Have I mentioned lately that I have totally fallen in love with C.C. Design’s little girl image stamps? Oh yes, in just about every other post. LOL<\/p>\n

I used C.C. Design’s Rose, Elfie, and the latest, Sweetheart, in three of the pockets in the shabby chic\/cutsie pocket letter that I made for a new crafty friend of mine who favors these styles. All of these stamps are from the Not2ShabbyShop<\/a><\/span>, where you can get 10% off your entire order (including sale items) by using the coupon code: CRAFTYPAWS at check out. HOT SALE on all Whimsy stamps from April 22-26, 2015!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

For the background paper, I used a beautiful K and Company rose patterned paper with embedded glitter. Along some of the sides, to add a little interest, I added a pink card stock backing and a little polka dot vellum. To tie together the pockets with the stamped images with the whole pocket letter, I used the same blue\u00a0and white fabric washi tape to create a floor for the little girls to “stand on” as well as along the side binding of the pocket letter.<\/p>\n

To fill in the other pockets, I used chipboard gears cut out with the Tim Holtz Bigz Sizzix Gadget\u00a0Gears die, some pretty Graphic 45 die cuts, five wood veneer birds by Studio Calico, a handmade cupcake embellishment and a pink poodle die cut (representing my sweet Biscuit) standing on some black and white “special delivery” washi for\u00a0the pocket that holds my letter. The pocket that I think may be the most fun is the shaker with various different sized sequins in pinks, silver and cream, a few iridescent pink embellies by Webster’s Pages, and a Bead Gallery word bead. I used my sewing machine to just stitch the pocket closed after filling it up.\u00a0 I’m keeping the little crafty gifts in the back of each pocket a secret so they can be surprises for my pocket pal. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

For each of the C.C. Designs girl\/elf images, I colored them with Copic markers, all with different shades of brown hair (because my pocket pal has brown hair). I also did a little paper piecing, and added Glossy Accents and clear Wink of Stella to add some shimmer and shine. The biggest changes I made were to Rose, by fussy cutting away the bouquet of roses to make her a little more versatile, and the lines I added to the heart balloons held by Sweetheart so that I could have some extra fun coloring them in as if they were more translucent.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The following are all the Copic colors I used:
\nAll skin: E50, 51, and 53 with R30 and\/0r R20 for blush
\nSweetheart’s dress: R81, 83 and 85
\nSweetheart’s hair and shoes: E55, 57 \u00a0and 59
\nSweetheart’s socks: C1
\nSweetheart’s balloons: BV000, RV000 and B32, covered over top with a healthy coating of Glossy Accents to add a shine to the balloons
\nElfie’s hair: E50, 55, and 57
\nElfie’s hat, top and shoes: R30, 32 and 35
\nElfie’s purple polka dots on her hat: BV00 and 01
\nElfie’s wings: R30 and BV00, coated with a soft glitter glue to add extra sparkle magic to her wings
\nElfie’s leaves on hat and shoes: YG01 and 06<\/p>\n

Rose was pre-colored (an image I had previously paper pieced and colored and scanned into my computer) and then colored over top again so the Copic markers I used will not, on their own, result in these colors so I won’t list all these colors here. \u00a0I will share, however, that using a white Sakura Gelly Roll pen to add highlights really helped bring\u00a0this image to life.<\/p>\n

The following is a video share of this pocket letter project:<\/p>\n