Some Fun News!

After being gone for over a year from the BBTB2 Design Team, I missed them terribly and when I saw the Design Team call I got busy and applied, today it was offical, I am back on the team and glad to be there. Our challenge for submission to the call was a Mother's Day card. I used "Ornamental Iron" cart and a gate fold card.

If you are not familiar with the BBTB2 Challenge Blog, it is all about the wonderous Cricut and the various and plentiful carts with fab cuts and ideas.  This is a collection of women, who love that bug and play with it often, so if you have one, considering getting one or have one that is piled with stuff and crying to be turned ON!  Come play with us, comment, ask questions and request what your favorite challenge would be, you never know.  Please visit my design sisters, each have their own unique style and wonderful take on what to do with the bug and it will only inspire and sometimes tickle you.  Hugs

It's a good Monday

Wow, happy Monday, this is a card I have been working with for over a week and a half, or maybe I should say working against, lol.  I had a couple of challenges on this one, first of all it was rquested that I use orange and black, the school colors, then if I could an oil derrek and then I was sent two pictures one of the graduate in K and the other a graduation pic.  They were great pics, and very handsome grad, the problem, you say?  The background on the grad pic is a royal blue.  I had all the components chosen and cut, I had the sentiment done, I had a stack of 30 or 40 papers for the background and finally did not use a one of them, I decided to use this wonderful stripe, it is a brown with a little bit of red in it, giving it a rusty tone.  This meant I needed to change the color of the cup because silver or gold/was not looking good, so I went with a heavy patina metal.  I finally decided that my orange would just be one of the ribbons on this wonderful cup.  I definitely had my muse on my shoulder when I decided to cut a slit in the cup, mat the photos and attach them inside, they can be pulled out for viewing.  It goes postal later this morning and I get an extra tall latte, lol.   Here are the credits:  The background paper is "My Mind's Eye" Lost&Found - Madison Ave., Pintuck.  The oil derrek is from "Cricut Cart" My World.  The cup was a freeby from the wonderful and talented "Lillyboo", she has some new stuff that is fab.  The cup does have 1st on the front so I used a Spellbinder's scalloped oval and the font for 2012 is also Spellbinders.  Colors by Copic and I also used Ranger Distress Ink "Pumice Stone" with a brush.  And that is a take for this week.  Have a great one, Hugs

Trellis with blooms

Happy Sunday all.  It is a splendon  (heeee heee, splendid, it was suppose to be, I must have been trying the multi task) spring day here, the birdies are tweeting, cool temps and blue skies.  I was playing a little in my garden yesterday and saw this tiny patch of wild flowers with a patch of patterned grass and it gave me this idea.  My Iris are almost entirely spent, so some major pull out will have to go on this coming week, but not today. Have a good one. Hugs

A Post Script:  As I was drinking my coffee this morning, I was looking at some Zentangles and other items on my table, an unfinished card that needs desperately to be completed and my new Black Smashbook that I am itchy to play with, but my brain keeps popping back to the Zentangles, I think that I am attracked to the mystery of them, they are like a beautiful sentence without the rest of the paragraph, you are completely captivated by the little window and keep the vigile open for the completed statement, idea or story. Oh I am such a mushy romantic sometimes, carry on......hugs

Dive In

It was wet and gloomy on Thursday, so I played with the fish and the ocean, that always helps, lol.  Another of my doodles and one of my very favorite digi backgrounds (done with Ranger inks), it just looks like the ocean to me.  Here is wishing everyone has a Sunny - Spring weekend.  Hugs

A Happy Birthday Girl - In Blogland

Donna is celebrating a Birthday today, so shout it out!  Happy Birthday, Donna.  So she got pink and orange with a Blue Bird of Happiness.  If you know Donna "Popsicletoes", give her a happy birthday call out, if you don't know her, pop on over to her blog anyway and give her a new friend for her birthday, she loves new friends.  Happy Birthday Donna, and Happy Friday to everyone else. Hugs

All that have wings cannot fly

It is Thursday, and we have rain! LOL  So onto the card, this is an A-2 card.  I love digi papers, my own designs and those I have found online, but I have to admit, they are pricey to print, well on my printer anyway, it is an ink guzzler.  So I tend to save all my scraps and use them where I am able.  The background on this is a collage of my digis with some basic black.  The stars are from an EKSuccess punch, I love that I get 3 sizes of stars on this one punch.  The sentiment block is Spellbinders.  The image block was done using Zentangle designs but without the strings, for those of you who are not familar with the Zentangles, when doing a sample about 4"X4" square you then section it out into what is called strings (they are sections) and then put a different Zentangle design in each section.  But I wanted to use a few of them to create a background, the butterflies are from a Martha Stewart punch.  Colors are Copic markers.  The sentiment is mine and is computer generated using font "Accent Dot Writer".  So there you have it and hope your day is wonderful, hugs

The smallest of Foot Prints

Happy Wednesday everyone.  This is a standard A-2 card, the background paper is one of my scanned in  splashed Tim Holtz backgrounds, primary colors used were "Vintage Photo" and "Wild Honey", the block was Zentangled and the designs used were the outter edge, a modified "Crescent Moon", the inner block is "Mist".  The die cuts used were "Memory Box" - the bird and branch and "Tim Holtz" shabby banners.  The color for the inner block is by Copic. The sentiment was computer generated and says, "Believe, the smallest of foot prints can make a difference! Hugs, Sandi

Fun with boxes

 I was putting a final touches on a piece I did for a friend's daughters birthday and was boxing (a large Ellison Die) it up and the box look really plain and blahhhh, so I took my large Memory Box Butterfly die, it is one wing and the body and cut it twice, used copics to color and attached one wing to each side of the opening so you can just pull it apart to open.  That gussied it up a bit.

This is a view of the box open.  Happy Sunday, Hugs

If you could be any color - what would it be?

 Well today I would be the purple, pink and the blues I see in these beautiful Iris.  Oh my goodness how I cherish this window of blooms.  It really should be longer, lol.  I cut bunches of them and share with neighbors and friends and in the morning I sit with my latte and stare at their patterns and colors.  They are truly regal blooms.  And not to be totally biased, look at the greens!

I will have them for about another week, as they have a entire new budding getting ready to pop.  Wow, it is official, spring has sprung.  Hope all of you have a blessed weekend.  Hugs

A Happy Birthday

My baby sister's birthday is coming up so I thought I would send her some shock treatment, she is getting up in years, lol.  Doodles and Dylusion "BubbleGum Pink and Squeezed Orange here with some copic.  Oh joy!
I was looking through some of my notes on my doodle classes and one of my favorite things to do for a new class was to share some of the world's famous doodles.  So, here they are:  The Romans would doodle naughty poems on villa walls, Leonardo Da Vinci has books and books of doodles, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin would doodle during those long Independence making meetings.  John F Kennedy loved to doodle his yatch.  Ronald Regan well he loved cowboys and baseball.  John Keats and the list goes on.  Hope everyone is prepared for a fun weekend. Hugs