Happy Birthday!

Hi everyone, I hope that the start of this holiday weekend is a good one for you!  I also want to wish all my U.S. friends a safe and Happy Fourth of July!

One of the people that works with Ricky asked if I could make a card for her for her nephew's 18th birthday and of course I had to say "YES!" and I knew just the card to make.  A while back, actually five years ago I made a card for Danielle's birthday.  It was a long card that I cut out 18 candles and adhered them to the card.  It was fun, and I've acquired many cut files since that time so I went to work...

Of course at the end of all the candles is a cuppy cake!!  Then I thought I did not have an envelope to put it in so I had to make one.  I didn't get to take a picture of that so you have to trust me, it was cute :)

 

I thought that I'd pop in and share with you all.  I have worked on some swap cards and I will share those in a couple of days too!  Have a safe and wonderful weekend no matter where you are!

Pleasant Poppies Birthday

Good evening everyone!  I hope that today found you well.  The past couple of weeks I've been a little busy.  With Mother's Day, then Danielle's birthday ~ she turned 23.  Where has the time gone to?  And then with hubby working last weekend and his only day off we had chores to do.  The planting of his garden.  It is a little small this year, but that's ok.  Gardens are nice to have, we always had them when I was growing up and they are so rewarding.  But with hubby working so many hours they are a lot of work.  I did get some plants for out front and NO I have not killed them yet.  As I knock on wood :) and I did get some herbs I planted out back.  I have already plucked some cilantro for salsa I made this week!

 

So enough of my babble, I seem to do that a lot.  I'm sure you have not missed that!  I'm on to the card that I made for Danielle's birthday.  

 

The base is a basic white card that I layered with Basic Black and some green pattern paper I had.  I used the Pleasant Poppies SU! background stamp for the main focal image that I layered on to a die cut circle and scallop circle that I cut out with my nesties.  I also colored the images again, hand cut them and pop dotted them on to the card for a little more dimension.  I then added the sentiment "celebrate" that is a foam stamp I had with a small piece of ribbon, button and bakers twine.  Notice the stitching?  This self proclaimed Non-Seamstress actually pulled out the sewing machine and did the stitching all by herself.  Yes, I am proud of it!!

 

Danielle loves poppies!  She has SO much stuff she's purchased for her house/apartment when she moves that has poppies on it so I knew that she'd like the card.

 

I wanted to share that with you tonight.  I will be posting cards that I've made for the upcoming class on the 30th.  If your in the area....  I'd love to see you!  And if I don't get back here in the next day or two I hope that you have a safe holiday weekend.

Another card to share...

Hello everyone, I hope today finds you well.  I've been out for a bit.  I had another eye surgery - I think the last.  Not much hope though, it looks like the sight in my right eye is all but gone.  I never knew that when you have eye surgery it helps contribute to cataracts.  I've not posted on here my health journey of the last 10 months, but this was my 3rd surgery on my eye.  They did take care of the cataracts and replaced the lens but the infection that detached my retina not only damaged the retina but it also attacked the optic nerve.  Thus no sight.  I am still trying to learn how to deal with one eye.  I'm having trouble with my depth perception and the light is a killer.  But I have no choice to live with this and I have to make the most of it.  I can say that it will NOT effect my crafting :)

So that said...  Here is another card.  This I made for the card class that we had last Saturday. 

The sentiment is from a SU! set called Word Play.  I really like the basic colors that pop on this card.  The base card is Real Red that I layered with some polka dot paper from Michael's.  The stars are all punched out from various punched and the circle is from one of my smallest nesties.  I added a few rhinestone stars and it was complete.

 

I do have more to show you from the class, but that will have to wait for another day. 

 

Thanks for stopping by!!

Happy Monday!!

I hope that your weekend was a great one!  Mine was.  I was lucky to spend some time with the kiddo.  We spent the whole day out driving with the windows down, shopping and then a nice lunch.  I miss her.  She has a full time job, school classes,  a Sunday job and baby sit's for a few different people she really is not home much.  So the weather was bea-u-tiful and we had a nice day.  Hubby had to work Saturday but on Sunday we did some of our errands, stopped at Lowe's, mowed for the first time this season and actually pulled the rototiller out - but we were at the end of the day so that will be a project for next weekend, hopefully.

