Let's hang...

Hello my fellow stampers.
Hope you are ready to tackle a brand new week!

I'm heading off to work this morning but before I do, I have this card to share. About a month ago I colored up a Copic grey comparison chart for the Color Me Copic blog and I used Creeper Madden from The Greeting Farm. Her awesome head of hair just made her the perfect candidate. ;)
Well, they have been sitting on my desk for awhile so I thought it was time to get another Madden on a card. You see, this isn't the first of the four Madden's that I've colored all up... the first one was actually published in the very first issue of the new Designed to Color magazine!

If you haven't checked out DTC yet, I highly recommend that you do. Carisa has been working hard to fill a void in our US paper crafting publications. And I really hope to watch Designed to Color flourish and grow because in my opinion any sort of focus on coloring, character type stamps, and the cards and projects featuring them has been sorely lacking here in Stateside publications. Even in special 'stamping' editions of current magazines I've only ever seen stamping which requires little to no coloring... nothing even close to the kinds of cards that so many of us love to create. More often than not it seems that the published cards are only there to showcase the papers and coordinating embellishments that are currently available in stores. Which, yes, I understand that it is those paper companies paying the advertising dollars, but it is still disappointing when your area of crafting seems to be constantly neglected.

Whoa... who let me climb up onto my soapbox, LOL! But seriously, there are a lot of us out here who are passionate about coloring and creating and Designed to Color is giving us a magazine that will finally be geared to inspiring like minded stampers. How can you not love that? And if you have ever thought about trying to get some of your work published, calls are still open for the second issue of the magazine coming out in April. Don't use Copics? Not a problem! DTC is all inclusive when it comes to representing different coloring mediums. So think about submitting some of your best, new work and who knows... we may just get to see it in print! :)

Stay classy San Diego!

Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and Copic X-Press It
paper- Love, Elsie
stamps- The Greeting Farm (Creeper Madden and sentiment)
ink- Memento tuxedo black and Colorbox creamy brown
Kaiser Craft gems
Tim Holtz tiny attacher
Littlest Pet Shop sticker
Copic Spica glitter pens
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, R00, R20, BG10, BG11, YG00
hair- T5, T7, T9, T10
clothes- RV23, RV25, RV29, Y11, Y21, YG00, YG01, YG03, YG17, RV32, RV34, C5, C7, C9, BG18