Happy Birthday Uncle Bruce

Today is my uncles 69th birthday. Yesterday my two aunts and I went to the Home that he is in for a visit. We took him out to Tim Horton's to get him a birthday treat. Just like a kid, he was told not to drink his ice cap fast. Did he listen, no ended up with a brain freeze. He's such a flirt, waving at all the ladies.

Here is the card I made for him.

I had alot of fun making this card. I started with cutting masking paper to cover the front panel. I used square dies (that I had forgotten I had), to cut a window in the mask. I also used them to make a frame to go around it. The front panel was cut with a new die from MFT. I used distress inks to color the sky, and the clouds. The grass was cut with another new die from MFT. My Viking is also a stamp  from MFT. I colored him with prisma pencils and gamsol.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Move In Day

Evening bloggers. I can't believe summer is over. Where did the time go? Sam worked her last day today, and we are busy packing her up for 2nd year collage. Tomorrow is move in day. Early morning, we live 2 hours away and move in is 8-9am.  The truck will be all loaded tonight and ready to go in the morning.

Yesterday I was watching videos and came across one on Cardz TV. I thought the folded birthday card was interesting. I can do that. Here is what I came up with.

I had so much fun creating I made 2.

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)

Celebrate

After noon everyone. Hope your weekend is going well. I'm off today which is very unusual. But very nice to not be in the busy store.

I've been busy this week training the dog. Poor Maxwell was introduced to an electric collar on Tuesday. Wednesday I had a whole lot of anxiety happening. After one quick lesson and being left alone with something I wasn't quite sure of. But we made it, and I have hardly had to use it. The starting exercises are things that he already knows. So anxiety is gone and we are just having fun with it.

My card today was stamped right onto the card base, making it a one-layer card. The stamps I picked up at Michael's. They are a layering stamp, consisting of an outline and the solid base stamp. So the entire card was done with colored stamp pad.

I stamped one extra ice-cream cone, cutting it out and mounting on foam squares. Adding glossy accents to the ice-cream to give it some shine. Added a few dots of mint green liquid pearls. I stamped the Celebrate sentiment on pink paper to match the ice-cream, and matted it on black. Then adding foam squares to pop it up.

Till next time
happy crafting

dee ;o)

Here We Go Again

Evening everyone. I have a get well card to share today. I'm posting it to myself. Almost 25 years ago, just after I met hubbie. I had TMJ surgery. One day I sneezed and the little piece of cartledge in the jaw fell out of place. After many months of not being able to open my mouth far, do anything that involved using the facial muscle, or eat anything other than mush. I had surgery to stitch that little piece of cartledge back into place. Things have been great. Until about a month ago. Home from work for dinner, enjoying a Big Mac with hubbie. Two bites to go, and crack. Oh that really hurt. And here we go again.

Today I had an appoint with a TMJ specialist. Damage can be seen in the xray, but to what extent he is unsure. So to start he gave me medrol, a steriod to help with the pain. And cyclobenzaprine to take at night to relax the muscle. I have to get more movement in order to have a new night guard molded. After that he will evaluate again for surgery. Which will mean a long wait for an MRI appointment so the surgen can see if there is enough cartledge left to repair. Here's hoping.

Enough of that. Lets get to the card.

This is the second attempt at these cards. I had to trash the first ones. After making some mistakes and learning the properties of some of my markers and inks, these two turned out pretty good. I embossed the images with black embossing powder, then colored them in with prisma color pencils. A little inking around the edges and done. Very simple.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Happy Retirement

Evening all. Here we are at the start of another busy weekend in Muskoka. The traffic is heavy on the highway, as well as at work. It was a crazy day. Glad I was done early afternoon. Monday will be our Human Resource Associates last day. She is retiring. Marilyn will be missed by alot of us. She is the glue that holds our store together. Who ever replaces her has some big shoes to step into. I can only think of one person that can do it. We will find out next week.

