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long time, no post...

 Life has been pretty hectic lately.  I had my birthday month, I started a new job, the holidays snuck up on me.... I feel like I haven't had time to do much posting so I am combining a few projects in this post.


One of the Sundays we didn't have family dinner so my dad and I sat down to play in watercolors.  I didn't really know what I wanted to do with them, but I had fun getting some swatches made.  Now when I am ready to start a project, I have the swatches to help me choose my colors!







I worked on my card project for December. Card reveal later since I can't share yet, but below is the craftermath.  I hate when I have what I think is a fantastic idea in my head but I can't seem to get it to work out on paper.  Finally got it to a good enough spot before turning it in, but it still wasn't what I had envisioned. 




I haven't sent my nieces a postcard in a while, so I thought I would do one for Halloween and one for Thanksgiving.  The Halloween one I made a color your own monster card.  They thought it was cute.  For Thanksgiving I traced a turkey I found online and then colored it and did some hand lettering to finish it off.




My grandma turned 80 earlier this month and we held a party for her.  Part of my job was creating a banner.  I bought a premade one at Michael's that was a chalkboard front and then used a gold chalk marker to spell out happy birthday.  I didn't get a great picture, but this shows it once it is hung. 


And lastly, here are my cards from September and October classes.  I can post them now that the class is over.  





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