Sick as a Dog

I've had two stamps in my collection from different companies, a sentiment from Custer's Last Stamp and an image from Great Impressions, that go perfectly together. So I made these cards and I hope you like them and thanks for stopping by.

What is Your Secret

Another one of the images I colored last winter is one of the "Ladies" from Inky Antics. I like the image but I always wondered what she was saying. Then I realized I had the perfect set of sentiment stamps to go with it from Great Impressions.  Together they make the best birthday card. The inside says "For looking so good  Happy Birthday". Perfect right? Then I used my Silhouette to cut out some conversation bubbles, great way to do this.  Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Baby, Baby, Baby

Last Christmas when I passed out my sets of cards to various family and friends it was noted that there were no baby cards.  I stopped to think about it and realized that the next generation is starting families and my contemporaries are becoming grandparents.  Oh how time has flown, I distinctly remember when my oldest nephew was born (Buffalo, January, 3 feet of snow-need I say more) and how friends were having babies and I was always in need of baby cards.  So I got busy and made some.  This first set I made with a Great Impression water color set (I cheated and went the easy way and used Copics) and did a girl set and a boy set.  I really like how they turned out.  I stamped each image with Memento Espresso Truffle (Gina K is right it is the perfect brown/black) and then colored with Copics.  The DP is various pieces I had in my stash. Hope you like them and thanks for stopping by.

Ed's Retirement

We have a retirement party to go to tonight for a friend of Bruce's.  Ed has finally decided that 45 years is long enough to work for anyone. He is so right, waaaay to long.  He's still a young guy so he'll have lots of fun enjoying his favorite hobbies.
We know that he loves his beer (asked what kind of beer he likes he just said 'cold') and fishing and enjoying the world around him.  So that gave me the idea for this card.  I pulled out this beer stamp from Custer's Last Stamp, the little truck with the fishing pole from Great Impressions and this wonderful summer chair from Lockhart stamps.  I colored them up with Copics, trimmed out the beer mug, and cut out the chair and car with Nestabilities.  I was trying to decide what to use for the background when I remembered this DP that has been sitting in my stash for several years.  I knew one day it would be useful.  All that was left was to stamp the sentiment onto some kraft paper and tear the edges and put it all together.  I know Ed will have a great time in retirement but I worry about Julie (his wife) still working while Ed is at home.  I had 12 years of that with Bruce, I may have to give her some tips. lol
Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Easter Cards

When I set out to make Easter cards for the Easter food baskets I knew I that an assembly line process was going to be a must. I also knew that to make 20 some cards exactly alike would bore me to tears. So I went looking through my goodies for ideas and these are what I came up with. I stamped the three different crosses from Papertrey's Everyday Blessings in Memento Rich Cocoa and then stamped Rejoice from Inkadinkado and He Is Risen from Great Impressions all on Beckett Expressions White. Whew...

Then I mounted them onto card base from Memory Box in what I call the Easter/Spring colors.

This assembly line process is working really well for me. I may have to make some more to mail to friends and family.

Hope you like them and thanks for stopping by.

Sympathy On the Dock

When I was looking for images to use with this poem I kept turning to the water. I don't know why, maybe because it is so elemental and of course we are mostly water anyway. This is one of my favorite nature stamps, it is from Great Impressions and is beautiful when colored. In this case I kept it in black and white and it works very well, at least I think so. I used Bazzil Basic Swiss Dots for my DP and then just placed the vellum overlay with the poem on top of the image.

Quite and easy card to make.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

A Vellum Truck

I know, I know, I said no more vellum cards but I had to post this one. I just love this little truck stamp from Great Impressions.

I thought it would go great with this DP from Lasting Impressions. You've read my other posts on how these cards are made so I won't bore you with the details. (You have read them right???)

Anyway, I really don't have any more vellum cards of this design to post. I do have to make some sympathy cards and I saw a card the other day that gave me an idea of how to use vellum for those. We'll see.

Hope you like this one and thanks for stopping by.

Get Well Doggies

Well we're back from our Christmas trip. We had a lot of fun, but it was a busy trip. Every day was packed with family events. So much fun.

Our drive to Buffalo was uneventful, just long. Seems like everyone was on the road and going slow. Our trip back was not so fun. Pretty much a white knuckle trip for me. The road were a bit slippery and it was very windy. We made it and only an hour lost on the bridges across the borders.

I am, however, happy to be back to blogging.

I made this card before Christmas and was glad to get away from holiday cards. This was the only get well card I made. The image is a Great Impressions stamp and the sentiment is from Custer's Last Stamp. Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

That Little Yellow Truck

I just love this truck. It's from Great Impressions and I've used it a lot. I colored with Copics of course and colored in some hills and a road. I used a little clear stamp from Art Impressions on the grass to show some texture. It really is more cartoon like but I'm happy with it.

This is one of my guy cards that I need for my gift packs. I do plan to give the guys some "pretty" cards to send to the women in their lives.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Embossed Punkins

We had a baked goods sale at church last weekend and our Card Ministry had a table set up to sell some of the extra cards we had. One of the ladies made a beautiful card that was just a pumpkin embossed with black detail powder. It was very simple and elegant card. So I decided to try and copy it.
This is what I came up with. This Great Impressions stamp worked well for this technique. I stamped with Versamark and then embossed with Martha Stewart detail black. I then got out my Prismas and colored in a little, it really wasn't needed but I like to color. As my friend Sandy says, still back in kindergarten playing with the crayons. Okay when is nap time??? I digress. I used MS Dove detail powder for the sentiment. Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

A Day at the Beach

I have always loved this stamp from Great Impressions. I of course have never gone to the beach in a dress and hat but these girls just look so sweet. I found this striped paper in my scraps and found it went with this image that I had colored awhile back with Copics. Then I went to my stash of Perfect Match card stock from Papertrey Inc. for mats Love this stuff, such great colors. I stamped the sentiment and matted it also. Thanks for looking.