leaves changing

So I was a little scared to see a tree that's leaves had already turned and were starting to fall. This is what greeted me as I got out of my car to walk to the train this morning. Can you actually believe it? I can't so I am going to post the pics tomorrow - it's crazy!!!

Christmas in September?!?!

Bonjour!

Now I bet you are thinkin' I am crazy....well.....I was in Michaels the other day just looking around when i came upon their christmas display. I went starry eyed at all the beautiful stamps and cards. Starring up at those packages my eyes grew three sizes bigger (to somewhat quote The Grinch).

Anyways I made this wonderful card. I used The Paper Company Uptown Gold, Bazzill Ruby Slipper and some gold ribbon.

I used Copics to colour the image - R89, G24, G99, G94, E35, and E44. I embossed the gold background with the cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder.

Here is the full card:



and the closeup of the christmas tree.



Enjoy!

A cat in a cape!

I had the house to myself today. It was pretty good. Dad was at the cottage getting ready for his fishing trip with the boys next week and mom was at work. It was great as I got to do some work on my cards as I have been slacking a bit.

I was able to package my 6x6 layout swap for Veronica's Crop for the cure. The challenge was to create two 6x6 pages using brown, pink, white and black (only a bit). There are ten people in the swap so once everything is swapped out then you have an entire album to fill in photos and you're done.

When I visited Vernonica at Pointers Friday Night Crop I picked up a set of Halloween stamps by Penny Black. I love her stuff. It's extremely cute. Plus Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. What is better then dressing up in some funky or scary costume. It's a day that you can be someone else. Anyways....

Here is my card.



The background paper is KI Memories, and the blue cardstock is Bazzill Mediteranean. I used Close to my Heart inks in Orange and Blue. The stamp was coloured with copic markers and highlighted with loose glitter. The copics used in this image include: Colorless Blender, Y15, B26, B24, YR04, YR07 and YR0000.

Here are two more close ups of the cat so that you can see the detail.





Enjoy!

Friday night chatter...

Work couldn't go fast enough today as I was really excited to get my hair cut today. It look awesome. I got a lot of brown put into it with a few blonde streaks.

Afterwards, I went to visit Veronica at Pointers for her Friday Night Crop. I brought her some dinner because she was starving. I also got to see the girls. It was great fun, but I couldn't stay long as I was super tired.

Here was bella's challenge this week. This sketch was provided by MEAHNIBELLA.



Here is the card I created using the sketch.



This is the upclose image of the bffABUGS. These are awesome little bugs. I coloured them with copic markers and shadowed with yellow chalk.



Enjoy!!

A new day - A new card

Good Evening -

I decided I was going to go out of my comfort zone today with my card and tried for something different. I was surfing the net for card sketches that I could play with and came across Jen del Muro's blog. She is a pretty amazing artist. I found an old post of hers with a pretty neat sketch. Here is the sketch.



I used paper from DCWV asian paper line. I used stamping bella's stamps, Close to my Heart inks and I think it turned out pretty neat. I just have to "bling" it up a bit.



Enjoy.

Warm water and mermaids!!

Today was almost like a fall day in October instead of a summer day in August. The sun was shining however it was overcast and cool. It pretty hard to believe that I was wearing a sweater today. It makes you wonder if next year it will be like this.

Anyways...

I have been going through my old paper and came across this beautiful paper by DCWV. It went really well with come Core'dinations card stock I had. For the stamp I used "underwatergoddess-abella". It turned out amazing.

I coloured her with copics and used chalk to creat the background around the bella stamp. She looks amazing.



Here is the close-up of the mermaid. You will notice that I also added some seaweed. It certainly isn't the best but it looks good.

Bellaland - Day Two

I got up pretty early today so I decided I would make lavender shortbread. I had seen the recipe in a magazine and had mentioned that I would like to try it. Well I was lucky enough to find a lady at the Baysville Farmers market that was selling bundles, so i picked one up.

As you can imagine the response from the family was not the best - ranging from eww gross to i am not putting that in my mouth!.

So at 9am i started my oddessy into lavender shortbread. Well an hour later i was still picking off the dried little flowers. OMG!! it was awful. I tried not to get any leaves or dried stem in the mix - well let me tell you I will probably never make this again!! After my hour of picking out flowers I finally had the 3tbsp's i needed for the recipe - and yes after all that pain, sweat and time - it was only for 3tbsp.

Well mixed the dough, and it smelled pretty good now considering I had lavender everywhere - and when i say everywhere I mean it!! That stuff is gross. However, I was very calm thoughout the entire process. It must have been from the smell.

So I rolled up the dough and let it chill while I got ready to go out with Carrie.

I finished the cookies by baking them. It smelled great. They weren't too bad - they were very different from your normal sort of cookies.

I went to Bellaland again to take a class with Paulabella on pencil crayons. I am definately more of a copic fan. Although I still work a bit with pencils.

It was a great day overall. When i got home my sister told me that my mom and tried my shortbread (and she was the one who didn't want to in the first place) and she actually liked it.

It was a great feeling.