Dahlia Flower

Hello Hello!

How is everyone today?

I have spent the morning making sure my fingers have more red ink on them than my card!

At least that's what it seems.

I had to run to the bank and the teller had quite the look when she seen the red stained finger tips..

Note to self Buy more Alcohol wipes!!!

So todays card I chose the Dahlia Flower

This is one I have drawn to sit off the page and I love it! It kind of gives a bit of a different look to your clean and simple cards.

Copic colors used are:

 R56, R35, R27, YR04, Y17.

I found some cute little flat backed tear shaped embellishments on a site called Wish.

and the stamp sentiment comes from a company called Wplus9.

Paper is from DCWV and is called Wildflower.

I hope this inspires you to be creative and ink up your fingers for the day!

Have an amazing time and thank you for dropping in! 

Feeling blue?

Feeling Blue? How about teal?

Sometimes that's a good thing!

I felt like coloring these flowers up in tones of blue and I love how they came out!

What do you think?

This is another image I managed to color up while sitting out in the middle of a snow storm waiting on my driver to come down out of the mines.

For those that don't know I run my own business as a Pilot car driver.

It is the most amazing job!

I see so much beautiful scenery. I just love packing my camera along on extra long trips and taking my time on my way home to just enjoy the beauty of every day.

But enough about me! You want to know what colors I used!

So here we go...

Blue: B39, B29, B24, B23
Teal: B39, BG09, BGO5, YG13

Greens: YG67, YG17, YG13

Yellows: YR23, YR24, E37, E29.

The sentiment is included in the purchase and 

Elegant Daisy's can be found in the link!

I hope you are all having an wonderful day!

Thank you so much for stopping in!

Blooms of Love

Its snowing outside and I'm coloring Iris's!

Is that weird?

We are expecting a huge snow storm and I'm hoping that my time will be spent

coloring instead of working in it!

This is a image from my shop called  Iris

of course! What else would I call it?

Copic colors used are:

R59, R56, R46, R37, R35, R43

YG67, YG17, YG13

YR23, YR24, Y15

Please ask any questions you might have, I would love to hear from you!

Have ana amazing day!

Another African Daisy

When your daughters at a birthday party and you have the house to yourself what do you do?

Why color! ALL DAY!

This is my second card today using this image!

I simply love the twists and turns of the African Daisy!

I thought this one could use a little bit more of a rugged look to it,

So I dug out some awesome paper by Prima

This set is called Epiphany

The sentiment is included with the African Daisy.

For copic colors I used:

RV19, RV11, VO4, VO5, V09, V15, V17, BV25, B95, BV29

I did a bit of machine sewing around one of my layers and popped a few brads around the next.

I really hope you like it!

Thank you so much for dropping in!!

Have an amazing day!

African Daisy

African Daisy's made their way into my garden a couple of summers ago and I really feel like they are some of the coolest flowers!

The twist of the petals and the shade of color they came in are AMAZING!

Ive just added this one to my shop and I really hope you like it!

You can find it here:

African Daisy

You will also get some free sentiments with this image!

Colors used for my bloom are:

BV29, BV25, BV34, BV31, BV13.

E47, YR27, YR24, Y17, Y08

I hope you are having a wonderful day and Thank you so much for stopping in!

Black eyed susan

Today I needed a nice relaxing stress reliever. Well trying to anyway!

Seeing so much ugliness in the world makes me so sad and I needed something beautiful.

So I pulled out the watercolors which I have very little practice with.

Just a little something different to keep the creative juices flowing!

For this card I have used the image

Black Eyed Susan

Prima Watercolors in Shimmering lights

and

Kuretake watercolors

I found that the two sets really played well together.

But the shimmer in the Prima set is amazing!!! I wish I could photograph it better!

The paper comes from a Paper Studios matt stack called Our Family Tree

Then I have finished off with a bit of machine sewing.

Heart Burst

The sun is peaking its head out this morning in South Eastern Idaho and its so refreshing!

Almost makes me want to wash my windows... (Almost!)

Today I would like to share with you my newest image called

Heart Burst

It's a clean and simple corner image the depicts a heart bursting with Love

or Joy! I broke out my Hero Arts Die to add in the sentiment that I cut out of copic paper then colored to match! I then added Novu drops to the blue circles and to the Love word for added dimension.

Copic colors are :

Hearts: R59, R56, R85, R83, R81, R30

Yellow: Y17, Y15, Y11

Blue B39, BG09, BG07, BG05, BG02, BG01, BG0000

Gray  W9, W7, W5, W3.

The background paper is by Lawn Fawn called perfectly plaid winter. (But it feels so springy to me!)

