Yet Another Birthday Card

I'm not sure what happened to making Christmas cards, but hey, at least I'm having fun  :)

I've been known to say 'whatever' in the past, but not for a long time, unless to myself!  Anyway, I saw a clock the other day with that word and just had to do it:

I used the sketch from Graphicat challenge blog, http://graphicatsketchs.blogspot.com/
My clock was a bit big, so I had to move the middle piece over a bit to see it  :)

I found some fabric--a bit bright--so turned it over, then decided to cut out some flowers for the inside using Tim Holtz Tattered Florals Die and Tim Holtz goodies for the 'hands' and film strip.

Thanks for looking, it was fun to make except for that film 'flower'.  That took a bit of thought, cut the strip in half and ended up sewing it on the bottom---it just kept bouncing everywhere  :) 

A Birthday Card

Almost forgot someone's birthday---and that would never do  :)

I used paper from Close To My Heart, Martha Stewart butterfly punch, Stickles, some lace and the flowers.  My fiskars punch was still out from the last card, so I had to use it again  :)

On the inside, I used the SU! Top Note Die and edged with SU! ink.  The butterfly and flowers are from Close To My Heart.

Thanks for stopping by  :)

Christmas Cards?

Well I had, last week, cut out 27 bases and some other bits of cardstock with the hopes of getting a head start on some Christmas cards  :)

So today, I started 1--yes, one! and I finished it! But it somehow evolved into a 'friend' card,  6" tall x 5 1/2" wide.

Simply because all my stuff is sitting there and I happened to look beyond the Christmas pile of paper stacked on either side of me.

I just love my new fiskars punch!  Look close and see that luscious tube of Iridescent Bronze acrylic paint--love that stuff!  The paper is from Websters Pages, the stamp is Inkadinkado, SU! pearls and cs, butterflies from Bo Bunny-Gabrielle collection. 

Inside verse is SU!, oval is Spellbinders.  Both the outside green cs and inside cream cs have been stamped with versamark using the same Inkadinkado background stamp used on the front oval--ink for that was distress walnut stain. 

Close-up of that luscious bronze acrylic paint! So smoothe to use and adds a nice dimension.   

Thanks so much for coming to look  :)  Come back again, I hope to get working on those Christmas cards soon!

Tea on Tuesday

Well, it's good old Earl Grey along with some fried bread.  I was making some Parkerhouse rolls and just had to do it!  I love it fried, add butter and jam, yum!

The pot on the stove contains some beef barley soup and you just have to have buns to go with soup  :)

I'm keeping with the Smash book, hope no one minds that I took the words from EK, they are so perfect and afterall, it's just for me.  This book is for my everyday journal type thing.     

The little watering-can-turned-teapot (I just trimmed it up) is for todays entry  :)   

Inside back cover started.  I am glueing two pages together, throughout, just to tuck away little lists or private thoughts.   On the blog at EK, one person had made a list of things to help with journaling, you can find the EK address in my previous post.  

I finished a canvas tag yesterday.  The colour is washed out in the photo, but really it's quite pretty  :)   I  saw the canvas tag book and thought, I can make those.  So I went and bought a metre of canvas--next time I'll just go get the tag book, lol.  I put a piece of cardstock in between the layers just to give it some stability.  The tag is spritzed with Glimmer Mist and I added some do-dads, fibre, a piece of mica, a clip, etc. The leaf thing is off an old purse, it's pinned on with a TH clasp.  The pictures are from a box that my coasters came in and the word Journey is a CM sticker. 

**just a note to let you know (if you look close),

 that I turned the one little pic the right way up  :)  the one by the clip

Thank you for coming, I hope you enjoyed your tea time here :)

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Smash Book

Have you heard of the Smash Books?  They are basically a day-to-day journal of sorts, only a lot more fun than just writing.

This is my attempt, just a beginning really  :)  I've already added a couple of things to the front and back cover  you see here.

I just happened to have a couple of little notebooks sitting around, so I thought I'd give it a try.  If I really love it, I'll make my own book. 

I gathered a few odds and sods, glue pen, tape, modge podge, put it in the small basket you see.  As I doodle/write/glue things in this book, I'll just add whatever seems fun!

The front cover has a piece of fabric taped on, then the horses head from a napkin was podged onto the fabric. On the back I podged some pieces of a thesaurus--words for:  good, daily, life and stuff.

If you want to know more about Smash Books, check out this link http://www.eksuccessbrands.com/kandcompany/smash/


Thanks for coming to look  :)  hope you give the Smash Book a try.   I'd love to see some more ideas so leave a comment and I'll hop over to your blog for a look see  :)



Tea on Monday

Posting my tea-time on Monday because I'm out most of the day tomorrow  :)

I finally got back home from my trip up north!  It started out a lovely drive to be at my Grandson's 7th birthday.  However, after arriving, down came the rain---for three solid days and quite heavy!  There was some flooding in the small town of Chetwynd and the highway south of it in quite a few places.  Train tracks were destroyed as well.

