rainbow bird!

Ellie wanted to be a rainbow bird. After three years of princesses, I decided that I HAD to make it work. Since I could not buy one, I made it.

I made a sort of cape thing, then cut all the feathers from felt and glued them with fabritac. the mask was from walmart. it was all pink, but I added some rainbow feathers and some stickles to make it rainbow. the leggings are from etsy. I safety pinned the cape to her shirt, but I think I am going to add a neck strap or something for halloween. and I have a multi colored feather boa that I might add around her wrists or ankles or something.

this was the 'trial run' today at the Boo at the Zoo event. She was a hit and got LOTS of compliments. Im pretty proud.

nook u final #5 cards

in other news, everyone in our house is sick now :(

here are the cards I created this past weekend for the nook U finals. I really like this first one. it is so simple, but I dunno I just love it!

mouse eating cake digi stamp

here is a free digi stamp for anyone who wants it, I made it for one of my nook U cards.

you are free to use it, click on it to open it full size then right click and save as. Id appreciate some credit though if you do use it.













(FYI I didnt win the nook U thing and Im pretty bummed about it since I put a ton of effort in, not going to have a whole post about that)

Nook U Finals

oh my, where do I begin.

On Friday a challenge was posted that had 24 parts - lol! Each hour a different project was due. I don't think it was expected for anyone to do all of them, but it sort of clicked something on in me and I just HAD to do them all. I missed one at the beginning because I was at work, but after that I completed all of them and stayed up all night in the process. I will be posting those creations later, but for now here are a few observations

1. I am not as young as I used to be. Staying up all night never agreed with me and I have only done it a handful of times but clearly this is another thing that I need to admit I have gotten too old for. I am STILL recovering.

2. driving on no sleep is not a good idea. (luckily I only had to go a couple miles)

3. hard manual labor on no sleep is not a good idea

4. once I am in a scrappy zone, if I push through the exhaustion I CAN keep it going!

Here are some pictures of my (not winning) mini book

see the rest of them HERE.

Nook U Final #2

Papers are indie girl from sass lass, digi stamp is sansdesign - I cut it out and used pop dots. balloons are hand cut





















for a challenge to make a circle card and use something borrowed - peony image is cut from a page from a book. I cut the scalloped circles on my cricut and stapled two large ones together with a fold to create the inside of the card. The staples are hidden by the floral scalloped circle and the image which is on pop dots. more sass lass indie girl. and some primas and mme brads












challenge to use something old which is the colored pencils used to color the image - they are about 15 years old. I never use colored pencils. Sentiment is printed on the card. digi stamp is annemarritta, papers are sass lass indie girl.










LilyBoo digi stamp and sass lass indie girl papers. You can't tell from the photo, but his jacket and the blue accents on her dress are shiny from glossy accents.






















for a challenge to make a shaped card. I drew the mouse and made it into a digi stamp. I used glossy accents on the icing and linen glimmer mist on the ice cream. for the chocolate layers I distressed and inked and glimmer misted them to give them texture like cake would have. (boy distressing those tiny strips was HARD)

Crate Paper Restoration Reveal

I had a great time with this reveal. I am totally hoarding my leftovers and you will be seeing a lot more from me using this line. It just might be my all time fave!

For now check out my reveal HERE.

this week's Nook U layouts

Well, I haven't placed in the top three for a single challenge yet at Nook U, but I am holding out hope for this week. Im so proud of these layouts! Especially this first one which is a lift of one of Mahlin's layouts. Wish me luck to get into the finals this week. the top 15 people points-wise will be in the finals. Im just barely keeping up by doing every challenge, but I really need to place in at least one of these 4 challenges to make the finals.



























For the little guys in the corner, I drew them on a piece of scrap paper, using the sass lass monsters as models, then I cut them out and used them as a mask for the glimmer mist. Then I went back and drew the lines in after the glimmer mist had dried.

there is paint on the back of the hambly transparencies that I used a texture stamp on to make impressions in it.