My Stamping Corner: January 2013

I MADE A CARD!! Yah!! I know....pretty silly, right? If you look back at my posts though, you'll see how long it's been. I just haven't been "feelin' " it these days! But it's my grandaughter's birthday this week and I know she expects a 'hand-made' card, so I had to bite the bullet and do it. Yeesh! It was like brain surgery! The coloring part was bad enough, but then I had to try and figure out what paper to put with it and how to put it together - ugh. Didn't this used to be something I used to actually look forward to doing? Maybe I'm just getting lazy - I don't know. Have any of you had this problem? The mojo has just gone on vacation....a l-o-n-g vacation!

Anyway...here's what I did. I started with one of Mo's Digital images - "Danielle with Laptop". (I just LOVE Mo's images!!) As soon as I saw this, I thought of my grandaughter! I can just picture her in this position with her Mac on her lap and her cat (Penny) on the back of the chair keeping her company. :)

I haven't done this for so long that I think I really screwed up the shading. (eek!!) It looks like the light is coming from the right in some places and the left in others. Oh dear....think I need to practice some.

I used Copics mostly then did a lot of the shading with Prismacolor pencils/Gamsol. It felt good to color again - love that part! But when it comes to the putting together of the card, I get all stressed out. I think all of the choices just overwhelm me sometimes. Crazy, eh? Here's the inside of the card - pretty simple. I add these cute epoxy stickers that I found in my stash that just went perfectly with the sentiment! Of course I had to add some sparkle too - I put some glossy accents on the laptop and added yellow stickles to the flames of the candles and dotted some Star Dust stickles around the image.