Paper Flowers

- What can you make from a strip of paper?

- Is it a bow for the top of a cute gift?

- Corsage for Homecoming?

Blurfing one day I came upon another blogger making flowers out of a single paper strip 2" wide and 12" long. Fold strip like a hot dog bun (length wise) so it will be 1" x 12".  Cut 'fringe' into the folded strip (like cutting grass when you were a kid, cut on the open side) and roll the strip tight adding glue every few inches.  When dried, you peel open the petals and voila~, get a pom pom flower. Patterned paper is thinner and might give a softer look.  You can add a middle in a different color strip.  You can make it flat or FULL. These might be too 'puffy' for a card, but great on top of a mini scrapbook or bow for packaging.

Double, Double, toil and trouble

- Which feet are the witches feet?

- Punch art with Top Note

- Come celebrate fall, if not Halloween

OMG! So dang cute.  I really am getting into these punch artist who take all these punches we crafters have sitting around and make them into something awesomely cute and cool!!!   If you look closely, the witch shoes are the same form as the green background paper.  That punch (or die cut in this case) is Top Note by SU!  What I did is make the same cut with the black paper, folded it in half and then used circle punches to get the point for the tip of the shoe and another circle punch in the part where the legs would go into the shoe.  The buckles are another SU! punch in the center.  Stockings were hand cut, but I'm sure someone probably used a punch in the original.

I made three of these cards and they went out to my Card of the Month Friends.  For two years now, with varied interest, I create cards that relate to the month or the holiday season.  Most COTM-ers are on card #10 (October) and I always send out the card a month ahead of time, so in this case it is a Halloween theme or colored card. One COTM-er WON this yearly deal as a gift on HOS, one COTM-er was given this as her Christmas gift, and one, actually bought this as a gift to herself!! SURprisE, a cute hand made card from me comes each month directly to her mailbox.

One card mate wanted her cards to be the year of  'coffee'... the card right above, so each month she gets a card ready to invite a pal out for coffee.  Notice, I'm using brown and orange colors to go with a fallish feel. It's blank inside so she can write in her own sentiment. Could have had a witch brewing some coffee, dang!!!

- Send out a Halloween card, it can be a way that you tell someone you are thinking of them. 

- I have lots of cute cards in stock!!!

- Check out creative greetings too! my other card only blog , look under FALL or Halloween

Ahoy thar matey!

- What's the next card making holiday?

- How many embellishments are too many?

- Oh send a Halloween card, they are great fun to receive!

This card isn't even from my stash of Halloween supplies!  I saw a cute card and then something on Heidi Swapps blog with the House of 3.... embellishments times 3... with banners and crepe paper and inking the edges.  Too cute not to follow the lead and come up with my own, similar, yet different Halloween card. Do you think it's too much?

- Official site to Talk Like a Pirate Day

- Why not have some fun this weekend

- You could win some booty (A nautical term for treasure)

The House of Shine (not to be confused with the House of 3) wants you to host a family fun Talk Like a Pirate Bingo Game this weekend, in honor of this 'great' national holiday.  The party host who collects the most donations for the HOS Yellow Envelope Project wins one of 5 special theme related tool belts.  You could even win mine, pictured above.  The card makers tool belt!!  You could make your own card to send to someone who SHINES!!!!  For more details go to P-aaaaarty!

Do this, or I'll make yer walk thee plank!  Aaaaarrrrr!!!

When Two Become One

- This is actually a scrapbook layout

- Sometimes I just love the multiple layers

- Color combo is unique

Ok blog friends, bare with me as I try to find myself a new unique look that is just me.  Which means my blog is under construction.  Stay tuned to switches, zamboozles and things that don't make sense.

I love this card!  I made the background card stock with a paisley SU! stamp.  Added white gel pen to give it that bandana look.  Bought a bunch of knock off Prima flowers in a cream color, so I'm having fun making them my own color.On the original layout they had one picture on this page, slightly under the area where the star is.  Wow, I used to fill my scrapbook pages with pictures, now they fill the pages with 'stuff' and add one picture.  Cool.

