Cutie Pie Chloe

Here is my last Valentines Day cards...and here it's only a month later, lol.
I used this cute Stampingbella image and coloured her up with my Copic markers,
I made the tag with some of the pattern paper that was in this paper pack from Dollarama.
After cutting the shape of the tag, I used a co-ordinating paper to make the tag ring, tied some twine on it and used a heart shaped border punch on the bottom of the tag.

Here are the colours that I used to colour Chloe the Coffee Cup Girl.

I also did a video on all of my completed Valentines cards :)
If you want to check them out on my YouTube channel, here is the link!! "Tracy's Treasures24"

 Now to create some non-Valentines Day cards ;)

Hope you all have a Very 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💗

Heather's 27th Birthday and her Birthday Card

Today is my middle daughter Heather's 27th Birthday!!

I made her this card to celebrate.
Heather loves Gorjuss girl images.
Actually she was the first one to introduce me to them, as she had a picture of one on her desktop many years ago.
So every year I make her a card with a Gorjuss girl image.
This one is perfect for her as she loves cats.

Heather is not really a girly girl...she doesn't like frills or pinks or anything to too over the top girly.
But when I saw this paper and the greens went so well with my coloured image, I just had to use it...plus it was on my desk.
To tone down the pinks, I added this green flower as it matched her dress.

I wanted it to look like "Ruby" was swinging in amongst the flowers, but if I had fussy cut her out, she would have got lost in the background paper.
I decided to just fussy cut out her legs and and mat the rest of her on grey cardstock.

Here are the colours I used to colour her up with.

I added green sparkle to her hair ties, dots on her dress and the ruffles.
You can see it a bit on her ruffles.

Happy Birthday Heather, I hope you have a fantastic day!!!

I did a video on her card, if you would rather watch it on my YouTube channel, just click the link "Tracy's Treasures24"
I hope you all have a very Creative Day 💗

Tracy💗

Tracy's Tips...How to make Multi-coloured images.

Lately I have noticed that when I make seasonal cards, I make them in bulk.
I have also noticed even though I love to colour, I don't care to colour the same images in the same colours over and over again.
I came up with this idea quite a few years ago.
Photo copy my original images :)

*Note, these photos were taken from my video, so not the most clear.

After I stamp and colour my images (usually with my Copics) I then run them through the photo copier in the fine or best setting.
I am so impressed with how well they come out.
If anything the colours may turn out a tad lighter.
This time my photo printer was running very low on ink, so the colours were more light than usual.
But what I did do with these ones, was just take my lightest colour marker that I had used and go over that area with it :)

I am all about giving credit where credit is due, I am also all about following the rules.
I went to each Stamps Angel Policy to see if this is okay to do.
And because I purchased these stamps for my personal use and I am not selling these images then I am good :)

I did a video about this with a bit more information :)
If you want to watch it on my YouTube channel, just click on the link "Tracy's Treasures24"
I hope my tip helped you out if you plan on colouring the same image over and over :)

Tracy 💗

Christmas Cards 2017

My Christmas cards are completed and out in the mail.
I kept it simple again this year..very simple.

If these look familiar to you, its because I made a set of my Christmas tags with this cute image.
Also Sharon from Scrapbook Cottage, made a gift card, card like this at the make N take at Crop & Create.

I love this stamp from Lawn Fawn called "Here we go a Waddling"...so cute right!
I put the cute little Penguins on a tag and coloured them in with my Copic markers.

I used older papers for the background of these cards.
My creative friends can take the tags off of these cards to use in a different project if they choose to.

To even make things easier this year, I stamped 8 images on my Copic colouring paper.
I made sure that I had room to cut them into tags.
I then coloured the sheet of stamped images.
Lastly....I photocopied these stamped images on the high quality setting on my printer and on a good quality paper.
Voila, I have coloured images I just needed to cut into tags!
I have done this before and loved how they had turned out.
But putting your printer on the highest quality setting is the key, I can't tell the difference in the ones I colour to the ones I printed!!

