Proud Tuesday and some stamps :)

I made a run for the border :)
My parcel was in...or should I say parcels, teehee.
When I was at Pine City Scrapbookers on our family trip, they were nice enough to order this stamp for me. I asked them to mail it to the address I use in the States.

 It is about a 45 minute drive to get to the border, so I figured it was a long drive for just one stamp.
So what should I do, but order some more, lol.
I had to make the trip worth it you know, teehee.

Onto My Day:
Besides Heather and I going across the border, we also had some errands to do.
So we had to go to the bank, get a bit of groceries, pick up a prescription and get some gas for my jeep.

Thought I was finished my stamp records, until I brought these pretties home.
So tonight I finished up with the stamps, but haven't started with the rest of the project.

Tomorrow my girls and I are headed to Winnipeg. Waking up bright and early.
Its about an eight hour drive.
Can you guess why we are going there?

Today is the day I update my healthy living progress.
I am doing pretty good on the eating part, but not so good on the exercise part.
My weight has stayed the same.
Am I happy with the progress I have made?..Not really.
But I am working on being more active.

What have you done today to make you feel proud?

I hope you all had a creative Tuesday :)

Tracy :)

Boo!

Boo!!
Did I scare you?
No didn't think so, she is to cute to be scary.
Last card from my Friday Night of card making.

This cute little stamp is from Stampin' Up.
I also used the Stampin' Up markers to colour her in. Except for her skin, used my Copics for that. Just a reminder, because I used water based markers I had to use StazOn ink to stamp her with. But Copics and Staz On are not friends, so I dabbed the skin colour (Copics) on very carefully.
Don't want to ruin those Copics.
I also inked up the background of this image with black soot distress ink, and the ground with green distress ink.

Inside of the card :)

Onto My Day:
Day started with me at the jeep dealership to get my "hood ajar" light to turn off.
Then went to Staples to pick up some office supplies, only to find out at check out that I didn't have my business credit card with me. So I left my supplies there, and went back home.

I was suppose to run to the border to pick up a parcel, but when I phoned, my parcel wasn't in yet. So I decided to go back to Staples to pick up my office supplies.

Spent the evening watching the boob tube and getting my stamps recorded. I am so close to completing it. I will share that with you when its all done.

Do you keep a record of your stamps?
And if you do, how do you record them?

I hope you all had a creative Monday :)

Tracy :)

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 :)