Saying goodbye for a while....

This has not been a great week. My precious Mother in Law had a stroke early Friday and passed away on Monday morning. We have made either 4 or 5 trips to the southern coast, about 200 miles each way in the last two weeks. With that being said I am scheduled for surgery on my back on the 28th and will not be able to sit and make cards for a while.

I seem to have lost the spark to do them right now. My emotions are so raw that it hurts to think...all I want to do is cry.

Please send your thoughts and prayers to my dear husband and throw one in for me too!!! Love to my online family and friends....

Roseanne

Another Our Craft Lounge Cutie

Our Craft Lounge produced this cute set (The Barnyard) and the wording comes from another OCL set called barnyard banter.

Stamps: barnyard, barnyard banter

Paper: white Pink Piroutte, black, regal rose, soft suede

Ink: momento black

Accessories: copics, spica glitter pens, punches, brads, ribbon

Growing up in the family I did was so wonderful. Every year we would take that family vacation. Living in Oregon was such a blessing as the coast was usually the point of destination. I have very fond memories of playing in the sand with my brother when we were quite young, then as we got older I have memories of friends going too. By the time I was a teenager, my mom and I would talk walks on the beach and talk for hours about life and the future and HOPE. One of the things she always said was never give up. Tomorrow will be a better day. I have tried to live with that direction in my mind. Oh how I wish I could go back to those days and get a redo, really appreciate the wisdom of Mom and Dad. (R.I.P.) I made this card to have on hand. There are times when a get well card is not appropriate and a thinking of you is not enough, or even when someone is just having a rough time with life. I love the ocean and lighthouses.

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Stamps: Light of the World (http://ourdailybreaddesigns.com/LightoftheWorld.html)

Paper: Soft suede, pumpkin pie, black, white

Ink: Momento black, bermuda bay

Accessories: brads, ribbon, copic markers, spica glitter pen, white gel pen, punches, cuddlebug folder, big shot

Stamps: Pat the good dog

Paper: Soft Suede, kraft, dsp

Ink: soft suede, momento black I made this card for the sketch challenge of the week from Our Craft Lounge. http://www.blog2.ourcraftlounge.com/

Free 4 All #7

These are the cards that I made for the challenge today on Split Coast...It was a fun challenge using quilt... here

Copic Color Challenge #59

I made this card for my daughters 21st Birthday. We got her as a 12 year old and adopted her 2 years later. This image reminded me so much of her great love of shopping. She would sit and make a list for a month before we would go get back to school clothes. I like the colors for the challenge that were chosen for this week,

I think they go so well with each other. I never would have used them together without the challenge.

Personal Note...Upcoming surgery

I went to a neurosurgeon last week and he said I needed back surgery...Well I said thanks for your opinion, but this is my back and I want a second opinion. I finished that evaluation on the 6th of April and I am scheduled for surgery on the 28th. I will be unable to make cards and spend much time on the computer for about 4-6 weeks, so please excuse my absence and lack of responses.

Somebody likes to sit in moms lap while I try to type, stamp, do anything....but she is cute. About 6 months old now and Turbo really fits her. She is the fastest dog I have ever seen. She can grab something off of the floor and be gone in a flash!!

For the sketch Challenge

Stamps: Fifth avenue floral

Paper: brilliant blue, dsp stacker from staples

Ink: Momento black

Accessories: janome sew mini, paper piercer, ribbon,brads

Each Wednesday, Splitcoaststampers has a sketch challenge. This weeks is located here

My stacked card

A lot of time went in on this cute card. Each element was stamped, cut out and mounted in the background I created.

The card started with a plain white piece of paper.

Airbrushed the clouds with B21, YR21

Airbrushed the grass in with YG45

Stamped the trees with Old Olive, colored the trunks with E13

Stamped and colored each component (tilda, edwin, and log)

colors used: E00, E01, E11, E13, E17, E21, E33, E27, E37, E50

BV0000, BV01, BV02, R46, R81, C1, C3, C5, YG0000, YG01, Y11.

Our Craft lounge-Sketch challenge 07

I created this card for the sketch challenge of the week at Our Craft Lounge.

