Another Canvas

Here is another Canvas that I created. I used a Kenny K Image as the focal point.  I really like coloring. I never realized just how much it calms me. I have been trying to figure out what I will pack for my trip. The copic markers are DEFINITELY on the list.  And yes, I like the color combination as well. I wasn't fond of it when I started but somehow it redeemed itself.

Alright,

I honestly don't have much else to say so I will end for now.

Until later

SS

My favorite color.

Hey Everyone,

Happy Saturday. I know, the weekend is already half over but let's just bask in the "gloriousness" ..yes, I made this word up... of those 48 hours of free time.

It's been a while since I put up an ATC on my blog but I saw a challenge I wanted to join and thought this would be as a time as any to start. Wicked Wednesday is one of my favorite blogs so hopefully they like this one. So, again, my favorite digital artist is Kenny K or Kenny K downloads. I just love him. His images are fun and edgy at the same time. Definitely reminds me of my personality. The background is made out of a paint chip sample. I actually really like them and they are an excellent way to recycle. I actually did a few punches with these as well which come out awesome. The next link is crafts 4 eternity. They also have the favorite color combo theme.

So, my favorite colors could easily be blue and orange. I went to college at University of Illinois and I wore a lot of blue and orange during my life time. Not to mention I grew up in Chicago so I have my share of Chicago Bears gear which also has the blue and orange theme.

This cute image is used in a few of the projects that I have but I wanted to make her blond for this image to go along with the blue theme.

In my 642 things to write about journal the prompt is " If you could invent a machine to do one chore for you, what would it be? How would that machine function?".  That is so easy. I would invent toilet bowl cleaner It would attach to the toilet bowl and do scrubs around and down. That is absolutely my most HATED chore. In fact I literally just grab the brush and scrub for one day, take a break until the next day because I am so traumatized by toilet scrubbing. : )

Until later

SS

Just one more new hobby

Yes,

It's me again. My life has gotten pretty busy again. I am happy about it though. I can't stand being bored. So, I get to be home for 2 weeks straight. Ya, gotta love sleeping in your own bed. So, I have taken up quilting. Yes, I know.  Me, quilting??? I can barely sew a button on but I am giving it a go. I bought a new sewing machine. One that is pretty simple but I really want to try doing rag quilts. Of course. I am not going to give up my other hobbies. In fact, I had a wonderful creative weekend that I still have a lot of stuff to share but I will get to that in a minute. 

So here is the share for today.

I am still in love with my Kenny K images.  I have pulled out the stops with the Copics again. I had to hold off on adding to the collection until next month. But I definitely will be doing that soon.  This page was done with a background of Tim Holtz Distress stains. They are always good for a quick background.  I have been trying to figure out how to get more depth in the background on this. But I think when I do my cruise this year this will definitely be in my supplies list. I have been trying to figure out something that is a little less messy to take but will still allow me to have some freedom for creation.  I actually chose to post this one on the Kenny K Crew's challenge blog. It's anything goes this time.  I also want to link this to Crafting from the heart. They also have a theme of anything goes this week.

One thing I want to try as well is journaling. I actually bought a book that has 642 things to write a about. Not sure why but I really wanted the items in here. I think it would be a really cool thing to do as a round robin type journal. Someday.. The first one i looked at it is " Write a witch's spell"

"round and round, spin today. Look to the North and start to say..  I am beautiful, I am great. Now cover your face so that you cannot see.. Because the person inside is what you really want to be."

Ok, Enough of being corny, until later.

SS

The Other Woman

So, I have had this movie for about 3 weeks and have not watched "The Other Woman". I have to say that this is pretty funny. Not "Bridesmaids" funny, but pretty damn funny.  Not to mention that the main male character is Jaime, from Game of Thrones. LOVE HIM!!!  And the secondary male character is the hot guy from "Chicago Fire".  He is definitely "do-able".

I have continued to create this weekend. Still focusing on the main objects for the page layouts.  I really didn't paint at all this session. I did some sprays and I started playing with my Wendi Vecchi embossing paste.

Hope you like this page and have a blessed Sunday.

Again, I love my digital images, wink of stella and Copic Markers.  Who needs more??

