Create Your Own Rainbow Contest

Do you create your own rainbow?

I sure love to!

Whether the day is cloudy and grey or I am feeling a little blue, I love to get crafty, artsy, and a little bit creative to put a smile on my face. It really does work.

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

CREATING IS CONTAGIOUS , CREATING IS HEALTHY, CREATING IS JUST PLAN FUN!

GUESS WHAT!?

We are having a contest and we want to see how you create your own rainbow! Someone is going to win a complete package of NEW Susan K. Weckesser Inc. designer Color POP Inks by Clearsnap Inks. (All 8 new colours!) & my new Unicorn Stamp co-branded with Unity Stamp Company.
Here's the details:
1) Share a picture of how and/or why you create your own rainbow on Facebook or Instagram. You can share it on Susan K. Weckesser Inc. FB page.
2) Make sure to tag @susankweckesserinc with the hashtag #createyourownrainbow .
Find me on Instagram HERE!
3) Leave a comment on this blog just saying, " I create my own rainbow!"
4) Tag a friend who creates their own rainbows too!
But there is more!!!
All of the Susan K. Weckesser Inc. Creative Team members are having this Create Your Own Rainbow Contest own their blogs too!!!! And they are all giving away Color POP Mini inks away too! So go check out their blogs! We can't wait to see how you create your own rainbow!

Susan K. Weckesser Inc. Creative Team:

Larissa Pittman

Katie Lamb

Lynne Mizera

Katy Leitch

Brooke Bock

Steph Ackerman

Kim Kendall

Debra Davison

Kim Rippere

Joyce Shaulis

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Gotta have Faith

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"

-Audrey Hepburn

Life is so full of ups and downs. Lots of curves & bumps on this journey that we call life. I am sure finding that out!

Those 3 little little words.... I AM Human,

keep running through my head the last couple of months. It has been a year since I was diagnosed with Cancer. This year has been full of surgeries, biopsies, tests, and treatments. I honestly feel like a pin cushion or some weird lab experiment. I was talking with my husband a few weeks ago and I was trying to explain how the first few months I felt like I was in a boat caught up in the waves. I was zooming along just watching everything. However, slowly the boat slowed down and now I feel like the waves of my reality are splashing up over me. I am not just watching someone who has Cancer, I am that person who has Cancer! In the end of September that reality hit me hard. How could I, a 45 year old me, have this disease, and yes it's a disease, a disease that so many of my family members have gotten in the past and sadly passed away. Just a few years ago my family was SO shocked when my dad all of a sudden passed away of Cancer after not being sick a day in his life! Needless to say, the last few years have felt like a dream. Too be honest, it has been hard for me to blog the last few months because I don't want to sound sad. I want to be happy. I want to be cheerful and not fake. And don't get me wrong....I do have faith and for the most part, I am happy. But, there are days, when I really don't feel good. Living with chronic pain is hard as so many people know. I also find it hard now because I have a little word, 'Cancer', that has inhabited my head. No matter how hard that I shake my head, I can't rattle that word out of my head! It is like I am stuck with a little dark shadow... And it is with me wherever I go. And it is always there. SO I am SO grateful for my art. When things are bringing me down I escape to my studio and loose myself in beautiful colors, paints and inks. In an hour or two I can feel my heart and soul start to rejuvenate! It is so healing! I can be me. I am just me. Nothing else. And that is so freeing!

It doesn't matter if I am doodling, sketching, painting or working on a deadline...I can loose myself for a while. I can escape my body and not think about what is going on for a while.

Yesterday

Well, it was a very long day yesterday. I saw my doctor to go over all the results from Decembers surgeries and biopsies and treatments. It appears that they found a problem in another area when they did my surgery in December. So now they are ordering other more tests and procedures to make sure Cancer isnt spreading to my liver, throat, stomach, pancreas, thyroid ..... The next couple of months are going to be full of a lot of hospital trips it seems. So basically , I am starting to feel like a lab rat!! Haha!! Oh my goodness!!! My goodness our bodies sometimes!!! I am in good spirits. I am just a little tired of all the medical stuff. I am SO grateful for my career, art, faith , family ; friends . It keeps me going!! So, right now my journey is far from over.

So many times during that last year, when I have felt scared or sad, frustrated or in pain, He has touched my heart and given me HOPE! I am so grateful for faith and prayer! It protects and guides me. I am also grateful for all of you who have reached out to me and my family. Your kindness and love has meant more then I can tell you. Many times when I have wished with all my heart that I could talk to my mom or feel her comforting hug, I would feel so sad knowing I couldn't share this with her and then next thing I know is out of the blue I get a message, letter, or email with comforting words from me of you my beautiful friends! I can't tell you how much your love has meant to me! Thank-you!

Choose Joy

Take time to love every minute! Life is so precious. So, slow down and enjoy the simple things. Remember, you are human. Be kind to yourself! You so deserve it.

It will be a super exciting art year for me.... I can't wait to get this journey started. Color and art are so healing! Thank-you for you love and continued support! I can't tell you how much you love and support means to me!!

