And the Sisterhood says "K" is for KITTY!

Hello all my loyal blog followers and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!  I love when Halloween falls on a weekend because you can stay up sooooo much later.  As well as being Halloween, today is also the beginning of another two-week challenge over at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers and this week the  Challenge is "K" is for Kitty!  

Here is my project featuring another of my favorite Suzi Blu stamps called "Witchy Ways" from the Unity Stamp Company and I picked this stamp because this is the ONLY kitty stamp I own!  In honour of it being Halloween I chose an orange, brown and black color pallette, and if you have ever owned a cat you know the sentiment is so TRUE!

Now for those of you who may be interested here is a bit of a photo-lesson on how this card came to be:

So why not come Plaaay! Smile... Just create something with a kitty/cat theme and link up your project before November 13th to the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Blog to be in the running to become either the Queen or Princess of Snark.  Winning this crown comes with all the badges and bragging rights that entails as well as a chance to be our Guest Designer for the next challenge right along side of us.  And don't forget, the more snarky or sarcastic your sentiment the better.   There is a winner every challenge and it is just TOO FUN!

So thanks for popping in to see what I am up to and please do leave me a comment if you like what you are seeing! 

PS:  Just for fun, I am adding my card to the Cat Lovers' Blog Hop that has been extended to November 1st over at Her Peaceful Garden. 

Scrapbook Lynne Mizera
for The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers (SoSS) 

Products used for this creation:
Ranger Archival Ink and Stickes and Liquid Pearls
Tsukineko Kaleidacolor Ink Pad (Cappuccino)

ColorBox Pigment Inks
Foam Pop Dots

It's a PINK Halloween!

Good Morning Blog Followers!  Today I am sharing one of my favorite new traditions... The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Pink Halloween Card Challenge... in honor of both Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Halloween!

I Love this challenge as much as I love this Group...you have two weeks to create a card or project showcasing Pink Halloween in any way you like and the snarky-er and more sarcastic the better... How fun is that? You can check out all the Awesome-ness my Sisters have created over at the SoSS blog HERE.  Now this is my little project... not a card but a 4x6 inch canvas showcasing one of my favorite artist's stamps from Unity, Suzi Blu and her Halloween set called "Witchy Ways" over top of a mixed media background which I muted with Gesso.  

I am showing you a close up so that you can see how I used my watercolors to paint her face, and how I paper pieced her clothes using my favorite Susan Weckesser paper line called "Live In Color".  Other things I used on this project:  Ranger Archival Ink in black; ColorBox pigment ink in Berry for the cats and sentiment; Ranger Super Fine Detail clear embossing powder and Ranger Star Dust Stickles and Liquid Pearls in Watermelon.  

I had a lot of fun creating this wee little Miss and I cannot wait to gift her to someone.  I hope you enjoyed my project and please do consider adding one of your own to our challenge this month, you have until October 30th and there is always a Queen of Snark and Princesses chosen and you too could be a guest designer right along side of us one month.

So Thanks for popping in... and please do leave me a comment if you like what you see, because I LOVE getting you comments!

Scrapbook Lynne Mizera

for the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers

Suzi Blu... I LOVE YOU!!

I am so excited about today's post because I am covering a number of things I wanted to do all in one fell swoop!  Firstly - it's FRIDAAAY and for me that means Unity Stamps "Friends with Flair";

Secondly I want to send out a personal, heart-felt THANK YOU to Ms. Suzi Blu... An artist whom I just ADORE - and who in 2012 was the first artist whose whimsical faces and figures stole my heart and who whispered right into my heart... "You can do it and YOU are good enough!" And all through her book "Mixed Media Girls" ;

And Thirdly I am so excited to be participating in my very first "Tag it Tuesday", a monthly Tag Challenge put on by Cards and More by Sheri and this Month's Challenge is Showers, Rain, Rainbows ...

So with these three things swirling away in my brain and a phone call from a friend who lives alone and may need a surgery with a two-month recovery period... here is what I created:

And here is the back side...

And quickly, for those that want to know...I covered a tag in this rainbow duct tape..

Then I toned it down by using my ink roller to roll on some Golden white fluid acrylic paint over top. I mounted my Suzi Blu/Unity Stamp colored and cut out figure "Mademoiselle" and then embellished the tag using Art Anthology's Dimensional Crystal Paints. 

I stamped and cut out my umbrella from my Dyan Reaveley collection and I added foam pop dots to the umbrella so it really is covering her.

The final touch was to add to the back of the tag one of my favorite sayings for my dearest friends in need. 

And I KNOW you can see the influence my new book by Joanne Sharpe "The Are of Whimsical Lettering" is making!

