Cheers...Again

I had this SU! stamp set out and decided to give the black and white background with a pop of color behind a die cut panel a shot. This really is a cool and so many possibilities

The die is from MFT.

Thanks for looking!

Eva

Trust Me

I thought I'd pull out an old SU! set for a little fun. 

Everyone needs to color fun little drinks from time to time. 

I did realize I need more pink in my Copic collection and I now have some on the way!

Have a great day.

Eva

A Note...

There is that color combo again...you know the one that resembles or leads one to think about a day that centers around love and everything sweet...

It could be a Valentine...or it could be a note on any other day of the year :).

This card was a tad different for me as I used chevron pieces cut with my Cricut.

I sure dont utilize that machine as much as I should, although it is getting more use this year than it did last year!

Thanks for stopping by my blog! 

Valentines Day is here, so this will be my last card specifically made for the day, this year!

This is a super simple card. I used a scrap paper and heart punch. I stamped the SU! Sanded background stamp on the card front then placed the punched strip on the front.

I used my glue pen to trace shapes and added glitter.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Desert Heat Thank You

Right after Christmas, I made some thank you cards that I actually used!  Woohoo!

That does not happen very often here (unfortunately, lately that refers to the making and the sending!).

 

I, again, apologize for the photo. Its not that great but it's a phone photo! I was pretty sure I needed to just snap a quick pic and send them, or I would loose my focus and just not get them sent.

I used one of my favorite Kaleidacolor Pads Desert Heat. The stamps are from SU! and PTI.

Thanks for looking!

Have a fabulous day!

Eva



Thinking of You....

Here is one of the cards that I made at our last Craft Day at the church, in February.

I LOVE the pop of green against the orange.

I think this has to be one of my all-time favorites. It is such a warm card!

Moving is done, selling still happening, and unpacking will be going on for along time along side of remodel projects....forever it will take,lol.

Trying to get my stamp room "workable" as it will be the last room to get a remodel, so it is just going to have to be functional for awhile :)

Stamp Supplies:

Stamps: Hero Arts, SU! and PTI

Other: CLear embossig powder, pearls, embossing folder, graduated shades of orange and sponges.

More Butterflies...

Butterflies, butterflies, butterflies...they are EVERYWHERE. Everywhere in the papercrafting world that is. It's still a tad cool for them to be flying around in the back yard.

I have wanted to try this die out since the first time I laid eyes on it in the SU! catty.

I finally borrowed it from my SU! demo Tammy, and I have to say it will be the next thing I purchase at stamp night. The possibilities are endless!

This is a scrap card. Just pulled out three colors from the scrap box that were different but seemed to work togther.

The green betterfly has been stamped on and the other two are made with white core paper, so when embossed the white core acts almost like an outline for the embossed design. Here is a little close up. 

Thanks for checking my card out! Have a fabulous weeked!

2011 Top 10

On the PTI forum, there is a thread asking folks to post their Top 10 Favorite cards (or creations) that they made during the year of 2011. I did this last year and decided that I wanted to play along again this year. I enjoyed going through all of my blog posts and looking at what I made through the year. I surprised myself when looking, I do believe the quality of my card making has gone way up this past year! So here ya go...what I think to be my Best 10 of the year!

Now that I am all excited about what I made last year, I am pumped to get creating to see what I can come up with in 2012. Of course, I am headed to check out everyone else's Top10! A little blog hoppin on New Year's Eve, with Big Bang Theory on TV, husband and pups...and if I am really lucky a trip to DQ!

Welcome 2012!

Happy Birthday Esther!

This was a fun card to make for such a sweet and fun person! Today we celebrate our dear friend, Esther! I so love and miss Esther...and Doug and Abby! Abby and Sam played ball for a few years together in the summer...which left us mom's to hang out. Talk about a "cooker"...the state tournament where Esther and Rhonda made hamburgers....yummm! Summer's just aren't the same without the Dillon family! Esther is an amazing lady with a great sense of humor who works very hard to take care of her family and who is always learning or studying something!!

Esther...we wish you the best birthday ever and hope your next year is full of blessings, fun and sunshine!