Enough of my babbles.  I want to show you one of the four cards that I've made for the card class coming up on the 25th.  It was super fast and easy, and I used a set I received from the past
Sale-a-bration promo called Big Day.

 

Once again Blogger is adding my photo's flipped sideway.  Does anyone know why this happens? 

 

Even though it is sideway's I hope you enjoy it.  I hope to be back tomorrow to show you the 2nd card I've done. 

 

Have a great rest of your day!

 

EDITED TO ADD:

It was driving me crazy how the image was not straight so I went looking and I found some information on it.  I guess it has to do with technology and such.  I found a link that was helpful if you need the information here is the link that I found helpful ~ click HERE.



Some birthday goodies...

I know, you want to see some paper crafting and cards don't you?  But I just had to share with you the goodies that I got for my birthday.  Of course it was cuppy cake related Ü

Cute, cute cuppy cake stuff!

Look at the adorable mug that Betty gave me.  Isn't it special!?  I don't know to use it or just to look at it ~ it's so cute!  And she came to town early to take me to breakfast ~ how sweet was that!  Considering that she had to get up early to get ready and drive here.

All I could do was smile and say "I've never seen anything like this before".  I've made cuppy cakes for Danielle to take to school and hubby to take to work and you can never pack them up without mushing them together ~ so this is perfect!  It holds 3 layers of cuppy cakes, 24 total.  So I told hubby that I was going to make cup cakes for him to take to work, he said "great"...  Meaning "I really don't want to carry that into work".  he he he....

She bought it at Ginny's on line.  It's their cupcake carrier.  Oh, I just cant wait to use it! 

Then she bought me the decorator bags, tips and some cuppy cake papers too!  Not to mention some mixes, frostings and sprinkles.  Hey, maybe she wants me to make some cup cakes?

Kind of a funny story...  In our house the birthday person get's to pick out what they want for dinner that night, going out or staying in, a balloon and their cake.  Well, Mom made a blackberry pie last month and it was so good that I wanted that.  I like them kinda tart too ~ Ricky doesn't.  So he came home after work with this cake because he didn't want pie Ü and also....

This little guy.  It's 2 cup cakes covered with frosting to look like a puppy!  How cute is that?

Well, I'm done now.  Hope I didn't bore any of you with this post.  I just wanted to show off how lucky I am to have a wonderful family.  They really made this old girl feel special.  And thank you everyone who sent cards and sweet comments and emails ~ I find it harder every year getting older, but the love you all share is so kind that it puts a smile on my face.

Next week I promise to be back to normal with posting.  Really.  Have a super great weekend!

Happy Thursday!

Boy, when there is a 3 day weekend my time gets all fumbled.  Tuesday felt like it was Thursday, yesterday like Monday and today I'm just lost...  It's Thursday, right?

I've been doing a bit of scrappin' this past week.  Like I mentioned before, I'm going thru my pictures slow but sure and working them up on paper.  I get a little teary eyed looking at the past.  Even if your on this earth for 100 years it's still not enough time.  But I did sneak in a couple of cards yesterday afternoon.  Danielle's BFF's are twins and their birthday is today so I made a couple of cards for them.  Wanna see?  Of course you do, I've not posted in a few days.

Their favorite colors are Orange and Green.  The bright Orange's and Green's thus these cards came to mind.  They are not colors that I normally use, but I think that they turned out ok.  See both still have a touch of pink in them.

The base card is Only Orange that I layered with Old Olive and Pink Pirouette.  The DP is from Chatter Box called mini greenhouse argyle.  I stamped the image from Party Hearty with Only Orange and Garden Green.  I stamped the little present with Garden Green and attached it to the middle of the letter just to change it up a bit.  I punched out the 4 squares of DP with my 1" square punch and attached them to the Pink Pirouette and then Old Olive cs.  The bottom layer is the same DP just turned over and I used my scallop border punch on the Old Olive piece.  I added a length of ribbon then attached it to the card.  I attached the image panel to a piece of Only Orange that I punched out with my scallop circle punch that I paper pierced and attached it to the card with pop dots and I was complete.

