Chewey at One Year

I can't believe we've had this little guy for almost a year! It's easier to get a picture these days...as he actually SITS STILL once in awhile! LOL. We have a chow/shepherd mix and he is laying on the tail of the larger dog here in this picture. Love how they cuddle!



Isn't he a cutie? He's a purebred shih tzu.

Jane

Long Awaited Wallet Card!

Ok...I couldn't post this previously because it was a gift...but I'm excited to share it now!

My wallet is a combination of this tutorial found HERE and this picture found HERE. In addition I also changed it a little bit and added a third 'card' pocket which wasn't in the tutorial.

Front:


Inside:


Packaged in the Box:


I actually bought some gold stretchy cord and wrapped it around the corners of the box like you would see at the store. The front is actually stitched with the sewing machine. Paper was found at Joann's.

This was a gift for my bosses birthday. He thought it WAS a wallet a first but as soon as he picked it up he could tell from the weight that it wasn't a real wallet. I think he liked it though. Obviously I took MY credit cards and driver's license OUT of the wallet and filled it with gift cards. But...for the picture I didn't have any gift cards yet and wanted you to get the idea.

Ok...gotta run!

Jane

You Rock!

Saw an adorable clear Disney set of stamps at Walmart for $2 and had to pick it up. It was probably more for the teenage generation. But I liked several of the stamps. One being this drum set.



My oldest brother is 10 years older than I am. And he played the drums. We had a drum set in our family room for as long as I can remember. He'd crank the music up and drum and I'd jump rope. (Luckily there was a door to close off some of the noise.) Later my brother who is 2 years older than me also chose to play the drums. And by then we were in a different place with no family room. My poor Mom. Drum set in a singlewide mobile home. But she never complained...just encouraged us to enjoy music.

Jane

Happy Father's Day!

Well, I doubt I have a whole lot of men visiting my site...but if it applies to you then...Happy Father's Day! :-)

My husband really likes the cards that I make that are "aged" or "distressed" so I started this card off with that in mind. I used an image from Stampin' Up. I don't own the stamp set but someone had stamped me some images. I colored the image with my prismacolor pencils and then aged the piece by sponging on brown ink and then dragging the edges with scissors. It was still a little too white for my liking so I added some light brown ink to the "Linen" background stamp (also Stampin' Up) and stamped over the entire image. Lastly I faux stitched around it. The rest is very similar...lots of sponging of ink or using the ink pad 'direct to paper' to give it the aged look. Also dragging the edges or folding the corners. The only 'embellishment' per se is the tiny screw brads in each of the four corners. I had originally planned on using silver screw brads but they looked entirely too bright with the rest of it. So I stuck with these mini brads which are more of a copper color. The map paper is from Close to My Heart. The inside simply states, "Happy Father's Day to our 'Classic' Dad". (Printed from computer.)


Here is a close up of the main image. If you click on the image it will get larger and then you can see all the distressing that was added.

Jane

A Little Silliness

Sometimes I just love to "play" on words.





The donut stamp is from Michael's $1 bin. The saying is stamped using Karen Foster Snap Stamps. I stamped the donut twice and cut the frosting off the second image and popped it up on top of the first image for dimension. If I could FIND my "liquid glass" I would have used that to make the frosting looks glazy...but I can't find it (the story of my disorganized life). Also, if I had them I would have used some beads as the sprinkles on the donut. Instead I just colored the frosting area and used stickles on the sprinkles.

All in all, I still like it, just had invisioned it with the ideas noted above and then couldn't carry them through to fruition. Hate it when that happens!

Tri Fold Shutter Card

My mojo is BACK! At least for now. I love how this card came out. After I saw the tutorial here on THIS blog I decided I HAD to try making one myself. Here is my finished card:



Here is the top view (ignore the dust!)



And here is a close up of the "main" portion of the card:



My card is definately not as "dressed up" as the sample card...but I like my simplicity. Goes along with the saying and stamps/papers I used. All stamps are from Close to My Heart.

Enjoy!

Jane

Mojo somewhat reinstated...

I've made a few cards over the last couple days. I'm not sure I'm totally LOVING any of them. You know...sometimes you make a card and you want to show it to everyone you know. Well, my stamping mojo isn't THAT much back yet! LOL. But I do like the cards I've made well enough. So...here is one of my "somewhat mojo reinstated" cards. :-)



For this card I used an old stamp set from Close to My Heart which has solid shapes in it. I used a circle stamp and then did the "rock and roll" technique with Citrus Leaf and Clover Meadow inks and stamped the circle. Repeated 5 more times trying my best to get them equidistant from each other. Then I added the greeting (another CTMH set) and the shooting star (from a Disney set I got at Walmart for $2 clearanced). Added the ribbon and tada...done. Simple but I like the color pop of the green. Looks better in real life. Had a hard time getting a decent picture of the true green color that it is.

Jane