Tulips Basket

Sending thanks to my friend Shari in Canada. She has sent me paper punched decorations, embellishments, stamp sets, designer papers - you name it, not to mention the shipping costs. So Shari, I send you virtual hugs and ♥

This is a free digital image from Birds Cards! She is so sweet to share these with the world, so feel free to visit her blog:

http://www.birdscards.com/free-digital-stamps/flowers/

Cardstock by Gina K. Design, Pure Luxury 120# white
Tulip basket is free digi from Birds Cards
Sentiment by JustRight Stamps, "Just the Right Words"
Colored with Copic Markers
Sponged with VersaMagic Chalk inks

Entered into the following Challenges: 
CDAC 1-2-3
(Sentiment, Designer paper, Embellishment)

Outlawz Copic/Promarker May 10-16, 2013
(April Showers Bring May Flowers)

 Thank you for looking!

Gratitude Wreath

It's always a blessing to have friends, and I made this for one here on the island. She is so thoughtful!

For Karen Y. ♥

Two more friends contributed to the card. Susan S. - thank you for sending me the stamped image from Gina K. Designs, "Floral Wreath." And thank you to Shari M. for the pre punched lacy border. I'm so glad I could combine both elements from you ladies!

I also used a sentiment taken from the set "Thanks a Million" by Gina K. as well. Colored with Copic markers. I added a touch of green to the blue flowers, a tip from either Melanie Muenchinger or Sharon Harnist -- both ladies are incredible with coloring. I apologize for my brain cells and not remembering exactly which lady said not to be afraid to add the color of the leaves into the flower petals.

Entered into challenges:

"Mayflowers" at StampTV, for the May Release Party

"Anything Goes" at Through the Craft Room Door

Check out both sites for fun challenges with the nicest of people!

 

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Welcome

A house card with several different paper punches. Yup, it took a little time LOL.


Entered into:       The Outlawz Paper a la Mode Challenge

 

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Tiny Blossoms

I used Gelatos to color cardstock blues and greens, then the Fiskars hand punch to cut out lots of tiny flowers. Then I used a round end of a stylus on a mouse pad to try and curl the flowers upward. Glued the flowers to an embossed cardstock card. Used an aqua pen to water color with the Gelatos on the bird, then Sakura Clear star glitter pen to highlight embossed dots. The sentiment is from JustRite clear stamps. Oh, see the yellow dots inside the flowers? That's Buttercup Liquid Pearls :)

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Hello Sunshine!

Let the sun shine on in! I feel some mojo since receiving the latest stamp sets :D (oh joy)

Technique: The bi color flowers are "rock and roll" -- stamp in lighter color first, then roll edges into darker color, then stamp.


Hello Sunshine and Petite Borders stamp sets by Gina K. Designs
Memento Versamagic inks
stash rhinestones and silver shimmer adhesive strip
Gina K. Pure Luxury 120# white cs

Entered into:
            Outlawz, Paper a la Mode, Anything Goes 

 

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Mini sets of cards

Here is a mini set of cards, each of them different. It's a lot faster to complete a mini card! These are 2-3/4" x 3-3/4."

Entered into:   Through the Craft Room Door

 

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Basket of Geraniums

This is a free digi given by Anne Fenton for the challenge at the Outlawz Freebie Challenge-- thank you Anne.

Colored with Copic Markers, touched up with a bit of Copic AtYouSpica glitter pen in clear also created the butterfly antennae with it. Butterfly given to me by sweet Shari in Ontario Canada - thank you Shari. I added a few pink pearls, large in each corner, two small ones on the butterfly body.

Entered into:     Outlawz Creative Freebie Challenge Feb 24 thru Mar 10 2013

Thank you so much for looking!

 

Love Ladybugs

Finally I got to enter ONE card made today into my first SCS VSN! (Many of my friends are disabled, too, so they will truly understand this card was made with tears as pain levels in my left low back are 8-9/10 and I need to hurry to get off line & take care of this. I'll add/edit later.)

Free digi image on Pinterest, "Love Lady"
Stampin' Up background and sentiment stamps
Colored with Copic Markers
Spellbinders Decorative Labels 8
Stickles Diamonds
Stash: ribbon, rhinestones, ladybug glued to mini clothespin, leaf charm, glue dots, pop dots

OK, I'm back, sort of. Am feeling quite ill, but so happy to have found CDAC (see challenge below)

Entered into: Outlawz Greeting Challenge, Feb 25 2013 
                      Crafter's Digital Art Center, "Anything Goes"

Thank you so much for looking!

