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

BRRR -30 Is Cold

Evening everyone. Hope this finds everyone warm. We are in a deep freeze. It started on the weekend. -20 was the high during the day. The wind made it even colder. This morning the school buses were cancelled because of the cold. It was -28 when I left for work. 

So with all this cold I've been thinking about spring, and coloring flowers. With the start of a new year comes new things. I have a drawer full of new stamps, embossing folders, dies. I will be using it all, starting with this new stamp set and dies.

For this one I stamped the background with white ink on a black background. I then colored with a white prisma pencil. Trimmed a bit off the edges, and mounted it on a white cardbase. I added a small sentiment and mounted it with foam tape.

keep warm

dee ;o)

Pretty In Purple

Afternoon everyone. Home for a quick lunch. I actually feel that I am accomplishilng something at work today. The first time all week. Great way to wrap up the week.

Last night I was playing with a new stamp. Stamping it out to cover the background. Now I can color them.  One I did for to use the matching dies to cut out. I will share when finished.

Today I want to share the second card from last weekend. This one I colored the flowers purple. I think this one is my favorite. I love the purple with the dark grey background.

happy crafrting

dee;o)

One Stamp Fully Colored

Afternoon everyone. Home from work for lunch. It's so nice to live close enough to go home on my lunch hour. Just gives you a much needed break away.

Over the weekend I pulled out an old stamp and had some fun with it. When I originally stamped it I was thinking a one layer card. So I stamped it right onto the card base. Well I didn't eyeball it and didn't get it quite in the centre. I colored the image and then decided to color with a dark grey all around the image. When this was done I decided to cut it out, layer a color cardstock to match the flowers, then mount it onto a card base.

On this one I layed a piece of orange burlap to match the flowers.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Pretty Poisies

Hello Blogland. It has been a very busy summer, and it's almost over. I am on day 3 of 2 weeks holidays. In less than a week we will be packing my daughters things up again and moving her back to college. I'm going to miss having her around.

After relaxing the last couple days, playing games on my tablet and catching up on some TV. I finally made my way downstairs to my craft area. I have had an image laying on my counter for weeks, all colored and cut out, just waiting for a card idea to pop into my creative space. Today I finished it. Ta da

The stamp is from Stampendous. I colored it with prisma pencils, using gamsol to blend the colors. The stamp is 2 part, the vase with stems and the flowers. The vase I attached directly to the card base, and I mounted the flowers with foam tape to give it a bit of dimension.

Hope you enjoy the rest of your day.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Need a Little Pick Up

Good afternoon. I know I'm late but Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. The last couple weeks over Christmas have been really busy. We brought our daughter home from college on December 22nd. Because of the teacher strike in the fall they have to make up for four weeks of not being there.  So her vacation was shortened to one week.  We had alot to do in one week, and fit work in there too. Unfortunately I wasn't able to have vacation like the rest of the family. The downside to working in retail.

No baking was done this year because Sam likes to help with that. And the Christmas tree didn't go up till she got home. We put the final touches to it on Christmas Eve. You just make the best of what you have. We were all together and that's all that matters.

New Years was quiet. My daughter went out with friends. The boy stayed home and played on the computer, and I worked on a diamond dotz. Hubbie played on the computer with a buddy, stopping a 11:55 to roll in the new year, then back to his game.  I hit the bed because it was up early New Years Day to drive Sam back to school.

We are all settling back into day to life. Hubbie is back to work, as well as me, although hours are down so I have a little more time at home to play. The boy has this week off but back to school Monday. He has had a great holiday. They have not worked him much more than the hours he has during school. He's loving it.

Now down to business. Last night hubbie asked for a thinking of you card for a co-worker. He has been off work since before Christmas with a concusion that he got while working.  I always struggle with masculine cards. But this guy has a red pick up so I did a card with a red truck on it.

I used an embossing folder to give it that metal look.  And the image was colored with prisma pencil crayons (my treasured Christmas gift). Before putting it all together I used distress ink tea dye to go around the edges.

Hope everyone has a great New Year. Till next time.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Simple Thinking of You

Evening blogland. Once again hubbie is into my card stash.  Thinking of you was what he was after.  I had two that have been hanging around for awhile, nice but not my favorites.  Hubbie picked one and I was going to put a sentiment on it.  Something just made me pick up a pack of Tim Holtz paper and leaf through it.  I found a monocromatic piece with a bird on it.  Cut it slightly smaller than a card base and glued it on.  I then cut out the sentiment three times and stacked them, then placing them on the bottom of my card.  Then to add just a bit of sparkle I took a wink of stella pen and colored the sentiment and the bird.  Showing hubbie he asked if he could take it.

