Joy to the World

Another Christmas card from last year. I just love the colors.  It's another Papertrey Ink set colored with Copics. Thanks for stopping by.

Houses on the Hill

I didn't post any of the cards I made for Christmas this year (otherwise busy in the chemo chair), so I wanted to share one now.  The houses are die cuts from Papertrey Ink colored with Copics and the hills are another die cut from Papertrey Ink. Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Art Impression's Try'folds

Art Impression came out with these really neat sets called Try'folds. The idea is that you make a card that folds in 3's, trim around the images and each layer shows a part of the picture.  When I watched the video showing how to make one I fell flat in love with the idea.  So of course I ordered three of the sets. So far I've only made one card and it was for my friend form high school Marti, for her birthday in January. I used Gina K's 120 lb. card stock since I can color with Copics with no bleed through. Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Party On

Hi All, I'm back!  When my cousin Mary told me I hadn't posted anything since September I was shocked.  I have been busy but that is crazy.  When I looked at my cards to be posted photo file I found over 150 cards waiting to be edited and posted.  I've been making them just not sharing them, so I'm going to get to work.  I decided to star with the latest card I made 'Party On'.  I used a set from the Journey of the Heart Stamp TV kit's Party On, from Gina K designs. Sharon Harnist did a video on Stamp TV on coloring balloons and transparent items with Copics. So I made this card.  all of the stamps, card stock, DP inks are Gina K's.  Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Happy Birthday Ann

I finally had time to play with some sets from Gina K Designs that have been sitting on my desk.  There are Silhouette Cameo cut files to go with the sets that make it even more fun to create cards.
First up is this Lady Slipper flower from Stately Flower 7 and the frame cut files that match.  Tell me you don't think this is a beautiful idea.  I colored the flower with Copics and mounted onto Gina K card stock.  The sentiments are form Papertrey Ink's Signature Greetings II.  My sister Ann's birthday is today and the card on the right is what I decided would be the perfect card for her.
Hope you like it and thanks for stopping bu.

Mr. & Mrs.

I needed to make some wedding cards for a card basket for a fund raiser this summer. 
When I saw this Mr. & Mrs. Diva  set from Gina K I knew it would be a fun set to work with.  I've also wanted to work with the design element of glitter so I decided to combine the two.  I chose to keep the colors very light and soft on the image so I used a pale cool grey Copic for the groom and several pale shades of violet for the bride.
The matting is Papertrey Ink.  Then came the fun part.  I ran two different widths of Score-Tape down the side and sprinkled Martha Stewart glitter on it (my how glitter goes everywhere).  After shaking off the excess I took some tissue paper and ran my finger over the glitter to tamp it down.
Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

A Boy on a Log

A Pitcher of Sunflowers

This is one of the cards I made sometime in the last week.  Life has gotten just a little busy since getting back home that I just grabbed time here and there to whip out some cards and didn't keep track of what I used.  I know that the image is from Papertrey Ink and that I colored with Copics.  The image was cut out with the Papertrey die, stamped and then colored.  I had quite a few ovals cut out with Nestabilities lying around on my desk so I mounted the image on one and ran a gold leaf pen around the edges.  The DP is from a scrap I found in my stash and the banner was embossed with white embossing powder.  I think it turned out pretty good.  Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Coloring Fun or How I spent my Winter

 I've been AWOL way to long, we spent the winter (or should I say 10 weeks) in Sarasota and all I did was sit by the pool reading or coloring.  Before we left , when I was making cards for my Christmas gifts I stamped off extra images and took them with me to play with while down south.  Great idea huh?  Got to the house and started unpacking and setting up my craft area

and realized I has forgotten my Copics DISASTER!!!  My friend Renee rescued me by shipping them to me (and there in lies another disaster as the package was lost for a couple of days).  So I was able to color all of the images and have them ready to make cards with when I returned home.
so When I got home I unpacked everything and set them on my desk and there they sat until last week.  In the past week or so I've made about 40 cards so I'll have some posting to do over the next few days.  Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Birthday Kristi

