Two Tiddly

  Oh, yeah!  The New Year is starting out right -- two posts in one day!  The grandkids had been staying with me and since they sleep later than I do, I had been slipping into the craft room and quietly crafting while they snoozed.  This morning I finished my CAS Thank You card -- and they slept on, so I took a peek at the Sketch Challenge over at Outlawz and the light bulb went off in my head (which doesn't happen often).  I had a few Tiddly Inks images that I had colored up for Christmas cards and didn't have a chance to use.  There they sat -- perfect for this week's sketch challenge.  So, I got busy and this is what I came up with using another wonderful sketch from Outlawz:

Tiddly Inks:  Caroling Wryn

   Sorry, I can't give you the details on the Copics used, it was colored during my breaks at work as I frantically tried to get Christmas cards made for everyone.  The papers were all from my scrap pile.  I can tell you that the corner and tag dies are from Cuttlebug.  And that I used Coffee and Walnut inks on all the papers and the main image is on pop dots.

   Sketch Challenge finished and still the kids slept on (starting a new year must have taken a lot out of them), so I decided to use the same sketch and image and make another Christmas card.  Here's the plainer more traditional version:

I'm pretty thrilled -- here it is January 1st and I've ALL READY started on this year's Christmas cards.  Now, that's amazing! 

My grandkids went home and I'm sitting here thinking "Uggghhh!  Work tomorrow."  But today, today was a good day.  I hope it was for you, too!

The Sweet Serenity of Books

   Happy New Year!!

   To start out 2014 right, I made a thank you card for a dear cousin, who passed on a box of favorite childhood books, with the hopes that in a few years time my granddaughter will fall in love with them too.  I used the CAS design that I have been using on so many cards lately (Still my favorite) and I am going to enter it in the CAS Challenge at Outlawz. 

Tiddly Inks  School Girl

Copics:

Skin:  R00, R11, E11, E21, E02, E00

Hair:  E79, E77, E74, E71, E70

Skirt:  B99, B97, B95, B93

Shirt and Bow:  R24, R22, R20

Socks:  C3, C1

Books:  N3, N1, R39, YG97, E59, E55

Ground:  E55, E33, E37, E79, YG97

The Longfellow Quote is by Serendipity and is stamped on using Memento Ink.

May 2014 Bring Us All Peace, Joy, Love and Prosperity!

Snow -- Man!

   Hello everyone!  This morning I made a card for the Friday's Alcohol Marker Challenge at Outlawz.  After all the CAS cards that I made this past year, I was anxious to add layers and embellies on this one -- after all Christmas vacation will be over soon and I will probably be back to very little time to craft -- so I am enjoying it while I can.  I hope you are too!!!

Tiddly Inks:  Winter Wryn and Snowman

Designer Paper:  Basic Gray's Pine Branch/Avalanche from the Fruitcake collection.

Cardstock:  DCWV

Embellishments:  The Paper Studio (pearls and snowflake)

Ribbon:  ??

Dies:  Spellbinders

Embossing Folder:  Cuttlebug
PopDots:  3L  The horizontal panel with the snowflake and the image are raised up.

Copics:

Skin:  R00, R11, E00

Hair:  E57, E37, E33, E51

Clothes:  YG97, YG95, YG93, YG91

Fur trim:  E33, E51

Snowman:  B00, B000, N1, R00, YR68, YR65

Snowman's Hat:  C7, C5, C3, C1, 110

Snowman's Scarf:  R29, R27, R24, R22, N3

Snow on Ground:  BG72, BG18

Background:  W3 

Falling Snow:  Uni-Paint marker (my smaller paint marker was empty, so I had to use the larger one here -- thus it is snowing snow balls instead of snow flakes).