Hurry up Spring

 So, this weeks featured stamper is Denise and I came across this card of hers and it made me smile so changes to mine were less layers and no printed papers.
The sentiment on this is from an older Club Scrap set called Shades of Winter. (it's supposed to mostly rain and possibly snow for the rest of the week here) and this is the kind of weather my husband is totally ready for tee shirts, shorts and heat.

 I had a pile of images that were copic colored with a base layer that I added some pencil over the tops of them in January to give them some texture during the last 30 day marker challenge and never really made them into anything and one day (its been a while I did make some simple cards and just let the photos sit in the to be shared folder for a while and I thought since I am stealing the time to make this post I may as well give you a bigger bang for your buck for stopping by haha)
(no, really I tend to organize everything... even that folder so, when there are too many photos in it, I get twitchy)

 

This is from an older SU set mind just went blank as to what it's name is. the background under it is also an older su one that was heat embossed and colored as a resist. 

 This silly dog is from Penny Black called Bee Have and the sentiment is from the Club Scrap set called Adirondack Greetings from May of 2017.

 The embossed waves are a SU folder.

 Another Penny Black image. ( I have to hunt for its name I forget those things) and the sentiment is from the Simon Says Stamp / CZ simple sentiments set.  I would have linked you to that but, this computer is not allowing me to copy a url inside sss anymore? ( that is strange) the whole site is "secure" even if you are not "signed in"

 There is a little bit of white gel pen besides the pencils on this one.

The cake is from SU and the sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp called  best ever and this one is A2 in real life.

Inspired by { Global Handmade}

This week Angie has sent us shopping for inspiration inside the Global Handmade Hope site and 

There is a ton to be inspired by inside of there.  I finally had to stop mentally shopping and I ended up flipping through a pile of images I had previously colored and set aside to narrow down the decision. and I came up with this Easter card from the cheerful felt flowers seen below.

 The main image is an older one from Outlines called Bunny Tail. The sentiment is from Hampton arts ( it was as Micheal's dollar bin sentiment a while back) They were both stamped with Versafine onyx black. the Colorful strip is a drop piece from a previous no fail watercolor background that I tried last year during the spring VSN. and I tend to save the drops if they are big enough to use later. The sentiment was also stamped on a scrap. the purple texture came in a grab bag, the aqua shimmer (this is a fairly flat textured paper) was found at Micheal's and the base is Bazzill.

 A closer look at the coloring the base is Copic Markers with a little bit of pencil and a white gel pen over the top.

Felt flowers from Global Handmade  
These are actually hair barrettes.

Some random tags

 The butterflies on this are stickers that were stuck to some of my birthday gifts from June last fall. I did make some of these to give to her and the photos have just been sitting in the folder waiting for me to get around to it. The tag base is a Papertrey Ink one called tag sale quilted die. I probably cut the book page printed paper with a MFT stitched square die.

 This (huge) ornament die is from Concord & 9th.

 Some of these ornaments went to June, a couple went on the tree I did for James.

 mostly I stuck to glimmer and glitter papers when playing with this for the first time.

 You can see the stitching detail on this one pretty well.

 This particular glitter paper is thicker than glimmer paper so some of the stitching detail is really lost but, you still get the sweater vibe from the way the holes cut.

 This snowman is a Sizzix die ( the tag and snowman are from the same set with some stamps also) I did paper piece the scarf, hat and arms onto this snowman. its not a one shot flat die. there are assorted pieces. that gave it some depth. Its name is Sizzix framelits snoman with stamps.

 This stocking shaped folding card is really about A2 in real life or would fit that envelope thinking about doing these as gift card holders.  The stocking is from Sizzix.

 These are all 3" square in real life the stamp set is from lil' inker designs clean lines for the guys set I used the red heart fuel gauge for hubs valentine this year.

 These were done messing around with alphabet dies trying for lined up embedded names. which is easier with Tim than with James because of all the inside pieces. plus I tend to have one letter wiggle somewhere in the process even if I tape the dies down to cut them so, for Tim it is embedded and for James it is not.

 Some sweet n' sassy background Poppies that were paper pieced years ago from some old Basic grey printed papers and have some marker scribbled over them for shading,

The sentiment on this one is from the Power Poppy botanical tree set, it was heat embossed with some SU pool party powder.
My son is home on leave right now so, I totally spaced it was wednesday on Wednesday ( it was his birthday) but, my desk really has not changed since last weekend. Thanks for stopping by.

Chick News

This weeks featured Stamper at SCS is Bronwyn and I just love so many things in her gallery and finally chose This one.  
Changes were to switch the doily and kraft to printed newsprint paper and corrugate. I did use some jollees stickers that June gave me for Christmas (Thanks!) for the bloom and ended up with a few more layers.  This one finished out at 6" square the newsprint bird is an older one from Hero Arts and the sentiment is from the February 2018 my hero kit set.

Inspired By {Color Palette's}

 This week Julie has sent us to the Color Palette's site for inspiration and there is just ton's there it would be fairly easy to make many many cards from their color combo shots. When I started looking at the site I had a hard time choosing just one so, I started flipping through the already colored images on the table to narrow it down some and came across this one ( seen below) and thought OK you can build on that. This sentiment is from the Simon Says Stamp set called Best Ever. This penny black hedgehog is called Roses on the Run.

I do not now how long its been since this was stamped and colored with first layer of copic maker but, I did add some polychromos pencil and white gel pen over the top in January when the latest round of 30 day marker coloring challenge was going on and set this aside. I just like the texture that pencil adds to things. ( esp. things that are supposed to be alive)

This one I felt used the colors in the hedgehog image the best and then the scrap of grey/brown texture picked up some of those colors in the picnic table of the photo I thought. This one finished out at 5 1/2" square in real life. Thanks for stopping by.

WOYWW #456 {epic piles}

Happy Desk Peeking day, if you'd like to see more or play along with us 

this hop starts here at our hostess Miss Julia's blog.

 This is for me about as bad as it ever gets the funny part is it's pretty much sat this way since Sunday afternoon when I ran upstairs to do the last VSN/FS card. I did not have time to put things away, and monday was hubs bday and yesterday I made enchiladas afterwork. so maybe today things will get picked up again and put away because, this is too much mess for me to continue in.

 Let's see clues, I had come across a shot of a live sand dollar and they are pale purple in real life. ( I had no idea, I have only seen the white dried skeletons) Those pens were used on VSN projects. all the piles of stamps and dies to the left are things I showed you last week there really has not been much time at all to play with anything yet.

 Now this is new. it arrived at work yesterday and I tried cutting the free sample die with the instructions ( both ways as a regular die and an intricate die.) it did not cut the free sample die out all the way on either version of plate stacking. so, hopefully it will work better on the dies I actually paid money for that take me 8 or more passes through a big shot to get them to cut. ( my elbow will thank me if this works) The machine is much heavier than I thought it would be. That red chicken wire basket is holding my stencil collection because, I have not found a better way to do that yet there are so many different sizes of them. Today is billing day at work so, it may be tomorrow before I start making the rounds, thanks for stopping by.