More Mom's Day and Diva Cards

This Card the Image and Sentiment are from Rubbernecker. This is 5X7 in real life and intended for a Mothers day card. the dress is paper pieced from the aged linen slate scraps (from the card below Yesterday's cards) from Paper adventures, the skin tones are prisma markers with some pencil (blush on cheekbones) the swirly pp is from Basic Grey twoscoops line. The swirls are from Inkadinkado and stamped with fresco chalk ink in Mediterranean Tide. There is some Versamagic aspen mist ink on the edges of the stamped panel.

This card the chef diva is colored with prima pencils on Georgia pacific 110. she was stamped with versafine onyx black. the sentiment is from Impress and stamped with stayzon on blue shimmer cardstock the corners were done with the SU ticket corner punch, and this is up on popdots. the pp is from Basic grey twoscoops line, ( i picked this up when i took Alice to Medford in Feb. a month ago with the intentions of making mom's day cards with it) The mini brads are from lasting Impressions and the pink texture cardstock is Bazzill. This ones 6 inches square in real life.

This is my other new diva who came in the mail yesterday (Vivian) now it's funny but, I have an aunt named Vivian and her hair is really long... :) These I have not added a sentiment to them yet because, I have not decided who i am sending them to yet. the ribbon and the button are unknown. but, i bought them and that pink pp at the same time i picked up the two scoops pp. this ones 5X7 in real life.

This one the sentiments from Inky antics. And done in Chocolate Chip dye ink of course. ;)

Nearly the same only the ribbon is going through the slotted button like a slider. The Pink printed paper mat is from My Minds Eye.

This one the vintage lady is from Rubbernecker, she's colored with prisma pencils except for her skin is a marker. the sentiment is from Hero Arts and stamped with versafine crimson red. and up on popdots. the yellow ribbon is from Making Memories and the brad is from Lasting Impressions. the yellow texture cs is from Bazzill and the red shimmer cs is unknown.

todays cards

This one the floral is from PSX and colored with prisma pencils, there is some tea dye and old paper distress ink on the torn edges. the Sentiment SU (circle of friendship) is stamped on a scrap of pale blue shimmer cardstock and up on a popdot. this ones 6 inches square in real life. the brown texture cardstock's from Bazzill and the blue pp is from Paper Adventures.

This frog and sentiment is from Rubbernecker stamps. this one is 5X7 in real life, the dotted pp is from My Minds Eye. the skinny ribbon is May Arts and the grosgrain is from i think that su swap rainy had a few years ago.?

This one is 6inches square and i don't like the colors of it. the background is "worn words" don't remember the color of ink i used but the pink is one of those pinks that retired a few years ago and it doesn't score well anymore think i may end up having to cut up what's left of the pack.

This one i like best, which for me is usually the third times the charm. the stripe pp is from My Minds eye, the ribbons unknown. the green mat is mint melody and the purple mat is color mates med lovely lilac. this ones 5X7 in real life too.

more Puppy Photos

They all went to the Vet yesterday and got their first puppy shots and a clean bill of health and they are already "hunting birds" in the yard at the breeders... we get to bring her home next Tuesday. we do know the one with the pink collar is out of the running the people with first pick have chosen her for sure. the people behind them are leaning towards the one with the black ribbon collar, ( which would thrill us to death) because that leaves the one with the yellow collar in our choice to choose from. ( she was our most favorite of the bunch when we went down there so cross your fingers)

Some Cards from this afternoon

Meet Bunny :) I know this should have had a funny coffee sentiment on the front of it, but all of mine were too big... I am trying really hard to ink up and make something with every stamp I Had to Have... ( esp. since I now have a new (chef Diva RR) on the way to me) This card is 5X7 in real life.Bunny is from Rubber Romance, she stamped with Black ink on GP110. and colored with Prisma Pencils. the Sentiment (Savvy Stamps) is done with Versafine Vintage Sepia ink. the Swirl printed organdy ribbon i have no idea who makes it. The textured cardstocks are from Bazzill and the Printed Paper is from Paper Adventures "Aged Linen Rose" The tan cardstock was run through an D'Vine Swirls cuttlebug embossing folder. The Bunny layer is up on pop dots.

