des'igns

Get Well!!

2012-02-17T15:35:00.000-05:00

Afternoon everyone. I finally sat down and made a card today. Although it is a very simple one. I get to turn the wi-fi back on today, so I can use my tablet again. That means I can start doing challenges again. I save all the info on there so it's right in front of me at my work area. Not having it handy has been awful.

I started with the stamped image. This is one I picked up at the Garage Sale last weekend. I colored it with regular pencil crayons. Cut it out and stamped the sentiment. Mounted it on foam dots to give the card some dimention. On the card I used versa mark to stamp the feathers. I forgot how nice and suttle the feathers make for a background. I haven't used them for awhile.

Hope to get more done this weekend. My dad placed an order for a few, seems he's running out of his stash.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

TGIF

2012-02-10T10:36:00.000-05:00

Good morning everyone. It's been a quiet morning around here. The snow is trying to fall outside. We've been lucky this year, it's been a pretty good winter, unless your a snowmobiler. Kids are off to school, hubby is back to work (was home sick most of the week), it's just me and the dog and blogland.

On this card the hearts were stamped with versa mark and then rubbed with pearl x. Held in the right light it sparkles. Because the pearl x stained the white paper around the hearts I inked it with green distress ink. Added a few pearls and sentiment, and mounted onto a raspberry card.

Day off tomorrow and heading into the Craft Nook. They are having a Garage Sale. You can rent a basket, and take in your unwanted stash to sell. Me, just going to see if there is anything that could be wanted stash for me.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Happy Hump Day

2012-02-08T15:30:00.000-05:00

Well, here we are the middle of the week. And I've been jonesin' for my internet. The is the first time since Sunday I've been on. We are having overuse issues. After the last bell bill, once the warning came up that we were paying a premium for usage, all access to the surver stopped. I think DH even unplugged it so the daughter wasn't sneakin into it( the overuse started when I connected her ipod touch, think she's using it more than she's saying). Today I got him to connect the old family computer to the old provided that he has been using. Ahhh, blogland again. How I've missed you. Only problem, no wi-fi on this connection, so I can't use my tablet.

Day off today, and after going back to bed for a bit after getting the kids off, I relaxed at the craft table. I did a bit of paper piecing with this stamp. I thought these soft pastel flowers were perfect for my bug car. The green background is from a metal spellbinders embossing sheet. I layed it on white paper and inked with distress ink overtop. A cute card for your little sweetie on valentines.

Enjoy the day

dee ;o)

sweet love

2012-02-03T15:04:00.001-05:00

Afternoon everyone. Quick post . I've finished two cleaning jobs today. Cooked supper (only to get a call from hubbie that he was having company tonight and they'd take the kids out for supper). Next stop my real job. Good thing, I have the weekend off.

I had fun with this card. I started out to be a quick and simple card. The background was stamped with versa mark and heat embossed with pink onto pink paper. I colored in the hearts with a red sakura pen. The sweet love stamp was stamped first on white and then onto pink and the centre cut out and glued to the white. The hearts I stamped onto pink, white, and red. And paper pieced the image. Coloring the dots on the bow with a red sakura pen. The whole thing was matted onto red.

CHALLENGES
365 Cards-Day 335-Super Sketchy Sunday

Happy crafting

dee ;o)

PA Day Here in Muskoka

2012-02-02T14:18:00.001-05:00

Here we are mid afternoon. All is quiet upstairs. The kids are home today. Teachers have the day to themselves to write report cards. Sam has a friend over, they are watching a movie. After spending hours outside playing on the sand hill. But as Sam puts it, it's not sand right now. The joy of sliding down the hill, trudging back to the top just to do it again and again. While the kids were playing I have managed to finish the little guys valentines. What a chore glueing on all those faces. It's not a wonder he stopped halfway through.

Now that my table is clear of those I can get back to my valentines. I need to sell alot to cover the amount I spent last night at an Undercoverwear Party. It was such a blast.

Well here's a look at the finished product. Enough for the little guys class, as well as some extras for cupid to drop off at the Retirement Home.

Happy Crafting

dee ;o)

Oh So Many Valentines

2012-01-28T20:20:00.000-05:00

Evening everyone. I'm sitting here posting in the nice warm while the snow blows around outside. I'd like to share the little guys valentines that we have been working on. It was so easy to cut out multiples, that I made extras to take to the senior home.

These are all the happy faces that go on the cookies. The little guy thought that was really cool, and stole the sheet that was peeled off with the faces on it.

This is the icing part of the cookie. I found it too much to cut out all the little sprinkles for 48 cookies so I spent yesterday using stickles to look like sprinkles.

And I couldn't let the little guy get away with not doing any of his valentines, so I had him glueing the faces on. I'll share a pic of the finished product when we get them all assembled.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

mmm chocolate

2012-01-26T20:01:00.000-05:00

Evening everyone. I've had a very productive day. My day off and I was expecting the radio this morning to tell me it was a snow day for the school. Twice in the last couple weeks that has happened. But no, nice day out there. And played with my silhouette. Started out cutting out valentines for the little guy. So much easier with the machine than by hand. Then I tried these yummy strawberries dipped in chocolate, one of my favorite treats with my man.

The background was stamped with a splatter background stamp, embossed in white embossing powder. I then inked with blue and yellow. I thought it needed something, so I added a strip of striped paper. This was all mounted on a yellow card.

I should be back tomorrow with pic of the many valentines.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

The start to a new week

2012-01-23T13:12:00.000-05:00

Here we are in Muskoka with another snow day for the kids. Rather a rain day today. We had freezing rain early so all buses were cancelled. My weekend was very low key. I had both days off and had planned to craft all weekend, but ended up doing none. The little guy and I went looking for jeans for him, (he's wearing his only pair all week). Mission accomplished, we came home with two more pairs for him, and a pair for me for $10. The rest of the day was spent online checking out blogs and getting ideas. Yesterday was laundry day. house cleaning. And mostly sitting on the couch watching TV with the kids.

Merry Christmas. I'm really going to try and make Christmas cards all year long. My snowflakes were stamped with versa mark on white paper and embossed with clear embossing powder. I then inked with green distress ink. The image is colored with markers and the marshmellows are done with perfect puff.

CHALLENGE

Jingle belles-Sketching through the Snow

Here is their sketch.

happy crafting

dee;o)

Tic Tac Toe

2012-01-20T14:01:00.000-05:00

Afternoon everyone. Done my cleaning job for this morning, had lunch with hubbie, time for a quick post and then off to the real job. It's my late night tonight but that's OK because I have two and a half days off, not back till Monday afternoon. How sweet.

I just wanted to share this card with you. The entire card is made with, yes you guested it, the silhouette. The card shape the X's. O's, heart, and the lines. So easy. I'm very happy with my new toy.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Be Mine

2012-01-18T16:53:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone. A quick post before getting supper on. DH will be home soon but I'm expecting him to snowblow the driveway, so I don't have to rush right into dinner. And the laptop is free, my daughter hasn't snagged it yet. She spent all weekend and her snow day yesterday working on a presentation. Just to have a boy in the class ruin it on her when she was out of the classsroom today. So she has a new topic and two days to complete it.

I had alot of fun with this card. Some just flow together so nicely. The flower with the heart is embossed with white. The birds are stamped in black and red distress ink was used on the corners. A little heart jewel was added onto the stamped one. And I couldn't go without using the silhouette, The heart border was cutout of sparkely paper.

CHALLENGES
The Sweet Stop-#141

This weeks sketch.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

hugs

2012-01-17T22:17:00.000-05:00

Evening everyone. This is my second post today. I managed to sit down this afternoon and make a couple cards. While the snow and rain fell outside.

This one is stamped on white paper. The hearts were stamped in red ink. I then traced over all but the main one with a glaze pen. I made a mask for the main one so it stayed white. I then inked with red distress ink. The main heart was then colored with a pink jellyroll pen, and pearls added to the centre of the red flowers.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Roses are Red

2012-01-17T10:15:00.000-05:00

Morning everyone. Boy was I surprised this morning when the radio anounced buses where cancelled. I put the dog out right away to check the weather, and nothing. Apparently we are to have a massive amount of snow this afternoon. So bus lines took precautions and cancelled all buses in the area. So much for my day off alone. Now we are all having a jammie day.

I'm trying to get some valentines started. Holidays always sneak up fast on me. Last night I finished this one. The strips are embossed with a spellbinders die. I left the die on and used pearl ex to color it. I used hairspray to seal but it still comes off, so I need to find something else. Hubby suggested a spritz of white glue (he used that in modeling). If you have a product that works for you, pass it on please. My rosebud and rose are cut from my silhouette. The mats were pulled out of my stash.

