I'm Back!!

Wow it's been a month since I've posted anything! I'm not sure where the time went. We went on a fabulous vacation for a week to Antigua to celebrate our 10th Anniversary. We stayed at the Galley Bay Resort and Spa and had an absolutely awesome time. The resort was beautiful and the staff so friendly and helpful!

We had a deluxe beachfront room, a first for us. This was the view from our room out the back door. Steps to our chairs and the warm ocean! It was paradise!

This is by the main restaurant called Sea Grape. All the meals are 5 courses and presented beautifully! The best part is that it's open air and you are literally steps from the ocean! A beautiful setting!

Galley Bay is a small resort of only 96 rooms. there are 2 ground floor and 2 upper floor rooms in each small building. The grounds are beautiful and everything is clean!

We had the most beautiful sunsets to watch every night! I couldn't have asked for more on this vacation! It met all our expectations, dreams and wishes

 It sure was hard to come home and back to this awful weather. Also during April I wasn't feeling well and was just diagnosed with Vertigo so I wasn't really doing anything but laying on the couch! I feel a lot better now and am hopefully back to spending time in my craft room which I missed doing! I hope all of you are doing well! I have a card to share with you tomorrow that I made for my Dad's birthday.

So that's all for now, chat at you later!

Cheri

Paper Bunnies

I got an email from Weekly Scraper and in it, there were instructions to make these cute paper bunnies so I decided to give it a try. 

Click for a link to the Paper Bunnies instructions on Weekly Scrapper

I decorated mine a bit different and I used Rice to fill the bunnies. I also added a small cotton ball tail on the back of the bunny. I think they are adorable!

Chat at you later,

Cheri

Last of the Easter Cards

Today I finished the last of the Easter cards that I need for Family and Friends! Now to get them signed, addressed and in the mail!

We had a great weekend! Our Guelph Storm has made it into the second round of the OHL playoffs. We had the first 2 games against the London Knights Friday and Saturday. We won Friday 6-4 but lost Saturday 2-7. Time to regroup and kick some butt in London on Tuesday and Wednesday! GO STORM GO! We also had an overnight visit from my daughter Taylor which is always great. I love seeing her and spending some quality time with her. It's raining here yuck, but hopefully it will melt the rest of the snow! 

Stay dry and I'll chat at you later,

Cheri

Another Easter Card

After finishing the Easter cards for my Hubby, I had a few Copic coloured Tilda images left. I decided to make a few more cards for family & friends. The first card I am going to show you fits into a few Card Challenges, so I'll be entering it into them. Check out the links to their sites and see all the beautiful cards entered into their challenges.

I am entering this card into:

Simon Says Stamps Monday Challenge:Anything Goes

Tilda's Town Challenge #98: Flowers

Stamp & Create with Magnolia Challenge: Flowers

Marvelous Magnolia Challenge: Use a Dollie

Lovely-Haenglar or Sweet Magnolia Challenge: Girls Only

The Ribbon Girl Challenge: Girly

Once again I used paper from the Bo Bunny Primrose line. It's my favourite go to paper right now. I inked all my edges using Tim Holtz Distress ink in Vintage Photo. I made the roses myself from MFT die-namics Mini Rolled Roses die and added a coloured pearl to the middle of each one. I layered 2 green Die-namics "Leaf Filled Flourishs" on top of a Bo Bunny Dollie and then added some pink "Macarena Corner" die cuts from Memory Box. I added the roses and then using 3 shades of green, I  cut out leaves using Martha Stewart's "Frond" punch and added them to the roses. I put a Die-namics "Vintage Flourish" die cut on the top and bottom of my stamped image. Using Crystal Stickles I added some glitter to Tilda's hat and the bunny tail. I added some pearls from my stash, a small sentiment, decorated the inside and voila the card was done.

Here's a couple more I made using the same Magnolia image!

Hope you are enjoying the spring weather we are finally getting! Now if all the piles of snow would just finally melt it would feel like spring!

Chat at you later,

Cheri

A Baby Boy!

A colleague of my Husband welcomed a new baby boy into their home. Congratulations to Grant and Ashley on the safe arrival of Bryce! I made this card to go with the gift we bought for their new baby.

