Colleen's Anniversary

Does it look like  a beach ball?

I keep making square cards and then being frustrated at how to mail them. This one is going in a big envelope as it seemed to grow as I worked on it.

 Digis are yours to grab ... I am particularly proud of the umbrellas!

Coloring homework

I am taking an online class in copics and this is my homework for this week.  We are learning to color ruffles and folds.  I am still on lesson one ...

Next week we do wood and I can fix up the box she is sitting on.

Teapot Tuesday!

Tuesday means teapots so here is today's!

I kind of reversed the colors.

VSN challenge use fabric

This is my card for the VSN challenge using fabric ... I cut some strips off the bottom of a new pair of black jeans when I was shortening them and these wedges were cut where the seams were. I think it looks kind of unique!

My water is scribblings of copic markers and a white out pen.

VSN Inspiration challenge May 2 8 PM

How could you not be inspired by this gorgeous photo --- so the challenge is to create a card inspired by something you see here.  

 My eye was caught by the clouds and sparkling water - so I pulled out my Paper Temptress crepe and rubbed a copper metallic pad across it... MAGIC !!! 

The clouds are rough torn and overlapped from mottled vellum, and you can't quite see the effect of the translucent vellum over the slightly metallic sky.   

What a fun challenge!

Virtual Stamp Night Mini 9:00 PM ... Color challenge

For this challenge, I needed to use orange, yellow and green, not a stretch for me since I often use bright sunny colors.

Wednesday Sketch Day!

To Wendy

I cased a card by Roxie --- and really am happy with how it turned out.

Then I did it again!

Here's Roxie's card

Teapot Tuesday!

Teapot Tuesday ... this is why I drew my bird.  He is that TINY little blue splotch on the teapot card on the right!

Grandma Moses could do primitive drawings and they looked great. Mine look kind of like a preschooler with a fat crayon.

The Blue Bird of Happiness

Can't wait to color these birdies blue and make them into bluebirds.

As always, you are welcome to take an image.

I've been coloring the Easter Bunny ...

Too much?

I finally decided to give myself a treat and signed up for classes by Suzanne Dean. Lesson ONE is on coloring pleats and fabric ... here are my attempts so far. I am convinced my scanner is eating half of the shading and will try taking photos later today.

Just right?

Too little?

Tuesday Teapot

Tuesday means teapots, but this one looked more like a quilt to me.

More Wuffled Wabbit

From the Stamping Boutique

Ok...  I am on a wuffled wabbit kick ... this one will be for a color challenge over at The Stamping Boutique

and a sketch challenge at The Critter Sketch Challenge Blog.

Not sure if I am allowed to combine the challenges, but I did!

From the Critter Sketch Challenge

Now I gotta go get stuff for an Easter basket for my kids and get it in the mail! ( I heard postal rates go up tomorrow. Too bad I didn't mail my packages yesterday!)

Rabbit in Ruffles Rides Again

You may remember this digi drawing ( it's a free download here ) .  I am using it for an Easter card for a young lady with a pug dog. Tried to color my bunny to match.

More pirate images

I am still drawing images for the Splitcoast Virtual Stamp night ... on the evening of April 29, and all day May 20 and 21, there will be challenges every hour with a pirate theme. I didn't have any pirate stamps so I started drawing some images hoping they will be useful.  PLEASE feel free to "grab" the images if you want them!



You can click on "pirate images" below and see other posts with pirate themed free digis  -- or just click on "free digis" and grab whatever images you want.

Pirate images and Talk like a pirate

There be a challenge comin' matey, o'er at splitcoast, and me images here might be of service to ye!  If it be pirate image ye need, feel free to grab your booty here .... these be posted just for ye to use.

Arrgh, my hearty friends, I be findin this site here and sharin it wit ye ...  yo ho ho!

Talk like a pirate

Sketchy Wednesday penguins

I really enjoy the sketch challenge at Splitcoast. It gives me a chance to play with all the papers that I just have to buy ...

You can grab this image if you like

Plus dear husband's birthday is tomorrow and I waited till the last minute to make this card. Thinking I will make TWO and use one for my son's 30 cards with shoes...

I have been practicing that dotty surround for images with copics. I kind of like it!

If you would like to see some other free digi images, click on the words "Free digi" below.  I draw cuz I enjoy it and it makes me so happy when people like my images enough to grab 'em!

Teapot Tuesday- Guitar

Digi image yours to grab

Can you believe this is a teapot?

With a Beatles guitar like this one, I just had to do a tie dye card!

Copics and scribbling ... nice way to begin a Tuesday.

Try outs ...

Remember Tryouts for the spring play or for the team, well, I am trying out for a challenge blog --- gotta use this image and if I am chosen, I will be helping to come up with some challenges over at Critter Sketch.  Just found them, and if I am not chosen, I sure plan to play in their challenges!  Isn't the image by "Robyn's Fetish" cute!

Knitting class thank yous

thank you cards for Annie and Kaori

My hat is drying on a dinner bowl after being blocked

I took two knitting classes in March -- one was for a hat where I learned to do color work. I think I chose the wrong yarn since a lot of the detail seems to have sunk into the threads of the blue, but I now know how to do it if/when I make another hat.  Kaori was very patient and shared stories of her family in Tokyo and how they were dealing with the disasters there.

The second class was for a top down sweater and poor Annie said she could help any afternoon I wanted to come in at 1 --- so my car now knows the way to Cocoa without using Garmin at all!
 But I am well on the way with my personally fitted top down sweater.

I made thank you cards for both instructors.

Flower soft

Flower soft seems perfect for a sympathy card.  A very dear friend has lost several people who were very close to her heart, and it is so hard to make a card that will in any way take away the pain.  But when I think of making cards, and sending them, what better reason than to send a hug in an envelope. Hope she likes this card, after all, SHE sent me the gorgeous blue flower soft!

The colors were still out on my table from these cards using the Zindorf technique ...

Keep on Truckin'

This card was kind of fun. I found the image of the construction cones at ZFLICK which is an incredible search that brings up pictures of whatever you would like to see, all for free.  The truck was a digi from PaulaPosts and the brads just needed to be there. You can't tell but the truck is triple clear embossed and very thick and shiny.

Interestingly enough, my red truck was basically colored with orange and cranberry! LOVE my copics!

Teapot Tuesday Update

Happy Early April Fools!  That is what we all did with our teapot cards yesterday, posting only the worst and ugliest. Funny thing was, I got the same positive comments as I usually do over at Splitcoast, the April Fool's day joke seems to have been on me!  Not sure if mine will get the honor of being chosen Ugliest of the Ugly, but here is the real card I made for Tuesday.

 It actually looks kind of boring to me!

Teapot Tuesday!

What a cute felt tea set. Card is not so cute. Oh well, some work, some don't!  I think I spent more time arguing with blogger to get the card on than I spent making the card and I still can't make it move up to where I wanted it to be!