This may be my favorite card. So simple. I will be entering in Simon Says Stamp - Thinking of You. 

happy crafting

dee ;o)

A Happy Belated Merry Christmas

I would like to start by wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas.  With the rush of the season, internet problems, and the kids on the computer, it's sometimes hard to find the time to sit down and post.  I hope Santa found everyone, and you have been enjoying the holidays with friends and family.  This is the first time in along time that I have been home and not working.  So nice. 

I would like to share with you this card that I made for my aunt.  A week ago she fell down her basement stairs and cracked her shoulder blade.  My poor cousin has had to do everything for her, including the baking that she didn't have done.  Poor Annette doesn't bake, but with aunties suporvision she managed to complete everything in time for Christmas Day.

I started with white cardstock and embossed the flowers with clear embossing powder.  I then inked with distress inks, wiping off the flowers when finished.  I spritzed some water on and added a pearl to the middle of the flower.  I mounted onto another white cardstock and then onto the card base using foam dimensions. 

Santa brought me a set of pens for my silhouette, so I'm off now to download the free patterns that came with them.  It will be a silhouette afternoon. 

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Thinking of You

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)

Sentimental Sundays

I know I'm a day early, but I'm off to work early tomorrow and won't be able to post.  Tomorrow is Remembrance Day in Canada.  My everyone take a moment tomorrow to think of all the soldiers that have served our country.  I had a great uncle that did not make it home.  Maybe someday I will make it to Holland to visit his grave.  But tomorrow I will be thinking of Uncle Allan.  And Uncle Wes that made it back home, only to drown shortly after returning.

On to the good stuff.  It was so good to sit down in my space again and create.  This card was made for DH nephew who has recently had an accident.
I started out stamping a fern image with versa mark on the blue.  All the edges are distressed with ink.  The front piece is stamped with one of my fav stamps right now, grasses a Hero Arts stamp.  I added a few pearls and a button to the side.  I had to keep the card flat because it has to go through the mail. 

This card was created for Sentimental Sundays-Challenge #28-A Sketch.  Loved this sketch. 

Here is the sketch. 

Happy crafting ;o)

Card Patterns

Afternoon everyone.  I've been having an enjoyable day at home alone.  This morning I took some time to make a card for Card Patterns-Sketch 60.  Using more stamped paper (thanks again Tracey) I must get some of my own background stamps to make more of this stamped paper, I love it, and I'm running out of what we made at the scrap weekend.   Had coffee with my dad, a little house work done, and got dinner in the oven.  It's DD birthday today.  We have to sqeeze in birthday dinner and strawberry shortcake between violin and badminton.
Have a great afternoon.

 Here is sketch 60.

Happy crafting ;o)  

Thinking of You

Here is a get well card I made the same time I did the sympathy card for 365 cards challenge. Randy needed it for someone from his office who had surgury.

Well rain again. I plan on doing nothing today (but laundry) and card making although I'm running out of time the afternoon has already started. The day will be over before I know it.

Yesterday was a very long day. Randy had an RC Car Race in Whitby. It was up at 5.00am to leave the house by 6.00am. A two hour drive, and standing around in a parking lot all day watching grown men race cars around a track. Actually it was a lot of fun, even the kids had a good day. But it was 9.15pm before we were back home. So today everyone is very tired.

Hope to post later tonight with a new card

Have a great day :0)

Home at last

Well its been a week since we arrived home from England. What a great trip. The wedding was beautiful. We had to pack alot of site seeing into six days. It started out we were 3 hours late leaving the airport. There had been a problem with a passenger when the plane was leaving London. Then on our way home, we were late getting to the airport and didn't have seats together. Just as we arrived at the gate for bording, an anouncement came on that there were two seats in first class. We jumped right on those. So a small fee we were able to sit together . I never want to fly coach again. What a difference.





I finally got making some cards last night. I think I was going through withdrawl. I really like these pyramid cards. I found this one and printed it from http://www.imag-e-nation.com/ . It even had the background paper.





Must go to make kids some dinner. They seem to think they need a steady supply of food.





Have a great day :0)

Sympathy card

After a busy week I finally have a bit of time to sit down and show you another card. I had worked on a few cards last week and taken them to our local craft store to work on last Friday night, for their Crop Night. I don't usually get to go because I'm working. So here's a sympathy card I finished up there.