Hello Sunshine

What do you do when you wake up at 3:00 in the morning and can't fall back to sleep?  I head to my craft table. This morning I colored.  I stamped this adorable sweet little gal with brown Memento Ink  and colored it up with my Copics.  The stamp is from Penny Black Inc and the artist is Mo Manning It is called "Sunflower Baby".

I stamped the sentiment (from Lawn Fawn) with embossing ink and sprinkled it with WOW's Primary Bark embossing powder.  Then I melted the powder with my heat gun.

The yellow paper is from Stampin' Up.  I believe it was from tone of their tea cup sets.  I have had it for a couple of years.  The blue checked is from G45 and the card stock is Bazzill.

I kept the embellishments kinda simple.  The image was so adorable,  I wanted it to be my focal point.  I did add a few liquid Nuvo drops for texture and interest.

I want to enter this in a couple of challenges:

Penny Black Saturday Monthly Challenge - Flowers
Crafty Calendar - Anything Goes
Scrapper's Delight- Anything Goes

Graphic 45 Mystery Detective Gentlemen's Card

Hello ya'll.  I haven't posted in awhile, and I sure want to get back into blogging again.  Here's a quick post of a card I made using Graphic 45's Mystery Detective Collection.

 I created the wall with a Faber Castell Brick stencil and Viva's Ferro paste in Grungold.  I spread the paste on a black piece of card stock.  I fussy cut a scene from #It's Elementary paper from the Mystery Detective collection and attached it to the wall with foam tape.  The metal sentiment is from Tim Holtz Idea-ology.  I attached it with 2 metal brads.

I am entering this in the contest over on the Graphic 45 Facebook page.  The contest ends tomorrow, but the prize is $150.00 gift package.  Use #G45Gentlemen

Hope you enjoy and I hope to get more time visiting my old friends at their blogs.  I am looking to making some new ones too since I have been away far too long.  Looks like many of the blogs I used to follow have stopped blogging too.  :(

Have a marvelous day everyone and Happy Crafting.

Caroline's Graduation

I would like to apologize for the quality of the pictures.  I did not realize they were not the best for blogging until  I added them just now.  I can't retake the photos, because the plaque now resides with Caroline.

My granddaughter Caroline graduated from high school this past Saturday and I made this plaque as a graduation gift.  Caroline has wanted to be a hairdresser ever since she was 4 years old.  She cut her own hair at 5 and proceeded to cut cousins, dolls and classmates hair.  We tried hiding all the scissors, but the little stinker was determined to cut and style hair.  We were not sure what we were going to do to stop the problem until our hairdresser, Debbie Thompson, blessed angel that she was, lol solved our problem.  She talked to Caroline "hairdresser to hairdresser".  She told her that only licensed hairdressers were allowed to cut hair.  She told her she had to go to school and get a license before she was allowed to cut hair.  Well, thank the Good Lord, Caroline listened and stopped cutting hair.

Caroline has now graduated from high school and will be attending Aveeda school in September.  She will finally achieve her goal to be a hairdresser and this proud Nana is looking forward to many free haircuts!

I made this plaque as a graduation gift for Caroline after seeing a similar project on my friend,  Cec's blog, CW Card Creations.  

Cec designed hers for a sewing room,  but I   saw it as a hairdresser motif.  Cec is so fabulously talented in the shabby chic/vintage style.  It is a style I have difficulty with, so I tried to follow her design as close as possible.

When I showed my friends at my LSS, Cec's design, they decided to help me gather the things I would need.  Irene, Carol and Joene brought me bits of lace, doilies and hairdresser charms even some paint.  I made several trips to Michaels and AC Moore for wood, paint and charms.  I wanted a larger pair of vintage scissors and couldn't find them.  The owner of my LSS, Scrapbooks By The Sea, Rayann had scissors on order from Ken Oliver Crafts, but they wouldn't be in in time.  She let me take a pair of hers off of one of her cards and use them.  Ever heard the expression, "It takes a village....."  Well this project certainly was a joint effort.

To make  this project, I used  a 2 wood plaques from Michaels, painted them both with Diana Wakeley Gesso, and then a painted a layer of Dreamweaver's crackle embossing paste on the sentiment layer.  I stenciled with Dreamweaver's Embossing paste.   I used TCW stencils.  All the embellishments were from my stash, or friends stash and were glued on with E6000 and then painted with Gesso. 

