In the spirit of the teapot

The background on the teapot got me going on this ... I think my fingers are permanently dyed not quite navy blue!

I guess I should have put on some fishes and called it birthday fishes.

Maybe next time.

These boots are made for birthdays ...

Isn't this a fun card for a birthday? I can add one more to my stack for Steve!  Never thought I would be using rhinestones and pearls on a card for a 30 year old male, but they seem to work.

 I colored the washer with my copics with a lot of dibbing and dabbing.

Cute cute

Amanda is all upset because Kate's Paperie is closing its location near her in New York. I made these cards for her and told her they were from Cat's Paperie.

Think Red, White and Blue!

Free digi for you

I have been featured over at Paper Temptress --- I hope you will go over and look around!  Finally I can stop making cards that are red, white and blue for awhile.

But before I leave that theme, here is a digi I created - hope you can use her.  If you do, please click on over to paper temptress and see my layout.

VSN in the Spotlight

This hour's challenge is to use spotlighting --- super fast, and very effective!

I plan to add the text on the green oval when I decide who gets this card.

VSN - Virtual Stamp Night

At 6 our challenge was to use kraft, aqua and green.



The 7 o'clock challenge is to create a card that hides something, and what better to hide than a gift card to Starbucks! I have included the template I used

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At 8 oclock we needed to say ARRRRGH and do a card with 3 R's on it. Mine has a rainbow, a reflection, and I used the rock n roll technique. But I lost the colors when I sized the photo down to make it load faster and now I need to rescan it to get the color back.

New Neighbor

My new neighbor invited Sam and me to lunch. Sam is 85, I represented the 60s and the new neighbor is in her 40s so we were quite a trio at the restaurant.  This is the thank you card I made for her.  Can you guess which one is me?

Celtic tree of life on a nautical card?

Tree of Life Knot, sort of ...

I knew I wanted a knot tied on the bottom of this one, so I googled celtic knots and came up with this  utube link.  My plan was to do it in baker's twine, but I pulled out the kitchen string to practice. However, I think the kitchen twine looks just fine, and to do it again with baker's twine might mean another hour --- these cards are supposed to be finished in 45 minutes or less. Luckily I am on the VSN design team so we got the challenges early.

The challenge wasn't the knot!  The challenge here was to use a sponge to create a background. I have some cheapie sponges from the dollar store that are all cut up and in a jar on my table, so that part was easy peasy!

sketchy Wednesday

Easy sketch today ... and more of my red white and blue theme for Paper Temptress.

Love this star punch but it tends to get jammed if I use it on anything heavier than paper.

Click on the photo to see the texture of the paper, my photography came out kind of dark.

Paper Temptress reversible brown bag

Oh this was a fun card, it kind of took over and made itself. I used some fun reversible paper from PaperTemptress that gave a great torn edge, did the cutout edges, and then used the scraps for an inside that is even more fun than the outside.  The front has the text divided up but only the inside shows the "belated." There is just enough room for me to give an explanation of why my card is late ... but those who know me know that I always make cards on time but somehow getting them mailed is my bugaboo.


 My happiest discovery was using the owl punch for my circles, and then tucking the owl vest in behind a flower to set it off on the inside.


The reversible brown bag paper made this card quick because those brown edges peeking out of the cranberry were accomplished by tearing.

Teapot Tuesday ... off to the beach

Teapot Tuesday has a beach theme today, and those of you who know me know how much I love the beach.

My card is fairly quick and easy, it is a nice day here in Florida and I have to go enjoy the beach quickly before it is time to head back to Michigan the end of this month.

Coloring in Black and White

Free digi for you

Using only my c3, c5 and c7, I made a girl with black hair and a white blouse. How cool is that! Not as cool as the fact that you can have the digi I drew to practice!

Featured Stamper Aimes

Aimes created a clean and simple card that I tried to imitate today. Clean and simple is not my style, although I really like the look of it.  This is my version.  I also loved her stripey birthday card ... and used patriotic papers to create my version.

While the papers were out, 

I created this taggy card.

Featured today on Paper Temptress!

My tutorial is featured today over at the Paper Temptress blog ... I show you step by step how to create this card.  You've seen it before, I made it for the mini virtual stamp night over at Splitcoast.

Samples for Paper Temptress

SNEAK PEEK!

I am working on some samples to illustrate some of the cardstock textures over at Paper Temptress. 

Here is a sneak peek at some of the cards for the "Patriotic Pack" of paper that will be available soon.

I am creating PDF's with the templates and some text to put inside of each. I am not sure if Patricia will have a link to them on her site, or how she plans to handle it. In the meantime, I got to play with some really fun papers!  If you want me to send you a copy, put your email in the comments below and I will send the pdf to you.

Teapot Tuesday ... off on a tangent

Ok the teapot had romaine and I made a card with corn, but at least I kept the theme of gardening!

I got the template for the corn from the Lynn Pratt site. 

Coloring hair

Been practicing hair ... and I am amazed at how differently the inks work on different papers.

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