This is a card that I made for my cousin Kristi,  She's a beautiful girl and so terrific as an artist that I try very hard to come up with a cool card for her.  Well this one was almost a no brainer for me.  I wanted to do something pretty and feminine for her and to me that means pink.  The Swirly White translucent card stock from The Paper Comapny over the pink card base was my jumping off point.  Then I chose this Gina K butterfly for my focal point.  I stamped it with Memento Tuxedo Black and went over it with a black Copic Spica pen, it has a touch of gold shine to it that you can't see without tilting the card.  I colored the butterfly with various pink Copic markers, added a couple of pink gems and was done.  Hope she likes it and that you do also.  Thanks for stopping by.

Long Stemmed Flowers

When I had finished making the wedding rehearsal invitations I was left with some card parts so I decided to use some of them up.  My 6 card ministry cards were due so that's what I decided to work on.
The Stampin Up set had the iris and paperwhite flowers in it along with the calla lily and one other (I can't think of what it is at the moment) but I only wanted to use these three flowers.  I used the same format of translucent card stock for the flowers and then Cryogen white for the card base and the overlay.  The overlay was cut with the oval Nestabilitie then embossed with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder.  The flowers were stamped on the front and colored from the back using Copics.
I'm happy with how they turned out and I hope the ladies I send them to will enjoy them.  Hope you like them and thanks for stopping by.

A Birthday Elephant

I've been so busy making cards for the wedding shower favors that I haven't taken the time to post about them.  things have calmed down a bit now so I can catch up on my posting.
I have had this card base sitting on my desk for over a year now and just made time to use it.  I loved this DP and I can't even begin to remember where it came from.  It reminds of the children's books about Babar, so when Papertrey Ink came out with the Tremendous Treats: Birthday set I just had to use it for this card.  It's a charming set and so fun for children's birthday cards.  I stamped the image a colored with Copics and then stamped the curly q underneath to imply grass.  Since I didn't want to cover up the DP too much I kept the mats small and just added the sentiment.
Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Happy B'day Kristi

I made this card for my cousin's daughter.  Kristi is an artist and an art teacher and has decided to get back into creating works of art in addition to teaching children.
One of the things she has been wanting are Copic markers, so her mother is starting her out with some sets.  I decided to stretch her Copic horizons by getting her the air brush system (not the compressor just the cans, I love Kristi, but not that much).
Well this leads me to this card, I took out my Copics and air brush system (yes I have the compressor) and had a go at creating a background.  It's not the greatest, but then I haven't had time to play with it in a while.  After I had created the background I went looking for some stamps to use and found these felt flowers that I had cut out with Flower Fusion #4 die from Papertrey, perfect.  I went through my stash of brads and used them for centers and stamped the stem and leaves from Flower Fusion #5.  The sentiment is also from Papertrey the Simple Sentiments set.
Now for the confession.  When I went to stamp the stem and leaves I started with the center flower and goofed it up, luckily since it is a clear stamp I could re stamp and fix it (sort of).  The flower to the left I had to add some extra leaves and the flower to the right I drew in the stem and added leaves.  As a lady I used to work with so long ago would say "I'll never be noticed from a galloping horse"
Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

A Lullaby Card

I went to the book store yesterday to pick Mariah Stewart's latest (Almost Home if you like to read this Chesapeake Diary series is terrific) and after I had paid for my purchases and on my way out of the store I saw this CD. Well of course I thought of my great-nephew Kellen and went back and bought it. I'm shipping it to him with this card that I whipped out in 5 minutes.

Of course the only reason I could put this card together so quickly is my inability to throw anything out.

