thank you - here's the rub #3!!

Ok, last one I promise! (well, you never know!)

This is yet another "rub-on" card made for the current CAS-ual Fridays challenge.

These rub-ons are SEI, the patterned paper in the background is Crate Paper, brooke line, i think. I LOVE the look of the polaroid frame. I need to get my hands on the stamp version. This one was created using my Silhouette.

Thanks for stopping by! Hope everyone is having a great week. :)

P.S. Thank you so much to everyone who commented on my new blog look! The picture in the background (that you can't really see!) is one from our wedding.

This one:

Can you believe the forcast was to be 11 degrees Celsius and raining (in August!). It turned out to be the hottest day that summer, I swear. It was above 30 for sure! I will share a couple more photos in an upcoming post! My photographer was amazing.

For anyone in the Calgary area:

Geoff Wilkings - Photography

congratulations!

I apparently couldn't stop making rub-on cards!

I went throught the massive pile that was my mom's, and kept coming up with ideas!

Super simple, but kinda cute huh?

These rub-ons are SEI. Again, I have no idea how old they are!

This is my second card made for the CAS-ual Fridays "here's the rub" challenge.

Thanks for stopping by!



feel better soon

It's ColourQ time!

I just LOVE these colours! And that little owl too!

Unfortunately I don't have pool party or island indigo so I had to make do.

I came across this unopened set by Kim Hughes for Cornish Heritage Farms and just HAD to use it! The whole set is super cute, I think I will play some more.

Go check out the aweseome Royal Court samples over at the ColourQ blog for some inspiration, then come join us!



PTI blog hop - photo inspiration

Its time for another PTI blog hop!

Jeez, I can't believe we are at the end of July already!

This month the inspiration is a photo inspiration.

There were so many different things to take from this picture. I somehow focused on 1 little pillow! Can you tell which one?

I wanted to bring some orange into it but I couldn't figure out how.

Once I had the idea in my head, I couldn't change it.

Oh well! I like the way it turned out anyway. :)

I am at work til 7pm so I won't be able to check out all of the lovely creations until the bitter end, but I can't wait!!

Have a fabulous Monday, and thanks for stopping by!

here's the rub

Well today turned into a kind of non-productive day! I did get the kitchen cleaned up and some laundry, but that's about it. I am nursing a sore hip & shoulder from our game last night, so that's my excuse. :)

I really wanted to play along with the CAS-ual fridays challenge this week to use rub-ons. I am not super big on them but boy my mom sure had a million. (she was a bit of a hoarder).

So as I was checking out the stash I came across a few that instantly gave me ideas, and then it was final, no more housework!

I am quite happy at how this turned out! I wanted to mist on some ink but that posed a couple of problems, a) I don't have any red/pink mists, b) I don't have any reinkers to create my own. What I do have is lots of Ranger alcohol inks. So I did some Google-ing to see if I could find anything on using alcohol inks. But everything I found said DO NOT use alchol inks to make spray mists.

Well there posed another challenge. BUT  i figured if you can add water to water based inks one should be able to add alcohol to alcohol based inks, right?

So thats what I did. I just added the alcohol ink into my little spray bottle then added some Ranger blending solution. I think it worked wuite nicely.

Now I didn't think to check out Jennifer MacGuire's blog, as I am sure she has something on there about it. Oh well!

The rub-on is a Kelly Panacci for Sandylion and I have no idea how old it is!

Thanks for stopping by!

mama said

Super quick post today to share a card I made a while ago. I was looking through my massive pile of cards with no home and came across it.

The stamps are from a Unity KOM. I pieced her blouse using a leopard print stamp within the same set. I just love the sentiment and her whoe body expression!

I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend.

I had my last derby bout last night, and it was so much fun. Super close game throughout until the end of the second half. We came back to win by one point (121 - 120) with an AMAZING last jam. I am so proud of my team!

Thanks for stopping by!



just for fun

Hey everybody!

Just a quick non-card post, because I recently aquired an iphone, and I am SUPER excited about it!!

I LOVE it! It is so handy, GPS, phone, mp3 player,camera, laptop all-in-one. I feel the GPS alone is fully worth it. :)

I spent a large portion of last night trying to figure it all out......and play with one of my other favourite features, my Hipstamatic app.

It is a creative app for the camera, you can change films, lenses, flashes. And create some really cool stuff.

These are just a few pics of Stella that I took last night.

She was the only subject I had at the time (i do love taking pics of her though, cause she's so pretty!).

I do plan on playing around some more.

Thanks for looking! I hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!

sweet nothings!

I have decided that I MUST play along with every CAS-ual Fridays challenge whether I am happy with the card or not. I really like their challenges I am just finding the deadline a tad short for my ridiculous schedule!

This weeks challenge was "sweets & treats"

I was going to go with my new Paper Smooches set, which is perfect for this challenge by the way, but I decided to try and use some of my neglected Unity stamps.

When I saw this 3-part popscicle I was immediately reminded of those rocket pops I used to have all the time when I was a kid. Yummy!!

The brown felt layer is from PTI's Limitless layers, and was left over, unused, from a previous card. I thought it added a little dimension. Rather than just popping the popscicle up on the white.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far. :)

CQC #94

Ok, Tuesday totally crept up on me!

We have been super busy at work lately and short staffed, so I had my schedule changed on me. I completely forgot what day it was! I am ashamed to admit that as a shift worker that happens to me A LOT! (not knowing what day it is, i mean.)

This week's ColourQ colours are so bright and bold. I knew that I would have trouble using a large amout of them. So when I was perusing through my stamp stash, I found this banner set by Hero Arts, I knew it was the perfect wayto use the bright colours with them being overbearing.

The banners are actually from 2 different HA sets and the sentiment is PTI from the Up Up & Away additions set. I cut apart the sentiment so it was easier to ink up and I could place it how I wanted. I love the versatility of clear stamps for that reason.

Head over to the ColourQ blog to check out the rest of the DT creations. You would think we conspired to create a theme for this week but I swear we didn't!

You'll see what I mean when you check it out!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Winners!

I wanted to quickly post the winners from my little give away.

I am on break.....sssshhhh! don't tell!

Drum roll please......and the winners are......

#7 Karen

and

 #29 Brandi.

If you lovely ladies could email me at

katolejnik at hotmail dot com, I will get on sending these out. :)

Thank you so very much to everyone. I hope you know how much I appreciate you! I hope everyone has a wonderful week.

p.s. just a super quick card I made a while ago and never posted!