Coloring Caddy

Hello Blogland! I was wandering around Michael's on my lunch hour yesterday (imagine that) and came across this cute little metal cart ON SALE!! It gave me an idea. I try to keep the desk top in my craft room as clean as possible. (Bahahahaha!) Anyway, I thought I could free up some space by putting my favorite coloring mediums on a different surface, but I still wanted to keep them close by. Now I can wheel them wherever I go! I have a similar cart I got from Ikea called the Raskog Utility Cart but I didn't want to drive over 4 hours to pick one up. This one from Michael's seems to be made just as well. Just my opinion, I am not a spokesperson. Lol! 

(How cute is my little Baxter?!?)

I bought 2 of these plastic organizers and they fit PERFECTLY side by side in the top tray to help keep my pens and pencils together by color families and keep them from falling over. I put my pens in the middle to keep my Prisma and Faber Castell separated. You can click the link below the picture to take you to Michael's website. 

Deep Utility Organizer by Recollections™

PIG OUT!

Hi Bloggers!
Just popping in to share a card I made for my bestest friend Cindy for her Birthday.
This cute little piggy is a Stamping Bella stamp. Isn't it just the cutest!?!
I colored it up with Copics and Prismas for shading.
Who doesn't want to "PIG OUT" on ice cream on their Birthday?

Image: Stamping Bella - Peaches

Paper: Carta Bella - Ice Cream, Echo Park - Bundle of Joy 6X6 pack,

 Core'Dinations - French Roast Grid

Accessories: Misc buttons and rhinestones, Hand dyed seam binding ribbon, 

Dress It Up - Ice Cream button

Sentiment: Made in Word Doc

Hi There!

Just popping in to share this cutie. I had some crafty time all to myself and decided to play with my pencils. I needed the feeling of warm weather so I decided to pick this sweet little one. 
I love Wryn from Tiddly Inks! She is always so much fun to color. 
This image is called "Beach Party" and you can find it HERE. 
I colored her up with Prisma pencils and added a little bling. 

Image: Tiddly Inks - Wryn Beach Party

Paper: My Mind's Eye - Come Away With Me and Chalk Studio

Sentiment: Ranger Ink - Greetings

NEW DRIVER ALERT!!!

NEW DRIVER ALERT!!!

There's another teenage driver on the road! 

This is just a little card I made my Niece Emma when she got her Driver's License.

Time sure does fly...

Stamp: Stampabilities - Just Married Car

Paper: Fancy Pants - Park Bench 6X6 paper pad

Accessories: Avery Elle- Sentimental Die Set, Stampin' Up - Baker's Twine (Pool Party)

Just Because

Good Morning my fellow crafty Peeps! 

Just stopping in to share a little card I put together for a card club I attend twice a month. I've had this cutie colored and stored away for quite a while. She is a Tiddly Inks digital image called Bathing Beauty.  Isn't she lovely? 

Image: Tiddly Inks - Bathing Beauty

Paper: My Mind's Eye - Adventure 6X6 Paper Pad

Sentiment: Stampabilities

Rolling Paper Rack

Hello Crafty Friends!

I had to stop in and show you the newest addition to my " Happy Crafty Space". After moving into my new craft room I have had my 12 X 12 DP either in boxes or on a few shelves and it was getting a bit cluttered around here. Hubby and I have been meaning to build this rack for a while and just haven't had the time. A couple weekends ago, we had some camping plans fall thru and we needed something to do to keep us busy, so I suggested that it would be a PERFECT time to get into the wood shop and this is what we came up with. We built it around an existing 32 slot wire paper rack I've had for quite a while, anchored it down, added a couple top shelves and a peg board back for extra storage. I just LOVE how it turned out and I think she feels right at home in her little closet BUT she also has wheels so she can go wherever I go.  

Life is Sweet

Sweet Summertime

Hi Friends. Just stopping by with a little something I have been playing with. Wooden door hangers!

This is the first one I have made for myself. I had a blast painting. I haven't done it in quite a while. 

I'm working on a Mason Jar right now. Hope to be back with pics soon.