The second time I went to print out my set of coloured images, I forgot and pushed blank and white copy, lol.
They are still usable as I can add colour to the book and the trip of their hats..I can also add some sparkle to their hats.

The second mistake I made was I stamped the inside sentiment incorrectly.
I was using my Tim Holtz stamp press (which I have to say I love!)
I think I put this card in upside down, lol.
So I cut the front pannel off and adhered it to a new card base and re-stamped the inside of this card...correctly ;)

Those are my cards for this year :)
I hope they put a smile on the faces of those receive them :)
Here is a video I made on these cards.
If you would rather watch it on my YouTube channel, just click on the link "Tracy's Treasures24"



Have a very Creative day!

Tracy :)

Christmas Gift Tag Swap 2017

Last year my friend Lesli from Vintage Scraps suggested that we do a tag swap.
10 of us signed up for it again this year...looks like a new tradition :)
These tags are to be used on gifts, not the fancy decorative tags....but use being hard core crafters, anything creative we go hard core on, teehee.

Here are the Christmas tags I made for my friends :)
The first one may look similar as we did a card at Crop & Create make and take with this image.
So cute right!!
I coloured these cute Lawn Fawn images called "Here we go a-waddling" with my Copic markers
I did a little trick with these cuties so I didn't have to colour them over and over...but that will be in another post...or you can watch the video below where I explain it.

My next tag has more of a vintage look.
I made the tag with my Stampin' Up tag punch and the bird punch out is also from Stampin' Up.
The branch is from a Martha Steward punch and I stamped the background with a Stampendous stamp.
I used my paper scraps for the punch outs.

My last tag is totally made with my scraps!!
I keep my paper scraps in file folders, each folder is dedicated to a colour and I have one file with holiday papers.
I used pattern paper behind the cardstock and just free hand cut the triangles for the trees.
This was hard for me for the fact that the trees weren't perfect, but even though, I think they turned out so cute.

Here is the video I made with more info on these tags.
If you would rather watch it on my YouTube channel, click on the link "Tracy's Treasures24".

I hope you all have a very creative day :)

Tracy :)

Happy Mother's Day!!!!

I have to share with you this card I made yesterday during International Scrapbooking Day.
It is not your typical Mother's Day card as it is for a Mother to Be :)

I used this pretty image from "Stamping Bella called Uptown Girl Brynn" has a baby shower.
But I thought it was great for anyone having a baby..perfect for my Mother's Day card as the recipient loves to shop ;)

Here is my sentiment for this card.
I just printed it on my computer.
The tiny hearts in the background was stamped.
The paper was blank in that area and it just needed something, but I didn't want to take away from the image or the embossing, so I used a very light colour of pink and blue ink and scattered the hearts for a subtle look.

I received this beautiful cardstock from "Paper Garden.ca"
They sent me multiple sheets of 5 of their colours.
I used this beautifully shimmer paper called Stardream Kunzite.
I thought the paper was a great one to use with this uptown girl.
The paper is a soft lilac colour (the photos show up better in the images above.
This time I wanted to try and emboss these papers to see how well they stood up.
I was so impressed!!!
Look how beautifully the embossing shows up, yet (because of the heavy weight of the paper) doesn't rip through the paper.

I thought I would do a sketch challenge.
Funny thing is,  I didn't realize the challenge is long over, teehee.
But thought I would share the sketch I used.
The sketch shows 3 different paper strips..which I did, but I fanned mine out.

Here are all of the colours I used to colour in this image.
Yes I used every single one of these markers :)
See I do need all of my Copics ;)

I made this card into an easel card.
I used Mary Engelbreit 6x6 paper collection I had picked up years ago in the dollar section at Michael's.

Onto My Day:
Today being Mother's Day, I got to spend my day with these wonderful young ladies.
Every year I love to spend Mother's day outside with my 3 daughters working in the yard.
A bit of raking, weeding and just sitting around chatting.
This year we hit one of the sheds and cleared it out.
That wasn't on my list, but Ashley started and we just kept at it.

