Hello 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!
I love how they include a live flower in the meal. So pretty even for take-out they make the effort.
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.
This one will be perfect for a ‘get well’ card. I love the cute little bunny and slippers. 
I 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’.
I have to go back with my gold Wink of Stella to color over her armlet and earrings.
Well 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
So 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.
I ended up using the ‘Forever’ sentiment and matted it on American Crafts ‘Everyday’ patterned paper.
But I think I will try a pink combo later.
This is as far as I got before I had to pick up the boys from school. My plan was to complete this but Apollo was sick in school so now I am going to cut this short and put on my nurse’s hat for the rest of the day. I will try to finish it tomorrow although I think my “nursing’ duties will extend into tomorrow.
When I saw this coloring book at Marshalls I just knew it had to be mine and the price of $4.99 made my wallet happy. As a tea lover, I was excited to get a chance to color my own tea cups.
The book actually has a variety of vintage images of objects, buildings and flowers. So I don’t think this one will bore me. I started off coloring with of the color pencils from The Board Dudes but I didn’t like it at all. So I ended up using some old Distress makers and American Craft’s Stamp makers.
The paper in this book is really thick so I was pleased to see no bleeding through. So next time, I might try my Copics. Which will give me much more color options.
Some of the old markers had pretty used tips so staying in the lines wasn’t always very easy. I am so used to the blending and shading I can do with Copics so this was a challenge to use these markers. But I do like the end result and like the idea of completing the whole page since it is a relatively small book.