Easter...just days away!

 

 Wow, look who's hatching just in time for Easter cards and projects!!

Conie Fong has created several beautiful spring digis perfect for your Easter projects!  This digi is Easter Bunny Eggs.  I've added a frame from Cricut Access.

Be sure to visit the the Conie Fong FB Page for challenges and images:  Conie Fong FaceBook Challenge.  There are different challenges: one for coloring and one for completed projects! 

       

Material List:

Digi: Easter Bunny Eggs from Conie Fong

Copic Markers

Twine

CTMH  paper

Sentiment font from CTMH Artfully Sent

#M41793F Easter Egg Label from CTMH Artistry

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
Cricut Maker

I'm sending this coloring off to the following challenges:

Shopping our Stash:  Here Comes Peter Cottontail

Bitten by the Bug:  Easter or Bunnies

Lemon Shortbread:  AG 

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Easter is coming!!

 Wow, look who's hatching just in time for Easter cards and projects!!

Conie Fong has created several beautiful spring digis perfect for your Easter projects!  This digi is Easter Bunny Eggs.  I've added a frame from Cricut Access.

Be sure to visit the the Conie Fong FB Page for challenges and images:  Conie Fong FaceBook Challenge.  There are different challenges: one for coloring and one for completed projects! 

       

Material List:

Digi: Easter Bunny Eggs from Conie Fong

Copic Markers

Gems

CTMH  paper

Cricut Access: Flower Cuts #MD3843A

Leafy Label #M416733 from CTMH Artistry

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
Cricut Maker

I'm sending this coloring off to the following challenges:

Crafter's Cafe:  Seasons (Spring/Easter)

Love to Craft:  AG

CD Sunday Plus:  AG using a CD USB or Digi

Moving Along with the Times:  Spring is Coming

TTCRD:  AG

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Sleigh Ride

  Welcome to my blog!  

I've always wanted to go on a sleigh ride!  How fun would that be!!  But, my horses don't pull and we don't have a sleigh, so.....I'll have some fun living it vicariously through creating a card instead!

I created this quick, simple holiday card using my Cricut Print and Cut as well as the Basic cut for the sleigh silhouette!  

I chose images from the Cricut Access and used the flatten feature for the card front.  I then adhered the Cricut cut (sleigh) to the front over the sleigh image I had flattened!  This created a shadow for the cut!  I embellished the wreath with Christmas Red Stickles.   

Material List

CTMH Cardstock

Christmas Red Stickles

Adhesives

Cricut Access:  Sleigh #M79E75FB and  Holly Wreath 2 #M113A7E7F

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
Cricut Maker

 Sharing with these challenges/pages: 

Holly and Ivy:  AG Christmas

12 Months of Christmas:  AG Christmas Card 

Jingle Belles:  Holiday Cards to Die For (Use a die)

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Time to Fly

 

Our new challenge over at Cut It Up is Spring: Use flowers and or butterflies on your project and don't forget the die cut!   

I can't take a lot of credit for how lovely this image turned out since I colored it in a class at Kit and Clowder.  If you enjoy Copic coloring and classes, this might be a great place for you to pick up some ideas!  There are an assortment of classes and several FREE ones to try!  

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Material List:  

Digi:  Time to Fly from Power Poppy

Kit and Clowder Marker Class Sept 2019

Copic Markers

White Uni-ball pen

Lace, twine, mocha gems, gold thread and gears

Adhesives

Card base shape from CTMH Artiste Cricut #M3A34B

Cricut Maker

Cricut Standard Mat
Cricut Blade

 

When you visit the Cut It Up blog, have fun viewing the DT projects and check out the rules and prize info.  Then be sure to share your project with us ~ don't forget the die cut to have a chance to win a prize from our amazing sponsors.

This project is off to the following challenges: 

CCC Digi Creations:  Use Lace, Ribbon and/or Flowers

Daisy Chain:  Flowers

Unicorn Challenge:  Make it Feminine

Incy Wincy:  Steampunk and/or Vintage

As You Like It:  Fav Springtime Critter (I love to see the new butterflies in the pastures!)

Day of the Month Card Club:  Learn about Butterflies Day

Time Out:  "Inspired by Words"

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Little Donkey

 

It's time for a new challenge over at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday and the optional twist is:  Your Favorite Color.  I actually have a couple of fav colors, but basically I like everything with brown...and I like most shades of brown!  

So, what better than a sweet donkey from our sponsor, Beccy's Place,  for my focal image with all the wonderful Copic E30's, 40's and 70's!  I also love blue and one of my favorite shades of blue in the Copic family are the B60's with that wide range of color!  