I bought these teeny tiny prima flowers in slim tins a long time ago and have hoarded them pretty much ever since because there are not very many of them inside the tins... ( the cream one with the stem is from Impress and they are more affordable because your not paying for a tin package)

This card is 5X7 in real life. I figure i will just keep making some mom and dad cards even if i end up with too many I know i can send them to Sandy for the troops to use. the All Holidays Sentiment is stamped with Fresco Chalk ink in Blue Grotto color on Very Vanilla cardstock then punched with an Pink size (mega?) scallop rectangle ( as are the pale blue shimmer ones behind it) the dark teal cardstock is unknown and the whole block is up on popdots. the cream organdy ribbon is from Offray and the teal shimmer is unknown.

I had a good afternoon and got my next color combo assignment done today. Whew! What a relief, I was really worried with the puppy coming home on tuesday that I may not have much time to play in the near future, so I am thinking to do a whole bunch of this kind of stuff "ahead" as much as possible this week and weekend. We've been trying to go through and pick up things near the floor level too. ( since she will be small enough to get into anything is my guess) have to get a puppy gate for the office hallway. things like that. pick up puppy food. Plan J's b-day (no sleep) night. or rather he's having a sleep over where I'm sure they wont be asleep till the next morning kind of a thing. Funny thing, the other day i got a text message from Tim while he was hunting. ( I had send one that said Duck Duck Goose??) asking if that was for dinner. He sent back Pig, Chicken or Beef. ( no one got a bird on Sunday) anyways if you close your phone before you hit reply (on mine) then it doesn't give you the option to type back it only gives you the option to "call them back" so i did.

I could hear the phone ring, I could hear Tim's voice. I even knew a couple of things he said to me, but not most of it. So eventually I started talking with and said ok just listen to me, hahaha. Going to really have to work on practicing that one though. It's really hard when you can hear the sound of the tires going down the road and it sounds kinda like air going through the line ( or maybe heavy breathing?) with the words too. I'm to the point now where i expect everything to make noise and sometimes I really wonder how you all deal with this, the noise is non-stop and some days at the very end of the day I feel like I would like nothing better then to just turn it all off. ( which if i give in to that takes me about 5 - 10 minutes to resent the quiet again and put the sound processor back on...) Funny thing, even with the noise's I've decided i really don't like to hear I miss them too when they are gone.

Need a Laugh?

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Poinsettia on Velvet

I've been doing this make 10 holiday cards per month challenge at Splitcoast this year, and this is my 10th holiday card for March. ( I have 7 Easter cards that are not on the blog yet as one of them is for an Challenge display at the stamp shack haha on me) so, more will come later. This one went together really fast as I had been digging in the green and red scraps the other day for the Jingle Balls card and seen this green velvet paper. ( no idea who makes it i bought it from an online stamp store in Utah like 5 or 6 years ago) and i hoard every little piece of it haha. The PSX Poinsettia is stamped on Georgia Pacific 110 with Black ink and colored with Prisma Pencils. I cut this out and ran it through an 510 Xyron glue machine and learned something new... that little blue glue glob eraser for printed paper does NOT work on velvet paper, so don't look too close at the edges of the petals. You cant see it in the photograph but, i also went over the veins in the leaves with an sakura gelly roll stardust pen. so it has a little bling in real life. The Sentiments from the All Holidays set (SU) and stamped on True Thyme cardstock then punched with an Mega Rectangle punchie. The gingham dot -garnet pp is from Daisy D's and i smeared some colorbox creamy brown chalk ink on the edges. The Ribbons from May Arts and the card is 5 1/2" square in real life.