It's Such a BEAUTIFUL Friday

Its a gorgeous day today...rather low key at work and now I'm home, windows open and the sun shining. Not a bad Friday the 13th. A bit buggy to go outside-those nasty May blackflies we get that swarm you...YUK!- but Katie went out to a friend's house and I'm home alone for a few hours-HURRAY! Studio time!!!!!!!

So now that blogger is back up let me show you a recently made card-not this week- I've hardly had any studio time this week, but back a coupe of weeks ago. I used blue grey card stock and this blue plaid paper. The scene is Stampendous...colored with Copics. The shells are all die-cuts, colored, and the words are Tweety Jill from one of her ocean sets. I outlined the plaid paper in black to mimic the edge of the stamped image, and I stamped some brown definition over and over along the bottom of the plaid paper to distress it a bit.

Its definately how I feel today- I feel very summery.

In fact if it wasn't so buggy or if they weren't predicting rain the rest of the weekend I'd go out and do some gardening and maybe go buy some plants...but the bugs are thick right now...but they'll slow down a bit in another week.

Happy day to you.

Enjoy this very exciting time of year (we mostly have leaves now and it is SO fantastic to see green and color in the flowers and trees blooming...I can't take it its so GREAT!)

LOL

I Wish

Now that I'm back into the work groove, I wish it was vacation again. I could stay home and do some of the cleaning I didn't do last week. I could finish reading my book. I could...and I would spend a lot of time in the studio and make things and organize and maybe even vaccuum the rug.

But I am a responsible adult who has worked her whole adult life and so I shall go to work and be responsible.

Good thing I love my job teaching.

It would be horrible if I didn't.

I love teaching but its NOT my passion the way art has become.

But I do love my job and I really like teenagers...if you can believe that.

I still wish sometimes I could work in the art field and design things like rubber stamps or cards or items for a big company.

I think that might be quite a lot of fun.

Be a 7Gypsies designer or maybe a Hero Arts designer.

Or maybe run my own stamping store. Some cute little place a little bit cluttered with art on the walls.

But I would probably either hate either of those or suck at either of those.

So anyhow...

Now that I have talked about one of my wishes...(more to follow some other day)...here's some art for you to look at.

A card I made last week using a new Stampendous cling mount stamp which I colored with Copics and used ink to distress the sky like sunset. I put it on greenish paper with a grungeboard die cut that I inked and a heart die cut and painted red. Then I added the words which come from a Tweety Jill ocean set.

I love the ocean. I love working by the ocean and somedays smelling the salt air and living fairly close to the ocean. I don't have to wish that one.

Happy Day!