Even MORE Thanksgiving cards...

...and so continues my last minute Thanksgiving cards!  Here's one with a digi from Beccy's place.  I colored it with (mostly) Copics.  The squash in the basket and the ribbon on the hat are Sharpie.

So fun to color!



I'm really liking the stress relief effect that coloring gives.  And if it's a big digi like this one is, it looks brilliant just plain on a card.  The artwork is what shines without any frilly stuff. 

Till Tomorrow!  I'll show you what I'm giving my co-workers today!

Scarecrow Thanksgiving Card

I'm a tad behind in my Thanksgiving cards.  I'm doing other projects and my Thanksgiving cards will be a little late this year.  Thankfully, I colored this scarecrow months ago with Sharpies!  (Now that I know about the laws of shadows from my time with Marianne Walker, my coloring of yesteryear just looks BAD!  but I'm desperate for time here so on the card it goes!) I just threw the card together and it was easy peasy.  The digi came from Beccy's Place. 

'Till next time!  I'll be sure to post all of my Thanksgiving projects this week!

Bewitching card

The hubs has a BIG family, so when it comes to holidays, I have to make a lot of cards.  :) I love it!!!

This card has an image from Beccy's Place. If you've never been there, you need to check her out!  She is so generous and lends her digis for free.  Don't forget to respect her art and link back to her whenever you use one. :) 



I don't have very many Copics to this date, so I used mostly Sharpies and Bic Mark its on her.  It came out pretty good, considering! Cardstock and paper by SU!, brads are from my stash.

'Till the next Halloween project!

Father's Day Gift

Here's the Father's day gift that Sabotage the cat gave to my husband this morning:

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Sabo the cat refurbished the tin with some designer paper and wrapped some twine around it.  The tin is filled with tea from a local loose tea shop and handmade red wine and sweet tea lollipops.

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Sabo attached a card with a digi image of his favorite hang out spot; his Dad's boots. The digi is from Beccy's Place.

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Entering this is Crafty Cardmaker's altered food containers challenge.

To all the fathers who stepped up and not out, to all the mothers who had to be fathers, to the step fathers who took the position, and to the grandfathers who gave it their all...HAPPY FATHERS DAY!

Trying out a new light source today.  And when I say light source, I mean another spot on the carpet on the other side of the window.  LOL!  I think it looks good, no?

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I had the hardest time with this color combo.  Cream, dark brown, and silver.  I made this for the color Outlawz challenge this week.  There was a twist as well; we had to incorporate a stamp.  I chose a Thank You stamp because I'm going to be sending out quite a few this weekend!  

The Teddy Bear is a digi from Beccy's Place.  All the embellies and card stock is SU! and the background paper is from Deja Views that I had left over from cards I made last week.  

Entering this in Kaboodle Doodle's flower challenge and the Outlawz color challenge. 

Peace out, party people!

More dirty watercolor and mail from Scrappy Mom's

More sympathy cards today and more dirty watercolor.  This digi is from Beccy's Place and she calls it "mum's flowers."  This looks like plumeria to me so I colored it pink because here in Hawaii we have pink and yellow plumerias. :) I like the pink ones.

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I'm kinda silly and didn't match my pinks even though I have all the SU! colors.  I think I just had a brain fart from so many sympathy cards. 

On a happier note, my prize from Scrappy Moms came in the mail!  Woohoo! Check this out:

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I do not own any of her stamp sets but these look like high quality H2O!   I can't wait to make a card with them.  I won the Spring Fling stamp set and spring is over but I'm thinking I could make at least one of these sentiments work.  And I'm really excited about the pink acrylic blocks!!!  It wasn't as pink as I thought it was going to be which makes it just pink enough for a pinkaholic to have but not too pink that it distracts from seeing your image.   And I dig the shape/finger grips!

Tomorrow I'm participating in an Autism walk.  Waking up early and super excited about it! :) Have a great weekend, my online pals!

'Till next time!

Cherry Blossom Sympathy Card

We all know that my "art" regarding coloring digis leaves much to be desired... so I've created my own new technique to disguise my flaws... I call it dirty watercolor! I distress sponge my digi first over the entire thing, making it muddy and brown.  Then I watercolor the image mixing colors with the muddiness, creating a vintage-y distressed look.  Look, you can't see my horrible coloring!

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Now that I'm looking at it, I realize that I forgot to distress the sentiment piece.  Whoops.  The image came from Beccy's Place.  She lends her images for free, she's such a sweet woman!

Entering it in these challenges:

Getting Cricky's vintage challenge

Wee Memories free for all challenge

Craft your Passion anything challenge

'Till next time!