forgot to share...

a couple of cards I made for The Crafters Cafe open house the end of December.

I did a lot of the photography at night, so the colors are a bit off, which is why I'll be showing 2 images of each card.

First I made this Birthday card for my daughter's Boyfriend's birthday (Jan. 7)

 The colors are a bit more accurate in the bottom picture.

The card base is a pre-made one by DCWV, in an indigo shade.  The brownish-burgundy and the blue floral brownish-burgundy were both scraps. I have no idea what company they are. It is colored with my STAMPIN' UP markers. The brads are from ADDICTEDTORUBBERSTAMPING. The digi image is from MO MANNING and the digi sentiment is from JEANNE'S CRAFTS. It is on foam dots raised above the scalloped circle punched with a STAMPIN' UP punch. The border punch/embosser is by Martha Stewart from EK SUCCESS.

Entered in:


Gingerloft challenges ...anything goes
Crafty Cardmakers ...NO floral embellishments
Stamp a Doodle's Blog a Doodle ...Birthdays
Shopping our stash ...use a border punch
My Time to Craft ...my favorite embellishment (brads)
Cards for Men ...boys n their toys


This next card is a thank you card and I have sent this off to a friend in the UK. (Already rec'd also)

 The colors are more accurate in the top picture.

Pre-made card base by DCWV. printed paper by BASIC GREY (kioshi). Border and corner punch by Martha Stewart for EK SUCCESS. Buttons by DOODLEBUG DESIGNS(2 solid, 2 frosted translucent). Digi Image by JELLYPARK FRIENDS. Digi sentiment by RAINDROP ECHO DESIGNS. Coloring was with my STAMPIN' UP Markers.

Entered in:

Sparkles forum Challenges ...new crafty things (buttons & paper)

Gingerloft challenges ...anything goes
Incy Wincy Designs ...bold n bright
Crafty Cardmakers ...NO floral embellishments

Shopping our stash ...use a border punch
Paper Take Weekly ...buttons, bows, blooms & bling (buttons)
Divas by Design ...New beginnings and/or thanks

Happy 70th Birthday...

To my hubster Ron!! ( Sunday)  My sweet grump in his usual form didn't want any hoopla! However, I indeed made in a card to note how I felt honored to have been with him for 27 of his birthdays :)

Occasionally I give more detail or embellishments on his cards, but he always says make it simple and safe for fancy stuff for your swaps or etsy (...if you ever actually do it, LOL)

so to me, this is a CAS card.

 

I cheated and scanned it, and while it looked great the other night when I edited it, now, I see the white is a bit red tinted. That is what happens when your Comp. monitor is on it's way out and you are on pain meds, LOL! (don't hold it against me)

Ok onto the deets!

Real red card stock by STAMPIN' UP, white card stock by GEORGIA-PACIFIC, printed paper...old scraps. Black German scraps by COLLAGE STUFF, I used MARTHA STEWART'S half daisy border punch (for lack of remembering it's real name)  down the outside edge of the card, and attached a strip of the black small plaid paper under it to be even with the back edge of the card. then then I used the same black small plaid paper  (a strip) over a wider strip of red checked paper behind the image and the sentiment. The German Scrap is running down the folded side of the card.

The "country Path" image(a country path or road that leads to a farm in the distance, at the front of the path are wild orchids)* is colored with markers by STAMPIN' UP.  I used white Enamel accents by RANGER to fill in the open holes of the daisy border punch and I put a dot on each corner of the image, it almost looks like brads (the scanner flattened them a bit more than I wanted but...)

"Country Path" digi image by DIGI DOODLE SHOP

The sentiment is by RAINDROP ECHO DESIGNS: 

"A birthday is just the first day of another 365 day journey around the sun" it comes with a smaller..."enjoy the journey" which I placed on the inside left of the card, as I did my own writing on the inside right.*

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Birthday Sundaes ...Birthday

One Stitch at a Time ...use a digi

Victorine Stamps ...Birthday

KB Cute Mondays ...use a digi

Anything Goes ...Birthday

A Spoonful of Sugar ...Birthday

Cards for Men ...CAS

Tuesday Throwdown ...Birthday

Card Making Mama ...Birthday

Frosted Designs ...Color in an Image

Craft your days Away ...Birthday

(* is for my sight impaired readers)

a quick card, and Happy Birthday to me...

