Happy Anniversary

I've got a little anniversary card today for the current Paper Girls challenge. Nevermind the weird photo. It's dark and I was using my camera light. I plan to replace it with a better one if the sun comes out tomorrow. I say "if" because you just never know up here in the Pacific Northwest. sigh.

Anyway.
I stamped this pretty little vase trio from a Unity set onto watercolor paper. Painted it with various purple and blue watercolors (inspired by Unity's challenge). I matted it onto this beautiful purple cardstock. Some teal twine and a simple sentiment later and it was done.

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great day!

Linkiing up to;
Unity Stamp {be inspired} challenge
Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes challenge

hello...

Hi folks! I finally have something to blog. I have actually made a few things in the last two months but just haven't found the time to blog. Hopefully I'll be able tocatch up soon. I made this card for our challenge over at The Paper Girls which is to use cork.

I pulled out Crate Paper's Story Teller line. This is still one of my favorite lines. Such great patterns and colors. I die-cut the sentiment from cork paper and punched out the hearts from the same paper too.

Sorry for the grey photo. It's hard to photograph projects here in the Pacific Northwest. It really is as grey and cloudy as you've heard it is! Oh well. We have great summers at least! If any of you reading this have a light box/tent to recommend I'd love to know what you use.

I hope you can find some time to come play with our challenge and win a great prize.

Have a great day!

Thank you just for being you

Our current challenge over at The Paper Girls is to make a Thank You card.

So here's what I have:

The floral and chevron strips are washi tape. The aqua floral paper is from BasecGrey's Hipster line (I love that paper!). And the stamp is from Simon Says Stamp - I think it was an exclusive to one of their monthly card kits last year.

Easy peasy. And now I have a Thank You card to send (and who doesn't need more of those!) and I put a very small dent in my washi collection.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Snow Day shaker card

Hi! I am over at the Craft Warehouse blog today with 3 Christmas cards. I got to use Lawn Fawn's Snow Day collection. Go have a peek!

I also had this shaker card that I made. My first shaker card. These are so much fun!

 I used Distress Ink in Weathered Wood and a waterbrush to paint the snowy hills. Then I used the Snow Day stamp set to stamp the snowflakes, tree line, rabbit, and sentiment. There are also matching dies for the stamps So I used those to cut out the rabbit and single tree.

 Then I used random sequins and glitter to fill my frame. I can't wait to make more!

Thanks for stopping by today.

And thanks to Craft Warehouse for having me as a designer today. If you are in the Pacific Northwest please stop by one of their stores - they are great!

1-year-old layout

I just found this photo of my niece in my craft room. Oh my goodness she was a cutie.

 I had to scrap it right away.

 I created a background for the photo using texture paste and a stencil. After it was dry I rubbed some gold gelato on it. I sprinkled some olive paint across the page. Punched a bunch of butterflies and popped them with foam. Added an Epiphany Crafts epoxy heart. And finally hung some chipboard from some twine.

I need to find more photos of her and scrap them too. It was fun making something so girly (which I rarely do since I have 3 boys)!

Thanks for stopping by today. I'm posting this over at The Paper Girls Challenge blog. Our current challenge is Anythng Goes. Come join us for a chance to win some crafting goodies!

cup of love

 Hi folks! It's National Coffee Day and I am participating in the Coffee Lovers Bloghop and this is my second entry. Click here if you'd like to see my card.

I've been working on getting my craft room organized and decorated and decided to make some art for it. So I painted this little 6x6 canvas. I love it and can't wait to get it hung on the wall.

 It's a little hazy here in the Pacific Northwest today so I'm not sure how much of the true colors are coming through on this photo. 

The word COFFEE is stamped using Simon Says Stamp's Sketched Alphabet stamp set. Due to the texture of the canvas the sketchiness didn't show well, so I filled it in with a paintbrush.

And since it is National Coffee Day I am sharing my morning mug of Pumpkin Spice. I was feeling a little Halloween spirit today! I wait all year to use this The Nightmare Before Christmas mug that I've had for years. It's nice and tall and holds a LOT of coffee :)  And yes, my desk is always that messy. Sometimes even worse. Hey - I just noticed that you are getting a 2-for-1 today on mugs. I use that old cracked tree mug in the background to hold water when I paint.

(I'm taking it as a sign that today will be a great day since my manicure soooo matches my mug!)

Thanks for stopping by today. Feel free to come enter the blog hop for your chance to win one of the many many prizes up for grabs!

coffee = love

 Hi folks! It's National Coffee Day and I am participating in the Coffee Lovers Bloghop.

Did you even know there was such a thing??

My first project is this card:

I could have sworn that I had some coffee stamps somewhere. But I couldn't find anything so I drew this little mug of happiness. Cut it out and popped it up on a panel of watercolored goodness. (Hmm, I'm thinking I could save a lot of money on stamps if I start drawing more of my own images!)

And since it is National Coffee Day I am sharing my morning mug of Pumpkin Spice. I was feeling a little Halloween spirit today! I wait all year to use this The Nightmare Before Christmas mug that I've had for years. It's nice and tall and holds a LOT of coffee :)

Bonus - you know it's gonna be a good day when your manicure matches your mug!

Thanks for stopping by today. You have until midnight tonight if you'd like to enter the hop and win one of the many many prizes up for grabs!

sorry i'm late

 Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge is Back to School.

 I have this birthday card (that might have been a little late!) hence the overdue library book theme. Even thought they don't use these cards anymore, I sure do remember having them in all my school's library books way back in the day!

The papers are from Lawn Fawn's Dewey Decimal set. I absolutely love these papers!

And speaking of back to school, my kids go back this week! My oldest will be in middle school. Middle school. Gasp. He's getting old. I guess that means I am as well!

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great week!

a happy birthday card

Over at The Paper Girls Challenge blog Jessica is letting us design our own challenge!

Here is my card:

For the challenge Jessica wants us to select 3 of the following:

I chose to make a card, to do something messy (used watercolor and spray ink), and use washi.

Pop on over and play along in the challenge with us!

Thanks for stopping by today!

super hero card

 Over at The Paper Girls Challenge, Michele has challenged us to make a superhero project.

I started on a layout of my little guy from a few years back I just couldn't get it finished. So instead I made this superhero card!

I used the Heidi Swapp confetti stencil and some yellow distress ink to get the stars on. I then used Simon Says Stamp's Shoot for the Stars stamps set to add a few larger stars and the red outlined stars. The sentiment is from the same SSS stamp set (which I can't find online - it must have been an exclusive for their kit of the month I guess). See that red punchinella in the back?? I have had that for almost 5 years now! It felt good to finally use some of it up!

Thanks for stopping by today! Come on over and play in our Superhero challenge. Michele has a great prize waiting for the winner!