Happy Monday!

Good morning everyone!  Happy Monday to you.  I hope that today finds you well.

So, do you all have your Father's Day cards made?  You do realize that Father's Day is approaching fast.  Hubby's birthday is the day before, so I have a double whammy this year.  It will be a weekend long celebration. 

I've got a few cards that I made for birthdays that are a little masculine, but they can easily be adapted for Father's Day.  I don't have all the info for these cards but I do remember the names of the set's.  If you need more info just leave me a comment and I will find out for you.

Wanna peek?  Of course!  So here goes....

This stamp set is called Farm Life.  The case card is Chocolate Chip that I layered with Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel and Kraft papers.  I water colored the image.

This is also the Farm Life stamp set that I used.  I masked the image to create the scene.  I also water colored this image. 

The stamp set I used here was Nobel Deer.  I love this set, it is really a masculine set.  I used chalks to color in this image. 

This is also stamped with Nobel Deer.  I colored this in with my pencils and gamsol.  The DP papers used on this card are from Prima.  I've had these papers for a long time and I use them sparingly.  The circle stamp is from The Angel Company called Circle Sampler. 

One last card from Nobel Deer.  This image was colored in with my pencils and gamsol also.  The DP used here was from Anna Griffin. 

Lots of coloring went into this card.  I used my watercolors, pencils and markers to color in this image.  The stamp set I used is an old SU! set called Times and Seasons.

The image used on this card is from Rubber Monger and I colored it in with my pencils and gamsol.  Notice a pattern?  I tend to use the earthy colors for guy cards.  No bright and cherry colors, I try to keep them earth tones.

This image is from Lovely as a Tree.  It is a classic set that I like to turn to for guy cards.  The DP is from K&Company and I used my oval nestie to create the "mask" to stipple ink on to the image panel.

Happy Halloween!!!

Happy Halloween Everyone! I hope that today is a safe and happy holiday for you and your family! I really don't have anything interesting to show you today. For some reason yesterday I sat down and nothing would come out. All of my ideas were blank! I did make a couple of things, but they are not the greatest! I can say though that I got all the laundry cleaned, folded and put away! So at least I did do something.....

My hubby and I did go to Bi-Water farms yesterday afternoon. We went to pet and feed the animals, went on a hay ride and went thru their "haunted" house. It was not a totally wasted day. I did get a pumpkin there. Most of their pumpkins were too darn expensive! So we thought that we would leave there and go to the store. We went to 4 different places last night and not one store had pumpkins. I know, I waited too long to get one ~ it was my own fault. But I did get a cool one at the patch. I will take a picture and show you, it was too late last night to do that. It is a tall, skinny one with warts! It's so cool - I can't wait to carve it!

Ok - enough of that. Here's what I did yesterday.

I'm in a swap that I needed to make a card with a snowman or snow flakes. Something snowy. I just got this set from TAC and I love it, so of course I had to use it! The base is Real Red. I layered papers from TAC's Reese paper collection on it-don't you love that paper?? and Chocolate Chip cs. I then used my Mega and Giga Scallop Square punches for the image. I punched out a piece of Glorious Green to layer under the image.

The snowman is colored with pencils, gamsol and markers. You can't really tell in the picture but the background of the picture is done with stickles to make it look all glittery like snow. I used some organza ribbon on it and I was done. I think they turned out kinda cute.

I also pulled out an old SU! set called Times and Seasons. I thought that I might make a quick Thanksgiving card. Well, like I said earlier ~ I must have the dauber downs because it was not quick and it lacked imagination.

And for some reason my camera was not taking a good picture either. Everything glared. Hey! Maybe I need a new camera? Hell-o!! Hubby, Christmas is almost here Ü

I really love this old set. It's one of my favorites! Maybe because I love Fall, I don't know. And I love to watercolor it too! When I watercolor I take all my colors out at once. And I have a napkin ready to swipe the color off the brush and go to the next color.

When I watercolor I also don't like to color with the crayon and use the brush. I touch the brush to the crayon and use it like that. I do the same when I use my watercolor pencils. I touch the tip of the pencil with the brush and then go to the paper.

That way I feel like I have more control over the color. I'm sure that everyone has their own way of doing things ~ this is just the way that I do it.

Well - today I'm not even sure that I will get anything done - If I do I will be sure to post it.

Have a great Halloween! And be safe.

Hugs,

Joani

Happy Tuesday & a post...

Happy Tuesday everyone! I've been up early this morning and I've been busy!

Normally when hubby leaves for work I snooze a little longer til he calls at his morning break. That's kinda my cue to get going for the day. Well this morning he was off to work and I was getting some much needed computer time in. I really try not to be on the computer when everyone is home ~ I have all day to do what I want, and when everyone is home that's family time. So this morning instead of taking a snooze I was up surfing the net, checking out what everyone else is up to.

Now I've got to post my message for the day then get ready for my SIL to come over. We spoke last night and she said that she would like to come over today and make some cards! I was a little shocked. I've been here 3 years now and she has not shown any interest in it. She was here a couple of weeks ago while we were making some cards and we had an empty spot and she dabbled a bit. She actually made 6 cards for Christmas. It was kinda fun watching her. She's not the crafty type, but she caught on quick!! So I will pull out some stamps for her to play with today. I actually want to get her her very own craft knife and scissors and such. I think that would tickle her... She always looks at all of our stuff, but to have your own is special...

Ok ~ enough of my babble. Oh wait! There's more.

My DD has a boyfriend. Well I've mentioned before that she's 16. How can that be? She just started Kindergarten the other day ~ or what seemed like the other day!! But her boyfriend we were told is 18. Then we just found out he had a birthday and turned 19. I'm not too sure how much I like that idea, but he is a nice boy. He's been here a few times to visit with us. As a matter of fact last weekend we had him over for dinner (on taco night. He's never had home made tacos! Yes, I asked him if he's been living in a cave!!) and we had an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen.... Well, yes, I did make a card ~ I'm getting to that... but I wanted to show you a picture of him and my daughter. And yes, I made him wear the hat. It is now tradition (since the necklace I had disappeared) that who ever's day it is they have to wear the hat!

This is my little girl. Where did the time go?? Yes, I'm feeling old... very,very old.

And yes, I have the grey hair to go with it!

So now on to the card that I made him.

There is an old set that I had purchased a while back from someone on EBay. I was sent the set and it did not have the indexing stamp or the name of the set so I had to look for it. Thank goodness I keep all my old catty's! It is called Times and Seasons. Well, being a Kentucky guy he's into tractors ~ so I thought this would be perfect!

I stamped the image and colored it in with my watercolor crayons. The base card is Handsome Hunter and I layered it with Basic Black and a piece of DP that I had in the drawer. I added some jumbo eyelets and the sentiment on the bottom, from Hero Arts, and I was done. Danielle was pretty happy with it so I was sure he would be too.

Remember the other day when I said I am trying to use the stamps that I have? Well, this is another set I pulled out and dusted off. It's called And Everything Nice. Cute set, actually it's Mom's. She always buys things that I call complicated. She's a big color-er!! (Is that even a word? But you knew what I was talking about though, didn't you??)

The base card is Kraft. I layered a piece of Ruby Red on it that I stamped the flower from Time Well Spent on with Versamark. I then used my watercolor crayons to color the image, then adhered that to a piece of Garden Green. I stamped the sentiment in the lower right corner in Ruby Red ink and I was done.

Well, that's all I'm showing you for today. Stay tuned tomorrow for more :)

Hugs,

Joani