Copic Musketeers Challenge

Wow the challenge over at our Copic Musketeers blog ( http://copicmusketeers.blogspot.com/  ) was really hard this month.  We did a card for a man using a sentiment from Create with TLC. (http://createwithtlc-createwithtlc.blogspot.com/ )  I had a hard time coming up with an image to go with this until I came across this image from Image-e-nation. ( http://www.imag-e-nation.com/products/Just-Inklined-Digi-Stamp-%252d-Strongo-The-Magnificent.html )  This image seemed perfect to me.  Come on by and check us out.  There are a few more days to enter our challenge.



A card I made touched a friends heart.

I made this card a while back.  One of my clients here at work came in and commented on how much it reminded her of her son.  Since I didn't make it for anyone particular, I passed it on to her.  Her son has been fighting a really aggressive bone cancer for close to half his life now.  When I gave her the card he had just gone into remission again.  Last fall, his cancer was back and one doctor they went to basically told him he needed to go figure out how he wanted to spend what time he had left.  They were contacted by one of his doctors in Cincinnati about a clinical trial he might be able to get into.  It was some type of experimental chemo treatment.  Today she came in and told me he is once again in remission.   She returned this card to me and told me what it has meant to her over the last year.  While they were going through some dark days after being told there was nothing else that could be done for her son, she placed this card in the window of her kitchen cabinet.  She looked at it several times a day and reminded herself that she was not going to give up on her baby.  She continued to look at it the whole time he was in treatment.  She just knew God had something wonderful planned for her son.  She liked the sentiment of Happy Day.  She said she knew it meant something special.  When he went back into remission, she decided to bring the card back to me that maybe the hope it brought her could be passed on to someone else.  I am just amazed at how my card has touched her.

Copic Crafters Catch Up

I got very behind in my swaps in the Copic Crafters Group at the end of the year.  I have now completed cards for everyone (I hope).  I played around with some new punches I picked up a short time ago.  I love the Fisker punchs that let me punch all around the page.  I just have to remember to use even inches and it comes out perfect.  I also used a Martha Stewart punch around the page set.  I love all my stamps.  I used some digital stamps and some rubber stamps.  I used http://www.digistampboutique.co.uk/  , http://www.bildmalarna.com/ ,  http://www.magnoliastamps.us/store2/ , http://www.allthatscraps.com/ , http://fred-she-said.blogspot.com/ . I hope you have enjoyed looking at my creations.

Santa House

Haunted House done in Christmas colors.  The lovely tree is from http://forevermemoriesforyou.co.uk

I used a snowflake punch for decorations and some sequin birds on the tree.   My cricut took forever to cut out the tree and didn't cut all the way through on some of the branches but it was worth the extra work.  The tree looks wonderful and the birds (being sequin) shine when the light hits them.  I loved the house at Halloween.  I saw where others had cut it out for Christmas and decided to try it too.  I am now wondering what if I do it in pastels and add Easter eggs around and grass and flowers.  My mind is whirling with ideas.

2011 Calendar With Bugaboo Stamps

Oh Wow there is so much to this post (in pics that is).  I did up a desk calendar for my good friend at work.  This character reminds me so much of her.  I used a bunch of Bugaboo digital stamps for this.  If you don't have any of these stamps, you should really try them out.

 

http://www.bugaboostamps.com/home.html

Spam comments

Due to getting several spam comments, I have had to go back to moderating comments and requiring the stupid captcha for comments.  Sorry to everyone who leaves me comments.  I hate how a few people want to ruin things for others.

Just stuff

I recently got a continuous ink system for my printer.  It was the best decision I have made printer wise.  I have been printing out all kinds of patterned paper lately.  It's for cards and other paper creations I am thinking of making.  I used to not want to print out those colorful pages, but now, I am not afraid of running out of ink.  I have a Canon ip4200.  It has seperate cartridges for each color as I hate the all in one color cartridges.  I am even planning on printing some digital scrapbooking pages now that I can print them without wondering just how much ink I have left.  I have had so much fun printing lately that I just had to share.