I would love to say TGIF, but I am going to be working late tonight, I am on-call and possibly working tomorrow and I know I am working Sunday. I expect Monday to be a nightmare day so I will count down to next weekend instead.

I was suppose to attend a Stampin' Up workshop this weekend but I will need to miss that. I was looking forward to it. I made this card the other night, I did a really quick card portrait so the image is not a bright as if I had set up the light tent. I did some more Bullrushes with Flower Soft.

Supplies: Blue and blue metallic cardstock, Designer Paper – ColorBok Scrap Pack(Neutral), Impression Obsession – Boat Corner, misc ribbon buckle, Must Be Sold-BY-Spool blue ribbon, Flower Soft-Nut Brown.

Until tomorrow - play nice in the sandbox.

Welcome Thursday - I love this card. After the demo I attended last week on how to use Flower Soft I wanted to try it on these bullrushes right away. I really like the way it turned out.
This portrait does not show it but there is glitter in the bullrushes to fill in any white spots and adds a nice touch.

Supplies: Brown and brown metallic cardstock, Imaginisce- Designer Paper, Rosewood – Bullrushes, Scenic Route Paper Co. Twill Tape, K&Company Gem Adhesives, Flower Soft-Nut Brown, Jewel Glitter Ritz Micro fine - Bronze

Have a great day.

Morning, I made this card as a retirement card. I was exploring my watercolor pencils with this one as well. I think it turned out just fine.

Supplies: Green Bazzill Basic cardstock, watercolor paper, stamps Happen Inc - Beach Chair, Jesse James - Dress me up buttons, misc ribbon, diamond glaze.

It snowed here in Victoria the other day... my poor little garden was all ramped up for spring, the flowers don't seem to mind though.

Another masculine card today, I love Riley he is such a cute little moose. I went a little crazy and brought about 6 stamps of him so he will make a re-appearance.

I used my water color pencils to color the stamped image, I used a large lure stamp to make my own designer paper of sorts to continue with the fishing theme then I finished most of my paper edges with my gold Deco Just Glitter pen.

Supplies: brown, tan and natural cardstock, Designer paper – Memory Skor, watercolor paper, Hanna Stamps – Fishing Riley, Magenta- Happy Birthday, Judikins – Lure Background, twine, K&Company Gem Adhesives.

I finally got around to taking some card portraits this weekend. I even managed a card or two. When I saw this stamp I loved it, problem being that it was in the back room of a stamp store where the classes and demos take place. When I asked about it I was offered the chance to buy it, umm yup, I could not resist that. I did promise to take a card in to show how I used it though.

This was my first true water color card not just coloring some small section mind you, I still like my Blender pen best when using my watercolor pencils rather then a paint brush.

I love making masculine cards, not sure why but I do so I really enjoyed making this one. I used Diamond Glaze of the water in the bay to add dimension and gloss and Happy Birthday is popped up over the twill tape to give it the 3D effect.

Supplies: Dark brown and tan cardstock, Imaginisce – Now and Forever Roman Columns Designer Paper, Rubberstamp Ave – Scenic Beach, Magenta – Happy Birthday, Scenic Route Paper Co. Twill Tape, Black eyelets, double sided dimentional tape, Diamond Glaze.

I was lucky enough to have a good chunk of Saturday to myself and I was so excited to spend a good amount of it in demos at a local stamp store. After the demos I wanted to try what I learned at home and I will try to post some of those cards this week.

Back at ya tomorrow.

Happy Saturday, it is a beautiful sunny day here and yesterday there was rumor that we were going to have rain and snow. I am not complaining though.

One of the local scrapbook stores makes up a card kit every month, I liked this stamp so I brought the kit. This was a very basic card to make.

Supplies: Purple, violet and cream Bazzill card stock, Hero Arts - Two flourish flowers and For you.

Enjoy your day.

This was a very interesting card to make, although a little on the difficult side. The clear window was hard to align properly. It turn out ok in the end though.

The orange that is displayed is actually the inside of the card. Behind the centre piece is and insert same size allowing some space to write.

My favorite part is the flowers and the dragon fly brad though.

Spring is getting closer, I have daff's and crocuses making a good start in my garden. Victoria's flower count is only a week or so away.

I don't think this class had an actual theme. I do like the distresses papers though. Have a great day.

I don't recall if this was the last in the Asian theme Designer paper series class or not, I think it could be. I love this paper and I never did find it to be able to buy some.

I still have not taken a picture if the cards I did this past weekend, I actually forgot about them till I was sitting and typing this entry.

See you tomorrow.

This is the fouth card from the Asian themed designer paper class, I love this idea. The card opens at the top. The only flaw that I saw was that when you untie the ribbon to open the card the coin comes off and it is not very easy to tie back up. I think I would want to work on that aspect a little if I ever try to recreate this card.

Have a good day.