A stitch in time...

...saves something or other...LOL! Can't remember the saying, rofl.

Well, I decided I had better post a card here! I have another eye infection, same thing, in the tear duct. This time my whole eye is swollen. I am really getting tired of having these lately. It makes my vision blurry which of course makes it hard to see a bit, lol. I am to put drops in my eyes daily now to moisturize them. Dang, when you get old you have to moisturize EVERYthing, haha! Ok, here is the card:



Back when I first started making cards, YEARS ago, before I even knew of bloggers and Gina K, lol, I used to hand stitch on my cards I made alll the time. I tried to find one of my Christmas cards I did years ago to show you, but couldnt find it anywheres. Maybe I'll come across one when I decided to purge my other closet, lol. I used that daisy again on this card and this was for the CAS challenge at SCS last week, a color challenge...to use kraft, pink and one other color. The stitching is punched using a Bazzill Stitch Template that I picked up my LSS, then I just used plain white embroidery floss to do the stitching. Easy! I really like how this card turned out too, and will be a good mailing card!

Thats all for today! I hope everyone is having a relaxed Sunday! It's so humid and hot here, and threatening to rain. I am suppose to have Blake, wildchild, here in a bit and was thinking about taking him to the park...but I dont know...I hate to sweat, lol. I am sooo not a summer person, give me fall time any ole day!

By the way, if you love participating in challenges, StampTV has a whole line up of them every week! We have sketch, color, scrapbook, technique, and potluck challenges and also a monthly 3D challenge! And with every single challenge, you have a chance to win a stamp set of your choice from Gina K Designs! I mean, to me, with even a CHANCE to win a set doing something we all love doing anyways, is just awesome! So go, join in the fun! Here is a link to the current challenges right now:

StampTV Current Challenges

Ok, now this is REALLY it! LOL! Thanks for stopping by!!

Card Details
Stamps: Eclectic Summer StampTV Kit from Gina K Designs
Papers: SU! kraft, Gina K pure luxury white in 120lb weight
Accessories: copic markers, white chalk ink, corner rounder punch, embroidery thread, Bazzill stitch template, BG button, ribbon, glue dots

Clearly it's...

...a clear card! ha, lol! Sorry corny I know, lol. I finally got a good picture of this card, after a ba-ga-zillion tries! And I just love this daisy from the new Eclectic Summer StampTV kit:



Clear cards are such fun to do to me. It's not really hard to cover up the inside stuff, just cut a piece of cardstock the same size as whatever you need to cover up, and then you can use that for writing anything you might choose to write on the inside. I made this one following Melissa's sketch challenge from last Thursday on StampTV, changed it just a bit is all to show more of the clear card. The daisies are stamped on the clear cardstock with StayzOn ink and then on the colored cardstock I stamped them and used a prisma pencils to color them in white and yellow. Actually a pretty quick card, except for the picture taking of it, haha!

Well, me and my sister didnt get a single card done. We just sat around and talked about old times is all. We learned that we both had a fear of our house we lived in, lol! We lived in a house that had this attic opening in the kitchen. It was always closed...I actually cannot remember a time that anybody every went UP in the attic...but one night it was just me and my sister there and we heard this sound...best way to describe...well, it sounded like somebody dragging something really heavy across the floor of the attic. Now, this attic wasnt a big ole attic, not really big enough for a person to stand up all the way in it...my Mama said it was probably a big snake (oh comfort there MOM!! haha!) But anyways, we discovered in our discussion...that when each of would come home, we always would check that little attic hole, to make sure it wasnt open or moved over with a slight opening in anyways, LOL! First thing we would do! Kelli says she still has nightmares about it...I dont have nightmares, but do remember laying awake at night thinking I heard something up there LOTS of times. And it was probably some kind of critter....I reckon....rofl.

Ok, that's it for now. I got a week of nothing to do but stamping...yay!! So hopefully Ms. Inspiration will find me! Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderfully creative week!

Card Details:
Stamps: Eclectic Summer/Eclectic Summer Sayings from StampTV Kit from Gina K Designs
Papers: Clear cardstock from a pack purchased at M's, SU! dp and colored cardstock
Accessories: ribbon, pop dots, prisma pencils, MS butterfly punch, MS rhinestones, oval nesties.

Another sorta older card...

WEllll, not REAL old, but from the Gina K release party! I made this card using the New StampTV kit, Eclectic Summer:



Most of you know my love of all things bright by now, lol! And that's what this card is, bold and bright! But I just love the new cardstock, Rocket Red! It has a textured to it, can't really tell it is this photo, but its little lines, really awesome!

Short post today, going to my sister's for a day. I really need to get out of the house a bit. I will be back tomorrow though, so most wont even know I'm gone, haha! But it will do me some good I think! And I'll post new card tomorrow. I did one on some clear cardstock and I just love how it turned out...and another CAS one...and who knows what me and my sister might come up with, haha!

Card Details:
Stamps: StampTV Kit Eclectic Summer from Gina K Designs
papers: Rocket Red, black onyx from Gina K, lime rickey by basic grey from Gina k
Accessories: circle nesties, ribbon from Eclectic summer kit from Gina K, copic markers, prisma pencils, MS butterfly punch, hodgepodge hardware from SU, red marker from SU!, MS rhinestones, scor-bug.

It's later!

I know I said I would post a card 'later' and technically, it is! LOL! It is just wearing me out keeping Blake (grandwildchild) this week! I have not got a thing done card making wise...I have like about 4 projects started and havent completed a single one. I get distracted and then have an idea I want to do and start it and get distracted again, lol! BUT I do have some cards that I posted at the Gina K release party...and first up that I am posting today is my favorite I did:


This uses Melanie's newest set 'Sporty Accessories' and is just so much fun! As usual, its packed full of goodies but I used the lockers and 'took the door off' of one and put stuff in it. Much neater locker than mine was, lol! I wanted to make it look like mine did in high school, but then ya'll would see how messy I was, haha! Plus mine had band stuff in it, lol! I dont have a clarinet stamp!! Ohhh, what a neat idea for a stamp set, musical instruments, just all kinds!! Hear that Illustrators?? LOL!! Anyways, back to the card....I wanted the black background to look like a chalkboard so kinda doodled on it with a white pencil. I did use a stampa ma jiggy thingy to line up the lockers and still got them a bit crooked, lol! What can I say, I just see thinks crooked I think...haha!

Ok, thats all for now. My daughter has found her a babysitter close to where she lives which is good really. We live about an hour apart and that's alot of driving for her to do everyday I know. Plus it wasnt suppose to be EVERYday that I kept him, LOL! Gammy (what he calls me) gets so wore out....I had been trying to walk everyday, started it last week but all this week havent done it at all and I want to get back to that. I did try with him, he dont walk, he RUNS (and hes too BIG to hold my hand he says)....I'd have to put him on a leash cause Gammy does NOT run...she would be laid out on the side of the road....roflmao.

Thanks for stoppin by and hope you have a wonderfully creative day!

Card Details
Stamps: Sporty Accessories by Melanie Muenchinger from Gina K Designs
Papers: Gina K pure luxury cardstock in red, black and white, lined dp is from some I have had for a long time and cant remember, lol
Accessories: letter brads, red craft thread, white prisma pencil, copic markers, various paper clips, pop dots.

Can you hear me screaming???

LOOK!!!

Gina K's announcement!!

*floats off on her cloud once again*

LOL! I'll be back with more and a card in just a bit...I have wildchild this week, so posts been lacking I know....so sorry...but just wanted to share this awesome news wiff me friends right quick!!