Life is Good!

Life really is good! Hi, everyone!
I am trying to get some post done because Dave and I are going away for a week! Yeah! Not much cooking and NO housekeeping! We are not going to the tropics where Riley is, but we are going to a beach! Old Orchard Beach, to be exact! I've had this Riley colored for a long time and today was his day! I've been so into the bright, summery and citrusy colors lately! I hope you can see the sea sparkle and the warm sun shining on the palm trees!

Please visit next week as I have lots to get scheduled today! there is a new release from Angel's Landing, a Copic Creations challenge that you won't want to miss (I've seen some of the cards that will be posted! WOW!), AND a Magnolia-licious blog hop!!

Besides that I HOPE to get a Magnolia Halloween card done today for a post on another day!

I'd better get busy!

Thanks so much for coming by! I really appreciate how you make my life so good!!

Wallaby Wednesday!

Good morning! Judi asked us to make a different kind of card from the usual. I decided on this Criss Cross pocket card. The tutorial is on SCS under resources. The list comes up in Alphabetical order. Just clikc and create! I've used the Wallaby from Judi's Aussie Animals download. They are all really sweet animals! I realized AFTER I finished mine how appropriate is was to use a pocket card for the Wallaby since they have a pouch, too! I'm not sure if they hop though and the sentiment on the back of my card insert says, "Hoppy Birthday!" (Okay, this is where I admit that I thought it was a baby kangaroo!) Judi has the images labeled in your download, I just didn't read!

Anyway this little guy was colored with my copic markers. The flowers are primas and the paper is SU's Purely Pomegranate and Pumpkin Pie-two favorites of mine lately!! I created the color behind the wallaby with the method I showed materials for in yesterday's post.

Here are a couple more views of him. Please click on the Angel's Landing link on my right sidebar to see the creations made by the other designers.

I'm so sorry, once again, I have made a card and misplaced the sticky note with the colors listed.

So I am going to guess a bit here:

E31, E35, E25, E93 (pink color), and E51 andYR00. I think that's pretty close.

Don't forget to check the Angel's Landing blog! New releases coming next week!

Have a great day! I'm off to meet my friend Lisa for some craft shopping!

Cheryl

Air and Water!

I think Magnolia images are like air and water to me! I couldn't wait to stamp and color this little cutie AND my new Basic Grey paper arrived! How lucky can a girl get!? I got so excited about the coloring and the papers that when I finished the card, I realized I had inadvertently used the Magnolia-licious July sketch again! It is a good one! And I can't seem to help focusing on the color Purely Pomegranate either! I think I'm in a rut! Oh well, I like the card that resulted so I'll deal with that tomorrow!

I am so proud to say that my sister (the "older" one!) made me this flower and many others! She is good! My part was to print out the directions that Nicole Heady had posted on her blog several weeks ago! Isn't it great?!? I'll tell her you said so! ETA: here is the link to Nicole's directions for these flowers- Capture the Moment, May 31,
2009
Sometimes people ask me about how I do my backgrounds behind the image. Here's a picture of my supplies. I cut the nestability shape from white, then sometimes I emboss it so it really stays in the die. Then I ink up one of my stencil brushes and scrub it a little on scrap paper (that's the paper you see in the picture, sometimes it gets really pretty!)
Then I brush from the edges of the nestability. I repeat until I have the depth of color that I want. I learned this at the Stamp and Scrap show in Buffalo last year. she used Adirondack inks so I do too. I have used SU, but the Adirondack are so color intensive that it takes less time for a vibrant color. the two ovals in the picture are ones I did today while trying to decide on a background for Tilda. I'll put them aside to use another time.

So, thanks for visiting! So sorry if the card seems like a repeat. I'll try to get some variety going!

Maybe you would like to participate in the July sketch challenge? See the post below, please.

There is still some time to participate in the Brunette Hair challenge from the Copic Creations Challenge-the prize is a Scor'Pal!!

See my post from June 30 or the link on my sidebar!

Tomorrow is Angel's Landing day and I'm hopping with excitement to show you my card!

Have a great day! Thanks for all the nice, nice comments!

Have a great day! Cheryl

ETA:

Here are the copic colors I used to color

RV10, RV06, RV17, RV19, V12, V04, V06, YG21, YG01, YG05, BG11, BG13, BG18 and her skin is E000, Eoq and E93 for the cheeks.

Hot! Hot! Hot!

Not our weather, but Jacque's sketch! Thanks, Jacque it is terrific and fun to work with! This is the Magnolia-licious sketch for July. I couldn't seem to get the sketch transferred here, but I hope you'll check it out on the Magnolia-licious Highlites Blog with the other designers creations!
I had to work the sketch a little bit to fit the large Magnolia row boat! And I used one instead of three embellishments in the upper right. My stamps are all from Diana at Magnolia-licious! She has great prices and special sales and surprises in your package if you belong to our Magnolia-lcious Yahoo group. The link to join is on the store site. Please use her search box to find stamps and if you have any trouble email her (or me!) and we'll help. Besides the rowboat, the sun, sentiment and, of course, the Tilda are from Diana's store.

I have written the colors down for this one and will give them below.

If you own some copics there is help out there for colors to put together. I've printed out Nicole Heady's color matches for her colors (she has them in a great format-doesn't she think of everything!?). BUT, I have not used any of her paper colors for this card. In other words, her copic matches are just great to use to match SU (or any other) colors! Thanks, Nicole!

Here's a link to what I'm talking about:

Papertrey Copic color matches. See the blue rectangle? click on that to get her chart ready for printing!

