Early Easter Greetings

Hi there! I'm starting early on my Easter cards this year because I have to admit I totally dropped the ball on Valentine's day cards and didn't do as many as I should have!! So, here's my head start on Easter cards, hopefully I'll have them finished by the end of the week, ready to mail when the time arrives.

This card uses a base of Almost Amethyst cardstock along with Basic Black, Watercolour paper & Tea Party Designer Paper. The accessories are Certainly Celery ribbon, Watercolour Wonder Crayons, Black StazOn, paintbrushes, two way glue pen, dazzling diamonds and some half back pearls from my stash.  The image is an Inkadinado I believe, one I bought several years ago. The sentiment is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set, which was punched out with the smaller of the three oval punches. 
Thanks for dropping by and have a great evening!
Deb

Home For Christmas

Hi there! I participated in the SCS challenge today!! Its number WT226, and we were to use a Christmas image of some type.

I also participated in the Winter Wonderland challenge, see side bar for link. What a wonderful website!!! I was inspired by Debbie's two cards, found on Coastal Creations, see side bar for her link. (my computer will NOT let me link this on a post for some reason....).

The card was stamped with the image from SU!'s Home For Christmas stamp set, from last Holiday Mini. Wow, was I happy to see this hit the new Idea Book and Catty!! I really enjoy using this set. The little punched circle is from the Hostess Set Perfect Presentation for last year.

This image was stamped in versamark, embossed with black and then coloured in with various colours from the SU! marker set. I used a Vanilla Reinker to colour in the snow, I though it looked really cool!! I'm also going to try using bleach on this image and see how that works!!

The border punch is something I found at a scrapbook store while on holidays last year, and the ribbon is a Michael's find, when they were clearing them out in the Fall, I think it was 70% off!! gotta love a deal like that!~! The Ticket Corner punch was used on the sides, and Vanilla Brads from the Hodgepodge Hardware adorn the corners. Melody.....get out that hodgepodge and start using it!! :-) heehee you know its there, just waiting to jump out of the box....

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day,

Debbie

Sweetie Pie!!

Good Afternoon! I'm back from our trip to Regina and thankfully we missed the snowstorm that decided to visit Alberta the day after traveling!! We were home safe and sound by then.

I took along my stamps & markers and spent alot of my free time stamping & watercolouring images. This little sweetie is such a fun image to colour, I really was sorry to see this set retire. Hope you have a great day and thanks so much for stopping by!!

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Seaside Sketches(retired), Wagon Full of Fun (current Occasions Mini)

Cardstock: Kraft, Pretty In Pink, Designer Series Paper Certainly Celery, So Saffron, Kraft, W. White

Accesories: Eyelet Border Punch, Prima flower, button, So Saffron Ribbon (SAB rewards!)

Seaside Happiness

Hi there! I know its been quite some time since I last posted. I have the same excuses as everyone else ~ life just gets so busy sometimes!! I've had alot of my plate lately, paperwork wise and its finally winding down! As well, I completely decluttered our home! What a job that has been, let me tell you. We went to the dump *several* times as well as Good Will. Marvelous feeling!! If you ever get a chance, please go straight to your nearest bookstore and purchase "Clearing Your Clutter" by Karen Kingstone. Its a very inspirational book!! You might be surprised to find yourself clearing out your home as well. :-)

For those of you who know me, I really enjoy watercolouring and putzing around with cards. The more involved the colouring the more I enjoy it. Especially when I have to create layers. I guess that's why I have such a hard time with quick and easy cards, they just don't seem challenging enough. Now that being said, I'm certainly no great artist at putting together a card either. As you can see from the card above I've left the design open rather than fill it up with scallops and ribbons. It just didn't seem right to add all that in. I have left the bottom left side open for my sentiment. I will most likely stamp a verse or sentiment and punch out with the small oval punch and mat it with the large oval punch. Its nice to have cards just waiting for any occasion sometimes! I also have to apologize for the quality of the picture! My memory card has 2 pictures left on it. As well, the card is a bit heavy right now because I haven't added my layers inside yet. Watercolour paper usually adds weight to a card so be sure to secure it with double sided tape instead of rolling adhesive. I learned that the hard way! :-) With a card like this I like to add a layer to the middle of the card, with perhaps some coordinating cardstock, a layer of designer paper and then a piece of white to write my sentiment. This helps balance the card's weight too.

We are off to Provincials this weekend so I won't be posting for a few days! Surprise surprise!! I hope you all are well and I'll be in touch next week regarding your SAB orders! :-)

Take care and thanks for stopping by!

Debbie

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