Flourishes Fabulous Week End

Happy Birthday to Jan Marie, and a week end of fun, fabulous, and flourishing coloring skills. This is the image I colored on Monday in the Copic certification class with Marianne. She gave us so much information that I could not take it all in in one session.

I still have a lot I can learn with using Copic colors but have a great starting point. Can't wait to start on a new image, I almost hated to part with this one but I know it is in good hands.

The coloring on the package was done with 3 reds, 3 yellows, 3 blues, and the blending pen. A little sparkle was added to the ribbon with a atyouSpica pen.

I designed the card trying to use all the information I learned in the Flourishes Dream Stamping week-end. If you were not able to attend last week-end, never fear, we will have another dream week-end.

Stamp set is: All Wrapped up, Paper: fernbrie, black and light blue Ink: Copic, Kaiser bling rhinestones. Not bad for a last minute card, of course the coloring was done the day before.

Thank you for visiting, it has been a long time waiting to have time to play, looking forward to more coloring.

Retirement????

I have such high hopes for retirement!!!
I will have more time to spend physically at Flourishes!
I will have time to help my DH with the house work, every morning from 7:30 to 9:30. He says yea!
I will be able to do after school care for one of my grandchildren!
I'll be able to run errands for and take my mom to appointments!
I will sit out on the deck with my morning coffee, if it is not too hot or too cold, which leaves very few days!
I will be able to spend half the summer in Michigan!
AND

I am going to have time to organize my work space and keep it that way! Thus avoiding another small catastrophe like this!

I was cleaning/organizing a corner in my creating room, I was working away when I heard something "plop" like something had fallen off one of my piles. I could not see anything out of the ordinary, but who could in the pile of pictures I had in the corner. I kept working away, sorting into little piles when I took a sip of coffee, which I always have handy. I felt a "lump" in my liquid, when I looked into my cup I saw a BIG spider. I jerked my hand and spewed everything in my mouth out...........all over the pictures! What a mess! that is why
all the pics are spread out to dry. I do admit it was only a plastic spider (I have used as scrap book embellishments) but still, it was BIG & scary.
And a black spider in black coffee...........well you would have done the same thing!

It did not keep me from my creating for very long.

Here is an ATC that was sent to Etha along with another design for a Flourishes swap. I find ATC's to be so much fun and a way to use small pieces of dp as well as the smaller images on a stamp set.

I bought a designer mat pad from K&Company several years ago for scrap books, why I bought a 4.75 x 6.75 double sided paper I will never know, I don't mat my pictures with that size paper. With two sheets I had enough to cut out 9 background papers, plus the pad has coordinating colors that I used for the circle.

The green and cream paper is card stock that comes as a front and back cover sheet in the clear card stock we sell. We had been discarding them, but I thought, hmmm what if???? It is about 110lb paper and I like the way the cream colors.

Using palette inks as a base sure makes coloring with Copics easy....no bleeding, blurring, mussing the stamping lines when using alcohol markers.

OH, by the way, if my high hopes for retirement are way off track Please don't tell me yet!

Thank you for stopping by.