Music Man

Hi everyone!  What a week it has been.  I've been on vacation this week, and can't believe it's coming to and end on Monday, then back to work on Tuesday.  For our Thanksgiving, my son Mark and his Fiancee Anna invited us up to their home along with her family.  It was so nice to meet her parents and her siblings - 6 of the 7 were there. Such a fun and loving family, lots of laughs - which is always good for the soul!

The rest of the week we worked around the house, cleaning closets, garage and storage areas, took a lot of stuff to the Goodwill. - (this is why I haven't posted all week).  It was hard work especially in the crawl spaces where you can only crouch, no room to stand with being under the eves - really hard on the lower back, which after 2 days of doing this we laid low on Thursday.  Today we worked in putting all the lawn furniture away, cleaning out flower pots etc.  It's always sad when this gets done because you know what is around the corner - WINTER - which means SNOW!  Actually it is suppose to snow tonight in areas an hour north and east of us, just a chance of rain for us over night.

On Oct 12 it was Mark's 31st birthday.  I was stumped on what to do for a card for him.  I know he loves his guitar, and then remembered I had this MO Manning digital image I purchased a few years back. My friend  Carla used this image a few years ago, and I fell in love with the colours she used, so I basically coloured mine the same.

This is the final result:

I coloured the image using copics, but I was in a rush to get this done last Saturday before we went to visit them on Sunday, and never kept track of my colours.  I stamped my background music notes - (Penny Black background stamp)in black on a piece of kraft cardstock.

Finished off with some twine, Stamping bella dots as well as a musical die from Memory Box.

I hope to get some more stamping and colouring done over the next 3 days - I have to start on my Christmas cards - time is slipping away fast.

Thanks for the visit, have a wonderful day!

Pauline

Sumpin's wrong

Hello everyone.  I hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend.  Bill and I took off to Algonquin Park for the weekend, weather was fantastic. I think spring is on it's way, until we headed home on Monday and went through several snow squalls. I will post some pictures of our weekend as soon as Bill gets them processed.

I received my new order of stamps from Stamping Bella last thursday, so opened it up tonight, and pulled out this cute image to colour.  This is a Mo Manning image in rubber by Stamping Bella called Sumpin's Wrong!

I began by stamping it on bella's bestest paper using black memento ink, then coloured using copics. Designer paper is  Echo Park - Bundle of Joy.

Finished off by adding some cute little buttons.

If you haven't had a chance to play along in our sketch challenge this week, you still have a couple of days to do so.  Just email your entry to Emily by thursday night to be included.  There is some bella bucks up for grabs.


Well, that's it for me for tonight, a quick post before calling it a night.
 
Thanks for the visit, see you again real soon,

Pauline

I am so not ready for this to be Monday, I need another day off.  I had a busy 3 days, and would love to have another day just to catch up on things.

Bill and I took off to Oakville/Toronto for the weekend to so some 'birding/photography'.  We had a fabulous time, I wasn't ready to head home when we did, would of loved some more time up there. 
We visited many parks but the ones that stood out with us were Humber College Park, Humber Bay and High Park.  Bill took some phenomenal pictures that I will share with you shortly.  One of the must see birds on Bill's Life List is the wood duck, and we were fortunate enough to see several of them Sunday morning at High Park.

So last night I realized I didn't have a card done for today, so guess what I had to do? Yup, had to colour up a card.  I've always loved these Mo images that came out back in November but every time I ordered I always forgot to put them in my cart, so on my last order I remembered!!  Big chair boy is the imaged I coloured by Mo Manning in rubber through Stamping Bella.

I stamped him on bella's bestest white and coloured him using copics and pencils for shading.
I matched my colours up to  designer papers from MME called Fine and Dandy. For my layout I basically took Fridays sketch challenge #7 and used it, since it seemed to fit with  my image perfectly.
Finished off with some buttons - always like to use buttons on 'little people' cards - they just seem to go hand in hand.

Also, a reminder for our bellariffic challenge this week, if you have a chance to play along our theme is Shower card - bridal, baby or use rain in the image. Email Emily your card by thursday night or upload it on SCS using the keyword BELLARIFFIC1412.

Well that's it for me today, I'm glad you stopped by.

On the pot...

Hi! I can't believe that it is Wednesday night already.  I'm working overtime this week again, which is making the week fly.  I have one more day of work this week and then off for 5 days - can't wait! I hope to get some colouring done while I'm off, and just do some relaxing.

Tonight I coloured up a darling image from Stamping Bella.  This is a Mo image  called On the Pot girl - she is so cute!

I stamped her on bella's bestest white and then coloured her using Copics, and then did my shading with prismacolour pencils.  I think I'm getting the hang of doing hair!  DP is by October Afternoon - Sidewalks.  You know me and my dies and border punches, well I saw this one a month or so ago and just had to have it. It's from Cheery Lynn Dies. So pretty isn't it?
Finished off with some stitching and buttons.