CHALLENGES
Sentimental Sundays-#85-Ribbon + sentiment
Card Patterns-#148

Here is the sketch.

Happy crafting

dee ;o)

2012-01-13T14:18:00.000-05:00

Happy Friday. The weekend is here, although it's not for me as I have to work all weekend. Not off till Tuesday. This is going to be quick, I'm waiting for the drywaller to get here and give us an estimate on our ceiling.

Not too happy with this card. It just doesn't meet the vision I had. I think the more I put on it the less I liked, but I'm sharing anyway. Not every card we make is perfect.

CHALLENGES
Crafty Card Makers-#59-No floral embellishments
Mojo Monday-#223
Whimsy Samp-#21- happy birthday
Cute Card Thursday-#199-You're having a Laugh!
365 Cards-Day- 316-Card Recipe
     4 1/4 x 5 1/2 card
     stripes
     stickers
     stamped sentiment
     1 additional embellishment

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Cake Anyone

2012-01-12T10:35:00.000-05:00

Morning everyone. Here it is midmorning and I'm still in my jammies and surfing the blog sights. Day off and I've decided I'm having a lazy day (with just a bit of house work thrown in).

I dug out the manual cutter for this one. My old faithful cutterbug (it's feeling neglected since I got the silhouette). I always find it hard to make a card with no stamp. I'm so used to reaching for that stamped image, but this cake filled in nicely. A little score around the edges of the white, and distressed with yellow distress ink. It's hard to see that the scallops are lined with a gold glitter pen. (a bit of a stretch for the glitter challenge)

CHALLENGES
unstampabelles challenges-#7-anything goes
sentimental sundays-#84-snow, blue and/or glitter - mine is blue and glitter
little red wagon-#115-itty bitty yellow polka dot bikini
whimsy stamps-#21-happy birthday
sweet stop sketch-#140
WOW, the most challenges I've done on one card for awhile.

Here is the sketch.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Pretty Pastels

2012-01-10T22:44:00.000-05:00

Evening everyone. Hope your week is starting out well. I managed to get my wall painted yesterday, so now all the dining room is painted. But it's becoming a house with no trim. The walls look great with fresh new paint but we haven't gotten any of the trim replaced. Some is bought and cut for the bedroom doors, but there it stands leaning against the wall, or laying on the floor. But I guess eventually we will get it all done. I guess the living room is next. A couple years ago we had a leak in the roof, and there is now a big damaged spot on the ceiling. (stucco doesn't stand up well to water damage, and don't poke the blisters in it, because it looks worse with chunks of it missing) Well Friday we have someone coming to look to repair it. That type of drywalling is beyond me

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Anyway onto my card. The image was done on the silhouette. I tried to cut it out, but the jagged leaf pattern didn't cut so well. So I put in the black pen, and used it as a stamped image. I then used watercolor pencils to color it in.

CHALLENGES
Phindy's Place-#87-Color Quartet
Brown, White, Teal, Celery/Moss
Sketch Saturday-#189

Here is the sketch.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Happy Monday

2012-01-09T09:53:00.000-05:00

Oh and what a happy Monday it is. First day back to school for the kiddies and dad heads back to work. It's just me and dog. Ah, so silent in here.

Well I had fun playing with my new silhouette the other night. Now I have to make up cards to go with all the stuff I cut out. Starting with this cute little cookie. And yes the whole card is a heart shape. I managed to weld two shapes together to make the card. Oh I'm in love, don't know why I sat on the fence about getting one for so long. Glad hubby thought of it for Christmas. For this little guy I used gems for his sprinkles, instead of cutting out all the little pieces, I had a hard enough time keeping track of his eyes and mouth. (lost them once, had to go searching)

Next up, this beautiful rose frame. Nice, simple and elegant looking. A little Love stamp add to finish it off.

Well no more playing till after I get my wall painted today. Good thing it's a small one.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Playing around

2012-01-07T21:59:00.001-05:00

Here I am on a Saturday night playing with my silhouette. Kids are in bed, DH is killing things in Star Wars, and I'm experimenting with my silhouette. After reading the silhouette blog the other day, I realized what the control panel shape was for. I made mine from one of my fav papers. Makes me think of spring. Hope everyone has a great weekend.

happy cutting

dee ;o)

Happy Birthday

2012-01-05T23:29:00.000-05:00

Wow,this is quick post. It's 11pm, I'm just home from work, and have about 50 minutes to link my post to Card Patterns.

Last night the inspiration hit me, and I was able to finish this card.
On the green paper I used my splatter background stamp and embossed in white. My image was cut outside the cicle. I have always wanted to try this and finally made the venture. Image is colored with sakura gelly roll pens. And because this card has to go in the mail it couldn't have too many bumps and humps on it, so the dots are done in black stickles.

CHALLENGES
Card Pattern-Sketch 146
Cute Card Thursday-198-What's New!
and my what's new is the technique of the stamp coming outside your cut shape.

Here is the sketch.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Thinking of You

2012-01-02T20:14:00.000-05:00

Evening everyone. Hope you all had a great new years. Ours was quiet. We enjoy it with the kids. Dinner while watching a movie. This years feature was 'Pearcy Jackson the Lightning Theif'. The kids tried to make it till midnight but we chased them of to bed about 11:30 so mom and dad could spend time in the hot tub alone.

Yesterday was a lazy day, and one to play. While DH was on his Star Wars game again, I managed to pry the laptop out of my daughters hands long enough to play with my new silhouette. I did manage to complete one card. I found the background in my stash, it goes perfect with the flowers. A few holes poked around the edge and inked. And voila.

CHALLENGE
Sentimental Sunday-Anything Goes

happy new year

dee ;o)

HAPPY NEW YEAR

2011-12-31T17:23:00.001-05:00

Just a quick post to wish everyone in blogland a very happy new year. All the best in 2012.
dee ;o)

My new cameo

2011-12-26T20:05:00.001-05:00

Today was a day to play. No work, the store was closed. I started out playing with my cameo. Learning how it works. Then checking out the on-line store. OMG, so many choices. I went over my $10 that came with the machine and had to get out my credit card. So here is a card I made. And the rose beside the card. I`m going to enjoy this. That was the morning. The afternoon was spent doing my nails. Santa brought me the new Nailene UV lamp. I`m sure the more you do it the faster you get. Nails gey pretty great.

Happy crafting

dee ;o)

Christmas Cheer

2011-12-25T13:46:00.001-05:00

Afternoon everyone. Hope Santa has been good to you all. We are having a glorious family day. Presents are all unrapped, turkey is in, and toys are being played with. I have the best husband. My gift, a silhouette cameo. Just setting it up now.

dee ;o)

Merry Christmas

2011-12-24T18:38:00.001-05:00

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas. May you have a day filled with joy and happiness. Hope Santa brings what you have wished for. Here is a little treat I`d like to share with you. One of the ladies at hubbies office made these cute little guys for all the kids. Pretzel rods, gum drops, licorice and frosting. Kids loved them.

Happy Birthday Hubbie

2011-12-18T23:35:00.000-05:00

I've taken a brake from Christmas cards to make DH a birthday card. Tomorrow he will be the big 5 0. So I had to make a special card for him. He gave himself a gift of the new Star Wars computer game. He has been playing it since Wednesday, when he was able to start. It is being released on the 20th but he preordered and was a tester for the game a few times, so was able to get a jump on it.

While he was playing tonight I was right behind him making his card. Not that he noticed.

CHALLENGE
Graphicats-December

Here is the sketch I have choosen.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

More to Donate

2011-12-16T19:23:00.001-05:00

Evening everyone. Finally at home relaxing. Dinner is done, and it's time to sit with a coffe, I think a little shot is Baileys in it is in order. Cleaning job this morning before I headed off to the real job. It's starting to get a little hectic at the grocery store these days. With everyone stocking up for the holidays. I can't believe we only have a week left. Haven't even gotten my baking done. The goal for tomorrow is to make our ginger cookies. The kids like to help cut out the different shapes.

Yesterday morning, before I had to head off to work. I made six more cards to be donated. I couldn't send them in to Grants class when there wasn't enough every child in the class. I didn't want anyone being left out.

