A new endevor

Life has been busy for me, with my job, the kids, the hubby, not to mention me going to school. However, all seems to be going pretty well right now. I have found that I have to allow for some creative time for myself or I start to become resentful and angry. The last couple of times that I have sat down to make a card, nothing seemed to come out the way I wanted it.

So I started to look at youtube to see different kinds of techniques and I stumbled on Art Journaling. Now I have seen this before and I REALLY liked the idea. I have all the Studio Paints, Stickles, Tim Holtz alcohol ink refillers, so I figured I would do something different. I had an old spiral bound scrapbook that I had gotten at Micheals or someplace like that, so I gesso-ed the page and started creating. I have to say it was a LOT of fun!!! Here's the end result.

I have really enjoyed getting all kinds of paint and paper and using some of my old scrapbooking supplies. It was just so much fun to let my creative mind wander. What freedom it was. So I think that this is where my creative outlet will be. I have seen some beautiful Art Journal's out there. I can't draw, but it doesn't matter. All that matters is that you create and enjoy!

Sorry it has been so long!

It has been quite some time since I have posted anything. Life has gotten busy around here. I am officially a nursing student so I have had a ton of reading to do and studying. I am taking my classes on line at the local college here, not quite sure if that is a good thing or a bad one. I guess we will see by the first test!

I have found that I learn pretty well with flash cards. I have kept all of my flashcards from other classes. One day while I was reading my 250 pages, and taking notes, I decided to take a break and do something creative. I mean we can't be all work and no play right?! So I decided to make a cover for my flash cards and this is what I came up with.

As a side note: I realized after the first week of class when I had a stack of cards that were like two inches thick, that I wouldn't be doing flashcards for everything! But I love how this came out and will use it for those concepts or ideas that I just can't seem to get.

Ingredients:

Tim Holtz's Grungeboard & Distress Ink-Lipstick, Spellbinder's Impressabilities, PTI Card stock, Coordination Card stock, Stamper's Anonymous Stamps, Glimmer Mist, Embossing Powder, Making Memories Rub On's

Notebook for Me!!!

It has been a while since my last post, but I have been working on something. I bought a notebook at Micheals for a dollar and I wanted to alter it for myself. The last couple I made (actually the first two) I gave to my girls. You can see them Here



I recently have gotten the Tattered Flowers Die, from Tim Holtz and I have had some Grungeboard sheets forever!!! I have seen some people make the flower and I wanted to give it a go. I made it and I really do like how it came out but I think it was to bulky to go on the cover of the book. So, I will put that one on another project. I already have an idea what I will use it on. I'll post a pic once I am done, in the meanitme, I went ahead and made two flowers out of paper that I stamped and embosssed.




I am excited about how this came out, I sewed on this project, a firt time thing for me. I do not have a sewing machine, so every stitch is hand stitched not to mention poking all the holes! HA HA. I am gonna use this for a place to keep my ideas about being creative. Weather that means a Card sketch, an interesting color combo, a project that I want to try. Who knows when I will be able to craft as I just recieved my letter inviting me to start the nursing program in the Fall. I hope that I will continue to find time to stamp and be creative while I am learning!

Details:
Stamps: Papertrey Ink-BB Text Styles, Take Note, Polka Dot Basics
Ink: Papertrey Ink-Aqua Mist; Tim Holtz-Frayed Burlap; Brilliance-Moonlight White
CS: Papertrey Ink-Kraft, Spring Moss
Pattern Paper: K&C Company-Classic Charlotte
Punches: Martha Stewart
Spellbinder Impressabilities - Flourish
Ribbon: Memory Makers

PTI Posse Petite Challenge #2

Well this is the second time I am writing this post, I accidentaly posted this to the actuall Posse Blog (insert red face here).


I started this card before I went on vacation and I didn't even try to find a different kind of fold type of card since I knew time would be hard for me! But I am happy in the end on how this came out. One of my favorite things is how I stamped the birds with VersaMark and then brushed on Ranger's Perfect Pearls in Green Patina.


I used alot of different products on this card. Tim Holtz stamps and inks, Memory Box paper, Colorbox Chalk Ink. If you have any questions just ask, and let me know what you think!

Thanks for the memories!

Well I thought that I would have m y Papertrey Posse challenge done by now, but I haven't been able to work on it the last couple of days. Getting ready for our camping trip has taken all my time. But I found this card that I hadn't posted yet, so I thought I would post it on my blog.