After the layer of Gesso, I sponged a layer of pink paint from Studio and then a layer of white paint watered down a bit to give the white washed look.  I sponged a bit of gold paint here and there over the whole plaque.  The sentiment is a Yvonne Blair sentiment stamp from Impression Obssession and stamped with Black Archival Ink. 

Happy Graduation Caroline and thank you to all of my crafty friends who contributed their stash to make this project possible.  Cec thanks for the inspiration!

Challenges I plan to enter:

http://stampsandstencils.blogspot.com/2016/05/think-pink.html

Fun With Color Burst

 

                       

       

I recently had the opportunity to take a class at Scrapbooks By the Sea taught by Ken Oliver featuring his Color Burst Paints.  Let me first give you my major disclosure - I am NOT an artist and these cards are proof.  The reason I am posting these cards, is to show what the novice crafter can achieve using the paints and stamps Ken has designed.  The class was a blast and I went home and finished the first 4 cards.

I added some sequins, Stickles, seed beads, Flower Soft, ribbon, charms and string.  The charms, flowers and butterflys on the first 4 cards are all from Ken Oliver.  The last card was made using a script stamp from Impression Obsession and a Bird stamp from Penny Black and a Butterfly stamp from WOW.   The little lilac flowers are a die from Impression Obsession.

The last card is something I created while playing around with the paints at home.  Yes I bought 2 sets of them at class  Sorry, but I was hooked.  The paints are powder form and react with water.  They remind me of alka seltzer.  When you drop a "poof" of them on watercolor paper and spritz with water, the most glorious colorbursts appear.  Too much fun I promise you.  After all isn't that what crafting is all about?


Challenges I plan to enter:
http://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2016/05/no-designer-paper.html

Lovely Thoughts Bella

Look at my sweet Bella holding on to her bunny and all cuddled up in her comfy bed.  This, as if you didn't know is a Sassy Cheryl creation called Nappy Poo Bella.  You can get her here.  I used my Copic Markers to color her.  I bought the sketchy one because I loved all the shading and texture on this image.  It helped create that vintage/shabby chic look.

The lace is a new stamp from Studio 490 - Wendy Vecchi.  You can get it over at Stamper's Annonymous.  I saw a design on Wendy's blog where she used white embossing powder to stamp this background stamp.  I thought it would provide the perfect vintage platform for Nappy Poo Bella.  

My background paper is from an older Bo Bunny collection called Isabella.  I sprinkled some Shabby Pink Rose Minable Frantage around and melted it with my heat gun.  The sentiment is from Impression Obsession and it is also embossed with white embossing powder.  The ribbon is from Stampin Up and there are a few rhinestones sprinkled around on the card for some bling.

Hope you liked my creation this evening.  Take care and

Happy Crafting,

Linda

Valentine's Day Is For Love.

Valentine's Day is for love and I LOVE water coloring with my Gelatos.   I had 3 days off and I was supposed to do laundry, clean the house, bathe the dogs, wash the car, etc.  But what did this little girl really do?  I spent 3 days crafting.   The first day I made 4 cards for an upcoming Graphic 45 Class I will be teaching.  OK Job #1 done.  Day 2 I made 2 Birthday cards for some special little boys in my life and I made some party table cards for them. Colored in my coloring book. Day 3 - Whatever day and whatever turned out to be Gelatos.

Have you all tried them yet?  Oh my gosh, they are so versatile and fun to craft with.   The colors are over the top gorgeous and you can do just about anything with them.  Spray, create backgrounds, watercolor, stamp, stencil, color pastes and texture creams, splatter.  You can spread them with a baby wipe, your fingers, paint brush, sponge whatever you can imagine.  Do yourself a favor and give them a play time.  Your won't be disappointed.  (If you need ideas or instructions, just search gelatos on You Tube.  There are lot's of tutorial videos).

To do this project,   I "colored" Blood Orange and Iced Coffee Gelatos on a small flower stamp .  I then misted it with water and stamped it randomly all over the watercolor paper. After it dried I colored "Butter" and "Blood Orange" gelatos all over the paper and blended them with my finger which I kept moist with water.  After that dried, I took a gold pen and dotted the paper for a bit of glitz.  I colored a bit of Iced Coffee gelato on my craft mat and stirred in a bit of Gesso.  I dipped my Splatter Brush into this mixture and "Splattered" the background paper.