Stamp set: Mice Friends-Our Craft Lounge

Paper- Baja Breeze- SU, DSP-SU, Neenah Solar White, Pink Pirouette-SU

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black

Extra Supplies: Nestabilities-Oval and Big Scalloped Ovals, Paper Piercer, large oval punch-SU, ribbon, SU markers for the dots that are not pierced

All coloring with copic markers:

Mouse-W00, W1, W2, W3, R1,R11, R22
Flower-R01, R12, R22, R32-Y21, Y11, Y02
Leaves-YG62, YG25, YG45, YG03
Shadows-T1

My Cute Cows

This is just such a cute stamp set. EIEI Hello From Our Craft Lounge.

I have a precious Aunt who loves Holstein Cows (Friesian for those of you on the other side of the pond). She said she was making me some tea towels that had Holstein cows..I thought "I have a stamp for that"

Enjoy..if you are interested in purchasing this set it is available at http://www.eclecticpaperie.com/crm077.html

Stamps: EIEI Hello

Paper: Neenah white, Basic Gray, 2 shades of green from Bazzell

Ink: Momento black

Accessories: copic markers, brads, punch, Flowers, Air brush system

Copic Markers Used

Sky-B21
Grass-YG03
Cows-Noses-RV00, RV02
EarsRV00, RV10
Horns-B00, E0000
Hooves-E13
shadows-W00, W1
Flower centers and bell-Y17
Bird-G00, R27, Y17

Sittin on the fence at the farm

Sittin on the fence at the farm

I have a precious Aunt who really loves busy cards....So I decided to make this one.


I used 3 different stamp sets...

Maggie with 3 flowers from Magnolia
The fence she is sittin on and the chicken as well as the sentiment come from a set called EIEI Hello-Our Craft Lounge
And finally the trees are from the set Lovely as a Tree from Stampin Up!

Punches used: small Oval, Scalloped Oval, Corner Step Punch all SU
White picket fence-Martha Stewart

Paper Piercing

Brads & Mini Brads

Inks: Momento Tuxedo Black, Momento Rich Cocoa, Old Olive-SU

Copic Markers used:
Sky and colors around the sentiment-B21
Tree Trunk-E13
Chicken-E13 & O, R14, R27, Y35
Fence-E31, E97, E99, E33
Maggies scarf-RV25, RV06, RV00
Skin- E00. E01, RV00 (cheeks)
Dress-RV00, RV14, RV06
Leaves-YG03, YG11
Flowers shes holding-Y21, Y35, E21
Ground Flowers RV06, Y35
Socks-RV00
Shoes Spica glitter pen-#23 pitch black
Ribbon on dress-Spica glitter pen#02 pink
Center of yellow flowers-spica glitter pen #16 buttermilk

Off To Grandmas with flowers

This so reminds me of when I was growing up. We would go out into moms flowers and pick some to take to grandma's

Stamps: Edwin with a rose (Magnolia)

Paper: Bazzel, lavenders, black, white

Ink: momento black, orchid opulence

Accessories: copic markers, sponge

Copics Used as follows:

Face-E00, E01, E11, R20
Hair-E17, YR14
Skin-E01
Shirt R14, R11, R00
Pants-B14, B00, B0000
shoes-E33, E11, E50
Stem-YG25
Leaves-YG67, YG45
Big Rose-V0000, V01, V12, V04
Shadows N2
Blender pen

COPIC COLOR CHALLENGE #58

etsdas send me this super cute image. I just had to color it up as part of the Copic Color Challenge this week.

Challenge colors were
Y13, YG21, R17

I added the following colors
Moose-E33, E13, R20
Pie E11, silver spica glitter pen
Pitchfork-Silver glitter
Hooves-E57-chocolate spica glitter
antlers-E57
Riley's pants-B41
Sophie's jumper-YG21 with Y13 shirt, yellow glitter pen for buttons
C00 for shadow
Y13 for airbrushing

Stamps: Flower basket & tilda with 3 flowers from magnolia

Paper: so saffron, Bermuda Bay, basic gray, white

Ink: Bermuda Bay, momento black

Accessories: copic markers, flowers, brad

copic colors used as follows

Face-E00, E01, R11, white gel pen
Skin-E01
Dress-Y21-, Y0000
scarf-Y02, Y21, Y11
Socks-Y0000
shoes-C3
Leaves-YG23, G82
Ribbon R14, R17
Hair E99, E97
Basket-E11, E31, E50, E13
Flowers-Y02, Y35, R81,RV09
and of course--0 colorless blender

For Roger

My youngest son had more will power in his little finger than I do in my whole body. He has been going to the gym at least 4 days a week, watching his diet and has lost over 40 pounds in less than 2 months (yes with doctors consults). I am so proud of him.