So thanks again for popping in to see my stuff and if you leave me a comment I will try to leave you one right back!!
Cheers
Lynne Mizera

WOYWW #307 (What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday)

Ok! Ok! Ok! I KNOW It's Thursday, but I've missed so many WOYWW link ups this past month that I am pretending it's still Wednesday and I am getting in on this one! Now, for those of you  that are new to the Stamping Grounds WOYWW,  it stands for What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday and it's a "Linky Party" where you link up a photo(s) of what your workspace looks like on Wednesday (and no cheating- which means NO Tidying Up-grin) and then you can pop on through other people's workspaces all over the world... It's just too much fun!  

Here is a portion of my Workdesk on Wednesday... And I am showing off TWO books I have been WANTING... both of which I found when I was in Texas last week:   Joanne Sharpe's "The Art of Whimiscal Lettering" and Jane Davenport's SOLD OUT EVERYWHERE "Beautiful Faces" Swooon... which was Gifted to me by my wonderful friend and Hostess in Texas, Lisa... THANK YOU LISA!!

Now Lisa and I met Jane Davenport last April, when we both attended Christy Tomlinson's "She Matters Art Retreat".  Not only is Jane a lovely person and fantastic artist and a BEAUTIFUL soul, but she has the gift of being able to impart difficult, involved, technical information in easy-to-understand, bite-sized pieces for us artistic types.  I have taken several of her on-line classes, for which I give FIVE Stars, but this book... SWOON... it's the Pefect All-in-one package!

Now I am also going to tease you with these two little ladies, both from Unity Stamps and both are Suzi Blu creations... all done up and waiting to be applied to another project....Smile... so stay tuned!

And thanks again for popping in to visit me today and please DO leave me a comment and I will try and leave one right back!

Cheers

Lynne Mizera

Happy New Year! Winners!! AND Unity's "Friends With Flair" Today!!!

Well it's a Triple Post today!!! First off ..... 

HAPPEEEEE NEW YEAR!

Like a lot of us, I am happily waving goodbye to 2014... this was a difficult year for many of us on many fronts, myself included, and it is with a HAPPY HEART that I wave Good-byyyyyyyye! Grin, and Welcome In 2015 with a wide open heart!

Secondly, I promised to draw from all the comments from my last post of 2014 and to send each of two people who commented the cards I made from that post.... and the Winners ARE:

Number 8: (whooo hOOO!)

ionabunnyDecember 19, 2014 at 5:23 PM

I love both of these although I'm leaning toward the first one as my favourite. Love the way the colours pop against the black. Thank you soo much for making these for me LOL. I've made cookies. Do you want one? The whole house smells like melted chocolate. Let me try one for you. Hmmmm, yummy. They are so nice when they are still a bit warm and the chocolate bits are melty. Better have one myself before they all go...... Big hugz

And Number 16: (Big CHEER!)

CrystalDecember 22, 2014 at 10:24 AM

I love both of these gorgeous cards! Your coloring on the girls is perfect and the backgrounds on both are amazing!

Congratulations Ladies, now will you kindly send me your addresses to my e-mail of:

scrapbooklynne(at)hotmail(dot)com

so I can pop those into the mail for you!  and of course IonaBunny... You can have your first choice! Grin

and Finally!!! Here are my two contributions for Today's Unity, Friends with Flair... keeping in the theme another of my new Suzi Blu stamps, her "Serenity Angel" ... I. LOVE. THIS. WOMAN!

Stamped with Archival waterproof ink onto 140lbs watercolor paper, painted with my watercolors and highlighted with white and black pens and stickles for some sparkle... 

I think she is adorable and I cannot decide which one I like better!

So Thank you my friends for popping in to visit today... and please do leave me a comment if you like what you are seeing!!

Scrapbook Lynne Mizera

 

THANK YOU! and another Friends With Flair

Hello all my peeps and followers!  Today I wanted to send out a huge THANK YOU  to all of you that take the time out of your busy, busy lives to pop in and visit me to check out whatever I am working on these days, and I especially love when you leave me a comment because to me that feels like I'm getting a cyber hug.  Since I retired from going into an office every day all of YOU have been one of my main connections to the outside world and I APPRECIATE you SOOOOO MUCH! So here is a card just for YOU! 

I am linking up this little lovely to Unity Stamps' "Friends with Flair" because she was created with one of my newest stamps and newest Addictions.... Suzi Blu's Stamps from Unity, and this is her Spring Flower Chic stamp by Unity.  

I... LOVE... Suzi Blu! And Unity Stamps are carrying quite a few of her amazing creations in red rubber (of which I have almost all of them - Grin) So be prepared to see many more of her stamps over the coming weeks! This little lady was created using the Party Love Exclusive stamp created by Suzi just for Unity.

Now for those of you that need to know, both these pretty ladies were stamped onto 140lbs watercolor paper and painted with a combination of InkaGolds and Twinkling H2O's and then highlighted with black and white gel pens, Stickles and Liquid Pearl.

Thanks for popping in today and Please DO leave me a comment... because today as a special Thank you I will be drawing from all my comments and mailing out these two cards to two people who took the time to comment ((Hugs))

Scrapbook Lynne Mizera