The base card is Gable Green that I layered with Pink Passion and Pretty in Pink.  The DP is from Doodlebug Design.  I layered those on to the card and added a length of ribbon.  I cut out a large scallop rectangle nestie in Gable Green and stamped the sentiment (unknown) in Pretty in Pink on a piece of Pretty in Pink cs that I cut with my small rectangle nestie and attached to the card.  I had a piece of scrap Gable Green so I punched it with my Martha Stewart punch and attached it to the bottom of the panel.  I added the bow with a glue dot after attaching the sentiment panel.  I stamped the hats from Party Hearty with Pink Passion and Gable Green ink on white cs, cut them out and attached them to the card with pop dots and I was complete.

Oh, if you will take a peek at what else I've been doing.  I've been working on Betty's blog for her and I added a new page to it.  It is all the Stampin' Up current colors with links to SU! that shows all the coordinating products.  It is a great page for your reference.  So take a peek at it if you will ~ and don't forget to come back here.

I hope that you have a super great day ~ and stay inside where ever you are.  Today's supposed to be horrible with heat just about everywhere.

Ricky's pool table...

This is what I made for Ricky for his birthday.  Now he's a guy in every meaning of the word and well, he really does not care too much for all the boxes and things that I make.  He does not know why I get all worked up when something does not work out well ~ but when I saw this I had to make it.  I forgot where I got the idea from, but I will edit this post later to add that. 

I thought that I would make this box for him to hold the cards that I've made for different occasions over the years for him.  He used to be a pool player, so I knew that it would be ok. 

It's deep enough to hold quite a few cards, that's why I liked it!  I made the box out of Close to Cocoa and pretty much everything else was made out of scraps, how cool is that??

And before anyone says anything ~ I know that there are not 19 balls in pool.  The 19th was his birthday so that's why I put "19" on the ball...  Yes, a little goofey....

That's what I had for today ~ I will edit this later to let you know where I got the pattern from.

Have a super great day!!

EDITED TO ADD:

The blog where you can go to for these instructions is:  http://www.stampndesign.blogspot.com/ and trust me, you'll be blown away with Lynn's talent!

Shhh... Danielle's birthday card...

I think that I'm safe ~ Danielle really does not look at my blog.  I guess it's not "cool" enough.  So I want to share with you the card that I made for her.  Ricky's birthday is next month and I was going to make this card for him - but that was too many candles to cut out Ü so I thought that I'd do it for Danielle.

I knew what I wanted to do with the candles, and I thought that I'd have to cut them all out on my own ~ but then I pulled out my Cricut cartridges and I found something that would work for a candle base.  It was on the George and Basic Shapes Cartridge.  Then I needed something for the candle flame.  I used one of the leaves on the Walk in my Garden cartridge, it was perfect!  Now for the cake.  I had no idea.  I really thought that the cake was going to look kinda funky - what would I use??

So my book for Walk in my Garden was kinda tossed over to the right of my desk and I looked and I found it!!  I knew what I was going to use.  Can you guess??  It is actually 2 flower pots from Walk in my Garden.  The bottom is the full flower pot cut out of Chocolate Chip card stock at 4".  The top layer is a flower pot cut out at 3".  Then I cut some daises on the border setting for the "piping" on the cake.  I was so happy that the cake turned out.  I so hope that she likes it!! 

The best part of it was I used up a lot of scraps that I had laying around!

That's all I that I have for you today.  We've got some storms coming so I think that I'll shut the computer down for a while.  I hope that you have a super great afternoon!

Happy Monday Morning!

Good morning everyone, I hope that today finds you well. 

I was so excited last night when Danielle called me.  She was with her friends out shopping and she called and said "Mom, do you want a crop a dile?"  I didn't understand her or she didn't understand me but I said "HUH? No you know I have one."  She was a little excited and she said "No Mom.  The Big Bite"  Well I never got around to buying one of those so I asked her "How much is it?  And where the heck are you?"  She stopped in to Walmart and since I've trained her right (he he he...) she always checks out the clearance items first.  On the clearance isle was a Big Bite for only $10.00 - of course she needed to get it!!