True Friend

I think this image is so beautiful! If I wasn't so afraid to be around horses. When I was a teen, I used to ride a lot at summer camp in Washington state. One morning I got thrown off and knocked out when my head hit a rock. Good thing a friend was riding with me, and she waited for me to come out of it, then helped me get back to camp with the horses.
Another time I was riding in Riverside, California with another friend. Out of the corner of my eyes I saw something in the distance move. Boy, did my horse see it to. It was a pack of wild dogs way off in the distance on a hill but they were running. My horse reared up and jumped up and down and I fell off the back, smacking my elbow on a rock and landing on my neck! I thought my arm was broken as it went numb and couldn't move it. My girlfriend who owned the horses and went riding with me had to chase down my horse while I laid down and waited. Went to the ER and nothing broken just banged up good.
There have been other horse rides in which I've been stepped on, had the horse head swing into my head which caused me to see stars, and more horses bucking me off, even a pregnant and one eyed horse. She tripped in a ditch and I flew over her head. I took that as time to stop riding horses.

But I still think they're such beautiful creatures :)

Unity Stamps "Easier with you by my side" stamp set
Colored with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol blending fluid
Orange rhinestone in sentiment
Adhesive pearls in corner
Sakura glitter pen on horse's mane, girl's hair and all the golden grass on the ground
My first beaded pin; cut off the point, used a bugle bead glued onto the end (no sharp point)
Cardstock by Gina K. Designs and Bazzill
Memento Rich Cocoa, Sahara Sand, Sea Breeze
Organza burnt orange ribbon

Entered into: The Outlawz, Twisted Thursday "Sports" Challenge

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Mmmmm Death by Chocolate?

Sent to a friend who is a 'sweetie' lady. I am trying out Corel Paintshop PhotoPro X3 for this photo, soo.....

Another dear friend sent me the pink doily die cut (thank you) and image is colored with Copic markers. Inside is "Chocolate" and I wish I had used Memento Tuxedo Black rather than their gray so it would have turned out sharper and clearer. But this stamp set is a lot of fun to use!

Thanks so much for visiting ~ I appreciate it very muc

 

The Geisha

My mother comes from a remote area of northeastern Japan (the part that really got devastated by the earthquake and tsunami of 3.11.2011. We have family there.

Geisha were well trained in Japanese dance, music, arts, listening, and polite conversation, as well as dress and make up application. The wealthy business men would stop by for drinks, food, and to have a beautiful woman just sit and listen to him, not complain or recommend anything, dance and sing for him, and he would leave feeling like a real man again. Anyway, they weren't what many people think they were.

It was a very tough, competitive world, where jealousy drove some geisha to sabotage younger or prettier geisha - burn them out, steal their kimono or makeup, hair jewels (very expensive) and whatever else they could. (Read Memoirs of a Geisha, or see the movie. It is fictional, but much of what happens, really did happen.)

I made the butterfly by stamping with VersaMark, covering with Perfect Pearls, heat setting, and covering with about 3 coats of UTEE.

 

I appreciate your stopping by -- with aloha, Rosy

Solitude

The mountains, ahhhh! Nothing like the beauty of nature. Sure miss hiking, camping, and long drives to anywhere. This scene reminds me of Mt. Rainier in Washington State.

I appreciate you visiting my blog -- thank you!

Forgotten Voyages

This is a beautiful Art Impressions stamp that I fell in love with. I am drawn to the isolation of the place this boat came to rest, the loneliness - lack of people, birds, even foliage. I imagine the wind blowing and the faint crashes of waves farther out, perhaps a sea gull crying in the distance - hear it? I kept the card monotones of grays which reminds me of living in the Pacific Northwest -- where I think I saw every shade of gray in the sky there could possibly be.

It doesn't appear that this vessel is going anywhere soon, so it doesn't really need the anchor charm I tied to the center of the black twine. But it needed a sparkle without being over the top.

 

Thank you so much for coming in, and taking a look! I appreciate you each of you!

A Moment in Time

As we get older, and the decades roll by so quickly, we look back and see flashbacks of ourselves. I realize that each moment of life may be captured in our memory, a photo, different pets, places, or with another person. Then I began to compartmentalize portions of my life as a life of its own. For example - preschool life, elementary school life, junior high and high school life, then college. Getting married life, crumbling marriage life, single parent life, happily married life. Work life, raising children life, and so on. But then comes the getting older and older life, with more limitations squeezing out the life I used to live.

When I saw this stamping image, it felt like almost looking at me in my 20s, a very long, long time, several lifetimes ago.

Thank you for visiting - I appreciate you!

Sweet Air

Don't you just love House Mouse? Me three!

I wanted to just keep it CAS (clean and simple). Colored with Copic Markers, added a bow from Gina K. Designs and 3 rhinestones in the corners. I dropped a touch of Diamond Stickles here and there. Stamped on Pure Luxury 80# white, and kraft cardstock by Gina K. Designs.

Thank you for looking!