It’s almost right smack in the middle of February and I thought I best be showing some Valentine projects! Here’s one I’ve had finished for a while which was originally for a flower power challenge, hence all the flowers. This project uses Sweetheart Marci Digi Scene from La-La Land Crafts which is one of the ones I purchased back in January. Check it out…

I think if I was to do it again, I’d remove all the flowers. Most of my projects are sans-flowers so I guess it’s good to create outside of my comfort zone once in a while. 😀 I also added the white lace and used a Tim Holtz die for the clock face in the background. Here’s a closeup of the details of Marci…

I love coloring their faces with the extra details which really brings out a 3D look. On this project I also brought out the white gel pen and added extra details to the hearts. My own daughter is in this phase and lately has been cutting hearts galore every day after school! Scalloped ones, big ones, small ones, hearts within hearts, reds, pinks, purples – you name it… she’s been cutting it! I think when Valentines finally hits she’ll have enough to give all her classmates two or three each! LOL

A huge thanks to Sandie, I have saved the colors I used on this project to share. (Long story, but she actually helped me save the colors on all my LLL projects!)

Copic Colors: T0, T1, T2, T3, T4, T6, T8, E55, E57, E59, E04, E000, E00, E21, E53, R11, R12, E50, E51, E53, YG61, YG63, YG67, R81, R83, R85, R21, R14, R17, R37, R46, R59, BV11, BV13, BV17

The challenge right now at Make it Crafty is to color blades of grass and there is several ways this can be done! This is one of my projects I’ve had saved up with shows short blades of grass. I used a few different colors of green and just flicked up with the brush tip. It also helps to have some of the blades of grass color over the bottom part of the image.

It’s not very often that I have the colors written down anymore, but I do for this project…
Copic Colors: E40, E41, E42, E43, E44, C1, C2, C3, B91, B93, B95, B97, B99, B41, W0, W2, W3, W4, W6, W8, E555, E57, E59, E31, E35, E37, E04, E00, E11, E21, R12, R14, YG61, YG63, YG67, G99, R59, R46, R37, R17, R14, R21, YR18, YR14, YR21, Y32

The images I used are Mod Marci, Suitcase Set, and Lil’ Rocker Luka all from La-La Land Crafts. I recently purchased each of these in digi form and assembled this scene together. Here’s a close up of Marci and Luka.

Both faces were shaded in giving them colored eyes and even eyeglasses on Luka. The first thing I did was leave the area white like most people do already when they color LLLC images. Then I shaded in the eyelid going from tip to tip of the black curved line. After that I added the color around the eye and finally came back in with a white gel pen for some highlights.

I also shaded in Luka’s glasses by using a darker color green for the shadow areas first then working my way into the lighter colors. Luka’s guitar was done the same way too … starting with the flames, going from red to yellow then finally comeing back in and coloring the black. Perhaps I’ll get a chance to play around with more grass techniques before the challenge is over. We’ll see! 😀