Two new Cards and some updates!!!

Good evening everyone, I wanted to share with you two new photo's of two new cards that I created today.

This is the first card I made for Eric...He'll receive it tomorrow, I hope he likes it.

This card is now on my Etsy site.  I tried a new technique in which the

card stock is woven almost like that of a basket.

I used a fairy stamp that I received from Prima and heat embossed it with

red embossing powder.  The designs surrounding the fairy are also heat

embossed but in gold.

I have been so busy lately with things that have recently changed in my life.  I don't know if you knowmy friend Sherry, a lot of you do.  She today gave me ownership of her Yahoo! group called the PBS_Swappers. I am so honored by this and look forward to the new adventures and new friends that it will lead me to.  I am very excited about this and have every intention of keeping with the same intentions that Sherry had for this group. So I have been doing a lot with that lately, which is why I haven't been blogging to much.  I am going to try and change that.

Oh, something rather big happened to me last week.  I have a Slice machine and have had it for about a year or so I guess, well I went to www.Whyslice.com to register it {finally} where they say that for registering your product will get you entered to win their monthly prize.  Yeah yeah yeah, I NEVER win anything.  So I really didn't pay much attention to it.  When last week I received an email from Making Memories informing me that I was one of the 5 monthly winners and that I will receive $100.00 worth of Making Memories product!!!  So I hesitated a minute and even emailed the woman back and had to ask if this was a joke or not, lol.  She had a Making Memories email address

and they even had my home address stating that that's where they will be sending

the prize.  So she emailed me back and said it was NOT a joke and congratulations!!!  OMG!!!  I have been stalking my mailman now for a week, lol.  I can't hardly wait until it gets here to see what they sent me.  I will post pics and a blog about it when it gets here, {which I hope is soon}.

Well, I am off to now stalk all of you...LoL! Watch for comments!  I have a lot of catching up to

do now...

                                                
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Two new pictures of me & Eric!!!

I just wanted to share with you all two pictures of Eric {my FANTASTIC boyfriend} and me.

These were taken down at Riverbend Music Center July 21, 2010 at the Rockstar Energy Drink

Mayhem Festival.  Was a great show but as you can tell {at least by looking at me}, it poured down rain on us most of the day. 

I just received these two pics from Tami who also went with us to the concert.

I just love Eric to death and wanted to share these pics.

I will try my best to write more by Tuesday...I promise :)  I will also stop by all your blogs and see what you all have been up to lately.  I feel like I've missed out on so much of what is going on with you all.

Have a GREAT Labor Day!!!!

                                            
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I'm Sorry I feel like I have been neglecting you all...

          I have sooooo much going on now and my plate is overly filled with projects and 

just everything you can imagine.  I just wanted to really quick let you all know that I am going to make a STRONG EFFORT to visit all your blogs tomorrow and see what you all have been up to lately.  

In the meantime, here are two cards that I have created.  I made them yesterday and the one does not have an inside it yet but I am going to work on that tonight. (and we all wonder why Christy never sleeps!) LoL!                                  

I have been introduced to digital stamps and this is one that I colored in with Zig markers and then it still needed something more, so I heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.  I am so tickled with it.  It is on a card that was put through the Sizzix Texture Boutique and then lightly chalked with a light purple.

This is what is on the inside of the Puppy card

This is a regular stamp that I painted in with acrylic paints and I think it turned out beautifully.

This is an up-close look at the painted stamp.

This card has yet to have an inside yet, although I already know what I am

going to put I just haven't got to it yet.

Let me know what you think :)

I miss you all!

{HUGS}

                                              
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I've Made Two New Cards....

OK, so I said I was going to make as Renee put it "surprise" cards...this one below isn't exactly going to the much of a surprise but I DO HOPE that it will give some woman a good laugh in her time of...well, to put it delicately, her time of an unhappy week.  I am by no means making fun of it at all.  I am just trying to put a little laughter in someones daily life. 

This next card is meant for what I really hope to be a good laugh to the one receiving it.  On the outside it says "He looked at her/She looked at him..."  On the inside it reads "Everyone who saw "That Look" wanted to throw-up a little. Congratulations on your engagement"  I don't know about you, but I thought it was to good to pass up and not make this card. Here it is...

Please let me know what you think of these cards.  Am I being to much of a well...smart@ss here or are they OK?  I have already put them on my Etsy shop, so I hope they are OK.  I will talk to you more soon!  Lots to do here still!  Have a good night everyone! {HUGS}

                                             
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I HAVE MISSED YOU ALL!!!!

First of all {HUGS} to all my friends and readers, I have missed blogging for what feels like a month.  I know just a few days-to a week maybe...but you know what I'm saying here, I'm sure you can relate.

Well a few things have happened over the last week. I sold 2 items off my Etsy shop!!!  They were both sold to the same woman and the cards were the Bad Day Huh? card and the Self-Pity card.  So I am thrilled to pieces about that!  Also, the person I sold the smoking guardian angel card to said she LOVED the card and it was better than she had envisioned it.  So again...thrilled!  I am currently working on more cards of course.  I have a few ideas that I am working with as well as some completed cards that I just have to post.

I am mulling over the idea of making cards that look one way but when you open them, will surprise you.  Meaning, take my Self Pity card for instance, it was pretty to look at in the front and has a beautiful flower on it and says a genuinely caring statement, when opened it says something to make you laugh and it's something that you weren't expecting.  I don't know, I really want to try that for a while.  What do you all think.  Have you had any experience with that regardless if its a card or not, but any feed back would be great!

