Peace

Happy Sunday dear friends !!!

I hope everyone is staying cool  in the air conditioning!!! We have had the hottest week ever. Our temperatures reached 108 the lowest was 105. I tell you work was so miserable we were all about half sick !!! We have air in the factory well somewhat but it was better than it was outside that is for sure. There are a lot of factory's that do not have air and Aisin is one of the good ones that do !! But without rain for weeks we finally got some about 3 am this morning. My grass is just brown no green at all !!!

But after work yesterday I came home and got all the chores done and today I had a play time. I love this Dreads from Krista Smith so knowing I had to make all the girlfriends of Kirstie’s some things I took advantage of this image and made a frame with her.

I used some old papers from DD’s. The image was colored with my copic’s and spica glitter pens . The corner die is one of Susana’s Custom Art and Cards new custom dies by Susana. I just love this set. Then I used the peace sign die and popped one in a bottle cap and used diamond glaze to cover it. I got the wooden peace word from HL.

Here is a close up of Dreads and I used some diamond glaze on her eyes to give them a pop.

Here is the back of the frame and I painted it with Susana’s Silks she has. I LOVE this color it is Spicy Tomato. The picture does not do the silks justice. These silks has such a gorgeous shine to them.

Well that is it for me today. I am going back to the craft room and do a little more to some other projects I have going. It takes me forever anymore to finish anything working the hours I do but I do enjoy getting to play what little time I get.

Thanks so much for stopping bye and visiting me. It is greatly appreciated and I love reading all your comments  from you.

Sending hugs (((((((((((())))))))))))))

Weekend Play Time

Happy Weekend dear friends !!! It was a great weekend for me I am happy to say. I was off a couple days on vacation this week and boy was it a busy time that it has flown bye so fast.

I spent the first day doing all the house chores and Friday my youngest granddaughter and I had a girls day out !! We went out to eat and shopped till we dropped and then to the movies. Now that wore me out worse than working lol  Yesterday morning was spent doing the outside work, and I even scrubbed the deck lol But last night I had a long sit and done some playing and finished them up today.  It felt so good just to sit and play and do something just for fun.

As you all know I had to step down from Susana’s Custom Art and Cards as my work load at work is just way to much anymore. It was a very hard decision but something I had to do for I couldn’t give 100% to her and Susana is just the greatest person I have ever met.  She is so wonderful to work with and we have grown into very best friends that I will always cherish. Your the best girl !!!

My first card is a Sylvia Zet image for Susana’s store and she is just the sweetest !!!I so love coloring these images. Papers are from Susana’s called Carta Bella and this pad is just gorgeous !!! Susana carry's the most variety of paper pads I have ever seen in one store. Check them out here.

Now look at those corner dies !!!!!!!!! OMG !!! Susana has got her own line of dies, Dies by Susana. You won’t believe all the detail in these dies folks.  I saw them in the store and loved them but when I got them in person OMG they are to die for !!! If you all do not have any of these yet then you are missing out !! Trust me !!

For my image Friendship Ties ! This beauty has been colored with my copic’s and I have used the spica glitter pens on the image also. I have to say I had so much fun coloring her in and having such a great play time.

Yes 2 cards in one weekend !!!

I have used this adorable Party Hardy image from Krista Smith. She has been colored with my copic’s and spica glitter pens. I added a Petaloo flower and I have used a MS border.

I used a different corner die from Dies by Susana and I so love this one too. Love it. And look at those papers !!! I just about cried when I cut into them, A very dear sweet friend from the UK sent these to me (thanks so much sweetie) These are from the Life in the Country from Maja Designs. Oh I so feel in love with this pad.

There is a new challenge going on at the Saturated Canary Challenge Blog of Red , White and Blue so I am going to enter this card there.

Thanks so much for stopping bye and visiting me, I have to say I had a blast with some play time this weekend for fun.  Sending Big hugs your way (((((((()))))))))))))))

Play Ball !!!!

Good day dear blogging friends !!!

Well it is the end of the weekend !! I was so lucky to of been put on a different line Friday instead of mine so I didn’t have to work the weekend !! YIPPEE !!

