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Monday, January 31, 2011
RAK Time
Whoa...lots here! Sorry for the delay but there was the gathering, photographing, editing and linking part...gosh, what a post! Thanks so much for the cards gals!
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Different for Me...
So on Saturday night whenever one else was tripping the light fantastic, I decided to sit down with my Copics to test my luck with some coloring. No exaggeration but I colored 14 images and only saved two. This image, an IRAK from Jan, made the cut. I actually really like how it ended up mixed here with some DP from Kioshi (Basic Grey) and the Friday Sketchers sketch. I added some May Arts ribbon and a flower I made from the scraps of the card base.
Positive note of the day: We got T a kitty today. His name is Skipper, he's three years old and he's black (did you know that 1/3 of shelter cats are black?). I didn't give the kids much choice...I told the worker we wanted a cat who could keep up with an active household and to find us a match. Skipper had been in the shelter since before Christmas and had played with lots of kids during the winter holiday day camps. Our kids weren't picky (maybe because I told them not to be!) and I think T was happy that we had taken one of the least desirable cats home (Skipper had been there for almost three months and there isn't a thing wrong with him...I guess people just fell in love with the prettier tabbies, siamese and calicos). He is getting fixed today and then we have to pick him up at five tonight. T can talk of nothing else!Fun Thing I Found on the Web:
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Material Girl...
Not real sure of this scrap page but I post it nonetheless. I am not gonna chat much today...I have been pretty windy this week (and no, not in that way!).
Positive note of the day: Made some low-fat, low-cal cupcakes and they were quite tasty too!
Positive note of the day: Made some low-fat, low-cal cupcakes and they were quite tasty too!Fun Thing I Found on the Web:
Saturday, January 29, 2011
An Eastern Canadian Crop for a Cause
Gisele and a friend are organizing a Crop Til You Drop fundraiser for a local charity (Neeje Association for Women and Family) in Ottawa, Ontario. She is hoping for a great turnout so I told her I would help spread the word! Here's her blog and additional details about the crop can be found on this flyer. So if you are close to Ottawa, why not join up with some other gals for a good cause! (Note: You can register online here.)
Share the MOJO Man!
Yesterday when I complained of my MOJO withdrawl, Kim challenged me to use the FTL 125 layout with a birthday card theme. (I love being told what to do!) So while I flipped the sketch and moved the sentiment, I did end up using some of the last of my Boxer scraps (from Basic Grey...who else?) and made a simple masculine card to boot. And oh yes, I popped that sentiment up real high using some super thick pop-dots (heart them!). Not exactly what I had in mind initially but I like it! Kim told me she was going to do a card with the same guidelines, so go check it out (especially since I am sure she followed the rules!).
(BTW, got a three pack of hemp twine from the hardware section of the dollar store. There was this dark green that I featured on my card as well as two rolls of khaki-colored twine too. Heck of a deal [there is a enough twine there to keep me going until my death!] and a perfect little addition to a masculine card.)
Finally, as a result of my little chit-chat with y'all yesterday, I started that blog over in the sidebar called "Share the MOJO". Now the only way it will work is if we ALL add fun stuff there that we believe is worthy of a shout-out (all it takes is a link-up through InLinkz). So as you blurf through the community, please head over and share your best finds with us. It will be great to get recognized and it will help those of us (YEP...I am talking about me here!) who are craftily constipated. Bwah ha ha!
Positive note of the day: Kids got to go to the Hitmen hockey game tonight and they had too much fun. RAK call: Another one of my best PSFs Sue is looking to collect ninety cards to celebrate her husband's 90th birthday (whoa!). If you have a masculine card that you could send his way, she'd love you for it. Please contact her for their address...cheers!
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P.S. Who's gonna follow me so I can stop having 666 followers...been freaking me out all day...ha ha!
Friday, January 28, 2011
Suffering from MOJO withdrawl...
Need a jolt of MOJO? I certainly do! If only there was a magic pill! Maybe if I buy some new nesties or all the Basic Grey releases coming out of CHA (who are we kidding, you know I will anyway!)... Anyway, back to the grindstone...just felt like venting my frustration. I have a messy office and nothing to show for it!P.S. I think we need a MOJO blog that just shares the best ideas out there when someone is suffering like me. Who's gonna start one?
ETA: Okay, I did it. I added a blog with InLinkz so we can submit our faves each week. It won't work if we all don't add things, so let's participate and get the juices flowing!
All Dressed Up In Nothing at All!
There are a group of you out there who I consider my best PSFs (Pretend Stamping Friends). You have hung out a long time here, seen my foibles as mother and wife, watched me progress as a crafter and cheered me on whenever I needed it (I hope you know who you are!). One gal in that group is Chris of Mudmaven Designs. She knows me and my family so well that when she saw this digital stamp she insisted on buying it and sending it to me. Long-time followers will not need an explanation but for those who are new to the antics of my gal Charlotte (the five-year old), you will need to know that she has a predilection for going about in just panties (and when she was a toddler, nothing at all!).
To have a little fun, I suggested to Chris that we both make a card with this image and then post it today so that both we and you could compare the fun outcome. I made a first card but then I decided I didn't like it so I made a second...
Here's the first...my sewing ain't straight which irritated me so I tried another.
A close color combo to the earlier one. I do like the rolled flowers I made out of some dollar store felt but I should have grounded the image. Someone smack me!
I really need to take a remedial class in stimulating my mojo...I haven't been happy about my creations lately and I am perplexed with my embellishments in particular (What do I use? Where do I put them? Is it too much or not enough?). Ugh...you'd think this would get easier with time...ha!
