At the Beach!

I know it has been a month since my last post. It really doesn't feel like it. The Summer is going by so fast. It is hard to believe it is almost August. Right now it is too hot to sit in my craft room and do much of anything other than melt!!! I did make a card for my Mom's Birthday last week. With all the sun and heat I decided to use my Seaside stamp set from Crafty Secrets. I've made this card before. I changed it up a bit this time, mostly in the way I colored it. Also I personalized it a lot more on the inside.

More Guy Cards

I was on a roll with the masculine/boy theme. Here are two more I made last week. I finally used my new stamp set from Local King called "Adventure". I stamped the sailboat and colored it with Prisma Markers and dye inks and aqua brush. The wave was stamped separately, cut out and glued on. The ships wheel stamp in background was stamped with versa mark and embossed with clear fine detail embossing powder. Bazzill card stock admiral & Jacaranda.

The second one is another version of my Dino cards using the Archaic line of paper from Basic Grey. I cut the dino out of the patterned paper covered him with versa mark ink and clear fine detail embossing powder to make him a little stronger. The palm trees were cut out on my cricut. From the Doodlecharms cartridge, I used green and brown card stock for them but I also colored them with my prisma markers as well. Bazzill mud pie card stock for base and twig for greeting. I popped the dino up with pop dots. A tip about the pop dots or 3d dots. I color the sides of them with a prisma maker the same color as the card so that they blend in with your project. That way from the side you don't see bright white 3d dots.

Father's Day Cards

I did manage to get a couple of Father's Day Cards made for my Dad and my Father-In-Law. The first one is for my Dad. I just got the Thoughts of Father set from Stampin' Up. I stamped it with Momento Potter's Clay ink and used stampin' up inks , Tim holtz distress inks and an aqua brush to color it in. The card stock is Old Olive and Bazzill Mud Pie. The green card stock was too plain so I stamped a fern design (stamp from crafty secrets set "wildflowers") with Old Olive ink.
The second card is for my Father-In-Law. I love this lighthouse stamp, It is by Stamps Happen. I colored it in using a variety of techniques, pastels, inks & aqua brush, prismas and gel pen. The patterned paper is by Chatterbox called Light Poolhouse Stripe, card stock is Bazzill Jacaranda and Saguaro.

Summer is here!

It has been so hot and sunny I just couldn't sit in my craft room and make much the past 3 weeks. Last week I bought an extra fan and now I can actually sit in there without melting. I did get a few cards made this week. Hopefully I will get more done later today. I took an extra day off work so I could relax and work on some new class ideas. So before I go off to work on that, I thought I should update my blog.

For the Fairy card I used a stamp from the Fairies set by Crafty Secrets. I colored her with my Prisma Markers, highlighted parts of her wings and flowers with a glitter gel pen. You can't really tell in the picture. The dream stamp is from the Mini Memories set, also by Crafty Secrets. The patterned paper is from the Basic Grey Porcelain line. It is from the 6" x 6" paper pack. The edge punch is Fiskars Elegance & I popped the greeting up with 3d dots.

The You Rock card was done using the Rock star set from Inkadinkado. I embossed a piece of black card stock with the Spots & Dots cuttlebug folder and sponged Brilliance Cosmic Copper ink over it. I also sponged the white card stock pieces with the copper ink and then stamped the images with Momento Tuxedo Black ink. The greeting is popped up with 3d dots.

June Class Dates

Here are the dates for my Mix-It-Up Card Class at Scrap Arts

Sunday June 21st
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Sunday June 28th
2:00pm - 4:00pm
$20.00

I did change these cards up slightly. They are basically the same cards as previous samples. With a few minor changes.

May Challenge

The May page challenge at Scrap Arts was 3 photos, blue & green card stock, only 1 piece of patterned paper, 3D elements & bling. Here is my page. I've left some blank spots of green card stock so I can put journalling in later.

Of course Kit had to help me with the page as well. She likes to hold things in place for me. LOL

Class Samples

As promised, though a little later than I thought. Here are the rest of the samples for my Mix It Up card class. We had a great time in this class on Sunday May 10th and the next class will be Sunday May 24th from 2-4pm. Contact Scrap Arts if you would like to sign up for the class.