When she brought it home I had to inspect it, I was wondering why in the heck was it only $10.00???  Other than the package being a little torn there is no reason that I can tell why it's on clearance.  But who am I to argue??

I am so very sorry for the delay in posting.  I've just been busy with life.  I've wanted to change my blog template too and that's been more of a bother than not.  I am undecided on a few things ~ but change is what I want to do.  So some day (hopefully soon) you'll stop in and see things different. 

I've been making quite a few cards lately too.  Mom and I went to our LSS and the owner had acquired a bunch of stamps from another store up North that is closing.  It was my duty as a stamper to take peek... of course Ü  I did get a new Bella stamp.  And yes, because there is a cupcake...

You like??

I stamped the balloons again and used pop dots to add a little more to the card.  She reminded me of Danielle so I colored her blonde.

That's all I've got for you today.  I hope that you like to card.  I'll be back tomorrow to show you more!  Have a super great day where ever you may be.

Just a card today

I don't have much to show you today ~ I made a card for Danielle's boyfriend.  She asked me to make a card for him for his birthday.  She's the one who can sit down and whip out a card in 15 minutes and it looks great.  Me, well it takes a tad bit longer than that (ok more than a tad - 1/2 a day!!).  And of course I wanted it to be nice because she is at this stage where she's kinda picky and if it was not right I'm sure that I would of had to put it in my stash and start over. 

To be safe I asked her to pick out what she wanted on the card - and the colors.  I figured that way I could not get it too wrong, huh??

She picked out an image from Darcie's and the colors blue.  I had a hard time coloring the image because I wanted to do cute pinks ~ but it was for a guy, so I had to refrain.

The base card is Pacific Point and she wanted layered it with Bashful Blue.  So I found a cute piece of DP that had the blue stripes and it did not have a maker on it, so sorry.  I colored the image with my pencils and gamsol and a couple markers.  Then I used my stickles on it and let it dry overnight.  I cut the center out and made a shaker card.  The little confetti inside is blue, gold and silver birthday cakes.  The card actually measures 5 1/2" x 5 3/4".  I cut a half inch off of the right side of the card so I could use my cuttlebug to emboss the dots on the right side opening.  So, you think he'll like it??

Sorry this post is short today ~ but I've got things to do...  Appointments & such.  I'll be back tomorrow!

OH!  And don't forget to check out this post for the blog candy that Julie is giving away.  Have a great day!

How about some potpourri?

That's what I've got for you today - a big old bunch of everything...
I have to say that I am so very sorry for being gone as long as I have been.  I really did not think that it was that long.  Christmas.  Christmas was the last time that I had posted.  That's been almost a month!!  Where does the time go?

So are you ready for a little bit of this and that?  If you are grab your coffee or whatever you prefer, put your feet up and get ready...  here I go...

I was busy, really busy making Christmas cards.  I had quite a few to make ~ and I'd take the pictures of them I just did not post them.  So here are some of them that I made.  I know that Christmas is over, but maybe they will give you some inspiration and heck, maybe an idea for this upcoming Christmas.

So there are just some of the cards that I mailed out.  I also made some treat holders too! 

Then of course I was busy with the puppy, Dixie.  She's grown so much and she's only 6 months old.  We had some snow days, of course after Christmas ~ and Danielle and Dixie were in the yard playing.  Yes, I had a sweater on Dixie.  It's cute.  This is taken just before we really got the snow. 

I just could not get Dixie to look at the camera, she barely sat for Danielle to let me take the picture.  I wanted a little dog - and that's not going to happen - so I could cuddle and manage.  A little dog that would be a house dog.  NOPE.  Not Dixie, she loves it outside.  When we really got the snow she would go outside and bury her head in the snow and root around.   But I still love her.

