Scrapfest roomie prezzie

Here are the prezzie's I made for each of the girls who came to Scrapfest 2013 with us!! The theme of course was "Stamp"ede, so I created a very rustic cowgirl top. the actual glass and lit is a 3-wick candle from Bath and Body Works. We burned it until it was pretty low. Once cooled you can stick the glass in the freezer overnight and the next day you should be able to pop out the leftover wax. We then put them in the dishwasher. 

They turned out so great! and smelled heavenly. We all kept sniffing the lids as they still smelled like the candles. LOL.

Copics Used:
Skin: E00, E11 
Gun: C3 
Hair: E31, E33, E35, E37 
Clothes: B02, B04, R24, Y17 

Other Supplies: CTMH Paper (Sarsaparilla), Burlap, Ribbon

Scrapfest 2013

Hey Everyone!!!

I attended an awesome event this past weekend - SCRAPFEST 2013!! If you have never been you should consider coming we have an awesome time. This year's theme was "Stamp"ede.

We had a great time. I went with Carmen, Kim, Melanie, Olga, Melissa, Carrie and Sharrie. 

Here I am with Kim and Melanie.

 

Thanks Lisa and the Scrapfest team for another wonderful year!!!

Kraftin Kimmie Crop - Challenge 3

Hello All!

So I am in the middle of getting everything ready for Scrapfest this weekend. OMG the packing! What a nightmare! I can never just bring a few things...I even had to bring out my "big bag" urg!

Anyways, Kraftin Kimmie had an awesome crop on Saturday which unfortunately I only got to peek at for a bit as I was soooo busy. She did post 6 challenges though and I thought I would at least tackle one and would do the rest this weekend.

so here goes.....

Challenge #3: Fussy Cutting...

LOL...this one always works for me. I love the idea of a cut out image. I find it very hard now to not cut my images out.

In my card I used Kimmie's Tinkerbell image. I am such a fan of Tinkerbell. She's just plain AWESOME!

I used Close to my Heart paper, Maya Roads chipboard elements which i painted with gold paint, some random brads I found in my stash. I also used American Crafts glitter tape - LOVE LOVE LOVE that stuff and the glitter doesn't get everywhere. Usually I am so covered in the stuff it's crazy.

I used the following copics on the image: YG03, YG61, YG63, E00, E11, Y11, Y15, B02, YR12

Hope you all enjoy!

Retirement Party and a card

Hey Everyone!!

Hope you all had a great Easter! We did here! We had a wonderful meal with family, there were 9 of us. It certainly was a full house.

Last night was my dad's retirement party. WOO BOY! We had such a great time. He was a policeman for over 30 years.  Here he is in his dress uniform. He looks so handsome!

I think it's going to be hard for him letting go because he enjoyed it so much. It was great getting a chance to see him in his element though. I am lucky enough to see one amazing side of him but getting to see him with his work buddies was great. There were so many people who attended, and the stories. LOL. We certainly had some laughs. I had to sneak around all week to get things sorted for the party. I had help though which was fantastic. Al. one of the guys my dad works with made the poster of the photos I had scanned. Here is the poster that Al got together. 

Isn't it awesome!! and I totally got the "I have a bone to pick with you" when my dad saw the speedo picture from our first trip to Mexico. Everyone loved it and it went over so well though. 

Here is the table to put together for the gifts and some other photos we had for my dad. 

The guys got him a beautiful glass plaque, and two beer steins with my dads team's logos (the old one on one glass and the new one on the other). Al got these done and they looked amazing.

We took the balloons and put them on each side of the table. Looked great!



Ok so now for a card. I am in the Old Hollywood mood again so I pulled Lana by Kraftin Kimmie Stamps. For this card I decided to use a card map from Splitcoaststampers. I picked SC427 (the image to the right).  I liked this card map when I saw it. I liked the clean lines and the multiple layers that this map used.

For this card I used the following supplies:


Paper: My Minds Eye (Breeze), Misc. cardstock

Misc. Supplies:
Queen & Co. Rhinestones in Snowflake, Miscellaneous Black Ribbon

For the image is used the following copics:
E23, E27, E59, E00, E11, R27, R89

Here is the closeup of Lana.






Here is the full view of the card.

Hope you enjoyed!

Weekend in London

Well it has been an interesting couple of days! My sister got herself a dog "Bailey" but unfortunately was unable to keep her and had to return her yesterday. She has been beside herself. We got a call last night with her sobbing and so at 9pm last night I drove out to London. OMG I was so so tired....felt like the walking dead. I even had to sign at the top of my lungs in the car just to make sure I was staying awake. LOL...must have looked like a crazy person.

My sister is currenlty at work so I am getting a lazy morning, watching movies, blogging, sleeping. Anyways here is a card I did this week. Love this stamp so cute.
  

For this card I used the following Copic markers:

C1, C3
W2, W4
V20, V22
YG61
BG45
E33, E35, E00, E11
RV34

The paper I used is Prima - Alla Prima Collection

Well anyways off I go to get ready!

Enjoy!

Old Hollywood & KK Challenge 171

Hey All!

Just a thanks to those  who have been commenting on my posts, it is really appreciated! 

Ok - so had an amazing weekend so far! I weighed myself today and am down 66.6 pounds. YAY!!! I am so proud of myself!!

On Saturday I spent some time with Carmen, Carol, Marjorie, and Christine scrapbooking. We had a great morning/afternoon,  I even brought some pumpkin chili for everyone for lunch. SO GOOD!!!

Now for some work I did this past week. Kraftin' Kimmie's challenge this week is to make a card, scrapbook page or altered item with a favourite stamp.

So I choose a stamp I have been in LOVE with forever; and such an icon! Plus she was a "bigger" girl. GIRL POWER!!! I am slowly learning to accept myself as I am, not what is deemed to be acceptable and she inspires me to be the best I can be. So here she is MARILYN!!!!

For this card I used some left over Echo Park paper from the Be Mine line. I am loving the different shads of pink! So Girlie and fits so perfectly well with this card.

Here the close up of Marilyn herself.

I coloured her with copic markers:


Skin: E00, E11

Dress: C00, C1, C3

Hair: Y11, Y13

Eyes: E44

Lips: R21

Other Miscellaneous Supplies I used were Lace, Jewels, and American Crafts Glitter Tape.

Well off to get my stuff together for work tomorrow. 

Have a great night. Enjoy!

 

Golfer

Morning All!! 

Today is a cold one here in Ontario. Little bit of snow but it's the wind chill that will get you.

Thought I would share a quick card I made recently. I haven't used my Stamping Bella stamps in awhile so I thought I would pull one out to play with. Since it is coming up to father's day I thought I would use some left over paper I had to create a more manly card. This image was created by Mo Manning and is called "the BIG GUY golfing".

 This was a nice easy card to create as I only used a few embellishments.

I coloured the image with my copic markers and used the following colours:

Skin: E00, E11
Clothes: YG61, YG63, , R35, E84

Here is a close-up of the "big" man himself.
 

Hope you enjoy!