Until later

SS

Crafty Creations

So, I am at a retreat this weekend. I got an e-mail from a friend telling me about it. So I had no plans and figured I would try it.  It is pretty cool. The owner is really nice and overall I like the place. I absolutely love that I didn't have to bring anything. Everything that I would need pretty much is here. I did a little shopping with the group but of course I don't need anything.
I have been creating. I actually brought my copic markers.  I have been coloring up a storm. I found a blog a couple of nights ago that has copic color of the day. This blogger uses different copic color combinations and comes up with a new color name. I am trying to recreate what she has on the cards by creating my own samples. So far I am in "need" of a lot of copic markers. LMAO

Here is one of the pages I created this weekend. I did some backgrounds but I really wanted to focus on getting pages done.  Hopefully you like it. I used mostly sprays for this background and then I focused on the main image.

Oh well, I hope you like the page.

A little more Inky-Painty

So, I have been working away in my art journals.  Gesso, paint, ink and some background work. I haven't finished another page so I thought I would show an old one that I am pretty drawn to the color scheme and layout.

This is one of my favorite Dylusion backgrounds. I added some leaf stamps and faces for back ground. The image is from Kenny K.  And then there is some doodling of hearts and used glitter washi tape and cut out hearts from scrapbook paper. 

Well, it is TV time. I didn't get an opportunity to watch a few new episodes of my favorite shows and I don't want to be up all night. Until next time.

SS

Just keep working away

I absolutely love working in my art journals. I need to reorganize my room still so my desk is not as messy but I am having so much fun. I managed to finish inking the rest of my layout pages tonight and even get a couple of layouts inked in one of my Canson XL journal I purchased on sale. I wanted to make sure it would take the ink and water. It absolutely will. So now I am happy I purchased 7 of them at WalMart for dirt cheap.  OK, you caught me, I have issues with journals.  I just love them. But Dyan Reavely says that she has at least 6 or 7 journals started at any given time. So right now I have 4 that I am working in. One Dylusions, a Canson XL, my altered atlas and finally my "Ross for Less" journal that has turned out to be simply awesome.  I found out that I the "Ross" journal is really a Carnet journal. They normally run $20 but I got it for $4 because it was missing a pen. I am now looking for others at each Ross I go to.  : ). I told you I had issues.

So here is the background start to part of my Ross journal.  I did the background with distress stains that I had.  I added some glitter washi tape that matched.  I added some borders from my Prima Doll stamp collection. I think I will just add a little distress ink through stencils and then journal on this page.  But as you can see I love the Kenny K images.

Oh well, until later

SS

I was born too late

Sometimes I tell myself that I was really born too late.  Being a baby of the 70's meant that my time growing up in the crucial years was in the late eighty's and ninety's. All I can say is that compared to some of the other times in history it paled in comparison.  I keep thinking that the controversial 60's might have worked. In the times of Martin Luther King, JFK, Malcolm X and all of the other era changing individuals.  
Especially the music I listen too.  I am definitely a jazz lover as opposed to hip hop or even disco. And did the 80's and 90's even have a musical genre that got any recognition.
However the roaring 20's seemed like a lot of fun. I didn't look at the history books but I think it was the time of prohibition and the Great Depression.  Shine running and mob bosses were on the rise. In any case. I like to sing and I love to dance. So here is my impression of art from that time. 

This ATC is again from my favorite digital artist, Kenny K.  It's Flapper Girl.  I colored her with copics and put her on some long saved corrugated colored paper. I am convinced, now that I have used it, I need more. It makes an excellent background and has the strength that you don't need cereal board on the back.

I guess this is it for this post. I hope to see you again soon.

Oh, I so forgot to say. This is for the Wicked Wednesday Blog Challenge.

Today in OKC I thought we were all going to float away.  I was awakened by the loudest thunder boom I think I have ever heard.  Bones jumped 5 feet in the air and would not leave my side all morning. Terrible storms again, flash flooding. 

Not sure how many of you out there have been watching the news but we had serious devastation here.  Tornadoes destroyed cities and tragedy struck thousands of families.  My son and I are alright I can thankfully say. However there are so many that are still struggling to get through this and will do so for some time to come. Please pray for the city of Moore, OK.

Until Later

SS

Do you see me?

So,
I wasn't going to blog today but I figured it would help me come out of my funk.  I am going through a life change but I remember that crafting always helps me to focus clearly and remember the good things in life.  I am so blessed.