Valentine's Galore!

On one of my last posts I made the comment that I tend to struggle when it comes to making Valentine's each year. I have decided maybe it is all in the timing. This afternoon, I was anle to bust out several Valentine's...some cute ones too!

Ever searching for inspiration??? Try the card isle at TARGET! I have many photos on my phone of great cards I want to remake with my own pizazz and this is one of them. I found this one last year at Valentine's Day in Target...the original said "Burning Love". I though "You light my fire" was a good sentiment as well. Belwo is a close up of the macth book. This sentiment was computer generated.

I am going to aplogize for the photos right off the bat...new computer, old PSE 4 not compatible and still deciding what I want to use in the future leaves me limited to the small featured program that came with the system. 

 Below is a little Valentine that features glitter covered hearts punched with the SU Heart Punch. A little twine, some pearls, PTI sentiment and embossing...and let's not forget that edge die from PTI---

FUN stuff!

 The next two card feature the same puff hearts that were on the first card. I found these at Hobby Lobby in the Valentines isle. 40% off and they were awful cute for stickers! So in my cart they went. The cool thing is that I still have over half the sheet left even after making these three cards.

 Simple was again the theme of this card. Puffy hearts. stich stamp from Hot Off the Press and sentiment from SU.

 This last card also features a stitch stamp from Hot Off the Press along with PTI Just the Ticket stamps and die.

So there you have it...that's it for me and Valentine's for this year. I hope you all get warm fuzzies from everyone you desire this year, we will be celebrating by watching a couple of high school basketball games. Smooches to All!

Curtain Call Color Challenge #55

My goodness...it is going to be a long winter if I continue to insist on taking photos outside! The batteries in my camera were already protesting this morning,lol.

I continued with the grateful theme for just this one more post and decided to take on a little color challenge this week and do the

Curtain Call Color Challenge.

As for the grateful...today is Vetern's Day so today we celebrate and show our gratitude to all those who have served our country. Thank you to all the veterns out there!

 The layout might look a little familiar too as it was a Clean and Simple layout from a couple of weeks ago that I just never made it around to doing. The pain from the pinched nerve is subsiding, yeah! Thanks for the wonderful thoughts and prayers!

Supplies:

Stamps: PTI Signature greeting and SU

Praying For You...

Stamps: Stampin'Up (sentiment), InqueBoutique (Flourishes)
Paper and Ink: Baja Breeze
Sizziz Impression Plate and Misc. Ribbon

Season's Greetings Already...

This is another colored image that has been hanging around waiting to be loved. So I finally made time to love it. And I really LOVE it! Unfortunately, you will never see me make another card with it as I sold it in the garage sale. Oops :) Oh well, there are always plenty more where that one came from. The little pearl embellishments came in a pearl color and I colored them with my Copic markers to better match and added a little more color and visual interest at the bottom.

Monday, Monday...

Here we are...another Monday! Feeling a little more relaxed than I probably should,lol. Thought I would post this little number for viewing. This is one of those images I have had colored for some time. It was one of my first successful attempts with creating clouds. Hope everyone has a Happy Monday...I suppose I should get out of relaxed mode and see what I need to create a sense of urgency about for the afternoon.

Happy Birthday Pete....

Since my BIL has officially received his birthday card in the mail...I can now post it on my blog. I will say that this is one of my most favorite EVER man cards that I have made. Love the woodgrain background! Need to get off the computer and clean the house, make the MM card for mom and finish digging stuff out for the garage sale. That is a list...so off I go! Have a GREAt weekend!!

Something A Little Fun...

