Victoria's Birthday Card

It was my niece's birthday this weekend. And she is a little princess (sometimes) :)

So I decided to show my daughter (seven year old) how to use Copic markers. What a great time we had. She was so amazed at what the markers could do. She listened to all of my instructions. She likes to press hard on her markers so I was a little worried. But she performed like a pro.

I have to say this was my first project with my Copic's and I'm hooked!! The stamp set is from EK Success "Disney" the idea for the crown came from the Hero Art blog. Now I need more Copic's.............................

Heavy Rocks and Sore Shoulders

So up until 2 weeks ago my sister's and our house were separated by a field out front to left of us. Now there is a house there and we cannot cross in front anymore. I think it's about a 2 kilometer drive around. Since the woods run behind our house my husband decided to clear a path. This first picture shows what it looked like before.

He cleared away some bushes and small trees and left everything else. We are very mindful of nature. It's a really pretty walk now.

This is the first hill which was left over from the house they put in and the edge of the forest and very dangerous because it has loose rocks. So my son and I decided to make stairs from rocks laying around and some old ashphalt pieces we found.

This is the second part of the path my hubby cleared. Now, you see the rocks, they were everywhere so I started lining the path. This is the reason for the sore shoulder. I moved most of these. Then hubby saw what I was doing and decided to give me a hand. I told him Martha (Stewart) would be proud!

This is what it looked like before the rocks.

This is the second hill with it's new steps. Hubby did this one. It is also nicer than mine.

The reverse look. I just love it! It will make for a beautiful path in the summer. We're just going to have to learn to out run the mosquitoes.

Check this big (dead) tree they cut down it's just layin' there. They probably didn't even need to cute it down in the first place. The trees behind our house were slated to be cut down to make way for drainage or something but I threw such a stink, they have decided to leave them alone. Next week I'll be picking out the garbage. Last week we had ducks in there and yesterday my son discovered a gopher and it's home.

Easter Mini's

Check out these mini cards I made for the girls and some guys at work. I just get a kick out of making mini's. They were originally inspired by this link at Kristina Werner's blog.

I made some for Valentine's day and thought I would do the same for Easter.

This guy is from SU's "Wagon Full of Fun" and some yellow flock.

Martha Stewart rabbit punch.

More Martha punches.

This guy is from CTMH's "Bunny Love"

Penny Black's "Fresh New Day"

I nick named this guy "Funny Bunny"

and finally CTMH's "Bunny Love"

They were all a huge hit!!

Color Inspiration Challenge #49

Happy Easter. I got a little carried away this week for Kristina's challenge!! I made 3 cards!! I've been trying to use up scraps, hence the multiple cards.

For this one I used CTMH's "Easter Eggs". I black embossed each egg onto SU's rose red, pacific point and kiwi kiss paper.

Earlier this week I was using Penny Black's "Fresh New Day" set and just started playing around with the inks and a blender pen. (I'll post the other cards tomorrow, running out the door to the in-laws)

This card was inspired by my son's constant playing with a rubik cube. I told him I used to solve it in under a minute and a half when i was his age and now he's trying to beat me!!! And he will!

Stamp is also from Penny Black's "Fresh New Day"

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge 3

Check out this card I made for my daughter's teacher. This is the first time I'm participating in Dawn's challenge. I must also confess that this idea is not mine. I saw this card at Christmas time and thought these bunnies needed to do the same thing.

My daughter wants to keep it for herself. Every time I make a card she wants it!!! This bunny is attached only with a brad so it can swivel.

Now for the close up's.

The set is from Stampendous and I just love it.

Color's a little off but it's a very light pink.

The color's I used are SU's Pink Piroutte, Groovy Guava and Ruby Red. I used the reinkers and a blender pen to shade. A little tip. I didn't have an acrylic block big enough for the bunny so I used my C template for my Cuttlebug! I worked great!

On Board So Tweet

So I had these colors out from doing Kristina Werner's Color Inspiration. Chocolate chip, Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze and White.

And I have this new SU's "On Board So Tweet" Chip board and the weeks CPS just screamed to use it.

I drew on the eye balls and my camera is acting wonky tonight!!

I popped this guy up with some Left over SU foam.

CPS #109

This weeks CPS card was a fun one. I love this SU stamp set. "A Good Egg". The paper I used is Paper Salon "Blossom". It's raining her today, all day, and I think I'll be posting alot today.

Though I will be leaving in a few minutes to go to my daugther's hockey game. They are in a tournament and have made it into the finals. I'll let you know the outcome.

Color Inspiration #48

Last night I went to see "The Fast and the Furious" with Ceecee. It was great if you love fast cars and things blowing up! Then we spent an hour in her craft room, just nerding it up on the computer. I wake up this morning all inspired and Kristina's Color Inspiration was up and I went to town.
The inspiration....

On my last challenge Katie Turtle (Thank you!) gave me some hints on lighting and it worked so then I took tons of pics...

This card is all about circles. I used SU's "So Cool" stamp set. The Paper is by BoBunny "A gift of Love" I opened up the brad box and pulled out odds and ends.

And had a fight with the sewing machine.