WOW it has been a while!!

It's been busy and then not busy around here.

Seems time has been passing so much faster these days.. well, except for when i'm sitting at my desk at work.. then time seems to go by kinda slow!!

Its been ages since I created anything worth showing, but here's a card I made a little while ago using an image I have been hoarding. I love TGF images, and just recently bought some when they were on sale at Scrappingreatdeals. Before then, though - my friend Kadie sent me a few images and I have been HOARDING them ever since. Afraid to color them up and cut them out for fear I wont have any more to play with if I mess it up! But alas, they were too cute just to leave black and white! (well, off white).

So here is a very thankful Ian for you today.

DSP and CS is Stampin' Up. Ian is colored with Copic markers and yuo can't really tell in this image, but the stripes on his hat are higlighted with a browny red Spica Glitter Pen.

Sorry about the quality of the image.. yep, I cheated and used the camera phone again.. bad bad me.... bad bad me....

On the upside ~ my crafting room has never been tidier! We are listing our condo again (please cross your fingers for a quick and profitable sale!!!!! ) so again, I had to tidy up and pack up. I do have some storage solutions now, though - so nothing had to get sealed away in boxes. I just have to be diligent, and put away everything when I'm done. Now, we can all do that can't we?..... can't we?????????

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Easter!

Hi all! WOW its been busy around here!

I am now back to work so no more free days for crafty things! I still have to find some time to clear off the dining room table so we can eat off of it again. I'm sure Mike will be happy when that happens! LOL!

Soooo.. we have a dinner tonight and I thought I'd whip up some quick easter treats for the kiddies. I WAS going to make pop cans, but realized that I hadn't bought enough candy to fill the ones I had! SO...... I searched and was inspired by the icicle boxes I was seeing online and made a carrot box. Now, Its not really looking like a carrot - so I'm just calling them "Carrot Inspired" hehe......

So, its just a really simple box template I found online; I cut it out of orange CS and stamped it with the large swirl from SU's Baroque Motifs set. I punched a couple of holes in the top and tied green ribbons on them. The tags are cut out with a cuttlebug die and I used the Happy Easter stamp from SU's Well Scripted set.

Hope you're all having a fabulous Easter Weekend!

XOXO
K

Green Madness!

Well, the computer is finally up and running! Its been working fine since we got it back. So ~ today I thought I'd use it to post on this little neglected blog of mine!!

The March theme for my sisterhood's monthly swap is GREEN. Which just happens to be a color I have a love hate relationship with. I LOVE the color, I HATE everything I make with it! LOL!! The theme however, presented a lovely challenge for me. First of all, I didn't own anything that I could color green. Okay, that's obviously not true. I don't own anything i wanted to color green - I wanted to buy something new (HEY HEY NOW! I know you do it too!). It gave me the perfect excuse to purchase one of the new images from High Hopes stamps by thier new designer - ya, I'm talking about Dustin Pike! So I decided that I would happily add Troubled Travis to my collection of rubber goodness.

Now, this also presented a problem! I have never colored a dragon before! And most certainly not with my limited collection of Copic markers. So I pulled out every green I have (a total of 4) and a couple of warm earths hoping it would work out. One thing you gotta love about Copics is the ability to blend the colors and create the look you want. While I still think i NEEEEEEED more colors, the ones I have have served me pretty well for the short year that I have been coloring with them. So.. here is my card for the swap - hope you likee!! I whipped up a quick get well card. The sentiment inside is computer generated (OH YEAH I GOT MY PRINTER WORKING TOO!) and says "Hope you get your fire back soon!"

Cardstock: SU! and some bright green freebie from my friend Christyne

Ribbon: random green freebies from my friend Christyne

PP: My minds eye abby road

Colored with Copics

~ Special thanks to Christyne for the freebies!

I Spy.....with my little eye......

KELLY"S BDAY BLOG CANDY!

Click the link on my sidebar for your chance to enter!

I have another announcement! We FINALLY have a working computer again.
We took our old dinosaur to the doctors, had her stripped naked & re-vamped with all sorts of goodies! The old laptop is officially "dead".

So, I'm working diligently to get going on all things blog and stamp and email and what - not so you should stand by!

A post!

I recently got my order from All That Scraps. OH MY it took ages to get here! About 3 weeks!! I dont know what it is with the postal service, but packages from the US are so unpredictable, and so expensive! If its not duty & taxes, its the cost of shipping itself, or the length of time it takes for a package to get here!

Well, out of the stash, I pulled out Apple Emma from CC Designs. Quite a while back, my talented friend Kadie sent me a set of CC Designs stamps. I had never tried them before and they sat in my room for some time before I dared ink one up. Well, since that day I have literally fallen in LOVE with the images! So when I saw Apple Emma, and knew I had some cute apple papers from stampin' up in my stash - I just had to have her. Of course, all bf could say was "she doesn't have a nose or mouth... how is she going to eat that apple?" to which I replied... "well obviously she's meaning to share the apples, not eat them!"

Excuse the poor photography. A while back my computer went kaptuz and I can't download any new photos. So this one's from the Camera phone and we know how poor those pics turn out!! It really doesn't do the image or the papers any justice at all! But I had to post something since its been so long!!

All papers and cardstocks are from Stampin' Up and the image is colored with Copic markers.

Now.. on a very happy other note, I am a hockey fan, so ......

Congratulations to the Men's and Women's Canadian Hockey teams for winning GOLD!!!!!

OH CANADA!
Our home and native land!
WE STAND ON GUARD FOR THEE!!!!!!!!!!!