This week our sponsor is Sassy Studio Designs!!! Check out their site...they have super fun images to work with and YES, there is a Sassy Studio Prize involved in this week's sketch!
We got to work with a couple different images and I picked Cocoa Carol!
You know that really Carol is downing some serious caffeine...chugging the coffee not cocoa...oh that's right...that would be ME...not Carol...LOL. I love the image...she definitely gives me the sense of peace and calmness...I colored her hair, top and coffee mug {wink} with copics...her "yoga pants" are paper pieced...they kind of look blue in the photo but I used Stampin' Up Basic Gray.I wanted to add texture to the card so I used the fabbie MM flocked paper...gotta love flocked goodness...the music paper is October Afternoon. The A Muse Holiday Cheer sentiment is glitzed up with Martha glitter...love, love, love that stuff!
I tend to do crafty catch up in the morning while the kidlets are still sleeping. It is a wonderful time in my household...quiet....peace & quiet...ahhhh...pros and cons to crafting before work...pros would include quality time...I do tend to get a ton done...cons are a plenty...quite frankly it makes me NOT want to go to work...I hate to step away from a project that I'm working on and the MOJO is flowing....but the realistic side of me knows that if I don't work...I can't afford to craft....there's this other thing too...I tend to be a glitter girl...gotta have a smidge of glitter on everything these days...the kids are always telling me that I have glitter on my face...how in the world does that happen...seriously? It's not like I'm slinging around the glitter in a mad frenzy...good grief....the peeps at my work are probably thinking that I'm dolling myself up for them...yeah, NOT.
I know...can you believe it???!!!!! I did some sewing on felt...felt ladies...
I dolled these tissue holders up with Maya Road Felt & Crochet blooms...along with some MM/PTI buttons...whaddya think??? I invested in some Fiskar pinking shears...I tell you, I'm slowly on my way to some serious Amy Butler sewing projects...that's my goal.I actually have 2 other colors of felt that I'll be working with too...my projects for this weekend. J's had a sale on their felt...I went there at lunch the other day with my co-worker who is an avid quilter. She saw me in line and casually asked me how many yards I was buying of the felt...1/4 yard each? I looked at her with pure shock...1/4 yard? {it then kicked in that I could buy the stuff in smaller yardage...see, I'm not a seamstress}....I calmly told her No, I bought a yard each...oy, I'm going to be making a ton of tissue holders...LOL...a yard is a ton of felt...I know, I can use the felt for other things like flowers...my friend laughed at me though...
Good Grief, this is a montsa long post...I do want to show off my adorable RAK that I recently received from Elaine. Seriously, how stinkin' cute is this:
Thanks sista...I absolutely love it!!!Well, I have TONS of 'homework' tonight. That's what I call my DT projects & various other paper projects:) Also, we're hoping to pick up our tree tonight so that we can decorate it over the weekend...not to mention adding more lights to the house...all the interior holiday decorations...time...I need more time.