Many Hoppy Returns

Hello blog friends. Again it has been awhile since I've posted. But this time I have been crafting. I have found three cards that need to be posted. I'm even entering a challenge with this one.

The stamp set was from Creative Stamping Magazine. I just fell in love with the large arm chair, all the dogs, cats, bunny, and fish where just a bonus.

I started by masking the area where the carrots are. Stamped and colored the carrots. I then stamped the bunny and grass, and colored. I masked strip with the carrots and ink blended the blue around the edge of the card. Added the sentiment and some liquid pearls.

I am entering this in Cute Card Thursday - Challenge #586 CAS

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Your Kindness Is Greatly Appreciated

Good evening everyone. What a day at work. We are six days away from inventory and the whole staff is getting cranky. I've been told to only do crutial parts of my job till after inventory. I get to work out on the floor straighten up the store and making sure everything is where it needs to be. Today I was in automotive today, and tomorrow I get to play in to toy department.

My card I have to share has been hanging around for awhile. I love this tea stamp set. I have a collection of tea pots displayed on the top of my kitchen cupboard. So when I saw this set with a magazine I just had to have it. I colored my card with my favorite medium, pencil crayons. This card is a one-layer, so I was got to play with masking. When finished I colored lightly around the image and used gamsol to blend it out.

until next time happy crafting

dee ;o)

4 out of 5 complete

Hi all. This is my last night in the big city. One more day of class and I head up the hiway home. Dispite my fears at the beginning it has turned out to be a good week. I have met alot of different people and become close friends with afew. I will miss them after tomorrow. I have even managed to drive use around shopping, Grant you it's still on the same street as the motel.

Last night we were able to relax. The end of the first section, and the test was written. What a releaf. I passed. I spent the evening coloring a card. So relaxing.

This is a one layer card. I stamped the images right onto the card base.  I colored it with prisma pencils.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Waaaaay Out of My Comfort Zone

Good evening all. Before I get to my card I would like to share with you my day. When I started my position as Compliance Associate five months ago I have been dreading this day. They told me I would need to take a Health & Safety Core Training. This consists of five days of training in the city. I live in a small town where I was born and raised. Nice country setting just outside of town. I managed to miss the first date, but then the next training session came up. No avoiding it.

So after a few nights of unsettled sleep, the day arrived to go. The first part of the journey was fine. Straight to visit my daughter which I have driven several times. But then the butterflies started again, when I was driving new territory. But 20 minutes later and very proud of myself I arrived at my motel. Checked myself in and waited for my roommate to arrive.

Another high five to myself, when she arrived I drove us to Walmart to get some groceries. Ok, that wasn't too bad it was on the same street as the motel. (So is the Michael's that I will be visiting later this week)

Now if you are still with me, here is a card I forgot to post. This is the last card using this floral set for awhile.

I stamped the images all over the background and colored with prisma pencils. I then took a rectangular die and cut the centre out. I placed fun foam behind it to give it dimension. Lastly is used perfect pearls on the centres of the flowers.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Thinking of Spring

Happy Sunday afternoon friends. It has been another snowy weekend. Light snow for most of the last two days, but not a whole lot of accumilation. Nothing like last Monday.

Yesterday I finally die cut the flowers I had colored.

I first started with a stencil and two colors of distress inks. The images were colored with prisma pencils. I then die cut with the matching dies, and arranged them ontop of my distressing. The sentiment was stamped on a thin piece of white cardstock. I lined one end with the edge of the card and flagged the other end. Adding it to my card with foam adhesive. I used liquid pearls for the centre of the yellow card. 

It's been so long since I've actually finished a card in time for the challenge.  I am entering this one in Freshly Made Sketches - 377 

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Monochromatic

Happy Monday. Back to the work week. Hope everyone had a productive weekend. It was another chilly one here in Muskoka. Good to stay in on those cold ones.

I enjoyed coloring with the white pencil on black cardstock. I tried the same technique on kraft paper. Using a brown pencil to color my flowers. I think I might even like this one better than the black and white one.

After stamping a random background pattern I colored it with a brown prisma pencil. When it was finished I used a rectangle die to cut a frame out about a 1/4 inch from the edge. I mounted the frame on dimension tape and the rest of the card flat on a white card base. Looking at it now, I think it needs a few sequins added to it.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

BRRR -30 Is Cold

Evening everyone. Hope this finds everyone warm. We are in a deep freeze. It started on the weekend. -20 was the high during the day. The wind made it even colder. This morning the school buses were cancelled because of the cold. It was -28 when I left for work. 