Sorry I couldn't link up anything from my post to Stamping Bella, but her site must be down for a bit.

Well, best be heading to bed, 5:30 comes early!  Thanks for stopping in.

Who Me?

Hope you are all enjoying the last day of our long weekend. The weather has turned much cooler today - which I am not complaining about, just wish the sun would shine - but does look good for the rest of the week.

As I promised myself, I would try to do at least one Christmas card a week, to stock pile my stash, so I'll be all set when the time comes to mail them out.

For today's card I'm using Who Me, a Mo image in rubber by Stamping Bella.

Isn't he the cutest? He looks so innocent! I started by stamping him on bella's bestest paper then coloured him with both copics and pencils.  I started by using a copics then did the shading with prismacolour pencils and blended with gamsol.
I paired him up with some Christmas paper from MME- Frost - I believe it is a few years old - date on tab is 2007! Yikes! I hang onto papers - but at least I am starting to use them! lol. Dies I used are s/binder rectangle large and a bracket tab from MFT. Sentiment was stamped in back versafine.

Finished up with some stitching, glitter, versamagic wheat sponged around the image and a couple of nailhead antique gold brads.

That's it for today. Now I think I better work on my challenge card since I have time today. If you get a chance to play along this week our theme is Animals!

Enjoy the rest of your day, and thanks for stopping by.

Pauline

Rustic Window box

Well here we are again, another Monday! I can't believe how fast this weekend went by. On Saturday I spent the day with Linda, Paula, Lynn and Kathy at the Novi Stamping show. The show was smaller this year, but I still founds lots to buy.  Then we went to Olive Garden for dinner.  It was a fun day!

For today's card I'm using Rustic Window Box, another Mo Manning in rubbah! image by Stamping Bella.

Like always, the image was stamped on bella's bestest paper with black memento, then I coloured it up with my much neglected Caran d'arche pencils! I then cut out the image using a large square nestie, left the die in place then sponged some wheat versamagic ink around the image, then added a bit  of persimmon versamagic in the corners.  DP is from K & Co.  I also made an awning out of the same designer paper. The incentive came from a card that Lindabella did last winter.  You can view it here.  I then layered it onto some green bazzill cardstock cut using the square lacy die.  Added some glitter to the flowers and there you have it, a rustic window box! I used some scrap dots under the awning to hold it up.

A reminder for this weeks challenge - Paper Piercing.

Thanks for stopping by, have a wonderful day.
Pauline

Veronica by Mo

How was everyone's weekend?  Can you believe it is May already.  Now if it would just warm up. Weather was kind of gloomy here for most of of the weekend, so managed to get some colouring done - which always makes me happy!

For today's card I coloured up a new image (last months release)  from Stamping Bella called Veronica by Mo Manning.

I went down to Paper Pickle on friday afternoon, and they just got in some of the new Basic Grey - Sweet Threads, so had to scoop up some of that yummy paper. Have you seen it yet? well I used some on this card, and I'm sure you will see me use is again.  I don't think I will every tire of this collection.

So this is what I based my card colours on.  After stamping Veronica on bella's bestest paper I coloured her using prismacolour pencils, and used copics for the skin tones. This stamp does come with a sentiment, but didn't use it this time around, but I needed something down in the lower left corner, so after trying ribbon, buttons, I settled on a flower. Not sure if I'm 100% sold on the flower, but it's on there now, so I guess I will go with it.
Finishing touches, glitter and some stitching.

For any local gals - I'm doing an afternoon class at Paper Pickle on Wednesday, May 4, so if you are interested there is still seats available.  If you are, then give the store a call for details.

Thanks for dropping by, see you on Wednesday with another card.


Pauline

Just a little Patience

Hope everyone had a good weekend.  For myself, it was good. On saturday I stayed tucked away in my 'stamping haven' and made cards all day long - what could be better than that?

Today's card that I want to share with you is called Patience - a Mo image available at Stamping Bella.  

As usual I stamped Patience on bella's bestest paper and colored with copics and pencils.  I chose some new papers from Basic Grey - Hopscotch as my color inspiration. Included with this stamp is the sentiment "I just love you" .  It was too long for where I wanted to place it, so stamped it off then cut it to fit. Finished up with some stitching around all layers. And I didn't even use glitter on this card!
I really like how this card turned out.  Hmmmm maybe I need to color up Tolerance (another Mo image).

Did you get a chance this past week to stop in at Bloggabella to check out all the sneak peaks?   Well today you can buy those stamps. Yep, Emily is doing her release today, before she goes off to CHA!

Also there is no challenge this friday, our next challenge will be on Feb 4 - theme - Valentines.  This will give you lots of time, so hope you can play along, then email your submission to Emily by thursday night - Feb 3.

Thanks for stopping by, till next time..

Pauline