Relax

Evening my blog peeps. Update on my shoulder. Not much has changed. The physiotherapist thinks I have gone from a strain to a tear. Physio was not working and the pain was gettig worse so I had to stop till I see another doctor. Tomorrow the wait is over. Sure hope he has encouraging news.

I spent the last two nights working on a card, using a new stamp set. The only card magazines I can purchase in our town are ones from the UK. They always come with stamp and die sets. Great value. The latest one I purchased had an embossing folder, stamp set and dies of a bookshelf and books. It was so much fun playing with this set.

I started out with the embossing folder on white paper and using distress inks to add color. Using the book dies in multiple colors and adding them to the book shelves. The cat was stamped, colored and die cut. The flowers and picture frame were stamped, colored and fussy cut. Using foam tape to give them dimension. The panel was mounted on a dark purple mat and white card base.

happy crafting
dee ;o)

Update on Bullet Joirnal

It has been a long month of not getting anything done. Since I strained my rotator cuff just before Christmas I have been unable to use my arm. Two weekends I thought just holding the ruler was ok, but boy was I wrong. So lesson learned, listen to the therapist when she says don't use it. 

I thought I would share with you the layout of my weekly calendar. 

happy crafting 

dee

Happy New Year's

Goodbye 2019, hello 2020. It's a brand new start. I have s number of things I would like to accomplish this year. The first being cardmaking. Christmas passed for the second year were I have purchased cards to send to friends and family. While half finished cards lay on my desk. 

A few months ago I discovered crystals. There are so many pretty ones. I'm having fun learning what each crystal does. Hoping to get out to do some digging this spring. My Christmas gift will come in handy to pretty up the crystals. You guessed it, I got a rock tumbler. My first attempt has been tumbling for 2 dsys. I opened it up to have a look today. All the sharp edges are smoothing, so I put it on for one more day. Then we will be onto grit #2. 

Lastly I'd like to share a page from my bullet journal. I spent last year figuring out what I wanted to track, and how I wanted my weekly calendar to look. I've got it all figured out and am enjoying setting up my 2020 bullet journal. 

keep smilin 🤗

dee

Happy Thanksgiving

Good afternoon blog peeps. For all my Canadian followers Happy Thanksgiving. I have the turkey in cooking and while I'm waiting I decided to take a time out at my craft area.

This is my most recent stamp set from Creative Stamper magazine. Looking forward to using it in my calendar. But first I have to stamp it for my index binder and organize the stamps in an organizer.

happy crafting
dee

Gone to Soon

I have been sitting on this card for a month. It took me a week to sit down and create. I knew exactly how I wanted it to look but just couldn't sit down to do it. You see it was made for a very dear friend and co-worker who lost her husband suddenly.

I embossed onto a piece of colored cardstock. Colored the bird, darkened around the edge, and added the sentiment.

I will be back soon. Our Walmart is getting new craft supplies in and I found alcohol inks. So much fun.

happy crafting
dee

Many Hoppy Returns

Hello blog friends. Again it has been awhile since I've posted. But this time I have been crafting. I have found three cards that need to be posted. I'm even entering a challenge with this one.

The stamp set was from Creative Stamping Magazine. I just fell in love with the large arm chair, all the dogs, cats, bunny, and fish where just a bonus.

I started by masking the area where the carrots are. Stamped and colored the carrots. I then stamped the bunny and grass, and colored. I masked strip with the carrots and ink blended the blue around the edge of the card. Added the sentiment and some liquid pearls.

I am entering this in Cute Card Thursday - Challenge #586 CAS

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Your Kindness Is Greatly Appreciated

Good evening everyone. What a day at work. We are six days away from inventory and the whole staff is getting cranky. I've been told to only do crutial parts of my job till after inventory. I get to work out on the floor straighten up the store and making sure everything is where it needs to be. Today I was in automotive today, and tomorrow I get to play in to toy department.

My card I have to share has been hanging around for awhile. I love this tea stamp set. I have a collection of tea pots displayed on the top of my kitchen cupboard. So when I saw this set with a magazine I just had to have it. I colored my card with my favorite medium, pencil crayons. This card is a one-layer, so I was got to play with masking. When finished I colored lightly around the image and used gamsol to blend it out.

until next time happy crafting

dee ;o)

Organiziation

Evening everyone. This post is a couple days late, as I have been having an issue with Blogger.  But I think I have it working again. I should have tried shutting my tablet down two days ago.

Today was a crazy day at work. We had visitors from Head Office for their yearly visit. It's always hectic awaiting their arrival. Making sure everything is in good order. They came, they toured, and they left.  We had a really good review. So hopefully tomorrow is back to normal. As normal as it can be.

I did manage to clean up my desk, kind of. The last couple stamp sets that I used had not been put into my organizers. So that is what I have been working on.

I have a mini binder where I stamp all my stamps. That way when I'm looking for an image I have one binder to  look through. The stamps are placed in an E-Z Mount container.

I have a card to share next time. Untill then

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Where Is My Desk

Hello all. It has been a long time again since I last posted. But as you can see from the state of my desk I cannot get to it. Once again it is piled high. Last week I received a package and haven't even played with anything yet. So today is clean up day.

The last couple of weeks our town has been under a flood emergency. A lot of rural roads are flooded and closed. There are many people evacuated from their homes. Luckily we are not one of them. We live on the opposite side of the road from the river, and up on a hill. If the water reaches us we are in big trouble. Although the road further down from us is flooded. The disadvantage a building next to a water way.

A week ago my sister-in-law passed away. It has been a sad time. It makes you stop and think how shorts life really is. Although Lizzie is at rest now as she suffered from MS. But, it only leaves my husband and one sister from his family.

So let's see if I can get this mess cleared up, and maybe get back to crafting. Oh how I miss sitting down here at my desk.

happy crafting

dee;O)

What an Experience

Hello weekend. What a week it has been. Totally out of my comfort zone, but I did meet some amazing people while there. Learned ALOT of good information. I received my 2 certificates. All while having a good time. Made it home safely yesterday. Very happy to see my family. Not used to being away from them that long. Now it's back to the real world. Luandry , house cleaning, making meals and back to work on Monday.

Introducing our end of the table:  Denna, Cora, Me, Lora, Roseanne, and out front Raj

Miss all my new ladie peeps.

happy crafting

dee ;o)