SATURATED CANARY TAG

Okay, here goes......

I haven't done this in SO long, I've actually forgotten how..... Its sad, I know!

I've recently made some "almost the end of the year" resolutions...... dont know if I should be committing myself to all of them by actually naming them here... BUT there are 2 that I dont mind sharing!! Hey, who knows, maybe it might even help me to stick to them!!!

The first one is to loose some weight... (oh gawd, did I just say that, AGAIN) anyway, I have some pretty good motivation!! It is my BESTEST friend in the whole wide world's wedding in March next year (actually 2 days before my birthday) and I'm going to be her matron / maid (not sure) of honor!!!  I heard that I'm gonna be wearing purple and have a desperate need NOT to look like Barney!!! I love you.....you love me.....uhm, I think not!!! So, that's the first one!!

The second one is something that all my lovely followers (yes, All 25 of you) might connect to a little better.... I am going to try and post at least once a week, mmm, maybe make that fortnightly, oh heck, who am I kidding!!! At least once a month!!!  okay, okay, more often!!!  And I am going to start by doing my very 1st post TODAY!!

I'm entering a challenge over at the Little Darlings Design Team Inspirations blog, simply because I LOVE Saturated Canary images!!! I only have digi's and since the prize is some rubber.... well, who could resist!??

The challenge is to create a tag, using any Saturated Canary image.  I chose the lovely Violet Vintage image. Isn't she just too darn sweet???

I used some Pebbles paper that I've had for ages and (to be truthful) didn't really want to cut up.. but just had to use it for something!! I cut all the little squares to (hopefully) give a quilt like effect.  Just wish I had the courage to do some REAL sewing!! But alas, its only white gel pen!

I've always had trouble with my flowers not sticking until I read somewhere on Facebook that people use Glossy Accents.... I got some and now its my alltime favorite new toy!!! I stick everything down with it and I lovvvvve the shine it adds!!

I'm still practicing hair, here's a little close up....

So, one done, lets see if I can stick to the resolution!!!

Fifty shades of black and white (and red)

I really cant believe how long its been since my last post.   Or on second thought, I can!! I've had a hectic time at work and what little free time I had, I spent reading Fifty Shades of Grey!!  Those who've read the book will surely understand why I haven't been around.

Anyway, a short post and I do hope I make it in time for the current Saturated Canary Challenge which is to use black and white and one other color.  I really really enjoyed this challenge because I've never tried to do the whole b & w thing.  I think for a first time, it really didn't turn out tooooo bad.

This is the finished card

and here's a little close up of the coloring...                   

Okay, off again!  Let's hope I made it in time for the challenge!

Some Odd Girl Facebook Fun Day!

Hi there!

Yes, I am still alive! lol  I've been having some computer problems (not all resolved yet) but so far it seems okay.  I've been waiting for today for quite some time now.  At first it was because we were going to have fishing trials for our Provincial Ladies team.  That was since cancelled and I'm partially glad and partially not happy about it at all.

Anyway, from that, at least I get to play along in the Some Odd Girl Facebook Fun Challenge today!  I haven't been coloring all that much lately and have been having this nagging NEED to color something!!

The SOG challenge is to color something in very bright colors.  Since I don't own that many Promarkers (yet) I have a very limited selection. 

I used this cute SOG digi called Tiny Tobie to make two tags.  No idea what I'm going to use them for yet but with two boys constantly going to birthday parties, I'm sure I'll find a use for them soon.

I'm quite happy with how they turned out, now lets hope they are bright enough!

Easter Goody Bags

We are having a Easter party for a very needy day care centre in the area where I work.  I decided to decorate the goody bags and simply HAD to use this cute Saturated Canary digi! She is called Murray and is available in the Saturated Canary Etsy store

Again, I apologize for the bad photo's and I tried scanning them here but really don't like the scanned images.

Here's a close-up of both images.

That's it from me, for now, I might actually be back a little later with some more cards and bags I made!
(This is a record number of colored images for me!)

Saturated Canary Easter Weekend

It has certainly been a lovely long weekend! I spent some time cleaning my crafting table, color sorting my pencils and then the fun began!

I bought quite a few of the awesomely talented Krista Smith's Saturated Canary digi stamps this weekend. (I cant mention how many, but at least I can say that she offered a huge 40% off sale, so I couldn't say no!)

I think the reason I've been able to get such a lot of crafty time this weekend, is because of the lovely rain we've been having!! It's been raining on and off since Easter Friday and today it hasn't stopped yet!

My first card I made to enter into the Saturated Canary Challenge which is "Thinking of you".

Because of the rain, the light is very bad so here's my first photo.

 I tried scanning the card here, but I really did not like the way it came out.

Thanks for looking!

Some Odd Girl - Sketch

I recently bought this little cutie, Roller Mae from Some Odd Girl with their new Featured digi that they have. This means you get the featured digi for 25% less! That's a great deal!

The biggest problem with this was that I had printed the Make it Crafty - Tulip garden so BIG which therefor lead to a HUGE card! lol

Anyway, I colored her and decided to use her for my entry into the Make it Colorful challenge #47 - Color with Green.  Since card making is not really my strong point, I used Some Odd Girls recent sketch.

 And that's it from me, for now!

SPRING FRAME

Hi guys, I know its been a loooong time since I posted anything, but life happened! lol.

I'm really not good at putting cards together so I thought for the latest Make it Colorful challenge, which is "Spring colors" I'd do something different.

I was initially only going to use the Make it Crafty Garden picket fence digi but when I got this super cute Little Miss Muffet freebie, I immediately new it would look stunning with the fence and the would fit in so nicely with the theme!

I quickly made a chipboard frame, painted it a nice and bright green and started adding all the colored images.  My fiance decided that some of the corners was to bare, so I colored up my Watering can Tilda.  He still thought it needed a little something and suggested I put some birds in the upper corner.  After a huge search through all my digi's I came across these two cuties (I don't know who they are from, but it would have been a freebie somewhere along the lines).

Done blabbing on now.  Here's one or two photo's of the completed frame.

Thanks for looking!