Turning 3 Again......

Happy Saturday!!!!! It's Lydia here, I hope you all have a great day planned for today. I will be having a lazy day with the kids today as Will is working, it's miserable outside so a couple of Disney films and tons of Hot Chocolate are in order :)

I choose to use 'Turning 3' ... ok you have seen this one from me before but this is one of my faves, although I received the March release yesterday and there are some new faves in there!

Ok so on to my card.....

I just love, love, love this little cutie! I think it's the way she has positioned her leg that makes her so darn cute! 

I have used my newly found essential Copics to colour this sweetie, the colours I have used are....

skin- E00, E11, E21, R20

hair/shoes- E11, E35, E37

dress-balloons- RV000, RV52, RV55

Hope you have a great weekend and don't forget to check out the March Release!!!

I created something fun this weekend!! Sometimes I wish I had a whole weekend to stay in my craft area and create :o) I don't though, so I enjoy the times I do. This weekend I created a cute little St. Patrick's Day Tee-Pee card. These cards are more labor intensive but that give a lot of impact. The received can display them easily and it's three-sided so there is a lot to look at. I used a wonderful hand drawn digital stamp that you can find HERE. You will love Christine's images! They are fun and easy to color.

Here is a closeup of the colored image... I used Copic Markers, of course. The card is made from a heavyweight American Cardstock in a nice blue. I lined the paper in a cute rainbow print from K&Company along with some green polka dot paper. I added a green cherry blossom from I Am Roses and topped it off with a red and white striped bow.

The second of the three sided card is covered with the same paper but has a sentiment "You're Better than any Pot of Gold". I added some bows, flowers and embellishments.

The last of the three sides has a small amount of room to write a senitment of your own but has a cute "lucky YOU" sentiment attached. I used coordinating paper, staples and I added some ribbon to the edge.

And last of all is the ability to unflold the card, flatten it out and mail it in a large envelope.



Guest Designer Kim Price

Please welcome the amazingly talented Kim Price! Please check out her BLOG to see more of her work, it's full of inspiration for altered art, scrapbooking, and of course cardmaking.

She created a gorgeous card with "Sunflower Ellie". I think she created magic with this card (take a look at her sunflower).

Easter Ellie

Easter is almost here!

Its Loriann for another post for The Paper Nest.

Easter is around the corner, and its early this year, so we need to start creating all the fun bunny stuff.

I was going to do this next month untill I was asked to put it up earlier, so here she is. 

This is Easter Ellie isn't she adorable?

I think so!

The Paper Nest Dolls are just the cutest new stamps, they 

all have personality, there is one, two or more for every theme you can think

of and best of all they are all hand drawn. 

plus there is more and more coming out every month,

so keep checking here and The Paper Nest Store, Blog, Facebook,

for all the new stamps. They come in Digi and in rubber.

Now here's another look at my card.

I did the inside to match as I always do, I just love the colors 

so bright and colorful.  So here is what the inside looks like.

Too cute! I must say!

Now for an up close, see how she just has 

personality? Don't you just want to smile when you 

see her?

I do!

Thankyou for looking, I am working on more cute 

things so keep coming back Here to see.

Supplies List

* The Paper Nest Digi stamp

Easter Ellie 

* Cryogen metallic iridescent white paper

* doodlebug design paper

Hello Spring

* Misc. Paper

Glitter Paper (green)

Yellow Paper

* Copics

* atoyu spicac marker

(Clear glitter)

* Stickles (Glam Pink)

* Sixxiz Die & Machine

(flowers) 

* Embossing folder

* Stampin up Punch

(flowers)

* Ribbon   

* Computer

(HP) (wish I had a Mac! lol!)

* Printer

(Kodak 2170)

Here is the copics is used

Thankyou again

Lucky- By Jenn Cochran

Welcome to all the fans and followers of The Paper Nest Dolls!

So excited to be back again this week as your guest!  If you are just joining in I will give you a little recap of last week.  My name is Jenn Cochran.  I am the author of Jax Bean Stalks blog.  I am so LUCKY to be the guest for the entire month of March!  Click HERE to view my 1st post as a guest.