I got some play time in late last night and this morning I got to finish it all. I have so many projects I need to start. When my oldest granddaughter had her birthday party all her little friends loved all her boxes and frames I made her so they told her they wanted some for there birthdays lol Boy I got myself a list already lol Bless their hearts lol

So I started off with this wooden coat hanger. Thought it would make just a cute decoration for their room. I used this gorgeous image from Krista Smith called Gothica. Isn’t she so cute ??? I colored her with my copic’s and spica glitter pens.  I used the Silks from Susana’s Custom Art and Cards to paint the wooden hanger and then added Making Memories paper to the front. I used some glamour dust glitter paint on the flowers. So LOVE this stuff !!! The  Friends was a die cut from Sizzix

I saw where the challenge at Saturated Canary Challenge Blog was anything goes so I am going to enter this there.

 

Here is a side view of the hanger.

Yesterday was my youngest granddaughters birthday so before the party she had a ball game. So grandma went and sat in the steaming hot sun to watch her play. She made a home run too. It was so cute to watch them all play. So here is my little diva granddaughter and when I use that word diva I really mean it lol

Here she is playing 3rd base.

And here is a pic of my only 2 granddaughters taken at her party. Ashley on the left and Kirstie on the right. Ashley turned 6 yesterday and Kirstie was 9 in May. Boy they so grow up so fast.

I got some news a couple weeks ago that I am going to be a great grandma !!!! Man am I ever getting old !!!! We don’t know yet what it is still to early but am excited.

 

Well I hope you all have had a wonderful weekend. I know mine has sure been busy. Now I need to go start on all the house work and laundry lol Just never stops does it.

Thanks so much for stopping bye and visiting me today. I so appreciate it. I know I don’t get on much working the long hours I do but I so appreciate all the comments you leave me.

Sending Big Hugs your way. (((((((()))))))))))))

The last of the birthday gifts

Hello dear friends !!! I so hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.

Mine was busy as usual but the best part of the weekend is my dear sweet friend from the UK called me and we had such a wonderful chat. It is always so nice to get to talk in person.

But I did manage to finish up the rest of Ashley's birthday crafts lol I bought her present awhile back and she has no idea what it is yet but she had told me she needed me to make her things for her new room. So I showed you the frames last week and I finally finished her card and the rest.

This is Ava from Krista Smith isn’t she so adorable?? I just love these images. I colored her with copic’s and used some spica glitter pens on her. I so love these eyes and I used some diamond glaze on them to give them more of a pop. Papers are from some old SU papers.  The sentiment is from some words from TAC. I used the Whimsy Stamps ticket die for the sentiment. And as always I used some glamour dust glitter paint on the flowers.

Then here is a large chipboard letter A for her room which I used some more older papers from SU  I colored up a Tilda with my copic’s and spica glitter pens and this gorgeous flourish I got from Susana’s Custom Art and Cards.  I used the glamour dust glitter paint on the flowers also.

I could not get a good picture of this frame at all so I didn’t make it very big here for the glass is just shooting off so much glare. But this is another picture Ashley sent me to decorate for her. I just bought a frame at Wal-Mart and added some lace to it. I used the Whimsy Stamps banner dies and some sizzix alphabet dies.

 

Here is the story behind the picture she gave me. This is Trevor, He was in Ashley’s class and he passed away this winter. He had wondered off behind his house and had fell into the cold winter pond and drown.  So his parents had these papers made up and I have made it bigger here so you can read it. This really shook the kids up and Ashley wanted it decorated up some. But the picture above just doesn’t show very well. Sorry.

Well that is it for me for now. I have now finished up all her crafts she wanted, took me long enough but it is just so hard to get much done working long hours.

But thank you all so much for stopping bye. I so appreciate it. Sending Big Hugs ((((((((())))))))))))))

Oh it has been so long !!!

Hello dear friends !!! Man it seems like ages since I have been on !!! My poor ol blog has been neglected so bad !

