Holiday Peekers are here!

Happy Friday my friends!! Can you smell fall in the air! Where I live is in the rural part of Northwest Maryland, not to far from the PA, WV and VA state lines! I have tree's and hills and pretty soon lots of colors! Fall is my favorite season! I love cooler mornings and evenings but still warm enough to go without a coat on. If you don't like near the eastern mountains I highly suggest you take a trip to visit  mid  October for the colors are just spectacular! You can see some of the trees starting to change their colors now. This weekend kicks off the Apple Festival at South Mountain Fairgrounds in Arendtsville, PA. OMGosh, have you ever had Apple Pizza? Five years ago when I saw the sign for  "Apple Pizza" my nose did one of those turn ups with an ewwwww.  My curiosity got the best of me and I had to check it out! It is to die for!  Now we go to the festival each and every year just so I can have some! It is a flaky  type dough spread out on a pizza pan and topped with apples, sugar, nutmeg and cinnamon. Baked until the apples are cooked, but still a little crisp and topped with your choice of either caramel, chocolate, drizzle icing and much more!   If I could send each of you a piece,  I surely would for everyone should be able to taste this awesome, mouth watering,  yummy pizza!

Today SCACD design team is show casing the "Holiday Peekers 2011!" created by Elisabeth Bell exclusively for SCACD.  These cuties are so sweet! I was the lucky one chosen to spotlight "Where On The Tree"  Let me tell ya there is a lot you can do with this sweetie.  When I saw her I wanted a big Christmas tree behind her. I tried making a few and they just didn't cut it! Then I remember I had Christmas Tree Topper's from Flower-Soft which I had to cut down quite a bit but it was exactly what I wanted! Nestabilites circle was used to cut the round Christmas ball out with and I used Versamarker watermark Pen to color the cap of the ball and heat embossed it with gold embossing power,  I replaced the sting on the image with gold string that came with a fruit basket I received. Packages were added the bottom of the photo to give a more realistic look!

Supplies:

• Basic Grey Nordic Holiday paper
• Copics: Face E11, E00, E000, Hair: E50, E39, E37,  R59, R37, R35, R32 E21, Shirt: E59. R37. R35. R32., Pants; G28, G24, G21. 
• Stickles; To her bow

TIP OF THE DAY.  Cleaning Copics. My friend Suzanne Dean showed me a really cool way to clean the tips of my copics. When your pen starts  squeaking across the page and you just filled it. Or your paper starts getting tacky and if you feel the brush it feels tacky. This means probably your brush needs clean. Before I used to take my nibs and soak them in alcohol.  You don't have to do that anymore!! Use an alcohol pad to clean it.  You can purchase them  in any drug store, walmart, CVS, etc. You have all seen these 2 x 2 alcohol pads if you ever receive a shot or had blood drawn, They are used to clean your skin. Simply take your tip while it is still in the marker, lay it onto the alcohol pad and squeeze it with your fingers and thumb. I do it until I see the white of the tip. That's it! It will act like it's brand new.

The Holiday Peeker 2011 Collection are now available at  Susana’s Custom Art & Card Design OR for those of you in the UK/Europe: Quixotic Paperie!

You can see lots more inspirations with these cuties by visiting the SCACD store blog to see my sis-tahs awesome and gorgeous creations.

Last but not least:  Read my post below for an awesome party you do not want to miss with over $800.00 in prizes being given away at The Outlawz! 

A big hug to all of my friends for stopping by!!