Christmas Cards

I am starting to get some new Christmas stuff into the shop....here are some little Christmas Cards I made using Copic-coloured Sunny Christmas Marci and Santa Marci (La-La Land Crafts).

These cards are follow ons from the ones featured here: Christmas in July.

Both images were digitally stamped on to x-Press It paper (LimeTart), then coloured with Copics pens.
As the Copic pen comes through the x-Press It paper a piece of Christmas paper is attached to the inside of the card.
Red sparkly envelopes (Envelope Solutions) are included.

For Sunny Christmas Marci, I used:

• skin: E00, E02, Lipstick Spica pen
• hair: Y11, Y15, Y17, E31
• dress and thongs: R20, R22, R27
• reindeer headband: R20, R22, R27, RV13, E35, E37
• lights: B05, R35, V17, G05, Y17, E35, E37
• background: V000

For Santa Marci, I used:

• skin: E00, E02, Lipstick Spica pen
• hair: Y11, Y15, Y17, E31
• hat, dress and tights: R22, R27, Clear Spica pen
• vest, boots and hairbands: G05, G07, Clear Spica pen
• stocking: R27, G07
• holly leaves and berries: YG67, R27
• candycane: G05, R27
• panda: W3, W5, R20 (nose/ears)
• background: V000

These cards will be shown on the La-La Land Crafts Facebook page and in the Customer Gallery.

Both these cards and more will be listed on Etsy in my shop: JemLou Productions, over the following weeks. Click here for the listing.

Thanks for looking! :)

Mighty Monday 17 - Treasuries

I put together a treasury for the PCFTeam Mighty Monday 17:
More Autumn Finds.
The other shops will be putting together treasuries of their own, featuring my shop.
Here they are:

1. Promoting Creative Friends October 15 by Theodora with my Reindeer Card
2. Totally Autumn by Coral and Coral with my Reindeer Card
3. Purple and Orange by Carole with my Purple Heart Card
4. Autumn Hues - Mighty Monday 17 by Kim with my Have a Wicked Halloween Card
5. Fun Fall Finds by Karen with my Reindeer Card
6. Orange You Glad It's Autumn? by AMarigoldLife with my Have a Wicked Halloween Card
7. Monday Managerie by Pat with my Happy Birthday Dinosaur Card
8. The Seasons; they are a' changin'! by Angie with my Have a Wicked Halloween Card
9. Mighty Fine Treasures by The Barrett's with my Ohhh Christmas Tree Card
10. Christmas Gifts by Fuesun with my Pack of Four Small Reindeer Cards
11. Etsy Artisans Love Purple by Denise with my Thank You Card
12. Mighty Mighty Earthy Monday by Heather with my Pack of Five Christmas Gift Tags
13. Fun Fabulous #8 by Audrey with my Pack of Four Small Snowman Cards
14. BeautiFALL by Shoshi with my Another Merry Christmas Card
15. Shades of Autumn by Scotti with my Happy Birthday Dinosaur Card
16. I wish I had these by Amy with my Bee Happy Card

Thanks for looking! :)

Little Halloween Cards

Here are some Halloween Cards I made using Copic-coloured Witch Marci, Pumpkin Marci and Luka with Pumpkin (La-La Land Crafts).
Each character is digitally stamped on to x-Press It paper, then hand coloured with Copics pens and Spica pens. Then the coloured image is fussy cut and adhered to a small card made of textured card stock (DCWV).

I used the following Copics pens:

Witch Marci:

• skin: E000, E00, E02, Lipstick Spica
• hair: red - YR02, YR04, YR07, E08; brown - E33, E35, E37; hairband - V09, clear Spica
• clothing and hat: V12, V15, V06, V09, YR16 (buckle), clear Spica
• tights: YG03, G05
• shoes: C7, 100, YR16 (buckle), clear Spica
• pumpkin: YR02, YR15, YR16, clear Spica
• broom: E33, E35, E37, V09
• background: B000

Pumpkin Marci:

• skin: E000, E00, E02, Lipstick Spica
• hair: red - YR02, YR04, YR07, E08; brown - E33, E35, E37 
• outfit, shoes and hat: YR02, YR15, YR16, YG03, YG06, YG09
• lollipop: BV00, BV02, BV04, clear Spica
• pumpkin: YR02, YR04, YR07, clear Spica
• background: B00, or G00

Luka with a Pumpkin:

• skin: E000, E00, E02
• hair: red - YR02, YR04, YR07, E08; brown - E33, E35, E37
• jacket: YG63, YG95, YG67
• pants: E31, E33, E35
• boots: E33, E35, E37 
• hat: E31, E33, E35, YG63, YG95, YG67
• pumpkin: YG03, YG06, YG09, YR02, YR15, YR16, clear Spica

These cards will be featured on the La-La Land Crafts Facebook page and the Customer Gallery.

These cards are for sale on Etsy in my shop: JemLou Productions. Click here for the link.

Thanks for looking! :)

Happy Travels with Travel Marci

Here is my latest card:

I coloured Travel Marci monochromatically with Copics markers as this was a challenge on the La-La Land Crafts Facebook Page.
I then used Cardabilities latest sketch for inspiration:

Travel Marci (La-La Land Crafts) was digitally printed on to x-Press It paper (LimeTart), then coloured with the following Copics Pens: E51, E53, E31, E33, E35, C1 (background).
The card base is Kraft (Envelope Solutions), a piece of blue textured cardstock (DCWV) was attached to the card, then strips of a paper from a Spring Stack (DCWV) from many years ago were hand-cut as banners and attached to the blue cardstock with Washi Tape (LimeTart). Travel Marci was attached with pop dots and "happy travels!" was hand written with Chocolate Spica pen.
This card is displayed on the La-La Land Crafts Facebook Page and the La-La Land Crafts Customer Gallery.
This card is for sale on Etsy in my shop: JemLou Productions. Click here for the link.
Thanks for looking! :)

Have a sunny day with Summer Luka

Here is another card for this weekend.....

