A sneak (halloween) peek!

Good morning everyone! I can't believe it's Friday already! I have so many things I want to accomplish before I go back to work on Monday. Today I'm going grocery shopping. I also have a couple packages I needed to mail but when I went to my PO yesterday they were out of the smaller priority boxes. So I'll have to try another PO today while I'm out and about.

I've been working on some halloween goodies so I thought I'd share a sneak peek with you. Here is a "fruit can". It's a poptop can. You cut the bottom off with a safety can opener. Empty and clean it. Then fill with candy and reseal with glue. Decorate and give away to someone who will wonder how the heck you got the candy in there!



This uses the rollograph wheel that I got at Clear Dollar Stamps (cdstamps.com)

The next thing I altered was a little tin that I bought in the Joann's $1 section. I think it came out really cute!



Have a great Friday...and welcome to the weekend! LOL.

Jane

My first Bella...

Have you heard of Bella stamps? They are all the rage it seems. Bellas and Fellas. You can check them out here. I think some of the images are really cute, but I didn't want to buy any more stamps! So, what's a girl to do? She joins the RAK group's WISH RAK. What's that mean? It means everyone starts with three wishes. Then you can grant other peoples wishes for images. Whenever you fulfill someone elses wish...then you earn a bonus wish. The more bonus wishes...the more items you, in turn, can ask for. Anyhoooo...this bella image came from the RAK wish group. Ain's she adorable?



The background is embossed with a cuttlebug plate and the saying is from a SU set. I colored with my prisma pencils. I think it came out nice.

I'm also working on a new project that uses THESE...



...any idea what it MIGHT be? Well you'll have to keep coming back to visit to find out! I'm saving up ideas so when I go back to work on Monday I'll still be able to post almost every day with something new!

Have a great day!

Jane

Cheerful doggie card!

I found this stamp at a local stamp store that was going out of business. I just love his simplicity and his happiness that shines through. AND I'm VERY proud of my bow on the right hand side (considering I can't tie a bow to save my life!)



The paw prints on the brown are a wheel from SU. The oval under the dog is from Amuse (just used it so my doggie wasn't floating in space)...so I "grounded" him. LOL! The greeting is another single stamp and I'm too lazy to get up and find out who makes it.

Today I was finally able to pick up my last day's pay from my previous job. I start my new job on Monday.

I have more stuff to share over the next couple days...so stay tuned!

Jane

I now offer a "subscription" service!

Ok..I've been hounded to add a Feedblitz newsletter link to my blog so people can be notified when I've done updates. So...after dragging my feet I've finally also joined not only the blogging world...but the blogging subscription world! ;-) If you'd like notification of when I update my blog you can sign up on the right where it says "feedblitz".

If you have any problems let me know. I'm not 100% sure I set it up correctly.

Jane

I'm Bananas Over You

This is the surprise pop-up slider card I made with the image from yesterday. For complete details/instructions go HERE to view a tutorial by Beate.

My yellow background is stamped tone on tone with bananas from SU's Monkey Business set (hard to see in the picture). The monkey is from Stampendous's Changito monkey line. And the saying is created with Karen Foster Snap Stamps.

Here is the card CLOSED:



Then you pull the slider out (from the top where the ribbon is) and the slider pops up.

Here is the card OPEN:



And then I wanted to show you exactly what a Karen Foster Snap Stamp is (in case you haven't got these yet). It's rumored that they aren't being carried any more...so if you see them...grab them! I'm hoping they aren't really discontinuing them but maybe remaking them "new and improved" or something. But I guess time will tell. In the meantime, I'm glad I have MY Karen Foster snap stamps! LOL!



Today I call and accept my new job offer. I'm excited and nervous. I don't like changes. But I'll be ok...and if I could do the last place...then this place should be a piece of cake. I'm sure there will be less politics, more help, and more friendly people. And it isn't a whole new world to me...I'm familiar with healthcare data.

Enjoy the rest of a short work week! I have another card but am saving it to post tomorrow. So come back and see me!

Jane

Note: My WW blog is up!

My new blog is http://www.janeswwjourney.blogspot.com. I've added a place to the right to list weight loss blogs. Right now mine is the only one listed there. I'm sure I will add more. But for now you can click on it to check it out. Nothing too exciting yet though.

Jane

Is it worth the money???

For the last several years I've been hearing about the prismacolor pencils (just regular ones...not watercolor). Everyone RAVES about these pencils. And if you use them with gamasol (or oderless mineral spirits or baby oil) then you can blend them so it looks more like watercolor. I already owned some colored pencils that I bought at Michael's in the scrapbooking section. I believe they are the ONLY packages of pencils in the scrapbooking section. And I've been using my pencils with oderless mineral spirits. They blend a bit but are hard to bend and I haven't been thrilled with my coloring. This week...the prismacolor pencils were 25% off at Michael's (including open stock pencils). So I bought 5 individual pencils to try out. They were $1.49 each...so I paid $1.25 each for them after the sale price. And here is my comparison to share with you.

First I stamped my main image twice and laid out my supplies. The regular pencils are on the left...the prismas are on the right.



Next I laid down a layer of color around the edges of the images. I noticed that the prismas went on SO much easier (didn't feel like I was having to push hard to get the color I wanted).



Then I used a blending stump and the mineral spirits to pull color in towards the center of the image. The prisma blended really easily and I discovered, if anything, that I'd layed down TOO much color because it pulls so easily. I'll have to note that for the next time. Here are the two finished images. I think either works...but the prisma one is definately more vibrant and was so much easier to do. With the regular pencils I had to push on the stump really hard when blending.



And then I choose my favorite image and made a pop-up slider card with it! Check back tomorrow to view the card! (Yep, I'm a tease!)

You can buy the primacolor pencils in all sorts of combinations. You can buy them singly, in sets of 24, 48, and 100+. I do think I'll ask Santa for set of the 100+ ones. You can get them on ebay for around $50-60 (obviously they are more at Michael's...I'm not sure how the price compares with a 40% off coupon...will have to check that out!)

Today is a holiday...enjoy and go PLAY!

Jane