Today I'm playing along with SSS Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes with Lawn Fawn stamps! 

I played along with the current MFT sketch challenge: 

So now I'm in Saskatchewan now visiting my parents and I'll have a few more projects to share! 

Thanks for stopping by! 

I finally got my hands on some Reverse Confetti stamps so I inked them up just in time for the current Sketch For You To Try: 

 

I've been playing with my new set of Zig Clean Color Brush pens and this image was a great way to test out some colour combos. It's interesting what happens when you add water to them... Sometimes the colours do things you wouldn't expect- but that's the fun part about learning. 

 

White embossing was definitely the right way to go with this card and I really love how soft and pretty it ended up looking. 

 

The school year is very late this year - June 29th is my last day and MAN time is going slow... 

Pretty soon I'll be flying back to Canada to see my son again and spend time with friends and family. 

In the meantime, I've been plugging away at my craft desk, filling orders and getting some last-minute design work done... Check out today's card: 

I'm so excited to announce I'll be designing for SRM again! I was with them way back in 2010 when they had their first design team call and WOW, Susan has really transformed her business and product offerings over the years! It's so exciting to not only be working with the stickers that have made SRM a crafter's staple, but now she has stamps, vinyl, coloring mediums, twine, packaging and so much more. I'm looking forward to the next year!

Who doesn't love roasting marshmallows over a campfire?! 

The sights, the sounds, the smells - it's all an intoxicating reminder of how great summer is.

My go-to recipe for Dad-cards is this: 

1 - start with a graphic piece of patterned paper with a great colour combo (stripes)

2- No colouring, just a cool and funky stamp that will make Dad chuckle. 

3- find some twine that coordinates with the colours.. 

I really love masculine cards... No muss, no fuss!

Have a great Father's Day! 

Stamp set:
Man Day by Technique Tuesday

A day to celebrate the special men in our lives - I just wish sometimes I lived on the same continent as my father. I get to see him in a few weeks and THEN I will wish him a Happy Father's Day!! 

Wedding season has arrived and it's time for me to start building my stash! 

Today I used the pretty colour combo from the current MFT Color Challenge as a starting point for this elegant card: 

I have a quick card to share today using Critters At The Dog Park by Lawn Fawn: 

So funny... I set up this shot, took it, thought "OK!" and didn't even look at the crazy twine, hahaha.. I must have been in a hurry that day, right? Anyway...

I hope you're having a great week!! Thanks for stopping by!

Hi there! I took a much-needed day off yesterday to de-stress and took a little time to play with some new goodies and the current MFT sketch challenge as well as the current MFT Colour Challenge. 

 

The background was created by sponging inks through the Chunky Herringbone Stencil.

 

I coloured the unicorn/Pegasus with Copic markers and added shadows with chalk pencils. 

Thanks for stopping by today!! 

Planner stamps... 

Got a lot of them??? 

Don't use some of them? 

Stick 'em on a card!! 

Happy Mother's Day! 

To celebrate this happy day I'm sharing my favourite Mother's Day card I made this year. I made a lot of cards this year for my colleagues and friends to send home to their Mommas and it was fun to play around with pretty floral designs and colours. 

I feel like Mother's day cards are easy... Flower stamp (Avery Elle), colour it up (watercolours are so on fleek right now), and some pretty accents like The Twinery's delicious twine! 

I hope you have a great day with your Moms and/or celebrating with your own kiddies!! 

I've just had a very luxurious week off and I've got some much-needed rest and relaxation, and a SWEET NEW TATTOO!!

So while I nursed my throbbing and swollen arm I also got some time to get some just-for-me crafting done!! I've purchased a few new stamps and dies, but also some foil products so I did some experimenting! 

Thanks for stopping by!! 

I've got a really pretty card to share today!

It's with the April Greenhouse Society stamp from Technique Tuesday. 

 

What I love most is how the stamp and the background paper go together so nicely. I had a bunch of watercolor leftovers just sitting around and the colouring matched one of the pieces perfectly! 

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Can you believe it's the end of April?? The end of the school year approaches and that freaks me out!!

So much to do and so little time, but today, I got a head-start! I like to make special thank you cards for my admin team (principal and the VPs) because they always go above-and-beyond their job descriptions and deserve my unending praise... 

Brainstorming for this card went something like this: 

So yah... Not too 'inspired' but this is one of my favourite cards of all time. I can't wait to give it away!! 

There are a few factors that lead to my lack of blog posts since moving to China: 

I still create on weekends and on nights when I have some mysterious mojo flowing, but really, the musical I'm directing (Addams Family) is taking everything I got right now..

I am still creating with the kids at school, though! I have a craft club and we have a table for our "Arts Festival Carnival" on Thursday and I'm excited about our offerings: 

First, an altered picture frame

Hi everyone! Happy April!

I know that we've had some seriously strange weather this winter all over the planet and that definitely includes China. We had one of the coldest winters here in recent history and it was not pretty. We were thrown from a 2nd world country right back into the 3rd world when the water pipes in our town froze. Not fun when you work at school of 3000-4000, hahaha.... 

So now we're ready spring, right? Flowers, leaves, and warmer weather (hopefully!).