CDAC PROGRESSIVE FREEBIE CHALLENGES - My design

This cute little girl is my design for the CDAC PROGRESSIVE FREEBIE CHALLENGES that I joined.  I love mixing my Copic Colorings and my PaintShop Pro to create these designs.  This is one of the images from annies digital art

COPIC NEWS

Copic has just announced morning a brand new, fun Copic website was launched . . . CopicColor –  Copic’s new online color community! You can find a welcome video HERE, that tells you all about the new FREE site! You can post your Copic creations in your own gallery and keep up with all of the Copic colors you own or want … all accessible even on your mobile device, so you can always have your lists with you at all times! Check out what all it has to offer – I know you’ll love it!  I have posted some of my favorite Copic Colorings and I hope you enjoy them.

Steampunk Clock

I love how this clock turned out. Graphic 45 papers are some of my most favorite. Mix 'em up with Tim Stuff, and it's a winner everytime.

Tim Goes Digital (sorta)

OMG...I love the All Things Tim Yahoo group...we're having a 4x6 page swap "A Haunting We Will Go"...all my Tim Stuff is digital now, (phew...did that take a bit of doing) and my page design is hybrid...can't wait to share the finished page, but in the meantime, here's the digital portion of the page.  Love to hear what you have to say!!

Love the new digital designs at Sugar Nellie Stamps

These digital beauties are fabulous for all my Copic Friends. Go get yours (here) and color away. My favorite is hair (this week LOL) and this little girl is so pretty. Try my recipe for your brunette hair coloring: E 17,33,53.  I love how these images look with the Websters Pages papers I am addicted to.  Add a little Martha punch to the side, and you are ready to present this card!  Thanks for looking!

Tim Holtz

Is coming to Whim So Doodle...yippee...I am taking his classes and I cannot wait. In the meantime, if you like to see the future, take a look at the website. www.scrappyhappines.com...This young man is very talented. Tim his one of his idols...His name is Drew Scott. I can't wait till you see his website and watch one of his videos. This person is AMAZING. You know, once a Mom, always a Mom...I did send him an email with a suggestion that he run the spell checker BEFORE he posts...I can see a definite improvement in his blogs. He is so cute. Can you imagine if your son told you all he wanted for Christmas was a Cricut Machine? I for one would love it; but that's because me and my boy have no relationship at all. And that's all for now. Enjoy your visit to Drew's website.
Liz

Copic Colorings with Sugar Nellie Digitals

Nothing makes me happier than the perfect digital stamp to color with my copics. I am an addict of all things paper or paper related. This little girl is Grace Standing and is available here. I just loved coloring her. She has an airbrushed background. Enjoy!

Copic Airbrush

So...are you all over the hectic pace of the holidays? Ready to get back into the NORMAL schedule of things? Good. Because I have a sneak peak for your viewing pleasure. Whim So Doodle Copic Advanced Classes are being scheduled. Check out this fabulous Copic Coloring of mine and take special note of the fabulous airbrushing behind the sweet little girls. Watch for me...

WSD BFF Cards

So, this morning I taught my BFF card class at the Whim...fabulous. The ladies really loved the cards and techniques I shared with them today. Can't wait to see Teresa Collins and her class...yippee...

Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

HA...did you miss me? I know I have been gone a long time, and really have no reason, just a bunch of excuses. The biggest being that life gets in the way. Saying so long to 2010 was sure easy. Bye Bye. Now that it's 2011 I hope to blog a bit more. Not that anyone comes to my blog, but on the out-chance that someone does come see me, it would be nice if I was at least up to date with the "gossip" of the Greater Saint Petersburg area... Went to Europe again this vacation. October we were in Paris, London and Amsterdam. Loved London. Not much to say about Amsterdam, and Paris...well an old friend once said that Paris is wasted on the Parisians. I now know what she meant. We saw everything we could in Paris. The whole city, as a matter of fact...from the top of the Eiffel Tower. Damn it was cold and windy, but I took pictures along all the sides that were accessible to people. My SO is NOT a height person, so he hung onto the inside wall. To his credit, though, he did venture once by me to see the soccer field all aglow...it was the size of a 4 postage stamp square from way up there. That was it. One look, a quick self-portrait photo of us two, and back to wall hugging he flew.

YIPPEE

copicmarkerscrapbooking.com why don't ya mosey on over and check em out!! See my designs!

I am on the design team...YEAH

How fabulous it is to be on copicmarkerscrapbooking.com's design team. I can't wait to finish up some of their fabulous digital stamps and upload the card designs. Why not check their website out...you're gonna love it. Love to have some feedback...watch for my designs!!

