Copic Grid Card

I found this technique by Julia Stainton. It's called Colour-Bleed Grid, using Copic pens and Copic blending solution. I used SU! cardstock, a piece of printed CM paper, and X-Press-It blending paper. The stamp is SU!, Serene Silhouettes.

But then, I thought I'd try blending in a different way and just did streaks with the Copic pens, then dribbled Copic blending solution down the paper. The horse stamp is PSX, the sentiment is SU!, the whole verse is on the inside. I think this one looks a little more like water colouring. Both cards are 4 1/4" square. The grid squares on the first card are 1 1/4" each.

Over-all, I like the technique--gives a little different look :)

Thanks for coming to look. I have family staying for a bit and we are pretty busy. Hope you are all enjoying the beginning of school break and maybe some nice weather :)

Copic Colour Book

I found this lovely site one day while surfing, Copic Munkies. Rachel, the owner of this blog graciously shared her pages for this awesome little book for keeping track of your copic colours, combinations, hair colours, etc.

I've cut and modge podged a butterfly, from a magazine, onto the front cover--nothing on the back yet...but probably will be at some point. The pages inside are all Xpress It blending paper, plus I added 3 acrylic pages that pull out to put behind the pages when adding colours. The card stock is SU! I made a little pocket on the inside cover, just to tuck any little scrap into :)

Thanks for coming by today and please stop over at the Copic Munkies blog and have a look around 

One Card, Two Challenges :)

Here is my card for the Graphicat Sketch Challenge and the Things with Wings Challenge at the Crafts and Me Challenge blog.

I used StampinUp! cardstock and ribbon, Basic Grey-Little Black Dress printed paper,  swirls and embellies from my stash, and Distress Inks on edges. 

This card measures 5 1/2"x 6".

Here's a close up of Smartie Pants Sammy from Crafts and Me.

I used Copics to colour her.

Here's the sketch for the challenge and there's still another week to get your entry in AND there's a prize for every entry!

Thanks for coming by :) hope you're having a great weekend!

Finished My Purse

Here's the purse I have been working on this past few days~finished up yesterday  :)

The pattern kind of confused me at first, but once I got sewing on it, things made sense.  There's a pocket at each end on the outside.  Looking at it from the front, it is about 9" tall and 9"wide at the base.

  The zipper opening is 15".

 

There's velcro to hold the two ends in place. 

Side view.

  

Below is another beautiful digi image from Crafts and Me Stamps.
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I lightly used SU! Cool Caribbean and Apricot Appeal ink and the cloud template from SU! for the sky and moon. Iridescent Copper acrylic from Golden, Peeled
Paint distress ink, Fiskars punch~which I cut away the outside to make it more lacey looking. Flowers from my stash and of course, some Silver Stickles. I just printed the words myself.  I used my lovely Copics to colour the image  :)

Side view to show the dimension.

Hope you enjoyed your visit  :)   please leave a comment so I can come visit your blog too  :)

Frosty Tea on Tuesday

Not my tea, did you get excited about a new type of tea?   It's very frosty outside, but beautiful   :)

I was in a hurry, so unfortunately my little snowblower handle got in the photo, but isn't the frost amazing!

This next one is the top of my car  :)  lovely pattern.

Happy Valentines Day everyone, drop in and I'll make you a heart muffin  :) 

Hope you all have a LOVEly day!

The book I'm looking at this morning is one of my Christmas gifts, it's fun to read and the recipes are great~~I love to keep it handy when I'm making my grocery list! 

My card for the Crafts and Me Challenge this week.  We were to make a card with a new or 'new to us' image.  This beautiful digi image is Autumn. 

 I'll be back later this week with two NEW images that I just got.  I love all their digis, but they have some beautiful stamps and lots of other goodies too.

A closer image so you can see the silver Stickles sparkling on her wings.

And my new project this week is a purse....it's in the works, should be done tomorrow and I'll post a photo for you.

