Hedgehugs

Another quick card to send off to one of my daughter's friends this week:

All supplies are Lawn Fawn... with a little Doodlebug Baker's Twine.

Cards for the Front Lines

I am a proud aunt to a nephew who is a new doctor, and he loves giving out my doctor & nurse cards as thank you's, birthday cards for coworkers etc.  And I am happy to make them.  If you're home like me, with time on your hands - consider making a card to send to someone who's out there helping to keep us all safe & healthy.

 All of the images are from Art Impressions - the Proud Nurse Set, and the Get Well Set that you can find at Michaels or here on the Ai website.

 Papers are all older Close To My Heart ones that I have in my stash.

 Everything was coloured with Copic Markers on Cryogen cardstock,

 I managed to make 2 of each! 

Watercolour Wednesday & a challenge

I am combining two challenges from the Papercrafter's Workshop from this week - to use a circle, and to use a bunny on your project.  I am also casing Kendra's amazing bunny wreath from the Watercolour Wednesday video on the Art Impressions blog:

 Kendra's was a little different - a smaller circle and fewer colours.  I put my own spin on it by creating more of a scene in the middle, and since my masking fluid was clogged up, I just went with a wreath of plain greenery.

I stitched my scene to some green cardstock with my sewing machine, and added a few white sequins.

How you bean?

I adore this Lawn Fawn stamp set... and just got a holiday filler add on set(Christmas cookies instead of jelly beans).  I made this for one of my daughter's friends who just got into law school:

This is one of the original Perfectly Plaid papers from Lawn Fawn, I'm almost finished the paper pad!  You can get your supplies for crafting from the Papercrafter's Workshop who will ship to you, or prep a curbside pickup:

New Art Impressions Bible Journaling Stamps!

We are launching new Art Impressions Bible Journaling stamps today!  I had fun making three projects, showing the new 5270 Columns Set:

I started by die cutting the largest of the new Bookmark Dies out of Canson XL Watercolor Paper.  Using Tombow Dual Brush Marker #N55 Cool Grey 7, I coloured the urn from the set, and stamped it in the lower left corner, and again on scrap paper.  I cut out the scrap image, and masked the urn.  Using my Stamp Positioner, I coloured only the bottom 1/4 of the large column image in #N55, and stamped it slightly higher and to the right of the urn.  Next I coloured only the top half of the column, and because these are clear stamps, I was able to match it up to the other half of my image, creating a much smaller column.  I stamped a second urn on top.  After more masking, I stamped the full column image behind the others, also in #N55.  With a damp #1 paintbrush, I pulled out the colour from the lines, keeping it where the shadows would fall.

Using the two trailing greenery images from 5126 - WC Foliage Set 4, I stamped them with #177 Dark Jade, having them trail out from either side of the urns.  I used the rose image from 5258 - Flower Set 4 and stamped it several times in #493 Reflex Blue, and touched everything with my damp paintbrush to bring out the colours.  I added several of the feathery greenery image in #126 Light Olive to my pots.  I added a pale wash of #493 to the background.  The Bookmark Dies include several small images, so I diecut a feather and cross, and added them to my bookmark along with some Baker's Twine.

My second bookmark and card are painted in the same method, with the same supplies. *More details on my blog!

Knitting project for Francis

I haven't shared any knitting on here in forever!  I'm not quite as prolific a knitter as I used to be, but I still usually have a project on the go at all times.  While I was on vacation, I knit this little hat & booties for a coworker, but baby Francis decided to show up early, before our shower at work:

And then of course, just days later, the library has closed and we are all social distancing... not sure if I'll be able to get these to Francis while they will still fit!  I'm just glad that he & mom are doing well, and are home safe.  And yes - I was the ONLY person in the Cayman Islands knitting beside the pool...

Something Yellow.

Today's challenge on the Papercrafter's Workshop fb page is to "make something yellow".

It's not a colour that I reach for very often!  These are more images that I stamped last summer with my niece, Allie.  All of the stamps are from The Greetery, and are stamped with Distress Oxide inks.  After fussy cutting everything out, I added a little depth of colour with my Copic markers.  I used 4 Distress inks (Orange Marmalade, Wild Honey, Squeezed Lemonade and Clover Meadow) to do an ink blended background over this MFT brick stencil.  The lemon & sentiment are both adhered with pop dots.

The Workshop is offering shipping of online orders, as well as parking lot pick ups while we're all social distancing - you can find their website here!