Happy Halloween!!!!

Altered mini photo albums

I actually found these little albums in one of the moving boxes and decided they would be a great item to alter. So, I just kept adding different matching patterned paper pieces, and layering... a cool little gift for someone??? I printed the word photo off the computer.

My parents grandkids

We were together this weekend for J's confirmation. My kids, bubba and sissy on the left, and my brother's kids M & J on the right. M will be 18 next month (senior), J will be 15 next month(freshman), my bubba is 14 (freshman) and sissy is 12 (7th grader).

First birthday

A friend made a request for a first birthday card, and here's what I came up with. I printed a few varieties of "1st" in pink through the computer, then cuttlebugged the Happy Birthday embossing folder. The image is mine, tried to come up with a little girl who looked ONE! Put a few crystal stickle dots on the confettie and wa-la..... a cute pink girlie card.

Annual Family Fall Pictures

Last weekend we made a point to go take a few photos to contribute to my albums of "Fall Pictures". Compare a film photo taken 9 years ago (I took a digital picture of the picture) Compare Tennessee to Illinois, Compare little pumpkin and munchie ..... to teenagers!!

Fall cart

Filled with flowers. Nothing too magical about this card. I actually got the sewing machine out and have been stitching some papers together. The image is a stamp from TAC, colored in with water color pencil, and then I copied the shape of the flowers to make the background paper. I have also been leaving cards blank (since I haven't sold so many) and this one, I can add the sentiment later if I find I need some other type of greeting.

Think Pink

A friend was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. My gift to her, special pink thank you cards, return address labels with the pink ribbon and her name, and breast cancer postage stamps. It's the 'least' I can do from across the miles.

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Great Day for football

This was one of Bubba's last football games.... it was even hot out there for October freshman football. This game was played on the practice field, so you can get up close and personal. Bubba had just gotten done playing his 'shift' and so I snapped a few pictures, until he realized I was right behind him.

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Boo! Spooky

A fun card I cased. Oh man, I've got to get better at 'copying' the blogsites that I case from. But just so you know, it's pretty much just casing their recipe/layout... for all the cards, I don't have the same paper, or stamps for the sentiments, in some cases I will have the $1 stamp from Michaels.... as in this card the witches boots!

Deepest Sympathy

I really like this recipe. The words are stamped, the side bar is cuttlebugged and the image is computer generated and then cut out. Also, too, not my favorite card to make, but life and death do go in spurts.... so I try to have a variety on hand, and although the same people would never get the cards I make, I create new ones with different colors and backgrounds. Pretty much never the same card twice. But there are a few recipes I follow for sympathy cards. I tend to stick in the mossy green color and the eggplant or purple color families.

You are the light

Well, these are never 'fun' cards, but I thought I would add a few sympathy cards to my blog, because I do make them. The light house image is off the computer (PrintMaster program) and what I did is print out the image twice and then cut one out and use pop dots to have it 'pop' out a bit to give the card dimension. I often find sentiments and quotes on the computer, then print them, add a similar background and I have a very nice sympathy card.

Bequirky

Here's a fun scarecrow!!! I took scrap paper and cut out the circle for his head, and then proceeded to cut all the pieces to make his neck, hat, flower and nose. Inked the edges. I really like cute and whimsical cards. My adhesive of choice, 3M gluesticks to hold down most of my layers. If I'm having difficulty or using a thicker cards stock, I also like to use double sided tape. Both of these adhesives I buy in bulk from Sam's club.

Sissy & Cooper

Someone was playing with the digital camera this weekend!!! I've told Cooper time and time again to keep those furry paws off the 'shoot' button.... but he just wont listen!!

Fall Finery

Okay, don't think I made these cards today... I've been working in cycles.... reading blogs, checking out galleries, making cards, cleaning, taking pictures of cards, spacing them out and posting them to my blog. There are some days when I work on cards only, but that's about to change. Details later!!

The multiple pumpkins are a very cool $1 stamp from Michael's. Other images are SU! I think one of the first sets I bought eons ago.... oh I like that word eon!!!
I love the earth tone colors for fall (even though today is seems like the middle of summer) orange, cranberry, rust, brown, tan.

The witch is in!!

Okay, so I give in to peer pressure, when other posters & bloggers talk about the cool stamps they get from Michael's. I couldn't resist!!! I made a few cards with the witchypoo shoes!! Nothing special on this card. The stripped pp is from my scrap bin. What I've been doing lately is pulling out scraps, matching them to card stock (either SU! or the huge card stock packs from HL) and then finding an image either stamped or doodled (by me)... finding a recipe on someones blog or gallery post and then running with the idea!!!

How can it be fall... I just checked the thermometer.... it says 94 degrees!!! Watch me next week, I'll be complaining about something else!!

Paper Piecing

I always thought it was piercing, well, I guess it could be. So, all the images on the cake, candle and flame are all different pieces of patterned paper. I really like this card. It's starting to get a little heavy. Of course, this is NOT an original design, but once again, all work is my own, just borrowed a few ideas from a fellow card maker.

PS Kim - ds did NOT have a date for Homecoming the hung out as a group of boys and girls.... he's a young freshman and not yet into the 'girl thang'.....thank goodness!!!

Fall Fashion

Both cards are inspired by images in the most recent TAC catalog.... no stamps, just my hand drawn doodle casing! Used a few things on the red card that I haven't in a while... large eyelets from SU! to hold the ribbon... I really like the unbalance, balance of this card. Also used my paper crimper to get the texture on the background paper.

On the card with the polka dots.... I was just going through my scrap bin trying to find something other than 'fall' or 'halloween' and found 'it'. Loved too, how I had some polka dot ribbon to 'tie' it all together!!

Going out for Homecoming

Here are the pics of Bubba posing on our front porch picture spot for his Homecoming Dance. He had gotten a haircut early in the day. Plus the Freshman A team won 40 - 0. He played defence today when they went for the P A T... point after touchdown. In the second photo we told him to really smile, but when he does, his eyes squint, so then we said open your eyes, so he did!! What a cutie patootie!!!

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