Watermark

YAY!! I'm so excited!  I finally learned how to add a watermark to a picture!  And one of my favorite online stamp stores--www.whimsystamps.com offers digital watermarks for only $5!  I was able to find a design that went with my custom "handmade by" stamp that I had ordered from them!  Now I just have to get busy an finish taking pictures and writing descriptions for all of my stuff I have in a box ready for Etsy :-)

Here's my "practice card" that I did my watermark on.  Now I just have to work on my picture taking environment (My DH is going to build me a little "studio" for the stuff to have a picture taken on) :-)

I'm going on Saturday to my childhood neighbor's house so that her wonderful daughter can teach me some photoshop tricks and help me create a new banner for my Etsy shop and blog that matches my business cards :-)  I'm so excited to learn!! 

Better get to bed--have a good night.  Hopefully more to come this weekend :-)

Hello!! Sorry I've been a stranger

Hello everyone!  Sorry it has been so long since I have blogged--things have been crazy.  But, I've been able to quit my part-time job and be abel to focus on my full time job (which I have been putting in extra hours) and on my crafting!!

I'm trying to catch up on all of my blogs and stumbled accross this one that is having a Blogiversary give-a-way!  Check this out!!  http://reasonableribbon.blogspot.com/2011/01/really-reasonable-ribbons-one-year.html#comment-form

Off to the airport to pick up my father-in-law.  Hope to post more tomorrow :-)

New Blog I found

Happy Sunday! 

Check out this awesome new blog I found--she is going to go "live" this Tuesday with Tips and tricks!  Plus she is going to give fabulous giveaway each week :-) 

http://toptiptuesday.blogspot.com/2010/07/welcome-candy.html

Hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend!

Mandy

Sorry it's been so long...

Sorry it's been so long since I've been on here but, I have lost track of time over the past few months!  With work, work, and more work and a few weekend trips here and there, I haven't had much time to scrap or card make and I have been a coloring fool lately and have neglected the scrapbooking I am supposed to be completing for gift giving! 

I have always loved to color as a kid and even as an adult--it is therapeutic to me!  So, when I was introduced to the Copic markers, I was hooked!  Since then I have been Copic Certified and am hopefully going to be able to take the intermediate certification soon!  I have been "collecting" and stamping Magnolia stamps (they are wonderful to color) from Sweden.  My Copic collection has increased to almost all of the colors I want (only a few shy of the about 300 colors that were on my wish list) :-) 

I am attaching a few of my cards I have made using Copics and some new stamps my friends and I have gotten and stamped for each other as well as some other new products such as Flower Soft and some new flowers I have gotten recently!!  (Sorry the picutres aren't organized very well--I'm still learning! )

Hope you all have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by!  My goal is to try and blog at least twice a week until I can get on here more regularly!

Mandy

So much to do so little time!

Sorry I haven't posted in forever! I've been working about 70 hours a week and haven't had time to even clean my scrapbook room up to walk through! 

I was finally able to take a break and escaped for the weekend to the Creative Hideaway retreat for our do-over of our no electricity weekend in February.  It was a FABULOUS weekend!  My goal was to get some scrapbooking done but, I made the mistake of taking my Copic markers and Magnolia and Riley stamps with me.  SO, I ended up making cards all weekend instead.  However, I did get 18 cards made and have been diligently trying to get at least 3 listed a night on Etsy!  I've ended up selling more cards at work than anywhere.  And I was even asked by our secretary to create a card for a wonderful co-worker who is retiring.  I'm going to try and upload a post for that.  Our president asked that I create a professional looking card that some how encororated our company logo into it.  I was frantic trying to figure out how to do this.  But, my wonderful mother had a poem already created that I was able to change a few words to use for the inside wording and I found a card map from Becky Fleck (http://www.pagemaps.com/) that I though would be perfect.  It turned out wonderfully!!

I was able to play with my new MuddPuddles product this weekend that I purchased from CreekBank Creations (http://www.creekbankcreations.com/) and made an awesome few cards using the Mailibu Sand with a High Hopes Stamp and the Golf Green for Riley the Moose Golfer Stamp (I'll have to post the pictures later--they are on a different computer). 

I also ordered some new Spellbinders (on Friday) from Flowers to Flourishes (http://www.flowerstoflourishes/) and they arrived yesterday so, I was able to use them on the above card. 

I was so excited to get so much done (even though it wasn't what I intended to get done)!

Gotta go now--will post more later!

Copic Class

Good morning!  Hope everyone had a wonderful week!  Mine was great.  I was able to take the day off work from my full-time job yesterday and attend a wonderful Copic Class.  I had already been certified but wanted to take the class again to sharpen my skills to be able to work with one of the other certified ladies at my part-time job to make a class curriculum and teach Copic Classes!  I was able to meet some really wonderful ladies as well as learn a few things!!  I brought home a long list of blogs and websites to check out! 

I haven't had much spare time this week to craft anything but, hopefully I can get some more cards made and posted on Etsy in the next few days!  I am secretly hoping it rains all day so that we are "stuck" inside and I can play in the scrapbook room :-)

Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!!

Fantastic Friday

It is a beautiful Friday outside! I wish I could take the day off work and spend it enjoying this wonderful weather!  It even got so hot yesterday in the house that we had to shut the windows and turn the air on! The way our house sits, it soaks up the sun all day and there wasn't any breeze blowing through the house.  It was crazy!

I was fortunate to be able to meet up with a wonderful group of friends last Saturday and scrap.  I worked on cards all weekend and mailed some out to family and friends and posted the other on Etsy to hopefully sell!!

My cousin called me last night to tell me that my "niece" was heartbroken.  She had gotten my card yesterday and was so excited about it.  They put it on the dining room table to enjoy and Lauren's little sister Lilly decided to climb on the kitchen chair and get the card.  It ended up turning into 5 cards instead of 1.  I got a tearful thank you voicemail for Lauren telling me that Lilly ripped the card up that she loved.  It was so heart wrenching she was so upset!  So, I think I might have to make a card this weekend to send to her.  They are both so precious to me, I can't have one of them upset (ha ha).

Tonight I'm actually off work and am going to have a dinner "date" with my husband and some friends tonight.  Tomorrow I'm going to go give blood first thing in the morning and then I get to clean the house (which I'm actualy looking forward to).  I'm hoping to get some things boxed up for Goodwill as well as organizing the scrapbook room (hopefully finishing that project).  Mike is going to "play" tomorrow with his friends and help build a box for a hot tub.  He loves building things and playing with the power tools :-)

Sunday we are going to go to Mike's parents and enjoy Easter dinner and then go home and relax and watch a few movies.  Thi sis one of the first weekends in a long time that will have more than a few hours of relaxation--I'm super excited!

I wish everyone a blessed Easter and hopefully I'll be able to post some pics of my cards I've gotten made recently! My goal is to get one image colored a night so that when I do get to put them together, I can make multiple cards to give away or sell!!

Mandy