Well hellooooo there!  Today I am sharing a bookmark I created using the Abominable stamp set from Artful Angel, while also featuring The Color Catalogue from Sarah Renae Clark for the Artful Angel Color Challenge.  That was a mouthful wasn't it? LOL

This month we are using the #303 color palette from The Color Catalogue.  Such an inspirational tool that takes all the guesswork out of your color palettes.  Especially since Sarah Renae Clark has added the companions, which match up the colors to several different marker and pencil brands.  I use Prismacolor Premiere a lot, so this companion has been immensely helpful!

I focussed this color palette on the Yeti itself, but have also applied it to the main part of the bookmark...the background papers.  Below is the list of Prisma color pencils I used for this challenge!

208, 195, 930, 929, 928, 938, 935, 936, 1024, 1052

Have some fun and come and join us in the Artful Angel Takes Flight Facebook group!

Zombies Eat Brains with Artful Angel

 Another Zombie ATC to share with you today, using the Artful Angel stamp set called Brains.  I love to make ATCs (Artist Trading Cards) and when I saw this stamp set it kind of fit with a mixed media background.  

I coloured the zombie using my Kalour Coloured pencils and created a mixed media background using texture stamps and ink.  She actually turned out pretty cute, lol...for a zombie!

Alright my friends, I am off to create some more fun and make a mess of my recently cleaned crafty space again!

Colour Palette with Artful Angel

 Good day my fine friends!  Charis at Artful Angel has started a new color challenge for each month using the color palettes from Sarah Renae Clark's Color Cubes, Catalogues and Companions!  I love color challenges so this is is totally right up my alley.  The Color Companions take the guess work right out of the palette which sometimes is exactly what I need ;)  I color with different mediums, and I love that she has (almost) all of my mediums listed in the companion.

Charis chose color palette number #271 for the January challenge:

I chose to work with the Flutterby stamp set from Artful Angel.  This color palette really spoke to me for this stamp...sometimes that happens!  I look at a color palette and it tells me what image it needs.  I promise I'm not weird, I just love colors!

I colored this Flutterby stamp using my Prismacolor Premiere Pencils in the following colors (totally dictated by the Color Companion lol): *I have put a star beside the colors in the Companion, but I've also added a few to get the perfect combos ;) I like to have 3-5 colors in each combo.

Blue:  901, 1027*, 905*, 992, 938
Brown:  946, 944*, 943*, 140
Grey:  935, 1067, 1063, 1059*, 938

I will see you again on February 1st for another fun color palette challenge!

A List Book with Artful Angel

 Are you a list maker?  I totally am.  I will make lists out of anything and everything lol.  I even prefer to plan using lists.  When I saw this Artful Angel Picture Perfect stamp set and the companion stamp set, Picture Perfect Frames, I realized one of them looked just like me!  And what better way to feature myself than to use it to deceorate something I love to do!

I coloured the images using my coloured pencils (athough I couldn't tell you which ones lol) and paired them with some other fun things from my stash such as dies from AALL & Create, Spellbinders and others.  I will use this list book all year long just for fun and then I will be able to look back on it after 2025 and see what I was having fun with!

Meow to You with Artful Angel

 It's a cold winter day today up here in the North!  Stay warm my friends.  And with that PSA, I am sharing today a tag made featuring the Meow to You stamp set, newly released by Artful Angel.

These sweet kitties can be customized for Christmas, birthdays or even Valentine's Day like I have here!

I have colored this sweet kitten with a variety of Copics and Kalour coloured pencils, and although I would love to tell you which ones...I did not write them down lol.  It's been a very busy month to say the least.

Love to you all and now back to our regularly scheduled programming, ie.  WINTER.

Footprints from Artful Angel

 Hello from the north, it's definitely geting to be "Yeti" weather up here in Canada ;)

I am here to share a winter card with you today featuring one of the newest releases from Artful Angel called Footprints.  I coloured this yeti using my Kalour coloured pencils (combos listed below).  I also paired this sweet image with some papers from my stash cut using the Card Cut Essentials Die Set #2 from Pink & Main, also available at Artful Angel.

Colours used: I have included the names of the colour combinations.  I find them easier to remember than every pencil colour ;)

Fur: 137, 113, 396, 138, 242 (Tropical Sea)
Face: 170, 470, 460, 288, 287 (Sweater Vest)

Stay warm friends, I will be back soon enough ;)

Sandy Toes New Release with Artful Angel

 Hey crafty peeps!  It's the Victoria Day long weekend here in Canada and what a beauty it was weather-wise!  I was totally dreaming of the water and sandy beaches when I created this card using the new release "Sandy Toes" stamp set from Artful Angel, available May 25th.

I colored this sweetie with my Prismacolor Pencils on Neenah Desert Storm card stock.  I haven't colored with my pencils in a while.  I'm so glad I did, I thought I was losing my nerve lol.  There's a sneek peek of something else in this project as well!  If you look closely, you might see a layer of a new Artful Angel 6 x 6 patterned paper (think pink!).