Enjoy your weekend

dee ;o)

From the Heart

2011-12-14T22:17:00.001-05:00

Evening everyone. It's been awhile. I got carded out. Lost my mojo, and had to take a brake. But the start of the year I will start again. Next year I'm starting early, maybe one Christmas card a week. I will also set a goal to up the number of cards to be donated. I only managed to get 19 done for this year. It's a start and I will work towards more next year. My sons class will be signing them. I wantd to get the kids involved. Here is a pic of all my donation cards.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Card Lift

2011-12-02T20:22:00.002-05:00

Evening everyone. The weekend is here. Although I work the whole thing. DH was invited to Beta test the new Star Wars game again. So he's stuck in front of the computer all weekend. This is the third weekend. Though he will take a break tomorrow to put up the Christmas lights before we get more snow.

I just love this card. Another simple one. I lifted this from Penny Black. I've made so many Christmas cards I needed a little help. I looks so elegant. When I made them up I did six for a set.

Have a happy weekend
dee ;o)

MMM Blog Candy

2011-12-01T10:02:00.000-05:00

OK this is the first time I have done this. Put Blog Candy on my blog, but I couldn't resist the sweet images. Aren't they the cutest? You have until Dec 23/11 to have your chance to win it too. Just hop on over to fancyfree4ever.blogspot.com and have a look at all she has to offer.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Snowglobes & Snowman

2011-11-30T21:34:00.001-05:00

Evening everyone. What a day we had. Snow storm this moring and bright sunny skies this afternoon. It was a very slow drive to work. Good thing, the trees look so beautiful with the snow hanging off them.

My card tonight is of a cute snowman in a snowglobe. The image is an outline sticker. This is the first time I have added pieced paper to the outline sticker. Using tracing paper you trace around the shape you want, cut it out on cardstock and stck it to the back of the sticker. So cool.

CHALLENGES
Mojo Monday-#217

And the sketch.

happy shoveling

dee ;o)

First Snow Day

2011-11-29T10:13:00.000-05:00

Morning everyone. Well we've had our first snow day of the year. And we have NO snow. There is a freezing rain warning for today. I guess they don't want a repeat of a couple years ago. Some buses got stuck on back roads and didn't get kids home till 10pm. Fortunately our bus runs on main roads and it was only about an hour late. The bad thing today. Sams first basketball game that wasn't cancelled, was to be after school. I guess the girls are just not meant to play.

My sweet little tree was colored with distress inks, how I love them. The star on the top is gold stickles. The presents are colored with a mix of pearl x. It gives them a nice shimmer.

CHALLENGES
Sketch Saturday-#183

Stay dry

dee ;o)

MMMM Gingerbread

2011-11-28T10:41:00.000-05:00

Morning everyone. An unexpected day off. The little guy got up this morning with a headache. So that meant mom had to stay home. Not much thinkin about that, although I will miss those hours on my paycheck. Just means I can try and get some more cards done today. I have people at work asking for them.

I just love this set from Graphicats. The gingies are so cute and the sentiments with it, just love them.

CHALLENGES
Graphicats-Nov Sketch
Jingle Belles-Candy Kisses

Here is the sketch

Stay well

dee;o)

Tag Your It

2011-11-27T17:29:00.000-05:00

Evening everyone. My second post of the day. I have been very busy at the craft table today. I'd like to share this tag with you. I started off stamping the trees, then added blue and green distress ink. I then stamped a circular stamp in the same blue. Stardust glitter was used for the snow at the base of the trees.

CHALLENGES
Sentimental Sundays-#82-Masculine Tags
Whimsy Inspires-#16-Tag Your It
Phindys Place-#83-A Sprinkling of Snow

happy creating

dee ;o)

Keep it Simple

2011-11-27T10:27:00.000-05:00

Morning all my blogging friends. Well I'm not getting as much accomplished this weekend as I had hoped. Hubby went on 'a sleepover', sounds funny. He was approved to Beta test the new Star Wars game again. So he left with his computer yesterday to his friends so they could talk across the room, rather than on the phone all weekend. With him gone I had hoped to card all day. After laundry, shopping movie night with kiddies, I made this card at 11:00 last night while watching the news.

I love the simple style. I saw this on Penny Black this week. The card was by Kelley Eubanks. Go check out her week of simple. Outstanding.

Hopefully I'll accomplish more today.

Happy crafting

dee ;o)

Happy Thanksgiving America

2011-11-24T16:08:00.000-05:00

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends today. Hope you enjoy your turkey day.

Today is my day off from my real job. But I have already completed two cleaning jobs today. A little break for the afternoon to catch up on some blogs, and soon I have to get dinner on. Soup night, we have self defense and swimming lessons. And this week we through in parent teacher interviews on our way home.

Yesterday I received a great package in the mail. I just had to play with it . When I saw this set I thought of Janice, a friend of mine from work. A girl with a little edge. You have to check out the stamps at graphicats. Love them.

My little gingerbread guy is so cute and apparently very jummy missing his leg. I colored him with scattered straw and tea dye distress ink. I them sprayed with a spritz of Aztec Gold Pearl x to give him a little shimmer. Added his icing with a white jellyroll pen, jewels for buttons, and a little stickles for eyes. I added him to a cookie sheet that I saw over at Creative Accents. And the awesome sentiment. I had to add one to the inside too.

CHALLENGES
Sketch Saturday-#182

Here is the stamp set, (sorry don't know why its turned)

Happy crafting

dee ;o)

Caring Cards

2011-11-22T21:46:00.001-05:00

Evening everyone. How's your week going? Mine, so so. Not liking the intermeral basketball that my daughter has started playing. Mondays game was cancelled because the school hosting wasnt ready. Today hosted at our school, the boys team showed up, but the girls team didn't know they played and didn't show up. So Sam hasn't played a game yet. Unknown when the next game is. Very unorganized.

On a happier note, I have two more cards made for 'Caring Cards'. They are very simple. I had two sheets of patterned paper with strips of patterns. I just cut the strips mounted them and added to a cold. The snowflakes are cut with cuttlebug and glued on.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Happy Birthday

2011-11-20T22:06:00.000-05:00

Good evening everyone. I had a wonderful day. Spent a relaxing birthday with my family. One had a friend over for a sleepover, which lasted most of the day. The other one had a play day up the road for the afternoon, but that just gave me some craft time. Stocking up on Christmas cards again, since I sold most of them yesterday.

My new coat from the family, that will keep me nice and warm in our cold winters. Also a pic of the pretty ring my DD bought for me yesterday. Fab ring, copper wire wrapped around a big colorful bead.
Hope everyone had as wonderful a weekend as I did.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Craft Sale Update

2011-11-19T16:08:00.001-05:00

Just back from the craft sale. What a great day. It was very busy. The best I've ever done at this sale. Sam had a very good day. Her little paperclip bookmarks were a hit. Selling out in the first hour. She managed to make $47 for Out of the Cold. I'm very proud of her. She had alot of good comments today for her generosity. It's nice to see young people helping out. Now if she would just do it at home.

Happy Crafting

dee ;o)

Blue Christmas

2011-11-16T21:14:00.000-05:00

Evening everyone. Busy working the last two days. DD volunteered after school for the first time with Out of the Cold. An organization that makes meals for less fortunate people. She is able to set up the tables and set them. Really enjoyed herself. Proud of her for helping others.

Todays card was following a sketcch from deconstruted jen. What an awesome sketch, I really liked the weave took of it, but last night just couldn't get the weave to work with my paper so I cut it into squares. Still turned out great. I used outline stickers on each square. All around the outside are blue gems put on with my i-rock.

CHALLENGES
Unstampabelles-Challenge #5-Trees
deconstructed-#27
Jingle Belles-Sticky & Sweet- use at least one sticker

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Getting ready

2011-11-14T09:06:00.001-05:00

Good morning everyone. It's a bright sunny day here in Muskoka. One more day at home before I head back to work tomorrow.(boo) Although I haven't been able to do much this weekend, but make my butt print in the sofa. I have managed to get alot of images ready for cards. I am now tired of coloring. Now I just have to assemble. Hopefully later today I will have some cards to show you.

happy assembling

dee ;o)

Rememberance Day

2011-11-11T16:04:00.001-05:00

Here I sit recuperation from a small surgery yesterday. And remembering all the heroes that have fought for us in the many wars. I had two great uncles on my grammas side that fought bravely for us. Uncle Allan was killed just days before he was to come home. And his brother Wes made it home only to drown shortly after. My thoughts go out to all the soldiers still station in war zones. May you make it home safely to your awaiting families.

Here is another card using the polaroid frame from Stamping Bella. This time I put in a little bird from Penny Black. The bird was colored with watercolor pencils. Distress ink was used for the blue in the background. The red paper was spritzed with a mist of blue pearl x, although this is hard to see in the pic.

keep remembering

dee ;o)

You will always be remebered mrs b

2011-11-08T21:42:00.000-05:00

It's been a very sad day for me today. Finding out this morning that a very favorite teacher of mine from public school passed away suddenly this morning. My daughter also had the priveledge of having her as a substitute teacher when she started school. She was such an inspiration to so many kids. Mrs Botting, you will be sadly missed, but never forgotten.

