A card "FROM" a friend

My good stamping buddy, Cheryl Myers, stopped by to bring me something and lucky me, it fit nicely inside one of her beautiful creations :-) I am always giddy when I receive a card and this was no exception. She even made a point of leaving the inside blank so I can pass on this beauty to some other lucky recipient. Now that's a green stamper who understands the art!!!

The beautifully spooky card below is another one of her creations that I received for Halloween.

Thanks Cheryl, your the best!!

Birthday Card Set

So what do you get an eight year old girly-girl for her Birthday? Well, if you are like me, you usually take the easy route and do cash inside a card. However, I was in the creative mood AND I had a brilliant idea! Hey great ideas are few and far between for me, so I think that deserves a moment of silence.......................................................................................................................................     Why not make a card set and let Miss. Rylee color in the images? I know, genius.... right??? I made two of each cards and added some goodies and bling in a bag with a glue stick. I also provided some colored pencils for her to work her magic. The card holder is an 11" circle with the ends folded in and a 1" band wrapped around it.

Now, if only she likes it as much as I do. Maybe I should throw some cash inside the card just to be safe            

Funny Faces

My kid is funny! He has so many different faces and expressions, he reminds me of Jim Carey. He is more of the slap-stick kind of comedian, you know, like The Three Stooges. The picture on the left page is his "You just took a picture of me in my underwear........outside" look. The middle picture on the right page has got to be one of my all time favorites. This is how he came out of the bathroom one night after taking a shower. I know, I know, I gave him the speech about how dangerous it is to put Q-Tips in body orifices and even more dangerous to walk around like that. No need to nominate me for the "Worst Mother of the Year Award".

A Cute Card

You might be saying to yourself "Self, where have I seen this card before?" Yea, I can't get anything by you people so I will just confess! I scraplifted this straight from the Winter CTMH catalog. I have no shame, I am a scraplifter and I'm not afraid to admit it! I did a party for a good friend a couple of months ago and she wanted to do this card as one of our projects, so who am I to say no. Pretty cute if I do say so myself. And I CAN because they say your suppose to praise yourself for the little accomplishments in life. Hahahaha, I need to spend less time watching all the mindless programs that I record on the DVR and more time creating! Seriously, do you have a DVR?? OMG, how did I live without that? I actually sit and channel surf waiting for a program to finish so I can go back and watch it. My reasoning is because I hate commercials and the DVR lets me fast forward through them. I know, crazy and irrational, but it's my little way of getting back at Corporate America that aims it's ads at their target audience. I mean really, when my nine year old son asks me what Viagra is for because that ad airs over and over and over again during a baseball game..........OY! I think I might of just lost my one reader

How about a fall card

Why is it that no matter how much time I spend making sure everything is perfectly straight on my project, something always look crooked in the picture??? Man, that is irritating!! Okay, I'm done ranting about my lack of photography skills.

This card is an ever so cute 3-D card......... humor me. I guess I should have taken one of those fancy side view pictures so you could actually see how it looks IRL (that means "in real life", a sad attempt on my part to convince you that I am a savvy blogger). I stamped the tree image on the base card and then stamped it again on another piece of card stock. Then I cut out the inside of the tree on the second image with the E.R. blade, otherwise known as an Exacto Knife. I just know one of these days I will end up in the E.R. when using this knife, so I call it like it is! Then I layered it with foam tape and adhered my buttons.

Am I lost??

Is this MY Blog???? Wow, has it really been over two months since I posted last? I am a bad, bad blogger! I am sorry if I have let my readers reader down, lol. I won't bore you with all the excuses, only because I can't think of any good ones right now. But I do have something to show you if that helps win me any redemption at all.

This is a layout I did from our Seattle trip. I took enough pictures to fill a whole album, but opted instead for a one page layout with many pictures on it with the highlights of the trip. I'm sure I will go back and scrap other pictures, but I'm just happy to have this one done for now. Heck, why stress myself out trying to keep up with the Jones'. There’s something you should know about me...........I'm a perfectionist living in an imperfect world and that just stresses me out!

And since we are here, I might as well confess my soul to you. Two of the reasons I am such a bad, bad blogger is 1. I HATE- HATE- HATE having to remember all the products that I used so I can post them in the dreaded "supplies list". So from here on out, if you would like to know a specific item that I used, just ask me and I will figure it out for ya ( please refer to the last line of the previous paragraph for my reasoning) 2. I take awful pictures of my artwork. First of all, the professionals say to use "natural, indirect light". I would challenge anybody to find any natural, indirect light in my house after 8:00 a.m. By the time I remember I need to take the picture, well lets just say I am usually on my second pot of coffee and it is waaayyyyy past 8:00 a.m. I really need to invest in one of those Photo Light Boxes.........................Oooohhhhh Honey