Fish, Bacon and the Beach

I actually ventured out this weekend. I wore my mask and hit the smoothie drive thru with my youngest daughter. We also went to the grocery store and actually went inside. I have been doing the curbside pickup, but just had to get out. First "outing" since March 19th, and I have to say it was very nice and much needed.

I have been crafting away to keep my sanity.

I made this detailed wreath card for last week's SCS Inspiration challenge and to show off the lovely 3 in 1 Ocean Floor image at DRS Designs. THIS was my inspiration. I did an ink/spray/smash pap and stamped the image all over. Fussy cut everything and formed it into a wreath. A few gems and it was done. Ink/spray/smash bg on the base as well.

I made a matching BAJ page with the leftovers and an inked up and water spritzed stencil.

I did a few more beach themed creations as well.

I drew this one and painted with water-colors (Pencils). It is going off to cheer up a lovely lady who loves Mazatlan and is facing some major health issues. The sentiment and shell are SU!

Had the shell images out and did another card and BAJ.

The angel is the REDlead Destiny angel stencil.

I saw a fun image on my youngest daughter's Facebook this week. She loves making current pictures look vintage and she loves Cher. I made her this card to give her sweetie. It was inspired by THIS travel clock from A Cottage in the City.

This morning I was feeling a bit hungry when I made m Sunday Morning Featured Stamper card so it is all about some bacon! I cased THIS card by Chris (fargets on Splitcoaststampers.com). The base is some acrylic paint and water color covered in several layers of heated Glossy Gel Medium. The sentiment is by Funny Bones (Riley &Co).

Hope you are all doing well and staying safe! Thanks for visiting!!!

Hugz,

Nancy

Unopened Mail And My Grocery List

We arrived back from our Las Vegas trip last night so the only thing on my Kitchen Counter is unopened mail and my grocery list. I have looked up the recipes for most the great food we ate (or wish we ate) in Las Vegas including Bacon Waffles and Chicken and Waffles - so my counter top should look awesome tomorrow (or as soon as I get a waffle maker). We had lots of fun in Las Vegas but not as much as Crystal and Joey. If we were still 21 we would have had a blast! No luck with gambling - but I only gained 1 pound which is a miracle!

Christmas Mice

Hello Crafty Friends, Today, I am playing in some fun challenges with this cute card: The current House-Mouse &Friends Monday Challenge HMFMC #461 is Anything Goes with an optional theme of Pastels. I have some pastel paper in my layers. This card was made with ornaments from a SU! set, a cut up sentiment from RedLead Paperworks, and three mice I cut out of the Spellbinders Sew Sweet stamp set. The background was inspired by Jeanne Streiff's MIX challenge on Splitcoaststampers.com last Friday where she asked us to make a background using a die cut as a stencil.

T is For 10 Years of T-Day, Too much food, and The Art (Always the Art)

Hello Friends. Most of today's post is about celebrating 10 years of Elizabeth hosting T-day parties on her blog . If you have visited me before, you know that I regularily participate in T-day where we all post something about a drink of any type (the drink can be anything including water and the post can be a real drink, words, movies, art, etc.) on Tuesday (or Monday lol) and link it to Elizabeth's T-day blog post for the week. This year Elizabeth is asking us to post several things in celebration of the big anniversary. #1. Post a picture of something that makes the number 10. I used 10 art supplies that were near me. I am starting to make more Christmas cards so these were right at hand. #2. Post our regular T-day picture/post. My drink picture today is a lunch we had in Tybee Island last week during our Georgia trip. We ate at Pier 16 . Great food and service. It was our favorite meal during the trip. ...

Valerie-JaelMay 24, 2020 at 7:27 AM
Gorgeous artwork, all of it, but I wish you hadn't mentioned bacon. My remaining brain cells are now in free fall because they're craving bacon, and I don't have any at home....Glad you ventured out. Have a good week, stay safe, hugs, Valerie
My name is Erika.May 24, 2020 at 4:28 PM
Nancy I love all your beach and ocean themed art. It makes me think of summer. I like them all but wreath of fish is really great. But I have to say you really outdid yourself with the bacon card. It sure looks like the real thing! Hope you're having a super long weekend. Hugs-Erika
JD/ JillMay 24, 2020 at 6:36 PM
All Beautiful work! You have just made me hungry for bacon. (Been a while since I ate bacon!
ChristineMay 24, 2020 at 7:22 PM
your bacon always amazes me Nancy. Great mix of sea life and pork :)
cotnobMay 25, 2020 at 4:02 AM
A super collection of makes Nancy, I especially like the first one and of course you fabulous bacon!
Pauline - Crafting with Cotnob
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Words and PicturesMay 29, 2020 at 1:38 PM
That wreath card is sensational - so much dimension and detail - and I just adore the sand dollar page and card. The colours are so light and airy, like a sunny day at the beach - and really beautiful spatter adding movement to the page. What a great post - and what a great post title... it made me laugh!
Alison x
Cath WilsonJune 4, 2020 at 12:18 AM
What wonderful art. Your fish look fab and I love the beachy theme, with the sand dollar. I also love your hand drawn card - very talented. The verse reminds me of Psalm 40 - he lifted me up out of the pit and of the miry clay... always more memorable because of the U2 song! Wonderful art.
God bless.
Cath x

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