I made this card for a co-worker of my hubby's. He had let us use a comp room at the Showboat for a weekend. We had a great time and I just wanted to show some appreciation.

Sympathy Cards

Well for whatever reason, these uploaded in the opposite sequence I wanted them too, but I am having difficulty with Blogger so we are going to go with this! LOL

Unfortunately, I have had cause to use these cards. I was thinking the other day that I needed to make some, because let's face it, I am getting older and so are the people around me and in the last few years I have many around me die. You know friends, fathers, grandmothers, just the other day a co-worker of my husbands, died of a heart attack at 42!!!! Crazy right?! Anyway on to lovelier thoughts.

This is the first card I made, I like how the second one came out better, but I do like the tone on tone stamped over the sentiment on the inside of the first one.

This next one is the inside of the second card.

I never can seem to make the same card twice, there's just something inside me that refuses! LOL, what it really is, I see the flaws and want to make something better. That is why alot of the first cards don't get sent out unless an occasion comes up and I don't have time to make something.

Details:

Stamps: Life, Turning A New Leaf, BB: Diamonds, My Sediments Exactly: we're with you

Paper: CS: PTI Spring Moss, DP: Bitty Boxes, Sweet Blush

Ink: PTI: Hawaiian Shores, Sweet Blush, Spring Moss, Tim Holtz: Peeled Paint, Antique Linen

Recycling, it's a good thing....

Well, it has been a few days since I have posted anything but I have been working!!! I finished my card for the Papertrey Posse monthly challenge and I like how it came out. But I can't post that until the 15th! So I started working on something to keep the cards that I have already made and are just waiting for the right occasion to send one.

Now I am into recycling and saving the planet, so I decided to re-use the boxes the the PTI stamps come in, you know the ones I am talking about, the clear plastic ones. I cut them down and then made a cover for different categories. The one I have finished and that I am showing today is for "Thinking of You" and "Thank You". I cut out a flower using the Beautiful Blooms die cut in tissue paper. I have been seeing a lot of these flowers made all over and thought I would give it a try.

Ingredients:

CS: PTI Scarlet Jewel Ink: Tim Holtz-Orange Marmalade, Fired Brick Rub Ons from Making Memories Flourish-Tim Holtz Grungeboard Stamp: Savvystamps-Lg Reverse Dots

Hope you like it! I sure do, off to make some more!!!

Card 2 for Mom and Dad

Well, I am trying to send at least one card to my mom and dad a month. This card uses the stamp set from Papertray Ink, Life. I loved what I saw the designers do with this set, but I just can't seem to "work it" like they do. So here is what I came up with.



All in all I kinda like the card....not one of my all time favorites, but at least I got in there and worked with this set. Trying to use it more and more.

Details:

Stamps: Life from Papertrey Ink, Sentiment Stamp Inkadoodle
Paper: PTI
Ink: Frayed Burlap-Distress Ink, New Leaf-PTI, SU-Really Rust, Pumpkin Pie

Card for a Coffee Lover

I bought these stamps at AC Moore at the $1 bin, and I absoultely love them. I figured I would give this to a friend who loves coffee.

Details:
Cardbase: PTI Dark brown
Main Image was stamped on PTI Kraft (love this)
Background Image: Standing Strang LG by Tamarind (?) stamped with Versamark
Main Image: Three cups by A Muse colored with Copic Markers
Ink: I sponged on Vintage Photo (Tim Holtz), stamped the image with Brillance Graphite Black
PP was K&C Company Designer Paper.

Hope you like! I really like how this came out.

Christmas gift

I belong to a small group of women called The Best Group Ever!! For Christmas we decided to to a secret Santa, the only catch was we were to make something for our present, not BUY. So I decided to make this stationary holder for mine. I knew she loves cats so I purchased some clear stamps from ______________. They are really cute. I only had time to make 3 cards, but I loved how this came out.

I used the All Boxed up Template from Papertrey Ink

I love this stamp company, they have so many stamp sets that I want. I find myself going there and putting so much in my cart, but no actually getting it, because money is tight right now. Anyway, Wendy loved her gift.

The stamps I used for this were Inkadoodle called Cattitude. I embossed the main image on the cover of the template. CS is PTI, PP is from Basic Gray and I used some of Tim Holtz's ink and blending tool to highlight the images.

Let me know what you think!