Digi Stamp Love!

I’ve been making cards with rubber stamps, cling stamps and clear stamps for many years, but it’s only in the past few years that I’ve become a huge fan of digital stamps!  In case you’re wondering what that is, basically it’s a jpg or png image which you download to your computer and then resize and print to color!  A while back I was invited by Luisana Lowry to color her new line of digital stamps offered in her Etsy shop called Red Hibiscus Designs.  I was honored to be asked and thrilled to receive a number of wonderful images from her!  My card above is one of her beautiful peonies which I colored with Copic markers.  I simply cut out the blossom and the leaves, mounted them to a white card base which I’d embossed.  A sentiment of white on black is a nice little pop on my softly beautiful card!  

I was a little intimidated at first by the many layers of petals in this detailed peony image by Luisana, but I just colored one section at a time with Copic markers, using gray to accent the shadows.  To create my background, I spread some DIY gesso onto a stencil and when it had dried, I brushed on a little Fossilized Amber distress oxide ink.  I love the dimension it gives to my card!  The background textured paper is called Bienfang Canvasette paper.   

More recently, Elena Cazares of Crafts For Paws, (an organization out of Texas which raises funds to rescue aged animals by selling craft items via their website and Facebook page) invited me to join a team of colorists for her Copic coloring classes!  What a special feeling to know that in a small way, I can be part of such a worthy effort to give senior, sickly dogs a chance to live out their remaining days in a loving and comfortable home!  The digital image above is from Power Poppy called Everything’s Rosy and I colored this one before I’d taken Elena’s first coloring class.

Can you see the difference in my coloring between these two images from Power Poppy?!  For this one, I followed along with Elena in her first class called Meka’s Rose and I learned some great techniques and tips!  I hope you’ll consider purchasing her classes and in doing so, contribute to the rescue mission of Crafts For Paws!  

 

 

My final card today is a beautiful digi stamp hand-drawn by Alex Syberia!  She has just opened an Etsy shop with a number of beautifully detailed floral images that will make you itch to get your coloring supplies out!  I used my Copic markers to color this one and hope to get some time this weekend to work on a few more!  You can find her shop HERE and her Instagram account HERE!  Have you discovered the vast world of digital stamps yet?  If so, leave me a comment telling my your favorites!  And do take a peek at all of the links I’ve provided in this post!  Thank you for your visit!  

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