Ready For Vacation?

Well I certainly am after all the snow that we've been getting lately........I'm running outta room to put it as well as everyone else here on the Kenai Peninsula!  LOL  Saturday had been non-stop with that fluffy white snow coming down!


This week at Come and Get It Challenges we are having a "VACATION" ..........well not literally just the theme for your projects, scrap pages or cards.

So on to my card that I created, the background designer paper is Asian specialty paper that I had stashed.  The focal stamps were new that I never used.  For the Tag I used a SU punch and cut apart a sentiment and attached.

A lot of masking was done on the scene for my card. First I masked the man, then the larger foliage around the man then lastly I stamped the background.

Oh to be in the South Seas area with a hunk playing music would make Great Memories........LOL  Hope you enjoy the card today for the challenge won't you come join us and check out what the other Design Team Members fabulous creations are too!

I'd like to share with these challenges:

Crafty Catz~ Punches & Dies

Card Makin Mamas~ Let's see some Green

Paper Crafting Journey~ Anything Goes

Paper Play~ Something old, Something new

Pals Paper Arts 130~ Lime, Artichoke and Choice

Thanks for stopping by this week!

Tapestry Background Sketch Challenge

Well Hello, this week we are doing a Sketch that Julie picked out at Come and Get It.  I wanted to try something different, so I decided to trying the technique "Tapestry" from Split Coast Stampers and you'll be able to find it here.  

 I added some sprinkles of the gold Pipe Dreamink Opals after the last coat of clear embossing powder and I think it adds just the right amount of sparkle......
I hope you get a chance to drop by the Design Teams Blogs to see what they've come up with!
Cindy
Julie
Leslie

I thought the little acorn from K&Company worked perfect especially since I use Oak leaves for my background.

Here's a close-up of the background

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Another Puppy Card......LOL

This Misty Blue and she was the first of puppies that were born on 6-14-2010 .....her Human Mommie brought her to visit this last week and it was so fun to see how much she had grown!!

Let me tell you she is a total terror to her other companions in her new home as the owner says she's already twice their size....LOL

Puppy Card

I had some photo's of the puppies developed and thought it would be cute to make a couple cards for the folks that have bought them. So here is one of the cards that I made to go with the new pup, so they can remember what he looked like when he was little.....LOL

This last picture is the inside of the card, I did put his name & date he was born......Wonder if he will be a knot head since he's captured with a large wooden knot in the board. LOL ***(oh did you catch the tree's on the inside of the card??.....they are made from left over scraps of photo's!)

Happy Stamping Everyone.......until next time!

Flower Pot with Insert

I've been playing with this idea to do for a Workshop that I have coming up really soon and will twik the colors of card stock to fit for the new Stampin' Up catalog that just came out the first of July. I've looked and looked at this card and actually thought it was rather difficult to do but taking more time to see how the dimensions were cut it's really easy! Now to let you know what' going on in my world lately............

I got home this morning at 2:30am ……….slept until 10:00am, was taking Tourist back to Anchorage for a flight out.

Traffic was so bad took me ½ hour to go 5 miles in bumper to bumper snail trailing traffic all going back to Anchorage after the long Holiday weekend.

We didn’t get to stop at the Conservation Center for Wildlife (traffic again) ended up being ½ hour late to the Airport, yes they did barely make their flight!

I took a girlfriend with me on this trip (she’d never been on a Tour Bus) so it was an experience for her………we went to Apple Bee’s for dinner.

1. Got there at 9:00pm

2. we must have had 5 different waitress’s

3. ½ hour later order came wrong for me

4. ended up taking ½ the order home because of the late hour

5. Was kind of upset until manager came over to say “I hear you had problems with your order”………….long story short …….OUR DINNER WAS FREE

Did a quick run thru Wal-mart for a few things and hit the road for home!

The sunset was so gorgeous………….with orange, red’s and pink’s wish I would have had a camera! Actually saw folks hang out side of vehicles taking pictures of it.

I have to tell you it’s not all fun as I have a log book to keep for my times & places that I drive besides the clean up of the bus after wards, so folks are just plain out right pigs……….and you think that you’d hate to see their home! And others are just really nice and clean you really appreciate them a lot!

I finally turned off my light after reading a few pages in my book at 3:00am.......usually I read for hour or so but I was just plain pooped!

R.A.K Cards Done

Wow it's been almost a whole month that I've not posted something here...........shame on me, that's what happens during the summer when your busy working 6-7 days a week trying to pay bills off..........LOL Well I actually took the material with me to work on while I was working and got most of the cards done and came home to finish them off..........got a whoppin' 8 cards done total..........was so proud of myself!!!!! This was done for a dear friend of mine, I really owed her a R.A.K card back 1. Kitty is a Penny Black acrylic stamp 2. Kitty was colored in with light gray watercolor pencils 3. SU Designer paper & card stock 4. The sentiment on the front of the card is Cloud Nine All products on this card was Stampin' Up 1. The Card is made from the set called "Simply Sent Elements Flower Power it comes with everything needed to make 9 cards..........less the stamps 2. Stamp set is "Take Three"