Posted in Family, tagged Family on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Oh ya, it’s starting, that scratcy throat, & sinus thang. I’m hoping to “make it go away” before it comes in strong. I don’t do the neo citron or sinutab or that sort … I’m a hot bath, freshly squeezed oj, and tea girl, occasionally an advil-blue for those really bad sinus headaches, [...]
Posted in Stampin', Tutorial, tagged Card, Shaving Cream, Tutorial on April 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This card will be for my friend Melinda. She is a wonderful, giving person that I have know since my oldest was in ‘baby’ library group with her oldest. She is not a crafter. Period. In many ways we are very dissimilar, but good friends none the less. As we [...]
Posted in Stampin', tagged Cards, SplitCoastStampers, Stampin', Tutorial on April 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I saw Vera’s card and felt inspired to try Wax Paper Resist. I have done wax paper resist, but it’s been a few years, so I checked out the very helpful tutorial on SplitCoastStampers, as per Vera’s suggestion.
So I did the whole two sheets of Glossy card stock, facing inward & sandwiched the crumpled [...]
Posted in Stampin', tagged Cards, SplitCoastStampers, Stampin', Trifold Card on April 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I really love these blues and greens together. I laugh when I say ‘blue and green’ because somewhere rattling around my brain I hear “blue and green should only be seen when they are in the washing machine & red & pink stink”. Why? I dunno, it was just something I [...]
Posted in Challenges, Colour Inspiration, Stampin', tagged Challenges, Colour Inspiration, Kristina Werner on April 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Kristina’s Colour Inspiration this week is from Mystic Valley Traders:
The Stampin’ Up Colours that were pulled are:
and very little Wasabi:
The tools I used were:
Very straight forward. A note pad, a rectangle punch to make the rings fit, cording (honestly, the match to Sahara Sand was uncanny, Pumpkin Brads & flowers, & [...]
Posted in Stampin', tagged Cards, SplitCoastStampers, Stampin', Water Colouring on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Okay so I saw the tutorial on Splitcoaststampers from Julie Buhler, man she makes it look easy, or maybe I’m just challenged. I struggled a bit with this. I think it looks like the shadows & highlights are mixed up, dunno, just doesn’t feel good by me, but I’m not giving up … here’s [...]
Posted in Challenges, Colour Inspiration, Stampin', tagged Challenges, Colour Inspiration, Kristina Werner on April 16, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Here’s another fun inspiration courtesy of Kristina Werner and her Colour Inspiration #5. Here is what we (I say ‘we’, because she has quite the blog traffic) had to go on:
The S.U. Colours to use were:
Here’s where I started:
And here’s what I ended up with:
So Tools: Coluzzle, Cuttlebug Embossing folder (used with old [...]
Posted in Family, Scrappin', tagged Family, Ribbon Weaving, Scrappin' on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Many pictures I have of Liam will have the yellow ears of Pooh Bear in the pics. He DOES NOT sleep with out Pooh. Really. Goodness help us if Pooh is ever misplaced. My other kids never had a stuffy-buddy, but each child is different.
I tried to take a picture of [...]
