Whirlpool of Imagination

A Packed Up Studio

As I mentioned in my previous post, my studio is packed up and ready for transport. Which means no creating until we move. What are the odds that I'll be able to unpack my studio first? Not taking that bet.

That arrow is pointing to one of the THREE giant tubs filled with crafting materials, that along with all the other boxes and containers in the previous pictures.

I've come to the conclusion that I need to downsize my amount of "stuff". It's almost scary seeing it all packed as it is now. I think as I unpack, I need to start weeding out things I no longer use.

I'll be back after I get some unpacked and back to crafting again - hopefully it will be soon!

Rainbow Hearts

We are in the midst of moving houses so posts will be sparse for a little bit ~ my studio is packed up and ready to head to our new house. But before I packed everything up, I created a quick card for my April Card Makers of Artfire guild challenge.

The challenge was to think rainbows. I had one idea that I got half way through and realized I had packed essential items to finish. Today's card was plan B.

The card actually has no stamping at all on it. I took a piece of water color paper and painted it with rose red reinker and water to create the pretty pink background. I then die cut the hearts in various colors and layered them onto the pink paper.

Add a couple of more layers and voila, card (and challenge) completed.

 

Softpencil Studio Blog Hopping!

Good morning! In order to celebrate some of the most adorable digi characters around, Softpencil Studios is doing itup in style with some blog hopping. If you want to see all the wonderful creations along the way, START HERE.

If you are coming from the Latina Crafter blog, you are in the right place in the blog hop line.

And now on to my creations.......

I decided to go with a cute little ladybug and flower image for my stop in the hop. And what's so wonderful about digi images is that you can play with their size and shape and come up with more than one look for the price of just one stamp.

Here's my first creation:

I kept this one around and average size for images. I knew I wanted to cut it out into some shape so that helped when I went to print the image out.

I used a mixtures of copic and prismacolor markers for all these images. I wanted to play around with different colros and shades of colors along with the different sizes. And I decided to have a bit of fun with my laybug and change up her colors along the way too. (I almost decided to go for something crazy like an electric blue ladybug but didn't for this hop but I haven't given up the idea yet!)

Here I decided to make the image longer so I could make the image the highlight of the card.

This size image would also work nicely on a longer, taller card as well.

And then finally, I shrunk the image down....

I love having note cards ready to go and how cute is this image for just about any type of note you need to send.

Have some fun with your digi's and play with their sizes. It's like getting multiple stamps for the price of one!

And now enough talk from me, head on over to Kerry is chilling..... to continue your hopping.

Have a fantastic day!