Copics

Happy Saturday,

Went out for my coffee and cinnamon bun this morning. Of course I shared the cinnamon bun with Kevin. Also stopped by Vogue Optical and I think picked out a couple new pairs of glasses. Not as boring as the ones I'm wearing now. I do have to get my eyes re-checked again though before I can order the new glasses. Something fun to look forward to.
Also did a little shoppng on Thursday and Friday. Picked up a set of the deckled edge Nestabilities and some cute brads for scrapbooking and a couple other things but I won't go there (in case DH is reading this, lol).
From todays title you can safely assume that I colored the image in with Copic Markers. Do these ever work cool. I have the Twinkling H2O's and Stampin' Up's watercolor crayons - I really enjoy both mediums however, I do have to use watercolor paper in order to be able to shade without the paper falling apart. The copics give a different look.
I did use a paper that is design for copics but it pretty much looks like regular white paper. You can color over the same part of the image many times and the paper holds its bond.

I added a metal embellishment to the top and toppd it off with a little ribbon. I cuttlebugged the background as well. Be prepared to see a few more projects colored in with the copics. I already have a couple house mouse images done and a flower with butterflies.

Do you like the new Nestabilities too?

I have supper in the crock pot, dh is outside for now, so I think I'll head to th craft room and play.

Maybe I can make DH a card for Father's Day using those Copics... do you think I could tell him I needed them to make him a card?????

Yvonne

Watercolor Garden II

Good Morning,

Well I've been having a fairly unproductive week. Seems like I'm running in circles and not accomplishing anything. I've managed to go shopping at least twice to scrapbook stores and bought some paper only to come home and realize I already had bought that paper two days before. On the up side, goes to show I really like the paper. lol Of course it was paper to do pictures of Xavier.

Pretty standard card today. No fancy folds. I used Red Riding Hood and Pink Pirouette cardstock from Stampin' Up. Those two colors will be retired at the end of June. The stamp set is old and has been retired for a long time. It was called Watercolor Garden II and is what they call a 2-step stamp set. The flowers are actually double stamped. Both layers were stamped with the red but the first stamped image was inked up and stamped on scrap paper a couple of times to make it lighter. The second stamp was inked and stamped directly to the paper. The stem in green was stamped first and then you stamp your flower images to create a complete picture.
Background was swiss dots from Cuttlebug and used the scor-pal to make a couple of lines underneath the swiss dots. So easy to vary the look of your card.

That about covers today's post.

Hope everyone is ready for Father's Day.

Off to get some crafting in today.

Yvonne

Fantasy Keepsake Box

Hello,

Here's the project I've been keeping under wraps for a couple of days now. It's such a cool box. Folds up into a great rectangular box and when the lid comes off it opens up to reveal four smaller boxes that nestle on top of each other. It was very easy to make. Actually this was my first attempt. Usually I have to try it a couple of times to work out all the kinks but everything just flowed smoothly. I've had the directions to make this box printed off since 2006. lol The directions for this project can be found at StubbyStampers.
I used double sided paper and cardstock to make the little boxes. A bone folder is a must when you are folding these boxes.


Heading out to supper with the girls.

Bye
Yvonne

spinner card

Good Morning,

The picture of this card isn't great and looked better in person. it is a spinner card and the little circle says "Happy Birthday". Spinner cards are easy to make, especially if you design a template first and then save it to re-use whenever you want to make another.
The Cutting Garden has this card on display and will be doing it in class this Wednesday. I only used pattern paper on the front so I felt I still needed to dress it up a little. Added some diamond stickles to some of the flowers - made a big difference. Diamond stickles also give the illusion that the stickles change color as the angle of the card turned.

I have lots to do today and I have to take pictures of the special project I'll be sharing tonight or tomorrow morning.

See you!
Yvonne

Sunday's Drive

Good Morning,
No papercraft samples this morning...maybe later today.
I wanted to share with you some pictures I took yesterday. We went to PEI for the day. We can get to our Grandson in just under three hours. Not too bad.
I will be turning some of these into scrapbook pages but just wanted to share sooner. He's now two months and has started to smile. I think it is so adorable.

I believe this photo is saying, "Enough Nana...put down the camera."

Went out for lunch. He was so good.

This one makes him look really chubby. His face has filled out but he is still slim. It's just those stripes. lol Maybe the way he's propped up too.

Just wanted to share a little with you.

I do have a special project to reveal tomorrow evening...can't show it any sooner cause it's an item for a swap. Some of us girls are getting together tomorrow night and this item is my share project.

I'll try and share something paper related later today....

Yvonne

King of the Jungle

This is Grizzley...King of the Jungle...not really. More like Fraidie Cat but he does look regal in his photo! this is one of the cats that recently moved in order to reside in Toronto with Kristen. Grizzley was Kristen's cat when the kids lived at home.

The thought bubbles and lettering were from Planting Cartridge by Cricut. The crown was from Duddlecharms. I also used the Cricut Design Studio to weld the letters together. I like the program.


Click picture to see the glittered crown and the royal jewels. Okay, cheap bling from Michaels. I did brown stitching all around the letters to match the border.

The thought bubbles were sponged with Kiwi green ink and stitched but layered onto brown cardstock. The embellishments are buttons. Some I had purchased but I think the blue fish was from a bag of buttons I received from Mary B. a few years ago. They're still coming in handy. Once again this layout was based on this weeks layout challenge from 52sketches52weeks.

This is the co-ordinatng layout and it was my own design. Used my nestabilities to cut the photos and layer up the mats. the mouse border was Cricut from Animal Kingdom, the lettering was Script from Sizzix Sizzlits. Just for info sake the sizzlits work better in the Cuttlebug than they ever did in my Sizzix machine.

Here's hoping the sun is going to peak through the clouds today.

Enjoy your week-end.

Yvonne

Coredinations & Cuttlebug

Hi There Bloggers,

It's Friday. Rainy, but Friday. Got any big plans for the week-end? We're thinking about heading to PEI to see Xavier. Word is he's smiling and laughing now. I think my camera needs a trip. Better make sure the battery is fully charged.

Nobody commented on "Picture Pages", the trivia...Picture Pages were first introduced by Captain Kangaroo and then Bill Cosby took them over.

I seem to go in spurts using certain supplies. I was on a mission to make some manly cards and dug out my trusty sailboat/lighthouse set. I then wanted to use something other than pattern paper for the background. I didn't have anymore that matched. Do they not say "Necessity is the mother of invention?". Anyway, I was having trouble finding cardstock to match and then I went to my stash of core'dination. I seem to have it in my head that I can only use this for embossing or distressing, can't seem to think of it as regular cardstock. After making the move to use it I decided I still needed to emboss it. After I did that it still seemed pretty plain so I sanded it and then lightly rubbed blue ink over the embossed areas. Ended up just looking tacky, so I flipped it over and sanded the other side. Took a good look at it and decided I really liked the subtle look of the two shades. I did a little paper piercing around the edge of the blue. The sentiment is on there straight...must have been the angle the card was sitting at when the photo was taken.
The second card is just a different size with brads and hemp to accessorize.




Think I'm going out to supper tonight. I'll let you know how that goes.

Scrapbook page tomorrow...hint...it's of Grizzley!

Yvonne