Nib Nest

Last night at the Kentuckiana Calligraphy and Paper Art Guild meeting we learned how to make a nib nest. Details are in the Nest Nib video on my YouTube channel, including a link to the blog with the instructions. But I wanted to post some additional photos here. Click each one and it will enlarge.

To me it is so fun to get together with other crafters and create!

 

In the hands of the creator,

 

QP

My Last name

My maiden name used to be brown but my dad and I have quite the green thumbs despite it. Dad more so than I. Now everyone pronounces my married last name as Living, incorrectly I might add. Sort of catches in my craw when I try so hard to say it right like Levy. Never mind that. I took some lovely pictures of my garden and wanted them on the record here. So next year I can compare and maybe repeat the planter below because I love it so.

 

 

I’m enjoying some of those tomatoes already and froze a couple of green peppers! Love these raised bin/beds. Hope next year to have a fenced portion of the yard to really work in.

Just have not taken the time to put in the ground work. Like calling BUD (before you dig) and finding out where I can and cant put in my garden. I want it near the deck so I can see it and enjoy it.pm

 

This is my carpet rose…just like the one my dad planted for me back home.

 

 

So far a great gardening year. I hope you are enjoying your spring in July like we are. The weather is just great to me!

 

In the Hands of the Master Gardener!

QP

The Accidental Dragonfly

As promised I am back to share what I made with Tim Holtz’ Layered Dragonfly die and embossing folder set. Remember from yesterday I was in need of cards. Way behind am I in sending out birthday cards.

 

A while ago I made some spray inks with distress re-inkers and just test sprayed them on a sheet of paper. This caught my eye so I used it as my background designer paper. My own paper!!! how cool is that.

The verse is me trying to embrace my own handwriting (that “d” in penmanship still haunts me). The stripe of numbers is also an accident it was left over from a journal page..I slapped that on too. And my final layer is the dragonfly cut from the packaging it came in. It was a bit to clear for my taste and that lead to the last happy accident a whole journal page.

 

I want to add some Prima Color Bloom spray in Storm Cloud to the plastic dragonfly die cut. And being the 10/dollar girl that I am; I did not want to waste the overspray. I laid it onto a gessoed page in my journal and sprayed away! And this is what happened The sprayed looked heart shaped so I enhanced it with a charcoal pencil and blending stump.

BONUS journal page for today done! Oh by the way I love the Prima Color Bloom sprays!

Oh and by the by I killed my old YouTube channel and have a new one elonqp; I’d love if you subscribed. Thanks!

 

IN HIS HANDS,

QP

New Stuff!

Do you keep new stuff or do you dive right in! I’m a diver…there will probably be no new clothes in my closet when I die (ah unless I go tonight). check back in a week and there won’t be any.  I’m not that way with craft supplies…I hoard them. why WHY…I don’t know. I find things I have bought months before and I can not remember why  (WHY) I had to have them.

This year’s word is DO. So in keeping with that mantra I am trying to use the things I buy.

The Tim Holtz layered dies arrived in the mail this week. I was able to sneak the box by my husband and into the hoard room aka my studio. What is so special about these dies is that they are steel rule and therefore will cut thick materials with ease  (Mostly). AND they come with embossing folders that match!

SO as I needed several cards and I got them out to play. The first one I used to make a shaped card and it was so fun I made 2.
One white on white:

I layered vellum on top of white cardstock and topped it with pearls. I tucked some pearls behind the vellum layer so it will stay popped up.

And one in color:

I inked the card with pinks and oranges from Paper Trey Ink and for the darks I used
Vintage Photo.

Tomorrow I’ll show you what I did with the dragonfly!

I leave you in the Hands of the Creator!

QP