So the last couple nights I have been working on a special card. I quite like how the white pencil crayon looks on the black card. I found a textured card in my stash and thought it could be used for the same technique.

I am really happy how it turned out. Texture and all. I also used a new stamp from Stampendous. I found I didn't have any larger flowers that could be easily coloured. I couldn't find the right sentiment to add to the front, so I just wrote a sweet note inside.

Till next time.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Pencil Crayon Storage

Afternoon all. I have the day off, and am really enjoying it. I started off with a few loads of laundry washed and hung on the line. Met my girlfriend for coffee. Picked my daugher up from work at noon. Both kids are home with me today, with a couple extras thrown in. It's so nice that my daughters friends get along with my son as well. They are all upstairs playing video games. And I get to enjoy the quiet in my crafting area.

Yesterday the first of my purchases from Wish arrived. A case to hold my set of prisma color pencils. I spent lastnight transfering them over.

Can't wait to use them. I like that they are all layed out where you can see them, rather than sorting through the layers in the tin.

Todays mail had the black case. Slightly smaller.

I organized all my TomBow markers in it out of a clear plastic stackable container.

Well it looks like I must finally clear my desk to make room for scrapbook layouts. Hubbie asked today if I'd gone through the boxes of kids school work. I think the easiest way to do that is to scrapbook what I want as I go.

happy crafting

dee ;o)

Mini Sets

Morning all. We finally have a break from the heat. We have been dealing with a heat wave here in Ontario. 38C feeling like 45C. It has been so hot I try to stay in the house unless I really need to go out. So I have found a few moments this week to play with some mini stamp and die sets I picked up at Michaels a while back. They contain some layering stamps and each has a die to cut one of the images. I have stamped them all and cut an image of each die to go into my sample binders. Cutting out extras to add to cards. That will be the goal for this week. To make a card for each set.

Really looking forward to the treats set. I can see some glitter being used. Well enjoy your weekend.

happy crafting
dee ;o)

If it's Not Messy Your Not Creating

First up, Happy Canada Day!!!

Second, I came down to my work area this morning to clean it up and make room to lay out scrapbook pages. We are moving on to the next section of basement renos. Which means moving boxes again. Hubbie came across 4 boxes of the kids school stuff. You can imagine his comments. Doesn't think you need to keep everything. So it's time to get all their memories into their books. 

But cleaning didn't get done. I found a new stamp set I had been messing with. So of course that took my attention. The scrapbooking will have to wait another day. 

happy crafting 

dee ;o)

Congrats on your little Nugget

Good evening blogland. Well alot has been going on at work lately. They finally approved to have another full time position for the CSM's. I have been waiting for about a year and half for this position. And after almost a week of keeping it quiet, I am putting it out there. I got the position. Yah!!! Finally full time.

My card today was made for an associate that I work close with.  Our Lead CSM is expecting. It's so exciting watching her belly grow. Remembering the birth of my kids. It has just been a short time since we found out she was leaving on mat leave. Thinking she was 5 months when she announced it at work to only find out a few days later that she was 7 months. So out came my crochet hook to get a sweater done before she left. Today was her last day. Taking two weeks holidays then into mat leave. I am going to miss her for the next year. We work so well together.

Megan has a little farm. Turkeys, chickens, and her baby porkchop the pig that lives in the house with them. So when I thought of making a card for her I pulled out my new set from 'lawn fawn', 'critters on the farm'.

Here is everything, getting ready to start. I actually had a great time making this card. I believe it is the first actual scene card I have made.

And here is the finished card. I had so much fun cutting out the cute little images. I used colored cardstock for most of them, and added extra colors with markers and distress ink.  The sheep I used fabric paint stippled on to give it texture. The pigs collar although very small has porkchops name on it. The card was then signed by alot of the associates at the store. I went in today on my day off when they were giving it to her. What a surprise it was.

happy crafting
dee ;o)