My goodness, I ended the year totally crazy. I got so out of wack with what I needed to accomplish vs. time I had to accomplish it and whew I can only help I get life a little more under control this week.
I decided to share this painting from one of my sketchbooks for our annual anything goes from Tuesday Morning Sketches
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OMG I did it again!!! I just can’t seem to focus these days!! Here is my very late but prepared early card for Tuesday Morning Sketches #688.
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Well I say this every year at this time, that time is like a runaway train!! It goes by so darn fast. I worry about starting too early for Christmas but then suddenly the time is just gone!! Here is what I made for Tuesday Morning Sketches #687.
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Thank you so much for stopping by, time is always precious but this time of year even more so! Here it is already time for a new fun sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches.
A really great thing about making cards is that it is multi-purpose. 1. Fun & relaxing for you. 2. Fun and inspiring for others 3. You end up with something you can use in a relatively short time. The list goes on…I would love you to share more purposes/reasons to make cards too!
It was fun doing a simple little bit of watercolor for the pine bough and ornaments. Making this reminded me just how hard it is to keep a circle perfectly round -cuz as you can see I couldn’t exactly pull off “perfectly round” lol. I do appreciate you stopping by and I’m so looking forward to seeing what you come up with this week for our Tuesday Morning Sketches # 686!!
Hi & YIKES! I totally forgot that I started but didn’t finish my post for this week’s sketch #685 that I did for Tuesday Morning Sketches! I hope you like it :o)
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Hello once again!
Time for Tuesday Morning Sketches #684. I had a special request for a card for a 2 year old boy who loves sea turtles and I knew this would be the perfect sketch for it. I had some big number stickers in my stash and I couldn’t believe how perfect the size and color of the 2 were. The sea turtle is from a CTMH Stamp of the Month from a few months back and I water colored it
This is such a versatile sketch and our team made some fantastic cards to inspire you!
Thank you for stopping by and I really hope that we get to have you create with us this week at Tuesday Morning Sketches!!
Happy Tuesday Morning Sketches # 683 Day!!
I feel a little mehh about this card. The sketch is super fun but I’m not happy with the sequins combined with this paper, both are pretty just not necessarily together. It does look a little better in person though. I got too far along to go back and fix anything and in the middle of it all I was looking through my stamp & Thin Cuts sets to find some star dies and got totally side tracked organizing my stamp sets. That was dumb because it totally aggravated my neck - I really need to go back to the Dr. again but thinking I should wait till my deductible starts over in January. Thank you to those who wished me feeling better last week!
I had the perfect punches but I gave a bunch away when I moved thinking that I would rely on my Maker. That poor neglected Cricut hasn’t been out of the box since I bought it last Black Friday :o( though —who knew??? Well I thank you so very much for stopping by. Time now for you to head on over to Tuesday Morning Sketches so we can come see your creation soon!
Happy Tuesday once again!
It is time for Tuesday Morning Sketches #682! It’s really fun to pick out papers for this and my (non)perfectionism is certainly showing on this one. I could have spaced better and I could have had the ending point to the right instead of the left but just started randomly putting paper down without thinking real hard about it.
This would be a great one to just make a bunch and use up scraps but (always something these old days) I barely get through one card with my stupid stupid (very stupid) pinched nerve in my neck. Don’t I sound like I’m getting old and creaky? Probably because I am haha.
Thank you thank you thank you sooooo much for being here!!! Now it’s your turn to have some fun with this cozy sketch. I’m looking forward to seeing what you create with us this week at Tuesday Morning Sketches!!
HAPPY two months from Christmas day!! Can you believe it??
I had a turn with this weeks Tuesday Morning Sketches #681. I originally planned on using Washi tape but decided to use these ribbons & trims - so fun! The bird and leaves are from a Sizzix set I’ve had a few years. I cut an oval from a piece of watercolor paper I was just playing around with. I’m not totally in love with it but I certainly enjoyed making it.
I appreciate you stopping by and as always!! I’m looking forward to seeing what you create with us this week at Tuesday Morning Sketches!!
Thank you so much for being here and thank you in advance so much for hearing me out. I’m posting last weeks card again along with this weeks pretty sketch for Tuesday Morning Sketches #680.
You see this year has been non-stop eventful. Most are good but the last couple months have been physically challenging, with shingles then Covid (and I’m too darn old for that!).
On top of that lately my 9.5 year old boxer puppies (always my puppies) are having health issues. They are litter mates and the day we found out that our little Tavo (girl) had cancer and that it would basically be a hospice thing for her - that night during the night she went outside and laid in the cool grass in the back yard and fell asleep forever. Yep, she passed away and that sweet sweet puppy didn’t even make us make a decision to say good bye she did it for us.
I know she wasn’t a person and this loss is NOTHING compared to loosing a person- it’s still difficult.
