Mommies to Be **HANNA SNEAK PEEKS**

I hope everyone is having a wonderful start to your weekends!! You'll have to bear with me today - I've got a long post - lots to share today - but I hope you'll find some helpful info here today. Today's post serves two purposes - one is a sneak peek at the new "Mommy to Be" set being released by Hanna Stamps this coming Monday (April 6th) - but it's also a sort of study in Copic skin color combos with Hannas. As I was looking at the images in this set - it occured to me how versatile Hanna can be - she can be anyone!! So this is sort of my celebration of diversity with Hanna - because after all, isn't that what makes our world beautiful?? ;) This first Mommy to Be Hanna card uses a Caucasian Copic color combo - it's the following combo...
You can also subsitute E000 with Roo for a similiar look - I don't think there is much of a difference between the 2 colors other than R00 has just a smidgen of a pink tinge to it. On all these cards - I drew in the wood floor panels myself using a Copic multiliner pen and a ruler and colored them in with Copics. All the "bead board" work on the "walls" was done using my Scor-Pal (making a score line at every 1/2 inch). For my first card - I used DP from the My Mind's Eye Out and About stack, ribbon is from SU! and the sentiment is from a Studio G clear $1 stamp set.
For my next Mommy to Be Hanna - I thought she had a beautiful Asian look to her - isn't she a beauty??? Her skin tone turned out a little bit darker than I wanted it to be - but here is the combo I used (I'm still playing around with this one - getting the shading just right)...
For the Hanna on this card - I did draw the mat under her as well as the flooring. The DP used on this one is from the DCWV Far East stack and the sentiment is from a Studio G Clear $1 stamp set. I did some machine stitching around the card as well and stamped a couple of flowers on the hardwood floor panel with a Chestnut brown ink for some accents.

Here is the third Hanna image in the Mommy to Be Hanna set and I just LOVE her - it reminds my second pregnancy - my second son was being stubborn during labor and wouldn't "drop" - so they went and got me one of these big balance balls to sit on - just like this Hanna is doing to help the labor along. The funniest part though was that my Dad (who with 7 kids had never been in the labor room) chose that moment to come check on me and there I was rolling around on that big ball - you should have seen the look on his face - LMBO!!!! Hee hee...anywho - I decided to color this Hanna in a beautiful African American skin tone - here are the colors I used...
These colors really do blend beautifully together - I just love this combo. For this Hanna card - I used DP from the My Mind's Eye "Just Dreamy" stack and the sentiment on this one is from the Mommy to Be Hanna set.

Thanks so much for stopping by - be sure to swing by the other DT members blog for more fabulous peeks and visit our April Guest Designer's blog as well - the talented Michelle!! We will be having a release party over on SCS this coming Monday - April 6th - from 9-11 PM EST - the new sets will be released at the end of the party including 3 full sized Hanna sets and 2 awesome new Rileys!! Hope to see you there!!!