I'm proud to announce a new member of my design team: Johanne Larouche!

Howdy,
Guess what!  My light bulb went from dim to bright if only for a moment!  LOL!   I was looking at all the amazing cards submitted to my card sketch challenge on Paperthreads.  I got caught up looking through Johanne's gallery and oohing and awwwing over her wonderful creations.  All of sudden my light bulb lit up and I decided to ask Johanne to join my team.  I was thrilled she said yes.  She will add a fabulous French flair to my team!   I'm soooo happy to have her aboard!  Check out Johanne's bio below along with a few of her amazing projects.   On the Paperthreads forum Johanne is known as Jojogeo.

 Below is what Johanne has to say about herself:

"I am a mother of 2 young adults.  I have been living with my husband for almost 30 years, traveling in different country and living in many provinces of Canada.  I love any kind of manual activities:  embroidery, sewing, weaving making cakes and paper crafting. Making cards and scrapbook pages have been part of my life for quite a while.  My husband bought me my KNK for our 25th wedding anniversary which has open doors I never knew it existed. One of my short term goals would be  to experiment in using my KNK for paper embroidery and cake decorating.  I am very proud of becoming part of Shelly's Art Creative Design Team and am looking forward to present my work to my friends of the paper crafting world."

And now for some terrific projects by Johanne:

 

Johanne used my Infinity Card:  Birthday file to make this great birthday card.  The happy birthday phrase is included with the file.   The flourish is from Sam and Hailey's designs Swirly Style 4.   The flowers are mine but aren't in the store just yet. I love how Johanne used stamps to spruce up the spaces and also the photographs of past birthday cakes she had made.   Isn't Johanne super talented?!  Oh and case you haven't seen on of these card before.  You start with the main panel and then open other panels to get a different panel and then you keep opening again and again..the fun never ends!  I just love these cards..it's sooo much fun to receive an interactive card like this!  If you would like to purchase my file to make your own infinity card please click on the words above the preview.

Infinity Card:  Birthday

I know this blog post is getting long but I have to show you at least one more wonderful project by Johanne before you go.

Johanne created the above card for my sketch challenge this month.  She did a great job utilizing Aussie Caz's terrific sketch didn't she!  Here is what Johanne had to say about her card:

"For this card, I used Shelly's Art Flourish Set SS00224. I applied Crackled accent on it and it gave the card some 3D look. I made the word ''Merci'' and applied some Crystal Stickles on it. To finish the card, I applied 3 of Kylee's crystal dews in the color pesto. The papers are from Tim Coffey from KE Company."

I just love the crackle paint on the flourish.  I definitely need to dig out mine to duplicate this look in the future.  I just love the texture and depth it adds!  (sorry the flourish isn't available in my store yet).  I love that french word "Merci"...it seems sooo much more elegant than our language!  I must be going batty as I know Johanne sent me the translation for the other sentiment but I can't for the life of me find it.  I'll blame the e-mail gremlins!   If I do find the translation...I'll edit this post to add it later. Edited to add:  Lisa gave us the translation "After love and help, thank is assuredly the third most beautiful verb in all languages."  Thanks Lisa! 

Now can you see why I jumped at the chance to have Johanne on my team!  You'll be seeing more wonderful projects by her in the future so stay tuned! 

Sorry I haven't been blogging much.  We just have been very busy lately.  Hopefully, July will be better and I can be in touch more.

Tyler has been keeping really busy too.  The day after Tyler got done with regular school..he started basketball school.  It was a 3 day adventure for a couple hours each day and he seemed to really enjoy it.  I don't have a sports mode on my camera and I was trying to keep Adoree out of harm's way with all the basketballs flying around so I didn't get a lot of good sports shots.   I love my camera but the next one we buy will have a sport mode.  I did get one funny shot and thought I'd share it with you.  Not sure what Tyler was laughing about but I love the body language here!

Below is a nice posed picture.

Okay I've made this post long enough so I'll say toodles!  Thanks for stopping by!  See ya soon!  Have a wonderful week!

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Happy Father's Day Sale and PTI rock and roll challenge.

