Merci

Well it is the first day of summer and I am finally starting my spring cleaning in my hobby areas!  I am trying to get ready for the annual Where Bloggers Create and trying to FIND some of my things in the scrap room! 

This week was my last for delivering lunches to school kids this school year.  In one of my schools, I have student helpers in the shape of Grade 5.  These kids are being taught leadership skills and as part of their lunch time supervision of younger grades, on Lunch Lady day (my delivery day) they also pick up and deliver the lunches to those classrooms. 
As a thank you, I ty to give tham a little token at Christmas and the end of the year.  I baked up some Pilsbury Chocolate Chip cookies and packaged them up in ziplock bags for their year end gift.  My employer also threw in some bendy pencils you can see peeking out from the bag topper I made.

I used Tim Holtz and another stencil to create a layered punky look to the toppers.  6x3" white cardstock was the base.  First layer was hexagons in yellow, second was stripes in pink and the top layer was a gear stencil in blue.  I played around with the order and so had two test ones that I turned into the Thank You card for the teacher involved.  The letters are an older Stampin' Up set I have and that's it!  Fold over the edge of the bag and staple to secure. 

Merci to the Grade 5 class at Holy Cross School in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada!  They are a bilingual elementary and junior high IB school.

Tangle time!

Hello!
I was introduced to Zentangle, 3 years ago by a fellow stamper.  At the time, I said 'Cute, but what can I do with it?'  Well give me time to open my mind and now I LOVE this version of purposeful doodling that relaxes me and adds a personal touch to many things! 

At work lately, the moms were commenting how the kids were required to each purchase a practice ball.  There are only so many colours and styles out there of #3 and #4 balls apparently. So I offered to tangle them.  They kinda looked at me funny, but said sure.  Here are the results that only took about 45 minutes each to do. 

Before and After

 This is Gemmagh's Ball



Before and After for Anna's Ball

 Fun right???!!  Check out the Zentangle site for info!

Time Reminder

Hello!

It's 'time' for a reminder post for Quirky Craft's current challenge.  'It's About Quirky Time' is the challenge, therefore pick out something time related and have fun!  We are being sponsored by the Cutting Café this time and were provided with some fun files.  
For this project I continue with my alphabet tag project and used some scraps, and a nice quote that was included in our kit. 

I started with a Prima tag from one of their tag pads and then used a Tim Holtz stencil and black Embossing Paste to add a dimensional layer.  Different metal pieces, charms, and a scrap from last week's project then the quote was die cut and distressed before adhering to the tag. 

Trim all around the edge and mat onto black card and voila!  A Time Tag!

 

I like to use up as much of my scraps as possible when making cards.  I mean, the colour coordinating is done, put them together in a different way and we have another card in a fraction of the time!

The card base for this is an old one from Magenta.  Precut windows out of different earth coloured cards.  This one is black.  I added the 'time' word collage background behind the window.  One of the quotes was ripped out and sprayed with my colour spray, then adhered to the front.

 

 

The inside is covered with ripped white paper for ease of writing a legible message.  In the seam is a scrap of the sprayed clocks background and overlapping that is the second half of the quote.  "There's no time like the present to tell you... how much I love you"

 

Hugs!

Drawing = Clean Water

Hi all!

Wanted to share a link that if you decide to participate will donate money to a good cause AND get a cute class too!  Willowing is a lady I LOVE to follow and when I get extra cash, take a class!  If you click on this image below or the one I will place on the sidebar it will take you directly to her blog and the explanation of her project in detail.  The bottom line is, make a donation to give someone access to clean water and get a free class to learn to draw this beautiful mermaid.  I will be playing and will post the result of my mermaid attempt a later date :)

It's About Quirky Time!

Time....
We all wish we had more.
I know I do!!!

This biweekly Quirky Crafts Challenge is about Time.  We are using images provided to us by The Cutting Café.  I really wanted to create a layered depth with this card, so I printed the Clock Background twice.  One I punched out a few clocks and used it as a mask to spray some of the clocks darker.  Then the rest of the image was sprayed with other shades of pink and gold.  On top of that is adhered a vellum printed Time pdf.  I believe the ribbon along the left is by Maya Arts. 

 

 

It's About That Time is a package that has clock faces, circle greetings and standard greetings for various occasions.  I adheared the cicle greeting and clock face to chipboard and sprayed them as well.  Placed a large pink brad in the centre and then popped it up on the card front. 

 

I have been trying to finish off the insides of the cards more lately.  and so on the inside, scraps were used to create a focal point for one of the greetings.  Have fun creating!

Peacock Reminder

Hi all!

How was your long weekend!  My was good!  So good, I forgot to post my reminder card.  And I had it done ahead of time this time!!! So SORRY to Cazzy and all of you!
Quirky Crafts Challenges does a different challenge every 2 weeks and the current challenge "As Proud (and as beautiful) as a Quirky Peacock!" For this challenge we were sponsored by Stitchy Bear Stamps and I used one of the beautiful images by the artist Alipeeps and the background is by Mehendi.

I started by colouring the image with my markers and adding some shimmer with a metallic pen.  I am not good at skin tones with my markers, so I did that part with my watercolour crayons and a water brush.  I fussy cut her out after I was done.

I printed the background to 5x7" then trimmed it down to 4.5x6 and mounted it to my 5x6.5" card front.  I cut a piece of vellum down to 4x5.5" and added this to the card.  The fussy cut girl came next then the greeting by Dylusions was stamped with black Staz On.  3 teal pearls were added as a finishing touch and voila!  I love images like this one! 

As Proud (and beautiful) as a Quirky Peacock

Hello all!
The challenge this time is Pretty as a Peacock at Quirky Crafts Challenge.  We are being sponsored by Stitchy Bear this time around.  They have a large list of artists that have various styles of their own.  I've picked out an image by My Heart Pieces this time and come up with an easel card.  The fun part is I used to be a design team member for My Heart Pieces and I played with this image before.

I coloured the image with my markers then cut it out using my Spellbinders Labels 20, carefully clipping around the tail.  I used the large die from the same set to cut out a mat.  I used one the backgrounds created by Coosty Creations printed at 5x7" and cut down to 4x6" and matted with teal cardstock cut to 4.25x6".  The panel is adhered to a folded green card, making it an easel card.  Along the folded bit holding up the easel is a strip of feathers sewn to a ribbon bought at Micheals years ago. 

Check in next week for a different Peacock card!