Happy Wednesday!

Good Morning Everybody!! I hope that today finds you well, and that you've survived the nasty weather that we've all been having. It seems that not just here but every where there is nasty weather. This is one crazy season. Last year we were in a drought and our grass was actually burnt ~ this year we have too much rain and people are being flooded out! Crazy!!

I have a little something to show you that I made a while ago and I don't think that I posted it. Here is the template that I made.

I used paper from The Angel Company - it's called Rustic Chic. One of my fav's!! You can also use this as a gift card envelope - or a little money holder...

And the stamp set is called Happy Trails. Well, do you like it??I'm sorry that this is all I have for you today. I am getting in the craft room and start to craft in just a few minutes. Tomorrow I will have something for you, promise!

Friday is Hubby's birthday and I don't even have his birthday card made. So I know for sure that I need to get to work on it. It's kinda hard to buy things for him. He NEVER tells you what he wants or needs. We have a little thing here at our house that the birthday person get's to pick what they want for their birthday dinner. Either to make or to go out. Of course he has to work on his birthday so he won't want to go out. He does not like to work all day then come home to go back out again, I don't blame him. So needless to say Friday I'll be busy baking a cake too!

So I'm off to create something! Have a great day!!

Super quick post today!

Howdy everyone!

Today is going to be a super quick post. I'm on the run!! Hopefully tomorrow I'll be back with more, but I'm not for sure ~ Betty's coming over for a play day!! Yippie!! I so look forward to those times. Just yesterday we were talking and something was said about something that we talked about once before, but never finished the conversation. Well, it's no wonder. When Betty stops by it's a jumble of everything. Paper flying, glue adhering, cookies disappearing Ü Those are fun times!!

I want to show you some ATC's that I've made for my Cards Made By Hand group that I'm run. We are having a caffeine ATC swap - I love those - and here's a peek at what I've made.

All paper used was Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel and Pretty in Pink. The ink was Close to Cocoa and Rose Romance.

This set was a TAC hostess set called "The Morning Buzz".

This set is an oldie but goodie from SU! called "Espresso Yourself". And the spoon does not have a vendor stamped on the wood.

This ATC opens like a card. I used the stamp from Embossing Arts because Chocolate is caffeine also. Try eating some before bed and you'll be up reading or stamping for sure!! The sentiment (both inside and out) does not have a vendor on it either ~ but it is hilarious!!

"Store your chocolate on top of the fridge, because calories are afraid of heights and they will jump out to protect themselves" ha ha ha... If that were only true, huh!

So that's all I have for today. I will try to post more tomorrow!!

Have a great day!!
Hugs,

Joani

Good Morning Everyone!!! It is another beautiful day here so I'm not sure how much I will get done. Isn't that awful? But I'm pretty sure that the spring fever bug has hit me. I just love looking in the backyard at all the pretty colors and beauty. The little mama robin has 3 of her 4 eggs hatched. The flowers are in bloom. It is just so peaceful. I wish I could share this with everyone!

Yesterday I did manage to get a few of my swaps done. I've got some ATC and cards swaps cooking over at my MSN site. These you see pictured here are for the embossed ATC swap. You have to emboss something on your ATC cards. I used my TAC™ set Ice Cream T2630 and the Sweet Skunks T2674 sets. For the Ice Cream set I stamped her and colored her in. The colors were not very bright, the showed up muted. Once I embossed her she showed up really bright and I was happy. That's one of my favorite sets because of course I love Ice Cream!!! For the other ATC I only embossed a few of the flowers then raised them up with pop dots. Of course those little buggers were hard to cut out with my fumble fingers.

This next set of ATC's are for a Garden swap. I pulled out my Old Friend T2643 set. This set is so cute with the little seed box and different things you can put on the front. For the other ATC I used a very old set that I bought from D.O.T.S. years ago! The little farmer boy and the seeds.










Another swap that I am in is for Father's Day. And I need to make cards for that too to send out. Of course "manly" cards are so hard for me to create. Of course I thought what better set to use than something out-doorsy ~ SU! Noble Deer set!