Next I used the same stamping technique and stamped 3 large flowers with Blood Orange Gelato and 2 leaves with Iced Coffee Gelato. After these dried I fussy cut them out and used foam tape to mount them on the card.  The stem was painted with a aqua brush free handed. I then matted it with a paper from Prima's Seashore collection and mounted it on a white card stock base.

I am afraid this was my last free play day for the week.  I have things scheduled for everyday this week.  I'll just have to savor these memories until next week, when just maybe I can sneak another free play session in.  If you have some free time this week, go grab something, anything and as Wendy Vecchi says, GO MAKE ART!

Happy Crafting,

Linda

Challenges I Plan On Entering:

http://avenue613.blogspot.com/
http://welove2create.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/challenge-4-anything-creative-mixed.html#comment-form
http://lacysunshine.blogspot.co.uk/

Hello Friend

Hello Bloggy friends.  I am back again with another Bella from Sassy Cheryl.  Cheryl is just driving me crazy with these new Sketchy Bella images and I HAVE TO HAVE THEM ALL!  

I found this technique on a blog I follow and it looked perfect for what I wanted to do to showcase this Teacher's Pet Bella.  Here is the link to Janey's Card's Blog where you can find my inspiration.  

The back ground is made using finger daubers and Tim Holtz's Distress Ink.  For this one I used Squeezed Lemonade, Wild Honey and Scattered Straw.  Just swirl little circles around and around until you get the effect you are looking for.

I colored Bella with Copic Markers (lots of them lol) and fussy cut it out.  It's popped on with foam tape.  The sentiment is from Stamper's Anonymous-Tim Holt's Crazy Talk collection.  I put a bit of Glossy Accents on the glasses.

Hope you enjoyed seeing my play time.

Linda

Bella's Having a Bad Hair Day

I belong to a couple of card clubs, "Inky Digits" and "Silly Stampers" and we have to bring a handmade card to the meeting.  All the cards are placed in a drawing and one lucky member wins all the cards. I didn't put a sentiment on this card so the winner could use it for whatever occasion she desires.

The image is called "Bella's Bad Hair Day" and when I saw it on FB, I knew I had to color it up.  Isn't Bella adorable.  Cheryl posted another Bella image today for National Teacher's Day.  Bella is peeking out from behind a big ole' apple and wearing a big ole' pair of glasses.  That one is coming home to me too,  Just can't resist these adorable little Bella's.  If you want to check out her FB page,, it is called Sassy Cheryl's Neighborhood.

Products Used:

Paper  - Kaiser Craft's Teddy Bear's Picnic

Cardstock -Bazzill

Button and Bakers' Twine from my stash

Stitched Circle Die is from Lawn Fawn

Coloring Medium - Copic Markers

Have a wonderful day and wish me luck tomorrow at Club!

Linda

Trick or Treat

I have been a bit "Bird Crazy" this past year.  It was love at first sight for me and Tim Holtz' s Crazy Birds.  It turned out there were lots of Bird Lover's out there because Pinterest is full of creations using these little guys.  I started making my own accessories for them even before I found out Tim was releasing a set of accessories.  Then came the sayings and the dies, OMG I had to have them.  I work and teach at my LSS, Scrapbooks By The Sea so I was able to snatch them up as soon as the shipment was unpacked.

My Grandchildren don't live near me anymore  so I have to mail their cards and treats. Even though they are all grown now (my youngest gran is soon to be 16) they still like receiving treats and cards in the mail and this ole' grandma looks forward to making them.

This year, I use the Stampin Up treat bag die to make the holders.  It cuts out and assembles so quick and is the perfect size and shape for mailing.  The paper is from Bo Bunny and the heavy weight card stock works perfect for these bags.  I used the SU Spider Web doily as a mat for each bird and then got busy creating costumes for my darlings.

