Outlawz Monday Greeting Card - Anything goes.

This is a thank you card I made for my dentist who has been so wonderful and is now leaving our city.  The paper I got from a scrapbooking pack from Winners.  The image is one of Sandi Huggett's.   The flowers, ribbon, and small stamp is from Michaels.  The thanks I cut using my Cricut.

Have a wonderful day

Michele

Wednesday Sketch on Outlawz.

This is my entry for this week, the papers and the images come from stacks I got at Michaels.  The lace is just from my stash and the good luck is a Stampin Up stamp.

Love

Michele

Tuesday Colour Challenge - Outlawz

For this challenge we had to do Christmas in July using black red and white.  The image is a stamp of Sarah Kings which I coloured using pencils and thinners.  Flowers and stars are from my stash.  I used stickles on my stars.

Love

Michele

Outlaws Sunday CAS - stars or stripes.

I made this card for a co worker who is expecting a baby boy in September.  The paper is my stripes and this came from a scrapbooking kit I got at Winners.  The words and bottle and soother are cut using my Cricut.  The ribbon is from Michaels.

Love

Michele

Outlawz Paper ala Mode - be patriotic

So we had to do something patriotic.  I used paper doilies and used old pictures of my children in the snow.  The flowers and buttons are from my stash.  The I love Canada is a sticker from our local dollar store. I used bakers twine to finish it off.

Love

Michele

Simon Says Stamp and Show a flourish

I decided to do a tag for this challenge. Most of what is on this tag is stuff from my stash.,  I did use distress inks on it.  The stamp is an old one I still bought in South Africa years ago.  The flourish has been cut using my cricut.  The flowers, brads and bling I got at Michaels.  The ribbon is also from Michaels.

Have a good day!

Michele

Fatbook pages for Artchix swap

Nothing to do with Paper Crafts

Hello everybody, as some of you know I have another hobby and that is Reptiles.  This is the second year that we are asked to be part of the Canada Day festivities in our city.  I thought I would share some pictures of our day.  The picture above is of a girl who really was not sure if she wanted to touch Joey.  She eventually overcame her fear and gave him a very quick poke.



Here she is still a little wary.



We were there for 9 hours.  It was crazy busy and we had a line up the entire day.  Needless to say we were exhausted at the end of the day.  We had loads of fun though.

I even roped in my husband to help this year.  His job was to keep our wash station going and also to look after our turtle that was swimming in the tub.  He was a wonderful help, and I do not think Storm and I could have done it without him.

I hope you enjoy my pictures.  Happy July 4 to all my American Friends.

Love

Michele

Simon Says Stamp - Lemon and Lavender

This card I did with a free digi from Sandi Huggett.  I coloured it with wax crayons and blended with Goo Gone.  The papers are from my stash, as is the ric rac and trim.  The flowers I got at Michaels and the bling is also from Michaels. 
Hope you enjoy this card
Michele

Outlawz Challenge - CAS Sketch -CAS0626

Paper from Michaels. The stamp is a Penny Black collection called 'In the Garden'.  I used water colour pencils and thinners to colour the image.

Enjoy

Michele

Outlawz Challenge Paper ala Mode - SBC062511

Frame - I used Claudine Hellmuth"s peeling paper technique when I covered the frame.  I then distressed it.  The word Bliss and the Butterfly are Stampin Up Stmps.  The flowers I got from Retro Cafe'.  The image is a Graphic 45 paper.  The rest was just from my stash.

Hope you enjoy

Michele

Simon Says Stamp - Sketch - Missed the deadline, so just up for fun

The papers are all from different sources, but mostly bought at Michaels.  The image is Marci from La-La Land Crafts.  I used watercolour pencils and thinners to colour.  The roses I got at Michaels, the buttons from the dollar store.  The butterflies  are a cut from the 'Walk in my Garden' Cricut Cartridge.  The sentiment is a Stampin Up stamp.

Have a good one

Michele

Wood Heart - Simon Says Stamp and Show - Word

On this plaque I used Claudine Hellmuth's peeling paint technique.  Paint a basecoat, attach the image, this one I got from Vintage Moth.  Then run Vaseline on the places you want to show and paint another colour over top.  When this is dry rub off the Vaseline.  This exposes what is underneath.  I recommed her book 'Collage discovery workshop"  I stamped the flowers all over.  This stamp is from Stampin Up.  The key, keyhole and gear goodies are from Artchix.   I painted them gold.  The roses are actually a trim from my stash.  The Butterfly is from a DCWV stack called "The Playtime Stack".  Jewels are from Stampin Up.  The word "Sweet" comes from my stash!

Have a lovely day

Michele 

Painting I did in my art class

Todays entry has nothing to do with papercrafts, but I do have another love and that is art.  My daughter and I have been taking art classes since last September.  We started off with sketching, then acrylic paint and this last piece I did, which is a study of Lawren Harris is done in oils.  This one took me ages to do and if you look closely will see there is quite a bit of work done with a palette knife.  I have a few other pictures I will post soon, but I am pretty proud of this effort.  Next year I start painting from my own photos so they will then be original, instead of studies.

Hope you enjoy

Michele

Decorated container

The Gingersnap challenge asked us to use packaging materials.  This container is actually a soft plastic container that I think bath stuff came in.  I have had it in my art room for a long time.  I have covered it with purple paper that I have also had forever.  The flowers I used came from stems that I bought at Michaels, also a long time ago.  The metal tag I got from Michaels on sale.  I have also distressed the paper using Tim Holtz distress Inks.  The wire curliques I made from some jewellery wire in my stash.

I am entering this in the following challenges

Gingersnaps  Creations - Using packaging Materials

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Use some Metal

Thanks for looking

Michele

Outlawz Challenge SBC061811

This is a layout with a picture of my daughter during her holiday in Cuba.
The paper is from K&Co - Four Seasons Stack
The paper under the photo is from the same stack and I distressed it using Tim Holtz Distress Inks
The paper clip is decorated with a flower I cut using my Cricut as the sentiment.
I have included a ribbon on the paper clip.  The cardstock is the red tag with the sentiment.

Hope you enjoy

Michele

Greeting Card challenge GC062011

Paper for squares from a 6" x 6" pad called "Sweet Fairy Collection".  The flowers are cuts I made using my Cricut and the "Bloom Lite" cartridge.  I then added buttons and a small bow.

Colour challenge CC621

My shape for this challenge is the circle cut from a 6" x 6" pad I got from the Dollar Store.  Ribbon and flowers are from Michaels.  I did embosws my circle using the Swiss Dots folder.  I finallly got myself a Cuttlebug.  The bling is from Stampin Up.

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge

I cut the fence using the Bloom Lite Cartridge.
The chair and umbrella from Everyday Paper Dolls and the sun was also from Everyday Paper Dolls

Outlawz CAS Challenge CAS0619

Greeting "Congratulations", the cap and the scroll I cut from old papers I had in my stash.
I added twine and button, and that was it.