Dragonfly Dream

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.ca/2013/03/mim133-with-rick-st-dennis.html -Anything Goes
http://glitternsparklechallengeblog.blogspot.ca/2013/03/challenge-25-at-glitternsparkle.html - Animals
http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.ca/2013/03/challenge-214.html - Embossing
http://alphabetchallengeblog.blogspot.ca/2013/03/c-for-coveted.html - Coveted

I enjoyed making this card and I used Paints, cardstock, gems and the Happy Birthday metal piece that I all covet. First, I took black glossy cardstock-my last one and, using twinkling H2O's I created the background with a number of different colours.  I took glossy gold and green cardstock for some backing and purple cardstock as well. I stamped the dragonfly image (my animal-I hope and insect counts) in gold and embossed in Egyptian Gold. I coloured the wings in green and purple twinkling H2O's and restamped the wings and coloured them again but cut them out and placed them on top of the first image for some 3D effect(see the 2nd pic:)). I used my last bit of light green ribbon to attach the metal piece and put it all together...Voila!  I hope everyone has a beautiful day and maybe it will get warmer here as the week progresses...let's hope!

Top 10 Movie Countdown

You say Movies/film and I am there. It is hard to countdown to just 10 but here is my list:

10. Sunset Boulevard-Gloria Swanson at her grand dame best and a scathing telling on silent cinema where so much in the film actually rings true. For all die hard fans that know Buster Keaton and Anna Q Nielson are playing cards and were once huge stars.

9. All About Eve-Fasten Your Seatbelts...It's Betty Davis full of sharp tongued greatness. Never forget the great George Sanders who decided to commit suicide cos he was bored.

8. Fantasia-Drugged out or not-Great artistic genius meeting up with superb music-doesn't get better than that.

7. Top Hat or any Fred Astair/Ginger Rogers Musical-I don;t give a rats ass if you are not a musical fan-These are just great-same storyline and often same character actors but the dancing and singing can never be found again. Thank god for film

6. Trains, Planes and Automobiles-OK so people may bitch that it is not artistic enough blah blah blah but what a great cast and music and I always laugh out loud at the motel scene in the morning ("those aren't pillows!")

5. Singing In The Rain- Superb satire on the silent cinema and when it transitions to sound. The story is great and actually accurate, the cast is great, dancing is great and every man just loved Cyd Charisse's legs

4. The Quiet Man-The great John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara-The irish land and tales and customs and the best damm fight scene-I'd give anything to be kicked in the ass with love the way John Wayne did to Maureen-true love  with great fun

3. the Searchers-Amazing Western! I love Western and the scene near the beginning when john Wayne sees his brother's place on fire-well his look is heart wrenching. Look for Jeffrey hunter (AKA Christopher Pike of Star Trek fame) in a key role along side the Great Duke

2. LOTR-Trilogy-OK This is so great and profound and moving-I can not say more about these group of films-Love it!

1. It's A Wonderful Life- My Fav-Jimmy Stewart-Always played at Christmas and people may be sick of it like the Mona Lisa but the beauty of this film transcends time and makes me cry each time I see it.

Well there is my list-I missed out on the Third Man and all the Hitchcock films-there are so many I love and could add and replace some here but this it is for now:)

Butterflies

 

 

http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.ca/2013/02/simon-says-anything-goes.html -Anything Goes

http://flutterbywednesdays.blogspot.ca/2013/02/flutter-by-wednesday-229.html -3 layers, base does not count

http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.ca/2013/02/challenge-51-ribbon-and-bling.html - Ribbon & Bling

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.ca/2013/03/mim130-with-saturated-canary.html - Anything Goes

 

It is so gloomy here that it was nice to make a couple of butterfly cards. I used the cuddlebug to cut out the butterflies for both cards. Each card has 3 papers (not including the base) placed on top of one another. Actually the first card-the top paper is not paper but fabric. I went to a Sound Of Music Sing a long and we had to hold that fabric up to Julie Andrews when she could not figure out how to get fabric for the kids playclothes..."Look behind you" we all yelled before she realized drapes will do nicely. The base colour for the first card is a light green which I used the cuddlebug to emboss. I added a ribbon and some pearls for the bling. The second card I had scraps of paper that I had tried some sponging techniques for the top paper and wrote in the saying as our neighbour lost her brother..which is quite sad so I can't do much but give this card stating that we are thinking of her. I added the extra bling at the bottom and some stickles in the butterfly too. I am amazed that I did not add more glitter to my cards as I am usually a glitter queen. How do you like that ribbon? I actually made it and was surprized it turned out! Have a great day and week ahead

