Alaska photo wedding

Son David called on his way to a wedding - he didn't have a gift, he didn't have a card, and if I would MAKE a card, he could tell them he was not late, he was merely waiting for the custom card to arrive.

The couple met in Alaska so I found a photo on the internet and made this card.

Nise, if you click to enlarge it, the blotches are from glue on my scanner bed and are not on the card >^..^<

David's Birthday Card

Amanda can't have all the fun with 30 cupcake cards: today I made ONE card for David that took all morning. But I am tickled as heck at how it turned out. He asked for apple crates from Michigan for his birthday -- yeah, and I WOULD mail an apple crate to New York ... -- he uses them for his books. Lucky for me the apple orchard didn't have any labeled "Michigan" so I bought him a jar of apple butter instead. He is also getting a beautiful dark wood mixing spoon, a set of new sheets to match the quilt I sewed him, and some pumpkin spice coffee because he introduced me to Starbucks Pumpkin Spice lattes when we went to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade several years ago.

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Sweet picnic

I am making cards instead of correcting papers. Oops ! I may have to start making get well cards, I have already gotten 3 emails from students with strep. I politely wrote back and said NO< DO NOT COME TO CLASS ... duhhh

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Monday makin's

The first card has computer generated text ... that is when I really get lazy or can't find a text stamp I want to use.

The pink card has Elemental Doodles text, it says Kindred Spirits. Sweet!


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You made my day

What do you think of the smaller image size? I can get more on a page if you want to scroll down, but they are smaller to see.

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Found the punch art bird online but adapted him for my card. Cute, huh! I tried uploading both the scanned version and the one I used a camera for just to see how the quality would show online.

This is from a tshirt ? !

Inspiration over at splitcoast was a shop with lots of Halloween clothing ... and some kiddy tie dye shirt with a cat on top of a candy corn inspired this card.


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Sketching around

This is a fun sketch to play with. On the hedgehog one I used my tab punch to create the unusual edge, on the cat one I used a nestie.

Tuesday teapot gone buggy

Tuesday is one of my favorite days for challenges on the internet. Mothermark has a different teapot every Tuesday to inspire card making. Today's was the ladybug teapot seen below. I made a couple of cards based on that photo.

Handmade paper

This was inspired by the FS135 challenge at splitcoast. I am having such fun doing my own backgrounds. This was on watercolor paper and really picked up the color better than the cardstock I have been using.

Torn paper

FS 135 at splitcoast got me tearing paper ... and this is what I ended up with.

Generic card

Not sure what this card is going to say --- maybe thanks or happy fall or happy birthday. It was inspired by Lori -- LMcAree at splitcoast.

Which one?

Well, whadday think, straight brads or crooked? On one I used versamark along the edge to get a thick row of silver embossing, on the other I just rubbed the edges on the versamark pad. Not sure which look I prefer. I definitely think using the versamark marker to write "hello" made it way too heavy a line.

LOVE my hand colored paper, that is a fun technique to do. Inspired by Lori at Splitcoast.

I'm just not vintage

I really tried to do a vintage card for the splitcoast challenge - but it just isn't in my blood I guess. I used a slip from the American Spoon store in Petoskey that gave my card a nice oldy look ... but I am not too comfortable with the style and the results probably show that!

Wild thing ... wild day!

I am cutting up my syllabus into black and white giraffes before I put on my pin stripe business suit and head to Saginaw Valley. The challenge over at mothermark was to use black and white to tone down a wild, out-of-control teenager -- some start for my psyche as I get ready to face my classes today, huh!

I printed the giraffes with versamark on the assignment section of my syllabus which I am telling you because you really can't tell what the giraffes were printed on.

But it did make a cute card. Then ... I got out the gel pen. Joan Bardee has been doing an "extreme makeover " thing on her blog and I thought I would post the before and after photo of this card. Not sure if I made it better or worse, but I had fun and that is why I make cards in the first place.

I'm back!

We are back from Petoskey. Mike took FIRST place for his age group in the half ironman race - he swam 1.2 miles in chilly Lake Michigan, biked 65 miles along the coast up and down some fierce hills, and ran 13.1 miles along the beach, 70 miles total and he took just under 7 hours to do it.

I shopped Petoskey downtown and found lots of new stamping goodies. It's good to be home ...and just in time - classes start tomorrow.

Wallpaper inspiration

Splitcoast had a wallpaper site for their Saturday inspiration. Can you believe this wallpaper is made for on a ceiling! How fun is that!

Anniversary of a birthday

My neighbor Sam celebrates the 25th anniversary of her 59th birthday early in September. I made this card for her.

Her house is full of fake flowers so I had to include a few.

Found a Queen Cat

Just found this blog and a card I really wanted to try.

You can see that it is very similar but turned on its side.

Heyyyy Lisa !

Made this card with a paint chip and some new paper that I had to have ...

Oops, late again

My sister's wedding anniversary is tomorrow. Even if I catch the mailman, which is unlikely, this card probably won't make it to Wisconsin in time.

When the world hands you scraps ...

When the world hands you scraps ... I just made this cupcake card from the scraps of my sketch card with the kitty. The ribbon is the same color as the cupcake paper, I have no clue why the scanner washed it out so much. But I tried taking a picture outside in the daylight and wasn't thrilled with that either !

I am still playing with the background paper I made a month ago - which kind of ties me into a color scheme for the month as well. I should make a whole new batch of it for fall.

At any rate ....here is my card for today's sketch at splitcoast plus a new cupcake card for my cupcake pile.

Free vet check

We are playing "CLUE" over at mothermark's blog

and I found this cat hiding in the flowerpots. Seemed only natural to have the card hiding in the cats ...ha ha ha

Then I took Snickers to the vet for her baby kitten to one year weight check. The vet didn't charge me! So this was a perfect thank you card ... I wrote"Thanks for checking on my cat ... "on the inside.

SERENDIPITY !!! I keep making these silly teapot cards and then finding a perfect use for them!

JoJot's Cards

These are cards I made over the weekend - The Sun Days card is for Mike when he does his big race this coming Sunday.

The frog card is for my friend who starts teaching Kindergarten next week and has a theme of frogs for her classroom.

Cats and Cupcakes

Oh this card was really fun ... kind of makes me want to start all over again with my 30 cards for 30 days ...

You might notice a similarity to mothermark's card here: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1227254

Cupcake again ... new and improved

Cat note: revised this cupcake today - just didn't like it the way it was ...

But I kept the shiny cherry on top.

Ever get the feeling you don't know when to stop? I remember when I was doing cake decorating, I never knew when enough was enough. And then when I was a quilter I never knew when I had just the right amount of quilting. Well, the same doubts haunt me with my cards. I made this card for Amanda's 30th and was thrilled with it but now I am thinking, gee, if I would make one more layer for the frosting part and raise it up a little, then stick the cherry in it, that would look even better. Debating with myself ...

I do love my new camera though. It is idiot proof which means I can use it. It's an Olympus 5010 12 mega pixel, but better than that, it's a turn it on and push the button kind of affair. Works great for my totally un-technical mind.

Now ... should I make another layer .... or not? Hmmmmmmmmmm

Cupcakes ... new and improved

If you think you have seen the card below, I just revised it into the card on the left. Better?

the big Three - oh

Inside of Amanda's final 30th birthday card with a detachable bookmark . Not sure how to rotate the picture, it is fine on my computer but when I open the blog it is sideways. Oh well, turn your head and you can see it !