Christmas card #2

I made another Christmas card.
This one is not as bulky so it is easier to mail. Guess I should be thinking of that ;)
I embossed the card front (white) but only about 3/4 of the way so I could still stamp my sentiment.
I don't like to make the same cards for everyone. I know that would be easier, but if you know me, I don't do easy, lol. With this card I could change up the colours. Last year I made about 33 cards, all different, but I would make 3 the same but one in red, blue and green or sometimes purple.
The middle square I used a foam tape to raise it a bit.
I got some more Sharpie's. These ones are a lighter colour. Still not light enough, and no flesh colour. The colours come out darker then the cap lids show.Here is Santa. I thought the grey was to dark to colour in his whole beard.

I coloured the girls face, looks like she was under the tanning lights to long and turned a tad orangey, LOL.

Onto my day:
Took Ashley to the doctor. Her toes and sometimes her feet are sore, tingly, or feel like they are asleep. She had to get some blood work done. Hopefully they figure it out.
Later Heather and I went out and she picked up her computer game she has been waiting for.

I know winter is here because I am starting to hibernate, LOL. Yup like a bear, I take naps, don't want to go out, I would rather stay in the house, where it is nice and warm. And eat comfort food. The sad thing is I haven't lost my winter fat from last year, teehee.

Hope your Monday was a creative one.

Tracy

My 1st Christmas card of the Season.

Today was a stay at home day, but guess what I didn't get to stay at home.
I promised Kristy that I would take her to the mall. As it turned out all my girls came.
We had lots of wet snow this morning. Like I said a day to stay home.

After the mall, we did stay at home the rest of the day. And I made a card :)
I saw this idea from http://valitasfreshfolds.blogspot.com/.
She left her flower insides empty. I put embossed velum in mine.
I am really happy with how it turned out.
I punched these flowers out with a tiny punch and used a nut picker thingy (not a scrapbooking tool, LOL) to roll it and form it.
You can see how it has dimension. I guess this is a hand delivered card ;)
Onto my day:
I slept in :) love the weekends for that.
Went to the mall. Kristy wanted to show me some things that she would like for Christmas. We do this every year, then I go back and pick what I want to get her from her choices. The thing is she didn't see anything that she wanted. The other 2 did though. I wanted to check out some more colours for my markers, but forgot.
I made this card. It took longer to do then it should have. But I was working upstairs and had to keep running to the scrap/craft room to get supplies.

This is an early post for me as "The Walking Dead" is on tonight and I don't want to miss one zombie :)

Hope you Sunday was a day spent with family and some crafting thrown in for good measure ;)

Tracy

Card Cupid of the Week, Some Thanks, Colouring and some Visitors

I am so excited I was chosen to be the Card Cupid of the week, Yeah me. http://www.cardcupids.org/2010/11/card-cupid-of-week_20.html Go to this link and you can read about it on their blog.
I received an email earlier in the week from Jade, asking me some questions about myself. Why is it so hard to answer questions about myself. No one is suppose to know me better then me right. Do you have the same problem?

I made a couple more cards tonight. Hubby wanted to watch some movies, so I brought some supplies upstairs and went to work.
I was thinking on adding some stamping on this card but 1. I liked the simplicity of it. 2. All my stamps and ink pads were downstairs and I didn't want to go get them. Lazy? Maybe :)
Here is another one very similar to the first one, but a different colour and I had these stamps and ink up here, so I went with it.
I stayed home all day today:) Now that doesn't happen very often. Hubby wanted me to go out with him, and I was thinking of going because I needed, I mean wanted, some more markers to colour with.
The girls went with him, so he volunteered to get them for me. They are not Copics, still not sure if I am worthy of them, teehee. So he picked me up some Bic Mark Its. He could only find a 12 pack. So still not enough shades. The brown is really dark and there isn't any greys.
So onto my coloured images.
I had to stick with images that didn't need browns.
I don't mind this one. I used some sparkle for the hanging icicles on the tree and some pearl dots for the buttons on the gingerbread man. I like the shading on this one, I did go out of the lines though. Funny thing is I had my cheater glasses on the top of my head and forgot to put them on, LOL. I don't' wear glasses, but I think I maybe I should.
Later in the afternoon we had a few visitors in our yard. There were 3 deer checking out our front yard.
This little guy was hoping to get some treats from us. I know a couple neighbours feed them, which is a big no, no. They are cute, but we don't want to encourage them to come into the city. We do live on the outskirts of town and there is bush and forest all around us, so they will wonder around here. But if you get to close and they feel threatened, they will kick the sh1t out of you. So tonight we are just sitting around enjoying some vampire and zombie movies, just your typical movie night at Tracy and Wayne's house.

Hope you had a wonderful and creative Saturday.

Tracy

Two new Thank You cards.

Tonight was Friday Night Scrapbooking at my house. I not only got to chat (a lot) I also made 2 cards and paper pieced a little cutie.
I have so many "Thank You" cards to make, its not even funny. Some of you may even get some ;)
I didn't have just the right stamp for the "thanks a bunch". So what I did (OK, what Kristy did) was print these up on the computer. I am really into the browns right now. Here is my second card of the evening.
Here is the close up of the embellishment. I just think these are so pretty. They are all sparkly. I added the scallop oval to the back of it. It got lost on this background paper, so I added an oval as well.
Isn't this little monkey that I paper pieced so cute. I just played around until I got what I thought looked like a monkey. I couldn't find my tiny glue pen so I had to use my bigger one. You can see a tad of glue around some of the pieces. Guess I will be redoing this one. He is for one of my friendly Blogger/You Tubers.
This little monkey was being a little stinker. After I made him I couldn't find him anywhere. Sharon and I were going crazy trying to find it, we looked every where.
I finally found it in one of my cupboards. It got stuck to a binder I had out. Onto my day:
It snowed a bit again today. The wind really picked up and it is getting real cold. Brrrr, not happy. I don't like the cold weather at all. I don't mind the snow, but hate the cold. So I am planning on staying in all weekend, Yeah right, lets see how long that lasts.