The Tim Holtz Crazy Bird Accessories set includes the pumpkin, top hat, bow tie, witches hat and broom.  I created the magic wand with a star punch, silver Stickles and a piece of vellum.  The ghost is a piece of velum, the vampire cape is a piece of black tulle.  The princess veil is a piece of pink tulle and her crown is a Tim Holtz stamp from an old set that I stamped with versa mark and heat embossed using silver embossing powder I added some gems with silver and purple Stickles.

I colored everything with Copic Markers.  These are "Crazy Birds" and I just colored them quickly with crazy colors.  I wanted them to have that fun abstract look, so I did not get detailed with my coloring.  I drew a couple of fangs on the vampire and used a red marker to create dripping blood and blood shot eyes.  All the eyes are covered in Glossy Accents.

I wanted to write a personal note to each of my grans so I made tags  to tuck down in the bags.  I used a SU tag topper punch  and the stamp set was a Hampton Arts set.  I used Tim Holtz Crazy Sayings "trick or treat" stamp to stamp a sentiment on the seam binding.

Added a bit of wrapped candy and some shredded paper and they were ready for mailing. Hope those grans of mine get a kick out of them.

Happy Halloween!

Challenges I plan to enter:

Allsorts- Purple Black or Orange - http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.ca/
Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes  http://inspirationdestinationchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-max=2015-10-22T00:00:00-05:00&max-results=1

Poppin' In To Say Hi

My goodness it has been a long long long time since I posted here on my blog.  I have been very busy and I will fill you all in on some of the details in a later post.  Tonight I needed some down time just for me, so I grabbed this Sassy Cheryl digi and my colored pencils and just chilled out.

I used Faber Castell Polychromos on the image and blended with the pencils themselves.  I decided not to use Gamasol to blend here.  The buttons are made with a Sakura Black Glaze pen and the buckles are a Sakura Silver Metallic pen.The sentiment is from Stampin Up' Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set.  I used a SU punch for the sentiment.The pumpkin brad  and sheer ribbon are from Scrapbooks By The Sea, my local scrapbook store (LSS). DP is Reminisce and the CS is Bazill.

I hope to get around to visiting some of my old bloggy buddies.  I miss "talking" to all of you.  Check back later and I 'll catch you up with what has been going on in my little corner of the world.

Happy Crafting Ya'll!

When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade!

Here's a new image from Sassy Cheryl.  Sally and Noah are having a lemonade sale, but Bella just drinks up all the profits.  Poor kids and they worked so hard building that beautiful stand.  

If you haven't heard by now, Sassy Cheryls closed their challenge blog and moved to Face Book.  They have formed a new group called Sassy Cheryl's Neighborhood.  It has been open about a week now and have already gained almost 30 members.  Cheryl has been giving away prizes, having trivia contests and there is all kinds of fun going on.  If you haven't joined already, head over there now and sign up.  You sure don't want to miss the very special 1st Challenge.  I mean Cheryl is in a generous mood right now and.........
Here's the link.  Hurry, the challenge starts the first of July.

Card Recipe:
Polka Dot papers are from Bo Bunny
DP  and Clouds and Lemons - Little Yellow Bicycle
Image is Sassy Cheryls' - Bella Eats The Profits
Coloring Medium - Copic Markers and Faber Castell Polychromo Pencils

Look Out FB, We're Getting Sassy!

 

                 

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Today I type this post with a sad heart and many sighs.  My first SC Challenge was #11 I have participated in almost every Challenge Sassy Cheryl's since then.  My very first blog post in May of 2010 was a freebie Sassy Cheryl image that is still one of my favorites.  My very first digi purchase was a Sassy Cheryl image.  I guess you would say I am definitely a Sassy Cheryl Addict.  But, all good things have to come to an end and today we sadly announce that this will be the last Challenge for the Sassy Cheryl Challenge Blog. It will be a ONE week challenge .

The GoOd NeWs is:  Sassy Cheryl's will be opening a Fantastically, Sassy, Fun new Facebook Group where we will offer challenges and prizes.  Many crafting friends do not have a blog, nor want to  maintain an active blog but they would like to participate in challenges.   The Sassy Cheryl Facebook Group will open our challenges to more crafters and share Cheryl's creations with a larger audience.  We will continue to be as Sassy as ever (once a Sassy, always a Sassy) so check back on the Challenge Blog page on July 1, 2014 for the announcement of  more details..

