Here the card I made using the gray samples from the in the last technique post, Tips, Tricks & Techniques 0x022, and uses all four tones of Copic grays. I arranged them in the center putting cools and warms opposite each other to balance out the difference. Then I continued to add everything else to the card too for another eclectic look. ;D

Here’s a picture of all the colors used on the Sugar ‘n Spice Dolls, from the top to bottom, and from coolest to warmest, the names of the images are Pepper, Peppermint, Nutmeg and Cinamon.

I used the carnival themed paper again and added various objects such as ribbon roses, linen mesh, chipboard embellishments, hat pins, film strip, ticket and carnival candy (faux of course)! Did you spot all that? Now we just need to find Waldo and we’ll be set.

I’d like to enter it into the following challenges:

Aud Sentiments Challenge #26 (Anything Goes)
Just Add In Challenge #64 (chocolate wrapper color combo)
Moving Along with the Times Challenge #94 (chocolate)
Art Impressions Stamps Challenge #12 (Anything Goes)
Fashion Inspiration Challenge #89 (flowers – ribbon roses)

Main Stamp: Pepper, Nutmeg, Peppermint & Cinnamon (LMMS)
Patterned Paper: le Cirque (Graphic45)
Chipboard: Love Heart Swirls (MiC)
Metal Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels One and Inverted Scalloped Squares

Copic Markers colored on Copy Paper:
Pepper: C00, C1, C3, C5, C7, C9
Peppermint: 0, N1, N3, N5, N7, N9
Nutmeg: T0, T1, T3, T5, T7, T9
Cinnamon: W00, W1, W3, W5, W7, W8

Did you know? Sinbad the Sailor is a fictional sailor from Basrah, living during the Abbasid Caliphate and the hero of a story-cycle of Middle Eastern origin. During his voyages throughout the seas east of Africa and south of Asia, he has fantastic adventures going to magical places, meeting monsters, and encountering supernatural phenomena.
[Sinbad the Sailor, Wikipedia.org]

Welcome to the next Little Miss Muffet Challenge and theme this time is Glitter and Shine! For my shine I covered the lollipops with lacquer with a nice thick coating. The glitter comes in on the angel wing chipboard where I covered it using a pearl color, an Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabbers, and then I added Sticklets Glitter Glue to give it some details.

This was my first time using the Martha Stewart border punch and thanks to my friend on another group I just “had” to have it. I also used Arabella‘s fabulous idea of googly eyes on the monster – it cracks me up!

DT Challenge: Little Miss Muffet Challenge #7 (glitter or shine)

Challenges:
Designed to Delight Kidding Around Challenge (for kids)
Catch the Bug Challenges (four or more layers)
Little Claire’s Challenge #4 (Spring – lots ‘o candy)
Totally Gorjuss Challenge #75 (fluffy)

Main Stamp: Monster Sweet Tooth (LMMS)
Patterned Paper: Schoolbound (DCWV)
Chipboard: Love Heart Swirls (MiC)
Metal Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Ten
Copic Markers colored on Copy Paper (unknown colors)

Did you know? The Celtic brooch, more properly called the penannular brooch, and its closely related type, the pseudo-penannular brooch, are types of brooch clothes fasteners, often rather large. Beginning as utilitarian fasteners in the Iron Age and Roman period, they are especially associated with the highly ornate brooches produced in precious metal for the elites of Ireland and Scotland from about 700 to 900, which are popularly known as Celtic brooches or similar terms. They are the most significant objects in high-quality secular metalwork from Early Medieval Celtic art, or Insular art, as art historians prefer to call it. The type continued in simpler forms such as the thistle brooch into the 11th century, during what is often known as the Viking Age in Ireland and Scotland.
[Celtic Brooch, Wikipedia.org]

Here’s my second Sugar ‘n Spice Dolls card for today which features Nutmeg! She takes after my own heart with comfy PJs that can be worn all day long. ;D As you may have noticed, each doll has a doll’s tag you can look for… so far I’ve always colored mine red. The one on Nutmeg might be hard to spot at first but you can see that it’s “sewn” into the blanket. On this card I also got to use some long forgotten embellishments… mainly the wide Satan ribbon and pink flowers.

Previews: Little Miss Muffet Challenges New Releases – Day 2
Challenge: The Corrosive Challenge #110 (pastel colors)
Challenge: Kenny K’s Krafty Girlz #39 (pink)
Challenge: Paper Sundaes Challenge #63 (spring blossoms)
Main Stamp: Nutmeg (LMMS)
Patterned Paper: scraps
Chipboard: Frame Corner Flourishes (MiC)
Metal Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities Large Scalloped Oval

Copic Markers colored on Copy Paper:
-skin: E000, E00, E11, R12
-hair: E51, E53
-clothes: B91, B93, B97, BG000, BG01, BG02, BG05, BG07, BG09, R81, R85, R89, RV32, RV34, C00, C1, BV00, BV000, BV02, BV04
-monkey: E41, E42, E43, E44, R24
-other: R81, R85, R89, R22, R24, R29

Did you know? A sock monkey is a toy made from socks fashioned in the likeness of a monkey. These stuffed animals are a mixture of folk art and kitsch in the culture of the United States and Canada. The sock monkey’s most direct predecessors originated in the Victorian era, when the craze for imitation stuffed animals swept from Europe into North America and met the burgeoning Arts and Crafts Movement.
[Sock Monkey, Wikipedia.org]

Meet this smart girlie-girl who loves to read – her name is Cinnamon and one of the newest stamps available at Little Miss Muffet Stamps! This little doll was inspired by two munchkins running around my feet… one loves to read and the other loves dresses! Check her out then head on over to the Little Miss Muffet Challenges blog for more inspiring projects. ;D

Preview: Little Miss Muffet Stamps New Releases – Day 2
Challenge: Card Cupids Challenge #19 (dots and stripes)
Challenge: Scrappy Frogs Challenge (flowers [paper] and lace)
Challenge: Kaboodle Doodle Challenge #61 (girlie)
Main Stamp: Cinnamon (LMMS)
Patterned Paper: Lemonade (BG)
Metal Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities Large Scalloped Rectangle

Copic Markers colored on Copy Paper:
-skin tone: E000, E00, E11, E13, R11, R12
-skin: E000, E00, E11, E13, R11, R12
-hair: E08, E07, E19, E18
-clothes: E41, E42, E43, E44, E47
-other: G40, G82, G85, G99, R22, R24, R29

Did you know? A pendulum is a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely. One of the earliest known uses of a pendulum was in the 1st century seismometer device of Han Dynasty Chinese scientist Zhang Heng. Its function was to sway and activate one of a series of levers after being disturbed by the tremor of an earthquake far away. Released by a lever, a small ball would fall out of the urn-shaped device into one of eight metal toad’s mouths below, at the eight points of the compass, signifying the direction the earthquake was located.
[Pendulum, Wikipedia.org]