Thanks for dropping by and please hop over to Kimmies site for a list of all the bloggers visiting today, they'd love to see you  :)   http://artinredwagons.blogspot.com/  

Have a lovely day, where ever you may be  :)

Pink and Sparkly

That's the theme at  Crafts and Me Challenges.  And this is my card with a Sara Burrier digi image called Twilight Lily Fae.  I love the gentle image she presents and pink seems a perfect colour for her  :)

I've used Copics to colour her and Distress ink around the edges.  The cardstock is SU, the printed paper is Washi paper and I used my SU punch on the edges.  For some sparklies, I've used Stickles on her wings, the gems and pearls are Prima.

And up close to show you all the sparkles on her wings.

I've been doing a bit of work on my Heart  Journal as well.  This project can be found here.  

The Journal will take the year to complete with prompts each month I believe. 

I've gone ahead and done some work on mine--not sure if I'm going to continue with the year-long project.  So I've cut out all my hearts, amongst which are, 3 water colour paper hearts, 3 canvas paper hearts and 3 poster board weight and one corrugated heart which is now glued to one of the poster paper hearts.  As you can see, poster board ones are curled a bit from coating with Gesso, they'll straighten out when done  :) 

Below, you can see I've added gold acylic to the corrugated heart, but before I did that, I ripped the paper a bit and put some music paper down first.  You can see the music paper just a bit.  The heart at the top of the picture has paper that I ripped and glued down with modge podge.  I've punched holes in some~~I think I want to bind it with rings  :)     

So that's what I was up to this weekend~~other than shovelling a lot of snow  :)  

A Bit of This and That....

I'm not really stuck in the house, but it sure isn't pleasant going outside (I did brave the weather on Tuesday).  There's plenty I should be doing.....but crafting is so much more fun than ironing  :)

I thought I'd share some of the things I'm working on.  I can't possibly start only one thing either!  Hope you have your coffee or tea.....long post  :)

This is where I sit to colour in the beautiful light.  Don't let the sun shining in deceive you, it's still -34!  And where I like to knit....should have had this done ages ago, could be using it now  :)

I think I had better quit colouring (with Copics) and get these onto cards  :)

I saw a heart journal on Patty's sight,  http://bitze.wordpress.com/ and thought I'd do one......or this might end up being a hanger or maybe two cards....depends which way the spirit moves me  :)  

I've traced this heart shaped box and painted the chipboard with gesso, stamped and embossed with clear ep, coloured with distressed inks and then a layer of clear, matt gel into which I put strips of crinkled, white wrapping tissue---the colour shows through nicely. Then I started adding some do-dads and some Iridescent Bronze acrylic all around the edges plus I painted some on the top and the 'creases'.  It's not finished yet....I'll be finished in a few days and show you the results  :)    

And of course, while paint dries on one project, I always start another (or two).  My first tissue roll mini book.  I used paper towel roll for the cover pieces, covered them all with printed paper--this is from CTMH.  Made tags to go in the five 'pages', the cover pieces I stuck together--not using them with pockets.    A couple more days to finish this one off too....

And of course, I have to bake when it's cold outside  :)
This is a sweet sticky rice, thai dessert. I did it the easy way, adding coconut milk right to the rice (and next time, I will only add 1/2 to 3/4 of a can) then, when I dished it up (warm), I added some lovely mango. 
I am trying to lose a bit of weight, what part of that includes dessert, lol.
If you only have 1/2 cup of this, it's about 125 calories. I would use 1/2 or 3/4 of a can of coconut milk with 3 cups cooked rice---just enough to make it hold it's shape if you were to put it in a roll, then add mango--I used frozen mango this time, it has a wee bit of juice when thawed.  This was enough for 7, 1/2 cup servings.
 

Then I made some good, healthy bread!  I tell you, it's delish!  I mean, what bread isn't???   This is a   recipe I use quite often, but instead of nine grain cereal, I used Red River cereal--it is so nice and full of grains, love it!  

Don't know and don't want to know, what the calories are in this  :)  Just have one slice at a time with a lovely bowl of soup and you'll keep warm  :)

If you stayed with me through this long post....Thank you  :)  and please check back in a few days, I'll have my projects finished!!

Fairy Card, Into the Word

Here is my little fairy card.  She is for the 'Pearls and Swirls" challenge over at Crafts and Me. 

