Weekend Fun

This was a busy, but fun weekend.  I got to play in the ScrapZee.com “Summer Book Club” crop and . . .

 

Moby Dick

 

Evil Under the Sun

 

Snow White

 

 

Hunger Games

 

These were both my examples for Twilight.

 

Secret Garden

 

Life of Pi

 

Love Comes Softly

Go check out the crop as you have until 11:59pm CST Tuesday 5/21/13 to enter for a possible prize (random drawing of participants).  Even if you don’t participate, you can see what the challenges were and what other people’s ideas were for the challenges.

The other part of this fun weekend was . . .

 

We got a new puppy.  The white one in the back is our dog Playdoh.  The little brown guy in the front is a 4 month old puppy we named Milo.  My daughter and I went to the Arizona Humane Society on Friday just to look.  We were on our way out and she saw this little guy and just wanted to play with him for a bit.  She absolutely fell in love with him and since we adopted him, the rest of us have, too.  We were really looking for a larger dog that would be protection, as well as a loving part of the family.  This little guy is a bit of a surprise, but he brings fun to the family.  Playdoh is still getting used to having him in the family, but she is starting to play with him and realize he is here to stay.  Whew, lots of work involved in adding a new member to the family.

Thanks for spending some time with me today!  I hope your week goes wonderfully.

So Many Holidays, So Little Time

Did I send out my Thanksgiving cards this year?  Oops, nope, they are still in my card stash.  I really need to be more careful.  Here’s one to remind you of the wonderful holiday of giving thanks we celebrated here last week:

Thanksgiving card with 3D embellishments.

Now, for some of you around the country and world, you have snow to play in, so here’s a “snowman” card I made for you:

Snowman card with glitter and shine.

For those of us in more arid and/or warm regions, here’s a more appropriate “snowman” card:

An Arizona snowman.

Thanks for spending some time with me today!  Hope you are enjoying this season of giving thanks and celebrating God coming to earth as one of us.

 

 

Fun Paper

Sometimes, paper just makes me happy.  Okay, playing with paper almost always makes me happy.  This patterned paper came out of a magazine and I just LOVE it.  The colors are so deep and vibrant, that I just had to use it.  I’m using this card for the MFP SpeedyTV Sketch With a Twist challenge.  I used ribbon for one of the rectangles in the challenge, but didn’t want to cover up any more of the pretty paper, so it’s going to have to do.

 

Supplies:

• Winter Crocus stamp set (Mark’s Finest Paper)
• Sheer yellow ribbon (Celebrate It 360)
• Assorted papers
• Flowers and Brad (Hot Off the Press)

The card may not be fabulous, but I’m hoping the paper makes you as happy as it does me.  Thanks for spending some time with me today!

Thank you!

It is so very important to say, “Thank You” to people.  Our society has gotten so rude that we rarely say “Please” and “Thank You” anymore.  It really makes a difference to people when we do take the time to be courteous.  Last week, a lady at church did something for me.  It can’t have been easy, because I know she has many things that she is involved in right now, so thanking her is high on my list of things to do.  Fortunately, today’s StampTV challenge is to make a thank you card and give it to someone.  This was the perfect challenge!  I also wanted to participate in the SpeedyTV sketch with a twist challenge, as I love the stamp set that is the prize.  The twist was to add lace to the sketch.  It wouldn’t have been a problem as I saw the perfect piece in my lace bag, yesterday.  A couple of hours after sorting through and untangling lace, I found all sorts of amazing lace and trims and finally found the piece I was looking for.  Whew!  I have to find a better way to store lace than in a kitchen trash bag.  There is lace in this stash that I’m sure is older than I am (part of it is from one of my grandmothers).  There is even a piece that matched my wedding dress.  It’s always fun to find things that would be just perfect for a certain idea.

Now that I’ve rambled, here is the card I came up with.

This wasn’t the piece of lace I had been looking for, but after a bit of trimming here and there, I got this one to about the right size.  It is really beautiful lace, though you can’t see it through the teapot.

Supplies:

• Pure Luxury Heavy Base Weight Ivory (Gina K.)
• Springtime Silhouettes (Gina K.)
• Always Time for Tea Die-namics and stamp set (My Favorite Things)
• Bahama Blue ink (Memento)
• Assorted papers and lace

Thank you so much for spending some of your time with me today!  Enjoy your weekend.

Candy!

My daughter’s boyfriend is having a rough time, right now, so I wanted to encourage him.  There is a challenge on Stamp TV this week to use candy in a card.  Of course, that would work!  I also wanted to use a specific verse on the card to encourage him.  As he is a guy, I went fairly simple.  When I had my son look at it, he loved it just for the candy, though the amount of words inside took him back a bit.  What do you think?

 

 

Supplies:

• Recollections – blue paper
• Computer and printer
• Jolly Rancher candy

This is also being used for the MFP Speedy TV Sketch with a Twist challenge this week.  Can’t figure out what the sketch might be?  Ha!  That’s the twist.  This is fairly CAS (clean and simple).

Thanks for spending some time with me today.  Hopefully this will encourage you, too.  God is large and in charge and I’m so very glad He is.  Even when things seem to be going all wrong, He will bring it all together for good, though we don’t always recognize the good until much later, if ever.  Remember, sometimes our rough times bring good to those around us, too.  This I know from experience.

Hope In the Lord

This verse stood out to me this week and I wanted to highlight it.  I kept coming back to the Lord being a strong tower and the one we run to for protection, which led me to think of a lighthouse.

