Well, Hello to April....

Oh my...did you ever think I would post my April Calendar page! Things have been so hectic around the Dol Household that crafting is the first to go on the back burner....I will say it does not make me to happy to be late posting this calendar. Between shuttling kids to hockey, school and to friends and all the other things going, it really is so hard to find time to do what I totally love...card making! One day the kids won't be around and I know I will miss them so I try to enjoy what I can with them.

I coloured our little LOTV image with copics, and kept things very simple. I totally love this little one!

Well, I am off to prepare a little dinner and then off for some errands! Have a wonderful week.

Friendship...

A couple of days ago, I set aside some time to get some cards done that I really needed! I truly enjoyed myself I must say. I used some embellishments that were given to me as gifts at Christmas. I truly loved my pearl pin and my lacey doilie and was so happy to finally have time to use them on my Friendship card! I have been wanting to order more flowers but unfortunately the ones that I do want are out of stock....darn!!LOL

I even finished the inside of my card. I think finishing the insides of your cards really completes them. Love doing that, so I must make a point of doing all of my cards that way! I also brought out my copics again and also finished up a few spots with the prismas. Love doing that. They really do compliment each other.

I am off to get lots done for some crafting classes I have coming up this week and then spend some time with the family today. The sun is out, but it is a little chilly! Please, mother nature bring spring along a little faster! Have a wonderful day!

Plain and Simple all the way...

I have totally gone plain and simple today! The last couple of months there has not been alot of time for me to craft...but today I have set aside lots of time to create some special cards for some special people. I am sooo looking forward to it actually! Today's card was a LOTV image which I think is way too cute and coloured her with copics....something I have not used in a while so it took a little time to get it to looking any good.

Thank-you so much for your visits and comments....they mean so much to me!

Hello February.....

Oh February....lots to celebrate! Valentine's Day, Ground Hog Day and Family Day!
There are a few of us making calendar pages....I love it!
Janiel, Danni and Tangii have all made calendar pages too!

Have a wonderful first day of February!

Welcome 2012...

Oh my were did 2011 go....I must say for our family, it has been a very busy year! So this year I am hoping that things might slow down just a little...highly unlikely though!LOL I guess that is a good thing! I want to wish all of you a Wonderful New Year!

Now don't laugh, but I was trying to make a little ice rink for Skating Tilda...I just love her. I may try something again on another card....

A few ladies have made calendar pages too, which I look forward to seeing.....Julie, Tangii,Danni and Lisa I coming by to visit your blog to see your calendars!

Potato Pizza Recipe Card....

Pizza Night is Friday night at the Dol House, so when a friend gave me this recipe to try I jumped all over it. So last Friday we made Potato Pizza and let me tell you....Delicious! Very easy to prepare and VERY good! The kids have now officially declared this the pizza to make, not the traditional one. So we know it is kid approved!
Now, with a new recipe comes a new recipe card. You will be seeing more recipe cards as the days get much shorter and colder. I love to make those comfort foods, as this girl does not like winter too much!lol Lots of copics used on this one! Love the image of the two brothers!
Here it is displayed on top of the recipe booklet I am going to place it into!

Hopefully you can try this one out and let me know what you think! Have a wonderful Thursday to all!

Blogging Friends....

Last week I made a special card for a special blogging friend. I have to say something about blogging friends....they are the kindest, sweetest, creative people, and the most helpful when called upon for guidance when using a product you have never used before. Thank-you Dena! In my little world of cardmaking I have met the most awesome people, but in my blog world their are so many I would love to meet in person. I would love to spend a day creating my little heart out.....learning from the best out there!
My gift card holder is one that I made for a special blogging friend. I mailed it off to her on Monday, so here's hoping she will receive my gift to her this week. I made up this card holder so it could hold my gift card from Michaels! Yahooo!

So....with that said...thank-you to all that come and visit and to all MY blogging buddies out there!

August.....

I don't want to rush summer away, but it seems that once August hits the days get little by little shorter, then the kids head back to school. Yuck...I think I will just enjoy the days we have left of our wonderful summer. Say hello to August.....I just love this little Tilda looking over her shoulder at the butterfly. I coloured her with copics and used some new papers from K& Company. My blogging friends Monique, Danni, Kathryn, Julie, Tangil and Lisa have even joined in with this calendar page fun!

