Happy Fourth of July

It’s Tuesday and the 4th of July! Hope everyone has a fun and exciting but safe day! I’m spending the morning here in the Big D and then heading home this afternoon so I can get back to studying for my exam I have in less than a week now. ? At least that is the plan as I am typing this. Anyways, since it’s the 4th of July I wanted to do something else fun for today’s post even though I did something last week. So, let’s get started with “Happy Fourth of July…”

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How-to Make Watercolor Backgrounds

Wow! Monday again! Hope everyone had a great weekend! We spent most of it in Dallas for birthday and Father’s Day lunch with my sis and hubby. Anyways, remember the “Calligraphy Brush Pens Blending Palette” from last “Make It Monday?” Well, I have use it to create some new watercolor backgrounds and have decided I would finally share how I made them. So, let’s get started with “How-to Make Watercolor Backgrounds….” Continue reading “How-to Make Watercolor Backgrounds”

Officially Summer

Happy Wednesday y’all! Hope everyone is having a great week so far! I ended up doing things I really didn’t want to do yesterday but thats okay, I still got to have cake, presents, and got my 18,000 steps. No seriously!, I had to walk off all the cake and other goodies I ate for my Birthday. ? Plus, I’m on a mission of making up for all the days I didn’t get my 10,000 steps in since the first of June due to unexpected events. So far, so good. Anyways, since today is the Summer Solstice, I thought I would do something cute and simple, so let’s get started with “Officially Summer…..” Continue reading “Officially Summer”

Calligraphy Brush Pens Blending Palette

Happy Monday! Hope everyone had a great weekend! The weekend flew by for me at the scrapbooking retreat a group of us went to. I think I got a fairly good amount finished but not as much as I wanted to get finished. Oh well. Anyways, last year when I got into calligraphy thanks to my sister, I saw a lot of the calligraphers using a blending palette for blending the Tombow Dual Brush Pens together so I decided to make myself one where it was big enough to color an entire page. So, let’s get started with how to make “Calligraphy Brush Pens Blending Palette…” Continue reading “Calligraphy Brush Pens Blending Palette”