Today .4.22.08

Miss Gracie Lou who consented to holding still for just one second for this latest mug shot...

The title of this mouse is "together under the moon" I was thinking it would work well for anniversary cards and such... the forever is from Hero Arts and the Love is from SU (noteworthy) the orangeish pp is from Basic Grey, the green speckled cs is from Club Scrap, the cardbase is DCWV. this is A-2 in real life...

my internet's been down for about 20 hours at home and just came back on line a bit ago... so, if you dont hear from me, send some warm weather this away... we are getting real tired of the freezing temps, and winds and snow and hail...

this weekend

I have had this particular house mouse for about an year now... it caught my attention on eBay and i never did anything with it. ( because it was one of those fallen victim to badly colored with water based markers...) so, I'm enjoying seeing my own coloring coming along playing with the pencils... this card is 5X7 in real life. the house mouse image is from Stampa Rosa (Giddy up) the sentiment is from PSX, these are stamped with versafine on Georgia pacific 110 with some shabby shutters and peeled paint distress ink color dusted on the edges. the sentiments up on pop dots, the shimmery copper organdy is unknown. the green texture cardstock is Bazzill and the PP is from Basic Grey.

Now this is a new to me image, i found this one along with two others yesterday at stampstrucks annual used stamp sale... the name of it is Hot cocoa 1997. Its stamped on GP110 and colored with prisma pencils, the design in the tea cup looked a little southwestern to me with the triangles and when i think of southwest i think of silver gaudy turquoise jewelry... so that's what inspired the colors. the Sentiments from SU (Lovely Labels) and stamped with Versafine Deep Lagoon on the reverse side of the textured yellow bazzill cardstock, the skinny gross grain is unknown. There is a little bit of antique linen distress on the edges of this as i spend the am cleaning and managed to make this particular image dusty... used real fabric pinking shears on the mat. this one's also 5X7 in real life.

Loot... :) this year Alice and i left home 2 hours before the store was to open. it snowed through the mountains and even in the city where this store is ( which doesn't happen there very often) so, the store was not as crowded I'm sure because of the weather... I'm pretty happy about what i found and what i paid for them... :) Alice filled a hand basket cart too, so I'm sure we are gonna go early again next year.

Some different views, all in all i found 4 su sets ( two unmounted) three old house mouse stamps that had not seen ink, some PSX odds and ends, one cool Magenta one.

all these stamps have been inked and cataloged and assembled.

( which was what brought on the cleaning reorganizing jag this morning as it seems when you come home with such a pile there is of course no where to put it.)

Stamp Shack Yahoo group LINK

for those of you who are having stamp shack withdrawals while the site is down there is an Yahoo stamp shack message board to check in at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shackieupdates/ I don't remember how hard it is to join, but you will need an Yahoo account to do it.

Challenge cards

This was for Laurie's current twisted sentiments theme challenge going on now in the stamp shack. most the things i think of for challenges like this i either don't have an image that will work ( gasp!) and I'm too lazy to come in the house and print up sentiments... but I'm still thinking about this challenge and if i can think of some smaller one liner types i can try my alphabet stamps i suppose... the background (wine words) and wine sketch are from Inkadinkado and the sentiments from River city rubber works. they are all stamped on ruby red cardstock with versafine onyx black ink. the paper wire is from paperbilities ( walmart like 5 or 6 years ago!) and up on black pop dots.

Jan's current technique challenge is to emboss vellum any way you like so this is my second entry for that one... the red and black cardstocks are from Bazzill, the vellum was run through an Swiss dots cuttlebug folder (which poked a couple of holes into it under the image from club scrap) the sentiments from the su set ( so many sayings) the cappuccino mug is from Inkadinkado. The ribbons May Arts.

this is my 8th color combo challenge colors are pale green (as a neutral) black, white and cream. this card is A-2 in real life, the image is from the retired SU set called laundry notes ( that i won on ebay because it was too much fun to color the wishes granted to me) and the green cardstock is unknown, the black is bazzill, the check pp is from K&Co. the lace ( I think could be from the embellishment studio but, not sure anymore) the cardbase is from DCWV. (some day i am gonna have most these premade cards used up!)

hugs and kisses

The colors are a little off... thought this angle shows how floofy they hearts are on the front of the card.

This card is 4 1/2" x 7" in real life, the red is an 5X7 cardbase from an Joann's pack that i trimmed. the plastic XOXO button was also from J's a few years ago. (not sure who makes it anymore) the Hearts are stamped with Versamark on hammermill inkjet vellum and heat embossed with Ranger seafoam white. (then sewn to the bazzill textured mat) the top left heart is from Stampendous, the middle heart is from Impression Obsession and the bottom heart is from the SU set called Always. the top of the mat was punched with the SU spiral punch. have a happy Thursday. only one more week before L O S T comes back on...

yard sale season is officially OPEN

Last Saturday morning before we went to the park to see the fishing derby participants and my family gather there for them. we went to a few yard sales... this was my thing i found for me. ( probably paid too much for it) $30.00 (metal drawer pull on the side reads Hamilton) but, I've wanted one for a long time so... had originally intended to put some of Tim's antique lures into it, but since the drawer does not have glass on the front he thinks that's a bad idea... ( and that i should keep if for sentiment stamps) what a guy. :) if i only had a wall in the play room to hang it on... such is life.