 Material List 

Little Donkey and sentiment from Beccy's Place

(Little Donkey comes with 3 images and 5 sentiments!)

 Copic Markers

Whimsy Cardstock

DCWV Once Upon a Time for the leather look brown

CTMH Cardstock and Inks 

CTMH Background Stamp Set Retired 

Scrap of burlap

Cricut Access:  Country sign post from Old West

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
Cricut Maker

This card is off to these challenges:  

Beccy's Place:  AG w/Beccy's Place image option include an animal

Crafting Happiness:  Outdoors or AG

Dragonfly Dreams:  Include a flower

Inkspirational:  Fur or Feathers

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers:  L is for layers

Colour Crazy:  AG hand colored

TTCRD:  AG

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends:  AG

We Love Chocolate Baroque:  I Love....rustic, browns, blues, Cricut cutting, fibers/metals, and of course any equine!  

 

Be sure to visit

 The Outlawz Twisted Thursday for all the details about the challenge and to check out all fun inspiration from the DT and participants!

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It's a Celebration just in time for Easter!

  In celebration of Conie Fong Art & Design’s 4th year anniversary; there is a 40% off sale!  But that's not all!  This adorable image, Easter Bunny Eggs, is FREE over on the Kit and Clowder FaceBook Page!  

Have Easter fun coloring up this delightful image and then be sure to visit the the Conie Fong FB Page for challenges and images:  Conie Fong FaceBook Challenge.  There are different challenges: one for coloring and one for completed projects! 

       

Material List:

Digi: Easter Bunny Eggs (FREE HERE for a limited time!) from Conie Fong

Copic Markers

Ribbon 

CTMH Stripe paper

Bo Bunny Double Dot Gems

Cricut Access/Cartridge: CTMH Flower Market; CTMH Art Philosophy

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
Cricut Maker

I'm sending this tag off to the following challenges:

As You Like It:  Fav way to cut your image and why!  I like to use my Cricut since I can manipulate the sizes and shapes!  I also have access to so many cuts and there is no physical storage issue!  

Craft Rocket:  Use dies and /or Spring

Ellibelle's Corner:  Spring Colors

CCC Digi Creations:  Use Lace, Ribbon and /or Flowers

Creative Crafting Uncles:  Easter

Sognando Scrap:  AG + use pastels

Sweet Stampers:  Easter or Spring

Crafting Challenge:  Pastel colors

CD Sunday Plus:  AG using a CD, USB, or Digital Download

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Bunny Trio

Wow, only about two and a half weeks til Easter!  

Conie Fong has created several beautiful spring digis perfect for your Easter projects!  This digi is from the Easter Bunny Trio Bundle.  I wanted to add a little fun, so I sewed in the strings with embroidery floss!

Be sure to visit the the Conie Fong FB Page for challenges and images:  Conie Fong FaceBook Challenge.  There are different challenges: one for coloring and one for completed projects! 

       

Material List:

Digi: Easter Bunny Trio Bundle from Conie Fong

Copic Markers

Embroidery Floss

CTMH Stripe paper

Polkadoodles Designer Paper

I'm sending this coloring off to the following challenges:

Sognando Scrap:  AG + Option:  Pastels

Crafting challenge:  Pastel Colors

Moving Along with the Times:  Spring is Coming

Cutie Pie:  Bunnies and Blooms

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Music: My Playlist

 

 As we meander a Path of Positivity, we are thinking about how music affects us and our positivity.  Our optional twist is Music:  Good for the Soul!

As promised in my Mar 1 post, I am sharing my musical alter-ego!  hahaha  Now, I may be an oboist, but I did grow up in the '70's!  That means I listened to all the great music that shaped the rock/pop era! 

One of the many songs on my 'feel good/take me back' playlist is Dancing in the Moonlight recorded by Kink Harvest in '72 not to be confused with Shadows in the Moonlight recorded by Anne Murray in '79!  Both fun songs, but....

Now when I listen to this song while cleaning the barn, the horses actually get to see me dancing in the barn aisles.  Yes, it's true!  When I'm alone in the barn, I dance to old '70's music while cleaning...and Kelly wonders why it takes me so long and why I usually come in happy!  Of course, the smirk on the Thunder's face might one day give me away!  ;)

So, what's on my playlist in the barn?  I'll tell you it's a bit different than the one in the house.  I'll save the house play list for another time, but here are a lucky 13 tunes from my barn list that are sure to get me singing at the top of my lungs and or dancing in the aisles.

