Good Morning!!

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

This morning I am going to make a quick post ~ I get to watch my nephew for a little while today.  I'm jazzed - he is simply adorable!!  But it's been so long since I've had any kind of baby duty I'm not sure what to do Ü  Danielle is almost 18 - so that was a long time ago!!

I want to show you what I received in the mail this weekend.  My dear friend Gabby made these with her own two little hands.  Are they not the most cutest things you've ever seen??  A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E!!!

I am a lover of all things cuppy cake and she made these and sent them to me.  Your jealous I know, admit it...  If you want one go visit her blog post HERE and let her know. 

Here is an up close look at the pink one.  Ok, the one with strawberry frosting.  Look at the "sprinkles" on top of it.  Cute, huh?

And look at the card that she sent with it.  Look at all the stitching.  Um, perfect!!  I just l♥ve getting her cards in the mail.  I think that I've saved each and every one of them that she's sent to me over the years. 

Well, that's all I have for you now.  I will try to post more later ~ depending on when "baby duty" is over with.

Have a great afternoon!

What's Moo Everybody?

I've been in a Moo type of moo-d... I just love farm animals, and I think that farm animal stamps are just the cutest! So I've got a couple of cow cards to show you.

The first card I want to show you is made from all stamps from The Angel Company. It was a quick card. The base is Pixie Pink and I stamped the swirls from Spring Dream on it with Pink Passion ink. I then layered it with paper from my FAVORITE collection called Catelynne. I added a length of ribbon to it also. I then stamped the "frame" from I Remember when and then the image from SWAK. I colored it in with pencils, gamsol and markers. I cut it out and placed it on the frame with pop dots. I added some stickles and I was done. Told ya, quick and easy.

The next card I made for a friend who needs a little pick-me-up.

The base card is Certainly Celery. I layered it with Lavender Lace, Purely Pomegranate and DP from TAC's A Little Whimsy collection. I stamped the image from the set What's Moo and colored it in with pencils and gamsol. I first layered the card with the DP and ribbon. I then added the image panel to a piece of Purely Pomegranate and then on to the card. I then stamped the sentiment and added that to the card with the flowers that my Mom made and a crystal brad.

I decorated the inside with left over scraps and I was complete. I hope that it gives her the right pick me up that she needs.

Boy, no rambling or blah blah blah today. I must be sick *Ü*

I hope to be back later with a little digital scrapping for you! Have a great day!

Hugs,

Joani

Happy Tuesday and some business...

Good morning everyone! I hope that today finds you all well. I hope that your long weekend gave you all a little refresher, but I also hope that you did not forget the true meaning of the holiday.

My Father was one who served in WWII and I grew up with lots of stories about history. It is kinda sad but I did learn more from my Father about history and WWII than I did from school. I am so thankful for that, I just wish that he was around to tell those stories to my daughter. It's a shame that she has not learned anything in school about the war. It seems that they skipped over that in history. Well, she wants to be a teacher when she get's older ~ maybe she can change that.

There's something that I'd like to show you today. A creation I made, then something that my Mom's been cookin' up.

I'm going thru a slump again. I don't know if it is lack of creativity or lack of new stamps that's got me. I still plug along but everything that I made I feel is 'ho-hum'...

I made this card the other day using my Friendship Blooms set. The base card is Pacific Point and I used Old Olive and Purely Pomegranate on it. The inks were Rose Red, Temping Turquoise and Old Olive. I stamped the images on the white part of the card using my markers to color the rubber directly. I then stamped the images on Pacific Point and Purely Pomegranate and cut them out and placed them on the card. It was a quick and simple card, actually a little fun to make. But lacking in the creativity department.

Now I want to show you a little something that Mom's been up to. For a couple of months she's been crocheting flowers. She normally does the blankets and covers, but when she saw the flowers in the SU! catty last time she kept thinking that she could do that. Well, we found a book, finally, and she found the pattern she was looking for and she was practicing. Our Walmart here re-did their craft section last year and took out the fabric and all the goodies. When we went with Betty last month to Walmart in another town they had the craft section full so Mom picked up some yard. Well she's been working on the flowers.

I told her she should sell them, but she does not think that they will sell. So she is! She is selling them for 45 cents a piece. Anyone interested? These are the only colors that she has right now. Blue, Red, Purple, Green and Yellow. If you are interested please send me an e-mail to joanmcdonald@roadrunner.com and I will put a link up in my sidebar also.

That's all I have for today. I hope that I will see you back here tomorrow!

Hugs,

Joani