Christmas Card

Well I'm just about to wrap up making my Christmas Cards.  You know a lot of "carders" use one design and send it to everyone.  Somehow I can't do that and have to make each one seperate.  So I will just post one here--I think it was one of my favorites and about the easiest.  The sentiment  was at http://desertdiva-hannelie.blogspot.com  The square was cut with my Cricut using the Elegant Edges cartridge. You can see in the smaller photo how the card actually opens. Merry Christmas

to Cricut or not?

Black Friday is upon us and I went and ordered another Cricut cartridge.  I am undecided as to whether to try and sell my Cricut and cartridges.  It is so hard when you do not have a dedicated space to set it up.  But I went ahead and ordered the elegant edges cartridge for $25 as I am trying to do more cards with digi stamps and it seemed like a good fit for that.  We'll see.

November flew by

November has definately just flew by.  Thanksgiving is Thursday and I am not ready in the least.  But I did manage to make a card for Doug and here it is.  Donnie and Amber won't be getting a card...but they are at Doug's so they can look at his! We'll be cooking a turkey for 12 and eating at the Clubhouse with new friends instead of family.  Looking forward to a good day.
Digital image was free from Karen's Doodles.   http://karensdoodles.blogspot.com/

Halloween

Well now that we finally made it south for the winter, I can perhaps make some headway on cards and scrappin.  Here are a couple of cards I made for Halloween.

This one I made using a digi i got from copicmarkersscrapbooking.  This website appears to now be gone, hope that I haven't received a stolen image.

Owl on Pumpkins was made using a free digi from http://designed2delight.com from their Sept. challenge.  Colored with pencils and added a little halloween paper and stickers.  

The Alley Way Stamps: eek.. because I can.. Giveaway!!

The Alley Way Stamps: eek.. because I can.. Giveaway!!:

Alley way is giving away some girl stamps.  Very cool.

The Working Man

Thanks to all the working men and for who we are celebrating this labor day.  Their ingenuity, dedication and work ethic made this great nation.

Time Flies...as do mosquitos

Believe it!  We've been in the mtns. at Cascade for over a month now.  And in a little over a month we will be returning to Arizona.  Where does the time fly to?  The temperature has been down to 32 in the mornings and this morning the bugs clumped on my motor home screens were miniature grasshoppers.  One of my least favorite insects; I am glad here in Cascade they were reasonably short lived.  Afternoons when I rode my bike down the Strand they would jump from all directions pelting me with green legs and bug eyes.  Ugh!  I think the mosquitos are also gone.  This morning when I rode to the pool it was 39 degrees.

What a great Labor Day weekend.  I was just disappointed none of the kids came...nature can be so relaxing.  Friday of course we had to watch the BSU game.  Went to the golf course bar and everyone was so friendly.   Sat by a group of youngsters (20 and 30 somethings...are they still youngsters?) a couple of which were still in college at BSU and together we had a great time.  They definately knew their football!
Saturday was lovely...every day was with temps about 80 and Don and I walked to the waterpark and watched some kyacking.  So Sunday we thought we were prepared to hike the Crown Point Trail.  We made it the five miles but Monday we did a car trip up to Warren (don't bother) we were so stiff.  Crown Point winds around the sides of Lake Cascade and total it's over 5 miles but great walk and we went early so it wasn't to hot.  Don swears he saw a wolf, I'm skeptical but our friend Caroline saw a large animal on the same trail earlier in the year.  Who knows.  Local legend tells of 275 lb. wolves.

Well gotta go...busy day doing nothing.  After swimming I rode my bike down here to the waterpark as they have WiFi and Don is out fishing in the boat.  Last night we ate trout w/almonds.  Not bad.

Thought we would have a little spinach tonight in the steamer.  Bought the spinach at Fred Meyer a couple days ago where it was on sale for .78.  Imagine my (his) surprise when I found this frog living happily in my bunch!  (anyone know the type or where the spinach came from?)

Don put him in the garden with the lettuce and green beans but it was 100 degrees out so don't know how that went...also I have a snake in my garden, so.....

Well we're going to be off next week for our vacation away from home.  Two hours away for six weeks!  I'm excited because now i can color all of the neat digis I have found!  Should have lots of time what with no internet and no TV!  Can we survive?  It will be a test that is for sure.  We will be coming down and visiting the house and our roommates but we have rented a lot for our motor home on a stream close to Lake Cascade.

Just loving looking at new digi stamps every day.  This is one from Spyder that was free today.  Just love it, so did a quick card, decided the card itself didn't need anything the image speaks for itself.  Did a little masking, embossing and coloring with pencils.  That's it. Will make some more with this image soon.

Inside

So excited that I have discovered digis...and free ones at that.  This is a  5"x7" note card I made today.  The beach digi is from leighspapercreation, the sun and sentiment from papersmooches and the crab from the sea invertebrates from firstpalette. The right side of the top card is cut off and will flip  ups to reveal the hidden note area. 
The clouds were made with SU Classic Ballet Blue and a scalloped edge from a circle punch. The sand was SU craft More Mustard applied with an applicator. 
The digis were colored with pencils blended with OMS and the crab was popped up.  I was happy with the way it turned out and hope to use many more digis. 

Family Ties

The month of June was all about family.  Enjoying our trip and being around our extended family.  So I am sharing the card I made for my niece's new baby boy born on the 4th of July.  Also made several get well cards for family members, hope that all goes well with them.
This card was made with cricut cutouts, a punch for the tag and stamped sentiment.

Easter

Had to post these cute rabbit cards that I sent out to the kids for Easter. They are 3D and a lot of fun to make.

Kelly had her birthday on Saturday so I had to make some more cute owls.

Birthdays

Hard to believe it has been months since I have been on this site.  So many things to do and so little time.  Let's see..what's been going on.  Well I got that cute owl punch from the girls for my birthday so thought I would share some cards I have been making with them.  I have made a bunch!  Then I got the bird punch from Kathy Horner/Kathy Hosford for Christmas so that means even more cute cards! I like this flip card.