I love polka dots! They always strike me as crisp and clean little bubbles of fun, so cheery. I have now depleted my stock of photgraphed new cards to post so I am going to have to get on the stick and make some new ones. I am lacking on things to journal...which might be good after couple of my recent posts. Oh how about this....a grateful list...haven't done that in a while. I encourage you to share a grateful list as well. Post a link and I will be sure to check out your list :) 1. I am thankful I am employed and that 90% of the time my job is fun. 2. I am grateful for my husband who puts up with me and my beautiful child who is growing up into an amazing young lady. 3. I am grateful for a God who listens and answers my prayers. Sometimes the answers aren't always what I had in mind but He is always there listening and working the "mater plan". 4. I am thankful for long standing friendships that have stood the test of many trials. 5. I am thankful for the opportunity to make new friendships and continue to grow exsisting ones! Make new friends but keep the old, one is silver and the other gold. 6. I am grateful for the past, it has formed me into the person I am today. Whether good or bad, it all had a part in getting me to the place I am today. 7. I am gateful that God made dogs. There is nothing better than that cold nose against mine in the morning waking me up...and the feel of that soft fur on my fingers! 8. Homegrown tomatoes....gotta be grateful for those...so yummy! 9. Grateful that fall will soon be here. Falling leaves, high school football, cooler temps and campfires. 10 I am grateful for nature and the beauty it brings into a day. Birds, clouds, water, flowers, it's all awesome!

Birthday Celebrations...

I did this little birthday card from a sketch challenge over at Clean and Simple Stamping. This is one of my favorite color combos...and I am loving this new flower set from TAC. I did another card using this set...thought I was doing another sketch challenge...looked at the sketch again and I was not even close.lol. So I guess that one will be just a regular post someday.

Saturday Night...

...and I aint got nobody, I got some money cause I just got paid...Ok that was not where I intended to start but that is where it ended up,LOL! In all seriousness, just playing in my stamp room almost in the dark, trying to make a card. Maybe that is why I am struggling cause I have no light! It's too hot to turn on all the lights. It is 11:15pm and I would dare to say that it is probably still 90 degrees or higher outside...ick! I always start creating when it is almost time to go to bed...I think I am wired like a teenager...sleep all day and play all night { I think that is another song, hehe} if I could. So better finish this post and go finish the card...or at least push things to the front of the table so the dog won't be tempted to eat my latest creation. This little creation..I LOVE it! I took a stab at the puffy paper flower things I keep seeing. It is fun and easy. Stamp an image on 6 circle scallops. Wad them up into balls, then semi flatten out. Poke a hole in the center and connect them all with a brad. Once they are secured together crunch up the layers again and waaaahhhhlaaa--flower head. The stamp in the center of the flower is from SU as well as the stem. The sentiment is in one of the newly released TAC sets...it is an AWESOME set!

Daisies 4 U...

It is here...the last ball tournament of the softball season for us. Tomorrow we take off to KC again to see what we can do this weekend. It has been a long season but fun. I have enjoyed many parts of this year in softball and there have been a few heart stopping moments as well. These daisies are from the Friendship Jar Fillers set from PTI...great BIG flowers! I decided that they needed a little bling in the middle...a little sparkle and it looks so awesome in person.

It's the little things....

That make life BIG. We spent a lot of time watching the College Softball World Series this year and during the Series they talked alot about the influence John Wooden had on athletes and those around him. In our house the last few weeks, we have been wondering around with the quote..."Little Things Make Big Things Happen", in our minds. But how on Earth do we teach this to our children? The obvious answer is that we lead by example and repeated exposure to these examples. I am finding, as a mom of a teenager, that this can be a little bit of a lengthy and challenging process. They know the details yet at times, sometimes very important times, the energy and effort to execute the details just doesn't happen. Since I am pretty positive that this is not the first generation of teenagers who has displayed this type of behavior, I find myself thinking back to being a teen. I wonder when it was that I figured out that the details were very impotant and it was best just to do it right the first time and that there is a pay off to doing the job right. I do remember my mom harping at me about the string art lion thing that "I didn't finish what I started" and I will have to say that once I got mad and sat down and finished it...there was a great sense of accomplishment felt. I have to wonder if it wasn't my first job at Hardee's, more so my boss Lucy that influenced what seems now to be a little bit of my OCD tendencies with scheduling, routine and details. That woman was a hard nut and getting a compliment even harder...but we wanted to make her happy. Maybe it was so she wouldn't get mad at us but we cared about what she thought, to do the job right the first time. I wonder what or who it will be in my kiddos life that will help flip the proverbial switch. For now, we will keep doing everything we are doing and continue to look for better ways to say and do it to teach the lessons.