Amy's card and gift

Nearly forgot to show off the present wrapping and card I made for my good friend Amy this year.

Thank you and Happy Anniversary

Such a simple card but I really like how it turned out!  My news Inkadinkado Stamps are pretty.

Cards for the kids

Made this card as a back to school card for Amanda ... this is the first year she will be going back and I won't!  Not sure how I feel about that!

Sent the yellow and green one below to David who hurt his ankle ... it is from a snapdragon that I drew years ago ... before I really started drawing!

BIrthday card

Isn't this the cutest thing ever. I found the tutorial online, and here is the link. 

I had to make one!

Stamp Camp

Stamp camp is always a fun time with friends and snacks .... plus these cards use the new stampin up supplies.  New toys are great!

The butterfly punch is calling my name .... thinking I may have to get it. BUt then I will want the butterfly stamp. And maybe vellum so I can stamp and emboss and color on the back.

It never ends, does it!

Happy Anniversary Susan and Walt!

Been awhile since I posted last!

The label says "Let us Celebrate the Occasion
WIth Wine and Sweet words ... Plautius"

But for somebody really special, you have to make a really special card. Too bad she will probably see it here first since I am mailing it late!

Stampin with the Girls

I met with Amy and Dee to stamp and chat. I think we chatted much more than we stamped; but this is the card I created as my contribution to the table.

Yoga thank you ...

Time to thank Diane for another great session of yoga.

And while I had the stamp out I made a thank you card for my petsitter, Wendy

Gettting too old

When I heard that the boy who will receive this card loves Big Time Rush, I had to look it up! Here is my line drawing of the music group --- the inside of his card has the lyrics to one of their songs changed to fit him.

Birds and Biscuits

Our friend Tony is celebrating his birthday on April Fool's Day. Since he is a bit of a senior citizen and glories in his shuffleboard, I made a shuffleboard card for him complete with Altoid "biscuits".  (Wikipedia assures me that the thingies they hit are called biscuits)

Unfortunately, he was a bit under the weather and didn't come to our Tuesday dinner party at Sam's, and now I am faced with either figuring out how to mail a card with altoids glued to it, or make a new card.

The new card is on the right. I kind of prefer it!

The birdie card is not original at all, I saw it at Nancy Zindorf's blog and had to make one.  Hers is prettier ... but I do like mine too.

Here is a link to her card.

Parakeet card

I drew this parakeet for a dear lady I met in an art class in Florida.

She is a retired English teacher and has more stories than I did, believe it or not! She is in her 80s and taking art classes for fun.

Each time I see her, she asks again ... are you going to teach in fall? And every single time, I tell her, no, I am retired.   Yeah ... well, we'll see!

Chinese Blessings

I love this big "Blessings" punch I got from my sister - she found it in Hong Kong and knew I would love it.

It's the Year of the Dragon, so this is especially auspicious.

The green ribbon looked like it matched in real life, but the camera sure changed its color!

Yesterday is History

Diane always ends our classes with "Yesterday is history, tomorrow will be a mystery, but today is the present so go out and enjoy the gift.

for her birthday, I made this card and on the inside I said to celebrate her day and that she was a gift to us.

The shiny paper is fun!   I had it from when I was working with Paper Temptress. She has the prettiest papers around, but sadly I seem to be taking my art in other directions these days.

Family visit

We all made a quick trip to Wisconsin for grandpa's funeral ... and my sister did a lot to make life easier while we were there. This is the card I am sending her today.

It's an old stash card from a Stampin Up workshop, but seemed to be appropriate.

Birthday - Josh and Jess

I made cards for my niece and nephew.

Not sure my heart is into card making these days!

More violets

Colored pencil on tracing paper.

teapot Tuesday

free digi bird

I have been missing the teaparties lately and today's teapot just wanted to be drawn.

 So here is my rendition.

Birthday and a friend

Needed a birthday card stat ... and finally put together a card for a friend in the African Violet Group.

Spongey Teapot

The challenge is to combine these teapots with spongebob.  I have the image ready, who knows if I will have a card ready by the Tuesday deadline.

Remember Brayering?

I took 2 classes with Nancy Zindorf and brayered every card for a month. I pulled out the brayer for this card, which is a direct result of her tutorial found here.

the Happy Brrrrrrr Day was my own addition

These aren't Tim Tags

These were meant to be Tim Tags.

 My shrinky dink was white, and when I heated it, I couldn't get it uncurled without breaking off edges.

I was very happy with my backgrounds, but ended up cutting some holly and branches and calling it a day ... I mean a tag.

Steve's 30

My adaptation !

Card from Technique junkies

Cards for Amanda

Each of my kids receives 30 cards the month of his/her birthday - so I have to get in gear since my BABY will be 30 next month.

Amy, Dee and I spent a fun afternoon making cards yesterday.


The cardinal card was one Amy found in Technique Junkies from last year, and we figured it out and created the card here.

Cards for Steve

 I made the owl one as an extra ... my daughter Amanda said she used up the cards from her 30th, so I decided a collection of birthday cards would make a nice Christmas gift for her.

Card Sketch and free digi

I always like card sketches, and this one has out of the box cutting around the image.

The image was a free digi from here... isn't it cute!

It is amazing

It is amazing how many cards I can get made when I have a briefcase full of papers to correct! It is my best inspiration ever!

I made these for 2 reasons ... my son is having his 30th birthday next month and our family tradition is to send 30 cards for the 30 days leading up to the big day. What WAS I thinking when I started that tradition 3 kids ago I will never know, but can't let down the third one. ( as if he would notice ...)

Also my daughter mentioned that she had finally used up all of the 30 cards I sent her for her birthday 3 years ago by erasing my name and putting hers in place of it so I thought a collection of manly birthday cards would be a good Christmas gift for her. Perhaps I will throw in a few of my ladylike ones too just to round out the collection.

Karen's sketch

This sketch is one of my favorites ... it came from a card made by Karen over at Splitcoast ... link and really makes a nice quick card with pretty paper.

Bonking the Brads

These are my response to Tim Holtz's Tags for Christmas, day 2.

About the only similarities are the deer as a focus, and the brads hit with a hammer.

Not only is it fun to hit brads with a hammer, but it really flattens them out so that even MY post office would never realize they are there.