Good summer's eve to you all!

I know I have not been very chatty for the last few weeks.  I was sick for two weeks with a horrible summer cold that really knocked the wind out of my sails, so to speak.  But the upside to this is that I spent alot of time reading everyone else's blogs and I am just in love with Julie Balzar's Designs!!!!!  I have started Art Journaling and I have to say it really is fun and exciting and NOT at all as intimidating as I first anticipated.  Im not a trained artist.....card making, scrapbooking and decorating my home are the furthest I have ventured since the hours upon hours I spent coloring and cutting out paper dolls as a young girl.  Anything more than that I have admired from afar for many years....50+.  One day last year I decided to go back to school and I took a Color & Design class, the ABC's of art.  The rest is history, I cant get enough and learn enough about different mediums and techniques.

Speaking of getting to it....I do plan on doing a few cards this week that I will be entering in some challenges.  So thanks for stopping by and I hope you drop in again soon to see what Im into next!

TTFN
Misha

Welcome to my latest card! But first I just have to say WOW ! The weekend here by the beach was beautiful, and I actually found time to get some badly needed gardening done.  I needed the time MORE than the plants I think!? :o) EXTREMELY therapeutic - lol....All kidding aside, we spent the weekend catching up with friends, kickin' it in the backyard with some summer cocktails and rafts a floatin' in the pool.  A GREAT time was had by all.

So below you see "Bubbles Loves Bubbly" one of Stampin Bella's Uptown Girls.  I just wish I was the one in that tub right now!  It would truly be "DELIGHTFUL"...sentiment from Lyric Correction, which is embossed in Stampin' Up's "Pool Party".

I got the gray & yellow patterned paper from Teresa Collins' "Carolina Breeze". The solid shimmer gray cardstock (Creative Memories) was run through an adorable folder I just got, it's a Lattice by Die'sire Embossalicious.  Flourishes are from Mememory Box (Big Splash Border) and Spellbinders' (Floral Flourishes & Grand Labels Eleven).  Bubbles is colored in Copics and of course no card is complete until the Fairy Dust is add....a little stickles (Star Dust) gold glitter pen; rhinetstones and sequins!

I am entering "BUBBLES LOVES BUBBLY" in:
Color Throwdown CTD253








Wish me luck and I hope you love Bubbles as much as I do.
TTFN
Mish