I am also doing another challenge too, over at Splitcoast Stampers.  Today it's 'Ways to Use it' Thursday and we were to ink up a Cuttlebug folder--my first time doing it!  I inked up with Distress Ink--Antique Linen. It's quite light and a bit hard to see on the photo, but irl it looks quite elegant  :)  I also inked up the edges and around the fairy image.  The pearls are Prima, lace from my stash, velvet ribbon is Making Memories, not sure about the flowers, the printed paper, under the fairy image, is Websters Pages and all the cardstock is SU!  The words, that you can hardly see, say 'All The Things I Love'.
Just about forgot to mention that the image is coloured with Copics and my 'blossom' Spica.   

And here's a close up of that pretty little Fairy  :)   She is sitting reading and is the perfect shape to be used as a bookmark.

Thanks for coming to look  :)  and be sure to check out Crafts and Me Challenges and Splitcoast Stampers to see all the other enteries.

Tea on Tuesday

It's a snowy day in the Cariboo  :)  There's a good inch on my railing.

I'm having Pumpkin Spice this morning.   It's not as spicy as I thought it would be, more mellow. 

I had to take a picture of all the pretty mugs I bought at the Lions Christmas rummage sale on the weekend. I'm sorry the photos are not to good, I think the battery on my camera needs charging or maybe it's me :)

And I finished another couple of cards.  I just need to make two more to send off for Chrismas.  This first one has a digital image called the Giving Angel, from Crafts and Me.  I've cut the image out and put her on velvety fabric paper, that I've had forever--hoarding!

'Think Snow' is one inch printed pieces put together on cardstock and run through the cuttlebug.   A cyber friend from Splitcoast did this, but hers looked more like a quilt--which I was going for   :)      The card is a tri-fold, almost 6x6.

Now, this beautiful butterfly--the picture does not do it justice--a friend bought an old dress at the reuse center because she knew I would LOVE this little jem.  I'm going to put it on a canvas, it's about 5.5 square and is just gorgeous irl  :) 

Here is my poor Mandevilla, reaching for the light, still blooming.  And there is that snow coming down.  A good day to drink tea and craft  :)

Feel free to join us for tea or whatever, start with the list from Kimmies site http://artinredwagons.blogspot.com/

Everyone is welcome, thanks for dropping by  :)  

Creative Accents Sketch Challenge Card

I finally got a card ready for the November challenge at  Creative Accents

That means November is almost over--good grief    :)

I have used SU! cardstock and printed paper, gold thread, lace and 3 teacup charms from Wallyworld.  The digi image and inside sentiment is from Cheri at Graphicat  I coloured with Copics :)

The 'dimension' view and inside too  :)

Thanks for coming to have a look, I'll have more on Tuesday!

Button Christmas Card...and more

I've been working on three cards the past couple of days and finally, today, they are done  :)

I went onto the Hero Arts blog and found this pretty little card using clear buttons.  The only clear buttons that I have are some from my Mom's old button box.  You adhere your clear buttons onto some pretty printed paper, allow to dry and cut out.  I used SU! Whisper White and Night of Navy cardstock, Creamy Caramel ink (one of my favourites!) and large Christmas background stamp.  A few pearls and sparkly gems to fill in between the buttons, a bit of Stickles in between and all around the tree.  Cut your own 'snowbanks' and I added Stickles to them too.  The Winter Wishes is a SU! rub-on.  

The Angel of Winter is a digi image is from Crafts and Me and coloured with Copics.  The little tree is a folded half circle.  I cut the Angel oval with my CM cutters, the holly is cut from the same paper as the tree, Graphics 45.  It's hard to see but I put some clear, Viva crackling paste around the card front and inked over with Distress Ink-Peeled Paint and of course had to add some green Stickles.

The SU! snowflake stamp on this one is Versamarked and embossed with Shimmering Leaves ep, I did a bead of gold Stickles down from the top to the snowflake and adhered a gold thread bow to it.  The rub-on is SU!.   These last two card fronts have been through the cuttlebug folders.  I was originally trying to do 'white' cards, but I really had a hard time sticking to just white---as much as I love it!  

Do any of you remember folding magazines like this (or am I showing my age here)?   I folded two Oprah magazines to hold my cards--saw or read it somewhere.  It's going to be my centerpiece this year and so far, just six cards, but eventually I think it will be full   :) 

Anyway  :)   thanks for coming to look!