Van Gogh Princess

Well....here is my take of the Technique Junkie Van Gogh technique. After I had three diffferent images colored, I decided that I liked it with dots instead of lines. Well......I'm going to make them into cards anyway....no use wasting all that coloring, right? This is a free digital image from Dustin Pike. This quirky little princess seemed right for the technique. The sparkly fiber is right for a princess too. One of these days I will be able to line the Martha Stewart punch correctly! Maybe I should be punching both pieces at the same time! How do you like to line them up? The image is colored with copic markers. I colored it whilst riding in the car on the way to Redmond....a three hour tour (gotcha singing Gilligan's Island now, don't I?) My step-mom moved back to Oklahoma and we went to pick up my step-brother at the airport. We also helped to pack the little U-Haul trailer with her things. We will miss being closer to her. She is 93. It will be fun to go back to Oklahoma to see her. We talked about going to the Mid-America meet with our Shelby next year.....it will be only 1.5 hour away from Gerry's new home. A visit to her is a great reason to go to the show as well.

2 Days Left for Blog Candy and Artful Sentiments Copic Challenge

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Now for the Artful Sentiments Copic Challenge card of the week. The Colors pictured here were kind of hard for me this week. My substitutes were okay but I just didn't feel too inspired!! The stamp I used is from Maryse Carrier. She used to be an artist for Magenta. I got a number of her designs when she was designing for herself. The background is a Technique called reinker splash. The colors were pretty soft but seemed to be just perfect for this week's challenge. I hop that you enjoy it! Join Kimm's challenge by clicking on the link to her blog to the right. I didn't have the exact colors but I came close. You can see my colors in the card pic.

We made a quick trip to Redmond on Thursday to spend a little time with my step-mom before she moves to Oklahoma on the 23rd. Don't know when we'll get to see her next.

Wonderful daughters!

My Saturday was planned by my 2 daughters (Angie & Leah) and my daughter-in-law (Ahtia). To celebrate my birthday and Mother's Day they had my day all planned and I didn't have a clue except that it would start with an hour long massage in my home. I've had a number of massages before BUT this gal is really good! She did some deep tissue work on my shoulders and I felt so good when she was done. Then the girls took me to Famous Dave's for lunch. Yum!! We spent a little time at Old Navy with all four of us crammed into one dressing room all trying on clothes at the same time. What fun!! You can really get a lot done fast when someone else is working with the hangers. You also get instant feedback like "Ewww, take it off!" or "That should be in your 'buy' pile!" Then it was off to the next stop. Leah put the addy into the GPS and off we went. As we took an exit off the freeway I thinking, "I know that this exit is for Peddler's Pack Stamp Store. I wonder if we are going there?" As we got closer to our destination and the GPS lady said to turn left on Watson, I said "Hmmmmm! I know an old Peddler on this road!" Sure enough..... What FUN!! As we entered they told me that I could pick out several stamps and it would be on them. Ecstasy!! It didn't take took long to fine a number of things I loved. They even had a little consignment area where I picked up a few cute House Mouse. Then we spotted the grab bags!! $5 a bag. I ended up getting two for me and Ahtia got one for her as well. They were FULL of goodies. Well over $50 in stamps, stickers, altered art items, Shimmer Papers,........WAY cool! Thank you girls!

After church on Sunday we took off to go to Bend to my step moms place. She is moving in with my step sister to care for her and will be getting rid of many of her household items. There were several big pieces of furniture that she wanted me to have so we took the car trailer there to bring them home. Now.....where in the world to put them! My step-sister, Jeanne, is 70 (14 years older than me) and has Parkinsons Disease. Her recent problems came from two ruptured discs and some bursitus in her hip. Poor girl! My 93 year old step-mom caring for her daughter. What a job!! We did have a good visit and I took this picture of us together.

Now I hope that Zander takes great naps today so I can catch up and maybe even get a card done!!