I will be MIA for a while

I move my office out to campus to prepare for the students arriving next week for the 2012 Eastern Music Festival!  For the next 6 weeks or so, I will have precious little time to do any creating, so there won't be any new posts. :-( 

I do have a few cards I made recently that I will try to get posted this weekend, but other than that....see you in August!

Birthday Fishes

This is the card I made for my grandfather on his 91st birthday!  I am so blessed to still have him in my life!

I used a stamp from one of my new sets of clear stamps called Birthday Buddies by Paper Smooches. I decided to keep it simple.  I stamped multiple fish images and colored them mostly in the blue/green family...except for one!  You can't see it in this image, but the orange one is popped up for some dimension as well as the one that hangs off the bottom. 

Copic Colors Used:

BG00, BG01, BG02, BG05
BG10, BG11, BG13, BG15
YR12, YR14, YR16
Clear Spica pen on the orange fish

Happy and You Know It...

I made this card for one of my co-workers.  She has had a rough time of it lately and is always coming to see if I have any aspirin or Tylenol...  When I saw this digi stamp at Bugaboo Stamps, I had to have it.  The series of the old women just make me laugh out loud! 

I had fun coloring this one and I hope it will make her laugh!

Copic Colors Used:
Bottles: YR12, YR14, YR16, YR18; C00
Pills: Y00, Y02, Y06
Capsules/Word: R20, R22, R24, R27
Dress/Word: B02, B04, B05
Skin: E0000, E000, E00
Hair: T0, T2, T4
List: E40, E41
Border: YG21, YG23, YG25

Happy Hour

There are many days (especially Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday between the hours of 9 and 5) that I wish it was happy hour!  This cute stamp and sentiment came from a set called Get Outta Town by Paper Smooches.  There are a few stamps in that set that MADE me buy it...but the best is yet to come! I am working on several other cards featuring stamps from this set...so stay tuned!

I forgot to write down the Copic colors used in this one, but they were minimal, so forgive me...Better yet...go have a cool icy beverage and forget about it!

The Many Faces of Cats

I just had to enter the Oozak challenge again this month!  I like their monthly challenge. With my crazy schedule, it is nice to have a longer window in which to create a card.  Although, if it wasn't for the holiday weekend, I probably wouldn't make it this month! 

I used some stamps from the "Nine Lives" set by Penny Black.  I love all of the different looks in this set.  The one I am most familiar with based on the demeanor of my cats...is the one on the bottom row.  I guess it is their best side!  The paper is from an older pack for pets.  Neither of my cats are orange tabbies, but this paper was screaming for that coloring, so I went with it!

Since this month's challenge was spring colors, I thought the oranges and teals would be perfect!  Reminds me of the summer sun and the water in a pool!  I colored the cats with my Copic Markers.

Copic Colors Used:
E93, E95, E97; R22

Venetian Birthday Card

I have several upcoming birthdays, and this one is for a step-brother.  I liked the way it turned out, so I will probably make a duplicate for another masculine birthday due next month! I stamped the image with a chalk ink on glossy paper and buffed it until it was shiny.  I used some bakers twine and a button to give it a little more detail. The stamp is an old one from Limited Edition Rubber Stamps. 

Birthday Wishes

This card was made for my uncle's birthday.  I haven't seen him since 1998 when my dad and grandmother passed away. I haven't been so good at keeping in touch, so one of my resolutions this year was to try to be better about sending cards for family birthdays.  Thus far, I have been able to keep that resolution!

The stamp is an oldie but goodie from Magenta.