Archive for May, 2010

Here is the rest of the Birthday Card.

Click on the picture so you can see all the details.

The second set of wings are made out of striped vellum and of course a little bling.

Here again is the crocheted flower my 81 year old Mother made.

I’m teaching a Woman’s Bible study for our church, it is the Beth Moore study on Esther.  Over the next 7 weeks every Tuesday night we’ll be digging deep into the word and seeing how Esther handled herself when “It’s tough being a Woman”.

Don’t forget to leave a comment everyday to have a chance to win the Blog Candy.  I’ll get the picture of the Blog Candy up on Wednesday.

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Amber, Happy Birthday to you.

I’m just going to show a quick peek at Amber’s Birthday card from my Mother.  Another beautiful crocheted flower.

I’ll show you the rest later this week.  I want to give Amber the opportunity to see the real card before I show everyone.

I’m getting ready to give away some blog candy to celebrate my blog being a year old.  So, Wednesday, I’ll show you the blog candy, but in order to win it you need to make a comment everyday this week, for each day you leave a comment your name will be entered in the drawing.  The more days you leave a comment the more chances to win.

I’ll do a random drawing on Friday, so be sure and leave me a comment on each post this week and how to contact you should you win.  Good luck!

Short post today, I’m putting together somethings that I want to do a video on so I’ll keep my post short.

I love these sweet little stamps you get at M’s for $1.  They really do have some great designs.  However, I’m going to have to change how I store these babies because I’m being over ran by stamps.

Have a great day and I’ll be back with some new things.

I saw this technique on a card but it didn’t have any instructions on how to do it so I thought I would play and bring you along with me as I played.

I’m using UTEE to do this technique because I only have super fine and ultra thick embossing power in clear and I figured the UTEE would give me the best result.

This is what I started out with: heat gun, versamark pad, a stamp that has more negative than positive design (that’s important), coffee filter to catch the embossing power and some distressed ink.

I originally embossed on the pattern size of the pattern paper but I didn’t get enough contrast between the paper and the ink for it to show up.  If you use pattern paper make sure the ink you use over the paper has enough contrast to show up (that’s the little trick).  The embossing powder is clear so whatever the pattern or color is underneath will show through.

I turned the paper over and embossed on the white sized of the paper and then used TH Shabby Shutters to ink over the embossed flower and the paper surrounding it.  I took a wet wipe and ran over the embossed flower to take off any remaining ink residue.

I think this came out great and I can’t wait to play with it on a card or layout.  Now here is a little storage tip for you and the Distressed inks and the foam pad.

I ran just  little tape runner on the blue side of the foam pad I use for each ink and attach it to the bottom of the ink pad.  You could also glue the loop side of Velcro on the back of the ink pad too, but just a little bit of tape runner holds it in place.

This way you know you have the correct foam pad for the ink pad you are using.

I just ordered my video camera and it should be here by Tuesday, so watch out I’ll start doing some videos.  Hope I don’t sound to southern on them…..LOL!

Thanks for stopping by and leave me a comment.

I love this color combination (purple and green).

I used TH Distressed ink Dusty Concord and Shabby Shutters to ink the edges.

This is either a Hero Arts Stamp or a Stampabilites Stamp (I don’t remember which).  I stamped it and then embossed it in black.

I used my Copic Markers and colored in the areas and then I used Stickles here and there to add a little bling.

An olive sheer ribbon to finish it off and this simple card (no sentiment on the outside) can be transformed into a card for any occasion.

I finished up this little sundress for my sweet Granddaughter.

This is one of those where you just sew one seam and then hem it.

Instead of just hemming it I decided to pleat the extra material up which adds a little weight to the bottom of the dress and makes it stay down and stand out a little.

Some hot pink ribbon that can be tied in bows and she is all set.

It is a real joy to be able to do things for your grandkids.  I know she doesn’t understand things that are done for her now but hopefully, Mom will have great stories to tell her when she gets older.

I love all the little butterflies, dragon flies and lady bugs on the dress, and the writing on it says girl bugs.  Cute, cute, cute!!!

Ok, here is my first attempt at using my Mother’s Day gift.  Yes, that is glitter in the middle of the flower.

The directions said to use your own hands to practice on; however, at my age I don’t think it the best canvas.