New Class soon!

I'm teaching a new card class at Scrap Arts soon! May 10th is the first date for it. I will post the rest of the samples soon (see last post for first sample). I finally finished all the non crafting work that had to be done this month. Now I am free to work on my crafts for the next few weeks.

I started organizing some stuff last night and of course Kit was right there in the middle of it all. I didn't actually get anything made but it's a start. I have bought a few new things the last couple of weeks so now I can actually use it. This card I made awhile back but never got it posted. I used my Rock Star stamp set from Inkadinkado. I embossed it with Cuttlebug folder Spots & Dots and used copper ink to distress it. This card is not part of the class.

French Flea Market

Well I finally got a chance to play with some of the great new papers we've been getting in at Scrap Arts . I just love the new My Mind's Eye paper, I bought a bunch of the Bella Bella "French Flea Market" line a couple of weeks ago. I haven't had much chance to do anything lately but, I got this idea in my head last night and had to try it before I forgot about it. This card is made with 3 different pp and 2 different card stock. The pp I used is My Mind's Eye "French Flea Market" Simply Plaid, Bleu Striped, & Sophie. All these papers are double sided so I used both patterns in the card. The 2 Bazzill card stock colors were Horizon & Brown. I used Coffee colored dye ink for the stamped images and Versa Magic Jumbo Java Ink for edging all the paper. The stamps are from 3 different Clear Art Stamp Sets from Crafty Secrets Fairyland, Cherish & Wildflowers.

Still too busy

I will be glad when I get all this other work done and can get back to crafting more. I found a few minutes last night to stamp out some images but haven't put anything together yet. Of course since I had lots of things out Kit just had to see what I was doing. She just loves it when I get the ribbon out. In this pic she seems to be saying, "here use this ribbon, I'll just get some for you" . Of course she is sitting in her favorite spot, on the paper trimmer. She is just so funny.

The Rainbow Connection

I have been so busy lately I haven't had much time for crafting. I made myself sit down last night and do one of the challenges from Skrapnchat . I did the Rainbow's End March Challenge. The challenge was to use every color of the rainbow in your layout or use pictures of rainbows. Pictures of rainbows much easier for me than trying to use every color and still make it look good. I still have about 7 hours left in March may try and get another layout down tonight. Not sure which one there are several to choose from. We'll see how much I can get down with Kit lending a paw.

These are 2 pics I took on Grouse Mountain in 2005, The Rainbow Connection is one of my favorite songs, it just seemed to work together. I used my Cricut Alpahlicious Cartridge to cut out the letters for the title. The large flower and leaf are from a Basic Grey paper and the smaller flowers and leaves are punched from the same BG paper and card stock. I wanted the focus on the Pictures so I didn't go over board on the embellishments.

Thief!

Our March page challenge at Scrap Arts was to make a baby page. It had to have the following elements. One baby photo, 2 patterned paper, hand stitching, buttons, ribbon & journalling. I gave up trying to do a page for me and made a page with a baby picture of Kit. The journalling reads "The moment I saw Kit at the pet store she stole my heart. I knew instantly she'd be mine." Kit July 2004 9wks old. The patterned paper is from My Mind's Eye Bloom & Grow "Grow" line called Fresh Flowers . The flowers are popped up with 3d dots and the orange leaf has been stitched with orange embroidery floss.

Signs of Spring...

Where does the time go? Seems like yesterday was Christmas and now we're into March. There are some definite signs of spring out there. Warmer days, birds chirping, flowers blooming, and Kit shedding like crazy!! Well I do have a few stamps that I like to use around this time of year that remind me of spring and the warmer weather. This one is a rubber stamp by Inkadinkado. For this card I stamped the image with Momento Black Ink and then I used my Aqua Brush and Stampin Up Inks to paint in the colors. The greeting was done with Cinnamon Versa Color Ink and then I embossed it with Clear fine detail embossing powder.