Thinking of you...

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One of the girls at work just lost her grandmother. So I created this card for her.

I created this card using some scraps from my Close to My Heart papers.

The stamp is also from Close to my Heart. The inks I used are bamboo, desert sand, and black.

Enjoy!

Happy Anniversary!

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It was my parent's anniversary on Saturday. 28 years together!

I found the best stamp to use on their card. You can find it at Stamping Bella. It is designed by Mo Manning, who creates the most amazing images. This stamp is called Young Love.
Here is the card I created:



I coloured the image with Copic Markers! I will amend this post later with the exact colours I used.

I used a Martha Stewart punch for the lacy purple paper, some beige ribbon and three clear jewels.

Here the up close image of the stamp.



The couple is just so cute!! Did you notice the two little birds behind them on the bench!!

Enjoy!!

A somber event....

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This weekend I attended the third annual butterfly release at Fairy Lake to commemerate the passing of loved ones. Our next door neighbour lost his mom so we attended along with other family and friends to remember her with him.


Here is our neighbours with their butterflies. They were packaged in little white triangular boxes. They had to pull off the elastic that held it together and then open the box to release the butterfly. They had to aclimatize first before they took off.



Here are all three butterflies getting ready to take off. They were truly spectacular. All the butterflies that were released were all monarchs.



A close up of one of them.
All of them were so vibrant.

The weather also held out so that all the butterflies could fly away.



Here is a special moment I caught of Richard with his butterfly. He talked to it very quietly before it flew away. I really love this shot and was so glad I got it.

A little pick me up!

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Have been having a horrible week. When they say bad things come in three's they sure do mean it. So I thought I would do a card.

Here is what I created using some left over Basic Grey paper I had in my stash.



I used the House Mouse image and colored it with copics. The shading is done with a blue prismacolor pencil using goo gone.

Hope you enjoy.

94 days till Christmas...

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...are you ready? I'm not. So I thought I would get a jump on my Christmas cards early this year. Here is one I made on Saturday at our little crop that Carol hosted. Carol was there, Connie stopped by, there was Jennifer, myself and Lisa came by as well. It was a great day.




Here is the close up of the Santa. I fell in love with him as soon as I saw the Close to my Heart catalogue. I have always like the vintage images. It is on page 44 of the Fall/Winter 2010 catalogue and is called "Father Christmas".

The image is coloured with copic markers. I used: E00, E11 and R11 for his face. I used a bit of W0 for his beard to make it pop. The berries are coloured with R27. His suit is coloured with W4 as the base and then with R27 over top. On the holly leaves I used YG93 and YG95. Then I used my gold gel pen to add a little sparkle.

Around the image I used brown prisma colour pencil with Goo Gone to create the shading.

Enjoy!

Wishing for some good weather....

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I woke up to torrential rain this morning. I definately wasn't looking forward to leaving for work. So here's a card to make you smile.



The image is from Stamping Bella's Hugabug line. Isn't she cute. I love that it is raining hearts. This was just a very easy card to create. Very simple.

enjoy.

Convention 2010, Last Day

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Hello again from Washington.

Today is the last day of convention. Very sad :(

Our general session started with Jeanette answering questions that were sent in by consultants from all over. This was really heartfelt and informative.

We also got to find out that our next convention will be in California in DisneyLand. Woo Hoo!! Everyone was so excited.

After our general session we started with our make and takes. We made two layouts using the new papers, stamps, and inks.

They are truly amazing.

After this we had our business classes. Another amazing day.

In the evening we had our Dinner where we recieved our specially made convetion stamps. I also found a STICKY BOY!! My first!! I was very excited.