Friends

Hope y'all are having a wonderful start to your week this week! I also hope you are all enjoying life and the beautiful autumn season. Where I am, the leaves are starting to change their colours and the air is crisp and cold. Just little things I'm thankful for!

Here's a card using 2 Technique Junkie Newsletter techniques, Painted Puzzle, a bonus technique from the latest CD release and Burnished Background from the October '09 issue. Both are fun techniques to be sure and the possibilities are endless. If you haven't gotten your latest CD release, I encourage you to do so. The bonus techniques on the CD will blow you away!

On my card, the stamp image on the puzzle is from Paperbag Studio. Background is from Stampin' Up! Click photo to enlarge. Enjoy!

Until next time, may mojo live happily in your heart, and may passion bloom in your soul. Be well!

Dreams of Your Youth

Another simple, under 10 minutes card using my son's background paper. Image is from Paperbag Studio. Stamped & embossed the image with black EP.

Until next time, may mojo live happily in your heart, and may passion bloom in your soul. Be well!

Treehouses

My son made this background for me on a piece of Juicy Juice® package. Throwing it out would be next to sinning :) And since the background itself is so very dark, I decided to stamped & embossed the image in white. Stamp is Paperbag Studio. I did one (on the same background) with black embossing and I had the hardest time photographing it and making it come out right. But with Photoshop, that's all fixed now. I'll post that later :)

Until next time, may mojo live happily in your heart, and may passion bloom in your soul. Be well!

Take Good Notes

Another one for the "Moo" challenge for the local stamp club last Thursday. Main image is again, a part of a business card from Paperbag Studio mounted on an embossed metallic veneer sample. I embossed the chocolate background & the veneer sample with CB embossing folder, the one with the gigantic shell. Lots of distressing going on here too.


Just a close-up of my Moo!
Until next time, may mojo live happily in your heart, and may passion bloom in your soul. Be well!

Bandana Girlfriends

I think I've overdone this Bandana technique. I saw Carol's GORGEOUS bandana tags yesterday, and I'm so ashamed of mine.
My problem? Once I started on the white gel pen, I just couldn't stop. But I sure love the mix of colours you can get before you start the white pen (see the background of the main image). I first learnt this technique a long while back at the local stamp club, demoed by my dear sweet friend, Deanna M., which I'll post the card I did there tomorrow. You can also found this technique in the latest TJ Newsletter. I think I also overdid my flowers. Never used so many brads on a card. Main image is Paperbag Studio. Paisley background is Stampin' Up! Oval pearl brads found on clearance rack at Walmart. It's still a pretty card, eh?

Until next time, may mojo live happily in your heart, and may passion bloom in your soul. Be well!

Every Life - A Story!

Here's for another of Julee's anniversary sketch challenge #2. It's also serves as a Moo challenge for my local stamp club later on this month. Main image, the "Moo" part is part of a business card from Paperbag Studio. I don't usually save business cards but this was too nice to just toss in the recycle bin. I distressed it a bit though. Hope you like!

The sketch is here.
Until next time, may mojo live happily in your heart, and may passion bloom in your soul. Be well!

I Want a Grateful Heart!

Made this card for Julee's anniversary sketch #9. This boy looks happy, does he not? I guess I am NOT so very grateful at the moment therefore the lack of joyful spirit! *SIGH* Image is Paperbag Studio. I'm sorry the photo is a little dark. It's really not as depressing as it looks here.

"A joyful heart makes a cheerful face, but when the heart is sad, the spirit is broken."

Proverbs 15:13

Here's the sketch. Didn't realise I haven't done the girlie version for this sketch. I'll see if I might have a little time tomorrow morning for it. Have been so busy with church project that I find it's hard to do anything else.


Until next time, may mojo live happily in your heart, and may passion bloom in your soul. Be well!

Mojo Monday #43.1

This one is for Mojo Monday #43. Image is River City Rubber Works. Background is something I had using alcohol inks. Sentiment is Paperbag Studio.
Until next time, be well!

Creative Corner Challenge #1

New stamping challenge blog for you to try your hands on at Our Creative Corner. You get a new challenge every Saturday. This week challenge is a sketch challenge. This is where you'll find the sketch. The first card is my masculine take on the sketch. Background of the main image is Aged Parchment, TJ Newsletter, 06-'08 issue. And if you like the aroma of coffee, you'll definitely love this technique. Stamp is Art Journey, Bird Boy. Laugh is Club Scrap.

And here's my girlie card for the sketch. Background is done using Technicolour Dye Inks, TJ Newsletter, 12-'07 issue. Stamp is Paperbag Studio. Sentiment is Stampin' Up!

Yes, God is. Therefore all is well! Thanks for stopping by. Until next time. Be well!

