Blog Hop!

I am EXTREMELY proud to announce that I am on a second design team!  My Heart Pieces has some really nice original hand drawn digital stamps.  This is her first Blog Hop.  This is stop #2 for this Blog Hop.  You should have come from  Anne-Marie’s blog( http://lilybettescards.blogspot.in/ ) and your next hop is over to Danielle’s (http://www.d-dazzledscraps.com). You do need to make a comment at each blog to be eligible for a draw.  Thanks for stopping by! 

Anne-Marie (http://lilybettescards.blogspot.in/)

Cindy  (http://connell-crafts.blogspot.ca/)

Danielle  (http://www.d-dazzledscraps.com/)

Deanne (http://littlebitopaper.blogspot.ca/)

Judit (http://juditcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/)

Pauline (http://www.paulineguttrey.blogspot.com.au/)

Qadirah (http://alilcraftydiva.blogspot.com/)

Tammy (http://tammyscrapincorner.blogspot.in/)

Challenge Blog (http://myheartpiecesdigitalstampchallenge.blogspot.in/)

 It was hard to narrow down the first image I wanted to play with, but this fairy caught my eye.  She’s called “Waiting For You (2)”.  I coloured 2 copies of the mages with water colour pencils.  Then I cut out the braid and flowers from one image.  I pop-dotted the braid and flowers and then made a ribbon rose in the bottom right next to the fairy.  I used Stickles on the wings and the rose to give it the sparkly effect.   The image was trimmed and matted on dark green paper, then onto a card front layered with printed green paper. 

Then I had to play some more!  Did the fairy in green and made her a red-head like me!  Did a fall leaf theme for ths one...

As I was workng on these, a friend's daughter was visiting for the day and seemed interested in the image.  So I offered her an image and she created this!  She also chose everything for the card.  Great job Bella!

Another Layout

I finished another layout tonight using another title made by "P.S. I Love You Scrapbooking".  This one required some thought, but I think I created a fitting memorial for our uncle who died 7 years ago.

Design Team Member!

I am SO proud to announce that I am a design team member for 'PS I Love You Scrapbooking'!  She makes these adorable page titles and sells them on her site: http://stores.ebay.com/PS-I-Love-You-Scrapbooking  Here are my first 2 creation with her products!  I used the Sea World Die Cut for the first one and the Zoo + Girraffe Die cut for the second one.  Enjoy!

Cindy :)

Waddle Waddle Art First Show

I'm a little behind in posting this, but we had a great time!  We got some time to chat and brainstorm about future shows and projects.  We sold our first 8x8 album to a teen looking for a Mother's Day gift. (YAY!)  We got some input as to what people were interested in.  My Winnie the Pooh album drew alot of attention.  So I thought I'd share some of the pages from that album along with a pic of the tree of us at our table as the show opened...

A New Venture

So I HAVE been creating.  Seriously!  While working on a couple of 8x8 gift albums for a proud mom and grandmom, 2 of my girlfriends got excited over the idea of selling our work!  We put our heads together and came up with Waddle Waddle Art!  http://waddlewaddleart.blogspot.ca/ 
We have been getting ready for our first show at the
Craft and Gift Sale at Spirit West United Church
7003 199 Street
Saturday, May 5
9:30 am to 4:30 pm
I have just posted some samples of our work at the above website for you to drool over:)
Please come by and see what's new and exciting!

Hugs!  Cindy

Card inspiration

Hello!
Yes!  I'm still alive!
Very busy lately and not much play time, but these past two weeks have been just that... play time!  Here's some Mother's Day cards I had fun creating.  They are going to be sent to "From Our Hearts" for troups' use overseas.  I have a button on the right side to click on for those who wish to know more about this organization.

Life Book first page

I worked on my first page for the Life Book Class I am taking (see side bar for link)  and here it is....
I am quite psyched about it as I haven't drawn since high school and thought I was not able to.  We were to draw then paint a 'goddess' version of ourselves and list our postive qualities.  Hard to list and I needed Jim's help, but it got done! :)