Up, Up, & Away

MFT - Up, Up, & Away

Echo Park 6X6 Beautiful Life

MFT Die-Namics - Blueprints 5

Copic Markers

Best Glue Ever

X-Press It Paper
Favorite copic color combo: Teal, Yellow, Pink, Black

 

Hello Friends and Stampers,

 

I hope this long weekend takes you Up, Up, & Away from it all.  I am lucky this year, I get the long weekend as well!  Yippee.  So it really is an Inspiration Holly-Day! Time for some inking up those cute stamps I just got.  Speaking of Cute Stamps, Have you seen the Newer than Newest in the New Items section over at Loves Rubberstamps?  You really want to, trust me.  lol. 

 

Today I am using a technique I saw on Theresa's Blog Crafting the Web.  There is a light tan page in the Beautiful Life paper I used to stamp the balloons and clouds.  I colored the balloons up with my Copic Markers, but I was happy with the way the clouds looked, so I didn't color them. 

As usual, I inked up the images with my Memento Tuxedo Black.  I was thinking of inking up in another Memento Color, but decided it was too late at night for trial and error, lol.  I always talk myself out of that too, one day..... Anyway, I fussy cut them out and used my Blueprints 5 to guide me in this sketch.

I really love this paper and will be sad when I run out, lol.   I love the Balloon images as well.  I will most definitely be using this set again soon, as well as these fabulous blueprints.... I love them!  I also stayed with our Challenge this week - your favorite color combination. 

Thank you for all your kind words as I lived my drama out on my blog re: my Grandson's School start, lol.   I'm very passionate about my Children and when something effects them, it effects me deeply.  It's so hard to have that helpless feeling and have to watch them experience life.  I just want to protect them from every little thing.  As it turns out, Reed has a wonderful teacher and all the staff at the school are warm and helpful. 

My son Jeep is a serious student.  He wants to please the teacher and he really wants to please his parents with his grades.  He is super smart and is becoming a bit of an over achiever.  My grandson, Reed, is also super smart, but could care less who is impressed with his grades, lol.  He does not like any part of school work or studying.  He is very tenacious and into playing with his Ipad and all the other things that interest him.  So we have the daunting task of catching my Grandson up in school to his grade level and while he is only in the 2nd grade, he really is missing much of the first grade stuff and a few things from Kindergarten.  He is a wiz at Math though.  And while we are catching him up, we also have to keep our son motivated, lol.  Jeep has decided he would like to play the violin this year.  So my quiet little world is a bit chaotic right now, lol.  Tonight I wrote out a sentence I wanted Reed to write on his homework.  He told me I "do my y's funny".  I explained that I didn't pay enough attention in school and so I never really learned how to write them correctly.  He told me not to worry, he would teach me!  So now it's his mission to teach me what I missed in Grade School or cannot remember because after all, "It was a long, long, time ago when you went to school Gramma." 

Stay tuned for more, lol.

Thanks for Looking and for your kind Comments.

Holly