Easter

We had a nice service at church this morning as well as doing the Lord's Supper.

Afterwards we went up to Suzan's and went with her to her sister's house to join her family for Easter dinner. After dinner her nephew took a couple of little kids out on the lake in a canoe and they asked me if Alex went if he had to wear a life jacket. I told them it wasn't necessary and that he'd had expreience handling a canoe...afterwards George told me that he could really tell that Alex had handled a canoe before.

I started working on Mishal's floor this morning. The quicker her room is done the quicker I can start working on my room, the quicker my house can be clean and peaceful...and the quicker I can scrap and make cards to my heart's content.

I'm making sure Alex cleans his room every day...hoping to keep it from getting messy.

Camp Cooking 101

It seems like eons ago that we went on this camping trip instead of just 2 years ago. This was the first time we had ever had omelets cooked in ziploc freezer bags...and it's now a favorite camping recipe.

4 flowers

This weekend I went looking for inspiration, and pulled up a card from each of my favorite artists that I would like to re-create. This card was lifted from http://stampinat6213.blogspot.com/2009/02/delicate-polka-dot-punches.html. Most of the paper is Americn Craft with some SU cardstock thrown in there. I used a little acrylic stamp by Studio G for the flowers. The inks I used were Soft Sky, Wild Wasabi, Regal Rose, and Ridinghood Red. The scalloped circles were punched with a SU punch and then I used a paper piercer to put the individual holes in the scallops, the circles were created with EK Success punches. I used the SU mat pack to punch the dots on the bottom strip. I used a ribbon punch to attach the ribbon at the top.

VLVFeb01

I did this for the Viva La Verve Challenge.

I wanted to make a card to send to Grandma (whose name is Rose). I had this pp with roses, and found a rose stamp in my collection. I stamped it on water color paper with black Staz-on, and then water colored it using SU Aqua Painters. The inks I used were Pale Plum and Perfectly Pomegranate, Mellow Moss and Always Artichoke. The ovals I cut out using my Coluzzle. I rounded the corners with a punch. I inked the edges of the pink layers with Perfectly Pomegranate and the edges of the other layers with Mellow Moss. The twist for the challenge was embossing, so I hand embossed the rose paper using a Fiskars template and stylus. I decided that the embossing didn't show up very well, so I took my dauber with Pale Plum and inked the embossed panel. I used pearls by Martha Stewart to lend a touch of elegance. The last one I put on the satin ribbon, and I really like that touch. The finished size of this card is 5.5 X 4.25

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This card took a lot of measuring 2X2, 2X1, 2 1/4 X 1, 1 X 4 1/4, 2 X 3. I used the Colluzle for the circles. On the larger circle, I used the corner punch to scallop the edges. I used the matpak to pierce all of the pp. The stamp on the outside says, "Your childhood dream has come true!" The inside says, "you're finally older!" The sentiment was stamped in Certainly celery.

Friendship

The bird is a stamp bought at HL. I think the sentiment was also bought there, but not sure. I used the mat pack to make the holes in the corner on the focal panel, but got out the sewing machine to pierce the other two layers and the main cs. The flowers were made using a daisy punch by McGill. I actually punched these from the bottom layer, so no extra paper was needed. I inked the edges of the pp with SU Groovy Guava and that is the ink I used for the bird and sentiment stamp.

I feel like I'm on a roll today. Not only am I making these cards, I am cutting out extra so that next weekend I can take a few to the Big Girls Play date at the church and crank out a lot of cards without having to think about it. Aunt Helen is getting an awesome Christmas present this year!

MoJo74

The bird is a stamp bought at HL It took me 6 different colors of blue to find the right one. The color I used on this one is SU Pacific Point. I inked the edges of the pp and the cs with Bayou Blue. I used dimensionals with the panel with the bird and the layer below that. I stamped "Thinking of you" on the green and matted with blue pp. I pierced the edges of the pp using the matpack from SU. The sketch I used was MoJo Monday 74. I also made an envelope with a pp that compliments this blue/green pp.

The white cs is 2 3/4 X 2 3/4, the green mat is 3 X 3, the blue pp is 3 1/2 X 4 1/2, the green mat 3 3/4 X 4 3/4, the strips should be 1" wide with 1 1/4" green mat. The half circles were punched with the 1 1/2 and the 1 3/4 circle punches. Completed Card: 5 X 7