Happy Day!

You're The Coolest!

Just wanted to stop in and share this little card I made. He is a Sassy Cheryl cutie pie called

"Penguin  Panache". I just couldn't pass him up. I have always loved her snowmen but this little guy is too stinkin cute and skated right onto this card.

Image: Sassy Cheryl's - Penguin Panache, colored with Prisma pencils

Paper: Pink Paislee - Merry & Bright, Teresa Collins - Christmas Home

Accessories: Seam Binding Ribbon, Misc Snowflake brad and green pom pom,

Sentiment created in Microsoft Word

Life is a Journey

Happy Thursday Blogland!

We have almost made it to the end of the week...WOOHOO!

I'm just stopping by to share a Birthday card I made for one of the sweetest people I know; my best good friend Cindy. (She will deny that she is sweet so don't go spreading that around- Lol)

I hope your day is FABULOUS!!!

I am entering this card into the Tiddly Inks Challenge #190...Let's Get Sketchy!! using the sketch below. Sketches are always fun because they have the layout already done.

Image: Tiddly Inks -Wryn Scooting By  (colored with Prisma pencils)

Paper: My Minds Eye - Quite Contrary (6X6 pad), Crate Paper - Fourteen (6X6 pad)

Accessories: Spellbinders - Labels Twenty-Two, Hug Snug seam binding ribbon (dyed by me)

Sentiment: Generated in Word

Love One Another

Happy Friday! 

I am here to share a quick page I started in Bible Journaling class and finished last night when I got home. In such a crazy world, it is so therapeutic to sit with others and talk about God's love for us and to be creative at the same time.  

1 John 3:18

18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.

Image: Penny Black - From Me to You

Accessories: Memento - Rich Cocoa, Prisma - Colored Pencils

Jolly Good Day

Happy Labor Day!

I had the day off today so I decided to spend the day in my craft room...YAY!

I hope you all had a relaxing day too.

It was Harry Potter Weekend on the TV network Freeform and it always puts me

in the Halloween mood. This little cutie is a Sassy Cheryl's digital image called

"Jolly Good Halloween". Isn't she just adorable?!?

Cheryl has her Facebook Challenge for September going on. Just click the link below to play along:

Sassy Cheryl's Facebook challenge for September 2016.

Image: Sassy Cheryl's - Jolly Good Haloween

Paper: My Minds Eye - Halloween {Scary Sparkles}, Graphic 45 - Rare

Oddities, Pebbles Inc. - Ghost Ln.

Accessories: Prisma Pencils, Spellbinders - Standard Circles and

Scalloped Circles, American Crafts - Thickers (Chit Chat), Sandy Lion - Spider,

Recollections - Flowers

A Day Without A Friend

Hi Blogland! Tomorrow is Friday and we have reached the end of another work week. Wahoo!!

I'm here to share a card I made with one of Stamping Bella's adorable Stuffies stamps. I saw it and just HAD to have it. It jumped right into my shopping cart! Who doesn't love a mischievous bear?

I was thinking about a wonderful friend of mine while I was coloring this cutie so I will be sending this her way via snail mail.

I am entering this into the Bellarific Friday Challenge - Stitching

Image: Stamping Bella - Honeybear Stuffies

Paper: Strathmore - Mixed Media, My Minds Eye - Collectible "Remarkable"and

On the Bright Side, Bazzill Basics - Yukon Gold

Accessories: EK Success - Scallop Punch, Celebrate It - Twine, misc button & bee charms

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black & Rich Cocoa

Coloring Medium: Prisma Pencils - 1012, 942, 1033, 943, 941, 947, 1005, 912,

1087, 1025, 901 & 930,  Faber Castell: 9201 & 117

Don't Tell Anyone...

I have had this cutie in my digi collection for quite some time. Isn't it adorable?!?

It is a Mo Manning image called "I Forgot". You can purchase it for yourself HERE.

She has been colored on my craft desk just waiting to be used for about a month, poor thing...

I FINALLY got some crafty time and had to give her a home.

