Thinking of you

Well the first thing I did this morning was stick my head out the front door to see if the weather people were right....they were. The humidity is gone, for now, so I took a big breath of delicious fresh air and came back in to open the windows! Unfortunately I have to spend the day inside at work.

I think this stamp is so pretty. I used it at a friends house, but wish I had stamped a few more....or maybe I should just put it on my wish list. The layout idea came from Mojo Monday.

Thanks for having a visit to my blog today.

Have a great day!

Adorable Hedgies

Happy Wednesday!! Yesterday I finished up a couple more cards with my already watercoloured images. I just love these Penny Black hedgie stamps! Pretty easy card..... I cased the bow and button idea from a blog I follow. I'm noticing a lot of cards with buttons on them again. Brings me back to my childhood when all we had were the scraps our mothers would let us use....old fabric, ricrac, felt, buttons, and white glue.....oh, and lets not forget cheerios! And we would create a masterpiece that was much to heavy to hang on the fridge....! We've come a long way, baby! Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy your day! Let's go and see if there are any cheerios in the cupboard.....

Who-o-o loves you!

This cute little card is for my girlie who is away at camp for the summer. There is a bit of a story behind it. We were watching Ellen one day....she took two boys to the finished, but not yet open, Harry Potter theme park in Florida. You can look up this segment of the show on youtube...it is quite funny. They stopped at the Owl shop, which if you know anything about Harry Potter, you need an Owl in order to send and receive mail. Ellen started with the owl sounds.....'whooo....whooo.....whooo doesn't like owls.....whoooo'! The young boys really didn't get it or they were just ignoring her, but it sent Kristen and I into fits of laughter, and we spent the rest of the day imitating Ellen.....'whooo doesn't like nasi for supper....whooo....whooo is crazy'! (well we know the answer to that one!) Ah, Kristen I miss you and your quirky sense of humor. It was fun to make this card, and I'm sure she will think it an absolute...hoot!

Petal Prints

Good morning...looks like another beautiful day!

I've been enjoying playing with this old SU set Petal Prints. I'm finding I really like the look of raising some of the images on the card....takes a little more time to cut everything out, but looks so pretty. I inked it up with rose red, apricot, and celery. Sponged the background with the the red and apricot, and a touch of blue. Just wondering if this is a bit too happy looking to be a Sympathy card, but i needed one so that's what it is. I left the other two blank (always make at least 2 or 3 extra while everything is inked anyway) .... could serve as a birthday or anniversary card as well.

Well, what will I stamp today? Yesterday evening I watched the movie 'Flicka' (CBC Sunday movie) and then watched 'Australia',....feeling like I should stamp some horses.

Happy stamping to you too!

Togetherness!!

These cute little mice are sharing a hug, and maybe a kiss under a yellow daisy.

This Penny Black stamp is watercoloured with markers, raised the flower and feet.

This morning I picked up a couple of Crafts n'things magazines at the library with some very neat card ideas....may have to give some of those a try.

Thanks for looking...bye for now.

Crazy for Cupcakes

Hello all!!

I'm working on getting some of my many stamped images coloured and made into cards. This is from SU set Crazy for Cupcakes, coloured with markers and some stickles on the icing. Mmmm....yummy looking cupcakes!

Thanks for stopping by.

Celebrate You

This birthday card is for a lovely lady who is celebrating her birthday this month. I think I sent it a bit too early as her birthday isn't until the end of the month....oh well, better too early than late, which is what I usually am.

These pretty flowers were sitting in my pile of coloured images waiting to be finished. I have so many of those word charms that I bought at $rama and hardly ever use.....what else is new...... I added some dp, ribbon, and of course yellow stickles on the flowers.

Last week I moved my table and stamping ensemble from the basement to an empty upstairs bedroom that has two wonderful bright windows. That called for some re-organization, and the overwhelming, almost embarassing fact that I have alot of 'stuff'. My hubby has named the room my 'studio', and thinks all the 'stuff' is actually pretty neat. Never mind that he doesn't know I haven't used alot of it yet. I am reminded of the words from the lovely lady who this card is for...her hubby said, 'it's ok to buy it, as long as you use it'.....aw, words of wisdom. He obviously has never been to a stamping store where everything calls out to us....'take me home'!

So, today is another one of those 42 degree humidex days, that warns us to stay indoors. OK.

I have some cleaning to do, and then gotta watch the World Cup match - Hup Holland Hup!!!!

Thanks for visiting today. Stay cool!

Laughter and Sunshine

My laughter and sunshine has once again gone to bring laughter and sunshine into the lives of others. (sigh)

Daisies

This pretty daisy card I also made earlier this week while crafting with my girlfriends. The other lovely lady that makes cards brought a sample of this one along for us to make. It was so fun to see all the different colours everyone chose for their daisies...lots of creativity in action! I chose to do coral, but had to finish it at home since neither one of us brought ribbon that matched. So I added some lace and pearls too, and of course some stickles on the yellow.

On another note, Brittany surprised me by coming home for the weekend a day earlier than I expected! My dear husband and Kristen knew this, but wanted to surprise me. Do you think I can call in sick tomorrow and make cards with her all day??

