Big Day!

I spent Sunday with a friend, a trip to Archivers, a delicious lunch and then back to her house to stamp. I stamped quite a few of her beautiful flower stamps, and colored away with my copics. This stamp is from Impression Obsession and I love it! I stamped it with Memento black ink, and then colored with YG 03,YG05 and YG06 for the leaves and stem. The purples are a mix of BV0000, BV02 and BV04. The sentiment is from PTI: Year of flowers, Violets. The script is embossed and distressed.  I love hydrangea's the most beautiful ones I have ever seen were in Cape May, NJ. There are so many houses with these bushes surrounding the house, so pretty. I have never had much luck with the ones we have. It gets so hot here they just end up wilting up before their blooms open fully. I may just have to go buy some silk ones I saw at Michaels to put around in the house.

Today was a huge breakthrough for Wyatt with his speech therapy. He has started to use a few two word phrases, such as more crackers, or bye Owen. However today he was working on a puzzle with shapes, and said to Channing (his therapist) but where circles go? We were both stunned, but both Channing and I were a little sad, since it mean he will be discharged soon. Which is a great thing, but we love his therapist and she adores Wyatt, we will miss her so much! This experience with Wyatt has shown me that timelines and expectations are standards that he doesn't need to follow. He has and probably will alway do things in his own time. For a Mom who likes to plan everything and needs to know what comes next it has been an adjustment, but something I think I needed to learn. In due time....

Warm week ahead

This card is similar to the first dogwood card I stamped, I stamped it in Rich Cocoa, and colored with copics, RV10,11,13 and Y0000 for the center . I decided to leave the leaves uncolored added coordinating papers distressed the edges of the light pink paper then stamped the sentiment in the cocoa ink.

I am so excited to see the forcast for this week, high 60 and maybe 70's, love it! Owen started soccer last week, and it was cold and windy for his first practice. Hopefully he won't have to bundle up this week. These warm spells always trick me though, I get so into getting ready to plant, and every year we end up getting one more frost. I have learned to wait until the 2nd week of April to put those tender new plants in the ground. Have a great day, I am off to play with my little one!

Red Poppies

I love Poppies, my Mom has a beautiful rock garden in MD, that is loaded with all kinds of flowers. She has quite a few different color Poppies and I adore them. She has an incredible green thumb, growing up she tried to get me interested in learning about types of flowers and gardening but I would have none of it. Fast forward a few years, and guess who married a landscaper? Me! LOL. It drives her crazy, now I love my gardens, granted I have a litte , um lot of help from my hubby, but I really enjoy it. I especially love my herb garden, since I love to cook, fresh herbs make the food taste so much better.

I stamped the Poppy image with Memento black ink, then stamped the french script two times in Memento chocolate ink. I colored the image with Copics R24, R27 & R29, the yellow is Y02 and Y04. Then I sprayed the image with Glimmer Mist in Wheatfield. It did make it a little too shiny, so it's a bit difficult to see the different color grades, but still a neat effect. Hope you have a great Friday, thanks for visiting!

White dogwood

Today it is not raining, but still windy making photographing cards a challenge. Once the sun came out behind the clouds I tried to snap a picture and ended up chasing the card across the yard! LOL! Anyway, this is a version of a white dogwood it is stamped with memento chocolate ink and colored with copics Y000, Y00 & Y01 for the flowers and YG05, & YG06 for the leaves. After I die cut it with the Label One from Nesties, I used old paper distressed inks to sponge around the image. Then I mounted it on a chocolate piece of cardstock then on yellow cardstock.  The sentiment is stamped in the same chocolate ink. All images from Hero Arts. Thanks for stopping by, I have been thrilled to be able to keep up with my blog, and I hope you find some inspiration here. I love browsing blogs and have a mile long list of ones I love to look at.

Dogwoods

Dogwood Stamp: Hero Arts, Image is stamped twice with Memento chocolate ink, the dogwood flowers are colored with copics, RV10, RV11 & RV13, and Y000 for the center.  They were cut out and then attached to the stem colored with YG05 and YG06, that was cut out using the label one die from spellbinders. The rick-rack border is from MS, it was punched then I embossed 3 lines using the scor-pal for some added dimension. The dark green paper was also emboseed with lines every 1/2" to add dimension. This stamp reminds me of the dogwoods we had on our property growing up, we had quite a few white dogwood. Then one year my brother and I bought my Mom a pink dogwood, it was so pretty.

Today was another icky, cold day in NC, I can't wait for Spring to get here! Owen had a two hour delay today due to the "possibility of snow", it was nice to sleep in for a change. Wyatt is having trouble taking his afternoon naps, and has been asleep in the car when we pick up his brother. So he has been pretty tired, which is the only reason I got to sleep in until 7:20,  I will take that any day! Today, Wyatt decided he wanted to ride with Daddy to take Owen to school. He brought Chris his jacket, socks and boots so Chris and Wyatt walked Owen into school. Chris said he was so excited and even got a chance to quickly check out Owen's classroom. He has been there a few times, but I don't think I have ever let him down to explore freely. After a few minutes Chris coaxed him out all without a tantrum, good job Daddy! Actually I think he bribed him with powdered donuts since he had the evidence all over him when he returned! I swear all that child does is eat, and I have no idea as little as he is how he can eat all the time! He will eat his dinner, then wander over to Owen's plate (who is picky) and eat everything off of his plate!

Poppies

You will probably get tired of seeing this stamp on the blog! I love coloring it with my copics, it is so relaxing to sit and let your mind wander while you color. Copics are by far my favorite coloring tool, although in a few weeks I am going to attend Michelle Zindorf's brayer workshops in Raleigh! I have been a follower of her blog http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/ for some time. Her cards are like minature works of art, and I am excited to get a chance to take the classes with her. So maybe soon you will see me using my brayer to create my cards!

I stamped the poppy stamp in Memento Rich Cocoa, I am loving this ink, then colored using copics YR14, 15,16 & 18 and Y02 for the center of the flowers. After the poppies were colored I sprayed them with Glimmer Mist Sunflower I like the effect these give. I stamped a text across the orange square with the Hero Arts chalk ink in Poppy the mounted it on yellow cardstock. The sentiment is stamped with the same brown ink and adhered to the cardstock.

Silhouette Flowers

I stamped memento chocolate ink then colored the flowers in using R20 and R22 and YG03 for the stems. The images was cut out and attached to an embossed pink background. All images are hero arts.

I cannot believe it is already March 1st! The last two months of the new year have been crazy busy, which is good, but it makes things fly by. I am ready for Spring planting and warm sunshine! Although the boys don't seem to mind the cold I do not enjoy it! I blame it on being born in Florida, I need warm weather to survive!