I am still working lots of hours but I finally got a weekend off and was so ready for it. My plan is to get all my work done today so I can just sit and enjoy the day Sunday.

Besides working there has been so much going on in my life with my family it is unreal !!

Below is a picture of my dad’s brothers and sisters this was taken in 2005. My dad passed away in 1988 so he is the only one missing here but Uncle Boob has been ill and in a nursing home since Feb. He is doing therapy and we are hoping to get him home soon he is walking with a walker now so he is getting better but his wife Aunt Rosie passed away April 18th very unexpectedly. She was a rock so this was such a shock to us all !!!! She was a sweetheart that was for sure. So we had her funeral and this  Monday Uncle Boob’s TWIN sister Aunt Marge passed away.  So it has been a trying time here. Aunt Marge and Uncle Boob was 83 the 27th of April.

The evening of the day we buried Aunt Rosie my grandson was going home that night and he took the country roads home which was shorter. And this stupid deer came out of the  woods and ran right into the drivers side of Dyllon’s door. The deer’s head busted his drivers side window out and got him in the face and all the glass cut his face up and got in his eye. He is doing okay but the jeep got a number done to it. The body of the deer went back and got both doors and the rear quarter panel. But he is okay now and that is great. He just misses his vehicle lol

Then to top it off we found out my oldest daughter had cervical cancer. She has had her surgery and is doing good. They are 97% they got it all but she will go every 3 months to have a check up to make sure it hasn’t came back.
So needless to say my life has been pretty crazy !!!

I have not been in my craft room for over a month and I had so many projects half done that had been there for months. So last night I decided to add the flowers to them and let them be lol It was great to get to play but the ol mojo just isn’t there anymore. I still have lots of projects laying there to be finished so maybe one day I can get them done. Some are for my granddaughters birthday which is in June and another one the 28th of May !!! Don’t know if they will get done or not lol

But here is a card I had done using a Krista Smith image. It has been so long ago I could not tell you what paper pad this is from but I do know it came from Susana’s Custom Art and Cards . I buy all my paper from her and I used some glamour dust glitter paint on the flowers. I saw where Krista has a challenge for may flowers so after many many months I am going to enter this there at Saturated Canary Challenge Blog.

Next I added some flowers to this project to finish it up. A picture frame with Tilda. I got some gorgeous bling from a dear friend for my birthday and I used it on the frame. The papers are some old MME papers again Glamour dust glitter paint was used on the flowers.

So sorry I don’t remember much about these 2 projects but it has been so long since I had started them.

Well I have so much housework to get caught up on and outside work. I am going to get it all done today so I can take tomorrow to do nothing.

I do hope everyone is doing well and hopefully one day I can get back into the groove of crafting again. But for now just some old projects that had been laying around unfinished lol

As always sending Big Hugs your way (((((((((())))))))))))))))))

Glinda

Hello dear sweet blogging friends !!! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend !!! Same ol for me but did manage to get a card made yesterday. I tell you working all these hours sure has put a damper on my crafting fun. It is like I am only able to get on the net once a week and that is so not me lol But we have to work to pay the bills and pay for our habits don’t we??

Well anyway the card I made is this adorable Glinda from Krista Smith for my granddaughters birthday.  I so love coloring her images. I have colored her with my copic’s and spica glitter pens. I also used diamond glaze on her eyes and lots of glamour dust.

This gorgeous paper I got from Susana’s Custom Art and Cards and I so love this pad. It is Bo Bunny’s Serenity Collection. I didn’t add any layers for I didn’t want to cover this sheet up at all. I painted the paper behind the image with red glamour dust glitter paint.

The corner dies are from Whimsy Stamps and the ticket die is from My Favorite Things. I used a Magnolia leaf and border die and the branch punch is from MS. The flowers were coated with crystal glamour dust glitter paint.

I have not entered a challenge in ages with my work hours but after coloring this image I saw where Saturated Canary Challenge  is to use Twine and so I am going to enter this card there.

I had colored this image a while back and so I just stuck it in a frame today.  Actually I made a couple of them so will give them to the granddaughters.

