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30 Day Coloring Challenge #4: Day 13 Playing catch up!

logoHello Everyone! I had a date weekend with my man and coloring kind of got pushed to the side. My in-laws took the boys on Saturday. So Leao and I spent the day together relaxing and reading (yup, he’s a closet bookworm!) and then we ordered Japanese food from my favorite Japanese restaurant and picked it up for dinner and a movie at home. It was perfect because the weather was -9 degrees!

dinerandmovieI love how they include a live flower in the meal. So pretty even for take-out they make the effort.

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So you see, coloring wasn’t going to work. So what I will do is extend my coloring for the challenge to make up for the two days I missed.

This is also school vacation week so I have to be clever to squeeze in time to color. Today I used some digis from Mayzy Art. A great designer who is sadly closing her shop. I have had fun coloring up her images and really sad to lose the talent.

day13eThis one will be perfect for a ‘get well’ card. I love the cute little bunny and slippers. day13dI used some of my current favorite color combos for this one.

This next image I knew I had to have for my new ‘breast cancer and cancer cards’.

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I have to go back with my gold Wink of Stella to color over her armlet and earrings.

day13cWell it’s late and I need to get these boys in the shower. I just wanted to make sure I posted my coloring for today. See you tomorrow!

Happy coloring!

Belinda

30 Day Coloring Challenge #4: Day 12: Forever my Valentine Card

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Hello my craft-lovin’ friends! It’s day 12 of the color challenge and I am still at it. Yesterday was a long day and so I was unable to complete my card. So this morning I was on a mission to finish coloring my image and pull together a Valentine’s day card.

One of the fun things about this craft is that from time to time, you get faced with a mistake that you must find a creative workaround to make them work. Sometimes, It might be my color combinations don’t work as planned, sometimes, it’s a stamping error, etc. Well I printed up multliple digi images on Copic paper to color for various projects. Sometimes I print them up with space for me to incorporate a drawn background and other times, I lay them out so that I can maximize the amount I can fit on a sheet with the intention of fussy cutting them out after I color them. Well in haste, I forgot to print a test view to see if everything fit on the page. So the balloon on this image was clipped.  I don’t like to waste paper and products so as a rule I find a way to make it work for the project or use on another to avoid wasting anything.

day12aSo I pushed the imaged flush right and cut off a little more of the balloon to line up with the right edge of the card.  Problem solved!! I also designed two sentiment designs (love, forever) on my Silhouette and played around to ensure the digi when cut out, would fit nicely with the word. I used the print and cut feature on my Silhouette (yes I use a Cricut cutting mat – don’t judge) to cut out the cards and then placed the image on each to see which sentiment I would use for this card.

day12bI ended up using the ‘Forever’ sentiment and matted it on American Crafts ‘Everyday’ patterned paper.

I think I might just use this card for my husband. That way I can still see her cute face around the house!

It’s really cold here (18 degrees) and I am thinking of stopping work early, making tea and grabbing my book and heading to my reading nook for a little comfort.

I will be back tomorrow for day 13!

Have a lovely weekend!

Belinda

30 Day Coloring Challenge #4: Day 11 – The Beginning of a Valentine’s Card

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Today was pretty crazy so here I am uploading my post at 8:30ish! I did get some coloring in but hadn’t had the chance to prepare a post.

day11I picked out a digi from Saturated Canary, picked some go-to colors and printed her up on some copic paper. Then I realized the balloon was cut off a little. Tomorrow I will show you how I can create a work-around once I finish coloring and complete the card.

Good night and happy coloring!

Belinda

Red Books Challenge

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I saw a fun challenge on Instagram that said to find all the red books you own. I think I have a few more but here are most of them.

The top one by Paulo Coelho, I read a long time ago.  The rest are to be read. I think I might pick up Harmony soon. It’s a Japanese scifi!

I don’t put my books by color on my shelf but these do look pretty together.

Happy reading!

Belinda

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