I had the pleasure of having The Paper Nest Dolls DT join me over on my challenge blog Party Time Tuesdays this past week.  There creations were awesome.  You can see them HERE. They are all so full of talent.  All of you (fans and followers) are so fortunate to have such fantastic inspiration on this team!

This week I couldn't resist using Christine's adorable St Patty Owen.  I am an Irish girl, so I just fell in love with him.  

I have several more pictures of this little guy on my blog Jax Bean Stalks including all the Copics I have used to color him!

Speaking of Copics...Have you entered Christine's contest to win Copics?  I mean it's COPICS!!!  

Enter HERE.

Paper Nest Dolls - Sunflower Ellie

Happy Monday Everyone! I'd like to start the new week with a super cute image from The Paper Nest Dolls. Sunflower Ellie. She is colored with Promarkers. The papers are by Memory Box - Valise 6x6 paper in Kraft. The flowers and leaves are from I Am Roses. The fence die cut is from Tim Holtz. The butterfly is from the Dollar Store? I made the brad from the paper collection and thought it was a nice way of creating the flower. TFL and have a wonderful week. Be sure to check out The Paper Nest Dolls facebook page daily as there are contests going on.

Thinking of you

Hi everyone, it Erika here again.

I wanted to show you a card I made with the adorable Avery in her pajamas. I decided to make this post in to a tutorial of how I did the card, so I hope you'll enjoy it.

Here is the card I will show you how to make.

So, lets start the tutorial. 

I printed the image of Avery onto Letraset Heavy Weight Cardstock and started picking out some colors of Copic. Since I don't remember what colors I used I won't try to make a list with the numbers. You can use whatever colors you have to color the image. 

Here you can see how I have started coloring the image with some pink markers. I used three to four different shades for all of my coloring. I think you get the best blending that way. 

When I color I usually start with the darkest color and then work my way from darkest to lightest. I color in small sections and mostly I go over the area about two or three times. If I don't like the way it blends and I can still see where the colors overlap I will go over the area again. 

When I was finished coloring the image it did my best to cut it out. I have to admit that I am not the best "fuzzy cutter", but I do what I can. In the smallest areas where I can reach with my scissors I use an X-Acto knife. 

When I have finally managed to cut out my image I use a brush tip maker, in this case a Copic Multiliner, and I go around the cut edges and color them black. I also make sure to cover up any imperfections and correct any mistakes I have made while cutting. Sometimes I cut away too much and the black line around the image disappears or I might not cut enough and I get a white line. In either case the black maker come in handy when covering up those mistakes. It also makes the image look more finished.

I then made a standard size card base from some white Bazzill cardstock and folded it.

I wanted some cute paper to go with my image and I went through my drawers and found some great papers from the Lawn Fawn "Daphne's Closet" collection. 

I cut the papers in to two strips that were 1" and 2" wide. 

I also went around the cut pieces with a Distress Marker in the color Bundled Sage. The papers were a bit blue in color and the pen is green, but it was the best match I could find and they went pretty well together. 

I then cut a piece of white cardstock and stamped my sentiment from a very old Heidi Grace stamp set I had. I made the sentiment strip 2" wide and used the Distress Marker around the edges of that piece too.

I also found some cute matching washi tape that I cut in to a banner. 

I adhered all of the pieced to my card base and made sure that the washi tape strip was in the right place and wouldn't show behind the image.

Finally I adhered the colored image and added some pink Stickles to her clothing and the bow on the teddy bear.

I also used a little bit of Glossy Accent to her eyes to make them look more real.

For a final finish I rounded the corners with my 1/2" Corner Chomper from We R Memory Keepers.

And that was my card for today. I hope you guys enjoyed it and I'll be back later this month with another card. Hopefully you'll be able to see my card being made live on YouTube soon, but I still haven't worked up the courage to record a video ;)

Here you can see the finsihed card again and feel free to visit my personal blog for more cards made by me.