Well that is it for me for awhile. I do hope you all are doing well and again so sorry I don’t get around to blogging much but I do appreciate those that do stop bye and leave me such sweet comments. Love ya all!!

Sending Big Hugs ((((((((())))))))))))))

Happy Birthday !!

 

Well I am getting on a roll here getting to play. Has been a long time since I have been able to play so much. But I know when I get to go back to work, those long hours will still be there waiting on me lol

But I had a good play yesterday and made a birthday card for my oldest. Like I told you yesterday I have 4 birthdays this month .

So I have used this gorgeous image made by Krista Smith. I so love her images, her hair is just so wonderful to color. This stamp is from a very very sweet dear friend and I just love it. Thanks sweetie !!!! She is called Cinderella for Sugar Nellie. She has been colored with my copic’s and I have used Spica Glitter Pens and Glamour dust , and some smooch pearlized  accent ink on her.

The papers are from Lily Bee designs that I got from Susana’s Custom Art and Cards.

Dies are from Cheery Lynn Designs. and the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts which I have coated in Glamour Dust Glitter Paint.

Sentiment and punches for it are from SU.

The gems are from a very sweet dear friend also, You have me spoilt dear.

So since I got to play for some challenges I would like to enter this card into the following challenges.

Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog for Bingo = Ribbon, Gems, and Glitter

Cheery Lynn Designs = Celebrate

Creative Inspiration Challenge Blog = Anything Goes

Paper Sundaes =Celebrate

Thanks so much for stopping bye and visiting me, it is greatly appreciated.

Sending Big Hugs (((((((((((())))))))))))))

Winter Wishes

I so hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas with family and friends !!!

I made a birthday card for my daughter, I have 4 birthdays this month with family so wanted to get a jump start on them as 2 of them are the first week lol

I have this adorable image from Krista Smith and there is a wonderful challenge going on over at the Saturated Canary Challenge Blog. It is Christmas or Winter.

Also for the ABC Challenge Blog is F is for Frosty, so I am using all my snowflakes here.

So I have used my image to make a Winter Birthday Card for my youngest. I am using Whispy A Fairy. Isn’t she so cute. I love that long hair.

She has been colored with my copic’s and Spica Glitter Pens. I coated her wings in Glamour Dust.

My papers are from Bo Bunny that I got at Susana’s Custom Art and Cards. She has such a huge selection of paper pads.

I also used the Snowflake border die and Snowflake from Memory Box dies. The large snowflake has been covered with Glamour Dust Glitter Paint and the snowflake border I have used the Viva Decor Glitter Liner on parts of the snowflake.

The sentiment is from Lily Of The Valley and I have used some Seam Binding from Really Reasonable Ribbon.

The large white snowflake was a very sweet dear friend as well as the snowflake around my brad. I so love these. Thanks ladies you all are so sweet !!

Well I hope you all have a wonderful week. I am still off from surgery but see the surgeon this week so I am sure I will be returning to work after the first of the New  Year.

Thanks so much for stopping bye and seeing me and for your lovely comments. I so appreciate them.

Sending Big Hugs (((((((((()))))))))))))))

Sneak Peak and a Saturated Canary

Happy Saturday dear friends !!! Yes it is a happy one for me because our work day was canceled !! Yippee!!!

It sure has been a long week after being on vacation last week, but I am so glad it is the weekend. I hope you all are enjoying yours.

I finished a card I had been messing with all week. It is one of the new images from Krista Smith. Isn’t she just the cutest??? I have colored her with my copics and have used some Memory Box papers. I just loved coloring this adorable image. I am going to enter this into the Saturated Canary Challenge the challenge this week is 1 image, 2 patterned papers and 3 embellishments.

I used some glamour dust glitter paint on my poinsettia and some Glitter gel on the holly leaf all from Susana’s Custom Art and Cards.

Poinsettia die is from Magnolia

Border punch and holly is MS

Sentiment is from Lily Of The Valley.

Now I have a sneak peak for you from Lily Of The Valley !!! OHHHHHHHHHHH you all are going to love this release !! I can’t wait for you to see all of them. They will be released at the store on the 10th of November. But they will be available at a NEC show Thursday so if you are lucky enough to live close you can grab these cuties up fast.

