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!

Challenge FS692 Hello the cat

This morning I decided to play with a challenge at Splitcoast Stampers website.  I’ve been really sad to see diminished activity on the site as Facebook and Pinterest groups just aren’t as much of a community and it’s important to support the communities—even online ones—that you care about.

Today’s challenge is to take a card from the gallery of another specific card maker and copy it with a few modifications.  I enjoyed reviewing Lauries gallery as it looks like she’s been crafting about the same time frame as I and looks like we’ve both experimented with similar things over the years.  Interesting to see trends shift and morphed.

The card I chose to copy is Hello from the cat.   I do love cats.

I’m out of black card stock so substituted with dark grey, which paired well with some paw print patterned paper—though I wish I had that paw prints embossing folder Laurie used!  Substituted cat and ball of wool images by a couple from Lawn Fawn.  Didn’t have a small hello sentiment so used a die from Simon Says.  Instead of accenting with sequins used some clear gel dots.

Super fun to play along with this challenge!

Another Monday at home

Week 8 for me of working from home begins.  This would be a lot more enjoyable if it weren’t for the constant uncertainty and fears about what comes next.  And Murphy’s law, after grey and rain on the weekend it sunny today lol!  Urg Monday!

Yesterday I worked on a paper cleanup project to sort old papers for shredding, as we have a mobile shredding service coming today.  There were phone bills going back to the 90’s!  This task was clearly overdue.

Did manage to find the time to reorganize my craft area that has taken over a corner of the living room, and made this fun card last night.

Cat image and sentiment  is from Snarky Cats set from Tim Holtz, and accenting is with Tim Holtz Spills and Splatters set.   Colouring is with Copics.