Dog Days of Summer

In celebration of the end of summer, I made this card for a swap I was participating in. The image is a digi that I knew I had to have the minute I saw it! I colored it using Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol. I've been using this coloring technique a lot lately because my Momento black ink is hiding from me, so I can't use my Copics!! I like the Prismas well enough, though...especially since I started using Neehah white card stock...very smooth!!!
Nothing real fancy about this...just added some dimensional glaze to his glasses, nose, and drink. Here's to the end of summer and a little cooler weather ahead!! Too bad it's followed by the winter cold! Happy stamping, all!!!

Make mine a triple!

The ice cream cravings have been really strong lately, I think it's the really hot weather we've been having. It's not typically quite this hot in June in Florida. Usually into July or August before it gets as nasty as it's been lately. I finally gave in to the craving this afternoon. After spending the day at Silver Springs attraction with Kyi, I bought a half gallon of strawberry cheesecake ice cream to take home. I didn't make it out of the ice cream aisle though without also getting a little single serve container of chocolate chip cookie dough flavor for the trip home. Now, honestly, this really was a single serve container...very tiny! I could have eaten one of those whole pint cartons and claimed it was single serve, but the scale seems to know the difference and I would have regretted it in the long run. It was sooooo yummy!! Had to do a little knee driving, but it was worth it! Kyli was already safely dropped off at home before I went for that no hands approach to driving!
Anyway.....I have seriously had ice cream on the brain, and yesterday, I had to use this cute little set from SU! I've had it for months I think and never inked it up! I had never cut into these papers either, so those were the colors I ended up using.
Tomorrow is set for a major overhaul on my stamping asylum. I have a desk to move in there, so I will go ahead and completely redo the room. Hasn't had a big clean out since we moved in three years ago. I did some changes last summer, but it really needs it again! Thanks for stopping in...if you don't hear from me before Friday...someone had better send out a search party! I may have been overcome by the mess in my room!!

A Summer Smile

It's just about too hot to smile here lately...in the upper nineties with a heat index in the mid to upper hundreds! I love this digi image from Mo's Digital Pencil. I bought a little pool like this one the other day for my granddaughter to play in. I may end up in it first if this early heat keeps up!The papers are some of the new ones from Bo Bunny. The image is colored with Copic  markers and the little smile sentiment was cut using a Slice machine. To make the sun, I punched a couple of circles from the dsp, added clear ep and heat embossed, and layered it to make it dimensional. All in all, a pretty simple card. Thanks for stopping in today!! Keep cool!