I have used this adorable little puppy called Buckets of Love !!! Oh I just love him. He has been colored with my copic’s and the papers are from Nitwit called Grin n Bear it. Love these papers.  I have used some Spellbinder dies and a Magnolia tag die. Now this new release, most of them come with a sentiment free so what a great deal. So start stalking Lily Of The Valley !!!

I used the sketch over at PaperTake Weekly a gorgeous sketch from Dawny Love her sketch’s.

Thanks so much for stopping bye and for you lovely comments they are so appreciated.

Sending Big Hugs((((((((())))))))))))

Black, Sparkle, Flowers and distressing !!

 

Well it is Monday and that means I am back at work !!! My vacation just went to fast ! But I have a card to show you today that I done while I was off.

This is one of the images from Krista Smith , isn’t she adorable??

She is colored with my copic’s and these gorgeous papers are from a Authentique pad I got from Susana’s Custom Art and Cards.

I am entering this into the Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog where the challenge is Black, Sparkle, Flowers and Distressing. I think I have gotten all 4 lol

I used some glamour dust on the pearls and on lots of the dress, and some glamour dust glitter paint on the flowers and some glitter gel on the Magnolia  leaf. The circle doily is a Memory Box die.

The chipboard butterfly is also from Susana’s and I have used some radiant rain spray on it. Lots and Lots of sparkle on this that is for sure.

I distressed the edges of the papers with black distressing ink.

The border die is from My Favorite Things.

Thanks so much for stopping bye and for your comments you leave me. I so greatly appreciate them, more than you know.

Sending you Big Hugs ((((((((()))))))))))))))

Some more play time

Oh this is my last vacation day !!!! So sad !!!!

But wanted to show you a couple more projects I got done while I was off. I have one more to finish and that will be it on my play time for awhile.

I made some little notepads out of chipboard with my bind it all.

The one on the left  is Winter Wonderland from Sylvia Zet images for Susana’s Custom Art and Cards. I used my copic’s to color the image. I think just about everything on this notepad came from Susana’s. These adorable poinsettia's, Satine Mother of Pearl Paint, Hologram Glitter Pen, Glamour dust, Glamour dust glitter paint and Bo Bunny Papers.

The notepad on the left is Christmas Dance from Lily Of The Valley. I am not for sure the paper on this pad for it was from my stash. My image has been colored with Prisma Pencils and the flourish if from Bosskut. The flower is from Prima. Both pads have a peel off for the sentiment.

Then I made a few Halloween bags for the grandkids. The image is from Krista Smith.

Dies are from Cottage Cutz, Magnolia, and Sizzix.

Border punch MS

I am going to enter this into the challenge over at ABC Challenge Blog where it is B for Boo this challenge.

Thanks so much for stopping bye today and thanks so much for your lovely comments.

Well need to do some chores today (what a fun last day of vacation lol)

Sending Big Hugs ((((((((()))))))))))))

A Winter Ragamuffin

Hello dear friends !!! I do hope you all are enjoying your weekend !!! I really hate to see it come though for that means my vacation is about over !! (Pouting)  I so dread going back to those long work hours again.

But I have so enjoyed my play time I have gotten this week. I saw a criss cross  card that Bev had done and just had to try it.

I used this adorable image from Krista Smith I just love her images. She has been colored with my copic’s and I have used some Satine Mother of Pearl paint for my snow and the snowman, I also added Hologram Glitter Pen to highlight the snow along with some glamour dust. Then I used some glamour dust glitter paint on the heart on the snowman. So this project really sparkles lol All these products are from Susana’s Custom Art and Cards and I so love them there is so much texture to the Satine Mother of Pearl paint.

Image Krista Smith , Sentiment Lily Of The Valley 

Bo Bunny Papers from Susana’s Custom Art and Cards

Ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon

Spellbinder label die

Corner punch EK

Snowflake and brads from my stash

 

Here is a picture of the inside.  And you can find the tutorial from Bev HERE