Bright and sunny

Hallo,
  Well the weather is defiantly warmer  here in NW Florida, but in the winter that often means rain - in the case of the last several days fog and drizzle so I am sharing a bright and sunshiny type card today :)
  Took my DD to the airport this am to send her back to Nebraska for college - there was some speculation as to the flight getting out due to delayed incoming flight and the fog but looks like she will get out a bit late but still in time to make the connecting flight....
  I am headed over to the local college for the 'Center for lifelong Learning' registration day here in a bit - this is a local, all volunteer group that holds 2 sessions of adult learning classes. I am teaching a 'Coloring for card makers class' again this winter - so I have been doing a lot of coloring lately for my class samples (and not surprisingly a large portion of the images I use to demo are from Flourishes.....not only are they beautiful and fun to color but they are a local company to boot being in Pensacola ...)
     Todays card is a Flourishes image of course and colored with koh-I-noor pencils. I did another shaped card for the current Tuesday/Release challenge.
   Check out the challenge here - www.flourishes.org/blog/
     All for today - Take Care
         Tera

Rustic Christmas

Hallo,
  Well once I got up yesterday afternoon (after working night shift :) I had some time to play in the craft room and did up a few cards. I had spent a lot of time over the weekend coloring so it was just a matter of putting them all together.
  Todays first card is a modified  CASE from  Christine on this post - http://christinecreations.blogspot.com/2013/12/country-birthday.html

  The stamp is from Flourishes and I colored it with koh-I-noor pencils.
I stamped it onto Neehnah Desert Storm - kraft colored cardstock and then backed it with some kraft core coredinations paper.
   I made a shaped card for the current Tuesday/releas challenge over at Flourishes this week - Check it out here - www.flourishes.org/blog/
  All for today - once again braving the frigid cold to take my spoiled princess of a puppy for her walk :)
   Stay warm!!!
        Tera

P.S. the second card is a more direct CASE of Christine's card and the one I did first - then I had to try one with sunset colors :)

New house

Hallo,
  Just a quick little post today and a quick and easy card too. I needed a house warming card for a friend and this sweet house stamp from Impression Obsession - 'House' G1742 made the perfect image.
  This also fit for the current challenge over at IO for 'blue' - check it out here - www.mitrafriant.typepad.com

  I stamped the house in blue onto Neenah Desert Storm paper - (wonderful kraft colored but smooth and great for coloring on) from Paper Temptress. Then I used a texture folder on the kraft card base and the piece of blue kraft core coredinations paper. On the base cardstock I swiped the texture with the same blue ink as the house and used it on the edges of the panels too.
  The coredinations paper with the kraft core in 'da bomb' - LOVE the kraft core!!!!
  Last but not least some pearls - colored blue with a copic marker - as embellishments.
  The phrase is a rub-on from a packet I have had for years now - slowing getting it used up....
  All for today - puppy wants a walk and as it is a bit warmer today than it has been its time for a longer walk :) and its sposed to start raining tomorrow too....
        Take Care
               Tera

Mountain Deer

Hallo,
  A quick card for you this evening as I am headed off to work - I did a lot of coloring over the weekend making samples for the coloring class I am doing starting this month.
  I am teaching a class - 'Coloring for cardmakers' at our local Center for Lifelong Learning - which is an all volunteer group associated with the local college. We have all kinds of classes at 2 different sessions every year with everything from computer, religion, cooking, beading, knitting, genealogy, exercise, to skeet shooting classes - its a lot of fun!!!
  I made up a few cards yesterday morning and this one just happens to fit the current Tuesday challenge over at Flourishes. It is also the release challenge for this months release week too :) The challenge is to make a 'shaped' card.
Check it out here - www.flourishes.org/blog/
  This is of course a stamp from Flourishes and I colored it with koh-I-noor pencils.
   All for today
                                                                                                 Stay warm!!!
                                                                                                    Tera

Silver and gold

Hallo,
   BBBBRRRRRRbbbbrrrrr - It is COLD here this am and fixin to be colder. I have lived in NW Florida for over 15 years now and never has it gotten this cold or stayed cold for as long as it is sposed to.
  Puppy still wants her walk though so I guess I will bundle up and go - soon as I work up the nerve :)
  Todays card is for the current challenge over at the House Mouse blog - www.housemouse-challenge.blogspot.com
  The challenge this time is for 'silver and gold' This card looks better IRL - I did the star and ornaments on the tree with silver and gold metallic pen and they show up way better off camera. Otherwise it is colored with koh-I-noor pencils, layers die cut with Spellbinders and I added some ribbons and a few silver and gold sequins too.
  All for this morning - better get this walk thing over with and back for a hot cup of tea!!
    Stay warm!!!!
       Tera

IO Blue

 with a pop of red....
   Hallo,
      A very mellow weekend at the Fujan clan household - went to brunch at one of our favorite bayside places as it will be the last semi warm day for a bit as the deep freeze is sposed to hit tomorrow.
   Spent the rest of the day lounging between the couch and the craft room working on samples for the coloring class I am doing starting in a couple weeks and working on another locker hook rug.
  I did this card for the current challenge over at Impression Obsession which is for 'Blue'. Check it out here - www.mitrafriant.typepad.com
  I used F1929 Cardinals by Window and colored it with koh-I-noor pencils - I couldn't resist the pop of red here - for the birds and the base cardstock. The image was done on the kraft colored 'desert storm' from Paper Temptress and I used kraft core coredinations paper for the middle layer.
   All for today
       Stay Warm!!!!
                                                                                                 Tera

Sweet Pea Stampers - Anything goes

Hallo,
  Welcome to the first Sweet Pea Stampers challenge for the new year!!! It is a pretty easy challenge this time as 'Anything Goes' Play along with us on the Sweet Pea Stampers blog here - www.thesweetpeastampers.blogspot.co.uk/
You could win some Sweet Pea images just for playing along - if you use a Sweet Pea image you get double the chance to win!!!
  Make sure to check out the rest of the Design Teams projects as there is a lot of creative ladies and great inspiration to feast your eyes on :)
  For my card today I used an image from Elaine Cox called 'Kiara' and colored her with Koh-I-Noor and prismacolor pencils.
  I cut her out with a Spellbinders labels die and the next layer is Spellbinders also, some matching DP, silver metallic pen, silver pearl drops with a tulip fabric paint pen and a silver ribbon and all done :)
  This Sweet Pea image is available both as a rubber stamp and a digi BTW.

  I am back to work after a couple days off for the New Years Holiday (its rare that I didn't have to work!!) just 2 days and then the weekend off...then I guess the old normal routine will start. I do have my DD home with us from collage for another week which is really nice!!
  I have lots of things lined up for 2014 - crafts and art and classes and DS's graduation and then off to college....its going to be a busy year and I like that!!!
   Have a great weekend everyone!!!
         Tera