Lighthouse Slide Mailer

Wow! It's been since forever since I posted something. I still haven't been in my studio to create. Life has been very busy. I went this last weekend to see my dd get her masters. Anyway here is a slide mailer I created for Rubber Road Adventures. These little workhorses for the scientific field are great for making little beauties for the paper crafter. I stamped and glittered and added little jewelry finds and real shells on the inside. I used Scrabble pieces on the outside. Check out Rubber Road Adventures for the tutorial. The one for my butterfly slide mailer is finally up also. Elizabeth has been doing a lot of work to get this ezine up and ready. What a wonderful job she is doing.

Cookies and cream

I got this cup stamp from www.susanascustomartandcarddesign.com as a thank you for ordering. Isn't it cool. I love hot chocolate and what is hot chocolate without a dollop of whip cream. I used Scribbles paint for the the whip cream. Most of the cookies and cup were colored with copics and a bit of prisma color pencils. I am really getting into the copics. For the background I stamped a swirl from the angel company with versa mark then used the brayer inked with kaleidacolor blue breeze in a half circle. The drops are from The Robin's Nest. The heart is another little goodie from www.susanascustomartandcarddesign.com. The punch along the bottom is from fiskars.

Beary Happy

It's my youngest daughter's birthday today. She's 17. I can't imagine where the time has gone. She loves teddy bears. Her favorite color is green but it used to be purple. Actually it is a color challenge on rubber road adventures so I thought it would be perfect for her. The stamp is from the angel company. Bear is colored with prisma color pencils then I added some flower soft and then some glitter for the teddy to walk in. The buttons are tied with floss. The green strips are ribbon.

Love and laughter again

I'm really having a good time with this stamp set from the angel company. I stamped the tree in a brown hybrid palette ink and then added heather flower soft with diamond glaze. I punched out a pink circle and then punched holes in each scallop. I also cut out a brown circle to layer the tree on. I stamped the words on a rectangular paper and then used a corner punch to make the edges rounded. I added the pearl bella baubbles for an extra accent. The patterned paper is from basic grey. Oh and I colored the butterflies with prisma color pencils.

Sea Stamp 2

The challenge was to use micro beads. The top swirl has clear microbeads and the bottom swirl has pearl microbeads. In the grass there are both the pearl and the clear. Over the writing is just the clear beads. The stamp is from the angel company. The patterned paper is all basic grey. I used some pearl dew drops on the bottom and some colored ones on the top. The image is colored with pencils.

Bird Bath

Kinda bright but oh well. Used flower soft and diamond glaze for the water.

Tire Swing

My color challenge for today was purple and brown. Brown goes with everything right. I remember when I was little I was supposed to be going to sleep but I was coloring in the dark instead. I thought I was coloring a teddy bear brown but when I woke in the morning it was purple. I used an eyelet to make a tire swing. The butterfly is a gold paper charm that I colored purple with markers. Every Wednesday Danni has a butterfly challenge so stop by her blog and check out her butterfly at http://www.dannisdreamscrafts.blogspot.com/

Slide Mailer

I had never heard of slide mailers until I had to do one for Rubber Road Adventures. I am on their design team. To see the instructions you have to go to http://rubberroadadventures.ning.com/. I usually don't do this kind of project but it was great fun.

Boys and Girls

Since it has been days since I posted I thought I would add two cards. Catherine is paper pieced although it may be hard to tell as the paper was mostly a "solid" patterned paper. Her dress, hat, ribbon and shoes are all paper pieced. The skin is colored with pencil as is the butterfly and her hair is done with copics and pencils. Her dress is highlighted with copics as well.Then I decided she should be standing in a meadow with flowers so I added heather flower soft.
This little guy's shirt and patches are paper pieced, the pants are colored with copics. The skin is colored with pencils and his hair with copics and pencils. He looks like he is about to have a good time on his skate board.

Church

This is a rather different card than I usually make. For one thing I don't usually do buildings. This stamp is from Art necko. Art necko has some great stamps although this is the only one I own. I stamped this on blue bazzill then put vaseline over the building then sprayed it with cornflower Walnut ink. Then I wiped off the vaseline. Terry Moore had a great tutorial on her blog (http://www.terrbear38.blogspot.com/) with a bit of a different twist on it. Or maybe I should say I had a different twist because I didn't have the supplies she had. I added some stickles on the stained glass windows. This is an actual church in Germany. I never saw it when I was in Germany but then they do have so many cool churches.