My card is a flip card. I have seen a few around lately, so had to try it out. What fun to make. I added some patterned paper. Stamped a candy cane to match the paper, amd colored with a jellyroll pen, and added a jewel to the middle of the bow. The piece was then inked with distress ink.

dee ;o(

Christmas is for giving

2011-11-06T16:31:00.000-05:00

Happy Sunday everyone. Hope you are having a great day. I worked for 4 hours but am home now, to enjoy the great sunshine today.

I got a wonderful idea from Jennifer McGuire. She is collecting Christmas card to be distributed to Retirement homes. This gave me an idea. One of my daughters teachers has been talking to them about giving back, and making a difference. She and her friends will help me make some cards, and I will get her and her brothers class at school to sign and write in the cards. Then taking them to the retirement here in town. Thanks Jennifer for the idea. Christmas is a depressing time of year, and to have no family to come visit you. Hopefully the cards will bring a few smiles at such a joyous time of year.

On to my card. I have had fun with this polariod frame from Stamping Bella. The image is a Penny Black. I colored the pinecone with pencil crayons and added some crystal stickles to make it look like snow on it. The bows were drawn on with gellyroll sakura dk green pen.

Happy crafting

dee ;o)

Oh Christmas Tree

2011-11-03T22:20:00.000-04:00

Well evening everyone. I think I'm getting my mojo back. Been checking out everyones sights to try and get my creative juices going. The last couple nights have been very productive.

I purchased a set of christmas sentiments a couple weeks ago. This one is the one that caught my eye, in the shape of a tree. I started by stamping the sentiment onto computer paper and cutting it out. I then traced it onto the front of the card, and cut out the shape. After placing a piece of paper inside the card, I inked the front of the card with distress ink. I then stamped the sentiment through the window. The presents are stamped and colored with pearl x so that they shimmer. The bows are ribbon to add dimention.

Let me know if this post is showing up on your dashboards. I understand that my last few have not. Trying a different computer to post.

Happy crafting

dee ;o)

Cards 10 & 11

2011-10-29T20:26:00.001-04:00

Evening everyone. Hope everyone is having a great weekend. Me, working all weekend. Must start on my Christmas cards, I have a craft sale in a few weeks. I'm trying to come up with simple things for Sam to make and sell. She's paid for a table all on her own. Wanting to raise money to help the homeless. So if anyone has any suggetions on simple gift ideas, please pass them on.

I have my last two cards from the card class to show you. The stockings is another that is cut from patterned paper. The stockings are outlined with a stardust pen.

The other is stamped onto patterned paper, and one stamped on white and pop dotted on. With a small bow.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Card #8&9

2011-10-27T22:14:00.001-04:00

Evening everyone. Fall is turning, our wet weather will soon be snow. -1 this morning when we got up. And our upstairs stove is not working. Will have to get that fixed next week.

Two cards to share. The first was to show us how to part of patterned paper. The strip with holly on it is from a sheet of patterned paper, then layered on cardstock and mounted on to card. The berries were dotted with red stickles.

The second is a special fold. The two outside folded to meet in the middle. Covered with patterned paper. The image is embossed in gold, giving it an elegant look.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Christmas Album

2011-10-26T13:03:00.000-04:00

Morning everyone. Ahh, two days in a row off with nothing planned. Finally I can get some work done around the house. Back to painting, Randy is itchin to do some more flooring. I have a closet waiting for me to sand down the door frame, repaint, and paint the inside.

One kid home today sick, I had to go pick her up yesterday. I think she passed on her upset stomach to me.
Here is todays card. This one started out on white paper. The strip was inked with yellow, orange, and red distress inks, then the image was stamped in black on top. This was then mounted on the copper, and then onto the card. Sentiment was stamped in black.

I'm doing two cards today. I love the tree on this one. It was so simple to make, and looks so pretty. You will see that I have used the tree on one of the LO below.

As pomised I finally got my pages from the weekend photographed. The pics aren't that good, I just couldn't find the right light today.

Happy crafting

dee ;o)

Card #5

2011-10-24T21:55:00.000-04:00

Evening everyone. What a long tiring day. With lack of sleep all weekend, and back to work today. Parent council meeting went well tonight. We have to raise alot of money this year to pay for playground equipment. It falls apart all at the same time. This year we have a kindergartener in a wheel chair, and it would be nice if he had equipment to play on too.
My card tonight is a simple one. The background is embossed in a flower pattern. The green is also embossed on coordinations paper and sanded. A border punch was used on white paper. The tree is a stamp, cut out and pop dotted on

.
Happy crafting
dee ;o)

scrap weekend

2011-10-23T21:55:00.001-04:00

Wow, what an awesome weekend. Twenty seven hours of scrapbooking. I actually managed to accomplish something this time. Several pages for last years Christmas album. Lots of chatter and laughter. New techniques learned. Alot of hard work from the ladies at the Craft Nook and their families to make the weekend very enjoyable for forty ladies.

I will get my pages scanned this week to share. Now, here is card #4. Blue makes for such a pretty Christmas card, reminds me of the cold. The three white stripes are script stamp embossed in silver on a shiny white paper. The silver ribbon is fuzzy reminds me of tinsil. The penquins were stamped and colored with black and orange markers.

Happy crafting

dee ;o)

Card # 3

2011-10-22T00:00:00.001-04:00

Four hours of scrapbooking. Three pages almost done. I just have to take back some supplies that I left behind, not wanting to lug everything with me. Tomorrow there is a make and take, and a class in the afternoon.

My card for tonight was done to show us how you can use up your scraps of paper. The trees are white embossed.

Happy crafting

dee ;o)

Card #2

2011-10-20T21:58:00.002-04:00

Well it was a hecktick day at work. Home to make soup for supper, and off to lessons. Thinking when I signed the kids up for lessons (Grant swimming, Sam self defence), that they were all in the same building. NOT. Half hour before Sam's lesson I checked the book to see what room she would be in, only to find out it was a totally diffent location. I am now driving back and forth across town to drop off, pick up. Only seven more weeks.
Here is another card from the card class. Love the silver paper, it adds so much to the card. And the cute snowmen are from decorative paper.
Off to try and start packing up supplies to take with me tomorrow night. 27 hours of scrapbooking this weekend. Can't wait, but can't seem to get myself organized.
happy scrapping
dee ;o)

enjoyable card class

2011-10-19T20:26:00.001-04:00

Finally I have managed to get my card pics accessible. I have 11 Christmas cards to share with you. On Saturday I attended a card class put on by the Craft Nook, our local craft store. It was a wonderful day. Lillian and Linda are always good for a few laughs, making their classes very enjoyable. And then there is a stop at the store on the way home, to purchase supplies that were used in class.

This week I'm busy getting ready for a scrap weekend with the same ladies. 27 hours of scrapbooking, yah hoooo!!! Last night I spent organizing pictures on the computer so I can decide what ones I will need to print. My first project is to finish last year Christmas album. I tried to take pictures everyday for the month of December, to show getting ready for Christmas.

Enjoy, happy crafting

dee ;o)

Fall Leaves

2011-10-15T00:32:00.001-04:00

Well lets start this again. I started Thursday trying to post. We are trying out a new provider for internet, but couldn't get it to work on the family computer, which I scan all my cards on. No internet, no getting picture for post. Try picture with camera, download onto tablet, write post. Publish, wait, wait, wait, stuck in publish. Well it's a good thing I saved pic to picsa album. One computer left, now on laptop trying to post before I miss all the challenges.

CHALLENGES
Unstampabelles-#4-Fall/Autumn
Crafty Card Makers-#53-Anything Goes
Deconstructing Jen-#22
Sentimental Sunday-#76-Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday-#186-Tree/Leaves

Cross your fingers, here we go

dee ;o)

Turkey Turkey

2011-10-11T10:05:00.001-04:00

Jusyt a simple card to show you today. I wanted to use one of my extra turkey images, so this is what I came up with last night.
I did a centre open card, just because I haven't done one in quite a while. Mounted decorative paper on the outside, as well as in the inside to match. A little doodle around the outside. Inked the edge of the image and lined him up to the left edge of the card. Three little dew drops in the bottom right corner.

