Running on Empty

Today's post has nothing to do with cards.

I've always been on the more fluffier side, genetics I suppose. My health is pretty good but it's not gonna stay that way unless I start taking better care of myself. Plus being healthier may help with the fertilization process. It will certainly help with shopping for cuter cloths. :D

Last month a friend of mine announced on Facebook that she signed up for a 5k. It looks like a ton of fun and is far enough away I have plenty of time to train. What is it you ask?

It's a 5k obstacle course invested with zombies. Yes zombies. (Not real ones they are folks dressed up in costumes.)

Here's a video:

I have 6 months to train which will be good, I don't want to injure myself. Here is the official website: http://runforyourlives.com/  Two days ago I signed up, and am very excited.

I'll keep you posted with how things go. I am happy to say I've lost 6 lbs so far and that's just been with watching what I eat these last few weeks. :D

Thanks for your encouragement and support.

Katie

A Quicky

A quick post today. Hero Arts has their monthly challenge I had been struggling with coming up with an idea of sunshine, well a new one. There have been some fantastic idea's done already and I was stumped. I ended up looking at some of the entries and I was inspired to use one of the sketches:

I'm very happy with how it turned out. It's all Hero Arts stuff with the exception of the twin that's Lawn Fawn. Now to get back to designing cards for my next class. 

Katie 

Lawnscaping Challenge #32

One of the reasons I love Lawn Fawn is the abilities to make scenes. I just had to participate in the current challenge:

As it was my good friend Sarah's birthday and we had just gone whale watching.  I had to use Critters in the sea. We were able to see 5 California gray whales. We even had the privilege of watching whales wave so the sentiment was perfect.

I used tumbled glass and broken china for the sky. The water was done with alcohol inks on glossy paper, sail boat blue and stream. I made the white part of the waves with a white gel pen and copic colored the whale. C2, C4, C6. The clouds are from Bon Voyage.

So cute and she loved it. In other news I made a YouTube video. lol it cracks me up. I'll be posting that here sometime the first week of May. Have a great week!

Katie

My Recent Class

A quick post today. I didn't have chance to post about my class which was last weekend. I had a decent turn out :D  These are the three cards we created:

We used watercolor pencils, which was fun. Very time consuming but fun. Next time I'll blog about my next class before the class is scheduled. :D 

Have a great weekend,

Katie

A two fer

There are two challenges I wanted to do this week and thankfully I could combine them. First up was the colors from this weeks CAS-ual Friday's blog This week's challenge:

Opposites on the color wheel. Fun..

Then I had to participate in the new blog, A blog named hero. I missed their first one :( but I couldn't let that happen again.  Their current challenge is:

I've been wanting to a window for while now. Here's my creation:

A side view:

It's all Hero Arts stuff... well for the most part. 

The card is Hero as is the cloud stamp, sentiment, flourish, pearls and butterfly. Inks I used a couple of memento. The butterfly was colored with Copics. I can get you all the numbers and color names if you want. 

It's a busy week time to get back to that life stuff. 

Katie

A Case of the Monday's

It's Monday, wow I didn't post since Wed? How did that happen? Oh wait that life stuff got in the way. Busy weekend. Car battery died, hung out with mom, and hand my second card class! :D I'll post those pics tomorrow. Today is a day of good news bad news.

Bad news first (it's nicer to end on a high note) One of the three winners didn't contact me :(  Which brings me to the good news..

I'm gonna draw a new winner! Here goes...

#35 Kara Lynne come on down!

Ok I will contact Kara best way I can, as I did the other three ladies.

Arrg if only this Case of the Monday's would go away. 

Katie

Pretty Flowers

Made this card for my Sister in law. She's a constant customer and needed more birthday cards. :D I actually had made this as a thank you card originally however I quickly turned it into a birthday card with the added punched out pattern paper.

The pattern paper is Salt Air by Cosmo Cricket. The flowers are Hero Arts colored with distress inks and the leaves are a Martha Stewart punch. The background stamp is also Hero Arts, flower dot pattern I believe.

Quick card with an equally quick post. :D

Hope your hump day is going well.

Katie

~ FYI ~Two of the three winners have contacted me and their chosen sets are in the mail. If the third doesn't contact me by Sunday night I'll chose another winner on Monday.