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I needed to work on several birthday cards this week to get out of here and thought I'd take a minute to share one of those with you:
So if you like this - come back tomorrow and I'll tell you how to do this precisely. See you then. Hopefully, all will go well in the computer world.
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Well, I've finally given up - tired of fighting these crazy computers - for some reason none of my pictures will load and I'm ready to string up this computer and throw it out the window - Maybe I can get the problem figured out by tomorrow - gotta love technology - sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't! Till tomorrow.
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Oh my - it was 9:20 p.m. last night and I had been so busy working on a MDS project - yes that's correct - My Digital Studio - I totally lost track of time and realized I had nothing ready to post for today - so I took a break from the project I was working on (trying to get in under the deadline for the printing sale with MDS) and hurriedly put together a card - and I really like how it turned out - how does that happen? I can labor for an hour over a card and it never looks quite right - but put one together quickly and I like it!
Now the picture did not take the embellishment well - but it is one of the wooden elements, some burlap thread and a wooden button - it does look much better in person! The colors I used are crajun craze and crushed curry. Simple and quick! See you tomorrow!
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So, when I returned from Utah, I had a request from one of my friends for a card that had something to do with archery. This was for a girl in their family that competes in archery and it doing really well - so I really had to search and dig hard - no bow and arrow stamps that are current with Stampin' UP! and no targets, etc. Finally, I just decided to come up with a target and go for it - she's happy with it - I'm glad I got it done - and then after I got it completed - well, just a minute I'll explain - first the card:
So here's the card for the girl - simply a target with an arrow - the target was made from our circle framelits and the arrow - well the chevron punch took care of that nicely, with a skinny piece of cardstock for the main frame of the arrow. If I had had the mustache framelits, I would have attempted to make a bow - but don't have those yet - so could not try that. After I completed this, I got to thinking about how I could make this work also for my husband. Our 36th (wow!) anniversary is today and I had no clue what to make for a card for him. I just switched it up a bit and this is what I ended up with for his card:
This is to be a tree and the names carved in the tree (trust me, my husband majored in Forestry while in college -we would NEVER carve anything on a tree!) Since he is such a bow hunter - this works well for him and he should get a kick out of this. On the inside I wrote "You have Captured my Heart!" yes, I know - a bit sappy, but he will enjoy that too! So thanks Steph for asking for a card idea - this helped me out too.Have a great day today.
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Just a quick share today of something to come!!! You know how I love Fall - so this will be one of my new favorites
This was one of the cards I used at my team meeting this past week-end. Love this new paper as well as the stamp set. Remember - September 1 - the Holiday catalog will be available to order from - woohoo. Have a great Monday.
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Now first thing - don't get all excited that there is a Saturday with Steve - there probably will be for the next month - but this does not mean a regular "thing" again! Husband just says ideas are exhausted! :) So I decided I'd take you on a trip across country. When I decided to head West to convention, I said how much I hated flying - even though I do a good bit of it - still don't like it. My husband said - well, I wouldn't mind going across the country one more time so I'll drive - yeah!!! I, personally, love going across the country and seeing the small town America. This year I was able to help with the driving - last year I was in a lot of pain from an injury and spent most of the trip - trying to sleep - this year I enjoyed the ride!
We managed to get a short visit in with our daughters, coming and going and I'll try to remember to share a fun picture about that at the end of these next series of Saturdays. Our first big stop was Estes Park, Colorado. If you will remember, last year in September, they had severe floodingin that area - we saw a lot of evidence of that flooding. Some of the roads had just been re-opened shortly before we got there. We started our first evening there with a rain shower - and a rainbow! Great way to start a vacation. The next morning we were up early to head into Rocky Mt. National Park - all I can say is awesome!!!!
Steve gets all excited here in Colorado - because Elk season is just around the corner and he LOVES going out there in Colorado - so needless to say - he was pretty excited over this next picture I took also
We saw this big boy on one of the first hikes we took and it was brrrr cold! Plus, we had not acclimated to the high altitude so this hike seemed like it went on forever! Straight up the mountain. We saw lots of marmots
and lots of Pika - but I didn't get any pictures of those - they were too small and too quick. We saw a lot of Indian snow - do you know why it is called Indian snow?
Well, the answer is because there's a pache here and apache there - get it? ahhh, yes, I know it was lame, but that's what they told us as a joke! Whatever - it is just amazing to see in person.
Then in this next picture, notice the poles that are along side the road - these are markers for the winter time when the snow plows go on the road - so they can be sure they are "still on the road'! Yikes - this would not be a place to make a wrong turn!
That's all for the Rocky Mountain National Park - hope you enjoyed the view! Stop by next week to see what item we removed from our bucket list on this trip - great fun!
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Just wanted to finish off the week showing you a couple more of the gifts I fixed for convention friends. My cupcake friends - I found these super cute little cupcake soaps and they smelled wonderful! So I needed to dress these up a bit using our new stamp set Cupcake Party:
Sorry you can't see this cupcake at all - didn't think about that!!! It has a little oreo cookie soap on top of it - so very very cute. Looked good enough to eat. So that's it for this week - hopefully I'll have some things to share next week from convention too! Have a great week-end.
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So this year I ended up with 4 different swaps. Remember, I don't do well at repetitive making of one design - I'm like a small child that gets easily bored. So it was easier to design four different cards and do small numbers of those - about 24 each. This one was using World of Dreams.
This one has the look that I like with the nature style of stamps. I used a single strand of the burlap ribbon as it looked like just enough to make me happy! I stamped the images in versamark and then embossed with Early Espresso embossing powder. Then I took my aquapainters and Tangerine Twist and Mossy Meadow inks and quickly spread the diluted inks out to get the look. Whew! All swaps were finished and bagged and labeled this year - better than I have done in the past. That probably had to do with no electricity for 48 hours! Thankfully our generator kicked in and took care of that problem but kept me focused on getting my swaps done. Just so you know - I am finally home from convention! Just returned yesterday - longggggg trip. I'll share some of that, hopefully on Saturday. Now I'm just trying to get caught up with everything.
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This card is a bit more involved that what I would typically do for a swap card - too much card stock cutting. It did not make the stamp camp list for this month - I did not want to have to keep cutting all these little pieces!! I've used Hello Love, the hostess set again, with the cute little bird and I really like this color combination.
Isn't he cute? Told you! I've used Calypso Coral and Garden Green, paired with Gold Soiree designer series paper. I cut out all those little suns. yes, I know - stupid. Watercolored all the birds - again, what was I thinking? Hand cut the banners because the greeting is too big for the little Itty bitty banner framelits. sigh. I do like the card though! Definitely not going to have this one at stamp camp. I'd be crazier than I already am if I had to cut and prep all these little buggers. I did get to use the new 2" circle punch for this though - like it - layers well. That's all for today.
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My second favorite swap is today's card, using the Lovely Lace embossing folder and Hello Honey, Mossy Meadow and Lost Lagoon inks - this card is super easy - wanted to try some other colors with this - just did not have enough extra time to experiment.
To get this look, I ran the whisper white cardstock thru the embossing folder and then just used my sponges to get this look. I love how this one turned out. The greeting is from Regarding Dahlias. This one will also be offered at July's stamp camps.
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