Happy Monday with a Card!!

October 6, 2014 by 1 Comment

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Hello Everyone! Happy Monday! I always say that because let’s face it, Monday rarely gets any love from most.  Friday is always the best day since it’s heading into the weekend. But I decided to turn that around and think of Mondays as a day of new opportunities. It’s the glass is half full approach to turn my mood into something more pleasant.

Despite that I am working on fumes today since Apollo woke me at 2:25 this morning saying he had a bad dream and I had to go sit with him until he began to doze. We don’t have that happen much now that the boys are older but when it does, my day ends up being a bit off.  So pardon any typos today.

The photo above is a card I made for one of my crafty friends that has recently undergone some surgery. The bear is from an old Fiskars stamp set that I like and never used.  I colored him up on some Copic XpressIt paper and cut him out and raised him with pop dots.  I love his round belly.  I hope he makes her feel happy when she sees it.

Anyway, today I plan on doing some more coloring and some other housekeeping for Belinda’s Crafts.

I hope you have a blessed day!

Belinda

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Happy World Card Making Day (WCMD) 2014!!

October 4, 2014 by 3 Comments

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Happy World Card Making Day my creative peeps!! What a perfect day it is for WCMD here. It’s raining and a bit of an overcast. So I grab a cup of tea and see a day of crafting happening here. I first have a craft hour with my dear friend Ashley and then back to working on some of the cards you see above.

What? You don’t know what WCMD is? This is a great definition I grabbed off the internet to help if you don’t know.

WHAT
World Card Making Day is a holiday especially for card makers around the world to:

  • Celebrate the creativity of handmade cards and the personal connection that they create between friends and family
  • Kick off (and get a head start on) the holiday card-making season
WHEN
The first Saturday of each October, kicking off the holiday card-making season, the most popular time for creating and sharing handmade greetings.
WHO
The card-making community worldwide, including hobbyists, beginning card makers, manufacturers of card-making products, retail sellers of products, educators, and press are invited to come together to celebrate this holiday and creative passion.
WHY
It is a day to connect with fellow card makers both near and far, to applaud the creativity that powers the craft, and to provide an opportunity for card makers to connect and find resources that will empower, inspire, and encourage them in their card making.

So in honor of WCMD, I thought I would share some of my favorite cards I have made this past year:

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Happy card making!

Belinda

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Happy Birthday Nicholas!

September 30, 2014 by 2 Comments

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Yesterday was Nicholas’ birthday. I was running around and wasn’t able to put up a post.  He doesn’t like me to put him on my blog anymore so I am refraining from using any photos with his handsome little face in them.  So all I am left with are cake pictures.

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Yesterday he turned 11. Can you believe it? I can’t.  It seems like yesterday I was running back and forth to the doctor (I had to be on bedrest) to make sure my baby boy and I were alright.

Everyone tells you how fast it goes and you shrug it off but then you blink and your baby is grown. Sometimes I even find myself thinking about how sad I will be when he goes away to college. The self-inflicted torture must stop.

Anyway, my inlaws and brother-in-law came over this weekend to help with the continued construction of the studio (what you and I would call a clubhouse) for the boys. They laid the foundation in June and then summer fun got in the way so now they have begun the work again in order to complete it before the bad weather comes. I will post photos soon of the process. It is amazing and I am so proud of my husbands ability to make something so amazing.

So since they couldn’t be here on Monday to celebrate. We celebrated with them on Saturday night and then on Monday we celebrated with him and took him to dinner.

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My mother-in-law made the cake. Now you all know I love paper crafts, knitting, reading and gardening. But making a cake and decorating it…well let’s just say, I leave that to the professionals.  So she made the cake and decorated it with this soccer theme. It was so cute.

I wish for Nicholas a year full of fun adventures, growth and a lot of love.

I am going to go snuggle up with a book today because it’s one of those crawl under a blanket gloomy days outside.

Have a blessed day my friends.

Belinda

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A Peek Inside: Coloring, coloring and more coloring!!

September 25, 2014 by Leave a Comment

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Hello! OMG…where have I been? Why haven’t I been posting? These are truly valid questions. Which deserve some sort of response.  I am searching for a clever one but can’t find it.  I get swallowed up from time to time with transition periods and this is one of those times. The boys have been back in school for a few weeks  now and we are all trying to get in a good rhythm. I am trying to begin work on new products for my store but things seem to keep holding me back. Wait, is that leaves I see falling outside my window? NO!! Say it isn’t so. I love fall, shh.. it’s my favorite. I love the crisp air, the pretty leaves and let’s not forget the fall fashion (Love it!).  But raking I do not like.  So those leaves better stay put if they know what’s good for them. Oh and I digress.. Perhaps this is why I have not begun production for my shop. I keep getting in the way of myself. Procrastinating, procrastinating, and a little more.

However, today, you can see what I am working on in my craft room.  Coloring.  No it is not products for the store but I am revving my Mojo up with some practice with an online Copic Class. I find that sometimes I need a confidence booster to launch me into creating mode.  So that is what I am doing. Today I am practicing coloring techniques and color combinations.

I wonder what you are doing today?

Belinda

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