Well, holy cow…we are in 2017! Really? TWENTY SEVENTEEN! I swear that just yesterday was whole the “Y2K” scare and suddenly Poof! Fast forward sixteen years…it’s just crazy how time flies. I can remember exactly what I was doing the night of December 31st, 1999. My husband and I owned a bar back then and we had a big New Year’s Eve Party going on with a band and free [...]
Spent a few more hours after dinner last night with hubby working on Christmas cards. I love that he likes to contribute! :) This one came out nice and is one of my favorites but I still have to mount it onto a card base. I'm not a fan of mass producing cards that are all the same, so you can understand why it is taking us so long to [...]
One of my most favorite memories of the holiday season as a child was going out each year to tromp through the Christmas tree farm and cut down our tree. I can't remember the name of the tree farm any longer, but the owners used to give everyone in the car a homemade popcorn ball on your way out after you paid. We thought it was such a treat! Not [...]
I took a moment today to step away from all of the Thanksgiving and Christmas greetings and sentiments for my cards and decided to do a simple "hello" note card to brighten someone's day. Out here in Seattle the winter skies are so thick and gray that it seems the sun is never coming back out again - and on this particular day, I [...]
Update to this post to show the finished card. And this is the inside of the card. I'm not much of a bird watcher but the cardinal has always been one of my favorites. So many fond memories as a kid sitting at the kitchen table with dad in the morning before school and watching the birds fly into the feeder just outside the window, getting their morning feast. We'd [...]
Today was day 2 of Kathy's 30 day coloring challenge and I felt compelled to do another fall themed project. (I'm still not ready to ink up the Christmas stamps yet!) This is an old stamp from years ago - in fact I bought this stamp about 10 years ago before I even realized how much I loved stamping! Anyway...I love it and every time I stamp it and color [...]
Fall is in the air...
I can't believe my oldest nephew is graduating high school. I thought and thought and thought (for weeks even!) about the graduation card I wanted to make for him. (again, my struggle with creativity) I finally settled on a very simple design with a heartfelt message. The inside sentiment I chose came from Pinterest and I openly admit to plagiarizing, but to be quite honest, I'm not sure who to acknowledge for the [...]
I struggle with creativity...most people who know me would be shocked to hear me say that, but truly I do. I hold myself to a high standard of creativity that it can sometimes be a detriment. I like my cards to be unique. I don't like repetition - as in creating mass quantities of the same thing such as a box of note cards. I like each of my cards [...]
My marker collection was getting a bit out of hand and I went on the hunt for an affordable solution that also fit my very small work space. I found these racks that worked beautifully! Its so very nice to be able to see all my colors and to sort them properly. What I found online is made by the Crafters Companion and I found them on Amazon for about [...]