Birthday Card....

Sorry about the little bit of blurriness...I took this pic with my phone. I don't have a flash on it and it was getting a little dark out. You get the idea, though :)

I made this for a friend of mine. It is for her sister's birthday. I love this stamp! It is a retired Stampin' Up! stamp. I colored it with Copics and love how it turned out!!

Tim Holtz stamping......

I went to the Memories Scrapbooking Expo in Columbus over the weekend...mostly I was very busy working at the Scrap Happy area. But, I did manage to sneak away for a couple of minutes to go check out the Tim Holtz stuff. I love so much of it....and some of it is too abstract for me. I did find some stamp sets to buy, though. I made a tag with some of the stamps so I thought I would share it with you.

I threw a little water on it and then stamped all of my images. Then I decided I wanted more water spots and dropped more water on it.....mistake! It only takes one time to learn not to do something. It ran my black ink....boooo hooooo. I am no longer really happy with it, but thought I would share it anyway. I love the colors.....the middle is broken china distress ink and the edges are done with vintage photo distress ink. I am really liking those distress inks....just have to play with them a little more!!

Blogging.....

Hi everybody!! I just wanted to drop in and let you all know that I am now blogging for my LSS! I am excited that she thinks enough of my work to want me to post on her blog!!! If you all want to pop over and see what is going on, here is the link: http://www.scraphappyohio.blogspot.com/

She is doing some updating to her online store, but once it gets all done and completely updated, I will be able to link right to it for you. I am pretty excited about this and I hope you are, too!!! I will be adding a new post every Tuesday and Friday, so click to be a follower so you don't miss a thing!

Copic Beginner class...

This is the new image for my beginner classes I teach for Copic markers. I get tired of coloring the same thing over and over so I change it up every so often.

....cute little thing! :)

Birthday Card...

This is a birthday card for my mother-in-law....(hope she doesn't look at my blog).

Hero Arts, Martha Stewart, Nestabilitie and Stampin' Up! stamp .....LOVE that new MS punch I used!!

Thank you card...

This card is much prettier in person....

I used a unknown brand stamp (music notes), a silhouette cut-out (the flourish), a Stampin' Up exclusive Sizzix die (the little leaves)...and Tim Holtz's new dies!! (the flowers and the film strip). Had a lot of fun making this card. It is a thank you card for our niece and she is going to be in Annie at school so I thought the music notes and film strip fit in with that.

Easter card...

I loved this stamp when I saw it in the store and fought and fought with myself not to buy it. Then someone else bought it and sat there and colored it in (thanks, Cathy!), so I just had to have it then!

Banananananana........

This image I colored for my friend Susie to give to a friend of hers....

This banana was probably the hardest thing I ever colored in so far. Hope she likes it!!

Conway Tweety!

This is the card for my 2nd advanced Copic class for April. It's a Whipper Snapper stamp....those stamps are so cute!!

Mom's Birthday Card...

This is my Mom's birthday card! The stamp is fromStampin' Up!, the "circle" is a Stampin' Up! punch (it is actually 2 squares turned and layered) and the butterfly is a Martha Stewart punch.

Acrylic card

This is the 2nd advanced Copic class I am giving in March. I love this...it is on a clear acrylic card. The background stamp is a flourish from Hero Arts and the bunny stamp is from Whipper Snapper. If you click on it and make it bigger, you can see that I traced the stamped image with a clear Spica glitter pen to make it sparkle.

Copics class for March

This is one of the advanced Copic classes I am giving in March. There is airbrushing with the markers done on this card. I love the airbrush system...it really adds something to the designs.

Hero Arts Daisy stamp...

I love, love, love this card!!! I used 3 Hero Arts stamps to make this card...the striped background, the daisy and the swirled flourish behind the daisy. It was colored with Copics.

Frog card...

I think this card turned out pretty cute...I love the stamp!! It is colored and airbrushed with Copics.

The cut out is the Blossom Nestibilities.

Kevin's Valentine'sDay card...

I forgot and wrote in it before taking the pictures so I blocked out my words....

Breast Cancer Card

I was asked to make a card for someone to give to another person fighting breast cancer for the third time....I cannot imagine. Cancer has touched us all at this point either directly or indirectly. It took my Dad from us so I know firsthand how painful it is to lose some to this horrible disease. My thoughts and prayers go out to all fighting this (and to those watching someone fight this).

Birthday Card...

This card I made for my girlfriend. She turned 50!!! But I was nice and made her a nice card for the occasion.

Bridal Shower....

Here is the sign I made for the bridal shower we had at work for our friend.

Pre-Wedding....

I made this for a friend of mine that is getting married. It is the card to take to work so everyone can sign it for her.

Random class cards...

Here are some cards that I colored in for my classes at my LSS. Susie, the owner, put together all of the cards except the brayer card...that one is completely mine.

The brayer card is going to be offered in January as a class. You will receive the tree stamp as part of the class.

This is a kissing technique that will also be offered in January....you get 2 stamps with this class and will make 10 cards.

This is a January (advanced) class for coloring with Copics.

This is the other advanced Copics class for January.

This is one of the advanced Copics classes for February.

And last, but not least, the other advanced Copics class for February.

GOOOO BUCKS!!!!

Here is a card I made for my nephew....who is also my Godson. We are both fans of the Buckeyes so what better to give him than a gift card to our local Buckeyes store all done up in a Buckeyes card??!! He loved it!!! ( I learned this card technique from none other than Jennifer McGuire at one of her classes....I love that girl!!!!)

Money card....

I lifted a couple different card ideas from Jennifer McGuire and created this card for my Mom for part of her Christmas gifts.

Kissing Technique

This is the kissing technique on both of these. I did it a little different on each one. They are not mounted on a card yet....I made them for samples of the technique.

You're The Best!!!!

I love her!!!! I really love the new little girl stamps...nice to color in with my Copics. I made the background, too....it is a stamp that I stamped with multiple inks and then I shimmered it.

Hello card....

I did some embossing on this card......and layered on some more embossing. I love how it turned out!

Wheat....

I did this card as a make-n-take at the store for the big unveiling party over the weekend. I don't know if you can tell, but the wheat is shimmery....love it!!!

Notebook Page Card

I love this stamp! It is a page and I just inked it up and cut the edge with a border punch.

Nothing Fancy.....

Nothing real fancy....I think it needs soemthing.... This is a sample I made for the store. The sentiment is actually stamped on the insideof the card.

Snowman Card

I didn't actually make this card....I just colored in the image! My friend, Susie...the owner of my LSS, actually put the card together. This is my next project at the store!

Jennifer McGuire Holiday Cards....

Here are the cards from the 2nd class today......

This is a treat bag....I love these bags...so cute and sooooo easy to make!!

I made this one on the dark side, but I think it would make a good man-card.

This card is clear....love it!!! AND the scarf is made out of a folded $20 bill (fake here but makes a really cute idea to give money!!!).

She turned this card outside in. Very cute idea! She made this by stacking stamps to shape a tree! (This was an extra card she gave us to take home and put together).

Very cute card....I love the colors in this one. The middle circle was actually stamped with pearlized water and it pushed the ink out of the way....I love the look of it.

This next card is a gift card holder....VERY cool!!!! The middle part on the front of the card is actually a slot to put the card in....I love this!! (And, no, that is not a real credit card....used to be a long time ago....I save all of that kind of stuff to use as props).