Grape Time

Well, maybe ......maybe I did 3 posts. I am jumping the gun but we shall see. First off, for Flutter by Wednesday we had to use a minimum of 3 layers and at Simon Says, one had to be fruity. Well I made a manly card as it is my Michael's uncle's birthday. I have my grape stamp (which I love using and i got it on sale...I love that even more). I stamped and embossed in black. I used chalks for the background and the grapes. I stamped the image twice and then cut out the grapes and, using pop ups, I have the grapes, well,....um...pop up:) I created a little butterfly from a punch and coloured it quickly with tombow markers. I then hammered those eyelets in(what are they called again??) the 4 corners and then i layered it on leathered brown cardstock followed by dark purple, green and then a shimmering brown. I used stickers that I coloured purple to finish off the look. Now i shall see what 365 day cards has today. I am a busy gal this day. I have to clean(yuck), do the laundry(yuck, yuck), get banking done (blah blah), take care of my Wallace my freak boy dog who hates walks and rather pees in the house than go outside because he has been so traumatized(we got him as a rescue dog last Aug and he is still shaking like a leaf to go outside...any suggestions would be mighty helpful). We love him so though and he deserves love more than anything. My other dog, my Katie girl has been throwing up so I fear I need to take her to the vet today too. She is 11 and she is my peaches and cream! My mom seems to be forgetting time more and repeates quite a bit and that is hard seeing her disappear before my eyes. My friend Vancouver Jeff (as opposed to my ex-Jeff) is coming down this weekend. He is MY brother in all cents of the word and he even said he would come down for a weekend (yup from Vancouver-he is on his ex-partners' plane pass still.....maybe I should give the fruity card to him...ok I am sorry I can't help myself, please do not hate my political incorrectness as I can actually say that to him quite freely since VJ loves tossing me into fountains and generally getting my goat:))to stay with my mom so Michael and I can get away...amazing isn't it. We are picking him up at the airport today. I plan on doing something I have not done yet with him---bucket list time....Maybe we will go on the rapids(there is a boat) on the Niagara River. Now i don't mean above the falls and I don't me the Maid of The Mist (I laugh now as Mist in German means Manure) but they have a boat in the gorge to tackle the rapids and it holds about 50 people or so so it is safe. Anyway Look at me just talk..I can do that naturally.,... Have a fab day to all fo you. Happy Card making

Fairy Dream

OK I made this a while ago but I thought it would be a good choice when Flutter By Wednesday challenge comes back and so here is my entry. I was inspired by one of my mom's eggs that she made and decided to make a little story that anyone can interpret. I used my main fairy stamp and then I masked her and surrounded her with several other stamps....the cottage, little flowers, little butterfly, the birds, the dragon($ only- yahoo), my unicorn and the cherubs. I coloured them in with my tombow markers. I added extra clouds and the sun using chalks to finish off the backgorund. I then used 2 different purple cardstock and of course stickles because wherever fairies are so is fairy dust ( there could be so many humerous anecdotes here but I just let you ponder and have a smile). I will add my mom's egg which will be above this card...she made the fairy and the harp and everything and she is sitting in a real chicken egg. Didn't my mom have talent! I can't believe I got this in the actual Wednesday!

3 Shades of Orange

Well at 365 Day Cards, today's colour challenge was 3 different oranges so I stayed with my flower motif (see rest of blog...if you dare:)...ok just kidding). I stamped and embossed a rose(hard to see since I decided to stickle it. I coloured it with my tombow markers in 3 different oranges. The backing is a pearlized paper and I used my $1 punch again and my chalks in different oranges. I used my tombow markers on paper and then placed the glitter stickers over top, cut them out and used pop ups to secure them on the edges. I coloured in the butterfly and cut her out and used my pop ups again for Ms. Butterfly and placed it on dark orange colour stock paper. Today it is hot, hot, hot! Tomorrow hotter still so, well,....that's all folks! Have a great day!

365 Day Cards-flowers and Colours

WellI am finally caught up with 365 Day cards and since most are made with flowers it works as well with Fortnight Challenge (sorry if i got the name wrong). I went on a splurge and decided to do all studys on flowers and use the colours given for the day challenge at 365 Days Cards. Today is a Study in Purple. The background is actually purple tissue that I crinkled up for some texture. I used a lavendar card stock backing and then I used my perfect pearls powders for the main backgound with the flowers(English Lavender, Sweet Thistle, Forever Violet and Sparkly White). I bought a punch on sale for $1 (yup $1) and then I have these pop out flowers as the centre and you can't see it but they are 3D.