Time well spent!!

On Monday and Tuesday I enjoyed some wonderful time away with friends at a cottage near Bayfield. We did what girls love to do best....chat, shop, eat, drink wine, laugh, and of course, make crafts! Two of us are card makers so we brought along our card making stuff. I made these two cards to share with the ladies. One of the other ladies makes jewellery so she shared with us her beads and taught us how to make bracelets and earrings. It was very fun to learn something new. But I think I'll stick to cards...those beads are pretty small!

The food was amazing...vegetarian lasagna, a delicious salad, bean salad, key lime pie, homemade bread....need I go on!! I just love these ladies and our time spent together!!

Shocking !!!

I made a card!!! Shocking, I know! And not just one....but 4!!

Ok, but I must give true credit where credit is due. Yesterday morning I joined the Monday morning ladies for stamping and fellowship. I had not been in so long, and because my mojo seemed to have dried up, wasn't sure what I was going to work on. But my friend Anja said she had a simple idea for a card, to bring along artichoke paper and cream paper. So I did, and voila! A pretty but simple card. Love the punch. So I made 4 and put different sentiments on them when I got home.

Thanks, Anja. I get by with a little...and sometimes a lot of.....help from my friends!

Thanks Helina for opening your home....your craft room is awesome!

Enjoy your day, my friends.

Bye for now.

A Beautiful Day to Celebrate !!

This past weekend we celebrated my parents 50th Wedding Anniversary! What a beautiful evening of good food, shared memories, and lots of laughter!!

The past few weeks have been a whirlwind of planning, phonecalls, shopping....

It has been such a joy to plan this party for two of the most important and special people in my life!

I just wanted to share a few picture with you of the people in my life who I love with all my heart....my family!

Apple Emma

Good morning! Did anyone else hear that rain and wind during the night? That was quite a little storm we had! Hopefully that means today will be nice and sunny, although it's not looking that way.

I have coloured this image before, but this time it turned out better....guess I just needed practice. Just pretend along with me that the DP is apples and not cherries (which it could be?) I like this simple layout. No sentiment, may add one later or put it inside.

So I'm off to work today....with Kristen. We always have such fun working together.

Enjoy your day, whatever you are doing.

Thanks for stopping by.

Spring Flowers

Good morning....it's Friday!!! A quick post for today, no watercolouring this time. I pulled out this old set from SU called Paint Prints because I saw a card in the store that I liked and I thought to myself ..'I can make that'. So this is sort of my version of what I saw. It's brighter in real life, as bright as you can get using So saffron and mellow moss. Some cinnamon stickles in the middle, ribbon and rhinestones.

So now it's off to get ready for work.

Thanks for stopping by, and for all your kind comments on my blog.

Have a great day...I think it's back to winter coats today....brrrr!

Loving my Magnolia

My first Magnolia stamp....I think her name is Tilda! I have been admiring these stamps on other blogs wondering how I could get my hands on some, when lo and behold I came across some at the SGD garage sale! I can't even tell you how excited I was...but I was veeeerrryy excited! (I found out later that you can get them at The Town Scrapper in Petrolia). Can't wait to colour up some more of these cute images. Thanks for looking. Enjoy your day!

Happy Birthday Balloons

This little cutie was one of my great garage sale finds at SGD. She is mostly water coloured with markers again, but I wanted to do something different with her dress. Paper-piece it!!...brilliant...and easy, may have to do that again. And how about that bow?....made with my handy dandy bow maker that I was ready to throw at the wall until my friend Anja taught me how to use it properly! What are friends for?!! Thanks for stopping by. See you tomorrow.

Hedgie on the Run

This cute little hedgie is another one of the images watercoloured with markers. I think this card still needs something in the bottom right-hand corner...maybe a sentiment or some trailing roses.

With all this colouring I`ve been doing, I should have a post for every day this week. Come back and visit.

For a Special Guy

My daughter Brittany is home from University for the Easter weekend, so we spent some time making cards on Saturday night. I have a lot of coloured images that need to be made into cards, so I worked on that while she indulged her creative self in my 'new' garage sale stamps and paper. I have to laugh at her though, when a card doesn't turn out exactly as she hoped she just shrugs and says....'oh well, I'll give it to a boy!'

This stamp is from Greeting Farms, watercoloured with my SU markers. This did turn out the way I hoped, but I'm still giving it to a boy!

Have a great day.

Simple Birthday

I am probably one of the few people that will admit to liking cloudy, raining days. Everyone loves the sun-shiny days when you can get outside....it brightens our mood....and we can see all the dust on the furniture. I love those days too, but then I feel so guilty about sitting in my dark basement at my craft table making cards all day....on a day like today...not so much. So on the agenda for today ~ get some groceries, run some errands, make some cards. This card I made a while ago, just never posted it. Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy your day.

Easel card

The lady I work with asked me to make a card for her mother-in-laws 80th birthday. So after some blog searching and checking out the tutorials on Splitcoast I decided to try my hand at an easel card. They are actually quite easy to make, just a lot more 'card' space to fill up. She was pleased with it, and if I'm allowed to say so, so was I. Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!