Category: Copics

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2/2/2011

Happy Ground Hog Day! Little hard to believe the groundhog did not see his shadow this morning as we are sitting in very deep snow. Our driveway in fact had a 4 foot drift across the whole width. That is no exaggeration, I shoveled through it I know! In the meantime I am still trying to get a few crafty items completed so here are a few more Valentine cards to show a little love and to complete this week’s challenge at iCopic. I have two layouts in partial put together mode littering my desk but got to play with the furnace people for several hours yesterday instead of completing them grrr…. The girls are upstairs since it is a snow day here and they are bandaging their MANY injured stuffed friends. You should hear some of these injuries! These friends are in BAD shape!! Good thing the girls are on top of it and taking care of them. Well I best close here so I can get my Club Copic Tutorial done and a quick write up for GIS too.

Happy Wednesday all.
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1/30/2011

Well as the month of January comes to a close I am blinking and trying to figure out where it went! It has been a busy and productive month for me. I have two new tutorials up at Get It Scrapped, completed a lot of challenges. Including this card to the right. It is the current color challenge from iCopic. I spent the past two days making a stack of Valentine cards with Copic colored hearts on them. I’ll do a short lesson to go with them in the next few days. I taught in Lori’s classroom this past week about artist Milton Avery and even managed to squeeze in a couple doctor appointments around the other business.

The girls are busy as every we wrapped up our cookie sales with 135 boxes sold not much by today’s standards but quite an accomplishment for us. Most of it was door to door by Sara so I am very proud of her.

Rumor is we are expecting another pile of snow. But we are still smiling as of yet since the comparison to last year is still so much nicer!

Happy Sunday to you all and have a great week!

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1/20/2011


Here is another version of my Copic “new year” numbers. The layout is for the next round of One Month at a Time at Get It Scrapped. You can find the directions for the Copic new year numbers there as well.

The photos are from my birthday ice cream, gotta love Cold Stone. I think these shots of John and the girls will be the true indicators of our lives. I am not sure how many we have at this point looking just like this all snuggled together over Dad’s bowl of ice cream but it is a lot.

In the meantime the weather is holding tight with below zero at night and with wind that take it that cold during the day. We did however manage to get one snowman made though before it all froze solid and he is standing firm in the front yard as I type this.

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2011 Starting off right!

Well here we are starting off another year. I am not sure how this one can top 2010 but I am sure excited to see all the new adventures. I am completing a year long challenge at Get It Scrapped with this layout. We completed one layout each month that summed up the month. kind of like a month in review. I am thinking about continuing the challenge myself it was so much fun and just using the sketches at Get It Scrapped.

I was also working on this weeks color challenge over at iCopic. The three colors were red, cream and brown. I drew the 2011 and filled it in with my Copics. If you are interested in having your own page of 2011 and 2010 to color I will have a tutorial ready at Get It Scrapped in the next week or so.
As for all of us here in Iowa we are right back up to our eyeballs in activities. Sara and Lori are trying Wavemakers this session which is a pre-team swim group. Woosh lots of swimming but they both did great their first night. Sara is back to diving and is the strongest in her level 1 group. I love watching her and how hard she tries to listen to ever little detail and correction she is given, she is an amazing little sponge! It feels like an Iowa winter at least for a couple days as we have had bitter cold for a couple days again. The season has been so mild though that it is hard to complain! Signing off for now.

Hugs to all!