Anyway, don't forget to go visit Chris and see how she made out...I'm curious too!
Positive note of the day: Started drinking Earl Grey green tea to start moving away from the black tea. It tastes good and while it costs more, it will save me loads in guilt!
To have a little fun, I suggested to Chris that we both make a card with this image and then post it today so that both we and you could compare the fun outcome. I made a first card but then I decided I didn't like it so I made a second...
Here's the first...my sewing ain't straight which irritated me so I tried another.
A close color combo to the earlier one. I do like the rolled flowers I made out of some dollar store felt but I should have grounded the image. Someone smack me!
I really need to take a remedial class in stimulating my mojo...I haven't been happy about my creations lately and I am perplexed with my embellishments in particular (What do I use? Where do I put them? Is it too much or not enough?). Ugh...you'd think this would get easier with time...ha!
Anyway, don't forget to go visit Chris and see how she made out...I'm curious too!
Positive note of the day: Started drinking Earl Grey green tea to start moving away from the black tea. It tastes good and while it costs more, it will save me loads in guilt!Fun Thing I Found on the Web:
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Remember My Earlier Complaint...
...about my lacey square nesties? Upon further investigation, as evidenced in this pic, I don't think my two smallest nesties can even work as advertised when you compare them to the other ones in the set. You will notice that on the one on the far left, there are indentations for each half-circle that are not at all in evidence on the smaller two in the picture. As such, there is no way that they should be able to make the lacey edges as I expected. Now tell me...am I nuts? Please let me know so that a) I figure these out or b) I send them back. Thanks in advance!
ETA: Okay, I think the moron in me may have just figured it out right after I clicked "Publish". When I look at the Spellbinders website, and zoomed in on the product page, they only show embossed edges on the smallest two not actual cutouts (which gives me a sad!). But, I may add, I have been bedeviled to get those embossed edges to even display...they just look like my scalloped squares...pooh!
ETA: Okay, I think the moron in me may have just figured it out right after I clicked "Publish". When I look at the Spellbinders website, and zoomed in on the product page, they only show embossed edges on the smallest two not actual cutouts (which gives me a sad!). But, I may add, I have been bedeviled to get those embossed edges to even display...they just look like my scalloped squares...pooh!
Relying on Paper
Decided to make this card a couple of days ago as a way to use this flower and my leaves die as the focal. Working with Basic Grey's Capella, I left it rather simple (since the paper was so busy) but I did add lots of pearls!
Positive note of the day: Got in an hour nap today after dealing with some real difficult people at work the last two days (they called me at all hours from 6 in the morning until 11 at night...yeesh!). Feel refreshed and far more amiable about work than I did this morning!
Positive note of the day: Got in an hour nap today after dealing with some real difficult people at work the last two days (they called me at all hours from 6 in the morning until 11 at night...yeesh!). Feel refreshed and far more amiable about work than I did this morning!Fun Thing I Found on the Web:
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
January PTI Blog Hop
Writing to come once I get the WJs into bed...
Okay, I am back! I spent so many hours on the phone today with my work colleagues since the fit hit the shan. OMG! I went back and forth on this one but then I realized I needed to just get it done so I would meet the PTI blog hop deadline (and wouldn't you know it that work called again a mere twenty minutes before time was up!). Oh yeah, and then there was getting those kids to bed (esp. since Brad is back in Toronto for the third week in a row!). So yep, I am here at last to give you the deets.
To begin, I was inspired by the Colour Q challenge this week (a minor miracle since colour challenges are not my forte). The minute I saw it I thought of Basic Grey's Indian Summer...sigh, so pretty! The PTI challenge was to use a never used or forgotten stamp. As much as I love the PTI stamps I own, they do not see the light of day near enough! In fact, while the kids have used this stamp from All About You Additions (the staining indicates as much), I never have! So I embossed it in white on kraft and then colored the centres to meet the colour palette dictates from the challenge. I used almost all Indian Summer DP save that swatch of polka dot paper which is from PTI. I added a Sizzlit flourish and some pearls, rounded the corners and added that touch of ribbon (I had to...I just couldn't have a card without ribbon!).
I'm outie...thanks for looking. Gawd willing, Friday will come soon enough and my company will release this latest product and then I can go back into mushroom mode!
P.S. I so hope to get back into blurfing soon. I have not commented near enough as of late but I am working all. the. time!
Okay, I am back! I spent so many hours on the phone today with my work colleagues since the fit hit the shan. OMG! I went back and forth on this one but then I realized I needed to just get it done so I would meet the PTI blog hop deadline (and wouldn't you know it that work called again a mere twenty minutes before time was up!). Oh yeah, and then there was getting those kids to bed (esp. since Brad is back in Toronto for the third week in a row!). So yep, I am here at last to give you the deets.To begin, I was inspired by the Colour Q challenge this week (a minor miracle since colour challenges are not my forte). The minute I saw it I thought of Basic Grey's Indian Summer...sigh, so pretty! The PTI challenge was to use a never used or forgotten stamp. As much as I love the PTI stamps I own, they do not see the light of day near enough! In fact, while the kids have used this stamp from All About You Additions (the staining indicates as much), I never have! So I embossed it in white on kraft and then colored the centres to meet the colour palette dictates from the challenge. I used almost all Indian Summer DP save that swatch of polka dot paper which is from PTI. I added a Sizzlit flourish and some pearls, rounded the corners and added that touch of ribbon (I had to...I just couldn't have a card without ribbon!).
P.S. I so hope to get back into blurfing soon. I have not commented near enough as of late but I am working all. the. time!
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