More Challenges and Cards...

  Today was a good day for working on challenge cards and today is also the day that some of my favorite challenges are posted over at Simply Scrapping Crafts.   One of my favorites, is the Copic Coloring Challenge and every Wednesday, a new video tutorial and challenge is posted by Lisa Futch, who is a Copic Certified Designer, and an excellent crafter.   If you have not tried Copics yet or if you have them and don't know where to begin, this is the place to start!  It's also fun and totally Free! Simply hop on over to SSC and join in on ALL their Challenges.
  After a new video today on light sources and shading, (which I admit I still do NOT have down), I practiced coloring almost all afternoon and I manged to finish up three cards, all for challenges over at SSC.  

   This first card is my card for the weekly Copic Challenge --
 

  

    This next card I created for the weekly Card Challenge called "A Card Corner".  This week the challenge is to use some form of Distressing on your project, which can be a layout, card or other type of Paper-Craft.  I used Tim Holtz Distress Inks, 

to color the doily on the card to match my image.  

I used two colors from his newest color collection and also one of my newly colored images.

....And my third card today was another card for the "Color Combo Challenge" also at SSC and the colors for this week's challenge are shown in the image below!  

  And this is my card I created using those Copic Colors --

   I also want to tell you that ALL of the images I used on my cards today are from a new "Digital Store" that Lisa had told us about in her class today.   It's called "Fred, She Said" and you can find the Digital Store - Here, or if you want visit the blog called   Fred, She Said - Digital Designs, for ideas and inspiration - please Click HERE!

    I had a great time browsing all the wonderful digital images for sale in the store and of course,  I could not leave without buying some to use for my cards.   There are a great selection of  designs to choose from and I'm sure you'll find some that you'll LOVE too!   I've already added the blog and the store to my bookmarks and I'm sure I visit again.  You can also link there via the "blinkie" on my side bar.

  Click Here for the Store!

  Now, it's about time for dinner and that will be it for me today.  I had a good day, but right now I am totally exhausted and need some time to rest!

  Happy Crafting!!