Wordless Wednesday - so much happening in this photo

Crop Ahoy! 2012 Scrapbook Weekend!

If you were following my Twitter feed last weekend, you may have been a bit overwhelmed by crazy scrapbooking and crafting all weekend, at all hours of the day. :)

For the last several years, in June, there is a "crop" near my hometown in South Dakota. My mom and sister live nearby, so it is a fun weekend to hang out with them, take a couple friends for an eight hour road trip, and make at least a bit of progress on my projects!


This is my car before my two travel mates arrived!


Fortunately, they know I'm a heavy packer. We did manage to get everything in the car!  PS: see the tiny bag on the back seat? Yeah, that is my clothes for the weekend... everything else is for my art filled weekend.

My table before unpacking too much.

I did get a few things done!

Around 100 people attend, from Friday 9am-Sunday noon. This year's scrapbooking theme was "Crop Ahoy!" - so of course, there was a costume contest!

Have you ever attended a weekend crop (or other art/craft) weekend of fun?

Welcome to my art studio

The the fall of 2009, I had a series of posts related to renovating the swimming pool craft room in the basement. The final post in the series topped off the experience of adding and moving walls, electrical wiring, adding a beautiful floor and finishing it off with a good old painting!

For those of you who haven't seen the post, here is what I moved in to:

Here is what it looked like when it was finished:

Yes. Take that in for a moment.  :) It really was a great transformation.

Over the last couple of years, I have added, moved around, taken out, put back in all sorts of things. I'm pretty proud of where it is today. While it is pretty much always in a state of disaster, I figure the messiest people are the most creative, right?! 

Generally, this shows what organization and stuff on the wall can do for a space. 

The last couple years has also brought to light that I am not a scrapbooker, or a card maker, or just a DIYer. 

I am an artist.

Welcome to my art studio!


What does your dream space look like?

Hello Baby Card

I'm still getting the hang of Copic Markers. I LOVE them, however sometimes, they just don't blend like I want them too. In all reality, I simply need practice.I spent a good amount of time last night putting all this together. If you follow my Facebook page, you started to see bits and pieces of this card as it was put together.

For the beak

Used a little N0 for shading in the eyes - though hard to see here.

For the bird body, I used Y00 and B00.

And the flags... oh yes. I used a few too many, but I was having fun/trouble (is there a difference in art?).

R22, R24, R29, Y00, Y13, Y17, BV00, V15, V17, B00, B12, B14, YG03, G14, YG17

WHOA! Yeah. I'll have to work on that :)

On the inside, I used a Technique Tuesday Ali Edwards stamp and a couple more flags (I had stamped and colored extras, just in case I messed up big time).

I love these markers - even though more practice is needed. What markers do you prefer?



Supplies

InLinkz.com
Also used: Hero Arts Friendly Flags clear stamps, Heidi Grace Baby clear stamps, Technique Tuesday Sweet Baby (by Ali Edwards) clear stamps, Stampede stamp #ST09105, Pattern Paper from Grade School Stack-DCWV, Sugar'nCream Twists

Card: Sister, Keep in Touch

Supplies: 

InLinkz.com

Also used: October Afternoon Boarding Pass stickers (blue tab) and pattern paper from American Crafts Amy Tangerine