I am happy but yet sad. Has anyone ever been there. I have before and usually it is because I think I don't have something I want. Only to find out that it was never really mine in the first place.  Lessons in life, you never really know how green the grass is until you get to the other side. Sometimes you get burnt Bermuda and other times you get a rolling spring meadow.

My cat is sick again. I think he has a UTI. He is at the VET now. And that whopping bill would be $300.  I swear this cat is breaking the bank. But I love him so we have to get him all better to come back home.

In any case, my post today is for Wicked Wednesday Blog and the them is "see the future". My image is from Kenny K. My favorite digital artist and it just happens to be the elf. I actually said I want going to fussy cut this image anymore but I think she is just so cute. She reminds me of Arwen from Lord of the Rings.  I also used a new technique or at least background.  About 6 weeks ago I went to a scrapping retreat with a friend and we met a lot of nice ladies. Well one saw that what I mostly create are ATC's and she gave me a 6x6 paper sampler which I just fell in love with. What I really loved about it was it had a lot of the acetate samples and I have found wonderful ways to coordinate them with the plain back ground paper. So, thank you Tracy, from the Whitesboro, TX area.

I hope that you like her.

Until Later
SS

Another Lazy Crazy Day

Today was cool, I got to do exactly what I wanted to do. Almost nothing. I did get up and go to brunch this morning. There is this Irish Pub, McNellie's, about 1/2 mile from my house that does a great omelet bar on Sunday afternoon. So, I hung out there for a while, ate and watched my OKC Thunder NBA team WIN.

I did a little bit of crafting today.  I had some swaps that would have been overdue so I completed those. I then made a decision. I was going to stop getting "new" hobbies. And I was going to stop spending money on the hobbies I already had until I had used up at least 50% of my stuff.  If I pull it off I won't buy anything until 2020. LOL

So, onto today's creation. Actually I made this a couple of days ago but this is Purple Arwen. I am such a fan of Lord of the Rings, I was going to title, "where is Aragorn".  But I decided to use her name in the movie. Again, another Kenny K digital design.  This was for a swap on Swapbot. The fussy cut almost killed me, but somehow I made it through.

So, I guess I need to get going now. I am spending this evening catching up on TV shows.  I have yet to see the new episodes "The Good Wife" or "Once Upon a Time".

Until Later my Blogger Friends
SS

Silent Saturday

Hey Blogger World

Today turned out to be nothing of what I was expecting.  I did nothing and I mean absolutely nothing.  I was supposed to go to the knit in tonight, that was a no, pick up cleaning, that was a no, cook dinner, that was a no.  However, I did absolutely what I wanted to do so that was the good thing.

I finally finished my postcards for the swap I have. I wanted to do some handmade cards to see how they come out.

This ATC in from another Kenny K image. I really enjoy his stamps.  I came up with the saying and of course I like purple. As you can see I have been creating a lot of these lately. I want to go to an ATC swap so I am trying to have at least 200 to trade when I go in the summer. 

I have a crop coming up in a few weeks. I can't wait, it will give me the opportunity to hang out with my girls from DFW and do some art as well. 

Well, it is time to go out now and do my thang..

Until Later
SS

TGIF TGIF TGIF

Thank God I'm fabulous and even more Thank God it's FRIDAY!!!
Let me just start by saying this. I am so DAMN glad it is Friday. I am having a hell of a day and I can't wait until this is OVER!!! 

And now onto the good stuff. This little work of art I actually created a while ago. I titled it "I'm cool" because I really think that she is. I had someone tell me that I must really like pink the other day. I didn't see it but I guess after looking at my collection it appears that pink has taken on a little domination. As you can tell she is from the Kenny K collection. I colored her with Copic Markers and then fussy cut.  I just loved the cape.  I hope you like her. I am entering her into the Wicked Wednesday Pin up girl challenge this week.

I really don't have a lot to say today except, bring on 5 o'clock. Oh, and did I mention I am sick as a dog.  I really need to get over this, whatever THIS is.
 Until Later
SS

Three years

Hello BloggerLand

I just realized that I started this Blog three years ago. I don't exactly have a post for every week like my original goal was to be. So my promise to myself is to be more consitent. Even if it is just one post per week, I know that I can do it. Writing about this thing "I call Life" can have it's rewards. First off it helps me to stay sane, Ok Maybe a little sane. I don't want to go overboard. : )  You can definitely see how my style and interests have changed. Three years ago I was into Disney Pin Trading and now you can't get me to even look at one.  I do still crochet but not nearly as much. I believe that comes from not being with my normal group of ladies. And onto my new hobby!!!

