A couple of Fathers Day cards

Tim was called back in to work tonight, ( poor guy had to get up extra early for an 8 am dental appointment. they've put in yet another temporary and he'll have to go back again next month) this is the continuation of the second root canal /crown this year... so, anyways had time to mess around and get his fathers day card done without him seeing it. :) the lure stamp is from Northwoods and the sentiments from A Muse. tfl. I'm almost always running behind with personal cards anymore, this one is actually done a little early ( since its hand deliverable) :) My FIL is a cancer survivor and that's what he did after the treatments was sell his biggest truck and buy a 'Vette. :) this card is 5X7 the sentiment is from Stampin'Up! (the set with the pheasant bird in it) don't remember the name of the set though. the Car is colored with Prisma makers, the su white gel pen and the sakura gelly roll stardust pen. ( there is also stardust bling inside the letters of the sentiment) the car panel is up on pop dots. the ribbons from May Arts and Offray. the red pp i think could be provo craft and the cream with black dots is K& Co. tfl.

A Virtual (reverse mask) challenge card

This card came about for Jan's Virtual swap with a twist in the stamp shack, this one instead of mailing stamped images Jan is sending people mask's of the scalloped square Punches. So i said, you know, i have those punches. I want to try this... how i did it was. This card is 5.5 x 5.5 in real life, in shades of browns and gold. I did this last night when it was too dark for photos and truth be told when the sun first comes up it still is... ( might re-shoot this later today) I started with a scrap of printer paper that i punched the hole in. then I taped that to the cream card stock. Then i stamped the image of the little shoppers (Art Impressions) through the hole in Nick Bantock Vandyke Brown. Then I placed a mask of the shoppers over them. and stippled brushed some old paper distress on top to cover all the holes inside the punchie hole. ( then i took the paper i had taped down off my cream card stock) then i placed the scalloped square over the top of all of that stamping and stamped the Worn WallPaper ( Stampers Anonymous) over the top of the whole square in tea dye distress. I have a small pile of distress foil transferred backgrounds i did a while back and i ran one of the ones done in tea dye through a Swirls cuttlebug folder then most the edges were trimmed with Pinking deco scissors and then layered to the card front. the Memories is a K&Co. sticker from walmart. the only lumps on this card are from the Prima Flowers. tfl.

Happy Birthday Bella card

the colors of this one came about from a comment left for me in a gallery on the Emmerson card i did the other day... the comment was to the effect of, oh i like how you colored her to match the paper... and that never occurred to me, I actually colored her, then looked through my scraps for pp that would work with it. so this card i tried it the other way around, i stamped this Bella the other day for some rak but, didn't send this particular one out because if you look close at her feet you will see a black halo effect of ink ( which is why the grey shadows are so dark on this one) so, this card i pulled out the piece of Chatterbox paper out of the bin and then colored the Bella. its layered on some diecutswithaview cardstock and the green is old olive. the card base is a watercolor base that is not quite 5x7 and i think its from strathamore or some co. like that ( envelope is slightly textured too) The sentiment stamp is from Rubber soul and stamped on a SU tag Punch that has some aged mahogany distress color dusted on it. the "trims" are scrap pieces i had cut off the edges of the mat papers with deco scissors. had orignally thought to stamp maybe some thread type edging on it, then looked down that my trash baggie had already been removed from my room so, put them on the card instead.

Gifts for a Gardener

been working on collecting garden related images all winter more or less. and then started stamping them and coloring them with Prisma Pencils here and there. This is a look at what has been done so far. This took me forever to do this... this photo was shot with two over head lights on and two ott lights on the table on in broad daylight. (I'm going blind) but, maybe so is my Camera... when you color with your nose two inches above the image it really tells you how little light there really is. I wanted to find some old canning jars with the screw on one piece lids to put these in, but, couldn't find any big enough. so they are inside of 6inch wide cello baggies from SU and then there is a 6X4 piece of scrap my minds eye pp on the top. then just punched a hole for the too big to fit in the package tag to tie on the outside. My thoughts about this was that every single person i know who grows a garden grows too much... so maybe these could get tied onto food gifts?? Made a bunch for DH that I am thinking i would be the person to tie them on the food... and i probably wont color the next batch, just distress the tags and stamp them. most of the images are highly detailed ( IE a pain to color) *Ü* Hopefully they will be well received.

A card from Scraps

Ah I have loved this sentiment since the first time i seen this one. ( Its an American Art Stamps from the Emmerson line) I've decided she has grey hair as no one i have ever met has that kind of pragmatic "wisdom" with out the aging that ads the grey hair to you... *Ü* This card is 4X6 and colored with Prisma markers and pencils, I tried to curl my wrist as i was blending the dress to make it look like the way the fabric may drape, but the photo makes it look like the colors are streaky or something. ( might just re-shoot this card later ) I did this one from scraps on the table, the cleaning efforts are finding it easier to make more cards from the pile then to put it away... hee hee good thing J doesnt read my blog eh? so far, i have finished and packaged up all the N atc's girls too... there is a package ready to go to Sandy ( cards for the troops that were too big for the box i just sent to Korea) I have a package for Joy, ( sorry its been so long) some stampy raks I've promised out. Looks like Tuesdays postal run is gonna be an adventure so, I'm trying to get everything i need to mail together so i can just go through the line once this week. ( sounds like a plan eh?) oh, and I'm already out of 2 cent stamps again...) so gotta remember to pick up all the odd sized postage stamps again... The new star wars stamps were supposed to hit out post office on Saturday i think, so I may get a few sheets of those too if there are any left. More cleaning is on the adjenda for later today and A is taking J to go see the new spidy movie... so, he's pretty excited about that one. I want to see the new Pirates, but, I'm trying to decided if its really worth it for me to go, ( I usually buy the dvd's because they are CC ) but, i have went to the theaters over the last few years to see a couple of things (mostly Harry Potter or Star Trek) movies where I've read it or I guess i will get whats going on from the visuals... Oh yeah i still need to know about the Longaberger baskets care if anyone knows?? Thanks and have a good what's left of this weekend!

I have Happy Mail today

I have Happy Mail today! :) I DID get new stamps.. these are not the test ones, these you can buy right now. ( If you sign up for the email newsletter they'll give you a coupon and there are no shipping charges) The flower may possibly be stamped upside down. ( not sure but, i liked it like this ) there is some yellow stickles in the centers. ( Its part of a set called Beauty Bouquet) I had stamped it and masked it then layered two more on the tops on slim pop dots. this is 5X5 in real life, used up a stray scrap of that BG pp from yesterdays card. and the sentiment is also from Rubber stamping Fun. You may have noticed I'm tinkering with my blog template again... ( I'm actually cleaning) haha.. so It may take all day to get it set just so... Probably have to re-shrink the header photo again. In the old template, i had inserted it as an 800 pixels wide and it was too big, but when i moved it all to this one 600 pixels wide was too small so, i put it in as 800 again... but, its probably going to need shrunk down a little. I have mostly been following the directions in Godelieve's blogger "how to blog" http://whitemontana.blogspot.com/ The guys are going fishing later when they are done mowing the neighbors grass... so hopefully there will be more play time later.