Lady Anne's Friday Sentiment Challenge and Bugaboo Digital Stamps

Good Morning Friends,

Today is Friday...which means Lady Anne's Friday Sentiment Challenge!

This month we are working with Bugaboo digital stamps. Please visit our other digi designers at the top right corner of my blog to see what works of art they have come up with!

I decided to do something with Washi tape. I had never used it before today's challenge (even though I have tons of washi tape here at home. I tore the pieces and laid them on the card. That's it! I think it turned out nice. The water can was colored with Copic markers.....C00, C1, C3 and C5. The flowers were colored with BV00, BV2, BV4, RV00, RV2, RV4. I placed Stickles above the colored flowers for the glitter effect.
I hope you like it! Play with what you have....you never know what will be your new creation!

 

Embossing Folder Storage...

Good morning Friends,

I have found the best embossing folder storage! I recently bought the Close to My Heart organizers. for you that have actual CTMH catalogs, they are pictured on the top of page 134, item #'s Z4138 (Small $12.95), Z4139 (Medium $16.95) and Z1834 (Large). I use them all for different purposes, however, when I put my first embossing folder inside the large unit, I knew I had a great embossing folder storage. It is large enough to fit 6x6 folders. You can make your own divider tabs ( it comes with dividers to make 4 equal parts) or you can buy additional tabs (Z1839).

These organizers are fantastic to take to crops and they stack neatly on top of each other. I use the small organizer for my stencils and envelope maker; I also have one for my brushes and watercolors.

The medium organizer I use for my ink pads, larger brushes, ribbons, and lots more. The larger one will fit embossing folders up to 6x6 or 40 CTMH stamp sets. If you would like to order these organizers, you may order them online at  http://MarieRoss.ctmh.com.

Medium Organizer

Large Organizer and embossing folders

Large organizer box with large punches

Large organizer box with embossing folders direct view

Small organizer....love this for flat items such as brushes and Dreamweaver stencils

 

 

 

These CTMH organizers have truly made crafting easier by having everything I need closer and visible to me instead of having stuff where it's not seen. Have a wonderful day!

Candyland Heaven

Good morning friends,
Welcome to Lady Anne's Sentimental Friday! Today we are featuring beautiful digital images by Meljen's Designs. This is one of my favorite digital image sites as her designs are absolutely beautiful. I took her digi called Candy Land Dreams and had a fantastic time coloring and glittering. I printed out two identical 3" images on my Epson Artisan 710. I find that Epson printers are the best for printing images to color with Copics as the ink does not bleed. I print out what I'm going to color the night before I color and let the ink dry overnight. One image was cut apart and I used 3-D foam tape to layer the candy. I colored both the lower and top images with Copic markers then embellished the top image with micro beads and glitter to give it texture and feel. I used peel-off's for the Happy Birthday sentiment.

Greens (G02, G03, G05, G07, YG09, Y15)

Browns (E33, E35, E37)

Reds (RV11, RV13, RV14, R81,R83,R85, R22, R24

Blues (B12, B14, B16, B21, B23, B24

 

Martha Steward Micro Beads, Sparkle Fluff and PKGlitz.com glitter

Hop on over to my DT's blogs which are located on the top right hand corner to see what they have created. I hope you enjoyed this technique and I'll see you all next time.

Not A Good Start to the New Year

Good afternoon friends,

It has been a while since I last posted. So much has been going on with my family I did not have time to post anything. On January 4th, I had to put my beloved Shih-Tzu to sleep. It was the hardest thing I have ever done. He and I were so close to each other that losing him was devastating. We were able to bring him home in a beautiful, carved wooden box with his paw print in cement. That meant the world to me and now his is resting in one of his favorite spots: on the table in the den. He loved to crawl under the table and take naps. Time heals all wounds. I think about him everyday as he was the first dog my family ever had. He will truly be missed.

Right after my dog's death, I and my kids got whatever virus is going around. That took all my strenght away and I slowly recovered. When one has Fibromyalgia, recovery from any illness is such a slow process. After this happened, my 93 year-old mom developed pneumonia. It was scary to say the least. The nursing home where she is at took extremely good care of her and in about two weeks her lungs cleared.

We are all doing well now...what a way to start the new year! I figure God throws things at us and we need to cope..He won't give us more than what we can handle. That's what my mom always said to me and I believe it.

Let's make this a year to remember........not the bad things in life but the good things.

New Friday Sentiment Challenge!

Hello Friends!

I hope everyone got what they wanted for Christmas! I had a beautiful day with my family and opened gifts as we watched the Disney Christmas Parade on TV! What's funny is that parts of it were filmed in early November....we know this because we were there to see the filming of it with the Backstreet Boys! It was a warm Sunday (80's) in Anaheim and those poor boys were wearing their winter clothes! The boys ended up doing about 5 takes, the last two had the snow and fireworks!

 It's that time again for Cards by Lady Anne's Friday Sentiment Challenge! This month our Sponsor is QKR Stampede. They have the nicest digis for coloring with just about any medium. Below is a winter card I made using a QKR Stampede digital stamp. I colored the image using Copics and also used Heartfelt Creations Christmas trees for the background. I stamped off the page to get the three dimensional look of the trees and then used two kinds of glitter and broken glass for the snow. For the little girl's hat and dress, I used light blue and white glittered flock over the Copics. I love the texture that it gives and it feels so soft! I hope you enjoy!