Oh Happy Day!

Today I went to on a road trip with my BFF and we took a class to learn how to colour stamped images using Prismacolor pencils. I have seen many cards done using this technique and I was super excited to be able to try it out.

Our teacher was Paula Williamson and she is very talented. You can check out her blog here! It was a 2 hour class and we were given materials to complete 4 cards. I worked very hard and kept up to most of the other students and I only managed to finish colouring 1 image.

We focused on how to blend and shade to create depth in our images. It is hard to believe that this took me 2 hours to do.....but I am very happy with how it turned out. I had a great day with my friend and I learned something new.........Oh Happy Day!

Little Red Wagon #17

Little Red Wagon has issued another great challenge today. It is Joanne's turn and she wants us to use black & white. I must admit that my first attempt at this challenge ended up in the garbage. My second attempt when much better.

I followed the challenge and only used black & white. I used one of my Cuttlebug border embossing folders to create the flowers and added black buttons to the center and filled in the petals with some Diamond Stickles. I stamped my verse with a Unity stamp and finished it off with some black & white ribbon.

I can't wait to see what my girlfriends did. You can check out their creations by clicking on their name along my sidebar. You can join in on the challenge and link up your post on the Little Red Wagon blog!

Design Team Kit at Two Scrapbook Friends!

At Two Scrapbook Friends we have an amazing team behind us, and I have been admiring all their talent......so I thought that I would play along with the kit they get and see what I could come up with.

This month they were given products from Pink Paislee's Cupid line. It is just a beautiful collection to work with. Here is a layout that I did using products from the kit.


The edges of the background paper are stamped with brown ink using a flourish stamp that I had. I sort of stamped it half on the page and half off the page. It created a really neat effect. I also used the same stamp to create 'stems' for the flowers that I cut out of one of the other pattern papers.

I Glimmer Misted the chipboard word 'love' and added some lace trim. I was quite happy with the end result.

I have a few more projects and layouts that I have been working on too. I will post them later this week. The Design Team will reveal their creations on March 1st! I can't wait to see what they do!

A Hug For You!

My BFF sent this to me this morning and I wanted to pass it along to 5 of my Blogger friends. This hug is for all the words of encouragement you send me every day!

Amanda
Audrey (mom)
Regan
Deanna
Avril

I wish all of you a very happy day.

I Have Been Featured!

I am so excited!!! I just found out that my card has been featured on the Cards Blog!

This challenge was so much fun to try! This week we are challenged to make a card with a base any shape but a rectangle or square. I am going to give it a try again.

I still can't believe that I was featured..........woot woot!