Mummy and Zombies... a perfect day

Here is the second card that I had made on Friday night :)
I have had this image for a while now, but haven't inked him up until now.
I really like the pattern paper so I didn't want to cover it up.
So after I adhered the image to the paper I just added a dimensional sticker that I had picked up from the dollar store last year or so.

This is a CC Designs image and I coloured it up with my Stampin' Up markers.
I did his face with my Copics but was very careful as I stamped the image with StazOn ink...and we know StazOn and Copics don't work well together.
I drew in the grass and added those tiny pumpkins. The pumpkins (or jack-o-lanterns) came from a border strip that I had just cut apart.

The inside of the card.
Pattern paper and back to my recipe/index cards.

Onto My Day:
My day was spent watching another Walking Dead marathon :)  Season 2 today. Loved It :)
I also caught up on my book work and worked on my stamp organization.
I had started a stamp book for when I go on vacation so I have a record of which stamps I have.
I haven't updated it in a long, long time. So I was doing this while watching my zombies.

Have to go Walking Dead Season 3 starts in 7 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope you all had a creative Sunday :)

Tracy :)

A little witchy and some zombies tonight.

I had coloured this image last year.
I had used my Stampin' Up markers and then used the water pen (aqua pen) to shade, or spread the colour around.
I didn't like how it had turned out so I put it aside....if you know me I have trouble getting rid of things. Like I always say, everything can be used or fixed.
So I added a bit more shading with my Stampin' Up markers and she was good to go :)

The purple colour behind her is just some pattern paper, not part of the card. When I took the photo with my usual brown background, it looked like I took a black and white photo.

 Yes her face is a light green. I wanted her to look a bit scary...kind of hard as she is oh so cute.
I don't think this type of colouring is my forte, but I keep trying.
Out of the 3 cards I had made this Friday, this one is Heather's favourite.

What!!! No recipe/index cards, teehee.
I used the Tim Holtz Halloween papers for this card and this sheet was just to fun, so I had to use it.
I will put a tiny journal card on here with a little message before it goes out in the mail. 

Onto My Day:
 I had mentioned that Lynne wanted me to show her how to colour.
So  last night during Friday Night Scrapbooking, I showed her how to shade, a bit.
I knew that she didn't want to get into the Copics, so I thought I would show her with the Stampin' Up markers, as she was a Stampin' Up demonstrator.
But I think she liked the Sharpies and Bic's better. So I suggested that she purchase couple flesh tones in the Copics and then the Sharpies or Bics for the colours.

So excited that tomorrow is the new season of The Walking Dead.....LOVE this show.
So today we had Season 1 marathon :)
Wayne was out all day cutting up the meat from their catch last weekend.
So we didn't get a chance to get an early start on the season :(
It is going to be a late night of zombies :)

I hope you all had a creative Saturday :)

Tracy :)

Stamps, Stamps and more Stamps :)

I am trying to organize my scrap/craft room.
I have too much stuff. But the thing is I don't want to get rid of it.
I want to USE it.
The one thing I will never get rid of is my stamps.
These are about 95% of my colourable stamps.
What I mean by colourabe, is the ones that have people on them and I use with my Copic markers and other mediums to colour them in.

I had to run out today to pick up a couple more containers.
I consider myself a flipper. I like to flip through my supplies.
But I don't like to flip through binders. I tried that with my stickers and never used them....but I will share that on different day.
I also like to keep my stamps in their original packaging....only because I am lazy, teehee.
I take my stamps with me when I go away with a friend, so I like to keep them in these containers with the snap shut lids so they don't spill all over if I drop them.
I do have another way I am thinking of storing them, but it will take a while to do, and I have so much more organizing to do, so we will see if I ever get to it.

Onto My Day:
Tonight is Friday night scrapbooking. My friend Lynne wants me to show her how I colour.
Her daughter teased her and said "I learned how to colour in kindergarten."
I just told her, but we take it to a whole new level, lol.

I hope you all had a creative Friday :)

Tracy :)

Butterflies and Snowy days

I didn't create all day like I wanted to.
But I did get to make a card :)
This is the second image that I had found that I forgot I had coloured up :)
I am not sure if I am totally happy with this card. I do like it, but I was planning on putting a flower that I had made with my new flower die. I made the flower, but it just didn't look right on here.

Not sure when I had coloured this cute little Magnolia girl up, but I do know I used my Copic markers.
I punched out the butterflies and added some rhinestones to their bodies.
I used this large doily that Dena had sent me, thanks Dena.
The top note die cut was given to me from my friend Lynne last weekend. I glimmer misted it to add some colour.

I stamped a sentiment on this tiny doily. This is one of the new dies that I bought on our last trip. Isn't it so cute.

This is the inside of the card.
I used the cute tiny doily again :)

Look what we received this morning...yup snow :(
Ashley took this photo on her IPhone. She took this early in the morning on her way to work. I missed the snow falling as I was still in bed ;)
I am so impressed with how clear these photos are. 

