Colorado Craft Company – Anita Jeram Release Blog Hop

Hello Friends!

Today I am hopping along with a long list of designers for the new Anita Jeram Release from Colorado Craft Company. For my cards today I pulled out my Faber-Castell Polychromos colored pencils to color these sweet images.

For my first card I created a little watercolor starry night sky. I love how this little mouse from the Love Art set looks like he is standing back admiring his work.

For my second card, I felt that this tall image would work great on a slimline card. I kept things simple with some very light ink blending behind the image so that the bright colors of the image would stand out. This little guy is also from the Love Art set.

GIVEAWAY: I have a $25 gift card to Colorado Craft Company to giveaway. Please leave a comment by midnight EST on April 13th to be entered to win.

*** Congrats to Mary B the winner of the $25 gift card ***

Here is the complete blog hop list so you can visit all the designers! Happy Hopping!

  1. Adrienne Kennedy (CCC)
  2. Amber Rain Davis
  3. Angelica Conrad
  4. Bibi Cameron
  5. Caly Person
  6. Cathy Zielske
  7. Chari Moss
  8. Chris Dayton
  9. Daniel West
  10. Donna Hitz
  11. Emily Midgett
  12. Erin Thompson
  13. Jennifer Gross
  14. Jennifer Kotas
  15. Jennifer McGuire
  16. Jennifer Shurkus
  17. Joe Sysavath
  18. Kassi Hulet
  19. Kathy Racoosin
  20. Kelly Griglione
  21. Koren Wiskman
  22. Kristina Werner
  23. Laura Volpes
  24. Mansi Bhatia
  25. Marci Snee
  26. Nichol Spohr
  27. Sandy Allnock
  28. Sara Torzullo
  29. Traci Jenkins
  30. Yana Smakula
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138 thoughts on “Colorado Craft Company – Anita Jeram Release Blog Hop”

  1. I love the softness that these cards have!
    Your card with the Van Gogh quote is stunning. I wouldn’t have thought to combine watercolor and colored pencil.

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  2. Love both of your cards! Very creative to use that night sky background, and it does look like the little mouse is admiring his artwork. Thanks for the inspiration. I also like Love Art… it’s my favorite of this release.

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  3. Everyone is watercoloring these images! I’m wondering if CCC asked everyone to watercolor or if it’s a coincidence! I just love Anita Jeram and your cards are so cute!

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  4. Love the starry background and everything in this release! These critters make me smile, especially the one in the Love Art stamp!

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  5. You are right, that little mouse gazing at his work or the starry sky have been captured in your design! I do enjoy! the background coloring in your second card as well as the fun bright colors for the rest of it 😊 Thank you for sharing!

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  6. Your cards are adorable! Love, love the first one! Love the stamps you used, but my favorite stamp set is the Amazing Mom Mother’s Day one with the kids and stroller. Reminds me of days gone by!

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  7. Wonderful cards , I loved both of them . Your pencil coloring suits the image and also the tall shape of second card.

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  8. The guava card stock really added to the card. The soft background on that card is outstanding. I also love the artists quotes. The sweet little mouse with a paintbrush coloring his-our world is awesome.

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  9. Love your creativity! The starry sky is so unique. I’m going to attempt to copy it. My friends will think I’m a creative genius!!

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  10. CUTENESS OVERLOAD! No only are these Anita Jerman sets precious with your style, but so is the blog! Loving that Love Art set!

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  11. Your coloring is beautiful!!! I couldn’t believe it was colored pencils! It is SO smooth! I need to learn your techniques! My favorite of the new release is the “For Dad” set. It reminds me so much of my hubby playing with our kids when they were little. Such sweet memories! Thanks for sharing!!

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  12. Wonderful cards with these charming images! Love these creative mice! Your starry night sky is beautiful, and I love the sweet mouse coloring the flowers too! Darling scenes!

