Follow Your Bliss…

I have a couple cards that will be featured on Ellen’s CLASSroom blog this week! Both of them naturally using some of my standby favorites from Lockhart, Spellbinders, and Copic!

Here’s a couple sneak peeks. Stay tuned!

of a project I have over at Ellen’s CLASSroom blog! Featuring Copic, Spellbinders, Lockhart, and Memory Box!

Check it out —-> HERE!

Have you heard?

Ellen is running a big sale in her store the 10th thru 12th…read about it and get the code on her blog—>HERE!

I am in Phoenix for the past few days, attending Creative Escapes 2008. It is unbelievable! I had classes with Heidi Swapp, Kolette Hall, Kelly Goree, and Jessica Guthrie yesterday, and today is Tim Holtz (OMG!! WAHOO!), Janet Hopkins, Jenni Bowlin, and Laurie Stamas.

I’ll be sure to share some of my learnings with you all soon, but in the meantime, Here’s a couple photos of the breathtaking sunset last night from our resort. Totally amazing! (click for full size!)

I’m sitting here, stunned that it is September. Where has this year gone? When I think back to all that has happened, I realize, yes, many months have passed. But it all seems like a blur, for some reason. Do y’all feel that way, too?

I’m hoping things slow back down this Autumn, as I really love to enjoy the cool colorful days of September and October. My favorite time of year in the mountains, and this year I have Lady G to enjoy it even more!

Before we know it, the Holidays will be here, so I decided to make some Christmas cards with Karen Lockhart’s new releases.

I absolutely LOVE these Itty Bitty ornaments. Isn’t it just the sweetest image? I colored the ornaments with my Copic markers, then cut and embossed them with a circle Nestability die. I sponged around the edge with Ranger vintage photo ink, then added Ranger glossy accents to the ornaments. That really gave them such a “real” look, don’t you think?

I used my Spellbinders Label die to create both of the bracketed style panels from Basic Grey’s Figgy Pudding paper. I chose to play off that single center blue ornament and accent with Prism’s suede brown dark cardbase. Card measures 4 1/4″ square. The circle and the polka dot panels are both up on dimensionals. The velvet ribbon is retired SU!, and the sentiment is PaperTrey.

As I was digging through my stash for some bling, I found this clear snowflake. I purchased it well over a year ago from Michael’s in the dollar bin. It’s made by Darice. I added a little aqua AMuse bling in the center, to make it “pop” a little more and tie in with the colors.

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you have a great day! HUGS!