Lazy summer days

Hard to believe summer is 2/3 over, at least as far as school is concerned! Only one more month of freedom....sigh....why does summer go so quickly?? Even days like today.....raining on & off, chilly...seem to fly by!!



I know I mentioned my wonderful reader Susan the other day, who sent me TONS of summer Magnolia images. I'm very thankful she sent a bunch, because this is one Tilda gone BAD, lol. I do like how it turned out.....finally. I don't know if you can tell, but her swimming suit top is cut out & popped up. Not by choice. I royally messed up the one that came with this image, lol. I used Copics, then added Prismas, & it STILL didn't look right so I tried Twinkling H2O's to cover all the hideousness. Didn't work. It was a big ole shimmery mess. So I took another image & recolored the suit, cut it out (ohhhhh....all those ruffles.....) & popped it on top. THEN I sponged the edges.....bad move!! I hated how it turned out! Hence, the distressing. You can still tell the edges are inked....but now it looks like it's supposed to look that way!

I did color the image with Copics......2 cards in a row!!! Woohooooo!! I think I'm conquering my fear of them!! I used a Copic Spica glitter pen on the dots on her suit, & her hair thingies. The flower is made using my Cuttlebug scalloped circle dies.....the papers are Basic Grey Mellow....the layout is from this week's SCS sketch challenge....& the little sun & "summer" are from a clear Stampendous set.




Here's a close up....guess you still can't really tell the suit is cut & popped.....you'll just have to trust me. I would not lie about my errors, lol!

Today I went to my LSS & got the BG Junebug & Lemonade pads. I know, I know.....you all already have them. But they didn't have them last time I was there, & since I have a credit with them (another rummage sale recently, resulting in over $50 credit!!) I just waited patiently. And now I have them :)

Hope you have a terrific night & as always, thanks for visiting!!