Tealed Birthday

I guess you know summer is close when the skeeters are eating you alive, and the humidity is higher than the actual temps (93F and 100% humidity). I don't have curly hair but even mine was frizzing up. We have had 3 straight days of tornado warnings and a ton of much needed rain-but nothing compared to my hubby's home state of Iowa (where son now lives). They are nearing the record setting flood stage of 1993 and most of the state is under a state of emergency and flood warnings. My son spent most of the weekend working for his FIL keeping the water away from the people areas. He was wearing a life preserver and he wasn't even in an actual normal water area. Pretty bad. I hope someone got pictures.

This card used a little bit of everything. I started with a textured green card and punched corners in two opposing sides. I then cut a piece of blue card stock to fit and ran that thru an embossing cover. Popped it in the corners and made sure it aligned and then used tiny piece of tape runner to secure.

I had a piece of printed white card and stamped flowers all over. I then punched the corners on top using a corner and hole punch set. A stamped message was overlaid on the flowers in an opposing color.This was made to fit in a mini envelope (there are dies for this size or use a gift tag one). I edged the envelope in green distress ink. It was then pop-dotted on the embossed piece at an angle. I then hand tied a mini bow and added it to the front of the envelope. If you wanted, a gift card would fit in this envelope as would cash! Or a hand written message below the lip.

For a little more eye pop, I added a tiny pearl stick-on at the corners that were cut to hold the front piece. This made it a bit more elegant.

Coupon For A Stormy Sunday

I lived thru another storm and didn't panic! So I am rewarding myself by hopping over to Michael's. And sharing! If you can't print this, click here.

Fives

What were you doing thirty years ago?

1978 and we had almost finished building the house we live in now. We moved into the house in early August after spending several months in an apartment (we had sold our old house way too fast I guess).

What were you doing twenty years ago?

1988-my daughter was graduating junior high and off to high school. I was in training for a marathon that never happened and in the early stages of Fibro (I thought it was a bad flu).

What were you doing ten years ago?

1998 I was very ill and I have a hard time remembering a lot of the details because of a bad seizure but some have come back to me. I did the Crim with Karen Bentley and our kids-Karen was very ill, too. We were crazy but I treasure that day.

What were you doing five years ago?

2003 Nothing much different than usual. I moved my herb garden to the present spot and spent the summer adding new plants like my first lilacs. It wasn't a biggie that year. I still had Clancey and Fletch and Alex-all gone now.

What were you doing 1 year ago?

2007 and I had just seen my son get married in late April. My daughter had just moved for the umpteenth time and I gave up my addiction-to Superman comic books!

Name your five favorite snacks.

1. peanut butter from the jar
2.pretzels and peanuts mixed together
3.saltines with peanut butter
4.peanuts from the jar
5. peanut butter girl scout cookies


Name five things you would do if you were a millionaire.

1. Move somewhere warm
2. Plant all my favorite flowers that I can't grow here in Michigan
3. Get the car of my dreams-a 100% all electric non-polluter

4. Hire a personal trainer twice a week

5. Set up a non-profit like I always have wanted to send kids to Space Camp.

Name five things you would never wear again.

1. A thong-horrible butt/rubber band thing-nasty.
2.An under wire bra-I feel so "wired" shut-let them flow freely.
3.Open toed shoes-I have nasty looking toes from running.
4.Bikini-scars will do that and three kids!

5.An Easter bonnet-I hated them as a kid and I look like a dork now.

Name your five favorite toys

1. My talking Jar Jar Binks puppet
2. All my Sims and Sims 2 cd-roms and updates
3. My electric screwdriver with changeable heads
4. My running shoes
5. My food processors-the big one and the prep one.

Mom's Day

Since I did Dad's Day early, here is Mom's Day late. Scraps, distress inks, pop dots, a punch and two buttons. Make sure you snip off the backs of buttons if they have a shank.