Here are some cards that I have been working on...only two of these are going to be posted onto Etsy b/c the others I am trying to keep for a gift box as a raffle prize....

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The three Christmas cards are going into the raffle card box, I am making more for that but that is what I have right now.  The raffle gift is part of my entry fee for the Yellow Ribbon Center Fund Raiser that will be going on here in Cincinnati next month.  I am looking forward to that!

Let's see what else.  Oh I was asked to become the full time Moderator for the yahoo group PBS_Swappers which I am so excited to do.  So far it's been OK, but then again it's only been a week, LoL! Just kidding, I am sure everything will be fine and go well. 

I have had a topsy-turvy kinda week last week as far as physically goes.  I was on a lot of medicine for this and that.  Well I went off most of them, mainly b/c I just felt I didn't need them.  Well after "hearing it" from my mom and doctors, Christy went back on all the meds at one time.  Yeah, not pretty.  I looked like a stumbling drunk for a good part of the week.  I could hardly type, and I think I am a pretty fast typist, but I could hardly get a sentence out without trouble.  Sooooo, I'm off again.  I know I know, bad idea, but I couldn't help it.  I couldn't function like that.  I may try just starting out with a few at a time and not all at once and get myself back up to where I "need" to be, but I just can't handle all that at one time.

Tomorrow {well today now} I will see Eric for the first time since Thursday.  I miss him and I can't wait til he comes over.  I was invited over there Sunday for dinner by his mom, but I had a headache and just couldn't do it.

Well I am on a typing fest now, so I will close and {HUGS} again to you all!!!

           

Ever Have A Dream?

Last Saturday, Eric came to pick Kristin and I up to go to McDonald's and that was the only place we thought we were going.  Well Eric mentioned to me to bring my cameras and meet him downstairs when he got here.  So we drove not far from where I currently live to this BEAUTIFUL home for sale.  We are always looking for homes for sale and he and I love the wrap around porch style homes.  I personally love the homes that have at least 2 floors.  So as you can see by these pictures I immediately fell in love!!!

This house has 9 rooms, 4 bedrooms and 2 full baths, fireplace, a huge back yard, a sun room, large balcony off the master bedroom...Isn't it gorgeous? I WANT IT!!!   LoL!  I just looked again at the listing and it has a sale pending :(  I think I shall cry now.  Not that Eric and I were going to buy it, but still.  It was just a wee bit to much for us right now.  Well I can dream.  Someday I will be living in my dream home with Eric by my side.

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Photo's of the day!

We spent the Fourth of July up at Lake Waynoka and I honestly cannot remember if I posted these particular 2 pictures.  I love them because they are simple and capture the innocence of the moment. 

Here is Kristin writing her name in the sand.  Actually I think this was the second time she had to do this because the water washed the first one away.  But I love it because it's a candid photo of her just enjoying the moment.

Here is Kevin, Kristin, and I in the water just about to die of laughter when Eric took this picture. Right after the picture was taken we all went under the water because they are both sitting on me and I couldn't take it anymore. LoL!

The story with the bucket is this...I was wading in the water when I honestly thought something was attacking my leg, well yeah, turns out to have been the attacking purple bucket.  It now sits here in my apartment cleaned out holding guess what...yup...crafting supplies! LoL!  So anyway, we were taking the bucket and trying to breathe underwater while holding bucket over our heads.  So we needed entertainment OK...LoL!  It was a great time!

If you want to see more great photo please check these out at the daily blog party. There is something different there everyday for everyone. 

Thanks for stopping by!  More later from me most likely, I have to go create now!

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First sale on my Etsy shop was a personal request to create this card ~ Smoking Guardian Angel ~

I had my first sale on Etsy last week and it was a personal request to make this card.  She had stated that she saw a card with a stick figured type angel smoking a cigarette and on that it she wanted it to say "Do You Ever Feel Like Your Guardian Angel Went Out For A Smoke?" 

She said it was up to me to do what I wanted to this card, but just to have that particular saying in it. 

First thing I did was to grab a stick figure then work on the wings.  This was the hardest part...I told everyone that I was going to go blind by the end of the night doing this.

First I had to find wings!  There's a lot of wings out there on the web I'll tell ya that!  So I search high and low and eventually came across these which I fell in love with and thought would be perfect for the card.

What I did to the wings is I clear embossed over the entire pair with the exception of the very top curved portion.

Then after the embossing I then went back over them with a Zig black marker carefully to get all the detail.

Then I used Stickles on the top curved portion.

This is what the wings looked like before anything has been done to them...

This is a picture of the wings after I was finished with them...

Here are two pictures of the wings before and after together...

(here is a side by side view)

(here is a view top and bottom)

For the sun on the front I heat embossed a white piece of paper with yellow, attached that to the front of card, then added the front part of the sun with yellow Stickles.  I also found on photobucket a picture of those ashtrays we see outside and used that.  The cigarette is actually a paint brush with red paint on it that was on an iron-on I had in my stash of supplies.

Here is the card front all put together...

This is up close of the smoking cigarette and wings on the angel...

This is the inside of the card...

The two corners were dry embossed using a stencil then colored in with a purple marker...

I really had fun with this card, I hope the client really likes it!

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