Mail me your Heart.

Yup...I am still sharing my Valentine's Day cards.
I love to add some detail to my tags but using my border punches to the bottom of the tag.
This one I also added a pink heart that I cut out and popped up.

I just love CC Designs images they are so much fun to colour...and just so cute!!

I coloured her up with my Copic markers and these are the colours I used 💗

I used this same image on another Valentines Day card I had made this year.

Off to post some more of my cards for you 💗

I hope you all have a Creative Day

Tracy💗

XOXO Card with CC Designs

I have so much to share!!
I haven't even shared all of my Valentine's Cards.
I gave this one to my daughter Kristy 💗

This is a CC Design image.
I love colouring up these images.
They are so cute and the size of the stamps are perfect!

I used my Copics to colour this little cutie up, and here are the colours I used.

The papers I used where from the set I received from our local dollar store Dollarama.

Thank you for coming and visiting me today💗
I hope you all have a very Creative Day :)

Tracy💗

Birthday Card with CC Designs fairy

I made this cute card at my FNS.
I love my Friday Night Scrapbooking nights.
I love to spend time with my friends and create with them :)

I coloured this CC Designs image with my Copic markers.
Isn't she adorable…..that really wasn't a question, but more of a statement ;)

On Friday a couple of my friends wanted me to walk them through on how I colour up my girls.
I stamped up this same image for each of us.
Lesli is collecting Copics, and she has a nice collection so far.
I  wanted to use the marker colours that she had, so when she coloured at home, she would have the colours that go well with what she has.
I really don't think they needed any advice at all, they did great!
Here is a close up of my coloured image.
Thanks for the rolled flower Lesli ;)

Here is Lynne's coloured image on her card :)
Lynne doesn't have Copics and has no plans on purchasing any, so she didn't care what colours she used, and went with blonde hair.
Great colouring Lynne!

Here is Lesli's coloured image on her card :)
I love that we all coloured the same image. Even though they are all the same CC Designs stamp, they all look a bit different :)
Here is Lesli's blog link with a side by side of both our cards, my photo turned out blurry :(
Great colouring Lesli :)

Here are the invites I shared with you yesterday.
I thought you can see the slight difference in how the colours came out from copying the card to the actual card.

And Guess What!!!
I have a video to share with you on this card and the invites :)
If you want to watch it on my YouTube channel, just click the link Tracy's Treasures24
I hope you all had a very creative Sunday :)

Tracy :)

Spring is on its Way Crop Invites

Today was spent organizing my rec-room for a 13 hour crop that I am going to be hosting on National Scrapbooking Day on May 3rd :)
I am so excited about it, I can hardly wait!!!
Ashley was helping me with the plans, Kristy and Blake were helping me with the heavy lifting :)

I spent the rest of the evening making the invites :)
I had coloured this card last night for a friends mom's birthday, I will share that one in more detail in another post.
But then I photocopied the card for the invites and stamped "create" on each one.
I am so impressed with how well they turn out.
I had done this a few Christmas's ago with my Christmas cards. The copied ones turn out a bit lighter, but still excellent quality.

I hope you all had a very creative Saturday :)

Tracy :)

Colouring with Pencils..No Joke ;)

It is my friend Lynne's birthday.
Actually it was last Friday, but I wasn't here.
So I altered this $1.00 kraft gift bag to put her gift in.
I stamped the butterflies on the background and then added designer paper, some flowers, butterflies and my image I coloured up with my new coloured pencils :)

This is the first time I have tried using coloured pencils and gamsol.
If you know me, then you know that when I try something creative, I go all out.
I want to use what I make, even if it for practice.
So not knowing what I was doing, I coloured her face…it looks a bit on the yellow side for the shaded areas, but all in all, I think it is usable.

For her hair, I used only 2 colours of brown.
I left some areas uncoloured as that would act as yet another colour or a deeper highlight.
I then blended it all with my Gamsol and blending stump.

Then I went on to the other parts of the image.
Not to bad if I say so myself ;)
If any of you pro's out there have any tips for me, I would love to hear them :)

Here is a close up of the finished image on the bag.

I know most use Prismacolor pencils, but the artist at Blick's told me she preferred the Blick's brand of pencils.
I had a bit of a dilemma when choosing which brand, as I know I could find beautiful colour combinations on YouTube, where if I bought the Blicks brand I would have to figure out on my own, which colours would work good together.
So, I asked to try both brands. I found the Blicks brand to be more smooth when I coloured with them.
The price was quite a bit cheaper as well, but the deciding factor was the smoothness of them.

To help me decipher the coloured pencil colours, I am planning on making a colour chart.
I don't usually do this, I just normally wing it.
But I thought I would with these coloured pencils.
I made a grid on the type of paper that I will been using for the pencils and then I stamped this open image on the grid.
I will add the colours as I go along. This way I don't have to clean my blending stumps after each colour as I would be using them for whichever image I am colouring at the time.
I think I will be copying this chart as it took a few tries to get this perfect and without smears, lol.

Onto My Day:
Ashley had an appointment early this morning and wanted me to come with her.
We had a storm last night, and her jeep doors and windows were frozen. She had to pour hot water on the windows for them to thaw out.
When I went to open the door, the handle (and the whole door) was so frozen, Ashley had to open it from the inside.
When I got home, I stayed in the rest of the day.
Tomorrow is suppose to be more of the same….sadly, this isn't an April fools joke :(

I hope you all had a very creative Tuesday :)

Tracy :)

January Card Challenge

My friend Phillane wanted to us to do a monthly card challenge.
What we do is every month, we are going to come up with about 5 things we should do on a card and then mail each other our cards that we had made.

For January:
File Folder Card
CC Design image to colour
Use Sparkle
Use our stash.
It is Phillane's Birthday this month, so I made mine into a Birthday card for her.

As you can see I have followed our challenge prompts to a tee…I am a stickler for the rules ;)

Here is this little cutie in a bit more detail :)
Look I even added lace to mimic snow…I hardly ever use lace on my paper crafts.

I made a video if you want to hear more about our challenge and see this card in more detail :)
I still can't get my videos in screen, so here is the link to my YouTube channel.
Tracy's Treasures 24

Today I told Wayne that he should have is Black & Tan that he has once a year.
He usually has it on New Years, but because he was so sick, he never got to have it.
So as he enjoyed his drink, I enjoyed mine….a frosty glass of Coca-Cola :)
This can of coke was in the back of the fridge for a whole week and it was partly frozen ;)
Wayne was so looking forward to his drink, he couldn't wait for the photo shoot to be complete before grabbing his drink, lol.

Just in case you are wondering, Black & Tan is Harp Ale and Guinness beer. The reason for the name, is when you slowly pour the darker beer in, if you are good, it will float on the lighter coloured beer.

I spent the day doing a bit of writing and organizing my flair buttons :) I will share that in another post though.
I hope you all had a creative Sunday :)
If you want to join me with these card challenges, I would love to see what you come up with :)

Tracy :)