Anyway, here are the colors I used

skin E000, E01 and E93

BG10, BG11, BG18

RV10, RV04, RV17, RV19,

Y35, Y38, YR16

E55, E57 E59

W1, and W3

See what I mean? I used her colors as a starting point and changed where I needed.

My dp is Basic Grey, Lime Rickey (specifically-Shirley Temple) and my beloved Bo Bunny double dots with SU Pumpkin and Pomegranate and Black. My images are stamped on Papertrey white select. My sentiment is brushed with my 1" stencil brush in pumpkin and pomegranate.

Well, this may not be a patriotic colored card, but I am one grateful American today! God Bless America! Happy 4th of July to us all!

Have a great day!

Cheryl

Bewareth Ye!!

ETA: Please click on picture to enlarge, I made it the wrong size to see well.
This card is 5" x 5", in case youwere wondering!


Good morning! Well, I treated myself to a card just for me! I love this image from High Hopes and hope you do too! This is Albert and he is available HERE!

Inside I used the sentiment that can be combined with any of Chrissy's dragons-Bewareth Ye of Dragons for thou art crunchy!

Isn't that terrific!

The dp is from Fancy Pants and I use Papertrey Inks Berry sorbet for the cuttlebugged panel and Summer sun for the Nestability behind Albert. I painted his tummy with Angel Wings shimmerz and his wings with Stardust Stickles. My Nestability came from 7 Kids College Fund. She has them for a great price and lots of other stuff, too!

I'll keep today's post short since I was so long winded yesterday! Thanks for all the great comments and I DO hope you'll participate in the Copic Creations Challenge by July 14th. Details and links are below if you need them.

Have a terrific Thursday! Oh, and check out Michelle's blog for more great High Hopes cards! she is fabulous! Mommy Time

Copic Creations Challenge-Brunette Hair

Good morning! This card is for today's Copic Creations Challenge and wouldn't you know I would finish it in time, but that it would be rainy so I can't get a decent picture! Instead I took a ton of "less than great" pictures! Hope you can get an idea of the card. I like it very much, except for the mistake on her dress ( I thought the copic black pen wouldn't bleed!) I am going to make her a different dress to fix the problem!

Anyway, our challenge is to color brunette hair with your copics! Here are the details as well as some great tutorials and color combinations from the other designers!

Copic creations Challenge Blog

Did you go there? Well, if you did you noticed that our sponsor this challenge is from the Great Scor-Pal designer, Diana Crick! I LOVE her!

The prize is a Scor-Pal!!!! You gotta join in this challenge and post a card!

Someone (Diane!) once said to me, " I use my Scor-Pal on every card!" I thought, no way! But, now, I can honestly say that, too! I can't bring myself to fold a card base without having a score line made by my Scor-Pal!

I also use my Scor-Mat all the time! Since she is our sponsor, I used a Magnolia stamp that came to me from her Magnolia-licious store!

My brunette hair does not quite compete with the beautiful creations of the DT, so I also decided to make the kind of card that you NEED a Scor-Pal for! The Tri-shutter card. It is really easy and such a WOW! kind of card!

Here is the link to the directions by Bonnie!

Be sure to check out her blog! She did two different styles-mine is the one with the full card front. This type of card was showcased on the Technique Lovers challenge on SCS on May 18 and you can see other great samples HERE!
Okay, now for a couple more bad pictures and some details! My card base started with a 12X12 sheet of SUs Naturals Ivory. You need the 12" to get three four inch panels. The dp is what I LOVE about this card! The peach, sparkly plaid is from My Minds' Eye. Laundry Line, Sundress"Sweetness" and the shell paper is Gorgeous too! It is from Carolyn Holt Designs and made by Paper Adventures. It's called Island Lagoon Seashells. I got mine at my LSS!

Tilda's hair, which is the point of this whole post (but you wouldn't know it!) is colored with Y21, E35 and E37. Her dress is paper pieced so there wasn't much coloring except for her skin which is E000, E01 and E93.

I used my faux background technique-a juicy ink pad and stencil brush! the inside has images from an old SU beach set and the sentiment, "In summer, the song sings itself" is from Papertrey Ink's, Vintage Picnic set.

Oh yes, and the Sand castle is an old one from Magnolia! Isn't it great! I'm contacting Diana today to ask her about ordering this for her store! ETA: Diana DOES have this stamp! See it here: Magnolia-licious

Well, if you got this far, thank you so much! I'll try to be back more frequently! I'm approaching 50,000 hits and think I might have an extra stamp or two to give away when I get there!

Have a wonderful day and be sure to check out the fabulous creations by the Copic Creations team AND join in the challenge by July 14!

Tilda says "Summer's Here!"

Good morning! Well, we have arrived at our last day of school at Cassadaga Valley! Yippeee!
The students will arrive at 8:45 and depart at 10:00-silly, huh? I have some work to finish and then we have a brunch. The rumor is that we don't have to return to school after brunch! This is the card that I made for my friend, Eileen, whose son I wrote about the other day. This is our last day of working together in the same room. The inside sentiment is, "You make me smile". I picked that one because I don't want to cry! It'll be tough!

Anyway, I love this summer Tilda! She also looks great on the dock, but I had this oval already to go so she's on a bench at the pool! I hope she doesn't get splinters! I was hoarding that red polka dot brad, but it seems perfect for Eileen's card! Do you think so? Here's where I got my stamp- Magnolia-licious! Hope you can check it out!

I have so many summer goals, but for today the objective is to finish my room at school!
What are your summer goals? Cleaning? More stamping and posts?

I thank you so much for visiting my blog! And I thank you so much if you take the time to comment! Big hugs to ya'!
Cheryl