Hello, I am a "Longest Night Baby" for more than one reason...1.) the date of my birth, and  2.) when my mom went into labor, and 3.) the fact that it was 1960, and I was breech, so MOM had a really long night!
Today I am 25 with 25 years experience, and 1 extra year for good luck! LMAO!!

I am not going to put any hoop-di-do on my blog today, as tomorrow is the Mad Tea Party blog hop, and I will have a minor table setting for Tea and cake with hubby and I outside. I hope to have us both in some kind of hat. It is not really called a MAD-HATTER tea party, but I think it would add to the MADness.

I am in the middle of making a pennant banner for this little soiree, that will be given away to one of the tea party commentors. HOWEVER, I am giving away 1 extra secret prize to 5 of my true and long time followers. That means anyone that is a PUBLIC follower of my blog as of TODAY, will be eligible.
Stay tuned for tomorrow's post, it will have the info of the tea party, and a link to the list if you feel like hopping it is be hosting by "A FANCIFUL TWIST". Plus it will contain what is needed from you my true and long time followers to be in the running for one of the 5 secret prizes.

OK, now for some small art, a card. This card fulfills 2 challenges.

DezinaWorld  to celebrate our town state or country
and Do You Stack Up Challenge Blog to use a star

 Real Red card stock by STAMPIN' UP, striped paper-old MAKING MEMORIES, star paper by Kim Anderson for PROVOCRAFT, border punch and embosser by MARTHA STEWART, Free Blackfoot Native American image, Free "America" Subway ad, I cut up, and digi sentiment by RAINDROP ECHO DESIGNS-"Have a beautiful Summer"(also cut, but used the whole thing)

Misc.: ribbon, red bling, Bakers, twine, Large Metal Star charm, Foam tape.

The Star, Native American, and ALL words EXCEPT "Have a Beautiful Summer" are floated on the foam tape

Father's day and so much more!

Happy Father's day to everyone out there who is a dad, acts like a dad, wants to be a dad, is just like a dad or a dad-to-be!!


Today is Father's day for my husband as well as everyone else's husband. Yet it is sooo much more.
Ten years ago today; Father's day 2001, Ron had a massive Heart Attack, it took over 18 hours for his cardiac enzymes to get more normal. After a stress test on Thursday afternoon, they send him home on Thursday evening. Everyone was notably happy and a bit surprised that he had borderline damage, as well as lived through it. (NOTE: his symptoms started somewhere around 3am, he did not say anything to me until 9am....%$#@^& MEN!!)

Friday was a day that was uneventful. 

Saturday we got up, and I was making breakfast, while he was playing on the computer, and he said to me my arm is bothering me, I am going to go lay on the couch. (his left arm) I was concerned(being an educated health care worker). I told him I thought perhaps we should go back to the hospital. He waved me off. Twenty minutes later, he said "Ok, I'll go back."
Sure enough he had a 2nd heart attack in the same area of the heart. He was kept in the ICU for 3 days and then was sent to Deborah Heart and Lung Hospital where he would undergo Angiography, and possible stenting or whatever.  the whatever turned out to be a double bypass.

That started our summer from Hell, as I ended up having a kidney stone that wouldn't pass, my Mom ended up in the hospital down in FL with chest pains...no heart attack, but she needed 5 bypasses, which were followed by infections in one of her leg incisions. Then they had her on too many BP medications, and he kept passing out, they had lowered it so low., and In August we had to put my beautiful White GS "Honey" down (tumor enveloping her bladder and ureters)...then of course we all know what happened on Sept. 11.

anyway...

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY RONNIE!! and CONGRATULATIONS on this your TENTH ANNIVERSARY of SURVIVING a MASSIVE HEART ATTACK!!! I love you and am OH SOOO GRATEFUL that you are STILL HERE WITH US!!

Here is the card I made for him, I'm keeping the inside to myself :)

Card stock by STAMPIN' UP, Printed paper-BASIC GREY-Olivia, German scrap by COLLAGE STUFF, roses rec'd as a RAK, Top sentiment computer generated, bottom sentiment by RAINDROP ECHO DESIGNS, Prisma color pencils and blending pencil, Digi Image--Unknown, can anyone help with that?