I am so lucky to have these girls in my life.

Here is the card my girls gave me.

As you can see, they leave the card making to me, lol. 

Before spending the day outdoors, the girls prepared me a wonderful brunch of french toast and fruit salad.

Look how pretty they set up the table :)

Look at the beautiful flowers they got me...I love flowers :)

Love the colours. 

After brunch we spent the whole day outside, it was such a beautiful day.

Then for supper Wayne BBQ'd us burgers and baked potatoes...first BBQ of the year :)

And lastly, we had red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese icing for dessert...yum.

Then sat around chatting the rest of the evening until Ashley headed for home.

Such a perfect day. 

I hope you all enjoyed your day and was able to spend it with your family :)

Tracy :) 

Kristy's 21st Birthday and her card

Today is my baby daughter's 21st Birthday.
Crazy right?!?!?
Time just goes by so fast.
Here she is..this photo is from a  few years ago.
We enjoyed the day watching Grease and Tremors.
Had the family dinner at her restaurant of choice.
And lastly came back home for dessert and a few games of Thing in a Box.
Such a great time with my family :)

Here is the card I made for Kristy.
I had coloured up this Gorjuss girl image last year.
Kristy really like how she turned out and said this image, and how I coloured her up, looked like her.
So I saved it for her Birthday card.
I really like the ombre look of the purple background paper…even though most of it is covered up.
I also really like the teal paper with the banners….which again is mostly covered up, lol.

This is the Gorjuss girl  "Fallen" that I coloured up with my Copic markers.
These images are so sweet.

I stamped this on one of the banners.

The inside of the card.
I like to use my index cards and decorate the inside of my cards.
See those sparkle flowers, I added to 2 of them to the front of the card…but forgot to take a photo.

I followed another MFT sketch challenge…look at me go with these challenges, teehee.
Here is the sketch I used.
If you want to check out their challenges just click on the link "MFT challenge"

I also did a quick video on this card :)
Clink on my link if you would rather watch it on my YouTube channel "Tracy's Treasures24"


That is all from to today :)
I hope you all have a very Creative Day.

Tracy :)

Colouring gorjuss.

Last night my friend, Debbie, came over.

She had dinner with my whole family as Ashley was home as well. 

Nothing better than having a full dinner table ❤️

As soon as dinner was done, I left the cleaning to my girls and Debbie and I headed downstairs for some colouring. 

I haven't coloured with my Copics for quite awhile. For Deb it was even longer. 

But boy was it fun. 

We tried to match up the Gorjuss girl image colours with the packaging. 

I don't think I have done that before. 

But after doing this one, I am sure to try it again. 

I have a video finalizing on my laptop right now, so blogging on my phone....not the easiest to do, so I will keep this short. 

I hope you all had a very Creative Day.

Tracy :) 

Sister Pages

Here are my pages coloured up.
I have only journaled on the one page of the pages today.
The Sisters on the left page are my daughters. I coloured the hair the same colours as my girl's :)
The Sisters on the left are suppose to be me and my little sister.
Both stamps are from Unity.

Here is a closer look at the coloured images which I coloured with my Copic markers.
One of the things I love about working in my Fauxbonichi is that I don't have to be perfect with my colouring.
I just colour and I don't critique every little detail :)

Onto My Day:
I went with Ashley for another dress fitting.
The dress looks so beautiful on her :)
We also took the bridesmaid dresses in to make sure that the men's ties and vests colours match.

I also put away our outdoor Christmas decor…had to climb over a snow pile to reach some of them though, plus the planter was still frozen in the icy snow.
Spring is coming soon…it always does ;)

I hope you all had a very Creative Wednesday :)

Tracy :)

Colouring in my Fauxbonichi

I coloured a bit in my fauxbonichi today :)
I have kept up with writing daily in my journal…but haven't kept up with my art block.
That is what I will call this block, that I use for stamps, drawing, photos or just sentiments.