So with all this cold I've been thinking about spring, and coloring flowers. With the start of a new year comes new things. I have a drawer full of new stamps, embossing folders, dies. I will be using it all, starting with this new stamp set and dies.

For this one I stamped the background with white ink on a black background. I then colored with a white prisma pencil. Trimmed a bit off the edges, and mounted it on a white cardbase. I added a small sentiment and mounted it with foam tape.

keep warm

dee ;o)

Pretty In Purple

Afternoon everyone. Home for a quick lunch. I actually feel that I am accomplishilng something at work today. The first time all week. Great way to wrap up the week.

Last night I was playing with a new stamp. Stamping it out to cover the background. Now I can color them.  One I did for to use the matching dies to cut out. I will share when finished.

Today I want to share the second card from last weekend. This one I colored the flowers purple. I think this one is my favorite. I love the purple with the dark grey background.

happy crafrting

dee;o)

One Stamp Fully Colored

Afternoon everyone. Home from work for lunch. It's so nice to live close enough to go home on my lunch hour. Just gives you a much needed break away.

Over the weekend I pulled out an old stamp and had some fun with it. When I originally stamped it I was thinking a one layer card. So I stamped it right onto the card base. Well I didn't eyeball it and didn't get it quite in the centre. I colored the image and then decided to color with a dark grey all around the image. When this was done I decided to cut it out, layer a color cardstock to match the flowers, then mount it onto a card base.

On this one I layed a piece of orange burlap to match the flowers.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019

Evening everyone. Hope you all had a Happy New Year. My day was spent relaxing in my jammies, working on my bullet journal. I'm so enjoying creating my own calender. All the trackers to try to keep me in line.

Here is my cute little cupid for February's calender.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

January Calender in Bullet Journal

Evening everyone. The weekend is here. The whole family is still together for another week. It will be sad  next weekend when I have to take my daughter back to school.

Tonight I want to share the January calender I created. It was made with two different stencils. I taped down the birch tree stencil and colored with distress inks to make the sky. I layed the cloud stencil right over top to make the clouds. After removing the stencils I colored the trees with prisma pencils.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Sleigh Bells Ring

I'm up early rhis morning and off to work after having two days home with my family. I have been working on my bullet journal while home. I'll share some of my pages soon.

For now I wanted to share the card I created for all the managers and back office associates that I work with. Each one was done with different pattern paper. I found 6x6 pads at Micheal's. Christmas themes, one in pink colors and one in blue colors.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

My First Peek-A-Boo Card

Good morning everyone. I have finally finished my first peek-a-boo card. Thanks to Jennifer McGuire and her great video tutorials. 

Must go busy day. Starting a new position at work. Hoping to have more time for crafting. Hope you enjoyed.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Happy Birthday Uncle Bruce

Today is my uncles 69th birthday. Yesterday my two aunts and I went to the Home that he is in for a visit. We took him out to Tim Horton's to get him a birthday treat. Just like a kid, he was told not to drink his ice cap fast. Did he listen, no ended up with a brain freeze. He's such a flirt, waving at all the ladies.

Here is the card I made for him.

I had alot of fun making this card. I started with cutting masking paper to cover the front panel. I used square dies (that I had forgotten I had), to cut a window in the mask. I also used them to make a frame to go around it. The front panel was cut with a new die from MFT. I used distress inks to color the sky, and the clouds. The grass was cut with another new die from MFT. My Viking is also a stamp  from MFT. I colored him with prisma pencils and gamsol.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Pretty Poisies

Hello Blogland. It has been a very busy summer, and it's almost over. I am on day 3 of 2 weeks holidays. In less than a week we will be packing my daughters things up again and moving her back to college. I'm going to miss having her around.

After relaxing the last couple days, playing games on my tablet and catching up on some TV. I finally made my way downstairs to my craft area. I have had an image laying on my counter for weeks, all colored and cut out, just waiting for a card idea to pop into my creative space. Today I finished it. Ta da

The stamp is from Stampendous. I colored it with prisma pencils, using gamsol to blend the colors. The stamp is 2 part, the vase with stems and the flowers. The vase I attached directly to the card base, and I mounted the flowers with foam tape to give it a bit of dimension.