Supplies Used:

pre-made card base 5.5" x 5.5"

Blue & yellow card stock

paper from Doodlebug's "Snips & Snails" 6x6 pad

C.C. Designs Baby Boy rubber stamp

memento tuxedo black ink

Light blue ribbon

Die-namics Oval Set 1 Die

Die-namics Oval Set 2 Die

Die-namics Party Banner Die

Die-namics Fishtail Flags

Die-namics Chevron Strips

Amy R Welcome Little One Sentiment stamps

Diamond Stickles

Liquid Pearls in Baby Blue

Hero Arts alphabet stamps

I stamped the image onto Copic Paper and coloured it with the following Copic markers.

Skin: E000, E00, E01

Hair: E43, E44, E47

Sleeper: B91, B93, B95

Bottle: B0000, W0

Blocks: B000, Y000, Y13, Y93

Grant and everyone at Hubby's office loved the card! Always glad to hear that!

Chat at you later,

Cheri

Whew, Finally Finished!

Today I finally finished the 75 cards that I was working on for Easter that my Husband will send out to his clients. He personally signs each one so that's his job this week in the evening after supper. A shout out to my Mom for coming over on Friday and helping "glue" things together. Thanks Mom!

As you can see I've used the same Magnolia stamp "Tilda and Her Bunny" that I've used in an earlier post, as well as paper from the Bo Bunny line called Primrose. They are my go to choices it seems for this Easter! Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Chat at you later,

Cheri

Spring?

Spring where are you? It's still cold here and I wonder if Mother Nature forgot about us?! I designed this Easter card to try to feel inspired that the warm weather is truly on the way. Easter always reminds me of warmer weather, spring flowers, baby animals, pastel shades and plants starting to push their way out of the soil.

I decided to enter this card in the following blog challenges:

1.  Tilda's Town : Challenge  #97 Spring

2.  Stamp and Create with Magnolia: Butterfly Challenge

3. Kit and Clowder: Wings Challenge

4. 7 Kids Challenge Blog: Anything Goes Challenge

Make sure you click on the links and head on over to their blogs to see all the beautiful work crafters have submitted to the challenges!

Now off to try to do some work in my Art Journal. Think Spring and sunshine!

Chat at you later,

Cheri

Birthday Card

I made this card for my best friends Husband's birthday. As you can see he turned 42, still way younger than me!

 I've finally finished colouring the images for the Easter cards and now just have to assemble them all. Mom to the rescue! She's coming over later this week to help me. I've been dabbling in my art journal trying out some more mixed media projects. I just love doing all the layers and different techniques. Tomorrow spending the day with my "bestie" and I'm really looking forward to that. Have a good night all!
Chat at you later,
Cheri

Cute & Simple Cards

I had time today to get out my Simon Says Stamp March Monthly Card Kit. It's a cute card kit and I kept the cards bright and simple.

 Here's what came in the monthly card kit.

I've been busy colouring the 75 images for my Easter cards that my Hubby sends to his clients. I have 5 left to do, WOOOOHOOOOO! Then my dear Mom is coming on Monday to help me glue everything together. She loves to help and I sure do appreciate it! Have a great day everyone!

Chat at you later,

Cheri

Mixed Media

I thought I'd try my hand at a mixed media project. I've been looking at so many online and different artist's art journals and they have inspired me to give it a try.

I had a thick piece of cardboard so I decided to use that. First I covered it with 2 coats of Gesso and after that was dried I used some of my Tim Holtz Distress Stains to add a base of colour. Then using some stencils and my Adirondack Color Wash sprays, I laid another layer down onto the cardboard. I cut some hearts and flowers out of music patterned paper and using Modge Podge applied those. I then took Faber Castell Gelatos and coloured the flowers and hearts and outlined them using a thin paintbrush and some of the colour wash spray. I coloured some Molding paste with acrylic craft paint and using a stencil added the butterflies. Then onto stamping patterns onto the canvas and the butterflies with different stamps from my stash. I also took a gold Acrylic paint dabber and stencilled on some flowers. I think it turned out sort of cool. Not quite like the perfectionist in me thinks it should have though LOL! I picture mine turning out like some of the artist's I follow but hey they have years of experience! All in all it sure was fun layering it all and getting my fingers dirty in the process!

Happy St. Patty's day and I'll chat at you later!

Cheri