Springtime Easel card

Just recently I participated in a blinky contest that was hosted by Stamping Scrapping, and I won! My prize was the Woodware stamp set, It's Springtime. I made this card with it. I won't say who or what it was for, because they haven't yet received it. I used Copic markers to color it in, but I didn't take note of which ones I used exactly, sorry. But anyway, here is the card. Let me know what you think.

Birthday Cards

I have been seeing so many beautiful creations made by people using Copic markers for the longest time, and I've been wanting to get into it myself. I purchased a few a while back, but never did much with them, I guess because I didn't have much of a variety of colors, or the right colors for blending So, I decided to take the plunge, and after much research on prices, I purchased the large set of the B Ciao markers. I really love them!

Here are my first projects made with my new Copic markers. My grandsons will be going to a birthday party next weekend, and they will need cards to go with the gifts they are giving, so I decided to make the cards my first actual project. The images of Harold, the dragon, are digi stamps that I purchased from, Digistamp Boutique. Anyone who knows me well, knows that I love dragons, and I just couldn't pass this cute little guy up. The scallops I made with my Cricut, using my Sure Cuts A Lot program, and the patterned paper is from Hot Off The Press. Please let me know what you think of these little guys.

I know, it's been a while since I've posted, a real long time actually, so I thought I'd better get a little up to date on things. I thought I would start with a couple of projects that I made for Christmas gifts for my co-workers. These are made from the Kaisercraft Advent calendar kit. They were a lot of work, but well worth it. I have an extra kit to make for my grand sons, but since I ran out of time, I'll have to make it up this summer maybe, while I'm off, for then to use next year.

For all you people who love to love blog candy, K Andrew, from K Andrew Designs, is having a great one. Here is what you could get!

So run on over to K's blog, at, http://kandrewdesigns.blogspot.com/ and enter to win!

Here I am again with another layout I made for a challenge, actually, I'm using this one for two challenges. K Andrew of K Andrew Designs is having a Halloween challenge on her blog ( link to her site to the right of this page ), and I'm also in a " Layout a Day " for the month of September, in one of the yahoo groups I'm in. The die cuts were made on my Cricut, using the October 31st cartridge, and the back ground paper is Hallowhimsy, Welcome Inn, by Imaginesce.

Featured in this layout are my two grandsons, who are decorating a haunted gingerbread house, from a kit. They had a lot of fun doing this, and yes, they did nibble on some of the candy and frosting along the way, as you can see by the black on the lips...lol! I must admit, it does look pretty scary...lol!

I've been trying to get my grandsons' school scrapbooks up to date, and I've been looking out for files for my Cricut, and SCAL program to use for some of the layouts. I saw this cute svg file that was designed by K Andrew of kandrewdesigns.blogspot.com that I fell in love with, and I wanted to use it in a layout for one of their albums. When I heard she was having a challenge, using her design, I decided to jump in.

I decided to use it for the first page of the first grade section of my grandson Ozzy's album. I really love the way it turned out with K's design. Let me know what you think!