Jerry's Brought My Mojo Back!

So I went to Jerry's Art-o-rama today. If you live in Raleigh and are any kind of artist at all, you MUST go there. It is an artist's haven. Almost anything you could ever need is there. I got lost in the aisles of paint, pencils, and paper. It was wonderful.


As I was wandering through the aisles, my urge to draw returned. This is a HUGE deal because I really haven't picked up a pencil much in the past 8 years. I have drawn a few tattoos, but really not much else. My inspiration just left me. So as soon as that excitement returned, I picked up a brand new sketch book. Sure I have 4 at home, but I thought with such a special occasion I deserved another one. As the night has worn on, I have been working on a hibiscus flower. It is not as nice as I would like it to be, but my drawing skills are a bit rusty. When I have it finished, I will post it.


I want to finish the basic shading before I go to bed, and since it is just past midnight now, I had better stop writing :)

Until the next time!

One Festival Down, One in the Future

I was called something this weekend, that I haven't thought of myself as in a long time... an artist.


When I was in grade school and high school that is what I always thought of myself as, but since I have graduated and moved on to other endeavors it has not crossesd my mind that I am still an artist. It brings me a sense of pride that I am looked at in that way!

Overall the festival this weekend wasn't a successful one monetarily, but it definitely was a learning experience! Next time I will be more prepared and until that time there will be a lot of people getting some cute cards!

Working Hard

Only 2 more days until the big day... My first craft fair! I can't wait. I am working hard making some paper clip bookmarks in all sort of different varieties. I wanted to make more monogram choices, but I don't know if I will get around to it. Plus, I want to make a sign and some business cards for special orders... So much to do and so little time. Tomorrow is going to be a busy day since it's the only night I will have to devote to the cards and such since I will be going out Friday night for my birthday.

Speaking of that, I decided to post a my "Birthday Fishes" card. Not only in honor of my birthday, but also of my husband's birthday (which is today) and my best friend's husband's birthday (which is tomorrow).

Back to work for me!

A "Little One"

Since it is already midnight, I am only going to post a "little one" tonight. This cute baby card was super, duper simple. I had the patterned paper left over from a Mother's Day card that I made last year, I can't remember where I got the cute little baby feet from - but I am thinking that it was a gStudio set, and the sentiment is from Papertrey's Mixed Messages Set.

I am going to try my best to start my "recipe" is for all of the cards I make. Unfortunately, I've never done that before, so these next cards that I post will probably be guesses like this one was.

Until next time...

Mother's Day Cards

I finally got all of my card pictures off my camera! Yea! As I was looking at everything I have made over the past two weeks, I actually have a sense of pride. Even the simplest cards, actually look very pretty. I am so excited for next weekend. Now I just have about 75 more cards to make, 25 more monogram sets, and to figure out pricing. Some of the cards took a couple of hours to make and others took a manner of minutes, so do I price them all differently or keep it all a steady price... Decisions, decisions... I will still have to think about that...

So tonight I have decided to share my mother's day cards (April, if you are reading this at least you will get to see what your card looks like :p). I was going to do a different card for everyone but after I made this card I decided it was too pretty not to give to everyone. I cased it from one of the Papertrey DT members, but alast I did not write down who created it and am being too lazy to track it down.

So now I am off to do some photo restoration work and then hopefully I will fall asleep!

Sweet dreams all.

Work All Day...

That is what I have been doing NON-STOP! Since my mother-in-law has suggested that we set up a booth at a Art Show on June 7th, I have been a card making fool. I have around 78 cards and 20 sets of monogrammed cards. I want to have at least 150 more cards and 30 to 50 more sets of monogrammed cards before the show. So because of that every spare minute is pretty much spent making cards. Which is something that I love, but tomorrow I go back to work so not much "free time."

At least at work I will be able to get the pictures off my camera (since my old computer is sitting in my living room, my artwork is stuck on my camera). I promise I will have some things to share soon. And then since I will have TONS of new cards, I will work on posting more frequently.

Well, I need to work on "Run Central's" ads, so adios for now!

As I Promised...

... so here they are - the cards that I made last weekend!




And let me tell you, for the last hour, I have been looking on some of my favorite card inspiration sites and I am aching to pull all my things out to make more cards. Unfortunately, it is getting late, so I will have to wait until tomorrow.