Spring Flowers

Stamp by Stampavie (Sarah Kay)
Colored with Prismacolor pencils and blended with mineral spirits

3D

Absolutely no stamping on this card but it sure was fun to do. This is my first attempt at doing a 3D card. Thanks for stopping by!

Yellow Roses

Stamps: Inkadinkadoo
Materials used: watercolor crayons, Stickles

A New Home for my Prismacolors

I've been searching high and low for the perfect pencil case(s) to hold my pencil crayons. Not finding anything suitable I decided to make my own. And, it didn't cost me a penny! I had the doggie prints kicking around, as well as some remnants from making table runners. I added some small doggie charms and cord from my stash, and voila!!!!! Now I can take them "on the road" in something a little more stylish than a ziploc bag. And, the best part, they are sorted by color.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope everyone is having a wonderful day.

Spring Flowers

Stamp: Magenta
Materials Used: India ink, Twinkling H2Os, Prismacolor pencils

More Watercolored Backgrounds

Stamps: Karen Stolper Design, Inkadinkadoo

Materials Used: Twinkling H2Os, Prismacolor pencils, Bleach, Stickles, India Ink

Watercolor background

I've been playing with watercolor backgrounds. They are just SO much fun! Here you can see the background sheet and a couple of cards I've made from it.

Stamps: Magenta, Inkadinkadoo

Materials used: Watercolor sprays, bleach, Twinkling H2Os, India Ink

Warm Thoughts To You

Stamps: Magenta, Hero Arts
Materials used: Alcohol markers, Martha Stewart border punch

Bella Fairy

Stamp: Stamping Bella

Materials used: Prismacolor crayons, Stickles, Prima Flowers

Have A Nice Day

Stamps: Maryse Carrier
Materials used: Martha Stewart border punch, Prismacolor crayons

Birds at their nest

Stamp: Crafty Individuals
Materials used: alcohol inks, black StazOn

Hello

Stamps: Paper Bag Studios, Hero Art

Picking Apples

Stamp by Sarah Kay

I Miss You

This card was made for my sister. I really do miss her! A LOT!!!!! I colored the image (Maryse Carrier) with alcohol markers. The flourish is from Spellbinders.

Smile

Stamps: Paper Bag Studios, Hero Arts
Materials: Distress Inks

The blog gets a facelift!

I don’t know about everyone else, but I am so anxious for spring to arrive.  So, I thought I’d try to push things along a bit by giving my blog a facelift to welcome Spring.

Many thanks to my friend Kim for suggesting Windows Live Writer for writing my blog postings.  It’s so much easier. 

Please feel free to leave me a comment.  I’d love to know what you think of the new “look”.

Thanks for stopping by and I wish everyone a wonderful weekend!

Me Bad Blogger

Hi everyone!

I'm sure some of you have wondered what happened to all my daily postings. I was doing so well there for awhile. LOL.

I've been in a bit of a funk this past week as last Friday I lost my full time job and now I don't know what to do with myself. It's so strange not getting up and going to work every day. I've pretty busy this week though getting stuff done (updating the resume, car servicing, registering with employment agencies, etc.). I even had a job interview this morning. I think it went extremely well. Now, I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I should find out next Tuesday or Wednesday after they have finished the interview process.

So, now I'm going to try and become a better blogger and have stuff to share with you everyday!

Thanks for stopping by and wishing you all a wonderful day!

Birdies

Stamp by Inkadinkadoo
Materials used: Twinkling H2Os, Gold embossing powder and Liquid Pearls

Blog Award

My dear friend Kathy, from across the pond, nominated my blog for the Kreativ Blogger Award.

Thank you so very much!!! Kathy does some beautiful work and I'm so lucky to have met her through one of my Yahoo groups. I hope you will take a few minutes to check out her blog here.

Now comes the hard part. I now must nominate some of my favourite stamping bloggers and follow these guidelines:

1. The nominee may put the logo on their blog.

2. Put a link to the person who sent you the award.

3. Nominate 5 blogs.

4. Put links to their blogs

5. Leave a message for your nominees.

The following bloggers are so worthy of this award:

Kim - I absolutely love Kim's style. I'm sure you'll agree!

