Good Monday Morning!

Good morning! Finished up a great weekend, beautiful weather, lots of relaxing time, got to see a couple of movies, did a little window shopping, hung out with the hubs and even snuck in some crafting time. About perfect I would say! I love taking a book and a cup of tea outside and getting lost in a book, now that the weather is starting to be a little nicer. I am definitely in the mood to work with some spring colors too. I put away all my winter papers the other day and pulled out a bunch of pastels and anything else that reminded me of spring and this is one of the cards I made. Everything is colored with Copics, the dotted paper is DCWV and the ribbon and floral paper came from my stash and I don't remember where they came from.

It was a movie filled weekend for us. We went to the theater and saw The Lincoln Lawyer and then watched The Big Lewbowski, See What I Hear, and From Paris with Love on Netflix. More movies than I normally watch in a weekend for sure.

Have a great Monday!

Color Challenge

Hello! There was a color challenge this week in the i {heart} copics group on Paper Craft Planet. The challenge was to use the colors Y21, BG15 and B91 (or something very close). I don't have B91 so I used B95. Of course I think that is a perfect reason to place another Copic order! I started with Prisma markers and had a ton of blues and greens so those have been the last color families I started working on when I started collecting Copics. I colored this Magnolia image with Copics and then cut out the image. I found this paper in my stash that had the same colors in it. I know the paper came from Michael's but I am not sure what company it is from. A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned to my friend Angela that I did not have any yellow flowers and she brought me a little bag of them at our last craft night. I added some brads to center of the flowers and some ribbon from my stash. Thanks for visiting me today!

If you are looking for the Shirley's 2 Girls Blog Hop scroll down or click HERE. 

Designing DIVAS Challenge

It was my turn to host the March challenge for the Designing DIVAS blog group. Since March 2nd was the birthday of Dr. Seuss and Read Across America Day, I decided to make the challenge reading related. We could make anything inspired by a book, something featuring a book or reading image or make a bookmark. This challenge was great for me too since I am such a avid reader. I will probably do another project too, I need a bookmark. I make them all the time and give them away and then I end up using scraps of paper to mark my place! My card uses this adorable Magnolia image. I colored both the image and the quilt with Copic markers and then cut them out. While I was in Memphis this weekend I bought this Basic Grey pack of paper called Kioshi. The flower came from my LSS and I can't remember who made it.  Thanks for stopping by and visiting and if you want some more inspiration, check out the DIVA group on my sidebar.

My First Tilda Card and an Award

Hello! This is a long post, all the card details are in the first paragraph though! On Saturday, Karen invited me to an all day crop/card making session to do a short Copic demo. I had so much fun! I was able to meet several new people. Talking, chatting, making cards, looking at other people's artwork, and drinking coffee, it was a great day. I think her group may be a bad influence on me though. First there was the Keurig coffee. I have heard of it before but after drinking it and experiencing all the different flavors, I think I need one of those coffee makers! I don't think you could possible go wrong when there are coffee flavors like French Toast, Gingerbread and Pumpkin Spice. The true test is if they have Peppermint because that is by far, hands down my favorite flavor of coffee. Not only was there the coffee but they had different stamps than what I and my group of friends have. Claudean had made some beautiful cards using Magnolia stamps. When I told her I had never used them before, she was kind enough to let me stamp some to play with. I loved this Giggling Tilda, I think she was my favorite of all of them. She was stamped with Memento ink and colored with Copic markers. The DP is DCWV Far East and the card stocks are from my stash. I also used pearl Dew Drops, a Fiskars butterfly punch and ribbon.

I have a confession to make: I buy embellishments all the time and then don't use them. I also save all manner of things thinking I can use them and then they sit in a drawer. And I don't even want to talk about all the ribbon I have that looks so pretty just sitting there. See that ribbon on my card? Left over from my wedding programs from almost four years ago! I have challenged myself to use all those beautiful things I have bought. So you should be seeing more cards wih embellishments. 

My friend Mandy sent me an award!!! I'm excited to play!!


The objective is to answer these questions with one word. Ok here goes:

1. Where is your cell phone? Desk
2. Your hair? Brown
3. Your mother? Tired
4. Your father? Funny
5. Your favorite food? Soups
6. Your dream last night? Non
7. Your favorite drink? COFFEE!
8. Your dream/goal? Create
9. What room are you in? Living
10. Your hobby? Cardmaking
11. Your fear? Ticks
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Home
13. Where were you last night? ASL class
14. Something that you aren't? Outgoing
15. Muffins? lemon
16. Wish list item? studio
17. Where did you grow up? Cleveland, TN
18. Last thing you did? dishes
19. What are you wearing?  jeans
20. Your TV? On
21. Your Pets? Cats
22. Friends? Lots
23. Your life? Better
24. Your mood? fine
25. Missing Someone? mamaw

26. vehicle? Jeep
27. Something you're not wearing? shoes
28. Your favorite store? Papertrix
29. Your favorite color? yellow
30. When was the last time you laughed? just now
31. Last time you cried? yesterday
32. Your best friend? Kip
33. One place that I want to go to over and over? Colorado
34. Facebook? Yes
35. Favorite place to eat? Buca di Beppo

That was fun!! Thank you Mandy! You really need to jump to her blog she's a wonderful crafter! great cards and projects...
I'm going to pass this on to Angela at In My Quiet Time.