SCS Mystery Image Swap - March 2016 MFT Birdie Brown "You are Super"

Super Girl says You're a Super Friend! I've always loved this Super Girl image from My Favorite Things.  It's been on my wish list forever.

This month in March, Joanna (Queenbee Jo) over at SCS sent us all this darling stamped girl, accessories and sentiments from the "You are Super" set to play with.  She even sent along two different cityscape skyline dies for us to use.

So here's my Super Girl card with shiny don't hate her because she's beautiful hair, super girl shield and word bubble sentiment! Had to throw in some red glitter a la easy glitter tape.

I'm not really sure why I went with the patriotic theme in my background patterned paper selection. Maybe I was thinking of Captain America when I was coloring in that shield?

I've been watching new coloring tutorials and applied some of what I could remember.  I've never used a hint of Copics B00 before and I love the way her hair came out.  With this close up, you can see I messed up with color bleeding outside the lines on the bottom right dress area.  Now you see why she ended up with a shield? tee hee!

Here are the Copics I used for her hair and skin color.  I busted out Y17 for once for all the yellow you see. 

But I really don't have any primary blues or reds. So I ended up reaching for my SU Watercolor Pencils set to finish her Super Girl costume. I also added a pop of white sharpie marker pen work on her boots. 

Because the sentiment Joanna sent along was stamped with plenty of space in between each of the words, I decided to carefully die cut the phrase "Super Friend" as you can see below.  Usually, this type of precision aligning would require a lot of praying for it to work out because I'm too cheap to waste my non existent washi tape stash by using a few pieces to tape the metal die in place.

I remembered to pack my new magnetic platform I just received from Joann's during their most recent online 50% off sale. Oh my gosh, this was so worth the splurge!! It worked like a charm with success on the first try! Saving so much time since additional attempts with limited supplies were not necessary.

I forgot how much joy new crafting toys can bring.  Thank you Joanna for the opportunity to play with this adorable little Super Girl.  And I hope Kelly likes it as this is on it's way to her on Monday as part of our rotating mail out schedule for the Mystery Image Swap.

SCS is hosting their "Here Comes the Sun" themed Virtual Stamp Night this weekend, so I'm submitting this one for Hostess Carla's (Covington Crafter) "Give Me A Head With Hair" Challenge MAR16VSNK since I made it a point to try a different hair coloring approach this time.

Challenge #1 of 14 - done!


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"Super Friend" You are Super Card
Paper: Cryogen White #89; ? PP
Stamps: MFT Birdie Brown "You are Super"
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black; Copics (Hair) B00, N1, C5. C7, C9; (Skin) E00, E51, YR21, R 20; Super Girl Outfit - SU Watercolor Pencisl & Wink of Stella Gold 
Tools: SU Word Bubbles Framelit Die; Memory Box Cityscape Silhouette Border Die; Creative Memories Star Punch
Embellishments: American Crafts Best Creations Red Glitter Tape
Size: 5.75" x 5" rectangular 

Julie Nutting Watercolor Pencils Technique Duo Tag "Andara" & "Camille"

I was excited to be able to squeeze into a Julie Nutting technique class at the last minute taught by THE Julie Nutting herself.  Obviously, I've been bitten by the bug and just adore these doll stamps.  I love the ethereal artsy fartsy look of her coloring style, so wanted to get out of my box to learn something new.

Here's sweet Andara as we were just getting started. I learned that:

1. I had to let the watercolor pencils dry before going at it with the white sharpie pen to add the light highlighting details else the white shapie paint would muddle and get diluted by the dampness. 
2. I learned my preference to blend / add color by putting color down outside of my doll parts area (on the patterned paper) and picking up the color with my water barrel pen to apply a new color layer.
3. I learned my preference in controlling how wet the tip of my water barrel pen brush to affect color blending. 
4. I learned the difference of coloring paper directly with pencil strokes before and after applying water to blend. 
5. I learned to layer watercolor pencil applications while blending.   

Here's sweet Andara all dressed up with the lovely Belle Vie patterned papers, Prima flowers and exquisite Tonic umbrella die.   

And here's her companion Camille adorned with a Tonic butterfly die. Julie had some tiny pink sequins that were just the perfect accent to her full skirt.  

I couldn't help squealing in class "THIS IS SOO SOO PRETTY!!" every 5 seconds that I was working on these tags.  Both of the girls were edged with ink for dimension before they were pop dotted onto the embellished tags.  The only item that was paper pieced was their bonnet hats that came from the "Gina" doll set. 

This was my first time accenting with White Sharpie pen so my strokes are visibly tentative and sloppy. I'm eager to get better with practice. 

I think I'm hooked on these Julie Nutting dolls.  I bought a set of skin color watercolor pencils today to join my other 2-3 sets of watercoloring pencils I already have from SU and other manufacturers I don't remember.  If my lss had the other sets, I probably would have bought them too. I held off on purchasing new dolls....for now....because I already have 2 of the dolls in my stamp collection. 

I had so much fun today! 

  


"Camille & Andara"  Doll Tags
Paper: Julie Nutting Belle vie; Bazzil Black 
Stamps: Prima Julie Nutting "Andara," "Camille" & " Gina" Doll Stamps
Ink: Unknown Black Pigment Ink; Sakura Souffle Black Pen; Sharpie White Fine Tip Marker; Prima Chalk Edgers Dark Rust
Embellishments: Julie Nutting Hair & Skin Watercolor Pencils, Julie Nutting The Basics Watercolor Pencils; Tonic Butterfly and Umbrella Dies;  Prima flowers
Designed & Kitted By: Julie Nutting