Have a great Tuesday

dee ;o)

Beautiful sunset

2011-10-10T19:42:00.001-04:00

Just a litle sunset to share with you. What a beautiful end to a long weekend. As I was in the kitchen peeling apples to go in the freezer. I was able to enjoy this beautiful sunset. Although the camera didn't capture the full pink of the sky.
Back to work tomorrow, everyone enjoy their week.

dee ;o)

Happy Thanksgiving

2011-10-09T20:40:00.000-04:00

Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian blog friends. Whether you have already has your turkey dinner, or you will be enjoying it tomorrow.

We had a lovely dinner, just Randy the kids and I. So much food. Potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, turkey, stuffing, cranberries, gravy, and cant forget the pie. We settled on apple pie and are saving the pumpkin for tomorrow with left overs.

I made this cute little Tom Turkey to sit at everyones place at the table. He is a digi stamp from Meljen's Designs found through Whimsy Stamps. I managed to print out six of the little cuties, which is good for me, because most times I get so frustrated trying to get them all on the page I give up. He is colored with watercolor pencils. When cutting out I left a triangle shape underneath him so it could be folded back so he sits up.

Happy Turkey Day

dee ;o)

Manna Food Drive

2011-10-04T21:55:00.001-04:00

I'm very proud of my little girl tonight. She was out collecting for the Food Bank with some of her classmates tonight. I believe it is headed up by the hockey team. Both the grade 7 & 8 teachers are on the team, and welcomed the help of their students. She had a great time, and is willing to go again on the next one. There may be help for her yet.

happy giving

dee ;o)

Let It Snow

2011-10-03T10:47:00.000-04:00

Happy Monday everyone. Hope you all had a great weekend. Me, well I worked all weekend, so didn't have much time for anything. DH did start the flooring. He got a bit down and it is going to look great when it's done.

I did sit down last night to make a card. I started out, I wanted to do some spraying. I had mixed up some mists using pearl ex the other night. But the one I wanted to use clogged and I couldn't get it to spray. So I distressed my image instead using a little chalk ink. Colored the snowmans hat with markers, and paninted him with a mixture of stickles and water, to make him sparkle. I went around the edges and filled the little bubbles from the image with liquid pearl dots. And voila la.

CHALLENGES
Cute Card Thursday-#184-Animal Crackers!
use an animal as or in the main image.
Dutch Dare-#20-Bingo
I used Punches, Distress, and Bling
Raise the Bar-#77-Hats Off
Sweet Stop Sketches-#128-blast from the past, using sketch #7

Have a great week, hope to see you back here soon.

dee ;o)

Happy Holidays

2011-09-28T17:32:00.000-04:00

Happy Wednesday to everyone. Hope your week is going well. Looking forward to a day off tomorrow. Not sure what I'll do, other than house work which never seems to end.

Last night I sat down to play with one of the many stamps I have purchased lately. Really had fun with this one. I started on white paper, stamping with black ink. I also stamped an extra image on green patterned paper. Using distress inks I colored the whole image in blue and purple. Cut out the trees from the green paper, and glued the two outside ones down, and the middle one is pop dotted on for some dimension. I added some stickles to a couple of the trees to dress them up. Some gold thread tied around. My flowers are punched, rubbed from the back on a foam pad to curl the paper a bit and make them stand out. Buttons placed in the centre of the flowers.

CHALLENGES
Jingle Belles-Here comes Suzy Snowflake
Christmas Card Challenges-#43-Handmade Flowers
Sweet Stop-Sketch #127

Happy Crafting

dee ;o)

Sunny Days

2011-09-25T19:22:00.000-04:00

Happy Sunday evening to everyone. Hope everyones weekend was as sunny as mine. I have had two days off. It's been nice to have the whole family home on the same days. Although the kids don't like it because that means more work for them. We managed to get two walls fixed up and painted. Was a little worried the paint we choice for the dinning room was too dark, but it looks great (so far with one wall dark, three more to go).

This week I've been tired, and just sitting on the couch at night watching tv, but I did manage to do some coloring. Last night I took one of those images and produced a card with it.

The image is colored with watercolor pencils. I stamped the image twice, cutting out the centre of the flower and put on the image with a pop dot on the bottom edge and glueing the top right down. I then added some purple pearls to the centre of the flower. I didn't have pearls dark enough so I colored white ones with a marker.

Only one challenge for this one, Phindys Place Challenge #73-Opposites on the Color Wheel.
Have a great Monday

dee ;o)

Presents to me

2011-09-19T11:34:00.001-04:00

Happy Monday to everyone. Hope you all had a great weekend. The weather was beautiful sunny, but a bit cool. It's starting to feel like fall. Soon the leaves and those dreaded pine needles will be falling.

On Friday I stopped into the Craft Nook while in town. Had a very nice visit with the ladies. I was just going in to look around, not intending to buy. Well, how can you go into a craft store and not buy anything, very hard. I came home with a 6x6 holiday pad of paper, a Prima stamp of a brick wall (my thought immediately went to Christmas and Santa), a Prima stamp of writing ( I use my background writing alot, this 2.5x3 will be great just behind a stamped image), Inkadinkado stamp bought just for the saying with it, "Friends are the chocolate chips in the cookies of life.", Imaginisce stamp of an airplane, (my cousin is a pilot, and she started flying as a bush pilot, although this plane is missing the floats its what she use to fly). And the only thing I needed was tape runner.

Just wanted to share with you.

Happy shopping

dee ;o)

Get Well Soon Penny

2011-09-16T16:21:00.000-04:00

You never know what will happen. Today I was in cleaning the store, only to find out that the owners wife had had a heart attach on Sunday. OMG she's not much older than I am. So of course I had to rush home and make her this special card. Hope you feel better soon Penny!! The Cleaning Fairy misses you.

This is one of my fave flower stamps. Orchids by Flourishes. I colored them with watercolor pencils, and inked the edges with distress ink. And the bow, I love my bow maker.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

dee ;o)

ATC

2011-09-15T10:22:00.000-04:00

Happy Thursday to everyone. It was a chilly one here last night. Glad we picked the tomatoes. But now I have to deal with it all. If anyone has a good recipe for something to do with green tomatoes, please let me know.
When I first started making cards, the local craft store was doning ATC's. But I haven't done them for many years. Last week at Jingle Belles their challenge was ATC's. I had fun with these, and think I'll have to try some more. I was too late to enter the challenge but here are my ATC's.

Happy Crafting

dee ;o)

Harvest

2011-09-14T21:40:00.000-04:00

Quick post tonight to just show you our great harvest. There is a chance of frost tonight, so the whole family was out just at dusk with our headlight flashlights on picking tomatoes and peppers. We grow them in pots in the backyard. We have one plant of beefsteak, and one cherry tomato plant. We have been giving away a ton of cherry tomatoes because we can't eat enough to keep up as they are ripening. I'm off tomorrow so it will be spent freezing and green tomato relish.

Happy harvest

dee ;o)

Doggie Doggie

2011-09-14T09:45:00.000-04:00

Before I start I just want to say to my cousin Deric Ruttan, I was watchin you last night on the CCMA's, but what was up with the suit. You always wear a T-shirt. Anyway it was a good night even though Deric didn't come home with an award. And sorry they bumped your proformance, I know you would have been better than some that were on. Looking forward to the new album in a couple weeks.

Hope everyone has had a great Tuesday. Me, I worked all day, came home made dinner, helped with homework, kids in bed. Now I'm relaxing for the evening. But first I want to share my card with you.

This one was farely simple. I started with a red notecard. The tourquise piece in co ordinations, embossed with swirls and sanded. The puppies are a sticker added to the green. The ribbon is stapled into place.

CHALLENGES
Unstampabelles-#3-Animals with bonus Technique Challenge-Dry Emboss
Cute Card Thursday-#181-At the Office
Card Patterns-#132

Happy Crafting
dee ;o)

MMM Apple Pie

2011-09-11T16:22:00.000-04:00

Happy Sunday to everyone. And to all my friends in the US, I'm thinking about you all today on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

We had a good first week of school. Neither kid had alot of homework. So they are easing in gradually. Sam helps out in the kindergarten room during school, and at the end of school the teacher had given all the helpers a coupon for free ice cream cone at the parlor downtown. We didn't use it all summer, so today was a nice sunny warm day we decided to use it. The parlor is at the end of main street, and close to the Falls. So we got our ice cream and sat on a bench to eat while watching the traffic. After we walk over the falls. They are reconstructing the turbines so the water is redirected around part. You can see old pillars that you normally couldn't see.

The last week has been a bit cool, especially at night. With fall, cool weather, comes apple harvest. What better to make than pies. My pie was cut from grunge board to give it depth. The lighter strips were stamped on paper inked and cut out and glued on. The little apples were cut from dec. paper.

