Get Ready!!!

I'm listening to the news this morning and they are claiming some major snow coming our way......yippeee would that mean a "snow day".  Even though we are just getting over holidays I just wouldn't mind another day to veg and snuggle up watching a movie or two.  Now on the other hand work wouldn't like it because that would not help with the budget $$'s.  Often wondered..............How do you budget weather???? 

On to my card....... Here is a card for those dog lovers out there.  Basically a quick colour using copics, cut from nesties, cuttlebug embossed white base, EK edge blue paper wrapped with sheer white ribbon.

Happy Friday!!!

I have been suffering with a head/chest cold all week so I think today I am going to sit back relax and do some colouring, but before I veg out for the day I want to show you the birthday card I created for my sweet nephew Ethan.  The E-man is a 6 year old entertaining, comical young man who is growing sooo tall, which must come from the other side of the family because anyone who know my side were stretching it at 5 foot 3 inches. 

Love this image from Stamping Bella.  It could have been a Christmas card but since Ethan is a winter baby I thought it would be perfect for him as well as the naughtiness I see in this young lads face.  The image was coloured using copics and prisma pencils, cut out with nesties, all layered on a cuttlebug embossed cream base with green tone glittery DP accented with a sheer green ribbon.

Happy New Year!

 Happy New Year to everyone and hope you celebrated in style!  We have been away since Christmas Day and had a great time but it sure is nice to be back home to my dog and my bed.  Here are a few cards that I didn't get a chance to post prior to Christmas but thought I would still share them with you.  They were all simple and quick to create so keep them in mind for next year.  Cheers to all and may 2011 be a fabulous year for you!

 

Happy Holidays!

I can officially say that I am on vacation for 2 weeks starting tomorrow.....whoot whoot.... What to do what to do...... I see R&R in my future.  It has been a busy few months so looking forward to this down time.

Once I got my mail outs completed I really wanted to show some love to some other Christmas Holiday stamps so here is a Stamping Bella image that I coloured up using copics and prisma pencils which was cut out using my nesties and layered on some bright DP with a shimmery ribbon.  For the snow I used liquid pearls and glitter.  You really can't see in the picture but used clear accents for the windows to give that 3D affect.

 

Christmas Cards

These are the cards that I created for the majority of my mail outs.  I love the look of that one pop of colour on the image.  I used basically the same layout just changed up the papers, ribbon, and embellishments to make them just a bit different.  The Impression Obsession image was stamped with black momento ink and the only thing I coloured was the Santa Hats with prisma pencils.  For the white on the hats I mixed white flocking with glitter (of course).  Taaa Daaa!  Quick and simple. 

Circle of Snowmen!

This card was truly one of the quickest colours I have done this season.  Coloured the snowmen hats, scarves and noses with prisma pencils then shaded the snowmen with copics in warm grays and pale blue.  Glitter was added to the bodies of the snowmen, cut out using my nesties then layered
on DP. Found a piece of Seasons Greetings ribbon  I layered over top some glittery brown ribbon then added 6 baubles.

Christmas is a Comin.......

In the next few posts I plan on sharing with you a few of my Christmas cards that I have been busy creating.  This year I picked a couple of images with little colouring so I could quickly colour them up and do the layout later.  For me this worked really well and will have them out in the mail this week.  The only downfall to this is ......all the wonderful Christmas images I have didn't get the love they so deserve.

This has got to be one of my favourite images from Stamping Bella.  It is truly a very quick image to colour up and looks like you spent hours.  The first one was created with the traditional Christmas colours in mind with a simple layout.  The wonderful glittery snow made with a mixture of flower soft and glitter, red stickles for the berries on the wreath and fabulous bow really rocked this card. 

The second card was created in lighter colours, layered some funky fun fibre over the ribbon, stickles on the wreath and of course flower soft mixed with glitter for the snow.  Love these cards and plan to do a few more............