Sunday, July 27, 2014

shocked

hey guys just a quick hello to you all and...

 so i just looked at the pictures from my fone i posted yesterday i was shocked how good they were they are so small on my fone and when i email them to myself they are HUGE so i wasnt sure if they were any good. SO GLAD THEY ARE! I dont have a fancy fone it is a texting slider fone tho it is newer and has touch screen but the screen is scratched a little due to my metal plugs in my ears. It didn't dawn on me to check them last night lol So, for sneak peeks and little things i might just use my fone instead of whipping out the FANCY Camera (as trevor calls it and then says you know the one that cooks and cleans the kitchen, my friends are amazing funny)

Ok, so the other thing i been doing is working on using my alcohol markers i have like 3 Copics (a little pricey for me), 24 (four 6pack sets) of Spectrum Noir (more in my price range), and a shit ton of Sharpies lol so been watching some videos on Spectrum Noir on youtube to learn me up    LOL
So, here's hoping that i can get them down then be able to use them on projects and things. Here are my practice pix (via my fone)


Before watching the blending tutorials



 After watching a couple of tutorials on blending


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Saturday, July 26, 2014

update and some sneak peeks at a project for Ashley

Hey guys so today was a very busy day got off from the motel at 8 am went home went to bed then got up with a sore throat and a small fever so yeah life was great all day... cleaned my kitchen for an hour not totally done but it looks ok then went to work at the gas station from 4:15pm to 11:30pm then walked to the motel to work midnight to 8am (which is where I am at now!lol) been a productive and sickly day but life is good and both jobs are pretty kool so no sweat.

I planned on posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and I know what I will be posting on Mondays and Wednesdays but I didnt really plan for Fridays... kinda was thinking Fridays could be a wrap up of the week and pictures of things in progress and/or pictures of things I received (hauls and things from friends) and/or sneak peeks. Just kinda randomly things like that! 

Ok so on sunday I posted about some commissions/projects I am in the process of making currently I have on worked on the Pencil cards for Ashley til last night here are pictures I took with my fone sorry if they are griny i hate that but cant carry my big SUPER expensive camera around bc it's a little heavy bc it's a full manual digital SLR from Cannon but here are the pix.



This is the original cards that inspired this project. From an old crafting magazine







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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Gnome and his pet ATC

Hey guys! So, todays post is about an ATC i made for a swap-bot group Gnome Sweet Gnome (funny enough this was the Lawn Fawn set I used also!) But the group had a swap called Gnome and his pet i called mine gnome and pet bc it sounds better!


Ok so we all know i love this set from Lawn Fawn and i love using it with the navy card stock and a white gel pen it makes me super happy! I hope you like it! 

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Monday, July 21, 2014

Faux Postage ATC

Hey guys so today starts my new posting schedule... (fingers crossed i can do this) 

So today's post is about an ATC i made for a swap-bot swap. 

This swap was faux postage theme.


I made my faux postage stamp by stamping the face on cream/ivy then cut it out and added it to some white card stock then took a round hole punch and made niches. then took a brownish back ground and added a hole punched piece of paper and distressed the card then added some stamps and things on it then added the postage stamp lastly i added the 25 cent to it.

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Sunday, July 20, 2014

commissions/projects

Hey guys! So i know my new plan is to post my art and projects on Mon, Wed and Fri but i am sure there will be some posts in between that like this one!! Ok so i have some commissions that need to get done. I call them commissions/projects

#1 is I am doing for Ashley (one of the besties)- She is a first grade teacher and i seen this project in an old crafting magazine from like 2010 i been recently going back through them just to get some inspiration, well there was a Valentines card with a pencil in it and i thought how cute would that be for Ashley to give something like this to her students for their birthdays. i left them blank bc talking with Ashley she wanted to use them for other things too like good grades and stuff. i thought that was genius! So, i been slowly working on them I still have 2 weeks to get them done before skool starts in Florida. I have all the pieces just need to put them all together.

#2 is making some 3x3 cards for my sister in law Elizabeth's mother Betty.Elizabeth rocks and i made her and my niece some 3x3 cards for Christmas last year and when Elizabeth and I were talking while at the lake house for the 4th of July family reunion. She was saying her mom was at her home feeding the dog and she seen the 3x3 cards and loved them and was mad at Elizabeth for not telling her that i made cards lol Betty is a riot! So, i told Elizabeth knowing that betty loves flamigos that i had a super cute Flamigo stamp (which i do from the Lawn Fawn set of  Gnome Sweet Gnome). Elizabeth was over the moon about that and loved the idea to have me send her mom some surprise cards!

