Seasons Greetings

Afternoon everyone.  What a glorious day we are having here today.  The sun is shining, although the breeze is cool.  But not like yesterday.  Cloudy, cold.  The coolness brought on images of winter and inspired me to make a Christmas card. 

It took a few tries with the tree to get the technique, but I finally managed to get the images lined up just right and the ink not to smudge.  I even managed to make it for a challenge. 





You can find this great sketch over at jingle belles.  Stop on by and check it out.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Puppy Love

Morning everyone.  Hope you are enjoying your weekend.  The countdown is on till the end of holidays.  Two days to go.  The weather has turned cooler and it feels like a lazy day.  I think it's going to be a jammie day.   It has been a great two weeks.  We managed to get alot of yard work done. 

Yesterday we went to visit my mother in law.  It's an hour and half drive.  She lives in a retirement home, so the visit is quick.  A little visit, take her out for lunch,and another visit, then the drive home.  After lunch at Kelsey's we stopped at their local Hobbie store.  They don't supply much crafting items, but I did manage to find Laurie Speltz"s Instant Images Pocket Template.  Now I know all the instructions tell you to use paints (which I have alot of) but I thought why won't my distress inks work.  Well, they do to go from light to dark when layering, but from dark to light not so good.  But for a first attempt it turned out not bad. 

I do enjoy doing the one layer cards, and working with the inks.  I'll have to blow the dust off my paints and give them a try with the template.

happy crafting

dee ;o) 

Socks

One week down, one to go.  How time flies when your having fun.  Lots of outside work getting done.   We spent a day in Toronto shopping for a day.  Oh so much walking.  Some crafting getting done.  Although I find the kids go to bed so late now, I don't have time for me time before I'm off to bed.  But I have managed to finish a pair of socks that I started in the winter.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Reconstruction

Evening everyone.  Holidays are going great.  So far I've done nothing but relax, and laundry.  Yesterday was spent sitting outside reading.  It was an overcast day with a few sprinkles of rain here and there.  But our little sitting area is a cluster trees and I didn't feel a drop. 

What a glorious day today.  Nice sunshine, warm weather without the humidity.  The perfect day to work in the backyard.  Hubbie dismantled the race track and rebuilt it.  I guess you can't run the same track every year.  I was surprised how quick it went.  He and Grant pulled up the pipe and rearranged it, while Sam and I raked and weeded it.  Since we haven't had much rain it is really dry and you can't race on it.  So it will take a day of watering and rolling it smooth, and it's ready to go. 

Here is a pic of the new patio beside the race track.  We used the table for the first time there tonight.  Farther from the house to carry everything, but it doesn't get the sun that the other patio does.

Must get working on my cards.  I have till the 18th to have my swap cards finished. 

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Hurray Hurray Vacation Time

Hello everyone.  Here I am, just after midnight, my first day of vacation.  So looking forward to some family time.  Hubbie has been on holidays for a week now, and I get to join him for two weeks.  So looking forward to the time at home.  Stress free.  After working a very busy long weekend I'm ready.  And to start it off today I was stung by a wasp. 

Never be the look out for the man poking the wasp nest with a stick.  They have crawled under the top edge of the hot tub and made a nest.  After weeks of spraying there has been no activity, with lots of dead wasps on the ground.  Today we decide to pull the panel off the side of the hot tub to get at the nest.  Panel off, nothing seems to be happening.  Man takes stick to remove nest, wasp appears from nowhere.  Right at me, bit me right through my shirt on the arm.  Holy crap did that hurt.  Let me tell you, he was on his own to spray it again. 

Well, watching a bit more of the Olympics since I don't have to get up in the morning. 

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Card Swap

Evening everyone.  What a way to get back into a project.  Our local card store is having their first card swap.  I thought, what the heck, I can do this.  Just got the official e-mail, nine people signed up.  That's right, I have to make nine cards all the same.  Fun, looking forward to seeing the variety of cards I will get back.  It's also giving me a chance to play with my new spectrum noir markers.  I've chosen a stamp to color in.  After the coloring is done I'm not sure what I'll do.  I'll get back to you.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Family Time

Evening everyone.  Here it is 10:30 again tonight and I'm sitting down to post.  What a great day it has been.  Up early for a cleaning job, dentist appointment, home in time for lunch.  Then off to the beach with the kids.  We have been having great weather.  My favorite is after dinner on the front porch with my tea and a good book, with the evening sun shining on me.  What a glorious life. 

And for the second night in a row I've managed to make a card.  Relaxing playing with the inks.  Tonights card was started by inking on a stamping block, spritzing with water and stamping it on watercolor paper.  I then used the same colors and stamped the grasses.  The dragonfly was stamped in black ink.  A few pearls were added.  I really enjoy these one layer cards.

happy crafting

dee  ;o)

Inky Hands

Evening everyone.  Hope everyone is enjoying their summer.  We have managed to make it to the beach a couple times so far.  I'm off tomorrow and the beach is on my to-do list after a few errands in the morning. 

While checking out some blogs this week, I came across the Monday video at Penny Black.  Here is my take on their technique.  Although I don't have the Tim Holtz markers it turned out just fine.  I just painted from the distress ink pad to fill in the flowers.  Out of all the techniques I think playing with the ink pad is my fav.  Getting all inky.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

With Deepest Sympathy

I want to start by wishing all my Canadian blog friends a happy Canada Day.  And to all my American friends a happy July 4th. 

Last night we went out to town to watch the fireworks.  What an amazing time we had as a family.  Sitting on the hard ground joking laughing.  Sam took tons of pictures, even got a few amazing shots. When we got home DH took Sam down to the computer and made her an account on Star Wars.  Right now the two of them are down there playing together and have been for several hours.  Now I've lost them both to Star Wars. 

While my dear family was playing computer games I was making cards.  I needed three flat cards to send in the mail.  I have been admiring the one layer cads that Heather Telford at bits & pieces makes. cardz.wordpress.com  So I had to try my hand at one (actually three in different colors).  They were made special for family.  A cousin that I had met a couple times when I was young, passed away suddenly last week.  So the cards will be in the mail tomorrow.  And my thoughts will be the entire family in their time of grief.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Dream House

What a peaceful day I've had. Last day of school for the kids. I had the day off and did a whole lot of nothing. Hubbie had me crafting on his Star Wars game for him. Not exactly the kind of crafting I like but all I had to do was push a few buttons to send his guys out on missions. While I was waiting for them to come back I played games on my iPod, and did some craft organizing. Working on making a new sample book of all my stamps. Reorganizing the stamp binders, only to find out I need another binder.

Here are pics of Sam's house we built. (hope this works. I've just downloaded blogger onto my iPod)

Happy crafting

dee ;o)