Birthday Card 2022 for Diana

I made a birthday card for my very dear friend Diana.

She's a retired landscaper; loves being in the garden & outdoors; 

and her favorite color is purple!

What better paper collection to choose for her card than the

Maja Design collection Enjoying Outdoors! 

I decorated the front of this 6x6 card with a homemade shaker, gorgeous dragonflies, flat back pearls, flowers and ribbon. 

The shaker is made from layers of die cut chipboard, acetate, 

foam adhesive & of course a sequin mix.

ReneaBouquets dragonflies are stunning and make this shaker totally awesome!

To hide the layers of the shaker, I used coordinating lime green and 

deep eggplant-purple ribbons.  

Then chartreuse moss & pretty flowers added below the shaker 

help hide the ribbon knot.

I made a collage inside of the card using cut outs from the paper collection.  

A personal sentiment is die cut and adhered to a darker solid paper 

and a few sequin pieces from the shaker mix help decorate it.

 

Thanks for viewing and as always,

stay safe, healthy & happy!

Lisa >^..^<

Products used:

Maja Design - Enjoying Outdoors collection:

Singing in the Rain

Garden Moments

ReneaBouquets:

"Enchanted" tiny treasure Dragonflies

Wild Orchid Crafts:

MINI purple mix Gardenia

MINI purple mix Sweetheart Blossoms

10mm lime green Open Roses

Catherine Pooler Designs:

"Springfield" Sequin Mix

Scrapbook.com Dies:

Nested Ovals

Cheery Lynn Designs (Maker's Movement) dies:

Horizon - Square

Embellishments:

Hobby Lobby & Michael's- 

  Ribbons - Lime Green & Eggplant Purple 

  MicroBeads - Pesto & Grape

  Adhesive Flat Pearls - Light Lavender

  Iridescent Adhesive Rhinestones - Magenta

Lawn Fawn - Acetate

Tools:

Big Shot Machine

Sizzix Magnetic Platform

Tim Holtz Distresser Tool

Fiskars 12" SureCut Deluxe Paper Trimmer

Martha Stewart Scoring Board

Inks:

ColorBox Pigment Ink - Raisin

Tsukineko VersaMagic Chalk Ink - Perfect Plumeria

Tsukineko Memento Dye Ink - Sweet Plum

Adhesives:

Nuvo Craft Glue

Scor-Tape

Scrapbook.com Foam Adhesive Sheets

2021 Christmas Cards

I have been so very busy for several months with moving from one state to another 

and having to get acclimated to a new area and become familiar with requirements in Texas.

Not easy to move - believe me!

I barely had the time to create,

 so I'm really surprised I got these done! 

This year, my cards are a bit on the 'pitiful' side, 

but I was happy to finally use the 

poinsettia edger die that I've had for a while.

I just wanted to let my closest friends and family know that I was thinking of them 

during this Christmas season. 

I used older Maja Design papers. 

Thanks for stopping by

and have a wonderful & blessed Christmas season. 

Love, 

Lisa

Products used:

Maja Design Papers

Vintage Frost Basics - "11th of December"

Monochromes - "Shades of Denim - Aquamarine"

Monochromes - "Shades of Denim - Blue"

Creative Expressions Die

Poinsettia Edger

Want2Scrap adhesive flat pearls  

Light Blue

Tools & Adhesives

Sizzix - Big Shot Machine

Sizzix - Magnetic Platform

Fiskars - 12" Deluxe Trimmer

Nuvo - Deluxe Adhesive

Scor-Tape Sheets

2021 Favorite Creations

This was a very slow creation year, due to having to pack and move. 

I've chosen my favorite creations this year,

which are mostly adult colorings. 

I hope to learn a lot more about coloring so I can get better at it. 

In order by creation date:

Vicki's Pocket Tag

Lotus-Born Happy Humpback Whales

Happy Sloth Village

Waterfall of Knowledge

Jaguar - MORPH

Psalm 117:2  The Truth of the Lord Endures Forever

Sweet

Sphynx Cat in an Egyptian World

Thanks for viewing....

Very Merry Christmas

and have a HAPPY & Healthy New Year!