- Chinese III

- Humanities

- AP Chemistry

- World Lit

And there is more (to much to list) , 8 minutes per class, 9 periods,  for two hours last night at Open House.  However, I found it funny, like us, we were going back and forth between two kids classes.  When one kid had a study hall we visited the other class.  One dad made a point to go back to the parent sign in sheet, cross out his kids name.... wrong kid.  Wow, high school.  It's all one big prep for college.  Although the teachers seemed fun, accelerated class have to give homework, ugh!  Kudos to today's high school students!

It's just a note!

- Can you tell the stamp from the hand drawn image?

- Frayed twine down on the bottom by the layer of DS paper

- Bling in the middle of the flower to add some POP

This cute simple card with the one tiny layer at the bottom is from a post on SplitCoast stampers www.cupcakeMartini.com and I'm so proud to say that I actually wrote down the spot I CASed.

I'm also having fun writing with a straight edge.  It makes my printing look almost like a stamp. The green leaf is the stamped image, by the way.

- Hump Day

- At a loss for words

- Open house tonight, get to follow my kid's schedule, yay!

- Select cute doggie picture for the 'awwww' factor.

Tucker

Can I try that again, and again and maybe one more time?

-It's time for a change.

-A Make over or

-A do over....

Cute yellow card put together like pieces in a puzzle.  Used the paisley embossing folder for the background and proudly displayed a Martha Stewart butterfly, front and center.  Simple card.  You can use any colors, and any punch, they will all turn out simply gorgeous.  My blog may be under construction.  I have to check with my designer and see how motivated she is for some change!!!

-Why do parents do this?

-Every sport has the over-zealous fan

-When will they learn?

Sissy had a tournament this past weekend.  Two of the teams looked like they put a bunch of girls together on a rec league... we easily beat them something like 25-6.  The other three teams were competitive.  One teams parents (or should I say dads) were obnoxious.  This one dad stood out because he would ask DH and I how our daughter's team did when he couldn't see us playing in the small gym. 

Eventually we moved up to the big gym and  politely waited in the hall to enter and this guy is peeking in through the  gym window, talking and gyrating and then hit the door really hard.... guess he didn't like the play? Our team played against his daughter's team.  The referee could not make a decent call.  Oh, and of course all the bad calls were against his daughter's team.  Did you see that ref?  He calls out. Ah come on! He would yell out. 

We 'normal' parents sit and actually cheer on our daughters.  And just watch those weird parents who jump around in their seats in disgust, as their daughter's team looses.  How embarrassing... I'm sure it's not the first time.  Sissy's team did win the overall tournament.  Ah, sweet victory!!!

Monday Morning Quarterbacking

First of all, YAY! Packers!   Win!

By the way, this is the birthday card I made for my lovely mom.  It kind of has an earthy fall feeling to it. Don't cha thin?

Things that make you go hmmm:

What is it with rude people? I ask DH all the time "Did you see that?" and he says"See what?" I know that I'm more observant than the average joe.  I have more time to observe.  A few weeks ago in Sam's Club as we were waiting in the check out line, I turn and people watch.  And my oh my are there some people to watch!  As this older gentleman walked pushing his cart, his mission to find an open lane and get (the hell) out of there, encountered a young child dancing about without a care in the world in the middle of the wide aisle (You know the part right before the check out lanes?)  He said boldly ( but it could have been coldly?gruffly?  Maybe he just has a loud booming voice, or maybe he wanted the child to hear him) "Watch Out".... to which the pregnant mother (in an entirely different aisle) along with her mother, clueless husband and baby in the cart finally turn their attention back to their wondering child... rush up to her and ask, what did that man say to you?  The child shrugs and the agitated mother who was not aware of  her young child's antics at all (but I was watching the show) says. .. I think he told her to "Watch Out".  With mommy grizzly bear eyes, she looks like she wants to chase after the 'old man'.... who didn't have to be rude, just because she is a child doesn't mean she isn't a human being. The husband says drop it, and the grandmother tends to the other ignored child in the shopping cart.  Did the older gentleman "YELL" at the child, or merely in a commanding voice warn the child? You know how kids listen? or don't listen!!! Was the unsupervised dancing child in harms way? And when do parents need to take responsibility to watch their children and teach them manners to stick with the cart and move out of peoples way, after all, a store is not a park to play in.