For this card I used some of the paper that my friend Betty gave me that she ran thru her cuttlebug. I thought black and gold looked good for the card. After all I could not use my regular pinks and browns.... I colored direct on the rubber with my pens, I thought that looked best. Then I stamped the sentiment from another SU! set Thoughts of Father, sponged around that with Chocolate Chip, layered it like the rest of the card with black and gold and I was finished. When I showed the card to my hubby he said "that's the set you used last year for my card". I was a little shocked! I can't believe he remembered ~ I didn't!!!



No, these are not more swap cards ~ but cards that I made to sell. Remember I told you about me selling my creations at the Peddler's Mall? Well the cans are selling and so are the cards. I've sold quite a few of those so I decided to make some Father's Day cards. Just a few in case they don't sell.





These are made with stamps from MFT. When I saw this image my first thought was of my hubby. He just loves the TV. He's always been fascinated by it. When he was a little boy and his Mom worked late into the night she'd come home to find her young son sitting on the floor of the living room right in front of the TV with the volume down low watching old western movies in black and white. Yes, to this day he still watches all the old black and white movies, but he does not have to sit on the floor. He sits in the chair. He's not a couch potato, if something needs to be done he gets it done. And most weekends he gets up early and cooks breakfast for everyone. But he works hard all week and when he wants to spend some quality time with the TV I don't care ~ it gives me time in the craft room :)


So, now you know why I bought the set - on to the card.


For the base card I used Night of Navy cs. I used my scor-pal to make the grid design on the blue cs. I then stamped it in various places with SU! Wonderful Weaves set. I layered that on to a piece of grey cs and tied a length of dark blue ribbon around it. I stamped the image from MFT and colored it in with my pencils. I stamped a second image and cut out the recliner and used different size pop dots on it to give it the 3D effect. I layered that panel on to a piece of yellow paper and glued it to the card. I stamped the sentiment "happy fathers day" with white ink directly on to the card in the lower right corner. Once the card was put together I took out my Crystal Lacquer and very carefully applied it to the front of the TV screen and I was done!

I hope to get some more crafting done today ~ so check back tomorrow!

I thought I'd share....

Today I thought that I'd share with you the RAK card that I received from Tracy over at Stamping Seasons. I got this card a while back from her. Her and I decided to swap catty's. She sells SU! in New Zealand and thought that it would be nice to swap catty's for a different perspective on the inspiration we might get from it. Let me tell you, the SU! New Zealand catty is awesome!!

There are some sets in there that were discontinued from our catty a while ago. And as far as the items for inspiration ~ well they are somewhat different too. There are things in our SU! catty that they have in the New Zealand one but with a different twist. I can tell you that I keep it right next to me along with my SU! catty and my TAC catty. When I need a quick boost of inspiration it is at arm's length to grab for.

I've been busy with making paint cans and bottles that I've neglected the swaps I am in. I still have time before the deadline, but I like to get them done right away.

Here is the first swap cards that I made. These are for an Animal ATC swap that I'm in. Now, a fish is an animal, right? Well it is for this swap :)

I used my new theangelcompany™ stamps for these. Of course the paper is from whatever I had laying around. I did not get a picture of it but the back of the doggie ATC has dog bone paper!

These next ATC's are for a bird swap that I'm in. It's hard to tell, but the flamingo's are colored with my twinkling H2o's. I actually had to dust those off I've not used them in so long!!

The flamingos are from a SU! set that I have ~ I think it was called Tickled Pink. The other ATC is made with my TAC™ set called Hello There. She's adorable, isn't she? I wanted to run a funky border of stitching around the edge and my sewing machine thought that it was a good time to have the tension not work. So I kinda played it off and ran it around 2 times to make it look like I meant to do that!??! I guess it still turned out ok.... I hope!

This last card I made was for the SC172 over at SCS. I am a week late, but at least I tried. Today I am going to try to make SC173. So I'm not that behind....

For this card I used my TAC™ set Ice Cream. I think that this little girl is adorable!!! And the paper used was from the TAC™ Catelynne collection. I just pieced it together like a quilt. The little tab on the side has the word "hello" from the Just Giggle Hostess set. I think that it turned out pretty cute. I am actually sending this card off as a RAK to someone across the pond. Let's see how long it takes to get there...

I hope that you all have a super great crafty day!!
Hugs,