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!

Owl be !

Owl be sending this cards They turned out awfully cute

Do they look like they're 'sposed to? I don't give a hoot!

Well, Owl be, I got all inspired over at Michelle Zindorf's blog and went on an Owl punching spree. I colored mine with copics instead of sponging ... and played around with the card layout. The biggest adaptation was not having her tree ... so I ended up combining a stampin up silhouette with some branches from a Unity Sympathy set!  I was quite pleased with my ingenuity!  The adaptations went on ... I changed colors and used a different punch for my photo holders.  My sizes are totally irregular.

I really like the white gel pen on the leaves. Looks even better in real life!

Some possible sentiments.

Whoooo Gives a Hoot?  I do          (caring and sharing)
Owl be wishing you a great day     (general purpose, birthday)
A word to the wise ---- Celebrate!  ( graduation? birthday? or retirement?
In the wee hours of the morning ... Owl be thinking of you.  ( caring and sharing)
Feeling like nobody gives a hoot? I gotta say, I think you're cute! ( caring)

If you have more ideas, please click on comments below and add your 2 cents worth!

Teapot Tuesday!

We were asked at the teapot challenge to make a card for a young man battling cancer. He enjoys a good glass of wine and the cards were supposed to be masculine. I was a bit stumped and came up with this ...

Hope this poem inside isn't too schmaltzy ...

Lets drink to enjoying the days that we've had

Some have been good and some have been bad

Whether it's chilly, whether it's hot

We've got to enjoy the days that we've got

The friends that we've met and the warmth of the sun

The sparkle of stars when a long day is done

The family love that can give us a lift

We treasure all these as a wonderful gift.

David's Apartment

David said if you look just the right way out of his apartment, you can see the Empire State building. But his favorite building is the Chrysler building. Not sure if he can see that one or not, but I put it on his New House card anyway.  The inspiration for the card came from Kirklands --- and a picture of that French tower thingie ... I wanted to try the background technique with it.  Mike is in France right now, but out in the backwoods, not near the Eiffel Tower. That kind of explains all my free time spent drawing ...

I shared the card on Splitcoast, and one person commented that they really love the cityscape stamps too. I took it as the highest compliment I could imagine!

Rabbit in Ruffles

Here's my bunny from the teapot ... look at the post below and focus in on the top right side with the polka dot teapot ...  I tried a dotty background that was suggested to me by a great artist over at Copic Musketeers --- am waiting to hear what he thinks of it  ^..^

I had to look up a tutorial online to learn how to draw ruffles - I am really into this drawing thing lately, as you can tell.  I am amazed at all the free tutorials online, but still managed to drop a few bucks at Barnes and Noble on some drawing books I HAD to have.

Anyway, Bunny is yours to take and enjoy.   I just hope I can find this card when Easter rolls around!  Click on "free digi" below to see all the posts that have digis to share.

Teapot Tuesday!

Teapot Tuesday had a bunch of pots to choose from, but I ended up using the idea of many pots, or in my case, cups of tea.

I have NO idea how to mail this with the bow ...

I did however fall in love with the bunny in the top left teapot and spent awhile playing with drawing him in my sketch book.  Hopefully he will become a card soon.

My lizard

Here is another drawing that you are welcome to grab --- please let me know in the comments if you prefer drawings saved as a png instead of a jpg.

 It is really getting warm finally ... and maybe, just maybe winter is over? Or shouldn't I even think that out loud for fear of scaring spring away!

I am using my lizard to practice shadows ... can you even tell which lizard is under the noon sun and which one is enjoying light at an angle?

Featured Stamper Kristen

Splitcoast features a stamper every week and encourages folks to case ( copy and steal everything) her card. I chose this card as my inspiration and came up with shoe card # 3.