 

Supplies:

• White card (Georgia Pacific)
• Patterned Paper (??)
• Verse (NIV Zondervan – done on computer with Word)
• Classic Scalloped Ovals Large (Spellbinders)
• L9061 Brass Stencil (Lasting Impressions)
• Red, Black, Yellow, Clear Glaze Pens (Sakura)
• Broken China distress ink (Ranger)
• Celebrate It Basic Narrows (Michaels)

Thanks for spending some time with me today.  Remember, when things aren’t going well, run to God.  He knows you and loves you.

Much With Little

Don’t ever convince yourself that you can’t do a lot with what you have.  You can, in so many ways.  God always gives us what we need to do what He calls us to do.  Even if you can’t see how you are supposed to do what God has called you to do, just obey and He will work through you.

A quick card demonstration of being able to do much with little . . .

Starting off with two simple stamps, a card base and one ink pad.

I won’t even get started on one piece of paper and some folds.  We’ll save that demonstration for another day.

Remember, God equips us for what He calls us to do.  Thanks for spending some time with me today.

I Have Been Blessed

I am so glad you joined me today for the Autumn Blessings Blog Hop.  It goes along with the Autumn Blessings Crop at CardSwaps.  The crop is from November 16-19, 2011 and you have until November 22, 2011 to get your projects posted to the challenge threads and in the drawings for prizes.  It’s a lot of fun.  At the end of the blog hop, you’ll hop right on over to the CardSwaps board.  We hope to see you there!  You should have gotten here from Judy’s amazing blog.  Her work is always fantastic and often vintage.  If you haven’t seen the blogs before mine, please start at the beginning of the hop so you don’t miss anything!

If you haven’t noticed, the theme of this blog hop is: I have been blessed.  I bet you can think of several things, people, or circumstances you have been blessed with.  When I started thinking about what I have been blessed with, the list was never-ending.  As “never-ending” is a bit broad, I started trying to narrow it down and came to the family and the craftiness God has blessed me with.  I have an amazingly wonderful husband, two fantastic children (though they are both actually adults, now), two great dogs, a loving family, great in-laws, a wonderful brother, nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts and uncles, and I still have one grandmother, plus one of my husband’s grandmothers.  Whew!  And that is just the start.  While I was thinking about all God has blessed me with, I thought of the crafting abilities He gave me.  Which made me think about how talented my daughter, my mother and my grandmother are.  My niece is pretty talented, too.  So, I made a card for my grandmother that shows her crafty legacy going down through the generations.  My grandmother is on the top – she makes amazing quilts, sews, and does many other crafty things; then my mother who weaves, sews, spins, and so much more; next comes me, who can sew (though not nearly as well as my mother and grandmother or even my daughter), make cards, candles, bows and a few other things; to my daughter who is an amazing photographer, makes cards and does fantastically intricate designs on her nails every few days; and then my niece who is just getting started in her craftiness, but she loves to draw and make things for people.

I’m all about having fun, so as she unwinds the cord, each door pops open.  Oh, I also used our favorite colors to represent each of us.  My grandmother is purple, my mom is turquoise, I used blue, my daughter is pink and my niece is green.  Here’s what it looks like when the doors are open.

Next on the hop is Ana.  And let me tell you, she is a blessing, not just to her own family and co-workers, but to me and everyone else at CardSwaps as well.

Thanks for joining me today!  I look forward to seeing you at the Autumn Blessings Crop.  So, hop on over to Ana’s blog and I’ll catch up with you later.

If you get lost on the hop, here is the list where you can find yourself again.

Lora

Meredith

Judy L 

Golda  <– You are here!

Ana 

Traci

Angelina 

SusieQ 

Tina 

Teresa

Ivanka

Jane

A Fun Card

This one is just to encourage you.  First I made the background paper by stamping in the colors of ink that I wanted and embossing with clear embossing powder.  Then I colored in the flowers.  I considered putting some smaller flowers scattered in, but decided that would just be too much.

I stamped the small center piece and colored that, as well.  Then, after spending quite a while trying to get my husband to understand what “fussy cutting” was, while I was doing that to the piece, I put it on with 3D tape to make it stand out.

Then ran some brown ink around the edge of the background piece, cut out my asparagus card base and edged that with green ink and it was ready to go.

My son decided he wants a card with just the mouse all over it.  That would be a lot of work.

Have fun in life and enjoy what is around you!  Thanks for spending some time with me today.

Birthday Fun

Today is my 41st birthday.  While I was growing up, doctors kept telling me I wouldn’t live to be 40, so I am considering these my bonus years.  Now is the time to go out and do all the things I never had time for, or couldn’t risk before.  If all goes well, I will be going sky diving with my brother and cousin soon.  That is something I have wanted to do since I was a teenager, but after I got married and pregnant in college, I couldn’t take the risk until the kids were grown.  My youngest is now 18, so I plan to try it.  My husband and kids think I’m nuts for taking the risk, but hey, this is my second bonus year, so I’m going for it.  After that, I want to learn to scuba dive.

Recently, I’ve started asking God what He wants these bonus years used for.  He gave them to me for a reason, so I want to make sure His plan gets accomplished.

I wanted to share one of my cards with you, as it is perfect for this year.

When you think about it, please pray that God will show me what He wants done with my life.  I know it has something to do with crafting and others, but not sure exactly what.

Thanks for spending some time with me today!  I’ll try to post some card stuff soon.  I got stamps for my birthday, so I’ll need to get working.  Also, bought my first Copic marker today.  It is the colorless blender that I’m supposed to be able to use with Sharpies and Bic markers.  I’ll post some pictures soon, when I see if it works.

Enjoy your day!