Ahh...Life is Good!

Life truly is good! And I love the "life is good" tees. So when I got a new North Style catty and saw the collection of new ones, well, inspiration is what catalogs are for...right?



This is done on heavy white cardstock with the single flower from Merci. I used Prismacolors to put color on the outside half of the flower petals, then used the blending pencil (sometimes called a burnisher) to blend and shade out the color. The sentiment is from Simple Sayings, an old SU! set.

Back again...

Ah, well, my sidebar says that I blog without obligation. So I shouldn't feel obligated, should I?! But I do. I think I should be posting more frequently. I think that I am so far behind with what I have been doing lately that I don't know how to get caught up. But those 'shoulds' and 'oughtas' and all that just make me feel guilty for not posting...and I put it off even longer.

Well, I figure that I will not try for any 'shoulds' and I will post when I can. After all I "blog without obligation" right! So I'll just post what I want whenever I can!



This card is for the CAS15 challenge at SCS. We were challenged to use only black, white, and one (only one) Bold Bright. I used Gable Green. The image is Stampendous' Agapanthus Blossom and it is stamped on Shimmery White in Versamagic, which is the only black I could get a really good image with. Hope you like it!

"Recent" cards...

Things have been somewhat busy for me lately and I have been a "slacker" at posting. Right now my camera needs batteries so I am posting some recent (defined as anything since the last time ) cards that I haven't posted here yet. These happen to be from the Dirty Dozen Challenges on SCS. I actually got every one of the challenges done that week!




If you would like to see the details for these cards, just click on the "see my art at SCS" picture in the right column. All the details are there.

New Background Color

Well, I finally got fed up enough with the background color I had...definitely time to change it! I had to play with the hex colors (googled the codes, just like I do for everything else I want to know something about!) a lot to find the color I wanted but I liked this one. So what do you think?

Mothermark's Teapot Tuesday Challenge 10

Cindy posted a really cute little teapot, maybe I should say TINY teapot, for her Teapot Tuesday Challenge today. Visit her blog to see this week's challenge. I decided to use the colors in her teapot and tray to make my card. I also did some scoring on the front of the card and on the image. The image and sentiment are popping pastels in Pixie Pink and Garden Green. Paper is white (of course!) and Pixie Pink.

Ice Cream Scoops...a convention 08 special...

When Lynda posted her kodak gallery with the sample boards from convention, there was this ADORABLE ice cream cone. Well, I just HAD to figure out how to do those scoops. So I did some playing around this morning. We may find out later that there is an easier/better/different way to do these, but this is what I figured out...

First you punch out a piece of post-it with the glue, or, as I did, a piece of cardstock circle. Use the 1-3/8 inch punch and put some removable double-stick tape on the back. Make sure it is removable tape!!!

Then put that circle on a piece of cardstock for your ice cream scoop.

Punch with the scallop circle punch. Make sure your circle is centered in the punch. (I apologize for the blurry picture here, but I think you get the idea)

Here is where a steady hand is needed. Your scallop punch has 14 scallops. You want to cut 7 of them off, following the outside edge of the circle. You'll need to cut in from the edge, between two scallops, then cut along the edge of the circle until you have removed the 7 scallops, then back out to the edge.



Voila! An ice cream scoop!

Make three of these, decorate them with versamarked polkadots and stack them up on top of a cone, or in a dish, or as scoops on some banana, add a cherry or two...
How do you like your ice cream?