I used one of my new stamps, that I had purchased from Unity stamps, and then coloured her in with my Copic markers.
I then used Stampin' Up markers as a water colour for the background.
If you can see, the marker I used bled when the water was added.
I knew it would react this way, but I couldn't help myself, I wanted to get the colour as close to the line as I could :)

It was pretty mild outside today, mind you it has snowed all day.
But it was a perfect day for me to stay inside ;)
Wayne ran out for a bit, but then set up his video games and played the rest of the day…I think it will be another video gaming and creating weekend…
Perfect weekend for me :)

I hope you all had a very Creative Saturday :)

Tracy :)

Braids

Hard to believe that yesterday was the first day of Winter.
Especially since it rained most of today.
Rained in December!!!
Now thats not normal in Canada…especially Northern Ontario…but I'm not complaining.
The older I get the more I dislike the cold winters we have.

I coloured another one of my images that I drew last summer.
I coloured her up with my Copics and did the background with my coloured pencils.
I used washi tape around the edges.

I hope you all had a Creative Monday :)
I did a bit more wrapping…thats creative, right?

Thank you so much for all of your sweet and encouraging comments about my Pixie Girl from yesterday :)

Tracy :)

Scrappy Adventure....Day 3

Today was another fun crafty shopping day.

First stop…back to Pine City Scrapbooking :)

Look they have their own pattern paper with their store name on it..sooooo cool!!

These were my purchases from the first day we went to Pine City Scrapbooking on Monday.

I found a few fun Prima stamps and those stamps at the bottom "Great Impressions" so so cute :)

Now onto Todays goodies :)

I came across this fun Tim Holtz file book. They had one already put together in a Autumn theme, so cute. Plus it was under $5.00..bonus.

I just had to grab a couple of these fun Pine City Scrapbooking papers, I have many happy memories there and equally as many photos.

Nabbed this cute Pima Christmas stamp set. 

You all know I couldn't pass up these zombie papers….how Awesome!!!!

I made a mini album of Ashley's "Night of the Living Dead" photo shoot, but haven't done any 12x12 pages…this paper is Perfect for that.

Here is the mini album I did, if you would like to check it out "Night of the Living Dead" mini album.

I just fell in love with this pretty paper by Bo Bunny called Primrose.

I had to get double sheets as both sides were equally beautiful.

I also picked up the sticker sheet and cutouts.

I figured out I might as well pick out some matching card stock and make a kit out of it all.

We then stopped off at the Walmart here.

Oh look, I found some more paper and washi tape ;)

Remember this is a non-judging blog ;)

Everyone kept telling us that we needed to get a cinnamon bun from Tobies.

I can not tell you how delicious these were.

I think I may pick up a few to share with the family when I get home ;)

When we got back to the hotel, we decided to head to the breakfast room/lobby and do some colouring.

The lighting in our room is terrible, as you can tell by my haul photos.

Everyone who walked by us, stopped to see what we were doing and ask questions :)

Sharon had always told me she would never colour as she doesn't enjoy it.

Well guess what….she is colouring now, teehee.

I have been telling her about coloured pencils and using Gamsol (orderless mineral spirits) to blend…..yes I am such a enabler, teehee.

Sharon picked up some inexpensive artist grade coloured pencils and a smaller container of OMS.

We couldn't find a cheap glass container for the OMS, so we went the dollar store and picked up a sponge. The only container that had a tight lid was a jar of artichokes, lol.

So Sharon put the artichokes in a foam coffee cup with a lid, washed out the glass jar and added the OMS :)

See we are creative all around, teehee.

Thought I would share a couple of images that I had coloured up today.

I was showing Sharon how to blend with the OMS with her coloured pencils. This is the image I coloured up…isn't this just so cute?!

I brought my Copics, so figured I had better use them, teehee.

I have never used this colour combination on jeans before, but I really like it.

I tried to make the balloon transparent….I think it worked.

I am now watching Survivor as Sharon is out at the Casino trying to win back some crafty shopping money, teehee.

I hope you all had a Creative Wednesday :)

Tracy :)