When I took Kristy to school, the snow had stopped and the sun was coming up.
It was melted by lunch time.

Onto My Day:
I ended up replying to some old emails most of the day.
I have been so busy this summer that I am behind..way behind on my emails.
I reply to every comment on my blog daily. I reply to every comment on my YouTube and every time someone comments or subs to my channel. Well I was behind...I spent most of today replying and can you believe I am still behind. Wow.

I hope you all have had a creative Thursday :)
It felt nice to get into the scrap/craft room, but I think I need to re-organize in there to get in to the full creative swing of things.

Tracy :)

Goth card and the end of the Turkey

I thought I would share a card that I had made the other day.
That was weird ...my screen just greyed over and gave a box that stated I had logged in from another source and asked if I wanted to sign in again. Is someone hacking me????
Hope not.

Okay back to the post at hand.
I made this card specifically for the video I did about my different card sizes.
When I did the video I wanted a card to show instead of just a plan piece of folded card stock.

I found this image that I had coloured a long time ago.
So I'm not sure which Copic colours I used, or even if I had used Copic markers. Well, I'm pretty sure I had used Copics for her face and arm though.
Even though I really like how this is coloured, I can see an improvement in my colouring.

Here is the inside of my card.
Not only is the coloured image been in the vault, so has this papers.
When I found this already coloured image, I had also found another one that I had coloured. Funny thing is I was looking for one that I had coloured a couple of weeks ago...but haven't found it yet.

 Don't we all love turkey and all the fixin's.
One thing I have noticed about my family is that they love the fixin's more then the actual turkey.
So I think for our Fakesgiving this year I will just get a turkey breast with the fixin's.  To see what my Fakesgivings are all about, check out my older posts Fakesgiving, the 1st Fakesgiving.

Onto My Day:
Most of my day was spent on the phone.
But today the phone conversations were far more fun then yesterdays :)
I spent a lot of my day talking to a few friends :)  Love chatting with friends :)
Thanks girls, getting a call from you really brightens my day :)

Hope you all had a creative day :)
I plan on creating all day tomorrow....wish me luck.

Tracy :)

The animated me looks pretty hot

This is me...no really it is ;)
I was on Pinterest the other day and came across this site  http://www.modelmydiet.com/ where you punch in your height, weight and body shape. Look I even aged her a bit....maybe a bit to much for my youthful appearance ;)
So here I am in a bikini, I think I look pretty damn hot ;)

What else you can do on this site is punch in the wieght you want to be at and it will show how you will look.
I don't know about you, but I am just as hot in my before as I am in my after.
So I thought there was no need to make a change.

That was until I stepped on the scale this morning.
I know I can loose a few (well more than a few) pounds.
Whenever I say I need to loose a few, everyone says "No you don't, you look great".
I have about 25 lbs that I have been carrying around that I don't need.
The thing with me that I have noticed, is that I carry my extra poundage evenly..but mostly it goes to the boobs.
Now who would complain about that.....me.
I am 4' 11" tall and am busty as it is. But I have noticed that my bra is digging in my shoulders.  It would probably be easier to get a breast reduction then lose the weight, lol.
Hubby told me to just buy a bigger bra...are you kidding me, this one cost a small fortune and I have it in 3 colours. So that is not an option.















I was debating on sharing my weight on here but
1. I have never weighed this much ever.....I didn't reach 100 lbs until I got pregnant.
2. For the average person, my weight would be awesome.
So what I am going to do is share my losses or gains....hopefully just losses ;)
Every Tuesday I will share with you how my week went.
Just for the record, I am doing this for my health more then the number on the scale. As I have noticed me slowing down and any extra weight I carry on me, puts a strain on my heart.

I am going to start slow.
Because I have heart disease I can't overdo it.
So I am going to start with walking. I will walk outside until the weather gets to cold. Because walking in the cold is not healthy.
I am also going to cook at home...as much as I hate to cook. Except when we go away on trips ;)

Onto My Day:
I was planning on creating most of the day, but I ended up faxing, photocopying and making or receiving business calls most of the day.

I hope you had a creative Tuesday :)

Tracy :)

More Questions answered, altered envelopes

First off I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving :)

I love to share my ideas with other creative people.
That's why I started my my blog and YouTube channel.
So when I get asked a question about something I do, I try to answer them.

One question I have been asked a lot lately is what type of envelopes I use for my cards.
Making envelopes is NOT one of my favourite things to do.
Actually I have only made a few and it was for a baby shower or a wedding card.
But what I like to do is alter envelopes to fit my cards :)

Here is a video I made on how easy it is on how I alter an envelope :)


Onto My Day:
Can you believe I didn't even get dressed today...mission accomplished ;)
I woke up, took a shower, put on my jammies and lounged all day.
Wayne and I watched Dexter as I checked my emails and watched some YouTube videos....yes I am that talented, lol.

I hope you all had a creative Monday and my Canadian friends enjoyed our Thanksgiving weekend with family and friends.

Tracy :)