Weekend in Cape Breton

Yikes! This guy/gal was just across the road from us when I took the picture. Yes, I was INSIDE the car!

RAK

This beautiful RAK from Heather arrived in the mail today. The stamped image is embossed in copper EP. The inside note tells me how many points are in the word "dream". LOL. Heather and I are playing Scrabble on Facebook (and she's beating the pants off me!).

Birth Announcements

As requested by my daughter. First she said she wouldn't need many because people were probably tired of hearing about her having babies. Silly girl. So I thought she meant a dozen would suffice. Wrong! Twenty-five or thirty, yellow. I had fun with 'the bug' for some of the backgrounds but making the same card over and over drives me crazy so I used different designs. I will probably not be using Barely Banana CS for a while! LOL.

ink-stains weekly challenge

The ink-stains challenge this week was "Funky Folds"; we were challenged to make a card with unconventional folds. Here is my attempt, the idea from an exchange I was in a few years ago. Everything appears a bit off in the top photo but it's just the angle.

DCM Retro Mini

A mini from DCM

"We've another Retro challenge for this week's Little Extra.

This time we'd like you to find your inspiration in the 1960s. "

Well! I was all over this like a fat kid on a Twinkie! The late sixties was a groovin' time for me. Uh oh! I may have given away my age ... sort of ... LOL. Music is such an important part of me I used tunes from 1968 for the background (and I know all the words to the songs!). The rest of it? Well, you had to be there or know your history. And that ribbon is from the sixties, thanks to my mother who never throws ANYTHING away!

The weekly challenge on ink-stains is to make a card using a sketch. So here it is. The bowl of apples was an ebay purchase and the Happy stamp arrived today from StampingZoo. Apples in bowls make me happy. LOL.

The gardener. She is standing at the edge of the woods, just under my clothesline and OH SO CLOSE to the garden. *sigh*

More Stuff

The first card uses a design from the masterboard class Kim taught. I'm sending the card to my dear old auntie for her birthday. The second one is going overeas and the zebra is undecided as to his destination.

RAK from Lori

This arrived in the mail today! The weather has been SO dreary (forecast? rain and showers from now until Tuesday!) and it really cheered me.

DCM

The dare this week: TEXT: definition... the main body of matter in a book or manuscript. the actual wording of anything written or printed, short passage of scripture, etc
We'd like you to somehow incorporate text into your cards this week - not just one word.. but a portion of TEXT...

Kind of plain, but so am I. LOL. The butterfly was done with alcohol ink on regular (not glossy) paper, then covered with a gloss medium (Glossy Accents). I stuck it in the freezer overnight then 'crackled' it. The stamping was done on two kinds of patterned paper and for some reason I felt the need to emboss with my Cuttlebug.

I'm back to my card 'routine' and most evenings I am in my happy place creating. The top card is an anniversary card for friends married the same year DH and I were (1975). The butterfly was made in Kim's masterboard class and the background is stamped patterned paper.

The dog (picked that stamp out of a bin at the dollar store!) is a fun birthday card for a friend - the fireworks are embossed with sparkle glitter but it doesn't show up very well.

I'm in a rut with my laugh stamp. LOL. I seem to do that a lot, using a particular stamp on a series of cards. I sent an order to Stamping Zoo, and one to Hambo Stamps so I'll have more word stamps to work with in the future.