Allentown ~ Billy Joel

Like a Prayer ~ Madonna

My Wish ~ Rascal Flats

Heart Hotels ~ Dan Fogelberg

September ~ Earth, Wind and Fire

Neverland Medley ~ Kenny Loggins

Rick E's in Love ~ Rickie Lee Jones

Kyrie ~ Mister Mister

Live Like You Were Dying ~Tim McGraw

Sweetheart ~ Frankie and the Knockouts

Freeze-Frame ~ J Geils Band

Run for the Roses ~ Dan Fogelberg

Sunset Grill ~ Don Henley

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About my journal page:

I decided to celebrate my feel good playlist with this journal page featuring Dancing in the Moonlight!  

Here's a bit about this King Harvest tune:   "Its lyrics depict a fantasy of everyone being able to get together in the spirit of dancing and having a great time under the moon, and it’s got a dreamy, intensely happy feel to it that always reminds us of those long nights that turn into early mornings with great friends."    https://iloveclassicrock.com/dancing-in-the-moonlight/ 

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   We'd like to hear your ideas at Path of Positivity!  Come share them with us!  

Remember, you may share any sort of artistic medium over at PoP:  writing, cards, journals, scrapbooking, painting, sewing, baking, needle crafts, etc as long as it is positive!  The theme is always optional.  

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Celestial #1 Digital Collage Sheet from Lunagirl Images

Paper:  Once Upon a Time from DCWV

CTMH Inks:  Gypsy, Twilight

Lace colored with CTMH Ink/Alcohol mixture

Cricut Iron on Sparkle Vinyl

Teal Ribbon, black buttons, gold thread

Throw away bits from 3-D printing!

 Adhesives:  Scrapbooking double sided tapes, Fabri-Tac, ATG

Cricut Access: Disco Dancer Silhouettes, Female Silhouettes, Dancer Silhouettes 

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
Cricut Maker

 Sharing with these challenges:  

Bitten by the Bug 2:  Music or Dance

TTCRD:  AG

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends:  AG

Corrosive Challenge:  AG

We Love Chocolate Baroque:  I Love:  music, upcycling, fibers, textures and dimension! 

We Love 2 Create:  AG Mixed Media

Country View Challenges:  Silhouettes

WWODT:  AG

Be sure to come on 

over to 

Path of Positivity 

and see 

what the team 

thinks about our optional twist!  

You can also find 

more information 

about entering 

the challenge!  

Thanks to our 

wonderful sponsors this month:

and

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Splashy Mix Inspired

 

I have the pleasure of being a guest designer over at Splashy Mix Challenges!  If you have never played there, it is a wonderful site to be inspired and share your ideas based on their mood boards!

Now, the best part is they love all types of medium!  They even have two separate challenges:  one for Mixed Media and one for Paper Craft!  Not sure where your project fits?  Here are their guidelines:

• We accept only scrapbook pages/layouts & canvases/wooden boards/MDF plaques / Journal Pages/Altered arts – for our Mixed Media Challenge

• We accepts Cards, albums, boxes, ATCs  - for Papercraft Challenge

You can find the rules and description outlined on the site HERE.  

The March Mood Board features some lovely photos, colors, and a quote to inspire your creativity!

I was inspired by the colors, flowers, quote, and wood textures.  Come join in the fun at Splashy Mix Challenges for your chance to be a guest designer and/or win prizes!

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 Material List 

Focal image:  Beauty from MHK Designs Retired

Digital papers from Décosse's Dynamite Doodles:  A Taste of Summer

Art Colors Life Quote:  Décosse's Dynamite Doodles

Copic Markers

CTMH Inks

Lace 

Offray Ribbon

Wood Button

Twine

Embossing Folder CTMH

Bo Bunny Jewels

This project is off to the following challenges: 

Challenge Up Your Life:  Flowers 

Alphabet Challenge:  Y is for Yellow

Creative Artiste:  AG Mixed Media

Try It On Tuesday:  Say it with Flowers

Crafting Happiness:  Flowers

We Love 2 Create:  AG mixed Media

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One Cool Cat!

 

Our new challenge over at Cut It Up is Just for Kids (make cards created especially for the kiddos)!  

This card features Cool Cat Digi from Hetty Clare.  I split the image in Cricut DS and made a pop up panel to make it look like the kitty was further back and it gives the card dimension!  I placed the gift on top of Design paper from Polkadoodles.  The "happy" die is from Cricut Celebrations and cut from DCWV Shimmer Stack Cardstock.  

On the bottom layer with that cute kitty is the "birthday" part of the sentiment.  It was flattened onto the card using Cricut DS and printed.  

