November 11, 2009

Wear a poppy, visit a local cenotaph, attend a service or a the very least a minute of silence. Remember our solders.






Image by Dalicar

In Flanders Fields - By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)



November 9, 2009

Hello Monday morning. I had a fabulous weekend, it was my Birthday on Friday. I received a ton of wonderful Birthday wishes ☺.It felt like the whole weekend was one big extension of my birthday (the birthday cake fed us for three days).

My husband spoiled me rotten with a large gift certificate to the local stamp store. Lisa Strahl was teaching a class there Friday night so I signed up (Happy Birthday to me ☺). I spent the entire Certificate + some after the class… sigh.. so much for savouring it. My sweet sweet husband also gave me a Michaels gift card. So I brought one of these…
Minus all the embellishments of course. I did not have a space dedicated for my cardmaking but I have been given free reign of our office to pretty much turn it into my very own craft room. So we did a lot of looking for things like storage. It is all coming together.

I did sit down to make a couple of cards on Sunday, but I can't show them for a couple weeks. People who should not might peek. I think I have a few in reserve though that I can post later this week.

My blog is 1 year old now, my sweet sister designed it for me as my Birthday gift last year. Blogger tells me I have about 207 entries and being it is rare for me to post without a card to show means I have posted around 200 cards. I don't remember making that many.

November 4, 2009

When all else fails..use clipart. I don't have any cars in my large stash of stamps so I found a clipart that suited me just fine. One of the owners of the local stamp store told me a while back that when guys look at cards they see solid colors, greys, black, browns and blues. Keep it simple, maybe that is why I seem to pull of masculine card so easy. I am not sure I should trust him though, I have seen him make cards with Pink Flowersoft (I don't think that particular card was for a guy :))

For the inside (sorry no picture) I put two matching layered strips down either side, and put a popped up steering wheel in the middle.


Supplies: Cream and Black cardstock, Designer Paper - Hot of the Press, Car clipart and font - Microsoft office, Doodlebug - Sugar coated brads.

November 3, 2009

Stay with me, I am still riding the Halloween wave. Well actually I am just behind but I am not quite ready to just into Christmas (although I have started my cards).

I love the little fuzzy spider up in the corner, it has the cutest little wire legs and beaded eyes.



Supplies: Cream, green, orange and black cardstock, Designer paper- Recollections Halloween, Penny Black – Scare in the Air, Jolee’s boutique – Spiders web

October 31, 2009

Happy Birthday Miles.

I love this card, I definitely wanted to make a music themed card for my brother in laws birthday. Little snippets of ideas formed in my head over a week long period till I decided my plan of action.

I don’t have any DP that is a music sheet so I decided to make my own. I printed off a music sheet of Happy Birthday for piano? I could not find one with lyrics attached. I wanted the paper to look aged so I soaked the whole thing in tea, the first time I did that I only soaked it for a short period as I did not want the paper to fall apart. I used my embossing heat tool to dry it to give it a roughed up look. I did not think it was dark enough so the second time around I used a wet tea bag (Thank you Celestial Seasonings Tea – Morning Thunder) and ran it randomly over the paper, this time after it dried it worked perfect. I then sponged the edges with a few shades brown ink to give it a more aged look.

I did not want to take away from my proudly created DP so I left the adornments down to a simple ribbon with a gold filament in it. I had such fun making this card.

Have a Fabulous Birthday Miles!!

Supplies: Cream, tan and brown cardstock, misc free music sheet, Celestial Seasonings Morning Tunder tea bag, Microsoft Office -Music note clipart, misc ribbon

October 30, 2009

This is another card from my last Stampin' Up! gtathering, the technique was using versamark and chalk to make the image different colors. Apparently I am not so good at that. I also am not qualified to cut anything out free hand, even more so when I don't have my own tools.

Halloween tomorrow:) Pancake breakfast at work today... Jeans Day... TGIF.

Supplies: All Supplies Stampin' Up!

October 29, 2009

I made this quick card for an upcoming birthday, I love the dimentional K&Company purses.



Supplies: Cream, green and gray cardstock, Designer Paper-K&Company, K&Company-Amt Butler Faded China Purses, K&Company Ancestry stitched brads, mesh ribbon

October 28, 2009

I love this stamp set, this is a card we made during the last Stampin' Up! workshop I attended.




Supplies: All Supplies Stampin' Up!

October 27, 2009

This was a quick and easy birthday card that was fun to make.



Supplies: Cream, burgundy and green cardstock, Designer paper-Memory Box Sprout, Stampabilites-Happy Birthday 10, Recollections Gemstone Brad, misc ribbon.


October 22, 2009

This is just a small little note card, 2.5 by 2.5, I think. It is a sympathy card for a co-worker of my husbands who lost her cat. I know it is almost a repeat of the card my made for Caesar but it works. The picture does not do it justice though, it turned out great. Apparently it matches her office.



Supplies: Cream, burgundy and tan cardstoc, Designer Paper-My Mind's Eye, Pink Cat Studios- cat paw, Celebrate It - Holiday ribbon.