May cards

 Wow!  I think I am finally caught up!  This month brings the Mother's Day card, a get well card, a sympathy card and two more birthday cards.  It's a really good thing I keep a planner with birthdays because I seem to have several cards to make every month.  It's also a good thing I really enjoy it.  Well, that's it for now.  Hopefully I can get my December Daily caught up and I'll also be sharing pics of my very first file folder flip book.  Until next time!  Be well and thanks for stopping by!

January/Feb/March/April 2016 projects

 

Tons more cards and some buttons for Tacoah's valentine day treats and a St. Patrick's day pocket letter.
There were cards for sympathy, get well and a bunch of birthdays for these several months.  Seems like I know a ton of people with birthdays in March and April.  ;-)

~Stampingbella rocks!

Hey there friends!  I just love the designs produced by Stampingbella in their cling stamp collections.  I won't mention how many of their recent holiday release I bought {blushing}.  But for these cards, I used stamps I already had.  The first is one of my favorite birthday images.  I even used a little stickles on the crown.  The second two cards are more like Thinking of You or Feel Better Soon type cards and I just felt like coloring little mice.  I also used some of my die-namics dies on these cards. 

Need to shift gears and work on a box and a canvas next.  Hopefully will be able to post those soon.
And HALLOWEEN is coming!  Have I got some cute stamps for that!
Thanks for stopping by!

 

 

~Back to School projects!

Hey there friends!  Here are a couple of relatively quick projects that Tacoah and I just finished for back to school.  She picked all the images for her backpack (from the new CTMH Artistry) and decided the colors.  I did mess up on the flower a bit because I tried to make a 2 layer cut into 3.  Leaves have to be green, ya know?  The extra name tag is for a bag that she will use to go to math class.  In 3rd grade, it's the only class for which she needs to change teachers.  Shelly picked this bag up at Gabriel brother's discount outlet for a couple of bucks. You would not believe that the original price of this thing was $89!!  It's by an artist named Carlos Falchi who turns his paintings into handbags.  I've never heard of him.  Maybe you have.   :-)   Anyway, you know those plastic ties they use to put tags on items require a bulldozer to remove, so I just added Tacoah's nametag on top!  And got in a bit of coloring too!  I used Fontastic Fonts - DJ Smitten.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope if you are readying for back to school you can incorporate some crafty time into it!

~PopUp Challenge at thedailymarker.com

It's all about the lines.  Over at the Daily Marker, Kathy is hosting a 4 day series of PopUp Challenges beginning today!  This first challenge is all about the lines.  Straight lines, curved lines, doodles lines.  You get the idea.  I used my zig watercolor markers to make this card.  The colors I chose were based on the color of the embossing powder I used on the sentiment (purple).  So I used Lilac, Sugared Almond Pink, Shadow Mauve & Cool Gray 1.  I also used a clear Wink of Stella marker and threw a couple of sequins on there as well.  I began by stamping & embossing my sentiment.  I knew that I wanted alternating widths for my lines so I worked those around the sentiment.  And then it just needed something else, so I added the arrows.  Then it was just a matter of coloring the blocks.  After that was completed, I went over my pencil lines with a purple pen.  I mounted it to pink cardstock and threw some popcorn around it.  That's for the extra goody bag part of the challenge. :-)  Good thing I had some here!

Thanks for stopping by and you can check out tons of loveliness by searching instagram #TheDailyMarkerPopUpChallenge.  There are some reallllyyyy talented doodling type people out there!

~I purred once.....

it was awful.

Yup that's what my little kitty says.  lol.  This weeks MFT challenge (sketch #240) was perfect to use with one of my new Taylored Expressions stamps and my awesome die-namics stax dies!  It also gave me another excuse to use my Zig markers.  And it makes me giggle every time I look at it.

Here's the sketch:

 And here's my take on it.

Thanks for stopping by!