Howdy!
I figured once school let out I would have more "free" time but it seems all we have been doing in running to various activities.  I have had oodles of cards to make this week too so at least I do have some projects to share soon.  Yesterday we had a great day at Knoebel's amusement park.  Hubby's work had a picnic there.  The weather was perfect and both kids actually enjoyed a variety of rides.  It was a grand time!  Anyway, I was soo busy I completely forgot to tell you I am having a Father's Day sale.   There is still time to cash in on some great deals!  All of my designs are 35% off from now until midnight EST today 6/19/2011.  Click here to go shopping. 

I love Paper Trey Ink stamps!  So when I saw they were having a contest to win some free PTI stamps I jumped at the chance to enter.  The challenge was to use the rock and roll technique to apply two colors one stamp as you can see in the video on Lisa's blog here.  This is the first time I tried this technique and I can't wait to use it again.  It really does add a lot of depth to the stamped image.

I was inspired by Lindsay's wonderful card found on her blog here.  I just love the way she stacked the images to create a border!  Thanks for the inspiration Lindsay!  This card definitely looks better in person...as the butterflies are shimmery and the seed beads used on the sunflowers sparkle beautifully in the light.

Supplies:
Papertrey Ink Stamps:  Mat Stack 2, Round and Round 2009 anniversary set (sunflower), Paper Tray (Feel Better)
Stampin Up:  Cheery Chat (Soon)
Shelly's Art: Buttons Galore (butterfly)
Hero Arts: White embossing powder
Copper Seed Beads, ivory thread,
Ranger: Copper Perfect Pearls
Inks:  Memento and Versamark

Let's see I embossed the filagree stamps to make the white "POP" more.  I used the Rock and Roll technique to make the sunflowers yellow with orange tips.  I added the copper seed bead to the center of the sunflowers.  For the butterflies I used my Buttons Galore file minus the button holes.  I stamped parts of the flourish onto the butterfly wings with Versamark ink and dusted with copper Perfect Pearls.  I stitched the centers of the butterflies down to serve as bodies and antenna. 

If you would like to purchase my cutter file buttons galore please click on the words above the photo.

Buttons galore

Okay I've still got a Father's Day pressy to finish so I'd better go! Check back later for some other projects from me and my team.   I hope all you have a wonderful Father's Day!   Whatever would we do without the Men in our lives!  

Thanks for stopping by and Enjoy the special day!

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Rocking Card and Watermelon Stars!

I have to admit this card didn't turn out quite as great as I had imagined it in my head!  It was still very fun to do.  Once again I had to hurry to create this card so it wouldn't be late.   So...I decided to use A Work In Progress's awesome digital  kit called Bad to the Bone.  Hurry you can get this kit at a bargain price of  $1.00 here until the end of June 2011.    The papers and embellishments in Vicki's kit were a perfect match to the Greeting Farm's Wild Sprout:  Ebony stamps I wanted to use.  I used my Copics to color the image...I just lover the purple tips in her hair!  The skull is from Vicki's kit.  I just used a versamark maker with some silver embossing powder to outline the image.  I filled the center of the image with flocking.  The words were done with stamps. I used nesties for the circle and while still in the die I airbrushed the background with a light grey Copic marker.  I used my emoticons file and my turning paper into metal for the smiley...I also added metal studs for the eyes.   If you would like to purchase the emoticons file click on the words above the preview below.

emoticons

We are sooo happy it has finally stopped raining!  The yard has dried up so that means the kids can play without getting covered in mud!  We decided to take advantage of the nice weather this weekend and do something the kids totally enjoy!  Watermelon is very yummy but it's even more fun when you get the cookie cutters out and cut shapes out of a watermelon "steak".    See what in the world I'm talking about in the photos below!

Cookie cutters are just for cutting cookies..right?!  WRONG!  Grab some cookie cutters a slab of watermelon and let the juicy, sticky, yummy fun begin! 

Okay I've gotta go get Tyler's teacher's gift done!  Geez...I'm alway rushing to get stuff done!  The last day of school is tomorrow!  Aww well maybe I can be early for Father's Day!  I can dream can't I!  LOL!   I'll be back some time this week to share the teacher's gift with you!

Have a great week and thanks for stopping by!

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