The paints are really nice and the brush was a very good brush with a nice point to do some outlining.

Now, I need some cute little faces to practice on, like Gareth, Rylan, Brandy and Amber….anyone, anyone?

Looks like Henry had a nice relaxing day!  This cat is so relaxed in the “Woman Cave”.

It doesn’t concern him at all that everything in here is girly!

On Saturday, the girls (Daughter #1 and Daughter #2) along with a new daughter we added to the family, Suzanne (friend of Daughter #2) took me to a new place to get pedicures.  It is called The Hawaiian Bar (no it is not a true bar).  Great concept, unfortunately it fell prey to the same issue that comes up repeated at these type of places, they try to work everyone in and therefore your appointment (we had made an appointment for 4:00PM for 4) gets lost amongst them trying to do more clients than they are capable of handling.  We were put in a chair, the water was cold and at 5:00pm they finally got started.  We had a dinner reservation at 5:30pm so needless to say we didn’t get the “full treatment”.  However, I will say my tootsies are a pretty color called “Don’t Socre-tease Me” and an hour of the massage chair made up for my legs not getting rubbed.   The best part was being with my girls.

Upstairs to the Melting Pot (some of us in the pedicures flip flops …..classy) and indulged in Spinach and Artichoke Cheese Fondue and then lost ourselves in the Snickers, Peanut Butter and Carmel Chocolate.   I’m telling you I did not count calories, I just enjoyed the Fondue and the company.

As if the pedicures and Fondue were not enough, the girls gave me a new flower kit from Paper Source (I’ve already started getting this ready to put together), a Face Painting book (including paints and brushes) and a little journal that asked you questions and gives you a space to write the answers.  The questions are things like. “What was the neighborhood you grew up in like?”  Things that hopefully, my daughters and grandchildren would want to know about my life as a child, teenager, young adult and Mother.

The face painting thing?  I was helping at a Church event with face painting and thought I might like to learn how to paint faces.  My daughters were at a Chocolate Extravaganza and saw a lady painting faces and they both said “I bet Mom could do that”!  I also have two darling grandkids and who wouldn’t love a NaeNae that could paint a Batman mask or a beautiful butterfly on your face.

On Sunday, I made my 81 year old Mother a nice lunch and then we spent the day making cards.  She loves me showing her how to put somethings together and it makes for a great afternoon.

For me it was a lovely weekend and I pray I have many more with both my girls and my Mother.  Thank you ladies for making me feel special.

Short post, I’m not doing anything crafty this weekend so my post will be a little quite.  Saturday my daughters are taking me to get a mani and a pedi and then to the Melting Pot for dinner.

Sunday’s are always so hectic with church services and I’m making my Mother dinner on Sunday.  I’ll try to get something posted Sunday night for Monday.

Happy Mother’s Day Everyone!

Good morning everyone!!!!!

Here is my Mother’s Day card, be sure and click on the picture to get a closer look at all the detail.

I got this idea from Paper Crafts magazine – Go-to-Sketches on page 136. I changed up a few things like the flowers are from the Pagoda cart.

The flourishes are Sizzix’s Scribbles Swirls.  I then glittered them with glitter called Gilded Grape Leaf  from P K Glitz, Inc. (love their glitter and their colors).  The bracket label is a Nestibilities Label Three.  I used a Sakura Gelly Roll Pen Clear Star (my all time favorite) for the line on the label.

Did a little doodling around the large flower and inked the edges the small flowers next to the brad were cut out of sheet music.

I used Tag, Bags and More cart and cut a tag and made it into a ribbon slider.  The word Mother is computer generated and the ribbon is actually vintage seam binding.  One thing I learned is that seam binding ravels so I used some Aleene’s Fray No More (you can get this at your local craft store).

I used clear distressing stamps from Glitz it Now for the background and variegated pink Sulky thread for the stitching.

The colors are just simply cream, blush pink and chocolate and I inked everything with Stampin’ up Pretty in Pink.  The paper is from my stash just very generic paper from my local craft store.  I think this color combination with the inking takes on a very vintage feel.

I haven’t finished the inside yet, looking for just the right thing to say.  Thanks for looking and please leave me a note would love to hear from you.