Happy Mother's Day!!!!!

Happy Mother's Day!

This is a day to rejoice all of the mom's in the world!

Is there anything better than a mom?

I was truly blessed with my kind, sweet mom who I get to share today with.

This is the card that I will be giving my mom later today.

I totally cased  A VERY similar card made by Nicole Magouirk !

 I immediately knew it would be perfect for my mom! All of the paper and stamps were from my May Simon Says Stamp of the Month kit. And the dies are all Simon Says, too. The sentiment was "stolen" from a card saw in blogland. I had to change the words a little to suit my family because I only have one child. I hope the original writer doesn't mind, but I can't find it again to give credit to where I found it !!

Again...Happy Mother's Day!

Thanks for stopping by,
Mackie

So beautiful

I just love the inspiration card for Muse Challenge #15 by Jen Mitchell!

It is so soft and beautiful with the mint and the black. 

So I was motivated by the design of the card and the butterfly, as well as the mint green.

this is my interpretation.

I dry embossed the white background with a cloud folder so my little butterfly could float in the sky!

I colored the butterfly(Verve) with Copic markers, added some pearls and put some black twine on him to look like his antennae. I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment onto vellum paper.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Mackie

Just Buzzing by to say...

Just buzzing by to say HI!!!!!

And show ya a birthday card I made for a long distance friend, 

who I thought would get a kick out of this sentiment!

And the inside:

Isn't it cute? This is one of my many stamp sets that I have received from my monthly membership to Stamps of Life. This stamp set is called bee4me. You can purchase it Here. I glittered the bee's wings with Stickles and colored their black stripes with Liquid Pearls. I heat embossed the sentiment with white embossing powder and heat gun.

And I used this week's

Retrosketches #61

I just love this sketch with the bow tucked behind the sentiment. And the design team has some beautiful examples to share!

Hope you have a fabulous day!

And thanks for stopping by!

Mackie

Thank You

Well...I got brave and decided to go for it!

and try the MUSE challenge!

Whoa!!!!

My inspiration from this week's Muse card by the talented Virginia Lu,

was the stamped floral background over the masked circle.

And my interpretation....

The glorious colors are some Hero Art ink pads that I just received. Love them!!!

Of course, as I look at these cards, I see where I should have done more of this and less of that!

But the important thing is...you gotta try!

Thanks for stopping by!

Mackie

Stamps:creations2fill, thanks (Stamps of Life); Flower Friends (Simon Says)

Inks: Soft Cantalope, Soft Apricot,Pale Tomato (Hero Arts); Cricket (Recollections)

Paper: Paper Trey Ink

I made this card with the splitcoaststampers Mix-Ability challenge in mind.

The challenge this week is to use squiggles and lines, etc. which I did by outlining my words and the leaves and stems of the flowers. I even squiggled a few birds in the clouds!!

The background was made with watercolor paper. I misted it really good with water.

 I applied some different Distress ink colors to my work pad, added water, then mooshed the paper into the wet inks. I held the paper up so that the inks could move around the paper.  I used some Faber Castell crayons and colored around the edges. Also misted it with some Perfect pearls. It has a really pretty sheen IRL.

I made the flowers with one of my Verve flower dies. I cut them out  and misted them with water. I squished them up and let them dry. After drying,  I inked and painted them with gesso and distress inks.

Hope you like my Mixability card! Because I really like playing with all this stuff!

Thanks for stopping by!

Mackie

Humbled...

This last week has been a very tough week on America, especially those in Boston. My heart goes out to all the families affected by this tragedy.

I am always amazed at the strength and goodness of our first responder team members. And that is why I made this card.

Thank you to all the policemen, firemen, EMT, etc. and all the volunteers who worked so quickly and bravely in the face of this horrible incident. 

I used this sketch from

CAS(E) this Sketch

Thanks for stopping by.

Mackie

Stamps: Verve

Dies: Verve

Accessories: Yellow DCW glitter paper, red embossing powder

Happiness...

Hello! I got into my craft room today and It was so much fun!

I had been visiting some of my favorite blogs and became inspired by these 2 challenges!

They intrigued me, as well as scared me. But alas...that is why they are called challenges!!!! 

Retrosketches #60

ColourQ #185

And this is what I came up with:

Thanks for stopping by!

Mackie

Stamps: Heart2Heart #10 (PTI); Doodle Sayings (Verve)

Paper: Hawaiian Shores, White (PTI)

Ink: Berry Sorbet, Pure Poppy, Hawaiian Shores (PTI); Concord Crush (SU)

Other: Standard Circles (Spellbinders); Heart2Heart dies (PTI); Twine; Heart Gems(Prima); button

Alcohol Inks

I have been MIA on this blog!!!!! I have been crafting, just not posting!

Hope everybody in blogland is doing well!

I just wanted to share one of the many cards that I made in an Alcohol Inks class that I took last Saturday at the Donna Downey's Studio. Yes, for those who know who Donna Downey is....I live only 45 minutes from her fabulous shoppe and studio! Am I a lucky girl, or what???

My fabulous teacher, Laura Curran, and I had a fabulous time! I was the only one in the class! Whoa!!! 

She taught me all kinds of fun things to do with alcohol inks. She had these really pretty collage stamps. I just loved them. I am definitely gonna have to add them to my wish list. That is what I used on this card. Then she taught me how to make landscapes and scenes with the inks. I  might show that some other time (I need much more practice first!)

Laura was so talented! She has so many tips...like using a plexiglass window panel from Home Depot and double-sided tape, to hold your glossy paper  while you are inking. Or using the lid of a storage container for your work area. This probably makes no sense! I need to take photos!

Any how...just wanted to share and say hello!!!!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Mackie

Thank Ewe

I needed to make a quick thank you card so I just had to pull out my Penny Black stamp set again!

 Just love these cute little animals!

This is my very CAS card that I made for her using 

CAS(E) this sketch #20:

How do you like the Liquid Applique? Hope I made you giggle!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Mackie

Forever & Always

There is a fairly new challenge over at SplitcoastStampers called Mix-Ability.

I decided to to join the current challenge

Rip It, Paste It, Ink It

Mix-Ability Challenge #8

I took some designer papers and tore them into pieces and then pieced them onto some card stock with ModgePodge. After it dried, I added some stamping and edged with Distress Inks. I wanted the upper right corner to appear like sunshine and the rest of the background to appear like the sky.

I am finding this mixed media stuff to be very relaxing!

The bird is a SU punch. I punched it in white cs and then used Distress Inks to make that pretty bluebird. I have a pair of bluebirds in my back yard! I have never seen them in my yard before especially since I live right in the middle of the city! They have been eating at my Suet Feeder and sitting in the cherry tree. They are so pretty against the cherry blossoms, hence my design for this card!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hope you have a great week!

Mackie