I drew inspiration from Paper Makeup Stamps again this week and used the sun from Jen's Sunshine.
The theme at Paper Makeup Stamps was "keep cool". I have had Summer Luka (La-La Land Crafts) for a little while now and wanted to use him, so after looking at the La-La Land Craft Blog, I saw a beautiful card by Debra James with an awesome background of beach huts, with Summer Luka and the sentiment "have a sunny day!" I tried to draw a beach hut, but then I remembered I had this palm tree stamp from Nitwit Collections (freebie with my Australian Simply Cards magazine).

Summer Luka is digitally stamped on to x-press it paper, as is the sun. The palm tree is stamped directly on to the card, which reminds me that I should adhere a piece of paper to the underside! I have also coloured the background with blues for the sky and yellows for the "sand".
The Copics pens I have used for Summer Luka are:

• skin - E00, E11, E02
• hair - YR20, E33, E35, E37
• clothes - R35, R37, B02, B05
• floaties - Y02, Y15, YG03, YG63
• turtle - G02, G05, Y00, Y15
• flippers - Y02, Y15
• goggles/snorkel - BG000, BG10, BG15

For the sun, I used: Y11, Y15, Y17, R02 (cheeks), E02 (tongue).

For the palm tree, I used: E35 & E37 (trunk), E08 (coconuts), G02, G05 (leaves).

For the background sky, I used a combination of BG10, BG000 and B00. For the sand, I used Y02.

The sentiment is hand written in pitch black Spica pen.

This card will also be displayed in the La-La Land Crafts Customer Gallery and on the La-La Land Crafts Facebook page.

This card will be for sale on Etsy in my shop: JemLou Productions. The link to follow.

Thanks for looking! :)

Sunflowers Birthday Card

Here is my card for this week:

I have drawn inspiration from Cupcake Inspirations Challenge: Cupcake Inspirations #172. Here is the inspirational photo:

I also used a sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches: TMS #158 and the twist: Birthday!

I have used:

• a white square card and envelope from Envelope Solutions
• Chef Marci and some sunflowers (both from La-La Land Crafts) digitally stamped on to X-press it paper, hand coloured with Copics pens and fussy cut.
• a triangular piece of paper from a Spring Stack (DCWV) from quite a few years ago!
• "good friends eat cake" stamp (polka doodles - freebie from Australian Simply Cards) stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa ink
• four rhinestones from KaiserCraft coloured with Copics

The Copics Pens I used were:

• skin: E00, E11, E02, lipstick Spica pen
• hair: YR20, E33, E35, E37
• clothes: BG000, BG10, BG13, BG15
• cake: Y00, Y02, G05, RV14, lipstick Spica pen
• piping bag: Y00, Y02
• background: V000
• sunflowers: Y02, YR07, Y28, E37, G05
• rhinestones: BG15, BG13, RV14, Y02

This card will also be displayed on the La-La Land Crafts Customer Gallery and the La-La Land Crafts Facebook page.
This card will be for sale on Etsy in my shop: JemLou Productions. Link to follow (as usual, I need some better photos!)

Thanks for looking! :)

Riding by to say Hi with Tricycle Marci

Here is my latest creation using inspiration from Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #171 for the colours: blue and yellow, Cupcake Craft Challenge #203 and Paper Makeup Stamps Challenge #47 for the theme: The Great Outdoors and Endless Summer, respectively.
So here is my card:

Here is the inspirational photo from Cupcake Inspirations:

I have used a square white card and envelope from Envelope Solutions.
I have digitally stamped Tricycle Marci, the sentiment "Riding by to say Hi" and the fence from La-La Land Crafts and the sun from Jen's Sunshine, part of a set of digital stamps for charity from Paper Makeup Stamps.

I have printed on X-press It paper and coloured everything with Copics pens.
The Copic pens I used are:

• Tricycle Marci 
• skin: E50, E51 and lipstick Spica pen
• hair - E31, E35, E37
• shorts/headband - B02, B05
• top/hair bow - Y11, Y15, Y17
• bike - BG000, BG10, BG15, C1, C3, C5
• basket - E31, E35
• panda - C1, C3, C5, R20, lipstick Spica pen
• Fence
• wood - E31, E35, E37
• stones - W1, W3, W5, E35
• grass - YG63, YG67
• Sun
• Y11, Y15, Y17
• cheeks - R02
• tongue - E02

Everything was coloured on the edge with B00.

I also made an addition to this card, as I thought it was lacking something in the middle!

I digitally stamped the sunflowers from La-La Land Crafts, then coloured them with the following Copic pens:

• stems/leaves - YG03, YG63
• flowers - Y02, YR07, Y28, E37

I think next time, I'll add the sunflowers and fence together before I print! Too much fussy cutting!! :)

This card is for sale on Etsy in my shop: JemLou Productions. Here is the listing: Riding By to Say Hi! Card.

This card will also be displayed in a few places:  La-La Land Customer Gallery and the La-La Land Crafts Facebook page.