back in a big way

Sorry I have been MIA all summer. I decided to redo the house and it has been all consuming. My digital camera developed issues but I have replaced it. Life is good again. I hope you all are still out there. Lots of my own stuff to post but first a great stack a stamp set of cards from last weekend. Check these out!



It was a great set of really diverse cards. For the SU fans out there, you will notice the theme was retiring stamps. Loved the cards. Here is the whole set!

Here are some cool birthday cards. We punched out the shapes of the cards from a 12X12 sheet with all kinds of shapes and got to keep the other pieces. Really fun versitle cards.


Here are some really elegant cards. What a great sympathy card and a pretty delicate birthday card. Love the colors. I will miss them. Love the stamp set too. Glad a good friend has it.


Here is my first criss cross card. Love it!!! I must do more of these. A little bit of a pain but well worth it.


I love these two bright cards that I can use for almost anything. So fun. I love it when I remember to stamp the enevlope too.


These two are great. Love the layout and hardware. I wish I had jumped on the hodge poge stuff sooner. The images were fun too. It is the perfect baby card for a new baby coming soon.



These two little cards were so fun. Don't you love the mini card for a boy birthday! It rocks.


Anyway, it was a great night of fun and fellowship. Once again, my demo and her daughter rock. I wish everyone was a blessed as I am with a good person to lead the way on stamping.

In other news, a huge branch fell on my roof. Here are some shots. It is hard to see with the big trees in the background. They are taking it off in the morning. The main tree is suspect. This might be a battle.






What would a post be without a shot of Delilah. Such a good girl!

Hope you are well. Look for more posts soon.

Love my new toy

I realized tonight that I have a birthday card that has to go out in the morning. I traveled yesterday so I felt lupusy. It had to be quick. God Bless the Cuttlebug. Two papers through it and two quick stamps and I have a pretty card for a man. Happy day! I think Terry will love it. I am so glad I broke down and bought that machine. I am also happy the crank turns easily so it does not hurt my hands.


Off to bed. Delilah has been at dog camp (AKA the kennel) for 10 days. I miss her. It is so loney in the house without her. I keep looking for her when I come into a room and listening for her in the morning. I will retrieve her tomorrow though. Of course she will have to stay in her crate right away for work, but that is better than the kennel. I cannot wait to see her. I am sure you will see doodle pictures tomorrow.

Happy days!

A strange trio of get well/thinking of you cards

Still trying to keep going with a card a day for my friend in the hospital. I realized that with no mail on Sundays, I needed to add a card or two to the stack to go out in the morning. I admit that get well cards and masculine cards are hard for me. Combining them has really made me stretch a little in the last few days. It has been good though. So, here is the set of three. How is that for diversity????




You will notice that I cased myself with the Believe card. It is the same card as in prior post. I made if for a Confirmation Card for my niece. I was thinking of the faith of this couple I am making the cards for and how much they appreciate the prayers of others. I thought it was important to celebrate that beautiful faith, so that card seemed appropriate. It also let me put off making a masculine card for a few minutes :)


Next, I took out the Lovely as a Tree set that I borrowed one more time. I stamped some of the small leaf in chocolate chip on the natural colored card. I then sponged chocolate chip, green, and mustard over the card to create a weathered textured look. I put the green on next with the little pine cone/branch stamp in green chalk ink. It all looked a little bright so I sponged it with brown and added the brown eyelets. I distressed the long edges too.

The next layers are some mustard designer paper I had and some misc red. I stamped the green tree in a green liquid chalk ink and used my white gel pen for snow. I never did that before, but I like it. More chocolate chip sponging. The red is on dimensionals and the twine is tied around.

I like the card. I really took some time to make it work. Normally, I would have either dumped it half way through or just went with what I had and coped. I guess I am learning something with practice.

The last card is just happy and bright. I guess I needed to balance the other two cards somehow. I love this little ghost stamp and only use him a few weeks out of the year. There was a challenge a few weeks ago where you were supposed to use Halloween stamps in a different way. That was my inspiration for this "Hi" card.

Well, I am getting that look from Delilah that says stop blogging and pet me. With that face, I cannot resist.

Happy day to you all!

Lovely as a tree and natural beauty

Well, it was a REALLY long day and a I was cranky. I decided to stamp a card for my friend in the hospital. I was looking for some inspiration so I surfed onto Splitcoast stampers and decided to use the sketch challenge for a layout. I think I like this card. The base is chocolate chip. The patterned paper and the green color are a sheet of two-sided designer paper. The mustard is from a packet I picked up at Target. The leaf is from stampin up's lovely as a tree and the background on the mustard is from stampin up's natural beauty. It is hard to see, but the yellow and green sheets have been sponged with chocolate chip to create some depth and I punched the edges of several sheets for a little added detail. The right sides of the card are distressed.


These are the two sets of thank you notes that I mentioned a few days ago. They are simple cards for my friends that will need so many thank you cards since they will need to send out a bunch to thank all those helping them and praying for them. I hope to make another set or two in the next few days. The top set says "Thank Heaven for Friends Like You" inside. It is Lovely as a Tree of course for the stamps. The bottom set has the oak from Lovely as a Tree in Chocolate Chip (can you tell I bought a whole pack of that :) ). There is just a simple thank you stamped at the bottom. I wanted them to have options on how much space they had inside to write or not have to write.



The last pictures are of Delilah because, of course, this is about me and the dog.


Off to play!