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Material List:  

Cool Cat Digi from Hetty Clare

Digital Confetti paper from Polkadoodles 

DCWV Shimmer Stack Cardstock

X-Press It Blending Card

Copic Markers

White Uni-ball pen

Adhesives

Cricut Access:  Happy (#M32379) cut from Celebrations; Birthday (#M39D68)

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
Cricut Maker

When you visit the Cut It Up blog, have fun viewing the DT projects and check out the rules and prize info.  Then be sure to share your project with us ~ don't forget the die cut to have a chance to win a prize from our amazing sponsors.

This project is off to the following challenges: 

Addicted to Stamps and More:  Die Cuts and/or Stencils

SUYP:  AG with a Cat

AAA Birthday:  Patterned Paper

Bitten by the Bug2:  AG using Cricut

Colouring in Scrapland:  Pets

Cupcake Inspiration:  Cats

2 Crafty Critter Crazies:  AG with a Critter

Bastel Traum:  Birthday

Creative Knockouts:  Birthday Wishes

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Something Gold

It's time for a new challenge over at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday and the optional twist is:  Gold!  So, dig around your stash and find that gold paint, ink, old piece of gold jewelry, gold gems, etc and play along!

I decided to go with another Christmas card for my TT challenge this month.  Gold just seems so pretty for the holidays and was a wonderful way to complement this lovely wreath from Beccy's Place.  This image is actually FREE at her blogsite!!  You can find it HERE!  

  

Material List 

Berry Wreath from Beccy's Place

 Copic Markers

CTMH Gold Glitz Glitter Gel

CTMH Cardstock 

CTMH Gold striped vellum

Pink Seam Binding with brown ink

CTMH Cocoa Pigment Ink, dark red embossing powder, and heat gun

This card is off to these challenges:  

Christmas 24:  Tic Tac Toe

Fezziwigs Festive Frolics:  Vintage Christmas

Holly and Ivy:  AG Christmas

12 Months of Christmas:  AG Christmas Cards

 Merry Little Christmas:  AG Christmas

Passion for Markers:  Soft Finishes

Beccy's Place:  AG w/Beccy's Place Image opt with an animal

Be sure to visit

 The Outlawz Twisted Thursday for all the details about the challenge and to check out all fun inspiration from the DT and participants!

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A Trio of Bunnies

Wow, almost time for Easter and the days are looking more and more like spring out there!   

There are some perfect spring digis from Conie Fong perfect for your Easter projects!  This digi is from the Easter Bunny Trio Bundle.  I wanted some festive 3-D flowers on the branch, so I added flowers from the Lulu and Lonny with Balloon Bundle.  

I colored up the flowers and then pressed them into my embossing ink!  I then heat embossed with Enchanted Gold Embossing Powder.  This powder has a bit of gold and a lot of sparkle/shimmer!  

Be sure to visit the the Conie Fong FB Page for challenges and images:  Conie Fong FaceBook Challenge.  There are different challenges: one for coloring and one for completed projects! 

       

Material List:

Digi: Easter Bunny Trio Bundle from Conie Fong

 Lulu and Lonny with Balloon Bundle

Copic Markers

White Gel Pen

Blue Gel Pen

Enchanted Gold Embossing Powder from Ranger

Versa Mark Embossing Ink

CTMH Sky Blue Ink

CTMH Designer Paper

I'm sending this coloring off to the following challenges:

Stinkin' Inkers: Hop To It ~ Things that hop

Animal Friends:  Include a Hare/Rabbit

Girlz Creative Crafts:  Use an Animal

Crafty Animals:  Include an Animal

2 Crafty Critter Crazies:  Include a Critter

Krafty Chicks:  Stamp Act

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First Kiss

I don't share much Copic coloring that is not on a card, layout, journal, etc on my blog, but I had to share this one since the combo of Conie Fong's image was just so perfect with this Kit and Clowder class!

I was looking through some older classes from Kit and Clowder, and I found this one I had never done!  It came out before I subscribed to the Monthly Markers Class.  So, I had to get it!  Did you know you could do this?  Yes, to learn more about that and Kit and Clowder Coloring Classes, click HERE!  

Since the background came with the class, I could combine it with any focal image, so I chose to use First Kiss from Conie Fong for the perfect country scene!

Be sure to visit the the Conie Fong FB Page for challenges and images:  Conie Fong FaceBook Challenge.  There are different challenges: one for coloring and one for completed projects! 

       

Material List:

Digi: First Kiss from Conie Fong

Kit and Clowder Marker Vintage class On Vacation Copic Markers

Gel pens, pencil, eraser

I'm sending this coloring off to the following challenges:

Sparkles:  On the Farm

Colour Crazy:  AG hand colored

Pearly Sparkles:  Must use a Digi Stamp

WWODT: AG

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