I have not posted at all this summer due to lots of outdoor activities. I apologize, but will resumer back to regular posting soon!

Sweet little card....

I would like to thank sweet Denise for sharing her love of the Penny Black stamps on her blog.....it is ALL her fault that I have fallen hard for these little stamps! She works her magic with these stamps and makes the most beautiful cards. I love when you do an all white card and just work with an image. I love an image to come alive! I coloured this sweet little guy with copics and with prismas, added a little glitter and embossed my background with little flowers.

I must apologize for the lack of posts and the lack of visits...life just seems to get so busy. But I hope to get back at the card making again...as it is just something I love so much! I also hope to do some more visiting as that is definetly were I get my inspiration...heck...you think I think of all this stuff up on my own..no way...it's all of you that give me so much to take in and try!

Letters to Santa....

Oh my it is sooo cold here...the wind is just a blowing...and it 24 below O with the wind! Oh I am not enjoying this weather. Hubby and I are heading out tomorrow morning at 4 to take our daughter to the airport. She is headed to Orlando, Florida for 2 weeks! My son is in Cuba right now with his grandpa and having a great time! Oh to be somewhere warm!

I absolutely love this little image from Elisabeth Bell's Digital Gallery! It is called Letter's to Santa! I coloured her with copics and coloured a little in blue using prisma pencils! As you can maybe see in my picture...I used LOTS of glitter on her hat and the snow!

I really hope you are staying nice and warm were you are! Thank-you so much for popping in for a visit. I know this time of year everyone is so busy getting ready for Christmas!

Home for the holidays...

I just wanted to post one of my Christmas cards before I go out and shovel all the snow off the walk-way and the drive-way! We received tons of snow last night. It actually looks really pretty, but by January we are all quite tired of it!!!
For my card I bought this cute QuicKutz embossing folder which I just fell in love with. After embossing the card I cut out the squares so it resembled a window! The bottom picture is the inside of the card! Lots of glitter around the edges...boy my crafting room has never seen so much glitter this holiday season!

I had this Hanglar swag that I coloured with copics and then cut it out and glued it to the nestie! I left a little room to write a personal message!

Hope you are all keeping warm....have a wonderful day!

Welcome December....

Earlier this year hubby made me this wooden calendar stand. I truly love to decorate the calendar pages for each month with the templates Cat has provided. You can find them HERE. I used one of my new Penny Black stamps which I thought would be perfect for this time of year and it also went really well with the back ground paper!

I am really hoping to get a little more organized with some Christmas cards and tags. I seem to be a little behind this year....so I really need to get going!

Have a wonderful day....and thank-you so much for popping in for a visit. I know this time of the year can get really busy!

Little Friend...

I must say, Mother Nature is being so kind to us today. It is so beautiful out today, that it is so hard to believe that out in Western Canada the temperatures are so frigid! I know it is on it's way!

My mother-in-laws birthday is coming up in December, so I was quite anxious to make a card for her. We have so many birthday's just before Christmas that I find it so overwhelming at times....so today was the day to sit down and get some of my cards done! I saw that Janiel had made a beautiful card that I wanted to try out so badly. If you have not seen here creations, oh boy, are you in for a treat!

I had this stamp called Little Friend from Flower Soft that I was itching to colour up. So I used a combination of copics and prisma pencil crayons for her. I also placed lots of glitter for her hat and the snow.

This is the inside of the card that you just pull out of the pocket card. I left some room on the nestability die to write a personal message!

A couple of weeks ago I made some jingle bells from just plain jingle bells that I sprayed with cream spray paint from the local hardware store, and then once they were dry I painted them with glue and then sprinkled some glitter on them....voila...a nice little embellishment!

Thank-you for popping in for a visit! I just love to read your wonderful comments and appreciate you taking the time to come for a visit!

Winter Lantern....

Over at the Winter Wonderland blog they have a challenge for us that is right up my alley...Winter Sports ! I am a total sports fanatic...I love hockey, figure skating, skiing, actually just about any sport! So when I saw this challenge....I thought it was just perfect to bring Tilda out to play!
Norma has this wonderful Winter Lantern tutorial on her blog that I followed and found so fun to do! If you have not seen her Lantern, you are in for a treat, so be sure to check her's out here!