I discovered ATC's about 1 1/2 years ago and I have been hooked ever since. What does that say about me? I am a true instant gratification person. (Ok, I have not gone to inchies).  But I love to collect them and trade. My goal in the next year is to go to an ATC swap convention. I am certain they have them somewhere.

So, in any case, here is today's little work of ART. I definitely will think twice about using this Kenny K image again. I mean, don't get me wrong, she is beautiful. But most of the time I fussy cut my images. Let me tell you, this was NOT fun to fussy cut. I loved coloring her.  I made 2 of these for a swap that I am in on SWAPBOT. Because I like her so much I may make another one for myself to keep. I colored her with my copic markers and then embellished the card with whatever I could find in the green family. Trust me, with my stash, that is a lot. I am determined to use up some of this stuff BEFORE I have to move again.

I am entering this in the Crazy Amigo Challenge.  The theme this week is "Women". I can pretty much guarantee I have something to match that one. : )

Today I made lunch for my team at work. I have been a little of a cooking mood. I think tomorrow it will be peach cobbler. I am feeling some baking coming on.

Alright, I have to go for now.
Until Later
SS

Hello It's ATC Time

Amazingly this is the first ATC I have created in some time. I miss the crafting and wanted to get back into it.   I actually did this one for a swapbot swap called "6 word memoir".  I love this style ATC.  I remember when I first started I only did collage work. I have now fallen in love with digital stamps and Copic markers.

This image is from Kenny K designs. I colored her in pink in support of breast cancer surviors and those that have fought bravely.

I still struggle with the picture taking. I am still trying to use something other than my iPhone.
This weekend is my "crafting" weekend.  I take 48 hours and forget about life and stress and things that might go exactly as expected.  Sometimes I do a retreat and others I just stay at home and veg out. So far I have made 14 ATC's this weekend.  I am now on my way to my crocheting meetup.
I am also going to link this to ATC's with attitude this time.  It's about my favorite color. I am a girl that enjoys her pinks.
Until Later
Shaunda

Mer Babe

I am trying out my small set of pro markers. I actually like the way they color. But since I am so invested in Copics I can't possibly make a huge investment in these.  Again, I got them by using the 50% discount. So I have roughly 36 of them for less than $1.50 each. Not a bad small first investment.

So here is the image, I honestly can't remember where it is from. I think it is a Mayzy Art. "I should really keep better track of my images". I left my copics for at my other place this weekend so I am trying some different coloring techniques. Hopefully you like this. I am entering it in Wicked Wednesday's ATC challenge as well.  The theme is "The Blues".

P.S. I was wrong. It was from Kenny K. One of my very favorite designers. I love his faces.

Until Later

Sassy

So, I absolutely love KennyK. I mean his digi designs are definitely more in my style. So I decided to come up with this ATC using one of his works of art. This was colored with my Copics of course. The little flowers are from Michael's recollections.  I saw them and thought "wow so many and so small, those would be great for ATC's". So, 10 flower jars later, and my collection is complete.  (Needless to say, I will NEVER use all of these.

I am entering this in the Wicked Wednesday ATC Blog challenge. The theme for this week is Sugar and Spice. I have another entry for this one as well to complete the Sugar part. But this girl is definitely Spice.

I am also entering this in ATC's with Attitude Blog challenge. The theme is "anything goes" so I am certain this will work.

So, for my drama this week. On Wednesday my cat sitter comes in and find that my house if over 90 degrees and my cat is pretty much trying to get out of the house. While I just had my AC unit totally redone last year, due to this intense heat I guess I am back to the same issue.  They came in and fixed it on Thursday. I get home on Friday night and the house is still over 90 degrees. (clearly they didn't fix it.) So not only did I sleep in a hot house but I was so worried about my cat I got absolutely no sleep. It was about 89 downstairs. I found every fan I owned and put it on.

This morning I woke up early and hit Sam's club. $400 later I have a room unit. So the cat and I were stranded in one room for 5 hours. But at least we were not sweating our buts off. They came back. It took them another "10 minutes" to fix the problem this time. We will see if this works. I can already tell it's a little cooler in here but I be damned if I am taking that portable AC unit back. It really works. It managed to cool my big room down to 80 which was darn near livable.

Until Later,
A Hot and tired SS