Being Knotty

Hi!  I haven't been on here in a while.  Mostly stressing about school... Can't believe the summer is over; soon I'll be back to teaching.

I've been hit and miss on the Hambo Hoedown lately, but this week's challenge was to include a knot on your project, and I can handle that.  I've been looking for a way to use my new jute for a while now.

Paper-Basic Grey, Twine-Karen's Krafts, Rub Ons-Chatterbox, Image-Hambo

I'm addicted to that fun fishing image.  It's called "Wee Henry Fishing" by Hambo Stamps.  I keep using it on just about every OWH boy card that I make.  I think my favorite part of this card though is the frogs.  That frog paper just cracks me up.  I included a frog rub-on on the tag to tie into the paper.

Linking Up:

Hambo Hoedown-knots

Truly Madly Crafty-summer cards
The Crafty Pad-summer cards

Anniversary

Yesterday was my hubby's and my 3rd anniversary.  Is it dumb to say that even though we married planning on forever, it still feels crazy to think we've been married for 3 years?  I still wake up surprised to be someone's wife, especially the wife to someone as wonderful as my husband.

I made him an anniversary card.  Warning-I tend not to be a very sappy person.

Paper-My Mind's Eye, Cardstock-Bazzil, Stamps-There She Goes, Ribbon-American Crafts

My husband is studying microbiology and I'm a science teacher.  We both are geeks.  So I instantly thought of these stamps when I contemplated this card.  I think they are hilariously adorable!  There She Goes have other science stamp sets too.  Is it nerdy that I understand all the jokes?  Especially the quantitative chemistry ones?  I planned on stamping the sentiment behind the scientist on white, but then I thought that making a chalkboard behind him would be better.

My hubby loved the card.  I plan on copying this card and making some for the soldiers.  Think they like science?

Linking Up:

Paper Pretties-designer paper

Simon Says Stamp and Show-use a sentiment

Crafts and Me-green cards

Deep Ocean-anything goes

A Blog Named Hero-anything goes

Whoopsi Daisy-lots of layers

Make It Monday

Tuesday Taggers-anything goes

There She Goes Challenges-orange, green and teal

Retro Sketches

Hooked on Crafts-Celebrate

(Lots of link ups-I'm proud of this one!)

Kitty Kard!

I'm addicted to cats.  I think all my posts are proof of that.  Even this one:

Paper-Michael's, Image-Milk Coffee Stamps, Sentiment-PaperCrafts magazine

This cute image is called "Charlotte and her kitten."  She has a Siamese kitten.  I'm a bit partial to Siamese since my first two cats were Siamese (though my present kitty is Calico, which is really hard to color).

I've been experimenting with my PrismaColor colored pencils.  I'm trying to master shading and highlighting.  How is it?  Any advice?  I'm finding it's best to using my oil painting shading techniques-start darker and gradually lighten.  I'm proud of Charlotte's shirt and skirt, but I gave up on shading her hair finally.

It's a simple card but still cute.  OWH is low on cards right now, so I'm trying to go simpler and quicker while still making quality cards.

Linking up:

Simon Says Stamp-kitty inspiration ;-)

Truly Madly Crafty-animals

Milk Coffee Stamps-colors (coral, pink, yellow, blue, and green)