Theses new stamps and patterned paper will be available in the Artful Angel shop on May 25th, stay tuned for more inspiration from our wonderful Design Team and Guest Designers in the Facebook Group for Artful Angel.

CC Designs Birthday Critters with Artful Angel - a Planner Insert Page!

 Good day my friends!  Today I am sharing a planner page I created using the Birthday Critters stamp set from CC Designs, available in the Artful Angel shop!

I wanted to create a page that migrates every year into my current planner, and what better page to create than a birthday list!  This cute little critter was perfect to pair with the Echo Park A Birthday Wish 6x6 paper pad, also available in the Artful Angel shop ;)

I colored this little kitty cat with my Copic markers and layered him up over some of the Echo Park paper.  I added some die cut letters and a birthday hat from the newly released Party Animal stamp set from Artful Angel.  I added the Happy Birthday title using the Big Birthday stamp set also from Artful Angel lol.  An all star cast in one planner page!

Did you know if you go to the Artful Angel Facebook group and search the stamp set you would like to see...you get a whole bunch of inspiration!?  Try it!

CC Designs Birthday Critters with Artful Angel

 I am frantically trying to catch up with my blogging and posting.  Unfortunately, I am behind what with trying to pack up both my daughter and I to move in opposite directions lol.  In the meantime, I have created a birthday card to share with you today using the Birthday Critters stamp set from CC designs, available at Artful Angel!

These cute little critters make great birthday (as well as many other celebratory) greeting cards both masculine and feminine!  For the cards I created (and there are a few ;)) I used the Echo Park paper 6x6 paper pad called A Birthday Wish Boy, also available in the Artful Angel shop!

I have colored this little critter using my Copic Markers and layered it over paper from the A Birthday Wish paper pad, added the stamped sentiment and some of enamel dots.  I have also used a card sketch to jump start my mojo (he seems to have gone on vacation without me!), although for the life of me I cannot remember where the sketch is from.

A new release is coming in May!  Are you excited?  Come and see us in the Facebook group, Artful Angel Takes Flight to see what's coming! 

Out on a Limb with Artful Angel

 Hey hey crafty friends!  I am here to share a bookmark with you today featuring the newly released stamp set called Out on a Limb from Artful Angel.

Aren't these little birds adorable!?

I have colored these cutie pies with my copic markers and layered them over some patterned paper from my stash.  I added a sentiment that I typed up and printed out and voila!  A bookmark that any book nerd would love to use!

Come and join us in the Facebook group:  Artful Angel Takes Flight to see what the other design team members are creating with this sweet stamp set!

Party Princess with Artful Angel

 Hey hey hey!  Are you ready for a party?  This little princess sure is ;)  This card features a brand new stamp set from Artful Angel called Party Princess.

A great stamp set for anyone's birthday, this 3x4 stamp set features the princess stamp, plus 4 accessory stamps and a sentiment!  And as you see here, you can color this stamp anyway you like!  I also used the 

I created this card using paper from the A Birthday Wish, Boy 6x6 paper pad by Echo Park, also available in the Artful Angel shop!

I will see you again soon my friends...and don't forget to come and visit us in the Artful Angel Takes Flight Facebook group!

Out on a Limb with Artful Angel

 Good day my friends!  I hope you have had a great Spring so far!  I am here to share a fabulous new stamp set from Artful Angel called Out on a Limb.

This great new stamp set, just released in March, features three of these cute birds and 6 sentiments, as well as a fun little branch for the birds to sit on.  I have created three projects using this stamp set, so keep your eyes open for those coming up!

Come and join us in the Artful Angel Takes Flight Facebook group to see all kinds of inspiration from our design team!  

See you again soon!

Hey! I'm thinking About You!

 Good day my friends!  Popping in to share a project with you today for Artful Angel using the Hey Hey Hey stamp set from Catherine Pooler.

This is such a versatile stamp set!  It can be used for masculine or feminine cards, for children or adults, and even seniors!

For this card, I chose a more masculine color palette and created a plaid background with my Copic markers.  I stamped the large empty Hey sentiment and also colored it with my Copics and then deepened the shading with my Prismacolor Premiere pencils.

To finish it off, I added another sentiment and some of my favorite enamel dots.

Have you joined the Artful Angel Takes Flight Facebook group yet?  We have loads of fun and inspiration going on in there!

Coffee Break with Artful Angel

 Hello, hello!  Is it time for a coffee break yet? Lol.  It is at Artful Angel!  The new release for January includes this fantastic new stamp set called Coffee Break.

I created a fun gift card holder perfect for any coffee, tea or hot chocolate lover!

The inside of the card holds a gift card in a pocket.

I colored these images using my Copic markers.  This is just one of a few new stamp sets over at Artful Angel this month!  Don't forget to come and join us in the Artful Angel Takes Flight Facebook group for lots of fun and inspiration :)

See you again soon!