Archive for May, 2007
Father’s Day/Masculine Card
Posted: Sunday, May 20th, 2007 | Comments
I will be sharing samples from my May “Stamp a Stack of Stuff” this Thursday with the “Dads & Grads” theme. Masculine cards are not always easy to think up with the abundance of beautiful floral sets!
I saw this idea done in a recent magazine and got to thinking that our “Sentimental Journey” Designer Series papers fit PERFECTLY into little “shirts”.
The neck was “notched” out at the top, the collar is two rectangles, the tie is the oval punch and a 1 1/4 inch strip of decorative paper cut at the top and Hodgepodge Hardware completed the look.
This month will feature Dads & Grads (or masculine cards for those whose Dads are no longer with us). My dad passed away September 2004 and I can’t bring myself to “delete” his birthday from my electronic daytimer, makes me a bit sad for the “reminders” two weeks and then one week before, show up, but it is actually harder to just hit “delete”. So, I designed a nice card and well, dad… this one’s for you!
“Doodle That” Card!
Posted: Tuesday, May 15th, 2007 | Comments
I LOVE this happy card! It is Cool Caribbean/Pretty In Pink & Black which works very well together. The background is ”doodles” from “Doodle This” in craft white. All other “doodles” and flowers are from the “Doodle That” set.
The words are from Cheery Chat which is also a discontinuing sets that I will miss. I don’t like change, but I am very much looking forward to the new catalog, I don’t think I can wait until June!!!
Tag You’re It!
Posted: Tuesday, May 15th, 2007 | CommentsI have been tagged twice now and have a hard time coming up with only 7 blogs and 7 things about me! So, I will share several things about me (READ: more than you want to know…)
I am married going on 21 wonderful years (and all to the same guy!).
I am a “mean mommy” and proud of it. “If you like me, I’m not doing my job” is my motto, so “Darth Mom” is what I will be until they get older (and I start looking wiser)
I am a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator for 11 years and plan to be a demonstrator long after I can see clearly or move my arms. This is entirely possible as the women in my family have been known to live well into their 90’s (their husbands, for some reason, die in their 60’s…)
I have been plagued with recurring choleteatomas (benign tumor in my inner ear). It has caused bone & nerve loss which has in turn caused hearing loss, in my left ear. I will have surgery again this summer (as surgery last fall discovered that the one removed in 2004 had returned and had a friend with it). I went undiagnosed properly for years because I did not have any of the usual symptoms except progressive hearing loss which my ENT decided was “otosclerosis” (aging hearing loss–but in my 30’s???). A different doctor made ALL the difference. Dr. Teixido in Wilmington, DE is “da BOMB”, thanks doc!
He gave me a cool titanium implant to replace bone loss, but I don’t notice better cell phone reception (which I was really hoping for and in fairness to him, he didn’t promise, LOL!). And while I hear better now than before my surgery in 2004, I’ve decided that I was happier when it was quieter (I really don’t want to hear everything my kids are saying).
Blogs I am tagging– yes! I am shamelessly tagging my downline and friends blogs, so shoot me!
7. StampinKub.com - I don’t know this young man, but I love his tutorials and his use of SU products!
Accents & Elements Accordion Tin
Posted: Friday, May 11th, 2007 | Comments
This is an accordion book made from the Accents & Elements “Little Reminders” stickers and the tin itself! This is another teaser for tomorrows Stamp Festival for those of you who are attending.
This view is the back side of the album which I used the Cool Carribean & Certainly Celery cardstock as the fold out pages. This design used quite a lot of the stickers and I LOVE this tin–once the “belly ring” slips off there is nothing but this fabulous shiny tin that cries for decorating. I made my own “ring” from a 2 x 11 inch piece of cardstock I trimmed from one of the pages and then decorated it with the stickers.
So, how’d I do?