Toni -Toni's cards are always so cheery.

Dina - If you haven't checked out Dina's blog, you really must.

Julie - There's definitely something for everyone over at Julie's blog.

Rach - If Copic's are your thing, you just have to check out the eyecandy here.

Thanks again, Kathy for nominating me. And, thanks to everyone for stopping by.

Get Wella Bella

Gotta love the Bella stamps!

More Birds!

Stamps used:
Tree limb - Stampscapes
Birds - Inkadinkadoo
Others - Hero Arts, Magenta & Biblical Impressions

Happy Anniversary

Stamp by Stampsmith

White on Black

Stamping on black cardstock with white pigment ink. Colored with Prismacolor pencils.

Thank You

Tree and birds from I Brake For Stamps.

Thank you from Biblical Impressions

And another!

Happiness Always

I so love this patterned paper by Basic Grey (Scarlet's Letter). So much so that I decided to use it on the inside of the card too.

Stamps: Penny Black and Stampin' Up

Thinking of You

The background for this card was done with watercolor sprays on watercolor paper. The bird stamps are a new plate from I Brake for Stamps. I love this set!!!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!!!!

Stamps: Karen Stolper (American Art Stamps), Stampin' Up

Happy Valentines Day

For this one I used an Inkakinkadoo stamp with hearts. To make the stems, I inked up the stem portion of two different Hero Arts flower stamps and lined it up using a stamp positioner. The image was colored with alcohol markers and I added some Crystal Stickles to give it some sparkle. All the stamping was done with Tuxedo Black Memento ink.

Black & White Valentine's

Sorry for the crooked scan and the scanner likes to throw in a pink hue that is really not there. The heart was stamped with Versamark ink on black glossy cardstock and heat embossed with fine detail white embossing powder. This was mounted to a Cuttlebug background and then on to a white card. I added some black peel offs to finish it off.

You Make My Heart Flutter

Stamps: Penny Black and Inkadinkadoo

Watercolored with pencils and Twinkling H2Os

Amour

Stamps: Magenta and Stampin' Up

Peel-Offs by Magenta

Colored with Prismacolor pencil crayons

Roses

Stamps: Single rose by Inkadinkadoo. Quote by PSX

More Valentine's to Share

Here are a few more cards. Thanks for stopping by!

Celebrate

ATC

Stamps: Limitless Limbs from Pink Cat Studio

Valentines

Stamps: Hero Arts
Inks: Clearbox Fluid Chalks
Peel-Offs: Magenta

Love

I'm not sure who makes this stamp, but I love it! I stamped with black pigment ink and clear embossed. The image is colored with Prismacolor pencils. The diecut label is from Spellbinders and I've added some gold Peel-Offs to finish it off.

Alcohol Inks

Stamps: Stampscapes, Inkadinkadoo
Alcohol Inks: Ranger's Lettuce

Inchies

Over the holidays I made some background papers using watercolor sprays. I decided to make some inchies and I tell ya, these are SO much fun.

Stamps: Inkadinkadoo clear acrylic
Inks: Adirondack

Happy New Year

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday.

I don't have any art to share you at the moment, but I do have some exciting news..... I'm going to be a "Nana" and I am so thrilled! This was the best Christmas present one could possibly hope for. (Thank you Jennifer and Dave)!

I am also enjoying a wonderful time with my sister, Susan who has come out from Vancouver to spend 10 days with us. I was a little concerned that she would be cursing the Montreal winter, however, with all the snow on the West Coast, I think she was happy to escape. It is a skating rink everywhere though and this makes walking a little difficult. This means that we have had to drive everywhere rather than walk. Oh well, you can't have it all, eh? We've managed to hit some good sales at a few scrapbooking stores and we are having a blast stamping together. And, to boot, she's a darn good cook too! LOL.

I'd like to wish all my cyber friends a Happy New Year and I hope 2009 will be a good year for everyone.

Also, to all my blog followers, thank you so much for all your wonderful comments and support. It really means a lot.

Tata for now,
Dianne