Today, Jackie is the hostess and she gave us this sketch to follow.  I used the brand new image in Sassy Cheryl's shop - "Don't Repeat This".  I did make a big boo boo because I used the first image Cheryl drew.  She later updated it and the updated version is the one for sale in her shop.  I could tell you what the difference is, but I am in a "stinker mood" and going to make you pop over there and see how quick you can figure it out.

The sketch is an easy one to follow and works perfect with my image. For this card I used the following recipe.

Coloring Medium - Copics

Image  - Sassy Cheryl's "Don't Repeat This"

Paper - DCWV - Nana's Kids

Gold Border Stickers - Elizabeth Crafts

Monkeys - Brads from my stash.

Please pop over to our Challenge Blog here and check out what my DT Sistahs have created for you.  While you are at it, take a moment to pop over to their blogs and leave them some love.  I really hope you will join us in our final Challenge here in bloggy land and that you will join us in our Sassy Challenges and Shenanigans on our new Facebook Group.  

Challenges I plan to enter are:

Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Sassy Cheryls Show Me Thursday

Is There A Graduate In The House?

Grandchild #3 graduated from High School  and she is having a graduation party on July 5, 2014 to celebrate.  I have been busy making things for her party and I will share those in another post.  The above two cards  are for Kaylee and her best friend Liza.  

I decided to just "girly it up" for Kaylee using papers from K & Company, some tulle, lace ribbon and flowers.  I think pearls and girls coming of age just go together.  I know it is "my generation:, but girls used to be given pearls as a "lady" came of age.  Well my little Kaylee is coming of age, so I used plenty of soft pink pearls on her card.  I chose not to incorporate an image this time letting the beauty come from the words in the verse and the paper and embellishments.  I love the vintage feel of this one.  

The blue and yellow graduate is an image from Saturated Canary called Grad Girl 2012.  I love Krista's characters.  They have the biggest eyes and funkiest outfits and poses.  She is one of my favorite digi artists and I rely on her stamps often. You can check out Kristas store by clicking here.  I am a member of Kit and Clowder Face Book Page and one of Alyce's students.  You'll see a lot of Krista's images over there colored up with amazing color combos.  The paper I used is from My Mind's Eye.  To make the mortar board inside the card, I stamped on the DP and fussy-cut it out.  The diploma is a piece of white paper rolled up and tied with a yellow cord.

Challenges I want to enter in:

Robyn's Fetish - Graduation Cards
Scribble and Scrap - Anything Goes
Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Happy Doodle Birthday

It is mid challenge time at Sassy Cheryls and we are still doodling.  This week I chose an oldie of Cheryl's called String of Flowers.  I have always loved this one and used it a bunch.  It has some doodling already in it so it fit right in for this challenge.

I printed the image twice and colored and  cut out 2  bees, 2 purple flowers and 2 large ladybugs.  I popped them up with foam dots to give some dimension to my image.  The shine is from Glossy Accents and the butterfly wings have a bit of Stickles glitter on them.  I doodled the Happy Birthday and tried to make it look like the lines in the button flowers Cheryl had drawn.  I did a bit more doodling here and there on the card and finished it off with some pearls, button and twine from my stash.  The paper is from my scraps and I am not sure where the polka dot paper is from, but the stripe is Graphic 45 Botanical collection.  My card stock is American Crafts.  The butterly punch is EK Success.

Quick and easy.  Lots of fun to color up.  You still have until Monday at 5:00 PM EST to get your doodle masterpiece entered in our challenge.  So grab your pen and a SASSY CHERYL IMAGE and start doodling.  It is fun I promise you,  a real stress reliever.

Charlie Has A New Do

Good Tuesday Morning to you, my little lovlies!  There is a new challenge starting at Sassy Cheryl's today and I am the hostess.  I decided I wanted to challenge ya'll to some doodling.  I have been doing a bit of Zentangling in my Art Journal to relax and I was hoping to introduce you to a bit of relaxing fun.  When I sat down to design my card, I just wasn't feeling the Zentangling so I doodled a bit of lines, dots and a swirl for the butterfly.  Maybe next week I will do a bit of tangling for you.