I will probably keep her in my stash for the next time I forget something, which

probably won't be long. HeeHee

I did a little "research on the Forget Me Not flower and found that they are blue or blueish purple.

It doesn't go too well with the color scheme of my card but it fits the theme.

I think it stands out nicely.  

I am entering my card in the Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge #266, Anything Goes.

Inside:

Image: Mo Manning - I Forgot (colored with Copic Markers and Prisma Pencils)

Paper: Pebbles - Special Delivery 6X6 Pad

Sentiment: Generated in Microsoft Word

Accessories: Spellbinders - Standard Circles Large, Seam Binding Ribbon - Hug Snug dyed by "yours truly',  K& Co. - Adhesive Rhinestones

Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens

Good Morning Blogland! Up early playing in the craft room today.

This is just a little Birthday card I made. Don't you just love this adorable Penny Black stamp?

I saw it and knew it had to come home with me, so much fun!

While I was making this card I had this song stuck in my head and couldn't stop singing it.

BEWARE: Before you click the link below, just know that it might be stuck in yours today too.

For your listening pleasure you can click the link below:

Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens By: Louis Jordan

Image: Penny Black - Cluck, Cluck, Cluck!

Paper: Colorbok - Beach House 6X6 pad

Sentiment: Created in Word

Purrrrfectly Awful!

Hello Blogland! Hope you are all well. I'm here to share a quick card I made

for a card group swap. I thought it would be a good one for someone to keep on hand.

This card is super clean for me, but I thought Tim Holtz's Crazy Cat was

speaking for himself. Lol! Look at that pitiful face...

The sentiment was just typed up in a Word document. I framed it out with the same paper

I used on the little tag on the front. Easy Peasy!

Stamp: Tim Holtz - Crazy Cats, Avery Elle - Sentimental "hello"

Paper: Fancy Pants Designs - Park Bench

Happy Campers!

Hello and happy Wednesday! I have a little camping combo to share with you today. It was my camping buddy Paulette's Birthday so I wanted to make her a card and a sweet treat.

I used the "Camper Crazy" stamp set from Close to my Heart. I paper pieced this little cutie!

Once again I was sucked into Pinterest and found this cake and had to duplicate!

Chocolate, chocolate & more chocolate!!

Image: Camper Crazy - Close to my Heart

Paper: Cottage Living - Pebbles 6 X 6, Bazzill Basics - London Fog and Stonehenge

Accessories: Spellbinders - Classic Ovals, Hug Snug - Seam Binding Ribbon

Sentiment: Cricut

Triple Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes!

I got cheffy in the kitchen on Mother's Day and made these DELICIOUS cupcakes.

I found a recipe on Pinterest and had to try it.

NAILED IT!!! (lol)

I tweaked it a bit and added my own touches but stuck with the recipe for the most part.

Hope I have inspired you to get in the kitchen and try something new.

Heard You Were Dragon...

Hi! I just wanted to share a little something I made this weekend.

Before boxing up my craft room and moving it into it's new home I had a few projects "in process". This little guy has been colored up for about 3 years and just waiting patiently to be made into something. I finally pulled this little card together and put a smile on his face.

 Inside:

Image: Dustin Pike ( Doodle Dragon Studios) - Dudley with a Kite

Paper: My Minds Eye - Fly a Kite "Soar"

Accessories: Die-namics - Mini Monarch Border die, Lawn Fawn - Scripty Hello die,

Hug Snug - Seam Binding ribbon dyed by yours truly

Let Them Eat Cake...

I wanted to share a cake I made for my daughter's Gender Reveal Party. 

This is my first attempt at the "Pulled Dot" decorating technique. 

It was very time consuming, but it was fun. I like the result but I can't wait to try it again.

Practice makes perfect, right?

Dying to make some more ribbon...

(pun intended)

It's been quite a while since I played in Blogland.

Honestly, I haven't had much to share... sad huh?

My crafty friends Kim, from Oak Pond Creations and Linda, from Turtle in the Sand 

came over last weekend and we had some fun dying seam binding ribbon.

Why haven't I done this sooner?!?!