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Strawberry Parade

Good morning. Remember when I was babbling on about "fine-toning" my coloring skills?  Here is another card where I used Copic Markers and colored pencils with Gamsol to color.  I love the shading on this one. The picture probably doesn't do it justice! I had a lot of fun coloring this House Mouse design. In fact, so much fun I think I made 3 or 4 more cards that are similar!  Look at that poor little mouse holding the strawberries on his back. I hope he can stand up when he is through hauling strawberries!  ha ha!

Well today is "crappy Tuesday".  My friends and I have called Tuesday, "crappy Tuesday" for awhile now.  It makes me laugh. Everyone agrees that Tuesday is just a blah day.  Calling it "crappy Tuesday" almost feels like you are spicing up the day!  Plus, I ALWAYS wear jeans on crappy Tuesday. It's my own little way to celebrate!  Go ahead, call it crappy Tuesday!  It will make you giggle!

Happy MLK Day!

Good morning bloggers! This is the best Monday ever!  I get an  extra day to my weekend. It's perfect timing too. I really needed a weekend to do nothing but hole up!  You know what I mean? Hibernate comes to mind!

This weekend I mentioned I was fine toning (lol) my coloring skills. I have been working on using Copic Markers with colored pencils and Gamsol.  What I do is color with a light tone of Copic Marker. Then I use a darker shade colored pencil and shade in around the edges with the Gamsol and stump. I used this new technique on the flowers on this card.  I figured the House Mouse Designs were perfect to try this on. The images are so real and they already have shading in their images.  It has been a lot of fun playing this weekend on this new technique.

For the actual bird feeder I used a clear Sakura clear pen to give it that shine. I think you can see it in the photograph.

I will keep putzing away in my stamp room today.  Stay tune for more new colored images on my cards!

Coffee Beans to the Rescue!

Hello there bloggers. I'm dropping by this afternoon with a fun little number!  These guys crack me up! All I can think is, "somebody got into the beans!"  They are buzzing from the caffeine! Before Christmas, I got on a House Mouse kick for awhile. I have to be in the right mood for these guys. When I am, I color and snicker all at the same time. The mice sure seem to get into some trouble!  I like my cup of coffee (or two) in the morning so I had to get this stamp. It's a big bigger so I made my card a 5 1/4" x 5 1/4" size. It's fun to mess around with different sizes once in awhile any how!  For the patterened paper, I dug into my stash from PaperTrey Ink.  I am on a mission to use what I have as much as I can. I mean sometimes you just cannot pass up some of the "new stuff", but I'm trying!  LOL! 

Okay, my hubby just walked in the door, so it's time to think about some dinner!  Enjoy your evening tonight and thanks for stopping by!

 

All tied up!

Good Saturday morning to you!  I am up and ready to start the  day. I absolutely love five day weekends! I wish they were all this long!  I am enjoying myself this Thanksgiving and hope you are too! Yesterday I started putting up some of my Christmas decorations. I wanted to get a jump on it so I don't feel so overwhelmed with it all. I like this job when it is OVER!  It felt good last night to just sit down and enjoy! 

This card reminds me of getting the decorations out especially the Christmas tree. I remember my dad and brother fighting with the lights ever holiday season. First, they were all thrown in the box in a big knot and second, one or two lights weren't working. So they sat for hours trying to untangle them and then get all the lights working. My dad did not have patience for this and often times both of them would end up crabby as heck!  Ah the memories!  We all laugh about those times now!  

Anyways, I adore these two little House Mouse creatures.  I used my Pebbles Inc. pearlescent chalks on the lights themselves. It makes it look as if the lights are on and glowing!  What a fun little touch!  The paper if from Basic Grey that I dug out of my 6x6 paper packs!

I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend! I'm about to get some coffee and maybe even start a list! 

One of those Days

Good afternoon folks!  I have been a whirlwind this morning. I feel real good about everything I have accomplished so far today. My BIL will be here soon for a visit. We are all geared up to have some laughs, some good food, and most of all some good company!

I have not had "one of those days" at school YET, but we all have those days every now and again! 

My friend, Bevie Pearl, gave me these images a few years ago already. I love this stamp!  I used my collection of October Afternoon papers and I added a colored paper clip to add a little detail. Cute as can be!

If I had one of those days, I would certainly feel better if I received this card!  I like to keep these on hand for my pals!

Happy Saturday to you!

Would you like some strawberry Jam?

I always have to laugh at how much the house mice get into trouble. Boy do they find themselves in some predicaments!  I like that!  I personally try to stay out of trouble!   For this card, I dug out my Cuttlebug embossing borders and gave those a try. I don't always think to use them, but I thought maybe if I had them out and easier to get at, I would use them more!  We'll see how that goes.  I also dug out my Canvas background stamp (one of my favorites from Stampin' Up!). I love using the flower as a circle embellishment on cards. I emboss it on a scrap piece of card stock, and then cut it out with one of my circle punches. I pop it onto the card with some foam tape to give it a little dimension.  See the button brads in the corner? I have so many embellishments in my stamp shop, I forget to use them. I challenge you to dig out some of those little goodies and USE THEM!  It's really quite enjoyable! 

I hope you can make somebody smile today!

Don't Ask

Last week was a pretty off week for me.  Nothing too terribly bad happened other than getting completely DRENCHED at the Homecoming parade with our students.  It just wasn't a perfect week!  So Friday night when I was settling down for the evening, I decided to make a card that reflected my week. It made me laugh the whole time I was making the card. It was good. Sometimes you just need to laugh! There is nothing else you can do!

I believe it was last year that I stamped some of these images off from my friend Bevie's stamp.  She also had the saying that matched perfectly!  These little House Mice seem to get into some peculiar situations, don't they?