Another card from Billies House

When I showed my husband the cards that I created at Billies' he asked if this was the '60's set'.  This is another set from Taylored Expressions (I pretty much only used those sets on Saturday) and I stamped the car on background paper and cut it out, I thought that way I would not have to color it in.  Before I stamped the car I found this piece of background paper in the Scrap box, and I thought, this looks like Groovy paper!  One of the gals I work with drives a VW Bug, and one of the other ladies just went to the Dr and her blood work was not great, so the saying fit just right, although I am not sure if either of them drive too fast!  I loved the purple flower brad, thought that added the right amount of 60's to the card!  My daughter liked this card because it is a different shape, one of my friends would say it is a "hot-dog card".

Stamping with Billie

I made this card yesterday when I visited Billie.  I used her stamp set (Taylored Expressions) and I really like it.  The punch was a punch that I gave her for her birthday  (EK success) and it is a very cool punch, only 1/2 of it is showing here.  I embossed the background using a versa mark pad and clear embossing powder, she had a Stampin Up large roller.  Billie had made some glue dot's and the colored them, however I am not sure how she did that, but as I was rumagging thru her stuff I found them and I liked them, so I used them. (thanks Billie!) I was using her 'scrap' box for most of the paper that I needed.

I made this card to send to our friends to thank them for, yes, dinner and a great evening on New Years Eve!  I also made several other cards, however I have not yet photographed them so I will tackle that tomorrow.

I felt really good to stamp and create something!  Thanks Billie for letting me invite myself over for a fun day!

1-1-11 A New Year!

Today I spent the day with my good friend Billie at her house.  She has an amazing stamping room, and all I brought over was white card stock. I used her stamps, inks, embossing powders, and other stamping supplies.  It was a wonderful day!  I had a GREAT time, and I have several cards that I will share this week.  I am too tired to do that tonight, but I promise I will show the cards that I made.  I hope that 2011 is a GREAT year for one and all!

Another Trip around the World

After I finished the Christmas Trip around the World, I was pumped up to quilt, so I pulled out some material I purchased at a local quilitng store, and went to work.  I love the colors, and this pattern is so easy, it was together before I knew it, so I went to town with my Mother in law and visited the quilting store to purchase additional fabrics for the borders.  I had some of the material for the back, but not quite enough, so I pieced a long strip from the scraps, I believe I have used all the left over material, that hardly ever happens!  I had just received a quilitng magazine and they showed the backs being pieced, so I thought what the heck!  Now I just need to get them quilted.....

Tulips, My Favorite!

I have a group of friends who annually make a calendar, we each pick a month, or maybe two months, we each make 12 pages all the same for that particular month, we send them to one of the ladies, who collects all of the pages, and binds them into a calendar, then sends us the finished project.  It is a great little calendar to have on my desk.  Each month is different, and it is fun to get them back.  This card was done with some left over Tulips, my month was April, and the tulip stamp just jumped off the rack!  I used 4 tulips per page, and I colored each one with colored pencils, in a different color, and I tried to be creative and tried to shade them, they turned out pretty good.

Trip around the world/Christmas

I have had the material for this quilt for some time now, I cut the strips according to Eleanor Burns, Trip Around the World, then I stopped and put it all away, away for a long time.  After I finished my King Sized quilt, I pulled this one out and I have been working on it at craft night at church for the past few months.  I pulled it out yesterday and finished it, and I do like it.  On the selvage edge of one of the pieces of material it gave a copyright date of 1991.  That means that the material is as old as my daughter!  So to say I have had the material for while would be an understatement!  I had a large piece of one of the materials and I assumed it was large enough for the back, however, I am incorrect so I will need to visit a quilting store to purchase enough of something 'christmas-ie' for the back.  It is lap-sized and I think it is a great size for one person.  I checked through my fabric stash, and I have other fabrics, a group of pink, purple and green, would be nice for a little girl, and I have bright colors that I purchased on the clearance racks.  So maybe I will get them out and cut them into strips as this design is nice looking and Eleanor Burns makes it easy to put it together.

Birthday card for Cory

Our friend Cory turned 50 this year, so I needed a 'man' card, of course all of mine are flowers, hearts, pastel colors etc.  So I sat down and made this card for him.  I like this stained glass stamp, I have several, but this one is the most manly of them.  I took this photo without the flash, so it is yellow, the colors were much better on the original.