Blogger is finally up!

Well, I guess if you plan to post, you need to have Mr. Blogger up & running instead of down for repairs.
Tonite I have another change of pace for you.  This is a wedding card made with a Lilli of the Valley stamp. I used a Cheery Lynn Design doily for the matting and Martha Stamps for the lace. The paper was from my stash.

I hope you all had a great day.  Only two more days left until the weekend again.  Yeaaa!! 

Catch you all later!

Almost forgot to post!

I hate to admit it, but my daughter sent me another box of goodies tonite & I got so busy playing with the new toys she sent that I almost forgot to post a card! 

This is another Prairie Fairy digi.  I love this little gal with the glasses! She just makes me smile!

I colored her with copics & the paper is from K & Co.  Because the paper was pretty wild, I didn't use any embellishments, just kept her simple.

We are finally having a cooler week for a change.  And let me tell you, it is pure heaven!  Sure makes me wish I didn't have to go to work & could just stay home.  Retirement is looking better all the time! lol

Catch you all tomorrow!

Just for Melissa!

Hi everyone,

Tonite I am going to post a card I made yesterday with a new stamp my daughter sent me. It is a Mo Manning (she knows what I love) and I colored her with copics & Prismacolor markers. The paper if from a K & Co pad and the flowers from my stash.  I added ladybug buttons & used a Martha punch for the edges.

She also sent me a pkg. of slider cards which I had never seen before. (I don't get around much!) To me, they should be called slider boxes, but whatever you call them, they are really adorable & I can see them being a great way to give a gift card, or even a pair of earrings to someone.

The first picture shows the finished "box:" or card.  The second picture is what happens when you pull out one side. Both sides "slide" out! How cute is that!

I think some ice cream is calling my name.  Catch you all tomorrow!

The Baby Girl Version

Well, as I promised, here is my second posting for today.  For those of you just tuning in, I tried posting a boy baby card along with this girl card but Blogger is being difficult & wouldn't take both images in one post.
This card is the other digi for Sassy Cheryl's with the girl baby.

The paper is from a Tracy Porter paper pad and I used one of my Martha Stewart punches for the scalloped edge. The ribbon is from one of my boxes full of ribbon that are stashed all over. When I went thru my "I have to have ribbon on every single card" phase, I collected a lot of ribbon! lol  The good thing is, it doesn't spoil!

I hope you liked the change of pace. I'll be back tomorrow with more. Until then, have a great day!

Catch you later!

A change of pace

I think it is time for a change of pace this afternoon!  After posting tons of birthday cards, I took time out to make a couple of baby cards.  I don't need any right now, but when I saw these adorable digi's I had to get them.  And, of course, when you have new stamps, you have to color them up, right?  There was a stork for boys & another for girls, so naturally, they both found their way into my cart. Both are from Sassy Cheryl's and so cute you couldn't take just one! I'm going to TRY to post both cards in this post.  Try, being the operative word.  I'm just having a devil of a time getting Blogger to let me download 2 images in one post.

Well, it looks like I am stuck just posting one card again! I'll have to do a second post in a minute so you can see the girl version!  What a hassle!  Well, here are the particulars on the boy card.  I used DCWV paper for the background & one of my favorite (yes, I know) Martha punches for the train border. It makes a perfect boy border for baby cards.  I'll be back in a minute with the baby girl version for you.

Can you say orange?

I hope all of you have had a wonderful Saturday. After spending the morning at the nursing home  visiting Mom, I had lunch at one of my favorite places & spent the afternoon with Gail trying to create sliding cards. To me, they should be called sliding boxes, but they are cute just the same. I'll have to post one later.

Right now, I have another Mo Manning digi for you.  I'm not sure why I chose orange.  It isn't a color I normally choose, except for Halloween, but this just seemed to scream for orange.

I used one of the large flower strip punches from Martha that has 3 sizes of flowers, cut them apart & stacked them for the dimensional flowers. The paper is from my stash & is several years old. I also used a corner punch from EK Success that I've had for years to add some interest to the corners. I colored her with copics & Prismacolor markers.

I was going to upload a second card tonite, but for some reason, Mr. Blogger will only let me upload one card on posting now.  Bummer!

Well, I'm off to color a new stamp my daughter sent me. I've already got it done in my head so I had better get busy.

Catch you all later!

A critter for Melissa

Hi everyone,
I promised my daughter that I would post a "critter" card tonite instead of one with people.  She loves the critter cards more than the cards with kids so here we go!  This first card is my favorite cat from Penny Black all dressed up as a bumble bee.  The paper is from K & Co & I cut out some of the flowers & popped them up to give it a little more interest.

The second card I was planning to post tonite is also a critter, but for some reason I'm having problems getting it to download.  Guess I will have to be satisfied with this one (if it works) and post again later.

Have a great nite! Catch you all later!

A flower for you!

In keeping with the happy to be back theme, here is a Lilli of the Valley stamp I fell in love with. She just has such a sweet face doesn't she?  The paper is from Paper Studio and the butterflies from Martha Stewart's buttterfly punch.  (One of my favorite punches) I can hear Gail laughing right now. She says I say that about every one of my punches!  Which means I say it a lot! I have this "thing" for punches.....and paper.....and stamps......and......

Today was a much calmer day at work.  I'm taking the credit for it because of the pan of brownies I took in this morning. Chocolate has magical powers! ha ha

Until tomorrow, everyone have a great Friday!

Catch you all later!

The wait is finally over!

Can you believe it?  My first post in what seems like forever!  Thanks to my brilliant son-in-law, my computer is not only back up & running, but loaded with newer versions of most of my programs & more memory.  Now I just have to figure out the in's & outs of my programs.  ha ha  So bare with me if my cards don't look perfect for awhile. 

This first one is a really happy, cheerful card.  I chose it because I am celebrating being back! lol
The image is a Mo Manning & the paper is from Me & My Big Ideas.  I colored her with copics & Prismacolor markers and added the gaudy flower from my stash. 

I have a huge stash of cards to post so I should be back tomorrow with another. Right now I have to stop so I can go throw a pan of brownies in the oven.  We had such a lousy day at work today I decided chocolate was the only thing that might save us all tomorrow.  I'm a firm believer in the power of 2 things: prayer & chocolate!

Catch you all tomorrow!

The wait is almost over!

I had hoped to have a card posted yesterday, but we still have a couple of snags to fix on my computer first. Hopefully, tomorrow I can start posting all the cards that are piling up.

My computer problems are almost fixed, thanks to my genius son-in-law & I can now climb stairs again. For those of you who may not know, what I thought was a pulled muscle turned out to be blood clots. Luckily, my dr. decided to send me up to the hospital to be sure.  And in the middle of blood clots & daily shots, I threw my back out too.  The last couple of weeks have been a bit "unpleasant" to put it mildly.  ha ha
At any rate, I'm doing better & will be back to posting daily, hopefully by tomorrow!

Catch you soon!