For my icicles I didn't have the Martha Stewart punch so I had to draw them by hand first and then cut them out. I then added LOTS of glitter. I added liquid applique and glitter for snow. You should have seen my craft room...glitter everywhere!

I hope you have a chance to make one of these...they really are fun to do!

A special Thank-you!

My daughter is flying off to Florida for a couple of weeks with a good friend of hers, and is staying with the friends grandma. So I wanted to make a little something for her to take with her just to say thank-you so much for having her! I have seen my blogging buddy Dawn make these gorgeous little fabric apples and wanted to have a go.

I used some of the fabric that I used for my apple, for the ribbon,and sewed it up with a piece of lace to it as well. I used one of my favourite stamps from Karen Lockharts collection over at Ellen Hutson's site. I coloured it up with copics.

Dawn I have to thank-you for inspiring me again....

Have a wonderful Sunday, and thank-you so much for popping in for a visit!

Sleigh Ride.....Slider Card!

We woke up this morning with a slight dusting of snow on the ground. I am sooo not ready for winter. Soon the kids will be able to play in it, that is for sure! Just like these two! I wanted to do a slider card for some time now, so last night I sat down and just played and figured out my way of what I think is a slider card. Lol.

I wanted to create a little wintery neighbourhood scene after the first snowfall. I had this stamp set from Sunshine Designs that had 4 houses in the package. So I stamped 3 of my favourite houses in the background and took a black marker to make the hill joining all 3 houses. Coloured with copics to create a glowing background....used lots of glitter...and liquid applique to create the snowfall! The couple on the sled is an old Elzybells stamp I bought a couple of years ago.

When you pull on the snowman tab it makes the couple slide across the snow!

Have a wonderful weekend and stay warm! Thank-you so much for popping in for a visit!

Winter Wishes....

Last year I made Christmas cards with buttons and ribbon...and it got quite expensive to mail them off, especially when you have over 80 of them to send off. So this year I am trying a little to keep a few of them fairly simple. Mo Digital had this image last year called " Boughs for the wreath" that I absolutely fell in love with. I coloured it with copics and with prismas, added some liquid applique for the snowfall in the background!

I hope to get back to posting a little bit more this week. Last week it was so hard to get into the craft room.The weather was so beautiful...so I took full advantage of it. Before you know it the snow will be falling and I won't want to step outside!!!

Thank-you so much for popping in for a visit!

A special thank-you....

Today I wanted to make a couple of very special thank-you cards! I had a couple of blogging buddies that I wanted these to go out to. I had this wonderful hAnglar image that I coloured with copics and then added a little shading with prismas. I didn't have all the proper copic colours so I improvised with the prismas. I made some white flowers using some flower soft and then added some flowers that I found at Michaels some time ago.

Thank-you so much for popping in and having a visit. I have had some computer problems again, I think with the storm we had last week it did a number on it! It seems to be resolved so I am happy to be able to go and visit too!

A Birthday Celebration & a Challenge!

A very special blogger has a challenge and a birthday to celebrate this week! Danni is having a birthday this Saturday and she is the creator of FlutterbyWednesdays....so she is having us make a birthday card for the challenge. It must have a butterfly, angel or a fairy on it and you must use the sketch Mercy has created for the Flutterby Challenge!

For my little birthday card I used one of the cutie C.C. Designs and popped her up on a little fence!

Happy Birthday Danni........

A little summer still left....

There is still a little summer left until the kids go back to school...I just love when they are home, enjoying there free time! Mind you, it has been a busy one, one has a job, hockey, soccer and dirt biking! Lots of summer fun! We are lovin' every minute of it!

I just purchased this stamp at Stamping Bella called "Lacie with Ice Cream" by Mo Manning. I coloured this little cutie with copics, used one of my favourite EK punches from Michaels, and then have added some embossed swirls using the cuttlebug.

I hope you are able to enjoy some wonderful summer weather.... Thank-you for taking the time out of your day to come and visit, I so appreciate your visits!