Coloring the EASY WAY!

Now that I have a REAL artist doing the coloring I have all but stopped doing it myself....mainly because there really isn't enough time!  And, because, why?!

Andrea colored Victoria Penny (Link) in blue.  I wanted to play with changing her with CorelPhoto-Paint so

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  I copied her onto an second layer,
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  I changed the "hue" of the copy just by sliding a bar...  Naturally, that change her face to a sickly greenish blue so
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  I erased the flesh from the 2nd layer so that the bottom layer showed through.... TADA!!!  Two of the same girl in different colored outfits :-)

To make this card I took the 2nd Victoria Penny and flipped her.  It's hard to see here but the card opens in the middle between their hands.  I did that by printing them on opposite edges of the paper facing out...and I did the same with half the text (interesting process that!)

A Man and His Dog

OK. this really has nothing to do with Rubber Stamps but I HAD to post it!  (Actually, there really is a rubber stamp there...just need to create it!)

This is my brother and his dog Boone.  I think it is hillarious because they look so much alike!

And, just saw we have a couple new followers!  Thanks you guys!

We are Going Color!

Well, sort of.... We are loading color versions of each stamp as quickly as we can.  You will see the color version after you select the stamp you are interested in.  We have most of them already done but now we are playing catch up for some of the first ones we put out there.

We can make the color version available for sale if there is any interest in that... just let us know.

Here are the colored versions of the three patriotic stamps Andrea came up with this past week.
(If you notice, the background behind the little girl can be used on all three stamps.)

Her Blonde Phase

Just trying to get some colored images uploaded because I think they are great inspiration for those of us who don't know where to begin to color a stamp. Today its Andrea's "Blonde Phase". Not too sure WHY she chose to color them all blondes...but here you have it.

I love this one... she's new... Andrea saw her on her kitchen counter.  She has also inspired some new ones of folks pushing against something...can't wait to show you some of those...in the meantime, this one is

Victoria Penny Pushback:

Laura:

Freeda:

Fancy Nancy:

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June 24th....Day One

Hi All, finally decided to go ahead and create a group Blog. Not too sure why I avoided it! Very, very simple. I guess it was because I already run to keep up with my other two blogs :-). http://www.diecutfun.blogspot.com/ (you get to watch me learn) and http://myfathershands-nb.blogspot.com/ (you get to read about some of the lessons I've learned in life). I'm thinking that diecutfun will have to meld into this one....I'm keeping the other because I need to give God the glory somewhere...I do it most there.

I will try and keep you posted here on new stamps as we get them loaded and whatever else comes to mind.

OK, well, it is 5:09am here...and I'm running on about 2 hours sleep...going to go give it another shot.

Have a great day all!
N.

OH!!!  one thing I did tonight was I put my first tutorial on CADC!!!  How about that?!  Simple one ...Creating Watermark Background Paper

Now it's 6:09!!!  I really am going to sleep now!