I cleaned up the house a bit, in between blog reading, YouTube watching and Facebook stalking, LOL. Oh had to do a bit of bookwork and faxing today also. See my day isn't all about doing what "I" want to do.

Here is to the weekend with lots of time to create.

Tracy

Butterfly spinner

Here is a card I made for Kayla for Card Cupids http://www.cardcupids.org/.
It is a spinner card. When you tilt the card side to side the butterfly spins along the opening.
I just noticed that its not on the card base straight. Do you know what I'm doing when I am done with this post?
That's right fixing it, or I won't be able to sleep, I will be thinking of it all night, ya I have a problem, teehee.
For everyone who saw my nice, clean and pretty scrap/craft room, didn't last long did it, LOL. One card and this is what it looks like. And can you believe that I cleaned as I went.
I didn't do to much today as I had a migraine this afternoon. So just kind of laid low, took a nap and ordered pizza for supper.

Today is Thankful Thursday:
1. I am thankful that I have a treadmill. Its to cold to walk outside. Week 2 of my walking/jogging on the treadmill. Did 2 miles today.
2. That I got to make a card today.
3. That I am able to take a nap when I need one.

What are you thankful for today?

Tracy

I should leave the colouring to the professionals

Today I thought... I would try my hand at colouring images.
Today I thought... I will leave that up to the ones who know what they are doing, LOL.

Like I mentioned yesterday I received some images from Marlene to practice with.
Now on my defence (and I need one) I don't have Copics or Stamp'n Up markers or special pencils like Prismacolors.
I used Sharpie Markers. I don't have many colours of them, like I said I haven't coloured images before. What I did have was 3 shades of green though. Doesn't that frog look worried "Help me I'm falling", teehee.
I used a aqua pen and ink to do the shading around the image. I think I should have just left them as they were. But I needed some way to hide my imperfections (I coloured outside the line, oops). Then I got my cheater glasses. I stamped the branches on the lady buy. This looks like crap, I shouldn't have stamped it. But it looked better in my head.

A few thing I learned about colouring in images:
1. You need more colours to help you shade.
2. It shows your age, as I needed to get out my cheater glasses to see better. Boy I hate that.
3.You need good light, again that could be the age thing.

I can see why everyone enjoys this so much. It feels like you go back to a simpler time when we coloured in our colouring books. I can see this being relaxing as well. When you get good at it that is.

Today was spent, pretty much doing nothing, LOL.
I replied to all the wonderful women who left a comment on my video on here and on YouTube for my scrap/craft room. Thank you so much for commenting. I really do appreciate and love when you do. Every comment puts a smile on my face.

Hope your Wednesday was a creative one.

Tracy

Just a few pics of the Scrap/craft room.

I just wanted to send a Thank You to Marlene http://disguisedasagrownup.blogspot.com/. She sent me some stamped images. Marlene is the queen of colouring images. Seriously go check her out, you will agree. I am curious about colouring images so she sent me some images to practice on. I don't have Copic or special markers, but I will figure something out.
I thought that I would share some still photo's of my scrap/craft room.
1. I don't have anything to share today, I napped a lot because of my all nighter last night LOL.
2. I really worked on this room and the video to just leave it at that, LOL.
So just humour me and enjoy the pictures, there are many.
I used the dowels from the Embellishment center to hang up my layouts. These are my children who are now 21, 19 and 15. Me and my SIL/friend Sharon on one of your girls trips to Duluth.

I purchased these shelves from IKEA. We don't have an IKEA, the closest on is in the States. So we have to cross the border and drive 6.5 hours to the one near Mall of America. I put special projects that I made on here. And tags, card and vintage mini that fellow YouTuber's and Bloggers sent to me. This is my version of the clip it up. I love to just hang things on here, so I remember what I have. I altered these letters.
My punch storage. One is the over the door shoe pouch and the other are towel holders (again from IKEA). I really do use all those punches.
My embellishment center that is cheap and I don't mean the price. This is $100.00 I used a Micheal's coupon (never purchase anything from there without a coupon) so I got it for $56.00. The paint chips off it so easy. Not worth the money. My Cricut's. I feel bad as I don't use these to their full potential. Under that is my Cuttlebug and dies and embossing folders.
My stamping area. I like that everything is right there at my finger tips.
Christmas stamps on one shelf, all other stamps on the lower shelf. See my Canadian and American beanie side by side :)
Stamps that I like to look at. My dad made those shelves for my daughters when they were younger for their beanie babies. Ya I stole them :)
Some of my paper storage.
Some more of my paper storage and albums. I didn't take a picture of my other rolling cart of paper. It just makes me realize I never need to buy another sheet for the rest of my life. They keep making pretty paper, I can't help myself.
That is about it. I got a call from 2 friends today that want to come by for Friday Night Scrapbooking. One of my friends wants to know if she could bring her friend, who I have met a couple times. Which is great, the more the merrier. So I think we will have to scrap upstairs, as I don't have enough room for everyone in my scrap/craft room. See Hubby I do need to move my scrap/craft room into the rec room. We have a pool table in there and the lighting above it would be perfect for a big Scrapbooking table ;)

Well early to bed for me tonight

Tracy