Well anyway I think that has zapped my creativity so I had a really hard time with finishing my card for our sketch last week. I wanted it to be a really special card because it is for my granddaughter. I struggled because I wanted to watercolor it but it’s so hard to stamp on cold press watercolor paper.
The card for this week’s sketch came together surprisingly easy! I found myself just dreading it at first (I really never feel that way about creating) NOTHING to do with the sketch because it is absolutely WONDERFUL. It is just the frame of mind I was in. So, I just cut out my fav WeRMemory Keepers die and added some stickers and stuff that was already on my desk along with a beloved sentiment from Always With You from CTMH
It just so happens that the hardest part about this card is going to be deciding who will get it!!! I thank God for soooooo many people in my life!!! And I even thank God for you if you read this to the end you must be an AMAZING person because I rambled on so!!
I totally appreciate you stopping by and I will visit your creation this week!! I promise and I’m really looking forward to seeing what you create with us this week with this oh so pretty sketch at Tuesday Morning Sketches #680!!
Hi there! Sooo here is my late late for a very important date card for Tuesday Morning Sketches #679.
I wasn’t feeling creative AT ALL! More on that in my next post. I knew what I wanted to do for this sketch and I knew I wanted it to be for a VERY special person (my granddaughter)! But I kinda just froze and I couldn’t finish and I had a week of noooo mojo. But here it is anyway when I finally finished it.
I do appreciate you stopping by and I’m so looking forward to seeing what you create with us this week at Tuesday Morning Sketches!!
Hi happy whatever day!!
This card was not at all what I had in mind when I created this weeks sketch for Tuesday Morning Sketches #678 but I realized that I really needed to get a card made and in the mail for my grandson so I had to brainstorm fast.
When I was looking for a dinosaur stamp I came across this cute alphabet and banner die set then one thing lead to another. At first it was way too baby-ish for a 10 year old but then I remembered these 3d dinosaur stickers I got a while back (Hobby Lobby) for our trip to the dino museum scrapbook layout. The neatest thing is that there are two of each dino so I could put half of them in his card and still have enough to do the layout and this card. I’m hoping it looks like a really cool dinosaur bringing him some funny balloons.
After having it for several years I’ve finally figured out and fallen in love with my envelope maker by WeR Memory Keepers. And I’m also loving this CTMH banner die/alpha stamp set so I think it will be put to use a lot and all the grands will be getting their name on a banner some way on their card over the coming year.
Now it’s your turn to create along with our wonderful team at Tuesday Morning Sketches!! I’m excited to see what you make - have fun!
Time for Tuesday Morning Sketches #677 by Melissa. I was home recuperating from Covid when I made these dual purpose cards. I made them in honor of me and whoever I give them too, and I hope it won’t be for a long time, because I hope all my peeps have a good looooong stretch of feeling great!
I used some older CTMH MixIns paper and Under the Weather stamp set.
Thank you so much for stopping by and I’m looking forward to seeing what you create with us this week at Tuesday Morning Sketches!!
Hello!
Thanks so much for being here and I hope that if you’re not coming from Tuesday Morning Sketches I really really hope you get to head on over there and join us for this weeks sketch #676, it’s another fun one by Melissa.
I truthfully didn’t expect to enjoy making this as much as I did! Everything just seemed to fall into place pretty quick and easy when I decided on using this gold accented floral ribbon from Hobby Lobby for the three strips. I’m pretending that I offset the circle sentiment on purpose - for the gems maybe? ;o)
The sentiment is cut from a pack of vellum thingys from Pebbles that I’ve had a long time and all the rest of the paper is CTMH old and new.
Next up please visit Tuesday Morning Sketches and see what our talented team came up with and have a go at it yourself too - I’m sure you will be just as pleasantly surprised as I was!
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Thank you for being here for this week’s Tuesday Morning Sketches #675, by yours truly ;o)
I had to turn the sketch so that I could have enough room for the balloon—I had this little elephant from Avery Elle in mind when I made the sketch but I forgot about the cute little balloons. I also decided to enter this in the cute Cards 4 Galz #181 that one of our other team members Debbie participates in …baby cards or feminine cards- I am so there!
I really hope you get to join us this week at Tuesday Morning Sketches!! The team has some great inspiration for us all!!
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This is the week you get to confirm what a nerd I really am! I just couldn’t get a turtle out of my head every time I looked a our Tuesday Morning Sketches # 674!! I knew I had no stamp like this so I set out to draw and paint my own. I cut out a cardstock pattern of it so I could just trace the basic shape and then try to get creative with it. Still have lots of ideas how to better paint this but since I don’t have all the time in the world most likely they will never come to fruition.
Nevertheless I had a lot of fun and my grandson even painted one, I like the shell on his the best out of all of these, it is the one that sort of has waves below it.
I’m thinking this can say, “You’re turtley awesome” but I really REALLY would love any suggestions you may have!
Thank you for stopping by and I’m looking forward to seeing what you create with us this week at Tuesday Morning Sketches!!
