Josette Card and Bookmark

Josette is a dear crafting friend in Hot Hot Hotter than ever before Florida  --- and she has gone on to get a whole year older without me there to tease her. I made her this card and bookmark and included a note inside about how nice and cool the nights are in Michigan. I swear, I don't know where I got this evil streak from!

I was  playing around with background techniques and my copics ... not sure if I like the look or not. But it was something new to try.

Image is a digi from Firecracker.

Happy Anniversary Susan and Walt

 Love doesn't always last so it is important to celebrate when it does. My dear friend Susan is celebrated her anniversary yesterday. I wish her love and a snuggle! I waited till today to show the card so I wouldn't ruin her surprise.  It's colored with copics and brayered in the corner.

Sketch challenge Wednesday

Time for a sketch challenge. Sometimes you just need a pretty card. I met a dear lady in Florida who is battling cancer. I got a call that I might not see this lady again ... seems the cancer is back and vicious.

I made this card with tears in my eyes.

The sewing machine is out and happened to have yellow thread - I really like the look. The verdict is mixed on whether I just ruined my needle, I will have to see how it works when I go back to stitching fabric. Or maybe I will just leave it out to stitch on cards.

Teapot Tuesday!

I know I just did bluebirds for the Firecracker blog hop last week, but who could resist this little birdie?

My outline is a jpeg --- you can grab it for your own use but the image really belongs to the clever teapot maker.

I cut it out of patterned paper and added copic marker --- it is kind of fun to see the effects you can get with the pattern underneath!

This card will be used as a 75th birthday card for a dear little old lady. Ok... maybe she's not so old.  I have this great stamp that says "to me old age is always 15 years older than I am" and by that calculation, this 75 year old is just barely into middle age!

Road Trip!

When I saw this punch art VW online, I just had to make one of my own. Not sure if I will save it for a nephew birthday or what ... but it was fun to put together.  I see so many cute masculine ideas around Father's Day, I need to save them for boy cards the rest of the year. Our family seems to lean toward male 2 to 1 ... which makes for a lot of masculine cards.

My baby hit the New York Times

David is working on a project at IBM and today it was featured in the New York Times.

My baby is the one with the MAC computer. Smart Boy I raised!

Here is the article link.   Watson

Father's Day

I seem to be back with my brayer again.  It has become so easy! I still love the look!