I’m on a Diet

I am participating in Sparkletart’s 30 Day Challenge

http://www.sparkletart.com/rsr/2012/03/30-day-craft-cleanse.html

on a modified basis. I have a stamp convention at the end of April and my plan is to buy nothing  crafty for the month of April until the convention. Friends keep me honest, I know my husband will. I also plan to keep my desk top clean each night, I must put everything away.   I hope I haven’t bitten off more than I can chew.

 

Right now there is no space on my desk. So this has got to help. It is said that you can change any habit in 21 days.  Here’s hoping I get a new habit of clearing away my space!

 

If I manage the buying freeze it will make the convention at the end even sweeter and better funded (all cash).

 

I have already started the purge. I’m giving away to a new stamper friend (hey Thelma) my full set of Adirondack ink. I have not touched them in years, since I drank the Stamping Up kool-aide.

Sweating here as it is so hard for me to part with anything. But hey it felt good. I bet there are more things I can give away!

 

In the Hand of the Creator,

 

QP

Cascading Card

I saw this youtube video on how to make a cascading card and fell in love.

Here is my first one. I'm sure there will be more.

The paper I used was by Tim Holtz. 

The dies and ink  are by Stamping up.

The Stamp by Paper Trey Ink.

Ribbon from my stash.

In the hand of the Creator.

QP

March Madness

March Madnesss

Birthday madness that is. I have 4 friends whose birthday are the first week of March. Then my dad's 95th was Sunday. I close out this week with my dear daughter.

I made this card for my daughter's birthday.


It's all good,

Pam

Where have I been?

My new stamp room

Stamping Buddies

I met last night with my stamping buddies; Rena, Re'Keta, Vicky and Bonnie. Here are the cards we made.

Rena showed us how to make these, I think you will agree that they are lovely.

Super Mom!

Mother’s day is this Sunday May 8th 2011 and I want to wish all the moms a Happy Day spent with those they love!

 

For my cards this year I used another image from Kenny Kiernan to which I added Super Mom at the bottom. I was using the Super Mom idea as a theme. I used Copics and Primacolor Pencils with Gamsol to color the images. I added some Viva Décor pearl pen in Crème to the earing and some Smooch in Siren to their lips.

I used the lyrics from the Mom song for a background

Inside the cards say:

Here is the finished project

Happy Mother’s Day to all the Super Mom’s!

 

In His Hands,

QP

Copic compare

I belong to group of Copic Groupies and we have been talking a lot about different papers to use them with. I decided I wanted to compare them all. I made this video and posted it to Youtube.
http://youtu.be/GhlUCjOCnGQ

Here are the pictures from the video
X-Press It

Cryogen White

Neenah Classic Crest- Solar White in Super Smooth

Borden & Ridley #234

Big Art Brand Professional Pen and Ink

Gina K Pure Luxury Base Weight


My favorites are still the Neenah and I like the shimmer of the Cryogen White
and the blendability of the Borden & Ridley.

In His Hands,

QP