Way back when I got the brilliant idea to make up card bases to have on hand (turns out not to be such a bad idea after all) and this is one of them. Then another idea I had was to print out some digital images to color up (the coloring up part never happened on this one) and have at the ready. So these two items have been sitting around for about a year and all I had to do was color up 'Michael' from Mo Manning and cut it out and mount it to the base. I have no idea where the DP is from but it works beautifully with this image don't you think.

I used Copics to color and this is what I used-- Hair YR21,YR31; Cloud B000 under the cloud for shading BG000; Skin E00,E21;Nightshirt Boo and for the wing and halo I used a Sakura silver Jelly Roll pen.

I cut the image out with a Nestabilities Deckled rectangle and edged it with YR31.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Beckett Tulips

My final experimental card is done on Beckett Expressions Radiance.

The coloring for this one is again YG01 and YG03 for the leaves and the flowers are RV00, RV11 and RV34.

The color went on smoothly and blended well, so my conclusion is that whatever paper you like and can afford is the best one to use. I enjoyed this experiment so much I think I'll do it again.

The DP for this card was Memory Box Pixie with card stock in Cranberry and Meadow.

Hope you have enjoyed my experiment and thank you for stopping by.

P. S. While going through my stamps I came across so many old favorites that I think I'll be tripping down 'Memory' (pardon the pun) lane for awhile.

Cryogen Tulips

This is the second card in my experiment. For this card I used Cryogen White, it is more of a cream color with a very lovely sparkle to it.

For coloring I used YG01 and YG03 for the leaves and Y11,Y06 and Y15 for the flowers. Again the colors went on smoothly and blended nicely.

The DP is also from Memory Box Pixie with the card base in Sunflower and the matting is Cherry Blossom.

So far I'm not finding much difference in the papers for coloring.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

X-Press It Tulips

Well after cleaning up my craft area I deserved some play time. Bruce is gone for the day so I can play with my toys. While cleaning and straightening up I came across some X-Press It Blending paper that I bought from Ellen Hutson several months ago. I had put it away and never used it. I decided to have some fun and experiment with three different card papers for coloring with Copics.

I chose this stamp from Northwood Rubber Stamps to use on all three cards.

The leaves are done with YG01 and YG03, the flowers with R20,R83 and R85. The DP and card stock for the base and matting are all Memory Box Pixie, Taffy and Meadow.

It was easy to blend my colors and I like how it turned out.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

A Card of Kellen

The other day Bruce and I were shopping at Sam's Club and I made the mistake of wandering by the children's clothing. Whooee big mistake, I fell in love with all the pretty little girl stuff and I wanted to buy something but I didn't think my nephew Steve would like his son dressed in dresses. So I took a look at the boys outfits and found so many cute things that I had a hard time choosing. Well I bought two outfits and sent them to him with this card.

The image is a digital freebie from Digital Delights that I had printed out months ago and colored with Copics and it has been sitting there waiting to be used.

So off it went with the outfits and Michelle and Steve said Kellen is going to be a regular fashionista if all of his Aunts keep up with this wardrobe additions.

I thought this image was such a fun one and I enjoyed putting this card together. Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

July 4th Lighthouse

This is another of my holiday cards. I just had to use my new JustRite stamps on this project.

I colored with Copics of course and cut it out with the oval Nestabilities as I also did the mat with the scalloped oval. The DP is from DCWV Prints matstack. The card base, scalloped mat and the ribbon are all from Gina K.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Vintage 4th of July

I got busy yesterday and made my 4th of July cards. My Card Ministry group from church tries to keep in touch with members of our church who can't make it in for Mass.

So I started out with this image from PaperTrey's Vintage Picnic set. Love, love, love this set. It has 5 different baskets ( they are really the old metal kind but we still call them baskets) and 8 different toppers along with sentiments and other images.

Anyway I stamped the image and colored with Copics. After cutting it out with the Oval Nestabilities (the mat was cut with Scalloped oval Nestie), I air brushed a little red around the edges. The mat is from Gina K as is the red card base and the ribbon. The DP is DCWV Summer Dreams matstack. Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.