Well I spent some time in my craft room yesterday trying to get organized. I need to make my cards for my workshop this week and need to get things ready to use that room. I also started taking down my Christmas decorations. When I left last week I just left everything in the house as it was for the holidays but need to get things down and put away before the workshop. I also…
I wanted a simple one layer card for one in the set. I went to the Stampin’ Up set with simple flowers. Although there are no embellishments on this card I think it is very pretty. I used markers to ink the stamp then stamped it one and then again without reinking to get a softer image also. Like the effect but need to work on my image placement a little. Here is my creation.…
Michaela and I are headed home today. It has been a good week. She has visited a lot of the surrounding towns to get to know the area. She has hit some really good sales (how about silk fabric for curtains that was originally $50 a yard on sale for $6 or a $70 mirror on sale for $17). That girl really has the luck when it comes to shopping! We have visited several local…
This is the last card from my fun and funky card set. I wanted to create a colorful butterfly so I pulled out my Kaleidacolor pads and choose this one to ink the image. I had this colorful knitting ribbon I had picked up at Michael’s that matched the ink so I decided to use it. I used the Kaleidacolor pad to ink the edges of the card. I also added the pink bling flowers…
I try and participate in sketch challenges quite often as I feel it increases my skills. The Card Sketch A Day blog puts up a sketch each day and everyone is welcome to give them a try. I volunteered to create a card for one of her sketches. I liked the sketch so much that I created 2 cards. Here is the sketch and my creations. I decorated the inside also and here is a…
Michaela and I had a fun day on Sunday. We went to Corning to see the Corning Glass Museum. We learned quite a bit about glass blowing. Michaela even picked up some things on sale for her new apartment. It has been very cold here. Sunday was the first day it was at freezing. All the other days it has been below freezing. We have had some snow and tonight we are supposed to have…