I hope you enjoyed this card post. And I hope to see you again soon!

Have a wonderful day!

Exotic Peacock

The colors for this peacock were inspired from several that I was checking out on Pinterest.

I never would have thought to add in pinks to the color scheme of things!

I have been looking at different card layouts recently trying to expand  my horizons a little bit from my normal clean and simple... I'm not sure this is quite the success I was hoping for but I'm not giving up!

This Peacock is one of the images from my etsy shop

found here:  Peacock

The love letters are some fun bling that I found at Hobby Lobby by Momenta and just couldn't resist!

I do love things that sparkle!!

Copic colors are really simple for this one:

B39, B26, BG09, BG05, BG01, RV17, RV14, BV08, YG07

I just went in and added flicking being careful not to over blend so some of the lines stood out.

I then blinged up the end of each feather and around the card with Black Nuvo drops from Tonic.

Other than that clean and simple!

Thank you so much for dropping in!

Have a Fab Day!

Another Valentines!

Image used:

Valentines Floral

                  This morning as I was photographing this card I couldn't help but think how cool would this card be in black and white except for the heart! I am so doing that next!

I wasn't to thrilled with how this one came out. The color of the flower just doesn't pop against the rest. What do you think? 

The red I found a bit more challenging than the last one I made. It was a lot harder to get all my reds to blend. I actually went over it so many times that the marker bled completely through my Xpress it paper and stained my white desk lol! Well now it truly looks like a crafty desk!

I really want to get one of those crafty pads I see so many people using that protects the desk and clean up is a blast! Any recommendations?

Ok Ill quit jabbering already and get to the point!

Copic colors!

For the heart: R59, R46, R39, R37, R29, R27, R17

Green: R67, YG17, YG13

Flower: E17, R22, R20, R01, Y15, Y02

I have machine sewn around the outside using a basic zigzag stitch and layered through out with basic card stock.

The sentiment is from Hero Arts Love set.

I hope I didn't bore you to tears with my longer than usual post, I haven't figured out a happy medium yet for blogging! But I will!

Have a wonderful day!!!

Mums Floral Frame

Hello everyone!

I think I have a love going on with yellow flowers..

It must mean I am really missing summer?

This is the project I worked on today while sitting out at work in 3 degree weather! I was inspired to create some warmth!

This is my newest image called Mums Frame

I just love an image that wraps around a card. It feels so clean and classic don't you think?

The colors used for these flowers are YR25, Y15,Y02 and E49

The leaves are YG67, YG17, YG13

The sentiment comes from

the Hero Arts set Thanks

Thank you so much for dropping in and checking out my blog.

Please feel free to ask any questions! I would love to help!

Valentines Floral

This is a fun new image that is perfect for Valentines Day!

I printed this out super light using the wash out option in Word

then colored away to my hearts content!

Ive designed this new image called Valentine's Floral to print as you see in a square.

Perfect for a clean and simple card!

The sentiment comes from the Hero Arts Love set.

I then ran the whole project through my sewing machine set on a basic zigzag stitch.

Copic colors used are:

Heart: RV66, RV19, RV55

Leaves: YG67, YG17, YG13

Flower: B39, B37, BG09, BG07, BG05, BG01

I really appreciate that you stopped by to check out this card!

And I hope you are having am amazing day!

Warm Blossoms

This simple card was so nice to make!

It was actually really easy and came together with only a few colors.

These roses are from my garden and I feel like they represent growth and new life for me.

I have never been able to grow roses.

And yet this summer this bush took off and flourished.

It brought a smile to my face when times were rough.

I truly cant wait to see how it does this coming summer!

Colors used for these flowers are:

YR27, YR24, YR23, Y19, Y15, Y11, E89

W9, W7, W5, W3

You can find this digi in my Etsy shop: Roses

Hens and Chicks

This beautiful new Hens and Chicks image is now available in my Etsy shop thanks to a request from

Angela Yearous. She is an amazing member of out DT team on

Passionate Paper Creations.

Do you like the card? Its available too! I have so many cards that I have started listing them as well!

Copic colors for this is:

W6, V99, V95, V28, V06, V05, BG78, YG97,YG67, YG61, YG63,YG17 

The sentiment is by Art C

I hope you are all having a wonderful day!

Koi

I had so  much fun coloring up this sweet Koi!

And its so easy! For each scale start with your darkest then build out to your lightest.

Koi have so many random patterns that you really cant go wrong!

Copic colors I have used are:

YR27, YR24, YR23, Y17, Y18, Y13, E18, W3, W6, W7, W9, C1,C2,C3,C5

The stamp sentiment is from Wplus9 stamped with VersaMark then heat embossed is silver.