December....snow...what else is there?

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Instead of waking up to snow this morning, it was all rainy. I really didn't want to get up and go into work, one of those lazy days! Outta the house at 7:30am though and off to the train.

On Saturday my friend Carol and I attended the Stamp until you cramp at Stamping Bella's. It was great! I got to see Laura and Kelly and we had a FABULOUS time together. I also got a lot of my Christmas cards done. One of the ladies at work had asked for some cards with Penny Black's hedgehog on them and I was very excited to make them for her. I love her stamps!! Finishing touches go on them tonight and will post some pictures of them tomorrow.

One of the other cards I created is this one:


The image is from Stamping Bella, Not Even a Mouse by Mo Manning. I fell in love with this stamp as soon as I saw it. I even had the best paper to go with it. I had taken a class at The Workshop about two weeks ago and I had some left over paper with the plaid on it. It worked out perfectly. I added some brown ribbon and an ringed edge that was punched out using a Martha Stewart punch. I also included three gold baubles to the bottom right hand corner.



Here is a close up of the mouse in her cup. So adorable. I colored the image using copic markers.

Here are the colors I used:
For the mouse: C00, C1, R11
Blanket: B000, C00
Letter: E00
Cheese: Y11
Stocking: E55
Cup and Saucer: G95, G99, R29

For all the shading around the image on on the cup and saucer I used a dark gray and medium gray with Goo Gone.

Just an update on my dad's mom, tumor is back and she goes for surgery tomorrow, all fingers are crossed!!

Cheers!
Hope you enjoy!

food for thought

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It is interesting how life can take such quick curves when you aren't looking. At the house were I grew up we had a neighbour, Hazel. She saw both my sister and I born, and watched as we grew up. After my grandmother passed now 15 years ago, she became almost a surrogate grandmother for both me and my sister. And a mom for my dad, even to this day he calls her mom. She's sick again and it scares me. It is like watching what happened to my grandma all over again. So this is my therapy...writing and making cards because right now I am hoping she gets better....

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!