Baby Bop

What I have been doing lately to 'change it up a bit'... is, I pick random cardstock.... go to my patterned paper bin, find a contrasting or matching pp and stock pile it all. Then I go through my recipe cards and pick one out at random and see if the recipe fits.... stripped pp going horizontal, or dotted pp.... then I find an image and embellishments and finish the card. Sometimes I don't come up with anything... but having the card folded and matching pp helps me get going. This image is CASED from a TAC catalog.

Do you really want to see it?

Where my creativity begins and ends. Here are some pictures of my 'design' "studio". I normally work off a 10"x10" square ~ semi clean area on my desk. I push everything aside and color, cut, copy (case) glue, embellish etc.... when I move on to the next card... I push all the markers and doodly stuff away from my immediate area! Just push it away!!!! Every couple of days I sit and put all the pens away, put the stamps back in their 'correct' cases, pick up the tiniest scrap of paper or sticky back, put ribbon and emebellishments back in their spot.... and about 5 minutes later... it looks the same.... everything back and close at hand!

The other pictures are of the closet where I store suppplies. The dresser was DS when he was a baby... it holds travel books, my sewing stuff and other knick knacks. I like it in their... my completed cards are on top... easy for picking!

The other photo is my work station with my fun Cuttlebug and all my punches, my Fiskar papper cutter and my view out into the backyard!

Hello Dolly

I exhausted all my creative designs and am now going back through old magazine, idea pages and Catalogs. I love this image from TAC... the Ragedy Ann Doll on a shelf. The heart on her smock pops up. I'm still working on my shading technique. She makes me smile!!

It's a bugs life

Cased TAC image with the circles. The busy bee bugging around!

Bliss!

I haven't tried this in a while, but I snapped a digital picture of our original wedding photo and then uploaded it. Over at the Stamp Shack http://stamp-shack.com/index.php one of the posters wanted to see everybodies wedding pics. You can tell all the girls married in the early '90's with the headband veils. DD thinks I look hookey. I think I look rather smart.... and so does dh....hubba hubba... tuxes other than the white ones...never go out of style!!

Bug spots

More bugs from casing the TAC catalog. I used a circle template to create the different sized circles.... images are all drawn, but copied from the TAC images. I was playing around with my water color pencils and using an old blender pen that I dip in a glycerine, alcohol & distilled water mixture. I like the results. And definitely like these images.

In love with lady bugs

So, I was skimming through the TAC catalog and found some images that I haven't cased in a while. I love the lady bug!! Found a circle template and was playing with my water color pencils. The lady bug and flower were hand drawn. More circle bugs to come. thanks for looking.