Hello!!!!! How is your week going?!? I'm doing good. It's Thursday and we are getting closer to the weekend!!! Woohooo :)
With this being said it's time for a new release over at Julia Spiri. And this new release is just perfect for Valentine's day. The one that I used is called My heart.
I made a little video of my process for this.
I made a little journaling out of the box for this.
I had lots of fun making this with some paint, some homemade stencil out of a piece of paper that I had punched out. The flowers are from my stash as well as the little pearls. I made the heart with a die cut from Marianne's dies. The text is from a magazine. The image was colored with my copics and then fussy cut. I also used some scrap papers.
ohhhh it's time for a new collection release over at Julia Spiri Etsy store and this time it's about cuties for the garden!!!! My make is the super cute little Lady Bug.
I took a class over at Scrapbook central a local store this weekend and we played with totally YUMMY silk paint and gels. I decided to make the background for this little journaling during this process and when I came home all that was required was to color the cutie up and fix her on the page.
I also added some little transparent butterflies that I had from a fellow crafter's clean up sale. Those were fixed on the page using some E6000 glue.
Hello everyone! I hope you like this new make that I did for Julia Spiri. She has some totally fabulous new digis out and I got to play with the great Pineapple girl. I decided to make a little journaling for this taht would show how much I'm longing to go on vacation :) It's getting darker out here and it would be totally fab to be in a hot country with lots of sun right now!!!
I also made a little video of my process you can see it here:
OMG how cuuuuuuuute are the new release images over at Julia Spiri?!? I just looooove her images and I was super excited to play with the great image The bunny and cake.
It was also just PERFECT because it's my stepmom's b-day coming up in about a week and she ADORES bunnies! So this card is going to her :) shhhhhh Aline.... Je sais que tu regardes mon blog... .c'est une surprise :)
So here's the card that I made with this totally adorable digi.
wooop woop I have finally finished my last season for my calendars that I was making to put in my Etsy store.
So I get to share with you my latest video of that series as well as one little calendar the month of August that I made using a great little image from Julia Spiri called Rose!!!
and here's a closer look at Rose. She was colored with my copics. The calendar comes from here.
Isn't she adorable?!?
I'm entering this little calendar in the following challenges:
Hello! It's time for the new release over at Julia Spiri which you can see if you are part of the great FB group. The image that I had the chance to work with is called The snow queen.
I always love to have a chance to get ahead of my Christmas cards and this card was a great time to do so.
I've been trying to keep myself busy. I really need to in order to progress and get my energy up!!! And this past weekend I had taken a brake and gone to visit my dad. We ended up making some little wood boards that I could use for my mixed media. Those were cut by me and and sanded with the big power tools of my dad!!!! ALL by myself! I was so very proud!
Of course I really wanted to try it out. And I had won a super cute little gnome image from Julia Spiri over at the FB group. I figured this would be totally awesome to use on one of those little board as mixed media. I did a video of that process and you can see it here:
Here's my little make for you. If you want to purchase this little wall art you can do so here.
I'm totally EXCITED to be able to share that I'm part of the new release team over at Julia Spiri!!!! Such fabulous digis. There's an awesome FB group as well that is how I found out about them. And of course you can play in the challenge and have the opportunity to win some great digis.
My make was done using the brand new Sea and Hair. I decided to make a page journal layout with this. I have to admit that I'm really really scared of the sea. I love looking at it. But I know that it's so incredibly powerful and yes I'm very scared of the idea of being on a boat. So that image touched me a lot.
I have been tearing some magazine's apart and I found the great text that I could use on this layout.
I've been feeling down in the dump.... and I mean really really down in the dump. I went to empty out my office on Saturday (you can imagine how it was emotionally draining and such).... and got a nail in one of my tires...... :(
We were having my oldest son's girlfriend and my daughter's boyfriend over for supper that day... and I had the special visit of my dad. It was fab that it took my mind off my issues... but that soon caught on to me actually the next day I was feeling blah and today was the pits.
All I wanted to do was stay in my pjs in bed... didn't want to do anything.... and I really had to go and get my tire fixed but I didn't want too.... didn't want to do anything and I could feel the depression edging closer.... wanting to come back.... and I was ready to just let it come back with open arms and just go and crawl in a corner to cry.
But then I thought how I have fought this soooooo hard and I can't give up.... it would be so very easy right now to just let it all go. And man that's all my body is telling me to do just give it up. So in the end I got dressed and then went to the garage. Got the mechanic at the garage laughing at my bad luck.... lol at least I can still get people to laugh. Then got back home and yeah.... didn't want to do anything. No craft no nothing.
I still managed to! And I forced myself to create stuff for my Etsy store. Just because. It's not that way that I will make money really because so far no sale lol but at least it gave me something to focus on and to try to do. And for that small amount of time I felt almost worthy of still being here.
I used the fab new image Fairy that I purchased from Julia Spiri. She's so very cute and I made a little shadow box book out of it.
I have made some other items as well and you can see me showcasing them in a little video here:
The book was purchased at a little thrift store and it helps some good organization in the society close here so all good. I cut out the cover and some of the pages underneath.
The flower was handmade using a Tim Holtz die and then I coffee dyed it and sewed a button in the center. I have made more of those flowers and you can purchase them in my etsy store
That's it for me for today. One day at a time right?!? Tomorrow I'm seeing my psychologist and I'm sure hoping that she will have tricks for me to use to cope.
Hello everyone! I got some devastating news 2 days ago. My job was abolished. So even if I was ready to go back on a progressive basis well I have no job to go back too. It's taking me so very long to scrap the bottom of myself from the floor. And to read this news well... it just brought it all back.
I had to remember if it was all worth anything.... most of all AM I worth anything. And I have to say that I'm totally BLESSED to be surrounded by so many loving people. Everyone pulled close to me and sent me virtual hugs. After spending 2 days crying none stop I have to find ways of getting myself back.
The best way that I know how is to go through what I did to get out of the initial big hole and that is to create. So that's what I did. I created something for my daughter. It was in the pile of need to do and well today it got done. Then, as I was pocking around FB I came across the cutest little release ever from Julia Spiri. She makes such fabulous whimsical characters. Totally my style. And when I saw that there was a deal on the new release I jumped on it. And got one printed right away to work on her and journal her.
She's part of my healing process.... you know how the ant is suppose to work all the time and they are supposed to be compensated for that?!? when winter comes.... well that's not my case.... but I have to remember that somewhere out there is a job for me and that if this happened well there's a reason for it. And it's probably because something better is awaiting for me right?!?
So here's my little journaling page to remember this! I did the background in a gelli printing class and just love it. It reminded me of fall colors. I added some gelatos accent as well as some american craft metalic pen. The sentiment is from an image found on the net about jobs.
I printed this image large and colored her up with my copics. And then I fussy cut her out with my scissors and exacto knife.
I'm entering this little journal page in the following challenges:
