Miss U

Good evening everyone.  We had another down day today, rained all day.  I dragged my unimat saw out and had a day of woodworking.  But that is for tomorrows post.  Last night I put together a card with one of the images I cut with the Silhouette yesterday. 

 I used Distressed Ink on an acrylic stamp block and spritzed with water then smooshed onto watercolor paper.  The edges were distressed and the image glued on, the flowers being put on with pop dots.  This card already has a home.  I made it special for my aunt.  She is my go to mamma whenever I need something.  And at the end of the month she is moving 2 hours away.  Boy will I miss her. 

 

I even managed to squeeze in a challenge.  Mojo Monday 358.

 

happy crafting

 

dee ;o)

 

 

Celebrate

Evening everyone.  I was so shocked when I heard the news last night about Robin Williams.  So sad.  I remember as a kid watching Mork and Mindy.  Since then he has done some amazing work.  RIP Robin.

We have had a rain day today.  Rain most of the night, and cloudy threatening for rain all, put our  plans of when they require outside.  When I noticed hubbie in his workroom tinkering on an RC car I jumped at the opportunity to dig through my totes and find my Silhouette.  I cut out three balloons and "Celebrate" for my next art journal page. 

 

For this one I started with covering the background with panpastels.  I then stamped randomly with a script stamp and versamark, and went over that with the panpastel again.  The hearts in the corner are a stencil and gesso.  (a new technique for me) The balloons and Celebrate are cut on my Silhouette (which I would like to learn how to use better).  Twine was glued on for the strings, and the 19 I colored with a marker and didn't think it popped enough so I added golden yellow glitter. 

 

Off to make some cards.  I did a bit of extra cutting before I had to pack my machine away again.

 

till next time

 

dee ;o)

 

 

Good afternoon blogland.  Quick post before the rush to get ready for the New Year.  And clean out the shed to make room for the new tractor.  Our Kubota arrived just a short time ago.  Now the John Deere gets moved outside with a tarp over it till the new owner picks it up.  Because this one bigger, we must rearrange stuff stored in there to get it in out of the weather.  Looks like hubbie may be using it tomorrow too, we are getting some snow here today. 

Tonight will be our usual, just us and the kids.  Chinese dinner, maybe a movie, a bit of family time. I'll try to make it till midnight.  Most of the week I've been in bed before. 

My card today is my first attempt of a card like this.  I embossed cardstock with the snowflake pattern, cutting a circle in it.  The snowflake is cut out with the silhouette and held in place with gold thread.  I then used to foam dimensions to centre to the front of the card.  Gold outline stickers were used for the sentiment. 

CHALLENGES
Scribbles - #12 shades of white
DRS Designs - #102 frosted flakes
Unstampables - #30 Christmas

I hope everyone has an enjoyable and safe New Years.

dee ;o)

Snowball Anyone

Good evening blogland.  My how time flies.  It's been a week since I was last on.  I'm not working these days, but seem to fill my day. 

This past Sunday my son and I went to watch the Baysville Santa Claus Parade.  Baysville is a little town not far from us.  Their parade is so small it goes around town twice. 

I managed to get all my Christmas cards written out yesterday.  Ready for the mail.  And baking is started.  Today was a snow day.  No buses running. There was so much snow that fell last night it was up to the bumper on the truck.  Even hubbie had to call in.

Last week I spent a day playing with my Silhouette.  Haven't done much on it, and really need to learn all the gadgets on it.  But I did manage to do some cutting and got a few cards put together.  I even managed to find a couple of challenges that apply.

CHALLENGES  
Simon Says Stamp - Let it snow
Crafty Cardmakers - #106 - winter fun

happy shoveling

dee ;o)

Easy Peasy Cards

Good morning peeps.  Quick post this morning to show you a couple of quick cards.  When you don't have a lot of time or want something simple.  I found a sheet of paper by BoBunny with 12 images, all in nice little rectangle shapes.  I just cut out around shape, added some stickles and mounted onto a card, adding strips of decorative paper.  Ta Da your done. 

Here is another.

I am able to enter these into Crafty Card Makers this week.  There challenge is clean and simple.

happy crafting

dee ;o)