Then Danielle was ever so kind to bring home some type of virus and she decided that she wanted to share it with us.  I got it first.  I was miserable.  It started off in my head and I was so stuffy, and the sinus headache was awful.  Then came the cough and sore throat.  So being the kind daughter I am I also shared it.  Mom got it next.  It is kinda scary when she gets sick because of her COPD and Asthma.  She got really sick.  And to top it off she was sick on her birthday. 

For Christmas I got a cupcake cake pan.  I've wanted one for so long and I finally got one.  So I made Mom's' cake with it.  Now, this is the first one that I've ever made so the frosting job was not perfect - I almost did not share the picture.  But hey, everyone has to learn.  So I plan on making lots of these.  Another problem was how to cut it???  I had made a confetti cake on top and chocolate on the bottom. 

And of course I had to make a cupcake card to go along with it!!

So that's what I've been up to.  How about you??  I've got something that I made last night to post tomorrow.  I've also been busy with some 3D items that I am making for an upcoming SCS shoe box swap that I'm in.  I'm not sure if I will post that too soon or not-I can't give away the suprise...

I'm in hopes that I'm back now.  I hope that I didn't scare you off with the long post - but I hope that it will give you some inspiration.  So I will see you tomorrow!!  Have a great day!

Good morning!

And Happy Hump Day!

Wouldn't you know it, the morning that I am up bright and early SCS is down. I guess they are changing their servers and they are out of whack for a bit. Of course! Well that's not stopping me from posting here though.

I need to get on the ball and make some cards! September is another huge month for us birthday wise. We've got lots of family and friends that have birthdays this month so I need to break out the whip and get to work.

Here is a card that I made for a Joyce's daughter. I tend to send her funny cards each year and I thought that this one was perfect. Besides I can send her this, she's older than me... he he he...

The base card is Chocolate Chip that I layered with Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel and DP from My Minds Eye. I followed sketch SC241 over at SCS. I stamped the image from Little Paper Shop and colored her in with my pencils and gamsol. Notice the "blue hair"? I added a couple of scraps of ribbon to the image panel and adhered it with pop dots to the card. I stamped part of the sentiment on white cs and punched it out with my word window punch and layered it on to a piece of Old Olive that I punched with my new Modern Label punch. I finished the sentiment on the inside and I was complete.

I hope that this sparks some creativity for you. I'll be back later with more to show you.

A digi Page

I have not made a digi page in so long I almost forgot what to do!

Happy Belated Betty!!

How Sweet it is

I think that I am on a My Favorite Things kick. I really do love the images. They took a while to grow on me. At first the thought of a headless figure was a little disturbing, but I actually like that I don't have to color in the face. Sometimes that's a hard task.

I had another birthday card to make and I pulled this set out. I have no idea why I thought of the color orange, but I guess it turned out well. It's kinda a fun color.
The base card is Pink Passion that I layered with Only Orange and some old DP from SU! that I found in the scrap drawer. I took the Only Orange layer and ran it thru the cuttlebug with my Swiss Dots folder. I took the DP and layered it on to a piece of Pink Passion cs and then peirced the holes around the outer edge then adhered it to the card. I stamped the image from MFT How Sweet It Is and colored it in with my pencils and gamsol, sponged some Pink Passion ink around it and layered that on to a piece of Pink Passion cs. I think that I am on a flag kick of some kind because I stamped the sentiment sweet with Pink Passion ink on to a scrap piece and then adhered that to a scrap of Only Orange and then cut the flag notch out of one side. I added some stickles to the flowers on the chair and I was complete.

I will be back later for more, stay tuned *Ü*

Good morning everyone!
I hope that today finds you well and that your weekend was a great one!

I'm sorry for not showing up yesterday but Ms. Betty told me late Sunday that she was coming over on Monday and there was no time to post. Betty's not been over in a while and we had a productive play day. It's always fun to get together and have stuff all over the table and just sit and create and chat. I've been missing that.

I do want to show you a card that I made the other day for a friend's birthday. I think that it might be a little late for her birthday, but I'm sure that she won't mind. And this was a set that I bought from Gabby over at Confessions of a Stamper. I think that she still has some of her set's for sale if you pop on over *Ü*

Anyway, are you ready for the deets?

