I’ve always loved to color and have been wanting to buy some Prismacolor pencils for about a year now, especially after seeing the Gamsol technique.
Instead of using Gamsol or another odorless mineral spirit, I used baby oil. Here are my first attempts at coloring using this technique.
Best Wishes
thanks
Thanks for Everything
One predictable thing about living in Oklahoma is the unpredictable weather. This year, we’ve had a blizzard, tornado, record heat, and of course the wind. Tonight we had 80 mph winds where I live. This is the second time my grill has taken a beating. The wind also blew the 12×12 tiles out of my table, luckily only one broke. I do feel lucky because a lot of people in my town do not have power and downed fences.
Here is a pic of my back yard:
My poor grill
So I’ve been absent from the blog world for a while with good reason, I was on vacation! I went to St. Louis with a couple of friends. We had a great time and worked in a lot of things while we were there. We stopped in Springfield to go through Fantastic Caverns, took in a Cardinals/Cubs game, toured the Anheuser-Busch brewery, went up in the arch, visited Six Flags, and of course there was lots of shopping.
I had my first visit to an Archiver’s store. We do not have these in Oklahoma. I was completely overwhelmed! Here is what I ended up buying – lots of patterned paper (my current obsession) and some Jenni Bowlin butterflys.
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I needed a couple of thank you cards for my trip, so I made some with my new goodies. The first card is one I cased from Dawn McVey.
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Fantastic Caverns
View of Busch Stadium from our hotel room
Cubs vs. Cardinals
Budweiser Clydesdales
The Arch
View from the Arch
Congratulations to the winners of the first nine challenges! I decided to go ahead and create a card for the last challenge. This challenge is to add a stamped focal point over a stamped background, all in the same layer. Here is the example from Nichole.
I used the stem and flowers from the Four of a Kind stamp set over a text background.
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The sixth challenge for Stamp-a-faire is to use the little notch technique to hold twine or ribbon in place across the cover of your project. Here is the example from Nichole.
I created a girly baby card for this challenge.
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The fifth challenge for Stamp-a-faire is to take a solid shape and create your own custom “faux” border. Here is the example from Michelle.
After looking through all my stamps, I decided to use the bracket from take note to make my border.
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The third challenge for Stamp-a-faire is to punch a window from a card cover and tie ribbon or twine from the window to the side of your card. Here is the example from Heather.
This is my favorite challenge so far. I used the alpha block die to cut a window from my card. I decided to do a winter card and stamped a snowman and snowflakes in the background. I think this turned our really cute.
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The second challenge for Stamp-a-faire is pairing up a hot pink, like Raspberry Fizz, with a charcoal grey (like Smokey Shadow) Here is the example from Dawn.
I used some punched circles for the grey and a die cut and ribbon for the hot pink.
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Today is Stamp-a-faire with Papertrey Ink. For those who couldn’t attend, they are having challenges all day. The first challenge is create a project featuring patterned strips that are created with some of your favorite decorative elements. Here is the example from Nichole.
I used Modern Basics to create my patterned strip.
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Baby cards are so fun to make and lucky for me I have several friends having babies this summer. I made this card for a friend to give to one of her friends having a little girl. I love working with bright colors, pink and turquoise seems to be one of my most used combinations.
I used the New Arrival cartridge for the Cricut to cut out the baby outfit and hanger. I’m not sure if you can tell from the picture but I used a pop dot on the top of the outfit to give it a little dimension.
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