Golf happy birthday

 Made a birthday card for hubby— featuring his favorite sport, golf.

Happy overall with it but if I made it again I’d do the sentiment differently as it just blends in.

Image is from Colorado stamp company 

LL237 Lovely Legs~Tee-Rific Dad

Coloured with Copics

CAS Rhino Thank you

 It’s been fun and a little bit overwhelming digging through my supplies and dreaming up my next card creations.  So many options, so little time.

This stamp sets is one I had not used yet and I believe I picked it as it has many unique sentiments for a thank you card.  And the Rhino is super cute!

Meowy holidays

 I’ve been enjoying unearthing my craft room, it is almost heartbreaking to see all the stamps and supplies which have been gathering dust.  I wonder if I will ever use it all?  

What has not been a joy is figuring out how to blog again....I need to set up a new "photo corner" so you don't see my scratched paint, I need to download a new app to edit and add watermarks to photos.  I did manage to update the colours on my blog itself, but couldn't do a lot of edits without losing key elements.  Luckily I didn't break it in the endeavour!

This card features another LOTV image.  Sadly I don't know the name of the stamp, I looked in my email for the receipt but could not locate.  The stamp itself is just plain grey rubber with no sponge / sticky backing so I had to employ the "lick and stick" method (no worries, no spit involved lol!) to stamp it, and it did take about 4 tries to get a good stamp.  This was not aided by the wobbly folding table that moves underneath when I employ force--still debating if I will take over the kitchen table and island again, the island was the perfect height and so solid for crafty things!

It's coloured with Copics.  I love colouring with my copics and can not imagine making cards otherwise.  I do have chalks, watercolour crayons, watercolour pallets, and pencils, however do not enjoy any of those the way I do my markers.   I'm thrilled that after so many years my copics are doing so well.  However it did cause me to appreciate that might not last forever.  I completed an inventory -- I have about 200 copics, and about 130 ink refills.  That means at some point I will be down 70 markers.  I spent yesterday hunting refills, which is surprisingly challenging.  Amazon wants to charge $30 per refill (crazy!), Ebay wants $16 shipping per marker (I emailed the vendor to see if that could be fixed, he has not responded), Online retailer in US took an order but it's on hold pending their shipping review as I am in Canada.  Finally found Curry's in Canada and ordered a few, but then somehow saw I managed to order a black 100 and 3 of the blending formula (?????) not sure how that happened, sent them a note to see if they can refund that/cancel that.  Yikes!  If not I'll be experimenting with many techniques to use up blending formula lol..... Anyway, the hunt for copic refills is on!

Winter carols

 This is the first card I made in several years and I am thrilled in how it turned out!  I used a gorgeous House mouse stamp and am entering this in the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge.

I stamped the image on Gina K pure luxury 80lb paper using Tim Holtz black soot distress ink. I then coloured with Copics.  I used craft ink on the edges and dotted with a white paint pen.  On the background I stamped snowflakes with white craft ink and sprayed with tattered angels glimmer mist.  

Farewell to Bear

 My first post in a long time.  It’s been a challenging couple years with illness and the burden of work, and I’m entering 2025 with the commitment to resuscitate my life.   I unearthed my craft room as part of this path.

I made three cards on my first day ‘back’.  This one made me cry and will go as a final gift to my cat whom we had to rehome recently.  I miss him every day and hope his new life is good.

My craft room is still missing some key components— we had a flood last year and my craft room was packed up in a rush.  The printer, silhouette, my Scot pal and stamping mat are amongst the missing items.  Luckily my Copics were safeguarded carefully.  Everything is in different order though.  I used to have my ribbon on special racks on the walk, but those came down in the Reno and now I have a giant bin of ribbon on to dig in.  I managed to cut my finger open fussy cutting and observe my vision is not what it used to lol!

As for this card, I think it may be the first time I inked up this stamp which I’ve had over 10 years!   My craft goal this year is to buy NO new stamp sets, paper or supplies except for adhesive and some copic refills, I have SO much stuff already waiting to be played with.

Image is LOTV.  I pulled out my precious Gina K pure luxury 80lb white cardstock for the image which is a delight to colour on.  DP in SU.