Hope you enjoy the rest of your day.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Here We Go Again

Evening everyone. I have a get well card to share today. I'm posting it to myself. Almost 25 years ago, just after I met hubbie. I had TMJ surgery. One day I sneezed and the little piece of cartledge in the jaw fell out of place. After many months of not being able to open my mouth far, do anything that involved using the facial muscle, or eat anything other than mush. I had surgery to stitch that little piece of cartledge back into place. Things have been great. Until about a month ago. Home from work for dinner, enjoying a Big Mac with hubbie. Two bites to go, and crack. Oh that really hurt. And here we go again.

Today I had an appoint with a TMJ specialist. Damage can be seen in the xray, but to what extent he is unsure. So to start he gave me medrol, a steriod to help with the pain. And cyclobenzaprine to take at night to relax the muscle. I have to get more movement in order to have a new night guard molded. After that he will evaluate again for surgery. Which will mean a long wait for an MRI appointment so the surgen can see if there is enough cartledge left to repair. Here's hoping.

Enough of that. Lets get to the card.

This is the second attempt at these cards. I had to trash the first ones. After making some mistakes and learning the properties of some of my markers and inks, these two turned out pretty good. I embossed the images with black embossing powder, then colored them in with prisma color pencils. A little inking around the edges and done. Very simple.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Happy Retirement

Evening all. Here we are at the start of another busy weekend in Muskoka. The traffic is heavy on the highway, as well as at work. It was a crazy day. Glad I was done early afternoon. Monday will be our Human Resource Associates last day. She is retiring. Marilyn will be missed by alot of us. She is the glue that holds our store together. Who ever replaces her has some big shoes to step into. I can only think of one person that can do it. We will find out next week.

So the last couple nights I have been working on a special card. I quite like how the white pencil crayon looks on the black card. I found a textured card in my stash and thought it could be used for the same technique.

I am really happy how it turned out. Texture and all. I also used a new stamp from Stampendous. I found I didn't have any larger flowers that could be easily coloured. I couldn't find the right sentiment to add to the front, so I just wrote a sweet note inside.

Till next time.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Pencil Crayon Storage

Afternoon all. I have the day off, and am really enjoying it. I started off with a few loads of laundry washed and hung on the line. Met my girlfriend for coffee. Picked my daugher up from work at noon. Both kids are home with me today, with a couple extras thrown in. It's so nice that my daughters friends get along with my son as well. They are all upstairs playing video games. And I get to enjoy the quiet in my crafting area.

Yesterday the first of my purchases from Wish arrived. A case to hold my set of prisma color pencils. I spent lastnight transfering them over.

Can't wait to use them. I like that they are all layed out where you can see them, rather than sorting through the layers in the tin.

Todays mail had the black case. Slightly smaller.

I organized all my TomBow markers in it out of a clear plastic stackable container.

Well it looks like I must finally clear my desk to make room for scrapbook layouts. Hubbie asked today if I'd gone through the boxes of kids school work. I think the easiest way to do that is to scrapbook what I want as I go.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

White Pencil on Black

Morning blog friends. Stopping in for a quick post before heading to work. As I was going through utube videos the other day, trying to get caught up. One technique caught my eye. It was on Sandy Allnock's channel. Coloring with white pencil on black cardstock. Very stunning, and I just had to try it. I was very happy how it turned out.

Hope you give this a try, and go check out Sandy's blog.

happy crafting

dee;o)

Welcome to your New Home

Hello everyone. I hope everyones week is going fine. After the weekend we had, I am enjoying the grey skies. The whole weekend was either freezing rain or snow. Not just one go round of each but multiple. I can not wait for winter to be over.

The other day I whipped up a 'new home' card before heading into work. A co-worker has just moved into a new apartment. I wanted her to know I was thinking of her on her big moving adventure.

I found the black letters in my stash, and adheared them to my card. The house was stamped right onto the card and colored with prisma color pencils. I used a white gel pen to add to the letters and house, and scattered a few sequins.

She was so touched by the card. Made me feel good to put a smile on her face. We  will have coffee next week, so I can see her new place.

happy crafting

dee ;o)