New Cards to soothe my soul

I say to soothe my soul because it seems the only thing to calm my nerves, forget my stress and relax has been to take some time out in my craft room. My thing lately has been to make cards. I guess I'm saving myself for the 12 hour crop coming up this Saturday. I want to scrap more of my old paper printed photos. I only have about 28 years worth of photos to organize and crop.

The images I colored are both Sugar Nellies I think. I wish I had more experience with stamp companies. Not only would I know all their lovely names and designers, but I would have a whole bunch more in my collecgtion. I have images from stamping friends I can't identfi, and some of them I am salivating over, trying to find their makers to buy them and more like them!! All inage swaps should come with IDs !!

Dressed for Success

Wow, I never imagined how much inspiration I could get by sorting all my stamped images. I found several of this little cutie (I think it's a Sugar Nellie, please correct me if I'm wrong) and thought "I have just the sentiment and the paper for that. And four cards later, it's on my blog>
I used Cosmo Cricket Double Patterned Paper Pack, so it's either frtom their Ever After or Girl Friday lines.
The sentiment is from SU, and I colored her with the Copics pictured below. The Orange markers are: YR61 and YR16. The dp really lent itself to this image I think.

Well, that's all my free time today, back to work tonight. Happy crafting, all!

Cards, Cards, Cards!

More cards for your viewing pleasure. These cards use the Cosmo Cricket line of patterned papers (either Ever After or Girls' Life). A couple use Quicklets, which I found at the scrapbooking convention last summer. You set these with your pen tip--they are great!!
Well, work is kicking into high gear again, starting today. While there are no classes tonight, we have 8th graders and their sponsors/parents coming in for rehearsal, and on Saturday, the big event, Confirmation, with Reception for families immediately following, and dinner with the Bishop later. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday is the Parish Mission, and we have reknowned spiritual speaker Matthew Kelly (hunka, hunka Australian love) for each night. Of course, I'll be working those nights as well as my regular days. I'm tired already!! So no time for crafting boo hoo!

Digi designs

I've been on a card kick lately. I've created three different designs if you can the fairy cards I did this weekend. Here I used a digital design (first time using one of those) and I like what I see. The dp is CosmoCricket, with oranbge organza ribbon to embellish. I also used my new nestabilities die to cut the shape. I love these, and will have to work a lot harder and earn more money to feed my nestability hunger.

New Cards and a Bookmark

I'm loving these new manga fairy stamped images. I can't get enough of these. I've made several cards, including the ones
here, as well as this Book Fairy Bookmark.
I visited my local HobbyLobby yesterday and found the patterned paper that I used on the cards on clearance--10 cents a sheet!! I like the Spring look to it.
The bookmark was made with a page torn out of a white gel pen journal. Then I used white gel pen to embellish with a few extra swirls here and there.
The cards are also glitzed with Stickles and Liquid Glass. If I'm going to make any more cards with these images, I better check YouTube for coloring hints. Anime is a little different coloring technique than my usual . I like how they turned out though.

Fairy Card

I can almost smell Spring--it's close, even though there is still a foot or so of snow on the ground, and I'm still in my winter jacket. It's close..

...so saying, I celebrated ther return of Spring with anew card. I haven't had tiome to post anything new in a while due to work consuming me. I finished fifteen pages at a crop, and several cards and tags.

This card was made using an image I received in a swap. I don't know who makes the fairy, and I have other images like it. I love them all and want to buy more, but havew to wait until some king person IDs the maker for me LOL.

I wanted it to have a bit of other-worldly feel to the card, so added pearls and flowers and sparkles wherever the mood hit me. I love the colors. I would like to learn how to color manga images. It's a bit different than what I'm used to, not as much blending.

Spooky Saturday

Cropped last Saturday and really got a lot accomplished. The most difficult pages to layout are the ones using old printed photos from before I got a digital camera. I mean, really old. My kids are 24 and 14, and there are photos of the 24 year old of his first Halloween.

Anyway, the theme for the day was Halloween. I had most of my papers and embellies for Halloween in a couple huge plastic baggies, and had just finished organizing as many photos as I could find. I finished 13 pages, starting from 1986 and finishing with the year 2000. I'm not done, either, plus I'm missing photos as well, but I really feel like I accomplished a major task.

Scrapping those old photos to me is both enervating and gut-wrenching. I haven't touched some select sets of photos because the subject matter is near and dear to me, but on the other hand I'm looking forward to tackling them.

Now if I just didn't work, I could have all the time in the world to make pages and put my photos in their "frames".
And I have been holding onto some of the papers and embellies for so long I wouldn't know where to start to ID them. I'm just happy to have so many photos scrapped in one day.

A few of them had been scrapped already, but then our basement flooded and I lost a bunch of photos and the scrapbook was salvaged, but the pages were going to mold (sewage) so I had to either remove the photos or pull the dry pages out to revamp later.

I wasn't too worried about using all one design of paper either. I just wanted to get the photos ON paper and record some of the events, thoughts and stories that went along with each year.

All this makes me want to rummage through every box of photos i have to see if I can come up with any morte pics of Halloweens past!