#3 is for my baby brother Kyle aka Bean (childhood nickname i still use!!) he texted me on Friday asking was i able to and could I do a drawing for him in black and white of a tarantula for him to hang on the wall. He knows I'm an artist and can and has created some really amazing things but did really keep up with what I could and couldnt do tho funny enough he did like my Facebook artist page when I first made it lol. As we talked it out i did have him go to my facebook artist page to look a t some of my black and white and pencil drawings. So, he was very excited and tagged me in some of his Critter photos he and Jess have a lot of critters... dogs, cats, snakes, spiders, rats, scorpions, etc Jess works at a vets office and she fosters animals back to help also and alot of times they keep them. They are two amazing and loving people! After talking with Bean he was excited and wants me to fill his walls with critters and stuff. I want to use pix of his own critters bc i think that would be more special for him and he said he would pay for supplies and pay for shipping. which on this scale i might make him pay for shipping nothing else tho he works hard at a fast food place as a shift manager and works multiple shifts and a row it's hard work i did Taco Bell for 3 years boys been there for like 4 years.

Well i cant wait to finish things and let you guys see someof the work i have planned. I have a schdeule all made up for the next like 3 months fingers crossed i can do it all and some lol 

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Thursday, July 17, 2014

posting more plan

Hey guys! Ok so i am going to try and get life straight on here guys i want to try and get into a routine of posting hoping starting Monday i can do that I want to post Monday, Wednesday and Friday is my plan I had made a plan to post once a week. So far so good on that bu i feel like i never know what i want to post so i kinda wrote down what i want to post on what day. To kinda keep me straight . Wish me luck!

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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Pokemon ATC : Grass type

Hey guys this was the first ATC in Cookingbear's Pokemon series!


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Sunday, July 13, 2014

Pokemon : Fairy Type

Hey guys so here is my little fairy type pokemon atc i made for cookingbear's pokemon swap series on swap-bot.com



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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Pokemon: Fire type

Hey guys! Here is my cute little Vulpix i made for Cookingbear's Pokemon swap on Swap-bot.com



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Monday, July 7, 2014

Bug type pokemon

Hey guys so here is the ATC i made for the Bug type Pokemon for Cookingbear's Pokemon swap series on swap-bot.com


This little Caterpie is  using stringshot.

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Sunday, July 6, 2014

Card and mermaid ATC for Cousin Crystal

Hey guys so for our trip i made for Cousin Crystal for having all of us for the weekend. While everyone was down on the boats on the lake watching fireworks i was making a card and watching netflix. Needed a little alone time where ever i could get it, with a house full of people (like 26)! It is great time tho bu being a family of two with a cat it was a lot of people with a lot of noise and drinking. Crystal is a huge fan of Mermaids so I gave her an ATC out of my own collection that i made last month I loved it all and i know she will too! She has a ton of hand made things around her home that she treasures. Which i love about her bc i am the same way.





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Holiday Weekend at the Lake House

Hey guys so i hope everyone had a fun and safe holiday weekend
(it was the Independence Day in America on the 4th of July and Canada on the 1st of July)
Here is what happened 4th of July weekend for us




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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Pokemon: water type

Heya guys! So not sure when I will post again over the next week I will be on Holiday downstate for a family reunion. Family from Florida, Chicago, and Detroit will be all heading to Midland for some R&R at a cousin's lake house for some fun in the sun on the water for the 4th of July!! So excited our niece is in the state of Michigan!!! Doesn't not happen much. Very exciting can't wait to see her!! It's a little hard with her living in Florida. 

So, I am going to post a super cute little ATC. This is guy is Horsea he is a Pokemon from the original 151 Pokemon. He's super cute and i got the idea from some guy who had stickers that were kinda like this with the cut out i have to find the right size for the ATC but made it work.

This was an ATC swap for a swap-bot.com swap from Cooking bear she has done a few and I am just now getting them photographed and posted here sorry for the delay but life is super busy! My original goal was to post once a week. Trying to do better than that. I'm an over achiever fo'sure!

Colored with sharpie and cut out.

The site promotion is the new way i am going to do it it's just on card stock with the title and the blog site here instead of pasting one on before I post that was a small reason I don't get a lot posted laziness lol but with this one it's just right on my easel there so no worries everyone will know  made where they picture came from and who made the item in the picture! Which I feel is important I never remember where I got a photo from if it isn't labeled.



-ENJOY-
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Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Tattoo inspired my new ATC

Hey guys and gals!
So, i recently joined a swap-bot swap called "scissors" so my first thought was mine and my boyfriend's tattoo's we got together a few years back... um like 5 years whatever lol

so here is the tattoos

both are on our right calves


So i printed his tattoos and outlined it and then i too some tracing paper and traced it! colored it then... Added it to some super cute LAWN FAWN PAPER!


i tried to match the lettering best i could while looking at the back of my leg lol i couldnt find that picture of the tats when i was printing them i used a picture of both his calves they both have tattoos.

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