The base card is Chocolate Chip that I layered with Pink Pirouette and DP from The Angel Company Catelynne collection (next to Chocolate Chip that's my favorite paper!!!). I stamped the image from MFT's Let's go For a Walk and colored it in with my pencils and Gamsol. I cut out the image and sponged Chocolate Chip ink around the layer and adhered it to a piece of Pink Pirouette cs. I stamped the sentiment in Pink Passion ink and layered it on to a piece of Pink Pirouette cs that I cut like a banner. I had also added the ribbon with a little jewel brad in the center. So wadda ya think? I think that it turned out cute.

I've got another one to show you but I will save that for later.

Have a great afternoon!

See, I've been busy....

Really I have. I've been working on my scrap books. Here's a few pages that I've done.

One day when Danielle was little she threw a fit and did not want to take a bath, so I promised she could call Nana when we were done. She called Nana to tell her how "mean" I was to make her take a bath. Little stinker ~ trying to get Mommy in trouble.

I hid the journaling on this page. I like to make pages with interaction so when someone looks at it they are doing more than just looking at the pages.

This was a page that I made of when Danielle turned 4. We did all we could to make it a happy day, but my Father had just passed away 2 weeks before that.

This picture is hilarious! This goes way back ~ I think it was 1996. A friend and I dressed up for Halloween at work. I looked like that all day long. By the time I took off the avacado mask it had been on for HOURS. My face was so red. Tami ~ if your reading this remember??

These were pictures that we had taken at Sears for the holiday. Danielle looked so precious in those pictures. I loved the softness of them. And to pose like a little lady, she was adorable. The paper I found did not have a name on them, but I loved how they are pink and black. Different colors for Christmas but I thought that they were pretty. Look at the pink and black candy canes.

So see. I've been busy, just not with card making.

Have a great day!

I am here!

I think that I'm back on track... I think...

I'm sorry for the lack of posts, I've just been busy with life things I guess. It happens...

Yesterday Betty stopped by. Totally shocked me. It was after dinner, and of course she always stops by when I look, ahem, at my "prettiest"... Isn't that always the way. But of course as soon as I saw what was in her hot little hands I had to hug her and show her in to sit down!! Yes, it was the new SU! catty!!! OMGoodness, it's wonderful!! I thanked her and told her 'now you know what I'm going to be doing for the next 3 days!'. When they left we sat in the living room and I had already been thru the catty. You know, the quick take a look kinda thing. Then when we were in the living room Danielle said "didn't you just look thru that?" Silly kid, of course ~ but that was the preliminary look. Now I've got to look again. And again. And again... They really did it up nice this time! Tomorrow I'll show you what she gave us too, it's adorable!

Are you ready for a card? I hope so, here goes.

This card I made with my TAC set Little Cupcake. I stamped the cupcake image and masked it off to stamp the candle peeking out from behind the cupcake. I colored most of it in with my pencils and gamsol. I used my markers for things like the dots, cherry and candle flame. The base card is Perfect Plum. Yes that retired in 2004 but on a organizing frenzy I found a 1/2 full pack of it!! I layered the card with Green Galore, Pink Pirouette and DP from TAC's A Little Whimsy collection. I stamped the sentiment with Pink Passion ink. It is actually 2 sayings but I used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to place it so it says "birthday cupcake wishes". I added a length of organdy ribbon and some stickles and I was complete.

I don't think that I've shared the new site I've found with you yet. It's called Digital Scrapbooking Place. OMGoodness, they are awesome. It is such a wonderful site with SO many helpful people it's unreal! I've spent a short amount of time there this weekend and there is so much to learn. Yes, I've used so many freebie kits doing the digital scrapping ~ but I hope to someday be able to make the kits and papers and embellies to digi scrap. And I'm sure that hanging out there will help me learn. They are so patient and kind to beginners, you've got to go peek just to check it out. If anything you will be inspired!

It's time for me to go. I've got some wife-ly duties to take care of. I will be glad when one day the find toilets that clean themselves. Until then, it's my job.

Have a great day!