Raising kids is like...

If you have more than one child, you know this to be true! Though it's all worth it!!!...somedays. ;)





Stamps: Qwik art - chicken wire
alteredattic (on ebay) sentiment
Eureka - chick

Comic relief

Sending some comic relief to my mother. She lives for Wednesdays...bingo night. While she's a tiny, thin thing, and the woman looks nothing like her, it does resemble a few there! You wonder where all the bra-burners from the 60s went? Bingo, that's where. Ah, it's all good and fun. Hope she wins BIG on her birthday!




Stamps: Hero arts - flowers, I Brake for Stamps - bingo edith

Love is patient...

Stamps : Autumn Leaves, I brake for stamps

miss you like Crazy!

Been missing home and my BF there, so I've been working on cards to send back home.

Stamps: Verve Stamps, Stampotique
I scratched the black brads with an exacto & colored the white with a Sharpie to quasi match

DCM - Quote Challenge

I haven't done a DCM card challenge in forever, but this week it is to use a quote that I adore and happen to have on a stamp by Jody Poesy. It was a sign! (plus it was right up my bird theme alley!)


Sentiment: Jody Poesy
Bird stamp, cut out and behind vellum: Inkadinkado
Vellum: Provo Nature's feathers
Background PP: Basic Grey Stella Ruby
Base: Bazzill

I'm so glad...

Seems I'm back to simple cards, but it's a start. Actually, if I never get back to being a technique junkie or detailed whatever, it still is quite enjoyable just to create, so I'll just be grateful for that.

Image: Paperbag Studios
Sentiment: Wordsworth

Once you have flown...

This is one of my old, favorite quote stamps, by Stamp Camp. "Once you have flown, you will walk with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, there you long to return - Da Vinci." Went well with the bird spell I seem to be under at the moment.

Just fluttering by..

Spread your wings

Imagine that..another bird card!

I'm back!

It's been a long time coming, but I'm back...and hopefully to stay active!
This is a card I made a few months back for someone who really put some things into perspective for me. Thank you, Audrey! {warm heart}

This is done with wax paper resist background to start and a page from a french book torn away to reveal the stamped image. The heart (which is not black irl) is tied on with copper wire.

Pieced Paper

I've been playing with piecing papers together rather than layer on layer. I kind of like the look if it, IRL.

DCM Dare - Love & Friendship

It's been forever and a day since I've jumped on a DCM challenge. This week's challenge is Love & Friendship and this was my attempt:

Happy Valentine's Day!

Love you...even though you are a bonehead sometimes!

ACROs!

I used to love the game "Acrophobia" online and it went away a few years ago :( but I won a little contest with them.
If making ACROs is fun for you, you should go to Talk to the Ham blog. She own Hambo Stamps which are too funny! My faves are the fractured funnies!
I'm not affiliated, just offering my opinion. ;)

Change is good?

I grew tired of my old banner and style of the blog and thought, well, change is good...sometimes. So I set out to find and alter a template to suit me and design a new banner. I settled on this one. It originally had guitars on it, but I removed them and added my own designs. I lost all my links and music, but I'll get them back slowly as I get to blog hopping.
So...the change...it's good, bad, or what change? - you haven't blogged in so long, I don't even know how I ended up here!

Feeling like a newbie stamper

After not stamping for months, I feel like a newbie stamper all over again. Thanks to my Inkstainers friends, who never let me forget I'm a stamper!

I've learned that people recycle/tear apart their cards, for the bits or embellishments, when they are done enjoying their received cards so....
The tag has a magnet on the back and there is a magnet of the same shape on the card. To open it, you just pop off the magnet. Then when you are done looking at the card, you have a magnet you can steal off it. lol

faux silk?

I'm not sure this technique looks like faux silk, but I adore it anyway. Basically, you stamp, cover image with glue and press crumpled tissue paper on it. I'm not a fan of glue as it leaves the c/s a bit wonky, but I liked this one anyway. (and don't say, "just iron it" 'cause I don't iron. lol)

Christmas Past

The holidays were hard and I didn't think I'd make even one card. I did though, for Dh's family. I only scanned one, but they were the same techique.
This is glossy resist with shiny, silver mirror card behind, but I sanded it for a different effect.

Forever changed

I have just returned home this week. My father received the kidney transplant he waited for and dreamed about. The surgery went well and it was working fine, but his heart stopped during the night and he passed away. My world has forever changed, and my heart is a little raw.
I spent a month with my mother and family. It's so hard to live so far away from them, especially at times like these.

I found an old hummingbird feeder my father had in my parents' basement. I hung it up on their porch and within no time this little female was there. Mom & I spent a lot of time on the porch and we enjoyed her visits. These are a few pics.

Anyway, I'm home, but not feeling very creative. As soon as my muse returns, I'll post. For now I'll just try to visit all of your blogs for inspiration and enjoyment. Hug everyone you love...don't take them for granted.

DCM - take #2

After doing the DCM cards below, I kept eyeing up all the packaging around the house that was on it's way to the recycle bin. At first I said, no. I can't use that on a card. Then I though, oh, why not! LOL


If it's not familiar, it's a Tampax box top. The word super was already there.