Now I just need to go find something to do to distract me from all of the delicious chocolate I have laying around the house!!
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Tins and More Tins (& Another Butterfly)!
Now I just need to go find something to do to distract me from all of the delicious chocolate I have laying around the house!!
Friday, September 21, 2007
More Butterflies and Going Gray . . .
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Flutterby Butterflies
To create the butterflies, I first used a brayer with SU's Pumpkin Pie spectrum pad. I brayered the color onto some vellum. Next, I stamped the butterflies ("Flutterbys") using black craft ink. I then embossed them with clear embossing powder and cut them out. I love how you can see through their wings! The background is Crosshatch, while the sentiment comes from Fundamental Phrases. I cut the card into a circle shape using my new circle cutting system from Creative Memories (which I also LOVE!!) Isn't the ribbon just the cutest?? One of my friends sent that to me (I just wish I could remember which one so that I could properly give her credit! I must be getting old-er!) I thought it went just right with the butterflies! I am still trying to get used to taking photos in my photo box using my Ott-Lite . . . a bit of tweaking still going on my part! I do like how well the colors show up with it, though. Garden Green really looks like Garden Green, as the Pumpkin Pie really DOES look like Pumpkin Pie!
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Rockin' Girl Blogger!
1. I am a pirate. Well, okay, I WAS a pirate! Honest-to-goodness! I was the mascot for my high school when I was a senior and we were the Cyprus Pirates, so that is what I was! Arrrggghhh!
2. My favorite book of all time is "To Kill a Mockingbird." Honestly, I think it should be required reading at least ONCE a year! Too bad Harper Lee never wrote anything else! (The movie was actually awesome, too!)
3. I have been teaching fitness classes for (GASP!) about 15 years! I started teaching step aerobics and have done everything from weight training to water aerobics to Spinning (which I currently do and LOVE!).
4. One of my other crafy passions is making jewelry. I have been doing it for years and occasionally teach classes at a local jewelry store.
5. I have to admit to a guilty pleasure . . . just LOVE watching American Idol (though my family and I agree that some of those AWFUL people who do totally embarrassing auditions are paid by their friends to go on there and act like idiots!).
6. I have been PTA president four times! People just know I am a sucker and cannot say NO! Actually, I have a friend who has offered to take me to a tattoo parlor every year on my birthday and have the word "NO!" tattooed on my forehead (all I would hafta do is lift up my bangs!).
7. I am a sucker for a movie that makes me cry (which, admittedly, is not hard to do!). Even "The Wizard of Oz" and "Babe" get me going! Don't even TALK about "Old Yeller"!!
Puppy Love
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Why the Long Absense?
Our dear, sweet Oma died last Friday. She was 96. We are missing her already. We have had my niece's wedding (which was on Wednesday, in addition to it also being her father's 50th birthday - my birthday was the day before, when we had Oma's funeral). Also, I have been helping prepare my oldest son, Devan, to leave (which he did last Wednesday - same day as wedding and BIL birthday - ya with me so far??) to serve a two-year mission for the LDS Church (sniff! sniff! - he will be serving in Germany - Munich/Austria area).
In addition to being out of town for one reason or another during the whole summer (I realized I was only in town about one week in three!), I have been doing the ordinary get-ready-for-school stuff and keeping the books at our family business, so I was going a little crazy there for a bit! Hopefully, life we be a bit more normal for a while!
Fast forward . . . trying to think of a card that would have butterflies on it and that he would like (he has, after all, only been gone a few days!). My kids and I are fabulous Harry Potter fans. They found some little animated shorts called "Potter Puppet Pals." They are so cute and silly! This card is an homage to one of those animated shorts (which in their later incarnations became actual puppet shows!).
Here is a link to one called "Trouble at Hogwarts":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1yn9mrZELg&mode=related&search=
After watching that, check out this easter egg clip, hidden in "Trouble at Hogwarts":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x64P7t-JtuA
You are now free to go and watch all of the other clips ('cause I know you want to!). My favorite one is called "Bothering Snape". Enjoy! (And this is probably one of the GOOFY-EST looking cards I have every made! But Devan will like it, and that is all that matters!)
(BTW, this last picture is me and Devan the day he left! Amazing that I have any makeup on at all . . . by the end of the day I had cried most of it off!)
TO SEE THE LINKS, JUST COPY AND PASTE THEM INTO YOUR BROWSWER . . . WE WERE HAVING A LITTLE TROUBLE WITH THESE, BUT THEY SEEM TO BE WORKING NOW!
Wow! Card
I got the layout idea for this card from Alli Miles . . . she did a really cute green and yellow tractor card with it. Here is the link (but you have to scroll waaaayyyy down - about halfway down the page - if you want to see it!):
http://allistamps.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html
Here are the dimensions. The Cameo Coral "base" piece is 5.5" x 8.5". Score a fold at 2 1/8" and 6 3/4". After scoring, make a little mark with a pencil at the center of each of the "short" ends (this is at 2 3/4"). Then, cut from the outer edge on each side of the fold, on the top and on the bottom edges, to make the "points".
Next, to make the rectangular panel, cut a piece that is 5" x 2 1/4" (this is the chocolate chip piece on my card). The layer on top of that is 4 3/4" x 2".
To make the card that slides inside the little "envelope" you have just created, cut a base pieces that is 5 3/8" by 4". You need to cut it a little smaller than the "normal" card size so that it will be easy to slide in and out. Then, you can add layers and embellish to your heart's content! I used the scallop circle punch and the 1 3/8", 1 1/4" AND 3/4" circle punches on mine. The stamp sets used were "Think Happy Thoughts", "Polka Dot" bg stamp and "Sanded" bg stamp.
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