Christmas with a Heart

http://christmascardsallyearround.blogspot.ca/2013/02/february-challenge.html - Red, White, Flowers & Hearts
http://christmasstampin.blogspot.ca/2013/02/csayl-challenge-4-clean-simple.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+ChristmasStampinAllYearLong+(Christmas+Stampin'+All+Year+Long) -Clean & Simple

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.ca/2013/02/mim-129-with-dr-digis-house-of-stamps.html - Anything Goes

I finally made Christmas cards for this year. At Christmas Cards All Year Round the challenge was Red, White, Flowers and hearts. I decided to make the hearts more subtle. I used the cuddlebug with the background of hearts in the 1st and 3rd card and the poinsettia was used for the flowers in all the cards.  I did stamp the poinsettia and used red sparkle embossing powder. The second card has some funky hearts in the corners. I cut out the poinsettia after stamping them as well. The last 2 cards are the same except one is in white and one in red and ditto for the cuddlebug poinsettia. Well I made this quick and hope you like them. have a great day

flowers

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.ca/2013/02/mim-127-with-little-miss-muffet-stamps.html -Anything Goes

OK I am just happy to blog again and I thought I would join MIM as I love this site but I don't have the little Miss Muffet stamps so I hope this still works:) Crazy month-Michael is recuperating well from his complete shoulder replacement surgery and he is doing really well. We got slammed with a big snowstorm on Friday and rain today so i thought pretty flowers from July would work. I used the square look and used scizzors for the cut and layered it and added ribbon and crystals. I coloured the image with the gismopencils. I LOVE them:)They blend so well. Now i hope to blog more and be back in my work room soon.

Happy New Year!

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.ca/2012/12/mim-121-with-digi-my-world.html -Anything Goes
http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.ca/2012/12/simon-says-anything-goes.html -Anything Goes

 http://whimsyinspires.blogspot.ca/2012/12/challenge-54-anything-goes-as-long-as.html - Anything Goes as long as it's Festive
http://flutterbywednesdays.blogspot.ca/2012/12/flutter-by-wednesday-220.html - Open
http://abcchristmaschallenge.blogspot.ca/2012/12/z-for-zoo-animal.html - Zoo Animal

I have not been here for a while as I have been a little busy. Christmas is a busy time of year anyway and  I go all out with my tree (hang the tinsel on one by one), my Christmas village(with it's own personal cat house and town bum), nativity scene and Santa's everywhere along with garland and angels etc... Mt hubby had a full shoulder replacement on December 12th-Yup 12/12/12. He had it done in Toronto. the surgerey was over 5 hrs long and he was home by Friday!! I can say he is doing very well and healing fast. I can also say I have been busy taking care of all the animals, walking the dog, caring for my Michael, Delivering flyers for extra money ( my ex helps me...yup! My EX!!) , working full time. Top it off that the first weekend Michael was home our 1 cat climbed on my dresser and knocked off all my jewlery. I could have made a violin out of her. It took me an hour to untangle everything. The next day our dog peed in the house which he did not do for almost a year. The day after that our fawcett in the bathroom busted and we had 2 inches on water in the bathroom before Michael went down stairs to shut the taps off. It just busted...all this before Christmas. I had these cards made a while ago but just no time to be on the computer. I am not a computer gal. Christmas went well and my mom was able to come to my brother's and enjoy a bit. She has since forgotten that she was at his place though. New years was quiet and let's hope the year ahead will be a better one. I have had enough of pain (moi), dementia(mom), disease(Michael-athritis) and little money. Oh wait I should grab some wine for this whine. I enjoy looking at everyone's creations though and believe that it is better to walk with an angel through hell than with the devil through paradise. I am not religious but I love that saying and believe it. To one of my followers too-McCraftys cards-I was inspired by his snowflake corner that I bought it and used it for the angel card. Happy New Year everyone!!