paper possibilities

MFT sneak peek...

How do ya like theses cats all dressed in their winter best!! 

When my *new* release stamps from My Favorite Things showed up in my mailbox, this was the first one I colored up. Two cats, in love, under the stars. Can you tell I added lots of Hero Arts glitter? I went a little crazy on the stars, hat trim and the patterned paper. I love these shade for an un-traditional Christmas card, and they just look so cool glittered up! {{ the patterned paper is from Stampin' Up }}

This wednesday @ 9:00 pm eastern you can join in on the release party in the MFT forum over at  SplitcoastStampers. Last month was my first one and I can't believe it's that time again, the two hours fly by and you get to see what all the design team gals came up with...that is my favorite part! No one see's things the same way, and you get so many different ideas. As a bonus, it's also a super friendly site, so don't be shy, just jump in like I did!

Getting all ready for a par-tay in Michigan! See ya soon!

drawing a piece of cake...

Something a tad bit different for me. I don't really draw very much these days, sometimes for funny cards for work, usually on the spur of the moment. Sunday morning I was wondering what to do for a guy a work, for a card his wife asked me to make. I decided to draw my own piece of cake, because cupcakes are all the rage...and are cupcakes really manly? lol 

I love my ultra thin pen and that is what I used to draw my piece of cake. I don't know where the penant thing came from, but I like the feel of it. I tried to give it some dimension, by making the 'happy' larger and higher up on pop-dots. 

Short post today kids, I have a little house cleaning to get to, and that grass isn't cutting itself!  see ya! 

fall flowers...

Am I the only one wondering where the weekend went? lol  I worked yesterday for five hours and then came home to color and relax...yes, there was a nap involved too!  I have a cool Impression Obsession stamp to show you, borrowed from my sistah Linda. I saw her card with this image and my jaw dropped! I made sure she brought the stamp with her whe she came to visit a few weeks ago. 

With a little nip in the air these days, I made my card with vibrant colors, the colors of fall...

I colored my flowers with my prismacolor pencils and gamsol, and then cut the square tile apart. The 'just because' sentiment is from Papertrey's Mixed Messages. That little clip holding my sentiment up is from Stampin Up.

I hope fall is finding its way to your corner of the world and I will be back tomorrow with a card that I have drawn for a birthday boy at my work. See ya soon!   paula :)

all dressed in white...

Here comes the bride...and look, she has a groom too! 

I needed a wedding card this week and the Elzybells Bride and Groom got to see some ink! I need to make two wedding cards for the same bride and groom, but from two different people, so this is my first one. I am really happy with the results...I added the stripes to the grooms pants and some new vintage silver glitter to the brides dress. I have been seeing so many cards on blogs that are using the Cuttlebug folders for some added texture and I knew it was time to dust mine off. Why keep collecting if ya ain't gonna use it! lol I used my Spellbinders tag trio and Papertrey's Mixed Messages for the little tag. Wow, I just realized that I didn't use any patterned paper on this card...that is very rare for me!

Judy, I hope your mom loves this card as much as I do! See ya soon!

you may not know this...

but after the big September reveal party for My Favorite Things...of which I got to be a part of because I am the September guest designer, I was asked if I wanted to stay on and become part of the Design Team! I said 'yes' that night and could hardly sleep with all the excitement of looking at all the other DT projects and showing off what I had done. I don't think I will forget how fast those two hours went and all the chit chat and stampers waiting to get online and start buying! Two days later I got an e-mail from Kim, the owner of MFT, and I ended up talking on the phone for a couple hours with her... telling her officially that I would love to stay on.

 

Part of staying on meant that Kim let me pick out a wonderful assortment of stamp sets...Rain or Shine was like top of my list! I have to say that when my package arrived with all my sets plus all the October *new* release stamps...I was once again in heaven! Needless to say the *new* stamps were hard to stay away from and I started coloring them right away...haha  but I can't show you those! So tonight I pulled out the Rain or shine set and played...I have to say that my first sets of MFT stamps were the dog sets...birthday dogs, walking dogs..I love their dogs. Hey, look, there's one here too and he has a little jacket on!

I used my Lyra colored pencils and gamsol to color these girls up and I lucked out and had a scrap of My Minds Eye paper that matched it so well! I used the rounded corner layout that was part on last weeks Elzybell challenge, and I added the 'friends' sentiment from the Rain or Shine set. I have so many ideas for this stamp set, I love all the different sentiments and the versatility that it's gonna offer me! yeah!!

I need to update my blog with the MFT DT list, and get a few more 'housekeeping' items added, so bear with me. I feel like I am just getting back on track with tearing my room apart and painting, and putting it all back together again.

I also want to add that I get a comment about once a week, wanting to know what I use to color my images. I forget to add on all my posts that it is colored pencils and gamsol, it doesn't occur to me...sorry about that. I use stumps from Tiawan and in case you don't know what gamsol is...it's an odorless, colorless mineral spirit. If I do use something other than my beautiful colored pencils...it will be noted for sure. You may fall out of your chair, so you have been warned LOL!! Enjoy the night, I gotta hit the hay!!  peace out, paula :)

 

guess what I did tonight...

