I’ve never believed in my color printer. I have HP Officejet Pro K550. It didn’t print well. I mean, it printed the black and white very well, but not the colors. So I used this color printer mainly to print black and white documents, urmmm… like Michael’s and A.C. Moore coupons.

Well, it wasn’t the printer’s fault. I was using the wrong kind of papers! After reading TheDigiChicks blog, I bought Epson Premium Presentation Matte Photo Paper. And, oh boy oh boy~! Did it make a difference! I have about, urmmm… over 2,000 digi papers, so I’ll be printing a lot of those from now on!

Bailey is eating a rice cracker. Kyle took the photo.

And, I switched the rice cracker with sweet orange slices, heehee.

Stamps: Citrus Sets and Bubble-ma-jig from Purple Onion Designs.
I was mesmerized by Kim Teasdale‘s creations using Tombow markers, I gave it a try. And I colored the edges with markers (the technique I learned from Purple Onion Designs’ blog).

Base green cardstock: Prima Marketing Rock on Rock Out Collection;
Digital patterned papers: Sugar Maple and Sweet Pea kits by Cory Gammon from ScrapArtist.com;
Coloring: Tombow markers with BrusH2O on Canson Watercolor 90lbs paper

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

Layers and layers and layers of flower petals. It takes forever to cut all those pieces, but I like it. Snip, snip!

Created for the Copic Creations challenge #8: Botanicals.

Stamps: Garden Inspirations by Lizzie Anne Designs;
Digi papers: Garden Inspirations by LAD;
Cardstock: Bazzil (my printer does not print 12×12, so I was “forced” to use a matching cardstock instead of using the digi =)

I like taking photos of my projects at night. My main crafting desk.

Hehehe… Lookie, lookie what I got yesterday! Heehee. I received the entire summer release from Lizzie Anne Designs! I wasn’t expecting two single stamps, so very happy to have all these goodies for free~~. Woohoo!

Above card created for the Sugar Bowl Challenge 13.
Stamp: Sugar Nellie “Luvvie” by Leanne Ellis;
Cardstock: Canson (craft); Papertrey Ink (brown);

Hand crochetted flowers, colored with Copic;

Buttons: BasicGrey; SEI;

Rhinestones: Taylored Expression; Chipboard: Stamin’ Up!

Ribbon: My Favorite Things; Hemp: Close to my Heart;

Colored with Copic markers.

I’ve been very cranky lately. Everything frustrates me, and I have to complain about everything. I used to love making cards with my son. We would stamp together in my crafting room, talking, working on different projects. But, lately I’ve been yelling a lot to my son when he is in my room. He drops my tools, spills my re-inkers, touching my Copics even though I just gave him 48 Stampin’ Up! markers for him to play with, etc. He is still young and I should be more patient with him, but I’m just not myself these days. It must be because of the D&C surgery I recently had. I’ve been so moody. One day happy, another day sad.

My son decided to do some painting when I neglected him yesterday or was it a day before? He painted rain falling on sunflowers. How well it describes my feelings these days. I shall spend more time with him. And, maybe I’ll let him use some Copic markers.