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  13. The mouse did a great job painting the
    night sky. Both cards are fantastic.
    thanks for sharing. txmlhl(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  14. Hi! Thanks for the opportunity to win a gift card from Colorado Crafts!! My favorite is the Farhers Day one w/ the tiny mouse bouncing on his daddy’s belly cuz when our son was younger, he & daddy would wrestle nightly. I could hear tons of laughter coming from both! Wonderful memories we cherish!! Many Blessings,
    Tina Wetzel

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  15. Oh My Gosh! This whole release is so uplifting, and what do we need more than anything right now…but the Love Art set really captures the feeling of fellowship and community we share as artists and papercrafters, so if I have to choose, this one is my fave. (I’ll be getting all of them, though). Love your use of vivid coloring!

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  16. Your cards are amazingly beautiful! I love the beautiful colors. CCC and Anita Jeram’s new release is awesome. My favorite is Love Art, but I love them all. Thanks for sharing!

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  17. I love the images, of course. But I was so excited when I saw the Bob Ross sayings. My kids grew up on watching him on PBS. 3 of my 5 kids make a living off of their passion. Thanks Anita and Bob. Thanks Chari

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  18. I love the way you colored with the colored pencils and shaded with the ink. I think that the slim line card was the perfect choice for that card. Thank you for sharing it.

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  19. Hi, Chari – Your colored penicl coloring is SPECTACULAR. TFS

    This is a tough choice. I think the Love Art set is my favorite. I love the quotes around the edge. I also like “Amazing Mom” a lot. I also love the little tiny “The Artist” stamp.

    A virtual hug –
    Lori S in PA

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  20. This is so darling I found myself holding my breath that he might fall. Sweet coloring. The release is so touching. I can see a few dads will have tears on their day. Darling card from an artsy daughter!

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  21. Such cute cards! I really love the watercolored sky area on the first one! My favorite of the new sets is Proud of You.

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  22. This is an adorable stamp set…I’m I kidding they’re all adorable. Love the night sky background, the mouse looks very happy with his work.

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  23. Great card. Love working with distress inks too. These sets are all wonderful and the ones I like the best are the Masterpiece in the making (the set you used) and From all of us!
    Thanks ccc!

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  24. Loving both of these cards. Like that starry night on the 1st card and the background shading and shadowing on the other card. My favorite from the new release is Anita Jeram Love Art stamp and die set. Thank you for sharing.

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  25. Chari, the slimline card is so cute. Colors and simplicity as you note is very inspirational. I have many distressed inks and you have given me great motivation to use them.

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  26. Love what you’ve done with these. (This is my favorite set of the new release.) That’s such a sweet idea having the little artist admiring his finished painting of the starry sky! The slimline is perfect. Brilliant colors. Happy to see pencils too. Thanks for sharing your talents with us.

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  27. Your cards are spectacular! I love your ink blending on the slimline card – so soft and beautiful! My favorite from this release is For Mom or Amazing Mom. I would love to encourage my mom and daughters with those.

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  28. I love Proud of You–so sweet and I think can be used for many occasions. Thanks for the opportunity to win such a wonderful prize!

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  29. Thanks for sharing your adorable cards! I especially like the Proud of You set, but they’re all so endearing and hard to resist.

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  30. So clever to add your own painting for the mousey. You’ve made him introspective and proud at the same time! I also love Bob Ross and truly appreciate his quote.

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  31. Wonderful coloring! Doesn’t help me pick just one set as the favorite cuz I love ALL the adorable mice! Can’t help myself with a nickname of “Mouse” .

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  32. The starry night card is swoon worthy, but that cutie painting all things in the colors of fall has me wanting to skip right to the fall season.

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  33. Who wouldn’t love these Anita Jeram designs? I like the way you did them both, but especially the second one….such pretty colors!

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  34. Yay, resolved! I love the starry night scene you created, and he does look like he painted it! How stinking clever is that? The artsy card looks great with your beautifully blended background. Thanks for all your hard work and efforts!

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  35. I absolutely love the starry night card! Two questions if you don’t mind. First of all, did you just print out the sentiment, or did you have a stamp and secondly, do you recall what dies you used for the moon and stars? Thank you!

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