Poison Mushrooms

Happy Friday, I am going to have to stop playing with Halloween stuff, my schedule is going to completely fall off the grid and then I will be scrambling, I hate to scramble.  All elements created with Silhouette Cameo, PhotoShop and all coloring Copic Markers, EkSuccess Photo Corners. Harlequin background is a gelli pull.  I love Halloween, have a great weekend, stay cool and play lots, hugs

Booo!

Candy corn and bat for Halloween cheer.  Candy corn used to be my favorite Halloween treat.  All elements created with Silhouette Cameo and all coloring done with Copic markers, EKSuccess photo corners, we are zipping into another weekend, so take it slow. Hugs

The large and small of it

 I like to play with the sizes of a new image, usually I like one or the other better, this time though, I like them both, maybe even a medium one or two, lol.  This one I kept thinking of French pastries, drove me crazy for a couple of hours, almost made cupcakes.  Background is a gelli pull and all colors were done with Copic Markers and Pan Pastels.

This is the small of it, on my very favorite ever gelli pull, I played on the rainbow colors of the gelli pull and decided three birthday wishes were just about perfect.  All colors are again Copic Markers and Pan Pastels.  Hope you have a smooth Friday into the weekend, hugs

A Happy Birthday

Morning everyone, already week 1/2 over and fine with me, I feel like I have been dodging land mines all week, just little life things, all printer ink carts ran out at the same time.  TV Dish Transmitter went out and was down for 48hrs., not so bad in my book but dh was pacing, yep pacing and just in my hair for two days, it is fixed, whew! So today may be rolling along pretty nicely, we are overcast which brings the temps to a manageable level.

Madison over at Funky Cards has her August call up asking for Birthday Cards for a woman's shelter, it always helps to ground me to share and think of someone else when I become a little too fixated on what is going on in my life.

So these are what I am putting together today, the background is a gelli pull, the photo corners (oh my goodness I forgot how much I love these) are by Cuttlebug, misc ribbon and the little bird in a nest on a limb, a few of my line drawings pulled together on a sentiment block, a fat lil blue bird with birthday wishes, fun fun fun, hope everyone has a great day, hugs

The Visitor

Today a fun spider mum on a gelli pull harlequin background.   Some leaves, a butterfly and EKSuccess photo corners.  A little bit more polka dots in the sentiment block, this could do for a birthday or Thanksgiving.  Hugs

Sentiment Blocks

 I have been busy making sentiment blocks from my mini-chalkboard.  The beauty of this is that once it is done and scanned in, I just erase it and start over again, lol.  The top card everything but "believe" was done with the Marvy "Bistro" markers, believe was written in chalk, I love the difference in their appearances.  The background is a gelli pull embellished with just a piece of gauzy polka dot ribbon.

I have a droll/dry sense of humor, the front of this card says, "love...can only be defined with an open heart and a willingness to see past the road blocks", inside it says, "if these abilities are lost then all you have is a car wreck".  The block on this is just the opposite of the top card the rose and leaf were drawn with chalk and the written word love, dots and blue boarder were done with the Marvy markers. I have not used Lori Whitlock's bow in a while so it embellishes the card.  The background is a gelli pull and both card backs were embossed the top with "Swiss Dots" and the bottom "Broken Dots", Happy Monday, Hugs

Butterfly Wreath

This card was inspired by an ancient memory of mine.  I was on the California Pacific Coast somewhere near Monterrey or Carmel and we were eating lunch on an ocean view terrace and the table next to us was excitedly talking about the butterfly trees they had just experienced.  I inquired and found out it was only about 30mins away and talked my friend into going.  We parked our car and walked in about 10 or 15mins to a bluff over looking the ocean and at first nothing spectacular to see, then standing with a group of people so silent you could hear a pin drop, the lady next to me pointed and as I focused in a clump of trees seemed to be alive and covering it were a million monarch butterflies, fluttering and one piled on the other.  I am not sure how long we stood and just stared at this remarkable site but I was lost in the beauty of it all.  I then was told that the tree was a landing spot after their trek across the pacific from Hawaii non-stop to this spot to breed and then to die.  It was one of those moments that I felt totally at one with my creator.
I created the one piece wreath of butterflies with my Cameo, then made a cutting file with the butterflies just a wee bit smaller and layered 4 onto the one piece, adhering them just at the body so their wings would be unattached.  I then secured the wreath to a Memory Box "branch" cut and added a single butterfly to the upper right corner.  Other than the butterfly color, this brings back the memory perfectly.  Happy Sunday, hugs

Gift Bag Hang Outs for Halloween and Christmas

I have been working the "Gift Bag Hang Outs" this week.  I used the fine point "marvy bistro markers" they are great, work on smaller areas and love the florescent colors.

 Here is one with a little Christmas snow scene for Christmas

and one with some stacked pressies, the back of the chalkboard is chipboard so to/from can go on the back.  It stays securely on the bag with the mini clothes pin.  Hope everyone has a great weekend, hugs

One thing leads to another

Remember my "Hang Outs" from May?  A couple of things happened over the last couple weeks as I have been designing projects for the boutique and resourcing products, I dove into the blackboard paint, as I have been working with it, I put on my list of things to try - 10mm vinyl and if it did work on that what would I do with it?  Then last week I was at Hobby Lobby went there to pick up the "Marvy Bistro Markers", they are in the wood department and there were some small clip clothes pins, couldn't resist so picked them up.  Now, I love the Marvy Bistro markers for the blackboards but I got an email from Jet Pens, went to look and they have the new Marvey "fine tip" Bistro markers in florescent colors, so I ordered them, oh oh oh,  Herein lies the title to my post this morning.  Wouldn't a smaller clothes pin "Hang Out" just for Gift Bags be adorable?  So off I went on one my of missions and here it is.  These are just too stinkin cute, and when the gift is given this can be all part of the gift too. These are made just like my larger ones except the base is a mini blackboard on 10mm vinyl.  The baby bird was created last week in my drawing frenzy, so I used him/her on the "Hang Out".

Here is a close up of the small clothes pin that just clips over the top of the gift bag.  So now I am designing Christmas ones, once I got through all the logistics of the Blackboard paint, I am so loving it! Have a great day, hugs

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