canorous: adjective

pleasant sounding : melodious

 

pronunciation

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entering this card in:

 

Cute Card Thrusday - Challenge 261 Easter Parade

Sparkles Monthly Challenge #42 - Birds

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - Challenge #35 Bring on Spring

Card Makin' Mama's - It's Springtime

 

A little card I drew, I used water color paper and Faber Castell Aquarelle pencils to color in the back ground and the chick. Metallic grape Gelato for her hat and hand stitched some grass. Outlined everything with their PITT pen in black.

 

 

A close up shot of her little flower hat and the fuzzy brad! The Liquid Scrapdots really do help balance the brad "underworkings" ( for lack of a better word for the parts that poke through the paper ) I also think paper piecing adds a lot to a simple card too, do you?

I really do love dimension on a card, and haven't a clue why it makes me so happy?

 

Faber Castell - PITT pens, gelatos, Aquarelle pencils

Helmar - Liquid Scrapdots

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And here is Mother Nature's riposte concerning spring...one day of sunshine! woo hoo!! lol
I choose a more roseate outlook, no snow :)



riposte: noun

a fencer's quick return thrust following a parry

or

 a retaliatory verbal sally : retort

also

 a retaliatory maneuver or measure



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Since my mermaids wall hangings have been selling well at the Art MoB, I have been wanting to make other mermaidery type projects. So I made this tag and am entering it in:

Simon Says Stamp & Show Challenge - Water

 

 

Everything came from my stash! Hooray, I love using up some of the bits and bobs that pile up!

 I free hand cut the mermaid tail, edged it with Vintage photo distress inks and then covered it with a layer of stickles. Used my craft knife to cut one of the waves out and slid her in. Used Liquid Scrap dots to lift the wave up a little and one of her fins.

 

Used the Helmar 450 to hold down the big shell and Gemstone Adhesive to secure the micro beads.

  

Ranger - stickles, distress ink

Helmar - Liquid Scrap Dots, 450, Gemstone Adhesive

 

grift: verb

to obtain (money) illicitly (as in a confidence game)

or

to acquire money or property illicitly

pronunciation

"Grift" was born in the argot of the underworld, a realm in which a "grifter" might be a pickpocket, a crooked gambler, or a confidence man—any criminal who relied on skill and wits rather than physical violence—and to be "on the grift" was to make a living by stings and clever thefts."
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Making a few tags for the store, my only Easter tag that I had in there, has already sold! I don't know why, but I am always humbled when they buy my tags :)

 

entering this in:

 

Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog - Easter/Spring

  Added dimension with the grass, love that my Liquid Scrapdots can equal the height of the bunny's tail :)

 

 

bunny, cotton ball - misc, from stash

Creative Imaginations - basket weave paper

Cricut - Happy Hauntings cartridge p. 67 ( grass )

Really Reasonable Ribbon - twine

Prima - ( gem butterfly )

Heidi Swapp - bling ( eye )

Helmar - Liquid Scrapdots, Gemstone Adhesive

Studio G - stamp

Sakura - Glaze pens

Honey Script - font

Ranger - Liquid Pearls

Stazon - ink
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Cath over at Moxie Fab has us all thinking about home decor projects.
 I took some tea light candles and wrapped some washi tape around them and then had tons of fun embellishing them. Warning here folks, this may become addictive. They are so cute and tiny! lol I can picture them in the guest bathroom or out on my balcony...either way I can't wait to make some more.

Spring Home Decor Challenge in the Moxie Fab World
also entering in
Anything But a Card - Challenge 15 Spring or Alice in Wonderland

Do make sure that anything you adhere to the tea lights is out of the way of the flame!!

Maya Road - Fabric Tape
Ranger - Tissue Tape
Recollections - flower
twine, button, fiber - misc
Helmar - 450 Adhesive



demotic: adjective

of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing

or

 common, popular

and

 of or relating to the form of Modern Greek that is based on everyday speech

pronunciation

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Yesterday was the second day of spring...huh? I woke up to this and thought I must be dreaming!

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entering this little bunny in:

 

Die Cuttin Divas - Challenge #107 Use a bunny

So do you eat the tail or the ears first?

Ears for me, lol...although I haven't had a chocolate bunnies in eons!

Cricut  Craft Room - Easter Seasonal 2010

( This was offered in the CCR as a free cut, made my base card shape and then the cover, and the bow )
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Inkspirational Challenge #12



I love having a sketch challenge and trying to come up with an alternate way to do it yet keep within the parameters of the sketch requirements. I was worried at first at the mono chromatic aspect to the challenge but once I began digging through my stash it all came together on it's own. I just love that!

I have used Liquid Scrapdots for many tiny things before but I think this little bee that I fussy cut out is the tiniest of them all!

ANOTHER reason I love Liquid Scrapdots is the layering effect. I know that twine and burlap aren't that thick, but when you want your die cut to "float" equal to the material; it sure makes that feat possible with Liquid Scrapdots. With pop dots, you have a height you cannot manipulate, but with LSD, anything is possible! I used the LSD under the flower and under the top portion of the clay pot.