CHALLENGES
Phindys Place-#72-Stripes Somewhere!!
Sketch Saturday-#172
Sentimental Sunday-#72-Autumn

Happy crafting
dee ;o)

Schools back

2011-09-07T21:23:00.001-04:00

Well we've made it through two days of school with no problems. Everyone seems to like thier new teachers. Sam lucked out and has two teachers sharing one of two 7/8 splits. Grant is in a 5/6. Worried all summer that he wouldn't get his EA assistance, but thankfully so far their is one in the class for two periods in the morning. It's just not the one that he's had all along.

My beef for today. The kids need two pairs of shoes for school. One indoor, one outdoor. Grant had a pair of perfectly good skateboard shoes to be used for outdoor, so we just had to buy him new indoor. He preferrs the flat skateboard shoes so that is what we got him for his indoor shoes, which also have to be used for gym. A classroom note comes home today saying that they are not allowed to wear skateboard shoes in the gym. So it's off to Walmart after supper to get yet another pair of shoes.

dee ;o)

Back to school

2011-09-06T11:29:00.000-04:00

Good morning everyone. Hope you had a glorious Labor Day Weekend. Ours was spent working on the house. Drywall, sand, drywall, sand. I hate mudding. But today is a joy. Peace and quiet. The return to school. I can sit and work on the computer without being interupted. Even took the day off so I could be by myself. Sometimes you just need a you day. Nobody chattering in your ear. He's really cute, but you can only listen for so long then you start tuning out.

Today card was made for my aunty. A pretty bouquet for her birthday, colored with markers, not always my choice, but I wanted the flowers nice and bold. I used stickles to dot around the outside of the image. And place some jewels on the flowers to give them a sparkle. The sentiment is a silver sticker that I colored with purple marker.

CHALLENGES
Cute Card Thursday-#180-A Pinch & A Punch
use at least one punch
Crafty Card Makers-#51-Summer Holiday Memories
my memory is the lovely flowers in our back yard
Card Pattern-#131

Enjoy the quiet ;o)

dee

Just relaxing

2011-09-03T10:03:00.001-04:00

Here we are at the start of a long weekend, and the end to summer. Kids are off to school on Tuesday. We have been out shopping for all their school supplies, and new clothes. Grant has grown so much this summer, up two sizes. And if Sam's feet don't stop growing she'll be waring canoes on her feet. Last year she was the same size as me, this year she's up a size.
Last night I made this card for my sister in-law. Have to get it in the mail because her birthday was three days ago. I have a hard time getting cards mailed on time. The image was stamped with versa mark and brushed with Pearl Ex. The image really shimmers, love that stuff, but have to find what to seal it with. If anyone has any suggestions. I sealed this one with hair spray, but it will yellow over time.
CHALLENGE
365cards.blogspot.com-Super Sketchy Sunday

Happy crafting ;o)

dee

ps. the paper doesn't have squares on it, that's the way the tablet took the pic.

Testing Testing

2011-09-02T16:46:00.000-04:00

Cant create a post from new asus tablet. It won't download my pics. Downloaded blogger app to try. Lets give it a whirl. It's down loaded pic, now lets see how it looks on blog. Cross your fingers. By the way the pic is the view of the TV from the couch in our constrution zone.
dee ;o)

congratulations

2011-08-28T20:32:00.000-04:00

Hello fellow bloggers. Hope everyone is having a great weekend. All of you in the United States affected by the huricane, hoping everyone made it through OK. I was home today, really nice for the whole family to be here. No work, no play dates, no sleepovers.

Not much work was done on the house this week as we both returned to work. Little bits in the evenings. The last wall I went to paint, all the old paint peeled off. Had to remud it today to smooth it back out.

Last night I was able to finish this card. I've had the flowers punched for a while just waiting for me. I saw this card on docrafts awhile ago. You cut little slits in the top and bottom of the card, and then weave thread in them up and down in any pattern. I cut double the flowers, placing a glue dot on one, placing it under a thread then placing another on top aligning the two. Then placing a jewel on each, as well as three on the top right corner. The sentiment is a sticker.

happy crafting ;o)

dee

Where has the time gone!!!

2011-08-23T22:05:00.000-04:00

OMG! It's been so long since my last post. We have been busy distroying the house, but it will look great in the end. I have had no time for crafting. I had started this LO for Scrap it Girl. A new challenge site, that is back to the basics. No kits, no sketchs, no digi images, just plane and simple. This is what I came up with, too late for the challenge, but I had to share.

Hopefully it won't be long to my next post. Computer poblems. Couldn't get it turned on tonight. Hubby kicked it that did the trick. So I've spent the evening copy my stuff to an external hard drive.

Happy crafting ;o)

dee

If you like MESS, this is for you

2011-08-09T11:39:00.000-04:00

Wow, what an awesome product. I picked up some Pearl Ex for a project I'd seen. Last night I played with it stamping on cards. You use versa mark to stamp, then take a paint brush and dip it in the powder dropping it on the image, then brush it around to stick on the image. It doesn't show up very well in the photo, but it really shines and has a shimmer to the color. I thought I made a mess with glitter, but I had more of this on me, the table, the chair. Now I have to find a good sealant for it, because it rubs off. So if anyone has a favorite product, please let me know. In the video I've seen they suggest hair spray, but that yellows over time, and I found it still rubs off.

Last week we started house wreckovations as my dear hubby calls them. This is the laundry room, just a little closet on the main floor. Under the washer & dryer it was just plywood. The nice flooring there is the hallway, that is now gone, and will be replaced with hardwood.

New floor in the laundry room. It's called Allure, a floating floor. The tiles are stuck together, but it is not stuck to the floor.
Todays job is to hang the new doors that are off the hallway, finish putting down the sub floor, paint the walls, then we can attempt the hardwood floor.

Tonight we get rid of the kids. My dad is taking them for a sleep over, so DH & I can celebrate our 16th anniversary.

Have a great day everyone.

dee ;o)

You Make MY Heart Bloom

2011-08-04T12:13:00.000-04:00

Happy Thursday to everyone out there in blog land. It has been so great on our holidays. No plans to go away this year. Just a day trip to Wonderland next week. The kids with love it. Right now I'm busy painting the laundy room. Two years ago when we renoed the bathroom we bought hardwood flooring for the main level. We are just getting it down now. Will post pics when I get them off the camera.

Last night I was able to sit and make a card after kids were settled in. Using some new patterned paper I picked up not long ago. The image was one I had colored and sitting on my desk just waiting to be used. And the sentiment goes with it so well.  The butterfly is actually two glued together so the wings stand up, but in the scanner they squish down.

CHALLENGES
Phindy's Place-#66-Delightful Diecuts
Sketch Saturday-#166
Sentimental Sunday-#66-It's a Garden Party
Crafty Card Maker-#50-Flutterbies
365 Cards-Day 154-Card Recipe
                  4 1/4x5 1/2
                   Scallops
                    3 buttons
                     1 stamped image
                      a sentiment

Have a great day

dee ;o)

Enjoy the Day

2011-07-31T10:21:00.000-04:00

Morning everyone. Before I start today, I'd just like to direct you over to Sentimental Sunday. They are having a SPECIAL FUNDRAISER for a friend. Her son was admitted to hospital with heart problems, and she is unable to get to him. They are offering two stamp sets to help her out.

Hope everyones long weekend is going well. Drop my daughter off for a sleepover yesterday afternoon. The next time she askes to go on sleepover at a friends house I have to remember to ask if it is at their home. Assuming this yesterday, I ended up driving to the next town, because they were at their cottage. And I have to go get her today. Ahhh.

I managed to whip up a card last night. Loved the challenge at Mojo Monday. To make a circular card. Had fun with this one. Even stamped my own paper, using embossing powder.

CHALLENGES
Mojo Monday-201
Little Red Wagon-#91-Heat Emboss
365 Cards-Day 150-Thurday Background-use wet or dry emboss
365 Cards-Day 151-Friday Background-use a min. of 3 layers

Enjoy

dee ;o)

Hot Fun

2011-07-29T10:17:00.001-04:00

Here we are Friday of the Aug long weekend. It is going to be so busy today at work. With all the tourists arriving at their cottages. Stopping at the local grocery store to fill up the cupboards on their way. Thankfully its my last day for two weeks. I will be enjoying family time, beach time, and hard work. The plan is to put down hardwood floor in our upstairs. Tomorrow starts the weekend with a Yard Sale. We have told the kids they get some of the money from their toys hoping to get rid of alot.

