Christmas Card

Happy Thursday! One more day and my kids are off for Christmas break! I am so excited!  I thought I would share a card I had made. This was created with a card kit but I added my own personal touch as well as a Stampin Up Sentiment and christmas tree stamp that I colored with copic markers. I love the way that the card opens up and looks like an ornament!

I hope you have a wonderfully CREATIVE day!

Halloween Birthday Card

Hi Crafty Friends! I created this card for a friend of mine. She needed a Halloween birthday card so I used a CTMH stamp set, I don't recall who makes the paper but when I find out I will correct this post, copic markers, Queen and co bling, font for sentiment, scraps for solid colored paper, stampin' Up! border punch, The Twinery twine and voila! You have this card :) I hope everyone has a fun and SAFE Halloween!!

I hope you have a wonderfully CREATIVE day!

Expecting Card

Hi Crafty Friends! I REALLY love the summer! I love having my kids home, not having to keep a strict schedule and all of that FUN STUFF and it's been FUN! I found out not too long ago that my Godson is going to be a DADDY! HOW EXCITING IS THAT? I am thrilled and excited to go visit in September for the baby shower :) This is a card that I created for her to celebrate her pregnancy. I used copic markers and I am not sure of the maker of the stamp. If I am able to find out, I will be sure to edit this  but I know that they are sadly out of business. **** The pregnant woman stamp is from The Angel Company and sadly closed its doors in 2011****

 I hope you have a wonderful day and enjoy some craftiness :) 

Father's Day Cards

Hi Crafty Friends!
MY HOW TIME FLIES!! I thought I would post something since it has been a while. School is out, we had our annual garage sale and I am sick but I had some pictures of a few cards I made for Father's Day so I thought I would share! I hope you have a wonderful weekend and enjoy a nice Father's Day celebration with your loved ones! The top card was made with Stampin' Up stamps and the bottom card was made with Close to my Heart Stamps and Stampin' Up Stamps. Additional supplies I used were Copic markers, Memento black ink, fishing line and my McGill ticket punch.

Our Christmas Card 2011

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!! May 2012 bring you all of the health, love, happiness, joy and prosperity you have ever hoped for and MORE :)
So, onto some creativity! Every year we have a family meeting and decide what we aregoing to do for our Christmas card. We have been creating cards for Christmas like this for a number of years.  This one I think is our best one yet!
Front of card

Inside Top of card

Inside bottom of card

Original design and concept by The Mueller Family & A Creative Journey ©. Santa & Reindeer by Christian with copic coloring by Melissa. Angel and coloring by Austin. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did creating it!

An Oldie but a Goodie

Soooo... I have been getting ready like C-R-A-Z-Y for a garage sale for the past couple weeks and today (it is past 1 AM!) is THE DAY!!! YAHOOOOO!!!!  My close friend Robin (she is also my next door neighbor and walking buddy) and I do this every year and although it is A LOT OF WORK, I think secretly we like to do it because we have fun doing it together.. The great news is we have it down to a science being that we have done our annual garage sale for almost a decade now! So although I don't have a "new" project to show you cuz I can't find the Father's Day card I made that I wanted to post - hopefully I won't be selling it by accident tomorrow! LOL I am "getting rid of old stuff" so I am posting one of my favorite "older" cards. With all of the clothes and stuff we have, Robin has quite a bit of baby stuff so it made me think of this card. Really quite simple to make but I really loved it and was honored that I was asked by my other friend Robin (yes I have two very close friends by the name of Robin) to make a card for her nephews "welcome baby" gift and this is what I came up with.  I used the Sizzix BIGZ baby carriage card die, C1, C3, C5 Copic markers, CTMH blue paper & patterned paper from the animal cookies collection, a white ribbon, string and a blue button. I hope you like it! Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!!

Fishing

With Father's Day on the horizon, I was asked to create a few custom cards. The first one I created was a fishing themed custom card. I used my Cricut to cut the boat from the Going Places Cricut Cartridge and the fishing pole was cut from the Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge. I used real fishing line for the fishing line (I believe it was 20 gauge.) I used two fish buttons (unfortunately I don't know what company makes them,) paper, wire for the hooks, a blue copic marker (to add blue color to the waves for the water,) a glitter pen for the handle of the fishing pole, cut out cloud shapes and added white glaze lines to highlight the clouds and this is what I got. I hope this inspires you to be crafty today! Have a wonderful weekend!

COPIC COLORING with JENNIE BLACK

I took an AMAZING class at www.scrapbookingmadesimple.net in Canyon Country, California a few weeks back... Stacey the owner is AWESOME as are all of the lovely ladies that work there. They are ALWAYS willing to help!  I feel like I am family there.. The kind you DO want around LOL...The instructor was Jennie Black (http://jenniebstampin.blogspot.com/) who is UHHHHHHH-MAY-ZING! LOL I have done some copic coloring in the past-took a few classes but never really had the AH HA moment that I would ever be able to do any of it good enough to even post... UNTIL JENNIE!!  She is an awesome instructor and really has passion for the art of copic and what can be done... She really WANTS you to LEARN the right way and is always open to any suggestions, questions or additional teaching moments she isn't aware of.... I colored this in her class... The Stamp is from Northwoods, Rubber Stamps, Inc 2011 (I can't read who designed it cuz the writing is illegible on the stamp) The design (coloring, shading and everything else COOL) is all by Jennie Black. The only thing I can take credit for is coloring it due to her UHHHHHHHHH-MAY-ZING instructions!!! If you are EVER able to take a class at www.scrapbookingmadesimple.net by http://jenniebstampin.blogspot.com/, it is worth it!!!  RUN DO NOT WALK and sign up for some classes.... YOU WILL BE REALLY GLAD YOU DID!! Happy Thursday!!!!!!!!!

The Milkman

A friend of mine asked me to create a card for her sister's birthday. A running joke in their family was she was the "milkman's kid" because she didn't resemble the rest of her siblings... So as a joke, I was asked to create a birthday card that had to do with a milkman because it was going to be sent with a note saying that her father wants to wish her a happy birthday.... I used my cricut with the cartridges Everyday Paper Dolls & Paper Doll Dress Up and a copic marker and liner and this is what I came up with.  Have a wonderful Wednesday and happy crafting!!!!