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More Art

Sunday I played some more.

Also over the weekend I received an early birthday card

from Brenda Robinson and it is so lovely.

Thank You Brenda!

 

Art Night

Saturday night I spent the evening creating ART with two women from the stamp club we are members of. I got stuck on a series of stamps from Inkadinkadoo as you will see below.

For this one below I used the Starving Artistamps Mosaic Technique.

 

I colored these with my copic markers and then ran them through the cuttlebug.

These are my Radical Women.

It was good to just play with good friends!

 

Happy Mother's Day!

Here is my mother's day card to all the mothers!

May God bless you! A close up view shows the sentiment which reads "Thank you for being a gift in my life, loving without conditions, giving all of yourself."

  May your children rise up and call you blessed! And may their father find a way to make this day special for you!

 

I stamped this with Marvy ink and colored it with copic markers. The border is a new punch by Fiskars that is a corner and border  punch all in one.

Morning Tea

This is the thank you card I gave to Lynette for loaning me money last week at AIS; when I met her this week at Archivers. I got this stamp from Morning Star while I was at Adventures in Stamping. This stamp came in 2 sizes that I had to buy and here is what you can do with the other size.

I used it to create a border around the card. Often I will use a smaller version to stamp on the envelope.

Its A Beautiful Day!

I made this card to uplift a friend who may be battling cancer yet again. Her fear was not of the cancer treatment but that she might die. Today however she is not dead and so I encouraged her to live it despite what might happen. Each day is a gift and should not be wasted but lived to the fullest because God says tomorrow is not promised to any of us, which ever side of "what might be" we find ourselves on.

At work we went through a culture shaping seminar and one of the things I came away with was "BE HERE NOW". So many times we are multi-tasking to the point of missing out on the full experience of any one thing. Try eating away from the TV or Computer (my personal favorite) and just slowly chew the food and experience all the favors. Or really watch TV without crafting or computing at the same time. Really listen to your child or friend when they want to talk. Try it and see if you don't get so much more from the conversation, I know your child or friend will. I did.

Here's the envelope I sent the card in since I was having so much fun making the dots:

Supplies used

Versafine Onyx Black ink

Stamps by Inkadinkado

Paper: Basic Grey and Craft cardstock from Hollos

Dots with Ranger's Inkessentials Opaque Pen and on the envelope Souffe Pen

Adventures in Friendship

I spent this past weekend in the company of good friends at Adventures in Stamping.  Friends from Cincinnati ink and my Dayton Stamping crew.  I traveled from Cincinnati with Marolyn (our driver), Dorveda (giver of gifts) and Patsy (my roomey) for a fun filled, shopping and bonding weekend.

We left town Friday morning at 7 am  and headed up I-71 to exit 100 to the Crackle Barrel for breakfast and then on to Columbus to the Super JoAnn's as well as Prism Art Store. I got a Ken Brown Calligraphy set for $5.97 reduced from $24.97 at JoAnn's and some Aqua-Board and minis canvases and easels at Prism.

The next stop after Columbus is Brunswick Ohio and the Hollo's Papercraft store. Hollo's was not as crowded as it was in past years. We love to shop here because there is card stock for $1 per pound. I found the new layout of the store much easier to navigate, and it appears that they have expanded the space...great. I found some copper colored mirror paper as well as the card stock and envelopes. We also visited Pat Catan's a discount craft store similar (but better) than Michael's.

Then we went to our hotel in Akron, the Quaker Inn where we learned that they had been sold to the University of Akron and will be converted to student housing. So where we will stay if we come next year is unknown.  We liked the Quaker Inn because it was adjacent to the convention center. Oh well. Later in the evening we went to Archivers and I noted that their stock was different than my local store. We got snacks from the Giant Eagle and retired to munch and watch a movie.

Bright and early we went to the early bird entrance of the convention. I met my friends from Dayton: Pat, Marie Lynette and her friend Denise.  Marie found for us a new African American Stamp at Artful Illusions and its matching collage sheet, I love it when we find stamps that look like us. Lynette had researched and found some Rubbernecker stamps that were also African American and of children. I had not seen these before. Lynette was told that they had stopped producing them but decided to bring them back. We also watched the demo's at the Rubbernecker and I had to buy the Ranger Dabbers, Crackle paint and misters. Lucky for me Lynette was there to save me when the credit card machine went down and loaned me some cash since my check book was left behind. This touched me deeply as Lynette is a new friend. Thanks so much Lynette!

Likewise the demo at Starving Artistamps sold me on their mosaic stamps.

I was sad to see my Dayton Crew go home at the end of Saturday but we were all glad for the time we had. Reunited with the Cincinnati group we went to dinner at the Spaghetti Warehouse...ummmm Alfredo and a side of Meatballs. Followed by our show and tell where we look over the purchases made by the other girls and take note of what we "need' to get on Sunday. This is why I like that this is a true 2 day show so you do have the chance to go back and get something more.

I was able on Sunday to get something Lynette had second thoughts about. And several of the things I saw at our show and tell. But all too quickly our time on Sunday drew to a close and we left the convention to check out of the hotel and head back down the road to Cincinnati. With old friends, out of town friends, and friends to play with (the new products and demos from convention) it was truely an adventure.

 

QP