Onto business. For the last year and half I have been getting the monthly Basic Grey Kits. I have them filed all neatly together. Going through them again and again. Awing at the beautiful paper and matching embellishments. Now a have used a couple, but not many. So I decided when I saw Creative Accents challenge for July-Summer, I just had to use it. I found the perfect paper, and even used the LO that came with it. Which made it really easy to do. Hope you like it.

Have a great weekend

dee ;o)

Congratulations

2011-07-26T20:26:00.000-04:00

Evening everyone. Our heat wave is finally over, we have finally had a bit of rain and a cool breeze blowing. The countdown to holidays is on, three more work days, a yard sale Saturday, and then it's relax time. Well as much as I can relax while installing hardwood floor.
My card today is very simple. Starting with an Imaginsce spotted card. Adding plain yellow paper, blue ribbon and bow. My cake was cut using cuttlebug, and congratulations is a sticker.

CHALLENGES
Unstampabelles-Chall #1-Celebrations-no stamps
365 Cards-Day 147-Monday Background Challenge- 1/2 polka dot 1/2 solid color

Hope you all have a great week.
Happy crafting

dee;o)

whimsy inspirations challenges

2011-07-23T21:59:00.000-04:00

I have found a new challenge blog. Starting on August 10. Check out whimsy inspiration challenge and see what they have to offer.

Christmas in July

2011-07-19T23:27:00.000-04:00

After an hour struggling with my Asus Transformer to download my card to my post. I've turned on the big PC to do my post.

Weather has been extremely hot the last week. DH dug out the airconditioner last night and put it in the window. We haven't had it out for three years. The temperature is expected to keep rising. Cooled to 21 C tonight.

Took the kids to see Harry Potter tonight, or rather tried to. I worked till six, movie was at seven. When we got there, there was six seats left and we couldn't sit together. The little guy was so upset I thought he was going to cry. We'll try again another night.

This little cutie is a 3D image. I was so excited to do a Christmas card to post on Jingle Belles, only to check the challenge again, and they request a reindeer. But I'll put my little Christmas mouse on and hopefully I'll get another done in time.

CHALLENGES
Cupcake Craft Challenges-#151-Wigh Upon a Star
Jingle Belles-Reindeer Games
The Sweet Stop Sketch

Enjoy your week

dee ;o)

Inky Fingers

2011-07-12T20:14:00.000-04:00

Hello everyone, I'm back. Last night I was tiding up my space, putting away a package of adhesive, inks and cards that I received in the mail. And the next thing I new I'd finished two cards. OK, they were the same, but with different sentiments.

I started by inking up my stamp block with three colors of distress ink, and spritzing with water. Then stamping directly onto a card of craft paper. I then stamped the flower in black ink, and the sentiment. Voila, complete.

CHALLENGES
Sentimental Sundays-#63 Inky Fingers
Crafty Card Makers-#50 One Layer Card

Here is our ginormous cherrie tomatoe plant. This was taken on the weekend and has grown since then. It is just loaded with little tomatoes. Miracle Grow is amazing.

Have a great evening.

dee ;o)

New Toy

2011-07-09T13:13:00.000-04:00

No crafting being done this week. Just settling in with the kids home. But had to show off my new toy. I've been looking at the new tablets. When DH called yesterday to see if I was serious. He was at the electronic store and they had just gotten in a new one from ASUS. Well I'm poor now, because he came home with it for me. The nice thing about it is it comes with a keyboard, so you can either use it like a little notebook, or pop the tablet off and use it alone.

Today he was back out to town to get a WIFI connection for the house. He'll be hooking that up while I'm at work today. I'm off tomorrow and can play all day while he's off racing his little cars.

Enjoy the weekend.

dee ;o)

Happy 4th of July

2011-07-04T20:32:00.000-04:00

Just a quick post to wish all my blog friends in the United States a very happy 4th of July. Happy celebrating to you all.

Happy Canada Day

2011-07-02T10:49:00.000-04:00

Happy Canada Day. I now I'm a day late, but I had to work yesterday. Since we are in a tourist designated area, most stores are open all summer. Last night we took in the local fireworks. They are very pretty, being set off over the bay.

I forgot to post the cards that I made for the teachers gifts. They each received a set of four. I got inspiration for these little beauties while checking out inspired by . The card video can be found here. Well summer vaction has officially started. The kids are already missing their friends and it's still the first weekend. It's going to be a long summer. Now I have to come up with things to keep them busy.

Have a great weekend

dee ;o)

Thank you teachers

2011-06-27T11:02:00.000-04:00

Morning everyone, hope you all had a great weekend. I've finished thank you cards for the kids teachers. Only four more days of school. And I don't have their gifts made yet. Must get in gear. Had fun with my cuttlebug for these ones. Using some left over map paper from my cruise to make the globe, and the scissors, awesome.

I'd like to share my peonies that I picked this week end. This is the first year I have had more than one flower on the bush. There were 13. And I managed to get them cut before those green beetles got all over them and devoured them. They smell so fragrant.

My little guy is becoming quite the photographer. He took this pic yesterday at our family reunion. This was along the side of the road on the way into the cottage. What an awesome day. It had been 10 yrs since I was last down to it. Grant was just a baby. So good to see everyone, especially Peg. It's too bad that life seems so busy now adays, with both parents working, kids, and kids activities. That families don't seem to get together like they used to. But I've marked the calender for next year, and hopefully we'll make it again.

Happy crafting

dee ;o)

Big Boots

2011-06-23T21:12:00.001-04:00

Evening everyone. A cold has me down this week. Not much energy at all. Tuesday I had to drag my but out to Sam's school trip. I was at Ste Marie among the Hurons for the second time in two weeks. Both kids had their trip there this year. Tuesday was Aboriginal Day so it was alot different from Grant's trip. We were told when we went through the gate that they were expecting 3200 kids. The place was packed. But everyone enjoyed themselves.
My LO of my son's big boots. He learned this year how to drive the lawn mower. Dad wanted him to have work boots to do it so took him to town boot shopping. Well in our small town you can't buy kids work boots, so Grant now has a pair of men's size 7 steal toe safety boot. They will last him for quit awhile.
My LO was made for Creative Accents. Instead of making a card I did a LO, the first time I've tried this. Here is the sketch.
Happy crafting

dee ;o)

Silouette

2011-06-17T14:28:00.000-04:00

Afternoon everyone. Busy morning running around. Kids had a dentist appt. before school. Then off to the local craft store to see what's new. And this is what I found. I love these 3-D designs. This one I didn't use pop dots on it, thought I'd give a bit of a different look. Cuttlebug embossing, matting and a bit of ribbon. Voila, it's done.

Before posting I was browsing the challenge sites and found that over at Phindys Place the challenge this week is Black & White.

Have a great weekend. I'm working all of it. Hubby is off to the air show with the kids tomorrow. Enjoy.

dee ;o)

Running Turtle

2011-06-15T14:40:00.002-04:00

Afternoon everyone. I wanted to share with you the speeder I found running across my lawn last night when I arrived home from my meeting. My it was traveling, especially when the dog spotted it. My son had just cut the grass about an hour before, so it must have had a good hiding spot.

Well I didn't get creative time last night, but this morning while enjoying my tea I whipped up this little baby for some special dad. Used my little washers again, I love these for male cards. Thanks to Lilian for pointing them out.

CHALLENGES

Sweet Stop Sketches
Cup Cake Craft Challenges-#146-Boy, Oh Boy, Oh Boy
Father's Day
Little Red Wagon-#85-For Dad

Enjoy your day I'm off to finsh house work. And everyone hop on over to Unstampabelles Challenges. A new challenge blog starting up soon. How fun to make a paper craft not using a stamp. Check it out.

dee ;o)

Tulips Gallor

2011-06-14T17:10:00.000-04:00

Afternoon everyone. Well we finally have some sunshine today, after a week of cloudy skies and rain. Home from work supper in the oven, the last parent council meeting, and then yes ME TIME. I'm in for some creativity tonight.

On todays card the image is colored with pencil crayons. The tulips are done with Gelly Roll Sakura pens to give them a little shimmer. For the patterned paper I started with white cardstock and laying Spellbinders Impressabilities-Tulip on, sponged with Distress Ink. I used Spun Sugar and Tattered Rose to darken some spots. The edges are distressed with Old Paper. (not bad, usually I don't keep track of products used, and when I go to post I can't remember )

CHALLENGE
365 Cards-Day104-Super Sketchy Sunday

Have a great evening

dee;o)

Beautiful Daffadil

2011-06-13T14:14:00.000-04:00

Afternoon everyone. I have my creative juices flowing again. Two cards done last night. But I'm saving one for tomorrow, since I have to work this afternoon.

