Love is in the Air at Lacy Sunshine

Welcome to Challenge #24 at the Lacy Sunshine Challenge blog. For this challenge our theme is “Anything Goes.” Stay tuned: Heather is rolling out some new images for your Valentine’s Day little pieces of art.

Today I have the pleasure of creating with a new digi, "Abby with Mended Heart." This will be available at the one and only Lacy Sunshine Shop. Don’t miss the new ones under the “New Digis” section. Lacy Sunshine also has an assortment of “Clear Stamps.” If you like the physical stamp, these would be great to add to your collection.

For my project today I created an art card with the new digi “Abbey with Mended Heart.” This is the first time that I have colored one of Heather’s Abbeys, but it won’t be the last. I colored Abbey with Copics and did some fussy cutting so she would be dimensional. She is layered on Stampin Up!’s Basic Black and Cherry Cobbler cardstock. Before the layering I die cut the cardstock with Spellbinder’s Labels 16. I then distressed all cuts with Black Soot Distress Ink.

Copics used:

Skin: E000, 00, 11, BV000, R02

Heart & Bow: R32, 35, 37, 39, 89

Dress: W00, 1, 3, 5, 7

Gloves: W00, 1, 3, 5, 7, and

R32, 25, 37, 39

Hair: C00, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9

Eyes: G29, 40, 43, 46

Background: W00, 1, 2, 3

For my designer paper I found a very cute animal spots in Echo Park’s Love Story collection, perfect for Abbey. My ribbon is from the Ribbon Club at Really Reasonable Ribbon.

I used some Spellbinder’s dies that were a lot of fun. The heart under the bow is made up of two layers. The top heart is the smallest die from Nested Hearts. I embossed it and used Black Soot on the embossed areas and accented with Clear Wink of Stella Brush Tip Glitter Marker. The bottom layer is cut from the Classic Scalloped Hearts.

Next came the corners. These were achieved by cutting the black cardstock with Spellbinder’s Imperial Gold Corners Set One. This is the first time that I used any die from the Imperial Gold line. I must say they are wonderful. I added some DecoArt Silver Spark Metallic Lustre. This helped to bring out all the embossed and debossed areas of the die cut.

Abbey would like to enter the following challenges:

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Color Me Creative - Anything Goes

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge- Anything Goes

Hobby House - Use Ribbon

A Creative Need - Die-Cuts/Punches

That’s it for today. I hope you join us for our Lacy Sunshine #24 challenge. You have a standing invitation to join the Lacy Sunshine Facebook group too. We would love to have you share all your Lacy Sunshine little pieces of art.

Thanks for stopping by. If you have any questions, please contact me.

Aletha Jane

AJ’s Design Artz

Lacy Sunshine Creative Team