Yesterday's card had to be yellow so I used the pop out flowers in 3D(I love them) and used 3 different Yellows(oh yes the colours had to be in 3 different shades). I finished it off with stickers for borders and I used chalk for the final background in different yellows and some oranges.

Ah, The blue one-I turned out neat (OK Nerd alert) but I used glimmer sprays for the main background and I think more blue got on my fingers as the squirt bottle was working correctly right away...it was a mess. I used Sparkly silver. Light blue backgound and the pop up flowers have a different blue as well. I finished it off with waterfall stickles as I thought this was a night look:)

O Canada! I made most of these cards yesterday as I am off work(Yahoo). This is the sole one without Flowers but I had to use that backgound paper as I just love it! It has a myriad of different reds on it. I used a wine red backing and cut it out with the heartbeat scissors and then I used a pin to finish the edging. I cut out the stamped leaves(stamped in black & embossed in black sparkle) and I coloured it with twinkling H20's in 3 different reds.

Monday at 365 Day Cards was a study in green and to use 3 different shades of the same colour. The main card is in forest green with a light pearlized green cardstock and then I stamped and embossed the Hummingbird. I painted the hummingbird with my twinkling H20's in a variety of green and some red and then I used my chalks to colour the backing also using different greens. I finished it off with green flowers and crystal stickles!

June so Bright

Well I did the challenge for 365 cards, Christmas cards all year round and Christmas stampin all year round. Please forgive me if I forgot the correct blog way it is written:) 365 cards has a design challenge so i incorporated it in to the 5 cards to make for Christmas all year round and Stamping Christams. Stampin Christams stated to have stitching on the card and, thankfully, it could be faux, since I suck at anything regardign stitching. For the Christmas cards all Year round, June Challenge was to make it bright and, I think, your favourite embellishment (forgive me as I haven't checked in on my mom for a while and I am writing this quickly:))Well I LOVE crystals so I used them on all my cards. I just bought some nifty paper with glitter already on it in all bright colours so I used it on the Merry Christmas card. My glittery card is the snowflake and I used the fine glitter in white, yellow, light blue and light green...yup it is everywhere. My Santa, which I love is a hark back to Christams stampin 2 weeks ago to make a card look vintage so I used that as inspiration as I have been having a difficult time as of late to make cards. Well I hope I met the guidelines, Oh and quickly, the one Santa, I did not colour him in at all and if I did I would make it soft. Would you leave himas he is or colour him in slightly??? Responses please to my question. I am a gemini at heart so I go back and forth:)

For baby Nathan

Well rarely I make a baby card but my 2nd cousin had a baby boy-Nathan, born June 11th-a Gemini(he will be a schizo like me) and so here is the card for him. I kept it blue and I stamped with blue dye ink the hands and feet, the stork, star and little bear on a moon. I used basic white cardstock and grey metalic as well. I coloured in the bear and outlined the bear with my tombow markers and used stickles. Since I can not sew anything I did the outline with a tombow marker and even that looks crooked. I am a terrible sewer...I once tried to sew the hem back in place on my skirt, 2 hrs later I was so happy that I stuck with and when i looked at the skirt it was all bunched up in places plus I sewed to my pants! It was just following the previous hem line where the stitching came undone! Ahh one of many priceless sewing disasters. Anyway this is my creation for Crafty Creations. I have been a bit pre-occupied with my mom who has vascular dementia so this has taken a bit of time but love means to be there in good and bad times and she has always been there for me. Now comes some bad times but this is part of life. I better stop before I go on in a droll....:)

Christmas for May-A Little Late

Well I am late with May's challenge for Christmas Cards All Year Round! I had to face some challenges of my own-I had 7 birthdays in 3 weeks and they are all close so that was difficult to get through. I also found out that my mom has vascular dementia. It has been an ordeal and her mood swings and fears have saddened me and I am quite tired. I have been told it is rapid. I am now giving her her meds. I have an unknown territory to deal with. She was an amazing lady-she lived through the bombings of Hamburg and Dresden, she survived being taken by the Russians, she escaped from them and from East Germany and actually suffered a major head injury and was in the hospital for 9 months having to relearn how to walk and talk! This happened all before she was 28! She was the great love of my father's and vice-versa. With all these memories going through my head it has been diificult to just sit and do some cards. I dont mind the first 3 but the last 2 I, think, are yucky. I am not a button girl but I tried my best. So not much on talking about the cards but, this time, my heart was not totally in it.