Birdie Brown Challenge

I loved this free digital image from Birdie Brown and decided to enter her challenge.

I colored this sweet image with my Copics and used papers from the October Afternoon Farmhouse Collection.  This is a birthday card for a friend and I thought it came out so cute.

Sorry about my photography and cropping.  I still have not mastered that, but, you can get the idea.

Happy crafting to all.

Papercraft Star Challenge

Just a quick post for this morning.  I am going to repost one of my cards from yesterday to enter the current challenge at Papercraft Star.

Vintage Easter Egg Image from Crafty Secrets

I really love these images from Crafty Secrets.  In this case, I did a little fussy cutting and popped up one of the flowers.  Love how it came out and this card is for my daughter and son-in-law for Easter.

Hope you like it.

Just a Few Easter Cards

Here are some of the cards that I put together for my lovely family for Easter. 

I am not going to go into a lot of details about these.  Just that I used digital stamps and colored with copics and used my Cameo for most of the cutting.  Hope you enjoy.

Butterfly Bunny from Sassy Cheryl and Chevron Card from Silhouette America

Dancing Easter Egg from Sassy Cheryl and Hexagon Card from Silhouette America

Murray from Saturated Canary

Pedaling Petunia from Sherri Baldy

Vintage Image from Crafty Secrets

Vintage Image from Crafty Secrets

Vintage Image from Crafty Secrets

I really had such fun with the Vintage Images.  As soon as I saw them I knew that I would have to use them.  They are truly beautiful images.

That's all for today.  Thanks for visiting.

Saturated Canary Challenge #39

Guess what, everyone?  I am back.  Today, I am going to post a photo of my first Smashbook page.  I have had two of the books for a very, very long time and have not done anything with them.  I guess I am not spontaneous enough to just "smash" away.

This photo also uses a Saturated Canary digi called Books and Bed.  I just love this image and wanted to use it and enter it into their current challenge.  She is colored with copics and I used some stamps on the page from my Unity SMAK kits (these, also, have not been put to enough use.

If you look closely, the library pocket holds a book mark and it is from Kerri Bradford's inForms file.

I think, overall, it came out pretty good.

I will be back a little later to post some of my completed cards.  I have a bunch, so, I guess I'll just do a few at a time.  Happy Tuesday to all.

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Finally Back from Down South and Playing Catch Up

Hi to all you wonderful bloggers and Happy Saturday.

I still have not improved on my posting and really do not know if I will ever get better.  We got back from our trip down South a couple of weeks ago and, now, I have been trying to get back into some kind of crafting mode.  I did take a lot of my things with me, but, just did not get much accomplished.

We spent time with family for Christmas and then headed out to visit many different places--Savannah, GA and New Orleans, LA to name a couple.  It was a wonderful trip and we saw so many new things and had many, many new types of food for us.  I was quite surprised that I did not gain a ton of weight while away and did not.  Now that we are home, I am putting it on.

I have some pictures to post of cards that I am in the process of finishing up now for St. Patrick's Day and Easter.  I just cannot bring myself to post things from Christmas and Valentine's Day--not at this late date.  So, once I get the new things photographed, I will be back to post.

I really want to get myself motivated to do a Project Life Book starting with this incredible trip.  I have the book and had about 300 or more photos printed--just have to give myself a kick in the but and get going.

I will be back soon and hope you all have a happy and crafty weekend.

Almost 6 Months Since I have Posted--Shame on Me

I cannot even say how funny it feels to be posting again.  It has been such a long time.  I am still doing card making and more, but, we spent the summer doing so much camping, that I got away from posting.

Camping is so relaxing and, when we are in camp, I most often, bring out my knitting and make socks.  I did bring my Copics with me and did some coloring of digital images that I had printed out, but not too much more.

We have been back at home since the middle of September and had so much to do to get the RV unpacked and cleaned.  I had back surgery on October 3 (first time surgery for me at 67 years old) and did not really know what I would be able to do after, so the RV had to be all done before I went in.  Things have gone well and I am recovering nicely.  We will be leaving in mid December for our Bucket List trip to the South for a couple of months.

I am in a flurry now--trying to get my mojo back and have started on Christmas cards and gifts.  There will be so much to shortly, as soon as the Doctor releases me to climb the RV stairs, to get ready to leave in December and I do not want to leave anything for the last minute.  I am very obsessed with making notes and checking them twice or three or four times.  I have to know that all is ready.

I have not even done much blog hopping.  Just getting back into that and found out today that I won a wonderful package from Eclectic Paperie on their Make the Art Blog hop.  So excited to sample some of their wonderful products and I also signed up to take their new on line class.  That will be fun as I can do it when I am traveling.

Now, I will post some of the cards that I have made--no descriptions this time as that would take me too, too long and we need to get out to vote.  If you see anything that you would like more info on just post back to me.

Hope I am not away for so long the next time.  (Sure do need to get this blog background changed out soon.)

As you can see with these images, I have used a lot of digital stamps and papers, done some coloring with copics and just tried to keep up with my family and friend cards as best I could while being away.

Back soon and have a great day.