I pulled out Anna Wight's Crazy for Chickens set from Whipper Snapper Designs. I had the hay bale colored from day one and it was time to add a chick to the top. I had a few chicks to choose from, and this funky little girl stole my heart and makes me smile! 

I also did something tonight that I have never done on a card...sew with no thread!  I have seen this before on several cards...hey Anna! and I love it...ok, I assume they don't all use a holed template because it is all so uniform. I added a little bit of linen thread from SU to look like the bale is actually tied up. The hay bale and chick are popped up, so I did have to pull out my thin pen and draw the feet in. The patterned paper is Cosmo Cricket's Happy Camper. Have ya'll used this yet? I just love it.. for fall, country, Thanksgiving... it is just an awesome line and super fun on both sides! You guessed it..my cardstock id Bazzill, man, you're good! lol

I am excited to have made my first purchase from Cut@Home and picked up the complete long rectangle set from Spellbinders. Four sets at 40% off, what a deal...I will be keeping a close eye on that mailbox! lol

I have been busy coloring up a storm for the past two evenings and tonight is my tv night...Project Rumway & Top Design. So I have to say 'see ya soon' and have a great night. :)   Thanks for dropping in!

a gift for teacher...

Good morning blogging world! Here is a little something I made that is not a card. I used the Whipper Snapper Designs set Give Thanks, to decorate this little post-it note holder. When I first saw the line of four apples I thought about school teachers, being back-to-school time. I used a clear embossing powder on the green paper to get a granny smith looking apple. I used my prismacolor pencils to add shadows and highlights, and Spellbinders ribbon slide and tag trio. This was something that I don't normally do, making templates and such, but I wanted to give it a try and see if I could figure it out.

Have a wonderful day and do something creative! Try something you haven't tried before...if I can do it anyone can!  :)    paula

whiff of joy...

It seems like I have gone non-stop today and I feel a big crash in the chair coming real soon! lol Coming home from Cleveland and not getting any grocery shopping done yesterday, meant I had to do it today after work...can you say...NO!!!  I also had to squeeze in Target to get a few meds, and did not hit my house until 5:30. By the time I was able to sit down at my table it was almost 7:30 and I decided to work on a quick card with an image I colored last week.   

Willow and her Hot Chocolate is from Whiff of Joy and Mary {work BFF} had ordered her from Switzerland.  My lighting is a tiny bit harsh on her, sorry about that! Mary ordered a few of theses ultra cute stamps and I will have some more to show you... Wait until you see Willow with the Holly Lantern!  Enough about what's to come...this Willow has some tiny flowers on her jeans and I have some tiny red/pink beads to bling them out with. I added a little green glitter on the super tiny leaves on her jeans too. It took me a while to find the perfect paper to pair up with her, and I settled on a scrap of Pheobe from Basic Grey. Sometimes I could pinch myself for coloring first and searching for paper second...will I ever learn?

Yesterday we stopped at IKEA on our way home from Ohio, and I found a new solution for my pencils...  

Now I can hang them up when I am not using them and keep my table a lot more open! So we may not have left with the bookshelf we went for, but this is so much cooler!

Well, I am feeling like my head might hit this keyboard any minute and I am trying to type and watch Heros season premier... See ya soon, peace out! 

a special baby buttercup...

Friday!! yeah!! Who doesn't love the weekend? Today I am heading to downtown Detroit with friends to an area called 'Mexicantown'. Mmmmm, I can't wait to order the Mexican sandwich! {{ first we all gotta get through work though...}}

Ok, on to all things crafty shall we... I finally colored up baby buttercup, from Stamping Bella! My stamping sistah Linda has colored this little flower up a few times and I was just loving her results...have you checked out her blog yet? Linda is the copic queen! I wanted to do my flower in a shade I hadn't seen Linda do yet, so I picked an orangy/pink...hmmm, orange! We all should know by now I {{love}} orange! lol  

So, isn't this image so pretty? I colored it up on saturday when all us girls got together at Mary's house, and then I knew the perfect person to give it to! A certain 'customer' of mine at work is having a baby and I just found out a few days ago! Congratulations Jessica & Alex!!

At this point I don't know what 'baby D' is gonna be, but I just went with these colors, because I could not 'feel' it with any green shades that I tried to pair it up with. lol

Gotta get that beauty sleep! Have a fabulous day!!   

elzybells sketch challenge #2...

It's time for another Elzybells sketch challenge and I totally loved this layout!! I kinda went polka dot crazy and I think it worked well, not oo overwhelming. I colored my Elzy with my prismacolor pencils and gamsol, added some dimensional glaze on the bulbs..to make them look like glass.  The red patterned paper is from Basic Grey and the green dotted paper is from Wild Asparagus, from My Minds Eye. Originally I had a small Christmas tag from Making Memories as an accent, but I liked the button better.

All the Elzybelle's did an awesome job with their cards and you can visit their blogs individually  to check them out, or click here and see them all together. I just think this is a great way to see everyones work all together! You can see the next sketch and play along too! Elizabeth has all the details on her blog if you hop over there to check out the DT cards.

See ya soon and thanks for stopping by today!  :)