Today is a PA Day here in Muskoka. Kids are at home so the teachers can write out their report cards. I've gotten rid of one. She's gone to a friends for a play day. Why is it that they cant go one weekend without seeing a friend?

Onto card stuff. I haven't totally been ignoring the craft. While I was slacking off from my blog, I was organizing my stamps into a binder. And coloring stamped images. This I do when we're watching TV upstairs, away from my craft area. I will stamp several images at a time, then color them while watching TV with hubby in the evenings. Enough babble. I colored the image with pencil crayons. Not really happy with it, I think I'll try waterpencils next time. What a job with the wavie sticker. The origanal color is purple. I didn't want both of them the same. Tried to ink it green with Distress Ink (not dark enough to cover). So I ended up coloring it with a marker. The pin I've used is actually a cotter pin I found at the hardware store.

CHALLENGES
Cute Card Thursday-#168-Pins & Pearls
Sketch Saturday-#159

Happy crafting
Till next time

dee ;o)

#1 Dad

2011-06-12T15:31:00.000-04:00

Hello everyone. I know it's been awhile since I've last posted. I've taken a little brake, lost my mojo. But I managed to come up with this card yesterday.

CHALLENGES
Sentimental Sundays-#59-Fathers Day
Card Patterns-Sketch 119
Craft Nook-Inspired

The sketch.

The inspiration.

Happy crafting.

dee ;o)

Storage ideas

2011-06-04T11:18:00.000-04:00

It's been a week of no card making. The first of the week DH was away, so I was on my own. Wednesday we had a bad wind storm and lost power for most of the day. We also lost our internet service until last night. But I was kept busy knitting socks. My son likes knit socks and I found a new pattern for ankle socks which he preferrs.
This morning while catching up on everyones blog posts, I came across a very interest couple of posts at Creative Accents on storage. Here are the links to their posts: http://creativeaccents.blogspot.com/2011/05/ideas-for-organizing-part-1.html
http://creativeaccents.blogspot.com/2011/05/ideas-for-organizing-part-1.html
Hope you find these as interesting as I did.

Happy crafting

dee;o)

In the Mail

2011-05-27T16:22:00.000-04:00

I love it when you get packages in the mail. I ordered these stamps from Flourishes last week. Yesterday they arrived in the mail. Today I was off to help with Track & Feild at the school, but it was cancelled due to rain. Although today turned out to be a great day for it, no rain and no sun. So I was able to try out my new stamps this morning.

This is what I came up with. I just love the rubber boots. Both the umbrellas and boots were stamped on yellow paper and cut out.

CHALLENGE
365 Cards-Day 83-Super Sketchy Sunday

Here is the sketch.

Have a happy weekend.

dee ;o)

Rain Rain Go Away

2011-05-26T14:18:00.000-04:00

I had origanally booked today off to go on a school trip with my son. It was a Medieval Festival held at a fair grounds. We have had alot of rain lately and they were calling for thunder storms today, so it was cancelled. So I decided to leave with them this morning, and after getting kids on the bus I headed in to do one of my cleaning jobs. It is at a framing store in town. Well everyone is into The Royals, with the big wedding last month, and Jim is no different. Here is his new window display.

Thats Jim in the back paddling the royal couple through the Muskoka's.

Enjoy your day
Hope you have sunshine were you are

dee ;o)

Kids Fencing

2011-05-24T21:50:00.000-04:00

Just wanted to share with you what the kids have been doning for the past six weeks. They have been learning fencing, and having a great time at it. This week and next they get to see what it's like to be in tournament. They are trying electric fencing.

Happy fencing

dee ;o)

Hump Day

2011-05-18T21:33:00.000-04:00

Here we are hump day, the middle of the week. And oh what a busy one I've had. Work, drop Sam off violin, run errons, pick up Sam, drop her off at home, pick up dog to take to vets (yearly checkup), home, supper. I'm done in. Tonight is a TV night and little light reading. Tomorrow day off my real job, with a little cleaning job to do.

This first card I card lifted from Card Maker Magazine. I had seen one in there that real popped at me. I even had the same paper that I had intended to use. But when going through my paper stash came across the pink that I liked better. So here is my version of the card. I didn't intend to use this card for a challenge when I started but Phindy's Place asked this week to use one image and make two cards, so I decided to use it.

Here is my card that I made last night. While checking all the challenge sights, I was able to make it for five. I think that's the most I've done.

CHALLENGES

Phindy's Place #55-One image two cards
Crafty Card Makers #46-Embossing
Cup Cake Crafts#142-In the garden
Sentimental Sundays#55-Handmade flowers & sentiment
and lastly a new one for me Sketch Saturday

Here is the sketch.

DH is rushing me, he wants the computer to game on, so everyone have a great evening.

Happy crafting

dee ;o)

Spring Flowers

2011-05-16T14:47:00.000-04:00

Afternoon everyone. I have not cards to show today, but would like to share some spring with you. I have the day off and am enjoying the day home alone. A little bit of house work, computer time, laundry, computer time. On the weekend I took these pics of my flower garden. I'm not the best gardener (hubby is much better), and it doesn't help that we are on top of a gravel pit. Things don't tend to grow in it. And no matter how much topsoil you add, it always disappears, and the rocks and gravel appear. Most of our flowers and done in pots, that will be the job this long weekend. Anyway enjoy the flowers on this dull rainy day.

Enjoy your day

dee ;o)

True Love

2011-05-15T09:25:00.000-04:00

Good Sunday morning everyone. A quick post before I'm off to work. Hope I'm not too late for this one. It's my first time playing at Mojo Monday.

This stamp is one of my favs. I love the old couple. I've colored it with my fav technique watercolor pencils. I added a ruffle around the image with tissue paper, and a few flowers.

CHALLENGE
Mojo Monday-#190

Hope you all have a fab Sunday.

dee ;o)

U are, my missing PIECE

2011-05-14T18:55:00.000-04:00

Evening everyone. What a glorious day, even though it rained all afternoon. It was so nice to have a Saturday off with no plans. Just to be at home with my family on the same day. It also gave me a chance to make a couple cards, which I haven't been having much time to do lately. So this morning with my morning tea I managed to make up this card.

RECIPE
I haven't been using my cuttlebug lately, so thought it time to dig it out. The backgroung is embossed with a flower pattern. I have had the puzzle die cut for awhile and these pieces have actually been cut and sitting on my desk for months, just waiting for the right project. Very simple and quick card.

Usually I don't do too much if anything on the inside, but I had to show this one.

CHALLENGES
365 Cards-Day 71-Tuesday Sketch

Here is the sketch.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Happy crafting

dee ;o)

My blog is working again!!!

2011-05-12T15:22:00.000-04:00

Finally "I'm following" is working again on my dashboard. So much easier to see what everyone is up to. I sat down this morning all excited with my cup of tea ready to peek in on everyones hard work, when the phone rang. (Never answer the phone on your day off). A mad rush to be ready and into work in an hour. I did it. Now I'm back with a quick post, while making dinner, to show you what I accomplished last night.

The gingham paper is actually home made. I stamped with yellow distress ink one way, then with orange the other. This is the first time I've used this stamp, and I rather like it. Made some little rose buds with two sided paper of orange and yellow.

CHALLENGES

365 Cards-Day 69-Super Sketchy Sunday
Craft Nook-Color Combo
Yellow-Orange-Teal

Cup Cake Craft Challenges-#141
Gingham & Roses

Thanks for letting me share. Dinner just needs to be dished up when kids come through the door. Then I'm off to sign papers at the bank with DH, back to pick kids up and off to swimming. We may be late. I don't know how I could function if I'm not on such a busy schedule.

Happy crafting

dee ;o)

Help find a tutorial

2011-05-10T21:47:00.000-04:00

I help from my blogging friends. Awhile back I saw a video tutorial on how to make flowers with a punch. She was putting them on a headband. You punched out several flowers and started by using one as the base, then folding the rest and glueing on the first. Well as always I didn't make a note of were I saw this, and when the time came and I tried making them, they didn't turn out so well. Now I can't find the video. If anyone out there nows how to make these, please let me know.

Thanks
dee ;o)

365 Cards-Day 62-Super Sketchy Sunday

2011-05-08T16:52:00.000-04:00

Happy Mother's Day to everyone. Hope your enjoying your day. I worked this morning, so glad to be home, things didn't go well. I still have no followers on my dash board, getting a little peeved.

I managed to make one card this week. I picked this cute flower stamp up last week, and had fun coloring it with watercolor pencils. Adding some pearls to the centre of the flowers. This was done for 365 Cards-Day 62-Super Sketchy Sunday.

Here is the sketch.

Enjoy the rest of your day.

dee ;o)