Hugs,

Susan xo

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The Winner of the Create to Live Challenge is...

A Big Thank you to all who participated in our Create to Live Challenge.  Our challenge is now closed and the winner is...
Drum roll please...

Joi from Joiattheranch blogspot. We love her canvas! There is nothing more simple than nature and this 20 x 24 canvas personifies just that! Congratulations Joi. Please email your address to Susan K Weckesser here.

http://joiattheranch.blogspot.ca/2015/11/windy-autumn-leaves-mixed-media-canvas.html

Live, Love and Create!

Hello Folks! Peggy here, today I would like to show you my card design with Susan K Weckesser Paper and Stamps. I loved coloring this little stamp.

I chose background paper from the Susan K Weckesser Color Burst Collection  and the Live, Love, Create Collection. 

 I fussy cut flowers from the Live in Color Paper Collection. 

My sweet girl is from the Love Ya Whole Bunches Stamp Set.. Is she not the cutest!.

I stamped her using Memento Black ink so I could color without my image bleeding into the colors. 

I colored my image with Copic Markers  . I just love this card.. and the details in the stamp images make coloring these images a pleasure. 

I placed all my paper pieces on black cardstock. 

    

I hope you enjoyed today's card. Check out the Susan K Weckesser Store for the cutest stamps and paper line!

Magic Happens!!

Hi everyone!!

I hope you´re having a great week! Noe here to show you my newest project for Susan K.Weckesser Inc... love her stamps... They are gorgeous!! 

At this time I wanted to make one card... Cardmaking is one of my scrapbooking passions with Mixed Media art.

To make the background I used "Mermaid Lagoon" Distress Spray Stain spraying water on the card,

ink reacts leaving a beautiful watercolor effect. 

I´ve also used "Wild Honeysuckle Coral" Lindys Stamp Gang, love this inks, they have a totally irresistible pearl effect!

Finally, I used a new product for me: "Stampendous Embossing Powder poudre pour gaufrage", exactly "Shabby Pink Rosé Minable" and "Aged Silver Argent Vieille" colors, and I must say I love the effect that make these embossing powders, a real discovery for me!

Susan K.Weckesser stamps were colored with my Spectrum Noir... I used these stamps sets:

 What´s up Gnomie?

Home Sweet Home

Some close ups:

I hope you like my project ... I had fun doing it!!... Do you agree with me that magic happens at home?

 Have a super great day!!

Noe IG

Susan K. Weckesser DT Member

My home is...

Hi everyone!!

Here Noe with my first project as a DT member... I´m very happy to being part in this wonderful cretive team!! (thanks Susan for this opportunity!).

So, here is my project, I hope you like it :) 

Simple, right? Sure many will agree with me that no matter where, what matters is being around our families... so that, for me, "my home is where they are". I used "Home sweet Home" stamp set to make this special project.

To make this photo frame I used a Graphic45 base that I painted with a mixture of Whipped Spackle and Chalk Paint. Leveraging the paint was still wet  I sprinkled it with some blue glitter in some areas.

Once dry, I only had fun decorating the rest! I used my Spectrum Noir to paint the stamps... houses are sooo adorable!  

And then I added decorations to my pleasure:  corners at the top, lace ribbon , a small canister with magical fairy dust with a key and a heart, and a small assembly with transparent fabric, feathers, felt, wood...

All decorations have been glued with hot glue to make me sure their resistance.

 Have a super great day!!

Noe IG

Susan K. Weckesser DT Member

Autumn 2015 Create to Live Challenge

Who is ready for an Autumn Create to Live Challenge?  Susan has challenged us to "Enjoy the Simple Things."  Hmmm, what kind of things could we create with this.  I’ve got a few ideas already.  
We would love if you would share with us and join us for our Create to Live Challenge.  This challenge is for you to use the color and message themes in the picture above.  Take some creative liberty here to create based on how this picture makes you feel.  What does it inspire in you?  What creative ideas jump out at you first? 

Create a project to share with us based on this picture above.  Write a blog post and share your project.  Come back here and link-up your blog post in the challenge submission in our sidebar to your left.  After you post your project, make sure to tweet about it, share it on Facebook and Pin it as well.  I’d love to see little ‘blooms’ of inspiration this month all over.  Use hashtag #createtolive when tweeting or pinning so we can find and share your posts too! 

Your project can be anything you create using this picture as your inspiration.  Using Susan K Weckesser Inc products are not required, but are ALWAYS welcome and appreciated.  :-) 

The prize for this challenge will be drawn randomly by Inlinkz when you link your post in the sidebar and the challenge ends.  Contest ends 11/15/2015 at noon EST.  Winner will receive 

• Susan K Weckesser "Journal Doodles with a Heart" stamp set co-branded with Unity Stamp Company. 
• "Love Ya Whole Bunches" stamp set by Susan K Weckesser Inc and co-branded with Jillian Vance Design  
• Three Mixed Media Inx by Donna Salazar

I can’t wait to see what you create!  

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