What a productive weekend!

Do you ever wonder why I'm not on Facebook during the weekend?  Well, that's my prime time to spend with family, catch up with housework and of course to create!  (Facebook can be a real time suck, I'm just saying).

So I've been working on creating something everyday (or at least playing).  Friday I took a break after a long week and watched YouTube videos (another huge time suck).  But I was inspired to try making cards with my scraps.  More to come on that!

Saturday started with what was suppose to be a simple clean up of my craft studio.  It turned into a whole day organizing fest.  It still looks like a hot mess, but it's more organized!  I think it would take me a full week to get that looking picture ready!

Sunday, I created the below card.  I've made 9 of them, but have not completed the envelope or packaging yet.  I love this design and have lots more creative designs to do!

Them came Monday.  I'm off on Monday's during the summer.  (Don't be too jealous, I work 10 hour days during the rest of the week for the privilege!)  I spent the day with my mom creating.  We share stamps and other supplies (it's a great way to save money and have more variety).  

First I finished this packaging for this note card set. You know, the one that's a gift and I should have given over two weeks ago?  Here's the finished product:

Speaking of gifts, I have another one that I'm working on for a friend.  You know how I love color - right?  (It's kind of my thing).  I decided to create this card with "controlled" ink splatters (anyone who has ever working with ink splatters may continue to laugh...) on a watercolor paper background. Actually, the technique is called "smooshing". Once it was dried, I stamped the envelopes and sentiment.  I love how it mimicked the front inside the card as well!  I didn't bring my envelopes with me, so I need to finish those as well as the packaging.  But I have until Friday...

And now onto some of my unfinished projects.  The first is a set of watercolor backgrounds that I created using my Zig clean brush markers.  I have an idea of where these are going, just didn't have everything I needed to finish creating them.  Plus I ran out of time!

Next is a set for four leaf backgrounds that I made using my gelatos and some of my mom's stamps.  The stamp of the mouse holding the leaf will be included in the design.

  

And finally, here's a bunch of stamped images that I plan on coloring (probably with watercolor).  I stamped each about 9-11 times.  These are also my mom's stamps.  She loves the House of Mouse line!

For most of the images, I know how I'm going to design the cards.  It's just getting to them!  Want to see more of my finished projects?  Follow me on Facebook!