Anybody want to adopt me? Or are 50 something grannies too old to be adopted? Maybe I can call Warren....Buffet, not Beatty. I heard he is pretty normal and he likes to play cards. Oh, NOT this kind of card? Dang.

Dad

I am getting down to the last few of my recent midnight craziness. Guess it's time for hubby to go away again. Tomorrow all the craziness starts and I don't think I will have much time to create for a while. Sometimes the creating is the easiest part-the photographing is the hard part. I have to wait for sun, little wind and the dogs to be occupied.

Here is a pretty simple card. I used a plain card base. A printed piece of textured card was edged in blue distress ink and dissected with plain twill and a silky printed ribbon. Tape the edges on the back and layer this on the card. Print or stamp your message and using a Cropidile, add brads to the edges of the oval. Layer on another oval slightly larger and add to the center of the ribbons. Another fast out the door card that can be altered to fit whoever you are giving it to such as Aunt, Sis, Bro, Teacher. Just print or stamp the word and re-size your punched ovals.

Stanley Is Coming Home!

RED WINGS
3

PENGUINS
2

Merry Gold

Christmas in June? Well, I tend to post them as they line up, so that is what you are getting today. I really really love using embossing paste and stencils now that I know how to do it correctly. If only I could learn how to tie a bow better. This one looks screwy.

Take a stencil and tape to a piece of card stock. You can use textured card too as it just fills in when you swipe the knife across the stencil (always make sure to clean your stencils right away-keep a water bath to soak them nearby as you finish your project). Swipe a swath of translucent embossing paste across the stencil and scrape off any extra for a level playing field. I bought my scraper in the kitchen aisle. It's from Wilton and made for icing a cake! 2 bucks. If you go into the art aisle, you will pay a lot more. Same danged thing too.

When the paste is dry, take a glue pad and place the stencil over the design again and tamp on the glue. Remove the stencil and clean. Heat the glue until tacky and place the gold leaf on it and press down to stick. Let cool and using a stiff stencil brush, and using circular motions, rub the leaf flecks off (save them for later) and ta da-there is your image.

I mounted it to layers of scraps that I felt were prominent in the leaf. Gold and teal here-then I layered to a plain textured folded card. It was a bit plain, so scrounging thru my ribbon stash (like others stash chocolate, I stash stuff I can't eat) I found this metallic ribbon and laid a straight piece using the Trio. I then tied a bow in the middle of the piece and fiddled with it to sorta be straight.

As a finish, I found some small pearls in the dollar bin and added them at the bottom. I do need to work on the ribbon deal a bit so that may change but this was pretty quick (other than the paste drying which took about 20 minutes) so you could do this assembly line if you needed to-the first would be dry as you finished the 20th maybe?

A Little Birdie Told Me.....

......That just when you think your kids have it all together, they poop on you. I am too upset to even go into it. And after the crappy "phone" day I had-contractors, salesmen, the gas/electric company (they un-subbed me from the electronic payment list and my bill is now late)-and the one woman who sounded like Selma Simpson but was as dumb as Homer and my phone dying on me twice....well, it wasn't fun........

I am now in the between period of the third OT for the Wings game. Peeing my pants, trying to balance the books, and wishing I had stuck my head in the sand. I had hoped for an outside day before the storms come tomorrow. Not to be Cherie.

Red card-covered with a white piece a bit smaller that is punched on the opposing corners and inked along the edges. Paste it up. Layer a blue patterned piece in the middle and a scalloped scrap along the top and bottom. Take another scrap and stamp your birdie (at least this one won't poop on you) then punch the top and bottom and ink these edges too. Center on the pattered piece but towards the side. Pop dot.

Take a small scrap and make into a faux envelope. Add a button that is tied with jute and affix it to the top right. I love this punch and don't use it enought-in fact I should find a way to have them out more instead of dumped in a cloth bin under stuff.

