Yankee Doodle Fantastic News!!!

Did I get your attention!!??!!  Just wanted to make sure you came by to see this darling little Yankee Doodle's Ride from Sassy Cheryl's which I used to create a little scene.  I love it when I have time to just play!!!  What do you think?

Isn't this a cute little scene, even if I do say so myself?  You have got to love the expression on the horse and do real men ride in the desert with an english saddle?  LOL  The mountain and trees is a stamp from the Happy Camper set illustrated by my very good friend Theresa Momber who designs for Gina K Designs.  I thought it was just perfect for my little scene.  Thanks GF!!!

I used a post it note to make my cloud mask and sponged the sky around.

I just wanted to show you my fun lttle project.  Hope you enjoyed it. 

I have a little Mo's Digital Fairy for you tomorrow.

No More Snow for Me!! Riley and Company

Okay, I was born and raised in the midwest, Iowa to be exact, and have lived in Nebraska for 15 years but.....this winter we have had 54 inches of snow and we still have at least a foot on the ground and another 4 inches expected tomorrow.  Well Riley and Company has Van Riley and Trailer Riley who have joined together to take me to Arizona....Road Trip!!!

For those of you who are geographically challenged, like me.  Omaha does not have mountains...those are snow mounds!!!!  The sign being held out the camper window says it all.  Arizona or Bust!

The road signs were created by hand, and for that I apologize.  The mountains and sign are from a set created by my good friend Theresa Momber called Happy Camper.   The cactus and cow skull are from another of Theresa's set called Out West.  Of course the Riley Van and Camper Riley are from Riley and Company.

So now you know how I really feel.  I am done with winter, from my mouth to God's ears!!!

Thanks for stopping by,

Be sure to stop by later (after noon) to see if you were the winner of one of the images used to create my Mo's Digital Pencil Celebration Blog Hop card.  Only a couple of you left a way to contact you in the comment so you will need to contact me if you are picked as the winner!!!

Happy Coloring

Cathy

Happy Camper Scene 2 Altered Notebook cover

The one and only Theresa Momber has a new set out this month at GinaK Designs called Happy Camper. Remember the scenes I created with her first set Out West? I can't stop making scenes with her beautiful stamps, makes me feel like an artist!!! :)

I created this notebook cover using her new stamp set Happy Camper.

As you can see I haven't actually gotten the notebook yet but I have used my SU spiral punch and even if I use it for a composition book or scrapbook it will be a nice decorative touch.

I wanted to created a mountain camping scene with the rascally racoon fishing in the nearby stream. I really like the way that it turned out. The mountains and trees were stamped with Momento London Fog because I wanted a subtle line to appear as a distant image. I used my copic airbrush for almost everything except the tent and the racoon. The tent and racoon are cut out and popped up on foam picture mounting tape.

This would be a perfect camping journal or scrapbook cover for those of you who are campers.

It took me longer to photograph this picture than it did to create it. I had to darken the sky 3 times before you could even see it and the airbrushing tends to give off unwanted highlights with a flash.

Thanks for stopping by. Tomorrow I have a summer project for Artistic Outpost be sure to stop back, love to see you.

Have a good rest of the day, I have to get ready to go to work.

Bye for now,

Cathy

Welcome to the Oh, Say can you See Blog Hop!

I'm so glad you could join the SNR Card Universe Blog Hop!


Grab your cup of coffee, glass of tea or bottle of water and relax by viewing the last half of the blog hop. If you are at my blog you are less than half way through the 93 blogs that have joined in this wonderful Holiday treat of Red, White, and Blue!


If you came from Tenia's blog you are on the right track! If you didn't you may want to hop to go back to the first blog on the hop which is: here and start at the beginning.


My first card is created using GinaK Designs StampTV kit flower barrel stamp:

The paper is a digital download from StampTV freebie's.

Next is a darling little Patriotic Girl from KLM Digital Designs.

Colored with copic markers, which is my weapon of choice usually. There is also a Patriotic Boy with a watermelon and a Patriotic Dog that will be featured on my Artful Sentiments Copic Challenge this week.

I have many styles that I love so being a Guest DT member for Artistic Outpost is so much fun for me. I love vintage, maybe because I remember it all too well :)

The 4th of July collage was created using Artistic Outpost stamp plates Hero and She-roes. I printed a music score of the Star Spangled Banner off the internet(it was free) and used that as the base for my collage. I just love the American flags on the lower right corner from the Hero stamp plate.

My final project is from Theresa Momber's newest stamp set available at GinaK Designs and is called Happy Camper. It isn't Red,White, and Blue but it to me is the epitomy of America the Beautiful. "From the Mountains"... God Bless America...My Home Sweet Home!

Next on the hop is Sheri Willshire be sure to stop by visit. Thanks for stopping by and have a safe and happy 4th of July!!!

America the Beautiful

I got my long awaited new stamps from GinaK Designs on Wednesday, got them cut out on Thursday and got to play when I got home from work! I love Theresa Momber's new stamp set, Happy Camper, but my favorite stamp is the mountains and trees.

I stamped the mountain scene stamp side by side. After finishing the project I wish that I had not lined them up quite so well, so just pretend that the mountains on the right are closer than they appear :)

I wanted this to look like a framed portrait by placing the sentiment where I did at the bottom like a plaque on a portrait frams.

I colored with copic markers and used a post-it-note mask to create the clouds using my Tim Holtz distress ink and foam applicator pads. These are the products that I almost always use to sponge around my image and edges but when doing clouds I only use the narrow end of the pad.

After creating this project with Theresa's wonderful set I will be singing America the Beautiful at work all night :)

I can't wait to play with my other GinaK stamp sets. I have to work tomorrow during the day, and then I will watch the Firewords from my front yard. There is a golf course that puts on one of the best Fireworks Displays in Omaha that is only about a half mile from my house. At 10:00 I will be sitting in my front yard watching their wonderful display and never have to leave home. Works for me!!!

Be sure to take time this week-end to check out the Forth of July blog hop sponsored by Scrapbook News and Review which starts at 9:00 AM tomorrow. You can start here:

http://snrcardiverse.ning.com/

Follow the directions on the next post from here.

Have a Happy and Safe Holiday week-end. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for the Blog Hop, Artful Sentiments Copic Challenge and who knows what else I may have up my sleeve by tomorrow night.

Cathy