Cards | Copic in the Craftroom

Posted on July 21, 2010January 9, 2012 by Michelle — 1 Comment

New Toy

Two things to post today. The first is a card that includes Copic loveliness and is from a sketch from Sassy Lil Sketches. Thanks ladies!

The next is the results of my first round playing with my new toy! I just got a Copic Air Brush System. Way to fun! Similar to the effect you get with misting inks but a continuous spray and goes with all my markers so I have lots of colors.

Not much else to report today, hot and sticky here big surprise but we are still having fun with bikes, library and the girls are playing at Pump It Up this week for a few days and they love that as well.

Posted on May 5, 2010January 9, 2012 by Michelle — 1 Comment

Weekend fun

One more card with Copics!

We had a nice weekend here in Iowa. We had a fun morning participating in a cancer walk for children with cancer. One of Lori’s classmates, Will, is battling a childhood cancer and is two years into a four year treatment. We went in support of him and others like him. The weather cooperated and we loved being able to be there for Will. According to Lori he is her future husband, stranger things have happened so I am not leaving it out of the realm of possibility. He has come over for a playdate and they have an amazing relationship.
We of course had our nice lunch out and then the whole Houghton clan packed it in for a POWER nap. Yeah big time!
I finished off the day with a little scrapping. A local friend came and shared my table and we played while John and the girls did their “scrapping” run for pretzels, looking at animals in Sheels, and a run through Build A Bear. (Lori’s B-Day list keeps growing) But here are two layouts from MY playdate!

Posted on April 28, 2010January 9, 2012 by Michelle — 1 Comment

Another card

I have a whole series of these little guys so here is one more fun card. Someone should be recieving one very similar to it very shortly or might already have it. I have 3 sister in laws with their birthdays in April and one Father in law. (only one of those you know) so cards gallor! My friends at GIS are all celebrating in May so busy me and lucky you I’ll just keep sharing.

Here is the detail on the little bird.

Not sure why the top of my post is underlined but there you go.

Things are good here. the girls are beyond excited about Dad having his B-Day. I know they are more excited than him on this one. And let me tell you he has some good gifts wrapped up on the mantle. You know the 5 and 7 year old hand made “by ourselves” kind. 🙂 John will love them all.

Happy B-Day John!

Posted on April 23, 2010January 9, 2012 by Michelle — 1 Comment

Random thought

So I have been busy busy playing with my new toys! My Copic markers and I am getting better and better. Here is one of my latest cards.

I will post a few over the next week or so. I am loving experimenting with colors and seeing how far these can be pushed very fun. The stamps I used this time are Basic Grey and if you are dying to know the Copic colors just leave a note or e-mail I will be happy to share!

As for the randomness I though I would share a little money saving tip I came up with all on my own may not be original but I sure think it is creative. I love Bath and Body’s thick body creams, they are the very best, at least to me. BUT they are pricey and I hate the fact that you can not get all of the lotion out of the bottle! i am not willing to pay that much, even when on sale, which is when I buy them and not use every tidbit! Sooooo I get it all out every last squish of lotion and here is how.

When I have squeezed as much out of the bottle as I can and it looks almost empty like this…

I cut it into three sections like this…

I scoop out ALL of the lotion out of the top and middle portions and use it if I am ready to right then or just put it in the bottom portion of the lotion container (the section with the lid) Then I slide the cut off top onto the cut off bottom and voila I have my lotion contained in a mini bottle AND I can scoop out every smidgen of it with my finger. I usually get at least 5 or 6 more uses out of a single container by doing this.

This is a lot of randomness, I know, but someone might find it useful 🙂

Happy Friday to you all!

Posted on November 14, 2009January 11, 2012 by Michelle — 1 Comment

CLEAR!

Yep he did it and I will shout it from the mountain tops! JOHN PASSED HIS BOARDS!!!!!!!!!

OK needed that! It is amazing how your life can hang in the balance waiting on one bit of news. How it can create such a pivotal point in your lives. If this happens we can do this… if this happens we could plan this… don’t plan anything there until we know about this… It goes on and on. But we are there, we know, and he passed so we can “acknowledge and move on”. Words to live by my friends, words to live by.

So last week was tense but John was home and did get some good play time in with the girls and me. The weather here has been more then a blessing in the 60’s and sunny most days. It gets dark around 5ish these days but it is not keeping us from our loops around the block. We know colder weather is quickly on the way so we will take advantage while we can.

A fun piece of news for me is that I will be teaching my Doodling class again on line. Originally I re wrote it to be set up as a class that people could come and take self paced, meaning they could just get all the lessons and do them whenever, but Debbie invited me to teach the class “live” again and I am thrilled. I will be teaching early January and the class is completely re-done so lots of fun new material. In the meantime I will be doing a tutorial in December at Get It Scrapped as well but I am not sure if we are announcing the whole plan yet so I better not spill the beans.

Like I needed another project I have also been playing with two classes that are currently running. One is working with stamps and I have made two cards already then the other is an art journaling class. I am not a big journaler but this class is SO much fun lots of messes, spray ink and paint here are some images of the pieces I have been working on. I am behind in the class but loving just tootling along at my own pace and really enjoying the process.

Here is one of my cards
Here are the inserts that will go in between some of the pages (we are making a book from scratch) The last image is of some of the pages themselves.