July 2016

Here's a card I made for friends celebrating 60 years.  Inside it referred to the best catch of their lives.  Again embossed with white and rubbed over the embossing with different colors.  So easy and I love the way it looks.

Atticus is a month old, Doug has a birthday and Rufus gets a ride on the bike and a bath!

June and Atticus Theodor

Nothing prettier than an azalea in bloom.

You can go onto Facebook this month and vote on Amber's page for what day you think the baby will be born.
Finally on June 22th Atticus Theodor Drobny was born.

May 2016

This is a never ending card.  So much fun to make, you can keep flipping it over and over.

Back home to Boise and getting together again with all my Red Hat friends.  Son Doug has moved back home during our winter absence and is once again in the house with Rufus the dog.  Is so nice that they are back, he is working downtown and so starts a long summer of househunting.

 Here are some cute Robot side step cards.

The desert is abandoned....April 2016

Still recapping...up to April 2016

Not to forget this is a card blog...using the Stampin Up Woodland folder.

The flower card is made by by masking off a rectangle in the center of the card with masking tape.  Then using versamark and embossing it in white and then taking ink daubers and rubbing on color.  Rip off the tape and it is a perfect one layer card.

April 2016 and time for everyone to start thinking of going home.  Most of our friends are making the trek to Canada....Ontario, Alberta and B.C.  Other friends are moving full time to Arizona.
Oh and I let my hair go to gray and started woodburning and carving gourds.

The girls at the pool

The guys at the Pool listening to band

The pool party with band in front

St Patty's in Yuma

There is nothing like St. Patty's in Yuma.  Even tho Sun Vista no longer tints the beer green there is still lots of free beer, corned beef sandwiches and music.  New friends.

Jan, Cheri, Kelly, Rachel

Liese and Helen B. get a hug from the Park's famous leprechaun.


John wins the raffle and generously splits with Phillip even tho there was not handshake on the
bet.  Don B. looks like he is about ready to call it a day.

March 2016

In March everything is in full swing in Yuma.  Here is a card from our Paper Dolls (thanks Billie for teaching this, I love it).

The high point this year has to be the fact that Donnie and Amber are going to have a baby in June.  We are so excited to be grandparents and our friends are so excited for us.  Kelly, along with Rachael planned a super surprise baby shower for us.  Was so much fun...and to share this with our friends.

Bittersweet Vacation

In continuing with my updating of 2016.  February.....

Love the girls at my Thursday night card making.  They are truly "Paper Dolls".  Here are a couple cards we made this season.

 

Also for the 2nd year we went to Laughlin for Kelly M. and Linda R.birthday's.  While we had a good time Linda had to fly in from Edmondton where she was having treatments for her brain cancer.  It was hard not to remember the previous February when we had gaily walked the Riverwalk, gaming and drinking into the night.  We all knew it was the last time we would be together and indeed we lost not only Linda to brain cancer in the summer but her companion Lawrence as well.
Me and Kelly in back.  Don't Linda and Lawrence look happy....and they knew they were on borrowed time.  After Laughlin we were lucky to spend a week with them in Vegas in a timeshare they arranged for us.

More January 2016

Don's 70th birthday.  Had a wonderful celebration with all his friends at Westwind.  

 This was also the year he started to play baseball with Don B.

Can't believe it has been a year since I have been on this blog.  Will try to do a review of 2016....just to keep it all current.  January....

You can tell I was still into those crazy birds of Tim Holtz.  Also in January was Don's birthday and Donnie and Amber sent him a lobster box!  To Arizona!

Bird Crazy

Crazy Birds...also last month I got absolutely crazy over the bird crazy stamps and dies from Tim Holtz.  So crazy later I even made Christmas Cards.  Here are a few

Scraping with the Divas

In October I was priviledged to go once again on a Diva's trip.  This year we went to Wolf Creek, Utah and stayed in an amazing condo provided by our friend Kate.  It was a beautiful time of year with the changing of the leaves...not summer and not yet ski season.  Kate was a little apprehensive of what we would do there for 3 days, especially as the weather called for rain....(we visited the Golden Spike historic sight on the way down, visited a monestary, had a trip to Ogden, and ate some incredible local cuisine) so we packed supplies for one day of papercrafting.    Here are some photos of some of our creations.

Rosemary with her first box card!

Making a Flip Card

Flip Up Card

Start with a basic 4 ¼ x 5 ½ card. DSP is 4 x 5 ¼. Horizontal strip is ¾ x 5 ¼.

Make card and attach horizontal strip about an inch up from the bottom. Attach with brads.

To make the flip take a 2”x9” piece of cardstock. Score at 2”, 2 3/4”, 3 1/2” and 4 1/4”.

Then take the piece with longest unscored end and tuck underneath the horizontal strip. Fold it up and over and attach the other end....only....to the top of the horizontal strip. Decorate as desired. This one was built on orange cardstock with white 1 ¾ x 1 ¾ square and superheros made with the SU owl punch.

Any uses for these small cards?

This is a cute box set with notecards.  However, after I made these I realized you can't find 4" envelopes anywhere and they are not accepted by the USPS.

 Box of Note Cards.

To make box. Take 6 x 11 piece of cardstock and with short side at top of score board score down at the 1 “ and 5” lines Turn so the 11 side is on top and score down on 1”, 5”, 6” and 10”.

On the 11” side cut up 1” on the fold lines (to the other fold line). Turn over and cut on the other 11” side. At this point you can cut a hole in the lid, add acetate and decorate. Glue or staple the tabs to the inside of the box. This is a 4” box.

To make cards. Cut 3 7/8 x 7 ¾ and score at 3 7/8. For the white front cut at 3 5/8 x 3 5/8. Mask with painter tape ½ inch all around the white card. Emboss a background with white and scrub different colored inks over the top. Stamp a design if desired and remove tape.

For a larger box for A2 cards...make a two piece box using

6 ½ x 8 inches and scoring at 1 and 5 1/2 on short side at top,

turn and score at 1 and 7. tuck tabs to inside. This will make a 4 ½ x 6 box interior.

To make one piece make one of the pieces an inch longer with an extra inch score to overlap.