American Crafts - pattern paper
Cricut - Stretch Your Imagination cartridge, p. 80 ( tag )
Close to my Heart - ink marker
Really Reasonable Ribbon - Hemp ribbon ( bow )
Prima - flower ribbon
Helmar - 450, Liquid scrapdots
K&Co. - Gem
Ranger - Liquid Pearls
rub on sentiment,twine, clay pot, glitter flower, burlap - misc.

Reminder: Paper Playtime has their Challenge #6 to Use a Bee up an running.

plaudit: noun

an act or round of applause

or

 enthusiastic approval — usually used in plural

pronunciation
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Anything But a Card -  Challenge 15 Spring or Alice in Wonderland

OK, so Tracy went away for a week to play ....errr....work for a week while she was in Las Vegas. So, maybe I whinned a little too much because the girls from the Mixed Media Monday Nights group assigned....ASSIGNED me something to do...geez...bossy sweet friends! lol
Actually, I loved every minute of it and want to thank them for the push incentive to create this piece.

 They gave me a list of things to use:

Lori - butterfly....who started the whole idea!
Mary - gesso and bubble wrap
Jean - the color yellow
Anna - book text and she found the quote for me to use too!
 

 

OK, so I'm thinking this piece will work well for this ABAC challenge on a couple of levels. First, when I think of spring I think of butterflies. Here, I gessoed book text, inked it with Ranger's Dylusions and then ran it through the printer for the butterflies which I fussy cut out. I outlined the veins with my Faber Castell PITT pen in black. .

 I couldn't remove the yellow from the above picture,  but it does show how I gave one butterfly some dimension with my Helmar's Liquid Scrapdots. I really do love this stuff!! I also am in love with the Goosebumps spray that gave this ink such a wonderful dimension.

 

 I also think this piece fulfills some of the Alice in Wonderland criteria as it has watches embossed with modling paste using the Crafter's Workshop stencil TCW 201S. I spritzed some Imagine Goosebumps spray before spreading out the Ranger's Distress stains ( using water ). Wonderful effect, will be using this more!

Rabbit quotes on time from Alice in Wonderland:

"Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!"
[singing] I'm late / I'm late / For a very important date. / No time to say "Hello, Goodbye". / I'm late, I'm late, I'm late."

 

Walrus quote

 “The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings” 
 

Then used my Distress Stains as splats. I hit them hard onto the board and it gives a wonderful ...splat!

 

My finished wall hanging:

Daler Rowney - gesso

Ranger - Distress Stains

Imagine - Goosebump spray

Crafters Workshop - stencil

Really Reasonable Ribbon - cording

Faber Castell - PITT pen

Helmar - Liquid Scrapdots

 

Thank you ladies, it's already hanging up in the Art MoB! 

sacrosanct: adjective

most sacred or holy : inviolable

or

 treated as if holy : immune from criticism or violation

pronunciation



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Hi WOYWW'ers..missed me? Well, I missed you guys!

I haven't done a WOYWW post in 2 weeks!

 

 I have been sooooooooo busy, I've joined 3 Design Teams,  ( and it has taken a short adjustment period to get use to being on 3 teams, but I have a handle on it and have been progressing nicely, although I have tons of notes set up so I don't forget my challenges and what numbers to comment on!! ) THEN, I got accepted to do the May Arts New Release Spring Craft Challenge...and I've already sold 4 signs for this month so I need to make MORE! ( special note to all the Ranger fans, my first sign made from one of TH tag designs just sold!) woo hoo!!

And some of you ( Thank you from the bottom of my heart for checking in with me and encouraging me along the way, it's been GREATLY appreciated ) have been keeping up with another challenge of mine which I am finishing up TODAY!!! The 30 Mother's Day cards in 30 days challenge issued by the Art MoB ( which is the gallery where I sell my things, for those of you that don't know )..and now we are going to have a "show" on April 6th for all the participants; ( whew ) so I am begining to work on my display...which is why I have the floor picture instead of a desk picture today.

 What's on my desk at the moment? ....is me typing this post! HA!

 

It's a work in progress, just trying to get a general idea of how to arrange them. As you can see there is an empty space on the bottom row...which is where card #30, the last, the final Mother's Day card will go!!
 

ta ta dah...

Really Reasonable Ribbon
Faber Castell - PITT pen
Upper East Side - font

 Father's Day are the next clamant cards!

( clamant -  demanding attention )

fetter: noun

 a chain or shackle for the feet

or

 something that confines : restraint

 

 pronunciation

 

I am looking forward to freeing myself from the fetters of making Mother's Day cards!

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#29 of 30 Mother's Day cards in 30 days

( almost finished, working on the display for them now!! )

 

 

Cricut - Don Juan cartridge, p. 57 ( stitched )

Traveling Typewriter - font

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I always like to add seasonal birthday cards into the regular birthday cards that I sell on a regular basis, so I made this one and am entering it into:

Bitten by the Bug - Egg~ceptional Easter Egg challenge

Cricut - Paisley cartridge, p. 40 (butterfly)
Cricut Craft Room - Easter Seasonal cartridge
 ( to create base card and then card front and base )
Ranger - stickles
Making Memories - rub on sentiment