This little sweetie is called Charlie's New Do and she lives over in Sassy Cheryl's shop with the rest of her friends.  Cheryl did a You Tube tutorial on how to color faces with glasses.  I took the tutorial and then practiced what I learned.  It was pretty simple and Cheryl is the most marvelous colored pencil artist.  I did add a bit of Glossy Accents on the glasses that Cheryl didn't demonstrate.

I colored my image with Faber Castell Polychromo Pencils.  I absolutely love them.  I used Copic Express It Blending card and the colors went down so smooth and easily blended with Gamasol.  I sponged the sky with a daubber and blue ink.  The butterflies are cut from some  DP in my stash as are the flowers and ribbon.  The DP is from Graphic 45's Botanical Collection.  The Octagon Dies are from Lifestyles Dies and the sentiment and punches from Stampin Up.

My Design Teammates have created some beautiful cards this week.  They have really stepped up the doodling.  It is always fun and exciting for me to see their creations.  I make sure to pop over to each of their blogs every week and leave them a little love.  I invite you to do the same.  They work so hard to make interesting and awesome cards to inspire you, so leave them a bit of love and encouragement.

Whatever you are up to this week, I hope there will be some Sassy Cheryl crafting time in it and you share your creation on our Challenge Blog.  You just may be the lucky winner of a free trip to Sassy Cheryl's store.  See You There!

Linda 

Simple Joys

Good Morning Darlings!  It is the first day of a new challenge at Sassy Cheryl's.  Dawn is the hostess for this challenge and she is challenging us to use a shade of purple and at least 2 dies used in our creations.  I selected Cheryl's newest digi called Reckless Waves because it reminds me of a dear friend who loves to kayak.  Well I wasn't the only Sassy Girl to select this one.  It appears that my dear friend is also a dear friend to some other Sassy Gals and they chose her too.

What is amazing is how we all selected the same digi, used the purple and dies and each one turned out so different.  I envisioned a quiet peaceful scene and  used cotton balls to apply chalk to the sky and the water creating a feeling of the early morning  fog that comes off the marsh.  I colored the image with Copic markers getting a bit bolder with my colors to add a layer of dimension.  I chose the dark green marsh grass and black birds for a third layer of dimension.

The wet sparkle on the water is a bit of Glossy Accents.  The sentiment is from PTI and the grass and birds are made with a die from Impression Obsession.  The butterfly is a SU sizzlit that I have used a gazillion times.

Please, please check out what my Sassy Design Teammies have come up for you this week.  You will be amazed at what you find.  Be sure to visit their individual blogs and leave them a bit of love too.  Hope to see you enter this new challenge.  You have two weeks to get your entry, so get those creative juices flowing and pop over to the store to see what Cheryl has come up with now.

Challenges I plan to enter this in:

Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes with punches or dies. 
Crafting From The Heart Anything Goes
Make My Monday - Nature

Twinkling H20's

I needed a birthday card for my wonderful son in law.  He is an outdoorsman and doesn't like a lot of frills.  I wanted to play with a watercolor background and thought I would try using my Twinkling H20's.  Oh my gosh, this was so much fun.  I used watercolor paper by Strathmore and two shades of  blue, purple and green.  I then painted a light coat of black across the green..  I love the little flecks of mica in these paints  The sparkle is beautiful IRL.

The marsh grass is a stamp from Stampin Up as is the sentiment stamp.  The flock of birds si a stamp from Stamp Scapes.  The moon was a mask made with a circle punch.  The border stickers are from Elizabeth Crafts and are black glitter.  I used a glitter pen and traced over the sentiment.

Challenges I plan to enter:
Crafting At The Weekend - Anything Goes
The Krafty Hands Challenge - Anything Goes

Beach Time at Turtle's Cove

Beach Shadow Box

This little Turtle has been busy taking some alteration classes.  The top shadow box was made at my LSS, Scrapbooks By The Sea.  The owner Rayann learned how to make this at the Collins Rep show recently.  I fell in love with it and when she scheduled a class I signed right up.  Believe it or not, it came together in about an hour.  We added paper cut to size in the compartments and then added 3 dimensional stickers to decorate the rest.  The sand and shells are "Mudd Puddles"   Mudd Puddles are real sand and little tiny seasshells in epoxy.  We sell bunches of it in the store and it is so fun to use.  The center two blocks are going to hold pictures that I plan on taking at the beach this weekend.