I really loved the card that Brandi made here: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/ga...;ppuser=148467

So heres the whole story. I went looking for serene spring first, then I spilled and entire 20oz cup of coffee on my carpeted floor, in the punch box, and all over the outside of about 40 sets of stamps....clean up time.

Looked for serene spring..still couldnt find it. Found soft summer instead..that works,

So I changed the image, changed the colors, changed the layout just a bit.

I kept the scallops with holes. Now I dont have a punch for that so I paper pierced all the scallops one by one. I made a mistake when punching the scallops to start with...really liked the look so I added more.

Brandi's card base is gray so I used 3 shade of light gray copics for the shadows of the dogwood.

copic colors used:
Flowers-R00-RV00-RV10-RV02-Y02
Leaves-G24-YG23
Stem-E99
Shading-C00-N1-N2

Colors used are
Face/skin-E00, E01, R81 (cheeks)
Hair-Y0000, Y02, Y11
Umbrella-V-01, V12
Rain coat-V04, V06
Boots-C7, C5, C3
Shadows, N2
Spica glitter pen in purple for the handle

Stamps: Aunt Annies

Paper: melon mambo, white

Ink: momento black

Accessories: copic markers

I made this card for the celebration of Friendships. I really like the scene I created using a multitude of stamps and items to finish it off. Copic Markers Used- Face-E00, E01 Cheeks-R81 Dress-Y13, Y02, Y11 Shoes-E01 Flowers-Y17, Y13 (daffys) RV21, RV11 Scarf-B000, B00 Hair E-17, E13, E11 Socks-B000 Sky-B12 Tree-Old olive (SU) with E13 trunk Grass-G21 Fence-E33, E31

Stamps: tilda with 3 flowers, spring fence (magnoilias), lovely as a tree (SU)Best yet (SU)

Paper: pretty in pink, barely banana, white

Ink: melon Mambo, momento black, old olive

Accessories: Copic markers, scissors, punches, sizzix background floral emboss, Perfectly pretty petals (Home Shopping Network) Ribbon (craft warehouse)

Starting Early

I thought it would be fun to make another Christmas card. I used this as part of the todays challenge at SCS.

Stamps: sincere salutations, Holy Triptych

Paper: pacific point, bashful blue, shimmery white

Ink: Pacific point, momento black, versamark

Accessories: copic markers (B0000, B00, B02, Y11,)cuddlebug snowflake folder, cuddlebug, glue pen, sparkly fluff, spica glitter pens, ribbon, small snowflake roller

Memories are precious. I didnt go camping with my family, but as my children were growing up my parents made sure the kids always went on camp outs. I used these two Riley stamps and created the scene of a campground.

Stamps: Riley

Paper: Choc. chip, white, pacific point, cert celery

Ink: close to cocoa, momento black

Accessories: punches, brads, ribbon, sponge

Mutnik-Sputnik-Dognip

Today was featured stamper on SCS. The gallery we had to pick from is marvelous.

Stamps: #402 Rufus the dog-Magnolia

Paper: yoyo yellow, white & DSP

Ink: choc chip, momento black

Accessories: satin ribbon, lable punch, brads, SU markers for dots

I used a button!!

I used a button!!

I have a ton of buttons but rarely use one. I thought she was so cute I just had to add something and so I made this bow and added a button

Stamps: #374 ladybug Tilda

Paper: pink pirouette, white, dsp

Ink: momento black

Accessories: copic matkers, spica glitter pens, ribbon and a BUTTON

For Anne

Stamps: a flower for all seasons, magnolia log, magnolia tilda,

Paper: dsp, rose red, white

Ink: barely banana, perfect plum, cert celery, momento black, momento rich cocoa

Accessories: computer sentiment, copic markers, scissors, ribbon, punches, brads

My dear friend just found out her husband has thyroid cancer. I made this for them just to let them know we care.