Building Snowmen - Happy Memories - Challenge 188 LNS Color Me Happy

This week we are challenging you to find your 'inner-child' and grab those blender pens, markers pens and aqua painters and start coloring. There are so many fabulous ways to add that extra bit of hand coloring to your creations so share your talents with us this week.

You can share: cards, scrapbook pages, altered items or anything else you can think of is ALWAYS WELCOME!

So, that's the challenge!
So, I colored an image using chalks and a blender pen.
Here is my card:

Technique:
The base card is Gumball Green, which is matted with Very Vanilla card stock.  The next layer is the new Early Espresso Core'dinations cardstock which was embossed with the Polka dot folder and then sanded with a sanding block.

Image:
It was stamped with Black Stazon ink, and colored with chalk and a blender pen.  Versa mark ink was then applied to the entire surface, iridescent ice embossing powder applied followed by heat embossing.  Labels framelits were used to cut out the image and then mat it with Real Red card stock.  It was attached to the card using dimensionals.

Stamps: Winter Memories, More Merry Messages
Inks: Black Stazon, Versa Mark, Stampin' Pastels, Blush Blossoms marker
Papers: Gumball Green, Very Vanilla, whisper White, Early Espresso Core-dinations card stock, Candlelight Christmas designer paper, Real Red
Accessories: Polka dot folder, sanding block, Scallop edge punch, Gumball Green stitched satin ribbon, Labels framelits, Iridescent Ice embossing powder, blender pen

Penmanship Merry Christmas - Challenge 184 LNS

Challenge 184 with the LNS group is to CASE a Convention picture.  Since I did not go to the convention I had to search through quite a few blogs to find  picture I could CASE.  As it turned out the card I ended up Casing turned out to be in the Holiday Catalogue (Pg. 6)
The hardest thing about this card was the tulle ribbon.  It was a bit too wide, so  I ended up  cutting the ribbon in half and then applying it to the back of the panel 1/2 a strip at a time.
About the only thing I changed was the sentiment, as I did not have that stamp set, so I used  a retired stamp set: Hand Penned Holidays.

Stamp: Hand-Penned Holidays
Inks: Versa Mark
Papers: Very Vanilla, Green Gumball, Champagne glitter, Early Espresso Core'dinations card stock
Accessories: Green Gumball embossing powder, Scallop border punch, sandpaper, tiny star punch, 3 1/2" Scalloped Cherry Cobbler Tulle Ribbon

Snow Much Fun - Paper Players 105

After the extreme heat we have been experiencing, we finally had some rain, but in the form of a severe thunderstorm accompanied by hail.  The hail did a number on my geraniums, so I spent part of today dead heading.  It's a bit cooler today, but still hot.  It's almost cooling to be making Christmas cards.
For this challenge with the Paper Players here I thought I would use some of the new Early Espresso Core'dinations card stock and an old friend.

The image was stamped with Stazon ink and coloured with markers and blender pen. and then die cut using the apothecary accents framelits.  With a stipple brush and Marina Mist ink a light shading was created around the outer edge of the framelits.  The edges were pierced using the template in the the new Paper piercing pack essential.Some dazzling diamonds completed the illusion of snow on the snowman.

Stamps: Snow Much Fun, Many Merry Messages
Inks: Stazon, SU markers, Marina Mist
Papers: Lucky Limeade, Early Espresso Core'dinations card stock, Very Vanilla, Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler
Accessories: Apothecary accents framelits, Lacy Brocade embossing folder, Stampin' Sanding block, 1" circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, Stampin' Dimensional, Dazzling diamonds, Blender pen, Paper Piercing pack.