Hello, I thought I would stop in with a couple of more cards...The Christmas card is a copy of many cards I have seen using a tree stamp to make branches,I used a tree from SU's Lovely as a tree set. It is an easy design to use for mass production and can have detail added or left as is. Personally, I love the look of this ribbon with the natural color card stock and the ribbon is from SU again. It was available last year... The birthday card is another winter design. I received this image from a friend in an image swap and knew immediately what I wanted to create with it. I used a product to look like real snow on the muff and hat...
Thanks for looking, and I hope you are taking time to enjoy the season.

Winter Birthdays

It seems that December is a big birthday month in our family, so I am busy trying to get those cards made... One might think that I could have those made ahead of time, but then if you know me, you know that probably is not the case...lol
I have made 2, one for a sister in law and one for a niece...I used the same stamps but different ideas and different colors. I love the color Baha and I really like how the DP I used and the lace give this a bit of an old fashion look .
The other card is made using red riding hood, and DP by SU again... fairly plain but some sheer ribbon to dress it up a bit...

I am off to work on A grand daughters, a daughter and a grand sons card...I will post them when I get them all finished, til then, I hope you are enjoying this holiday season and thanks for stopping in again...

Well I made it back a little faster this time...lol
Here is a re make of the long blue non traditional colors card...I decided it needed a bit of something, it was too plain for even me... : )
And I made another one using up another left over piece and some dp by SU along with using some ribbon from SU, in an in color from last year, Red Riding Hood ...though the scan is showing it all crazy, it is simply a shade of red solid ribbon... and my newest punch that I just love...
I still have not decided on a layout or color for this years design, but at least I am playing again... Thanks for stopping by... I hope to have more soon so you can visit me again... Enjoy the season, ALL of it !~

Hello, has it really been three weeks since I was here?? Sorry about that... I was thinking today that I really need to be busy on my Christmas cards, so I opened up THAT box and started looking through it. I seem to have many odds and ends and left over pieces, so I started playing around.. Both of these will fall into the Non Traditional colors for a Christmas card, but clean lines and super easy. And that was perfect for a day of just not feeling well or having any "mojo"...The blue one is a 7 1/2 in by 3 3/4 inch card the other is regular size at 5 1/2 inch by 4 1/4 inches.
I warned you, these are super plain and simple...near the blah state... But hey, I stopped in and maybe I will get into the mood this way. I hope to find some real creativity and come back to share something fabulous...lol.
Until then, I hope you are having a good day and enjoying the season... As always, Thanks for stopping by, come back when you can sit and visit ...

WE ARE OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD

My friend owns a fabulous gift shoope here in town. I get to help her there any time I want to...it is just like playing to me, I love being at her store... Any way, she wanted to host an event for Halloween, and call it WITCHES NIGHT OUT.So a few of us offered to help her, and the plans began... One of the ladies helping came up with the idea that we should all dress up in the Wizard of OZ costumes, and if you know me, I usually have my little dog with me.So guess which character I got to be?? Yep, Dorothy. So with help of my daughters, and husband, and the sewing expertise of my sister in law... I was transformed into Dorothy for the night.My daughter Krista, was Glenda, and my oldest grand daughter was a Flying Monkey...and she was fabulous, stealing ToTo and all... L O L

We had a fantastic time, along with many others. Everyone enjoyed themselves. There was a costume contest, BOO LIGHT specials, discounts, in store specials and refreshments of every kind... The cake was designed and made by my youngest daughter, Krista, and pumpkin bars by our scarecrow , punch and finger goodies were plentiful too along with a scary punch !

So here are some pictures of the night...hope you enjoy them...I know we all totally enjoyed our selves...

Painting Class

I have enjoyed the third year of my painting classes so much. Each year I learn a little more and have more fun than I ever thought I could...We have a super lady that encourages us, spoils us and laughs right along with us. This year she really went out of her way to reach out and explore new ideas with us and for us. Even though our classes end in September, due to her needing time to get ready for her craft shows, she offered us special class one night class in October, but that took some of us 2 nights...lol
I loved this idea from the day I saw it...and encouraged her to teach this class... Again each of our finished project is different from any one else's...but then in art, don't we all usually SEE things through different eyes ? ...

Mine is not exactly as I had visioned it, but I am happy with it...though I already see things that I wish I had done differently...
Again, thank you Lisa for all you teach us, and all you share with us... You are truly an amazing lady...

Over the weekend we had some family pictures taken by a friend...We wanted some out door shots and just casual fun ones too...We ended the day with a wiener roast with family and friends... It was a beautiful day to do this, and we all had a great time... Here are pictures from some of us there...These are just our immediate family, I will share more later of other family and friends... I just need to upload some from my camera too...
I hope you enjoy looking at these as much as we enjoyed having them taken. The kids were all good, no complaining at all, and they even did some candid posing of their own ideas and choice... It was a totally wonderful day and we cannot thank our friend enough for helping is out... She took some simply awesome pictures that day.