Do I need another purse?

At SCS they inspiration challenge today was a ETSY shop that has the neatest purses! I have fought with myself all day about buying the purse I used for inspiration on this card, lol. So far, I have succeeded, so far...hahaha!

Here is what my card is based on:

Pink Lemonade Bags

OMG I soooo love this purse!! Wish I could sew, I'd make me one, lol!

And here is my card:




Card Details:
Stamps: PTI"S Quilters Samplers Sentiments
Papers: All PTI
Accessories: CB die flowers, scor-pal, piercing tool and pad, buttons and brad from M's by MM's I believe.

I havent been very active making cards lately. My dog, Freckles, I have had to take to the vet 2 times in the last 2 days. She is getting old is what they keep telling me. Right now she has CHF (congestive heart failure) and now a heart murmur. They keep telling me its cause she is getting old and all they can do is treat it. She is breathing maybe a bit better today, but its been really hard on me, she's my baby. I raised her from before her eyes where opened. Somebody had dumped her and 3 other puppies out on the side of the road in a box. I took her in and found homes for the other ones...they were so small they had to be bottle fed, eyes werent even open and noses still had pink on them. I got her about the same time I lost my Mom to cancer, in the year 2000, so it was giving me something to focus on. Sooo, yea I am a bit attached, lol. Can't stand to see her in distress in anyway. She isnt in pain, she is still eating, greeting us, wagging her tail, just a little slower. ANYways, didnt mean to bring anybody down, just explaining why I havent been in a card making mood...I get over it though, I'm sure!

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend!

You Go Girl!

Howdy all! I have to say this first...how THRILLED I am to be Melanie's Guest Designer for the next 4 weeks! I have been a fan of Mel's since her first stamp set came out with Gina K Designs. I could go on and on about her stamps, her creativity that I admire so much, her willingness to help and give such wonderful ideas to all...but I'll stop there, I know you here to see the card with those cute Little Tees! (I'll stop before I sound like her stalker and scare her away, haha!)



I made this card for a girlfriend of mine who just recently got a promotion. I am so thrilled for her! I took one of the Tees, the solid one and stamped it in pink and embossed the butterfly on it. Then I took the Tee that has the long sleeves and paper pieced it took look like wool (I hope anyways, lol), also did another plain Tee for the 'skirt' part. Cut the paper pieced one down the middle, with a bit of the middle section cut out, the bottom of the sleeves trimmed a bit to make it look like a jacket! How fun is that?! I took the other paper pieced solid and just cut off the top part and positioned it to look like a skirt under it all. Now I have a wool skirt suit! (Since her promotion, she has to dress up a bit and thought this was fitting). It really wasnt hard at all to do this! This set just has sooo many possibilites, you will definitely feel like a fashion designer!

Card Details:
Stamps: Little Tees by Melanie Muenchinger from Gina K Designs, Just-Rite Stamper C-45 box set from Flourishes
Papers: All SU! cardstock
Accessories: ribbon, black brads, flower brad (painted with black sharpie) and little pearls in corner all from Michaels and by MM's, scor-pal, circle nesties, pop dots

Thank you so much for stopping by and hope you enjoyed this first post for my guest designer position! Be sure and come back over the next 3 weeks on Thursday each time with more of this wonderful set, LITTLE TEES!

My paper trimmer broke!

OMG, how horrible is that? Well, REALLY bad when I canNOT cut a straight line with a pair of scissors, lol. I had a card to finish up today and the trimmer broke this am so it didnt get finished, lol. I'm going to run into town tomorrow to get another one. Just hope I can find a good one. This one was the Making Memories one, I got it with a 40% off coupon at Michael's only about 4 months ago. The ruler part of it broke on one end. Wonder if they have a guarantee? Hmmmm...need to check that out.

Soooo, for today I though I would show my very first card. This is before I even had a camera to take a picture, so its a scan of it and it was for my DH on valentine's day. I have no clue where all the stuff is from, probably Michaels or Hobby Lobby one. And actually, I still like this card...simple, plain, and to the point, lol.



Thanks for stopping by and so sorry for not having a NEW card to show you. But will for sure on Thursday! That's my first day as Melanie's Guest Designer. Already have that card made! LOL!

Sprinkle on me!

I wish I had one of these sprinklers today, I'd just sit out in the backyard and let it sprinkle on me, lol! Something is wrong with our AC, not cooling like it should. I KNOW its been extremely hot (temp 102, heat index of 106 today) BUT it should not be almost 84 degrees in my house. It's still tolerable, with a fan, and you dont move much, but if it quits working completely...lord help me....lol. We got a guy coming out tomorrow to look at it, didnt want to pay extra for a weekend service call, lol!

This is the card I made today. My way of thinking was to do something to THINK COOL! LOL! I dont have any winter stamps yet, so did the sprinkler. I also did this for 2 challenges at SCS. One, a sketch challenge by Faith in the Gina K forum and the other a color challenge of one of the Dirty Girls (Carole, yay she loves bright colors like me!)

(so sorry about the shadows on this card, was loosing my sunshine lighting)

Card Details:
Stamps: Kindred Kids 'Summer Fun' and Kindred Greetings from Gina K Designs
Papers: All SU! cardstock
Accessories: CB swiss dots embossing folder, CB die for tag, photo punch, copic markers, spica glitter pens, water splats (I forgot who by , bought at LSS), circle nesties, pop dots, brad

Thanks for stopping by! Going to take my 3rd bath of the day now....hahaha! (our shower has this mist thing on it, OMG so nice.....)

Busy weekend....

Well, not busy in card making, but family! All of my family, and I mean both brothers, the one sister, nephews, grand nephews...ALL of their birthdays fall in July! Soooo my brother and his family came in from Houston and we all got together for their birthday party. It was a blast, had water ballon fights (my nephews got me with a bucket of water actually), played horseshoes, THEY played volleyball...etc, etc, lol. All in 104 heat index, lol! So the bucket of water actually felt pretty good! So havent had a bit of time for stamping. After coming home, and taking shower all I wanted to do is sit in front of the AC! I got lots of pictures I need to upload and sort through too, but snapped this one in my house of grandson sitting in 'pee-paws' (isnt it funny how they come up with their OWN names to call you? I'm 'grammy') lap, his favorite place to be! What was so funny, I called his name, I said, 'Blake, look at grammy.' and he looks at me and automatically goes, 'Cheese!'. None of us have taught him to say that! It was too cute, lol.

(notice the red arrow pointing to heat gun in the background? I've been practicing heat embossing...bleh...me and it just dont get along, lol! Besides from sucking my hair up into it, and having to give myself a quick trim on the ends, I even got a blister!)

Thanks for taking the time to stop by,and I promise and card and more pics later!