Friday Sketchers #4.1

Here's a card for Friday Sketchers #4. A very simple but effective and always "in-fashion" (for lack of a better word at the moment) kinda sketch. Stamp is Paperbag Studio. Background is Frog in the Blender, a TJ technique from 10 - '06 issue. Sentiment is from smArtworks.



Here's the sketch.
Until next time. Be well!

Friday Sketchers #3

Here's my first Friday Sketcher #3 challenge. Hopefully, I can get my manly type card done before the new sketch comes out tomorrow and before my son is out of school for the summer. Today is his last day. I'll also get to celebrate a dear friend's birthday today.

Happy Birthday, Linda!

Well, here's the card. Stamp is by Paperbag Studio.

And here's the sketch!

Until next time. Be well!

Friendship Frame

This is a domino frame. I used StazOn, Timber Brown ink pad to stamp the dominoes. Then mounted onto frame with E600 glue. Images are from Paperbag Studio, Stampin' Up!, Stampers Anonymous and Cat's Life Press. Hope you like!

Here's the close-up of the dominoes.

Until next time. Be well!

Friday Sketchers #2

I made two cards for last week Friday Sketchers. The first one is to celebrate Old Friends, New Friends Week this week. And it's also my feminine card for the sketch. Stamp image is by Paperbag Studio. I love this stamp!

This second one is the boy card for the sketch. Stamp is High Hopes Rubber Stamps. Sentiment was printed out using my PC.

Here's the sketch.
Until next time. Be well!

Mojo Monday #37

This card is for Mojo Monday #37 sketch challenge. Main stamp image is by Paperbag Studio. The stamp for the background is Stampers Anonymous.


Here's the sketch.

Until next time. Be well!

Glittery Lass

I did this for the local stamp club All That glitters challenge. Image is from Paperbag Studio. The designer paper on the right is from the glitter stack. The left is the cuttlebugged card base. I added glitters to the flowers and the edge of the circle. The background of the main image is reinker on water-coloured paper.

Thanks for looking!

Friends are the Family

OK, let's try Erin's challenge again. This time I think I got all of the requirements, down to the sparkly stuff although only a little.

Use some patterned paper, a horizontal element or two, TWO stamps only (sentiment and something else) and some dimensional pop dots or something to give dimension to your art, oh and don't forget... add something sparkly!

And here again is the sketch.

Here's my card. Main image is from Paperbag Studio stamped with Walnut Stain Distressed © ink. Sentiment is from Stampin' Up!, same ink! Paper is Basic Gray.

This is the close up for the sparkly stuff. There is this little flower on the littler lass' shirt. So I added a little red glitters and a rhinestone. And if you notice, there is gold shimmer stuff that I brushed across the whole thing with Peerless Gold Shimmer.

That's all, folks! I'm off to work!

May We Love...

I just now realised I never did show you this card I made for my hubby for Valentine's day. I just love this image from Paperbag Studio. Background is done using Hand-Painted Paper technique. I stamped with StazOn Jet Black ink. The original sentiment says "May you love ... all the days of your life." And because it's for me & hubby, I kinda had to change it to "May WE love ... all the days of OUR life." But I forgot to change Life to Lives. I didn't realised that until it was a little beyond the point I want to work on it anymore. And that just goes to show of my poor command of the English language. I'm working on it everyday though.

Have a great Wednesday!

The Journey

This was my very first piece playing with alcohol ink. It was for a swap on IFS a year or two ago. Fortunately, I had the sense to scan and save the image before the actual card went over the big pond to Tracy, in England.

The image piece is done on a piece of acetate using alcohol ink and stamped with StazOn Jet Black ink on the opposite side. This beautiful image is from the Ships Ahoy set by Stampin' Up! which was retired many years ago. It was one of the first few sets I acquired. The sentiment The Journey is the Destination is by Paperbag Studio.

How do you like my poor attempt at the Sailor's Knot using household twine?

Hope your Monday is going fantastically! Thanks for stopping by today!

Laugh & Live More!

This was a very simple card to make. Background resembled Magic Mesh. But it actually is drywall tape, inked with ColorBox Chalk ink. Let dry and applied to black cardstock. Trimmed and embellished as I saw fit! Stamp is by Paperbag Studio.

I am playing with some acrylic paint and canvas. Don't know what will come of it. I wanted to do one thing but ended up being something else all together. Hopefully there is something to show in the near future!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Never, Never, Never Give Up!

I made this card with my only son, Ty, in mind. It's one of the few important things I want him to remember always.

The whole card is made of two pieces of metal flashing held together with brass hinges. The brown part is sandpaper. All images and the quote by Winston Churchill were stamped with VersaMark and embossed with black EP. The license plates collage is by The Queen's Dresser Drawers. The boy image and the notebook spiral thing are by Paperbag Studio. And the quote is made by Serendipity Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by today!