Snow is good...

Though I dread these intensely cold days, I really love snow...we all do in this family. This lo isn't hot off the press however it best describes our daily activities during winter break and all! Just a quick note the snowflakes on these pages are actually trees cut several times from Cricuts Christmas Cheer.Have a Merry Christmas!BR-T

Brrytoes!

At the moment it is a balmy -7 ugh... how do I cope a bright and cheery card of course! I have seen others use the circle to make amazing trees and flowers so I thought today was the day. This card was easy peasy to make: using a longer and shorter flourish I created the base of a flower and extra foliage. I used my circle punches to cut out three different sized circles stamped and distressed then layered them and quartered another circle for petals. Lastly I added a brad and used foam squares for added height.

Color Challenge # 38

I cannot believe it has been over a month since my last post!!! Busy, busy, busy is the name of the game. I was checking out the CTMH bb and came across Marjorie Eno's color challenge of Tulip, Kiwi, Topiary and Colonial White. After quartering circles for quite some time here is what I came upon....

Tactile imagery....

These are some of my favorite images I was lucky enough to snap this summer




If only we could go back....

Color Challenge # 38....

A big Thank You goes out to Marjorie Ann Eno from the CTMH bb for her continuing challenges! In the end I found myself pleased with this card but wow, it was a crazy path that lead me here.

Is tomorrow Christmas?

I swear if I didn't know better, I'd believe tomorrow was Christmas! I cannot go anywhere without seeing major signs that this great holiday is upon us, commercially speaking that is... Here are some more BR-T style Christmas cards that I know if it weren't for God's amazing gift of creation I'd never have been able to make.

Christmas cards already...

I've been notified by Avant Cards that they need me to get more cards to them and include Christmas themed as well! This is a fun specialty gift shop that sells oodles of awesome cards. I have been working night and day on a wide array of Christmas cards here are my favorites

TrickorTreat....

I love seasonal card making! These little Halloween Dingbats are too cute and even though they are a retired set may they never truly R.I.P.

Missing the Ocean...

I am so missing my family vacation, it flew by so quickly! Here is a LO for Oscar's scrapbook

From the past...

Life has been crazy as we are getting ready for our long awaited family vacation so I thought I'd pull up some work from the past when I was more inspired than right now. These are close ups from a paper sculpture, it's actual size was 4in x 12in.. you can click to see a bigger image.















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Otoe County Fair...

I entered several photos in the Otoe county Fair this year & to my amazement I won the grand champion of photography award. I was stunned to say the least!

Experimenting

Experimenting is key that way I don;t get to riled up on flops, I got lucky with these however

The rest from last night...

Here are the brighter cards I made last night, they are intended for the Sheldon Art
Museum gallery gift shop! I love my new quest!

As fast as I can!

After Close To My Heart altered their Angel policy I set a goal for myself to find 10 locations to sell my cards and I do believe by the end of this week I will have met 70% of my goal! I am so excited about this my original thought is Only One Made, and I'm making them as fast as I can which isn't really fast at all, but that's fine.....it's what suits me best.

Many happy returns...

I don't know what it is about Free Spirit but I always come back to this set. I love the circular phrases, the flourishes and the fact it speaks volumes of the season.

My first ATC...

Thanks to Tiffany J. I have completed my first set of Artist Trading Cards. Mine was in the anything goes as long as one thing is CTMH. I took some interesting pictures in Vegas last year so I thought I'd use a photo as the main emphasis. I tweaked the image with a few digital enhancements pleasing to my eye and the rest just sort of happened. The second image is using a spare ATC and putting it on a card.





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