2014 (Very late but that's the lemonade for you)... A Year in Review

Well, one could call this past year a bust, an utter wreck, 2 deaths, 2 heart attacks.. And some failing grades. In April my uncle (mom's side) had two stints put in his heart. In May, my only grandfather left us to join his wife in heaven. In June, my mother had a heart attack, open heart surgery, 4 stints and a mechanical valve replacement. In December, my uncle (mom's sisters husband) passed away. 

While all of that happened, i withdrew from some of my classes, failed one or two. 

I did have some fun thou, sister won a hotel stay in Orlando, Florida, so I got to go to Disney, and Universal Studios. Had lots of fun too. I am a proud owner of my very own Harry Potter wand too. 😀

So now we are in 2015, and my goal is to make this year better than the last one. 

To start I entered a competition with the card below and now I need to pass my current class. So tonight I have a midterm to write.

Yet another card...

Below is a birthday card for one of my bosses, tomorrow is her 50th birthday and she has to work, being a strange one I thought I'd give her a surprise. She is a fan of butterflies so this is my card for her. This is a hybrid card, the basic image is below... the left shows the base printed image, the only part that I colored is the tag/butterfly part. On the right is the border of the tag, butterfly and the lower bubble that touches the boarder.

The next two images are the finished card. I took the border with the butterfly and bubble, to it I added a piece of clear plastic. I then pop dotted that directly on top of the other tag. But before I glued it all together, I added some sparkles and beads to make the shaker tag. 

The above and below images are the finished card. 

Supplies:
Digital Images:
  - Tags - word butterfly bubbles
          Image from Bugaboo Digital Stamps
  - Digital Paper and Digital Tag
          Both are from The Hybrid Chicks - Free Mini Kit

Copic Markers:
    Butterfly: YR61, Y21
    Bubbles: B0000, B000
    Boarder: YR000
    Background: YR0000

Sparkles:
    Blue Beads, Glitters

My friends wedding weekend...

If your following my blog, you would have seen my previous post.. Well it took almost 2 months.. But I got the card done and the envelop made.
I used Mo's Digital Pencil Image of the "plus size couple" I felt that this couple was more fitting then the previous couple.

Sweetness of Life

So my mother bought me some Copic Markers a while back.. and has been trying to get me to put down my colored pencils.. Well I finally did, and below are a few of the cards I have made since Ive been playing with Copics.

Cotton Candy Girl digi stamp by: Mo's Digital Pencil

Toadly digi stamp from: Whimsie Doodles

I'll post some other Copic Creations soon.. Signing off for now :)

Me just thinking aloud...

So here's me thinking aloud. "BLAH" 

So.. Here's my image post... A sampling snippet of a card that I did a few months ago.

Sometimes you just have to bite the lemon... and jump feet first.

I'm posting this as my first post because this was my first card of my own creation.. yeah I tweaked a "Make and Take" but isnt that what arts is all about.. Taking something you see and making it as your own. Im not saying that "duplicating" is okay. But it's all about the Artistic Lisence, right? Lift an idea from one place and include that part into your own design. This birthday card was given to a friend from my 2nd bookstore job that I loved. And the 2nd store that I had to help Liquidate... *la'sigh*

You ask, Why card making? Why not.. Hallmark seems to have the corner market for MASS PRODUCED items.. but seriously, what makes you smile more, knowing that you got something that took someone 10mins to pick out that right saying... or SEEing that your friend MADE or Bought you something HANDMADE. Personaly, I thank my friend Sangita, her Christmas Card made me smile, she remembered my love of polar bears, and she spent the time to make her cards. Even someone who works many of hours can make the time to make a card for a friend. That ment something to me.. (perhaps I'm rambling at this point). But I guess rambling happens when you spend 10hrs de-bugging your main computer. So, before I ramble your head off and you run in terror from this blog, (please don't) I'm going to sign off and post my card.

Techniques:
Happy Birthday Embossing Folder
Coordination Core Card Stock
2 Coordinating Design Papers
5 Pearl Blingz
1 Brass Button
2 Hand painted flowers with H2O Shimmer Watercolor paints