Some People

I have always been intrigued by this phrase. It makes it seem as if all the people who come into our lives are positive if they leave foot prints. What about those that trample your heart to death? I think there have been more of those in recent times. If I could have evicted them before they left footprints, I would have! And then there is the dog! He has trampled all my flowers, herb garden and terrorized the squirrels into psychotic frenzies. It's been interesting. I wonder when the squirrels will take up arms against him??

Here is another card to use up scraps. A red base card is covered on the bottom half with a printed piece. Layer a piece of card stock (rough up the edges) and add a scrap of print paper on top of it. Add this over the seam of the printed piece. Print or stamp out your phrase or quote and add this to another scrap that is torn to fit. Pop dot this to the lower right area.

Punch a large circle, punch a flower to top it and punch a primitive heart and pop dot it to the center. Add to the upper left. To add a little sparkle, I used several crystals on the top. I suppose small buttons or brads would work too. I almost did a little cross stitch on each corner for a countrified look. Play. Whatever works.

Dirty Thirty

Where do these come from? I get so many a week and save them for fillers. I am wasting time at 2 AM.

1. When was the last time you shaved your legs? a week ago-not that anyone notices or cares.

2. What were you doing this morning at 1am? looking at the world news

3. What were you doing 15 minutes ago? checking out the sports scores

4. How many people have you slept with? today? none as I haven't gone to bed yet.

5. Are you mad at anyone right now? The Pistons-yeah! Just a little.No, a lot!

6. Have you ever smelled moth balls? I love that smell!

7. Last time you made-out? I got a good deal on some clearance stuff at Target. Made out like a bandit!

8. Do you know the words to the song on your my space profile? no song there-my space is dead space.

9. Last thing received in the mail? Entertainment Weekly and the house insurance update and bill.

10. Do you have any famous relatives? for being liars, thieves, drunks etc-yup.

11. Have you ever stole something? I took the can of disinfectant when I left the hospital 10 years ago-smelled like oranges.

12. Have you ever been searched by the cops? my body-no. That might scare them.

13. How is your hair? shorter than last month but brighter in color.

14. How many different drinks have you had today? bottled water, hot Chinese tea, iced tea, water in a glass.

15. What have you eaten today? Sun Chips, Bimimbab Vegetarian in the stone bowl, veggie pot stickers,kim chee, a fortune cookie, 6 chocolate bats and a spoonful of peanut butter.

16. Are you any good at math? depends-you can keep the calculus.

17. Do you have plans on Saturday night? Next Saturday? nope.Whatcha wanna do?

18. Do you draw your name in the sand when you go to the beach? no-I scrunch my toes.

19. Most painful dental procedure? flossing is painful.Had a hole in my sinus from my teeth.

20. Have you ever been awake for 48 hours straight? yes-as a reaction to sleeping meds.

21. Do you like the ocean? I love the smell and the sound.

22. Do you stay friends with your ex's? I will let you know when I get rid of the one I have.

23. Something you are excited about? maybe getting a new kitchen

24. What did you do today? got up, laid down on the heating pad, went back to bed, got up, watch 15 minutes of Austin Powers (I am still waiting to laugh-stupid movie) went to the gym, got Artie, drove to Lansing for din din, went to the home improvement shop, took Artie home,drove home, washed the dishes, got on computer-still here.

25. Are any of your great-grandparents still alive? nope and none of my g-parents and only one parent or in law.

26. Where do you keep your change? in a plastic jar in the kitchen and in my ash tray-when full, to the Coin Star and into my savings.(its free for us-bank has its own Coin Star-woo hoo)

27. Do you remember the most naughty night of your life? the night I got engaged maybe? What the hell was I thinking????

28. Would you rather sleep alone or with someone else? alone-I am a light sleeper.

29. What was the weather like on your Birthday? cold, snowy, the usual in December.

30. What are you gonna do now? post this and go to bed. I need to plant some flowers in a few hours.