The Little Mermaid

Hello again crafty friends,

This week I have created some sea side fun with this cute little mermaid from Wee Stamps. The image was colored a while back and I just could not find the right sketch for it till yesterday. The sketch is from Papertake Weekly Sketch #66 designed by Dawny P. Here is the end result. This is also for DT submission over at Fussy and Fancy

The card was designed with My Minds Eye "Lime Ricky" collection PP, the image was colored with Copic markers, embellished with various goodies from my personal stash. Thanks for visiting and hope you have a great week ahead. 

Enjoy and Happy Crafting!!!!

Back for More Crafting Fun

Hello Crafty Gals,

I have been busy this week with a new card and I have also decided to try out for a DT or two. This weeks  creation was for 4 different card challenges. The first is Papertake Weekly this was a Bingo challenge. My three in a row was gem, die cuts and flowers. Then there were 3 challenges for Anything Goes this week Whimsy Challenge Blog Challenge #31, Creative Inspirations Challenge #155 and Cute Card Thursday Challenge #209. The 2 DT I have tried out for is at Crafts4Eternity and Fussy and Fancy. Wish me luck.

This sweet card was made using the My Minds Eye "Stella and Rose" collection. The sketch is one of my own. This card also contains Bazzill Brown and Flamingo Card stock, Kaiser Craft pearls, Stitching by machine, ( I know it is not straight, I am horrible at sewing sorry), Prima Flowers, the flourishes are done with a sizzix die and this cute little spring image is a Digital Stamp " Little Rapunzel" from Elisabeth Bell Designs. The image was lovingly colored and airbrushed with my favorite coloring medium, Copic Markers. Thanks again for visiting the blog. 

Enjoy and Happy Crafting!!!!

Wee Silver Fairy of Gossamer and Gold

Good Sunday afternoon fellow crafters,

It feels so good to be back in the crafting game again. It has been over a year since I have done anything just for fun and not for teaching. So I have been surfing the net and sadly find I really need to update my blog. I was disappointed to see many of my favorite card challenges are no longer open. I did however, find some amazing new ones. This card is for two of these new challenges for me. The first is Fussy and Fancy and of course the theme is "Fairies", the second is Papertake Weekly Challenge with a theme of "Anything Goes".

This gorgeous beauty was created with the Silver Fairy Digital Stamp from Wee Stamps. I had to visit youtube to figure out how to color her, I found a great tutorial by Suzzane Dean, so thank you so much to her for the free lesson it was of great help. I used a combination of Blues and Blue/Green Copic Markers to create the look of gossamer in her clothing this is a coloring technique where you use one color of Copic marker to push out the other color. The cloud background was made with the Copic airbrush technique. The paper edges were distressed with Vintage Photo ink by Ranger. I used a very lovely paper stack from Prima called the "Madeline Collection" the card stock is Lagoon, Brown and Natural from Bazzill. The Florals and pearls are also all from Prima. The real special highlight on the card is the glitter, I used three different items for this, star dust stickler, Gary's fine glitter with glossy accents and a Sakura Star Dust Pen. Here is a close up to get a better View of the glitter.

Thank you so much for visiting and have a great week.

Enjoy and Happy Crafting!!!!

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Mojo Monday Challenge 231 / Stampaive and More Wee Hummingbird

Well it's been a while since I played in a challenge. This was created for Mojo Monday Challenge 231. The image is from Fred She Said, it is the wee hummingbird and petunia's. I am also going to post this at the Stampaive and More Challenge, the theme is Spring/Easter and the colors are so very spring time like I thought it would be a good fit. The images were colored and air brushed with Copic markers. The paper line is Lime Twist from My Minds Eye. The card is embellished with kaiser kraft pearls, seam binding that was colored with Copic marker to match image and PP, leaves were created with Nellie Snellen punch set and flower was created using Tim Holtz Tattered Floral Die. I hope you enjoyed this small creation as much as I enjoyed making it.

Enjoy and Happy Crafting!!!!

A Surprise

I was so surprised for my birthday when my very sweet sister and adorable little niece showed to surprise me for my birthday dinner. It has been so long since I had seen them and my how my sweet little Gracie has grown. I got a precious pic of her and her oldest cousin at dinner. What a cute pair. I did the digital scrap with my iPad and Coolibah app I love this thing.


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An Experiment

Hi ya folks! Long time no see again. I have had an iPad for sometime now and was just wondering what it would be like to post from it. I am impressed so far. Let's see what happens when I add a picture. Hmmmm seems to be giving some problems with adding photos so off I go to the google machine to find out how to add photos while posting from an iPad.

Yeah! It worked I have to use photos from my flicker account and use HTML to download the photos to the blog. This so rocks! The photo is of an easel card I made with the cutest summer magnolia stamp. I love that stamp.

A Sweet Diaper Cake

Hey everybody I just wanted to share a sweet little goodie I made for my God Daughters Baby Shower this weekend. I made this nifty little Diaper cake with my Silhouette Digital Die cutting machine. She will be so excited she wanted one so bad. I just love that cute puppy!

Enjoy and Happy Crafting !!!

The absentie blogger strikes again

Well as usual here it is several months later and I am posting. I so miss the days when I had enough time to post daily. I have created a new LO for the Local Scrapbook Store I am employed at. It is made from the "So Sophie" collection from My Minds Eye. I love the texture of this paper it draws me in every time. The photo was taken on my Cell phone so sorry about the poor quality. These are photos of my Daughter two years ago on prom night. All the girls were so beautiful that evening.



Enjoy and Happy Crafting !!!

A Friendly Word Of Warning

I have been teaching the Copic Class in the Spring / Woodlands, TX area now for sometime and it has recently come to my attention that some individual or individuals may be trying to use my class curriculum for their own classes. I do not know this for sure or that this is even true nor will I lower myself to naming anyone, but I will let you know now that this is MY MATERIAL and as such I have a copyright to it and I have this posted on the side bar of my blog. The thing that is most frustrating to me about this is that it is all my hard work and effort that may be being used by someone who put no work into it at all. It is immoral,unethical and extremely unprofessional to use someone else's work!!! The only thing I have to add to this is when you take one of my classes the handouts I give you are for your personal use only and are not to to be used to teach others with or used for any other public Dissemination. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

Hugs and Happy Crafting !!!

A Blog Face Lift

Hello and long time no see I have been MIA for many months due to my teaching and work commitments and I am so glad to be able to drop a line or two I have decided to change up my blog a little. I have been bitten by the Twilight bug and I am in love with the whole thing. I had a good friend of mine do the title bar picture of my blog for me and yes those are my eyes! I just wish that was my real eye color they are actually blue green IRL. The past few months has kept me very busy with some amazing things. The first is that I have a wonderful group of Copic Students who I love coloring with very much they have been my heart and soul and supported me through this whole program to all of them thank you so much. The next item is that I will be starting my own rubber stamping company I am very fortunate to have some talented artists in the family who have agreed to help me on my way. Lastly I will no longer be teaching my Copic class at Lonestar Scrapbook company. I have decided to do private classes and I will have more information on this as times progresses. Well I hope you are having a great week.

Hugs XXX and Happy Crafting !!!