Paris 2010

We are off to Paris this year for our bi-annual trip to Europe. We are in the planning stages, although we do know where we are going to stay, and how we are going to get there. NOW, the fun begins. Where to go first. What to see. How to see it. I am satisfied that our fabulous hotel has a view of the Eiffel Tower out the window, and that the metros are within walking distance of the hotel. Not too keen on the idea of the 185 plus steps to climb the Arc de Triomphe - but when in Rome...(I mean Paris)...I did climb to a pretty lofty height while visiting Mount Vesuvius in Italy, so one can assume I would be able to do the steps...perhaps my DSO won't be hung over this time. LOL...that was not a pretty sight. Anywho, getting pretty excited about this adventure, as you can well imagine. Pics and Posts along the way!

Imperial Pines Ladies

My new group of stamping ladies loves the cards made with Lorelie Stamps. They were really excited to learn to water color and stamp in the same day. Isn't she cute?

Okay. I am over the loss of Jack

On to bigger and better things...

Life As I Know It Is Over...

Season 8 of my all time favorite television program is about to come to an end. Jack Bauer will be no more. No more 24. No more Chloe...boy I sure do like her character. The expressions she has and her never ending technical expertise is something to be in awe of. And then, there's Charles Logan. One person that I love to hate. He has some expressions - ichy slimish "oh, damn, don't believe him Madam President...just look at his face...he's bullshitting you...duh...you went for it again". He's such a weasel! This program has been part of our lives for the past 8 years. I can still recall the weekend that Bill and I caught up on the COMPLETE first two years...remember when you last pulled an all-nighter??? Bet it wasn't to watch a television program. LOL. Anyway...as 24 comes to an end I am hoping that Jack Bauer will some how show up in the movie theater with a "sequal" to somehow save the country...wouldn't that be great? Because ya know...they just can't KILL him. Not on national television. Not in America. Not on my watch...

So...420 Dog Years Later

My best friend, my greatest fan, my wonderful SO turned 60 and I threw a surprise party for him...he was clueless. Loved the friends, the fun and especially the $100 cake. Take a looksee...

Motherhood

Saw this today on a friends post on Sassy Cheryl's Blog, and HAD to share it. Love it!!! A woman, renewing her driver's license at the Departments Clerk’s office, was asked by the woman recorder to state her occupation. She hesitated, uncertain how to classify herself. 'What I mean is, 'explained the recorder, 'do you have a job or are you just a .?' 'Of course I have a job,' snapped the woman. 'I'm a Mum.' 'We don't list 'Mum' as an occupation, 'Housewife' covers it,' said the recorder emphatically. I forgot all about her story until one day I found myself in the same situation. The Clerk was obviously a career woman, poised, efficient, and possessed of a high-sounding title like, 'Official Interrogator' or 'Town Registrar.' 'What is your occupation?' she probed. What made me say it? I do not know. The words simply popped out. 'I'm a Research Associate in the field of Child Development and Human Relations.' The clerk paused, ballpoint pen frozen in mid-air and looked up as though she had not heard right. I repeated the title slowly emphasizing the most significant words. Then I stared with wonder as my pronouncement was written, in bold, black ink on the official questionnaire. 'Might I ask,' said the clerk with new interest, 'just what you do in your field?' Coolly, without any trace of fluster in my voice, I heard myself reply, 'I have a continuing program of research, (what mother does not) in the laboratory and in the field, (normally I would have said indoors and out). I am working for my Masters, (the whole family) and already have four credits (all daughters). Of course, the job is one of the most demanding in the humanities, (any mother care to disagree?)And I often work 14 hours a day (24 is more like it). But the job is more challenging than most run-of-the-mill careers and the rewards are more of a satisfaction rather than just money.' There was an increasing note of respect in the clerk's voice as she completed the form, stood up, and personally ushered me to the door. As I drove into our driveway, buoyed up by my glamorous new career, I was greeted by my lab assistants -- ages 10, 7, and 3. Upstairs I could hear our new experimental model, (my 6-month-old baby) in the child development program, testing out a new vocal pattern. I felt I had scored a beat on bureaucracy! And I had gone on the official records as someone more distinguished and indispensable to mankind than 'just another Mum'. Motherhood! What a glorious career! Especially when there is a title on the door. Does this make grandmothers 'Senior Research associates in the field of Child Development and Human Relations' and great grandmothers 'Executive Senior Research Associates'? I think so!!! I also think it makes Aunts 'Associate Research Assistants'!!!

Got Scraps?

Here's one way to use up those pieces of ribbon that NONE of us can throw away because we will always use them LATER...enjoy! (p.s...it's for a class tonight at Jotos in Saint Petersburg, FL...wish you were here!

Oh, she's so cute

I just love this little girl. Sweet Sassy Cheryl's Little Red Stamp is just the perfect project for this copic card. I added one of my favorite frames from PaintShop Pro and I'm off to the party. Thanks for visiting me!