Lisa

Taking a Break of Sorts

Hello Everyone! 

I'm taking a 'break' of sorts. 

I'm fixing to be on a new adventure soon!

MOVING to the GREAT state of Texas!

I will be near family, which is where I NEED to be!

Since becoming a widow and losing the absolute LOVE of my life to dementia, at the very young age of 65; enduring (like everyone else in Lake Charles, Louisiana) back to back strong hurricanes in Aug & Sept 2020, Laura & Delta (of which we have NOT NEARLY recovered from) ; then an ICE STORM in February 2021, which hasn't happened way down south here in La. since 1997 (we are a mere 30 miles from the Gulf of Mexico) and is an unprecedented occurrence; THEN on top of ALL of this, we endured a 100-year FLOOD!!!! I have lived in my home for 24 years now and never once have seen a flood this bad or this close to my home!!

So, with the buying of a fabulous 8-1/2 year old home in Texas and also going through having to put my 24-year old updated/upgraded home on the market 

(AFTER I MOVE OUT)......

Along with taking care of finalizing (FINALLY) 

my dear husband's Succession, 

I am so ready to move forward!

Please bare with me as I continue to take care of needed situations in my life and head towards a fun and new venture ahead!!

Some where - probably 2022, I'll begin coloring and scrapbooking and card making once again!

Who knows what's in my future with new friends that I will make 

in my new neighborhood of 55+!

Thank you for checking in on me and for continuing to follow me.  

I promise that there will be more to come. 

I'm considering a NEW BLOG solely about my adorable, loving companions - Miss Gali & Lucy, of course!

I'm thinking about starting from when they first came to live with 

me & Joe all the way up to present.  

They are so worth SHARING!

They TRULY ARE the LOVES of my life!

XOXO

Please stay close and stay in touch!

Many thanks, 

Lisa

Hummingbird

I'm trying to get back into coloring, 

so I chose to do a hummingbird that I could make colorful.

It's from the coloring book "Birds" by Georgie Woolridge.

It has a bit of zentangle style about it. 

And it's special because it was a gift from my sister!

And the rest of the photos show close ups. 

Thanks for your visit and have a nice day!

Lisa 

 Coloring Book: Birds

Artist Illustrations by: Georgie Woolridge

Products used:

Faber-Castell 60-color Pitt Pastel Pencils

Blending Stumps

Prismacolor Premier 150 Colored Pencil Set

Prismacolor - Colorless Blending Pencil

Prismacolor Sharpener

Sakura Electric Eraser

Grumbacher Final Fixative

Shadowbox Memorial for a dog named Money

 My very dear friend, Kay, asked if I could put something together as a memorial for her precious dog, Money, who passed away at the age of 19 in 2019. 

The shadowbox frame she gave me was black,

so I spray painted it in "Coastal Blue",

because Kay's mother's favorite color was blue.

 Kay gave me a stack of photos to choose from.

I decided to make sure that her mother was part of this memorial

because she loved Money so much!

This shadowbox requires stick pins because the backing

is velvety black on top of styrofoam.

The frame is 11x14, which is larger than the usual 12x12 scrapbook papers that I work with, so I used two pages from the same paper collection with blues (for Kay's Mom's favorite color) and pinks (for Kay's favorite color). 

The Dusty Attic chipboard was more than perfect for this memorial!!

 Lastly, a close up of Money's actual paw print. 

I put a spot of glue in the center to adhere it to

a heart that I made in the same paper collection.

I decorated the heart shape with lace trim.

God.....please bless her sweet heart!

THANK YOU SO MUCH

for viewing Money's Shadowbox Memorial. 

God bless ALL animals, especially those beloved to humans. 

Without our pets, we would be lonely.....

at least that's MY personal belief!

Have a lovely day and please continue to stay safe.

Lisa : )

Products used:

Maja Design - Denim & Girls collection

"Romantic Blouse"

"Roses"

"Chic"

The Dusty Attic - chipboard

Wild Orchid Crafts - flowers

English Roses

Stampendous Fran-táge Embossing Powder

"Shabby White"

Rust-oleum "Chalk" spray paint