It's the great Pumpkin, Paper Pumpkin Charlie Brown.

Okay everyone. I hope that you all have had a great sunday. Well, I have a quick question for you? How many of you have heard of Paper Pumpkin? Well, it is something new to me and I am so happy to share it with you. It is a monthly subscription that you can totally control and not only that but you get ALL the supplies you would need to create amazing projects. Here is a share of June's paper pumpkin kit. You can check out my site at http://craftinalli.stampinup.net to get signed up to start receiving yours. Here is the video. Let me know what you think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxx1T3TBKM8

Remarkable You Painted petal project Stampin'Up!

Hello everyone. It is so awesome to have you all come and spend a little time with me. Well, I recently made a project and a video for it. This is what I call my painted petals project. It was so much fun to make and it came together very quickly. Enjoy .

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Big announcement.

Here is the link to the video of my big announcement. :)

Enjoy. :)

Big News!!!

Hello everyone.

Sorry for being MIA. I have just been in one of those times we all get into where I had to get things in order and make some real important choices about what I have a passion for. Due to that I have some big news to share. Stay tuned for the announcement and the video.

Thinking of you

Well, I had some time to do a little coloring and make a quick card today. Nothing fancy, but I wanted to send a little something to someone and needed just a little note card to include. Thank goodness I was just practice coloring with some markers that I have that are no longer out on the market. It gave me a chance to practice simple principles like shading and grounding my image by giving it a foundation instead of having it floating in the air so to speak. The image I used is a image from Stampin Up. Cute little bear.  After I was done I decided to use some more Stampin up products and used some Hello Honey card stock and a piece of DSP from a paper pack that I don't have the name of off hand. Now, I thought that while the Hello Honey cardstock is pretty it was just a little plain. Therefore what did I do???????That's right I got my ebrush. LOL. I used one of my medium tone green Spectrum Noir markers and I airbrushed a gentle mist over the Hello Honey cardstock. Well that sure made a difference for me. It definitely made it not so plain and also helped to tie together all the elements of the card. Here is the finished result and now it is all packaged up . Also lucky for me I could make my own envelope for this using my 123 punch board from We r Memory Keepers. I think I have had or have almost everything they have made that you can call a tool and I love them all. :)  Anyway, here is my completed note card. Thanks for looking.

Happy Bokeh

Well, I have been at it again. I had to ebrush today. Hahaha. However instead of using my Spectrum Noir(SN) in the machine I decided to use my Sharpie(SP) marker . It was an interesting experience. I have 2 styles. Sharpie and BIC. I will share that the BIC markers do not fit in the Sharpie adapter. They do fit in another adapter. Once I try it out I will share which adapter seems to work with them. :)  In the mean time that is just a little heads up. Well, I wanted to really try my hand at Bokeh, which is a photographic effect where the back ground is distorted and the lights look like fuzzy circles of color. ( Basically how I see the world without my glasses. Hahaha)  Anyway, I recently purchased a stencil from Hallmark Scrapbook . It was a stencil of varied circles. I used this stencil to help me make the background of this card . I used a variety of different Sharpie markers to create the bokeh inspired affect. After that I used my Misti to stamp the sentiment of Happy Birthday on it, followed by using the stamp set that I got from 3Bird. In it there was a balloon stamp. I stamped that as well using my Misti 3 times and then colored it using my Spectrum Noir markers.  I tried a different way of coloring going from dark to light in a series of 3 colors within the same color family. I.E. TB1, TB2, TB3 and LV1, LV2, LV3 just to name a couple of color families used.  I topped it all off by accenting the highlight in the balloon with my Sakura white gel pen and attached it to the card with a string accent around the bottom. Very simple card and I think perfect for anyone male or female, young or old.    Anyway, here it is enjoy.

ATC Newbie

I just realized I did not share this one. This is my first attempt at an ATC. I am so happy with the results. This one piece utilized so many pieces from so many sources. You would never believe that something so small would. Hahaha. I lucked out and had a Spellbinders Die set so I did not have to measure to cut my initial ATC shape. I just had to run my die through my bigshot. The best part is that since it is a die set I also had the correct size piece for the inside so I could cut the smaller shape from a piece of scrap paper and use it as a temporary mask to protect the center of the paper . I did that because I wanted to use my eBrush to do the edge of the paper. I think it came out so pretty.
I also forgot to mention that the paper is from Anna Griffin. So pretty.
I used my WRMK( we are memory keepers) corner rounder to round opposite corners of the design paper.
Then the coloring fun began with the help of my Stampin Up (SU) butterfly punch and matching stamp set. I used my Spectrum Noir (SN) markers and some pencils to color up the butterfly . Lastly I grabbed the sentiment from another SU stamp set( for got which one at the time of this post) and used a different Spellbingers die to cut it out. eBrush that one as well and added some rhinestone to it. Attach and all done. I look forward to making more ATC cards. Eventhough it had so many parts to it due to the sheer size of the project it went by very quickly.  Enjoy.