By The Sea Calendar

My next project is a perpetual calendar I made at a class at the Paper Cave.  My friend Denise Bennedetto, owner of "Messn' With Paper" held a class and made these calendars in traditional papers.  The projects were so popular she held a second class and used the Graphic 45  "By The Sea" collection. The calendar is a kit and we put the project together and used E600 glue to adhere it.  Then we painted the entire box months date cubes.  While that dried we glued the drawer together and started covering it with paper. 

I used "YES" Paste to apply my papers to the project.  "Yes" Paste is my favorite adhesive for paper projects.  It is thick, strong, fast drying and does not cause ripples in the paper.  

After the paint dried we covered all the pieces with paper, sanded the edges to distress and inked the edges with distress ink.  Each month is printed on the DP via the computer.  Each "month block" has 2 months on each side for a total of 6 month blocks.  The extra ones store in the bottom drawer.  

The day cubes have numbers on each side of the block.  You just rotate the blocks daily to change the date.  these numbers were cut out on the Cricket. 

I hot glued some navy braid on the calendar for a pop of color.  I also hot glued some sea shells to finish off the calendar.

By the Sea Calendar Back

When I was sanding the edges I tore the checked paper.  I started to fix it, but I liked the look.  I felt it gave the calendar character and look more distressed so I left it.

By The Sea Calendar Side View

By The Sea Calendar Top View Without Month

By The Sea Calendar Front Without Month Block

Fun projects for the home.   I really enjoyed putting these two together.  I am going to enter these in the Show Me Thursday Sassy Cheryl Challenge.  I also would like to enter this in the Simply Create Too - Anything But A Card Challenge.

It's All About The Journey

Please note this VIP turtle. 

Hello people.  I am back today with a Mid-Challenge Reminder Card for Sassy Cheryl's CAS Challenge.   We are beginning our second week so you have one more week to get you entry done.  There is no excuse for not playing this week.  You could do something as easy as buying a precolored image from the Sassy Cheryl Store,  and make it into a card.  This my darlings, could earn you a win.  Our winners are chosen randomly and so beginners to pros all have the same chance to win.

This week I have colored up my darling Sally with her dog and a oh, so precious little turtle.  The image is called  Travel At Your Own Speed and you can get her here.   I do love turtles because they are so much like me.  I travel at my own speed, but oh what a ride it has been so far, especially my creative journey!  I love taking life at a slower pace and savoring each minute of it.

My CAS card has a bit more "fluff" to it this week, but it is still clean and simple.  I colored the image with Copic markers and  paper pieced her clothes and shoes.  A bit of Shamrock Green Flowersoft  provides a nice soft bed of grass for them all to sit on.

Thank you so much for taking the time to pop in for a visit.  I have been trying to find a bit mokre time for blogging, so I'll be around to visit your blog this week too.  Happy Crafting and remember to enjoy the journey.  TTFN.

Rapunzel Let Your Hair Down Girl

Hello dahlings!  I am back with my second card this week.  It is my very first "Some Odd Girl" stamp.  My LSS got a shipment in a short while ago and I finally found time to color one up.  It was fun to color because the spaces are nice and large for coloring.  I played with Rapunzel's long wavy beautiful hair trying to put all my practice from Alyce's (Kit and Clowder) coloring classes to good use.

I colored her with my favorite Copic Hair Combination.  E50; E51; E53; Y21; and YR31.  The papers are from Graphic 45 Secret Garden pad.  All my flowers are from my stash and it is getting pretty low.  I had to order some more flowers today.  The ribbon and lace are also from my stash.  The dies are Spellbinders and I distressed my edges with TH distressing tool.  I debated whether to put distress ink on the edges, but decided to keep it clean looking.  I finished off with some pink Frantage.  I have to say the assembly and design of the card went really fast.  That is one advantage of using lots of pre-made flowers.  I just grabbed my hot glue gun and applied the lace and the flowers and wallah.  All Done!

I plan to enter this in the following challenges:

 Kit and Clowders monthly challenge - Flowers
Some Odd Girl Facebook Challenge - Favorite Color Combination.  My fave hair color Combination and I                                                              also love peach and aqua together.
Some Odd Girl May Linky Party - Use a Some Odd Girl image.