Aloha

My internet is BACK and I can surf online at home! The box arrived yesterday!!!!!! I am very excited to be back on the grid.

So is Leo. This is him last week enjoying the warmth of the sun.

Not like the wind this week.

It's the end of March and I expect more of these warm days, eventually.

Tomorrow we move into April and even though it can be on the chilly side (or even snowy), we can get some beautiful days! I hoping for more of the beautiful days than the chilly (or even snowy) days.

I don't think I've shown you this card I made awhile back ( and if I have, you can see it again since it's a fun little bit of paper crafting). It seemed appropriate for the title of this post.

I started with some hot pink card stock by American Crafts. Then I used a Tattered Angels palm tree stamp which I love because of its size. I stamped it twice to get the 2 tone affect. I added some craft paper which I tore because I wanted it to look like sand. Then I stamped Hula Moose Riley (Riley the Moose stamps) .  I colored him with Copics and then I took some white fringe and used some Distress Stain to turn it green for the grass skirt.

I doubled up the antlers to make them pop a bit.

I also added some orange and cream colored Viva Paint Pen dots  and I stamped the word Aloha (Stampa Rosa).

So I am excited my friend Vicky is home from New Mexico where she spends the winter. I am going over this afternoon to see her. It will be great to see her. Otherwise I need to do a bit of cleaning, relaxing and some studio time.

And since aloha means hello and goodbye, I will bid you

"Aloha".

Thanks for stopping by.

Less is More

It's been forever since I participated in this on-line challenge-not that I haven't want to, but betwen this and that it just hasn't happened. But this week's challenge is using a diecut and I made this card Sunday which fits the bill perfectly.

I think it does at least.

So here it is.



Although I might be a bit early with the rain theme- it isn't April showers yet, but I am wishing it was April so that was my inspiration to make this card. I chose  this great spring robin's egg blue cardstock (with the corners rounded) I attached this die cut frame (Sizzix). Then I stamped this fun Riley the Moose stamp. I also stamped Mr. Moose onto some white paper, colored him and then cut him out and attached him onto the card over the original stamped image. I wanted all those raindrops and splashes to show up and didn't quite know how to cut them out without getting a lot of white background paper. I suppose I could have just die cut the whole image to fill the circle in the frame, but I do like showing more the background color within the frame too. I added a few Viva paintpen dots to the umbrella . Finally, I stamped the saying (Stampotique). I'm not quite sure what the little spot on Mr. Moose's nose is-it is not on the original card at all.

That's my card!!!

Enjoy your day-

Thanks for dropping by and visiting.



Movies, weird karma and spring like weather

Saturday is here!

Yesterday we were in the warmth just like spring- 50-ish degrees, road and driveway turned to mud soup. But it was still so nice out. I will say though that either I was being too sensitive or there was a weird karma in the air, but something just didn't feel quite right. The vibe was wrong I guess you could say. Kind of made it a weird afternoon and evening.

So since it is Saturday and a good day to go to the movies, here's a fun card. I want to see that movie about the Edward theKing of England and Wallis Simpson. Don't think I will go to the movies today though, but hoping for some play time of some sort. Not sure yet what I will be up to.But it is another gorgeous morning/day so maybe a beach walk will be in my future.

But am enjoying these Riley the Moose stamps I picked up. They're just fun. Here I started with blue cardstock and also Tim Holtz's movie stamp set.  I used the background stamp of movie times in red on the card, there was some overlapping of the image and I also distressed the card with some mango ink. Then I stamped the filmstrip in black on white paper and used some Distress stain to color it. I also stamped the popcorn and the movie ticket on white with the same red ink as the background- Ranger's Vermillion is the color and brand.  I did a bit of popcorn coloring with Copics and then I distressed both images with the mango ink. I stamped the moose on white paper and colored him with Copics. And lastly I die cut the round ring using 2 Sizzix circle framelet dies. I attached the images with a bit of layering and overlapping, and then the red ring needed something so everything would stand out a bit more - I did some scribbling with a fine tip black Sharpie on it.

Finally, I stamped the saying on a scrap of the blue cardstock. It is using a stamp from Cornish Heritage Farms.

Have a great Saturday, a great weekend and hope you have a bit of spring weather in your neck of the woods too.