Now, I know, this really doesn't compare to what some other places on the map are putting up with, and I'm very grateful I wasn't travelling that day!

   Anyway, instead of a 5 hour trip, it became a 13 1/2 hour trip to go the long way around and I waited a few extra days so that I had company to travel with.  The drive through Jasper is always beautiful and we saw lots of wildlife.

In the end, I had a great stay with my kids and grandkids  :)  but, it's always good to be home.

Tea drinker or not, be sure to check out what everyone is up to at http://artinredwagons.blogspot.com/

Tea on Tuesday, Happy Summer Everyone!

What am I working on, asks Kim   :)

My craft room is what I've been doing this past couple of days, even put up new blinds although it is so bright you can't see them.  I can't seem to make up my mind how I want to put things.  You have to work in it to find out if it works for you.  And, being so nice out, I'm not in the mood for crafting much.  Maybe when it rains  :)

A new tea I bought yesterday.  I kind of like it  :)

Such a mess!

I want it too look nice when I come in the door!  And this isn't working  :)

Until then, I will sit and drink tea and eat my bagel--that is spread with lots of laughing cow cheese--and think about it! 

It's so good to be back blogging!!

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Garage Sale Items :)

Well, things are fixed and I can now post to my blog again  :)

Thanks so much to my blogging friends especially to Kimmie for pointing me in the right direction to find the information at this site: 

http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2011/03/stats-and-internet-explorer-v9.html

 and the help forum--Kimmie sent out an SOS for me!

The guys at blogger put it out there, I wasn't seeing it--how does that happen  :)

Anyway, my garage sale goodies! 

See all this lace?  Especially the stuff on the roll--I don't know how many yards are on there, fifty cents! 

The lace making kit, don't know what I'm going to do with it, but $2.00 seemed not too bad for a bunch of lacey stuff  :)   The crepe paper roll and one of the lace appliques was the exact colour of my Bo Bunny Gabrielle stash!   

This drawer is what caught my eye and full of all this seam binding, etc! $1, I was fairly dancing  :)

The two pins were ten cents each and she just gave me the spoon  :)

Not being on here for awhile I could get to fairly babbling  :)

So I'll go and see you all on Tuesday for tea  :)

Mandevilla

I won't be around this coming Tuesday for tea, so I thought I'd leave a photo, just in case anyone drops by.  And right now, as I post this, I'm enjoying a cup of double bergamont, earl grey, black tea   :)

 Mandevilla. 

It took a rest over winter and now is covered in flowers and buds.

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Family Album

This is a Close To My Heart, 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" album.  I used CTMH paper on the covers and pages, plus I added a folded page.  The pages are all sponged and I've added cardstock pieces to make pockets and tags to put in them.

There's a chipboard flower and frame for a photo, a piece of grunge paper that I inked black for the spine and held that down with a scalloped piece of chipboard.  The beads along the bottom are attached to the back cover so they are out of the way when turning pages.

The back cover has a raised frame around the saying.  There is actually a little diamond in the center of the flower also--but it's lost in the folds.    

A closer look of the raised frame.

Inside front cover and first page. Pocket, tags and chipboard flowers

The little vine is a flocked sticky strip.

More chipboard pieces and frame for photo.

I love this pocket with the lace.

Another big pocket and Tim Holtz film strip--I'm so stingy with that stuff  :) 

 Rain dots on the sticky tape, pocket and tag.

Folded page I added--closed...

...and open, another pocket.

Lots of room for photos

 Chipboard, covered piece on left page.

A pocket on the inside back cover.

   

This album will hold a lot of photos and journaling!  

Good Things in Small Packages

It's nice to know that we are all keeping the postal services in all the countries working  :)  Even though the internet took away a lot of the 'old' ways of communicating--letters and such.  I think scrappers and card makers have helped to bring it all back  :)

Anyway, I was a lucky winner over on Kimmies blog, http://artinredwagons.blogspot.com/  and here is the gift I recieved last Friday!  And she's right, good things DO come in small packages  :)  Aren't these handmade things beautiful and even more special is that Kim made the stamp too!  Thanks again Kim, I love them!

What I've been working on periodically over the past 3 weeks.  No it hasn't been here on the kitchen counter that long  :)   I had to pack it away and bring it out a few times. 

And I never work on one thing at a time  :)  

Anyway, it's coming along!  It will be finished soon and I will post more pics.  

Thanks for stopping by, be sure to come again  :)



Holiday Tea on Tuesday

I'm not sure what moves a person towards any particular tea.  My choice today is a packet I found in the tea cupboard--two left from last Christmas  :)

So I had to use one of my favourite bowls for my fruit and cereal too!  I chose not to put them away after the holidays and every once in a while pull one out to use, just for fun.

It rained again overnight, everything is looking very green and the buds are really coming out on the trees and shrubs.  Little shoots are popping up in the flower bed--nice to see   :)

My humble tea cupboard  :)

Thanks for stopping by, be sure to look around and have a wonderful day   :) 

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