Here I am with my sweet Dad (holding the card I made him):
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Happy Father's Day 2012!
Happy Father's Day to everyone celebrating! Mom and Dad drove to my house and I drove us across the Cities to my brother's and sister-in-law's house. Donna made chicken in wine sauce and then we all played Phase 10, our favorite card game. Dad came from behind to wipe us all off the map. Poor Donna had been working on Phase 10 for 3 hands; I was stuck on Phase 7 but had finally completed it - a day late & a dollar short...
Here I am with my sweet Dad (holding the card I made him):
I'm so glad he's still in good health and able to enjoy life. He certainly has given me a great life after giving me life to begin with! Happy Father's Day, Dad!
Here I am with my sweet Dad (holding the card I made him):
Sunday, June 10, 2012
A Productive Evening
Happy Sunday! Hope you had a great weekend. I mowed the backyard this morning and escaped the heat (93F today) by going to a movie this afternoon. I saw "The Hunger Games" (again - love both the books and the movie) but they had a bit of a sound issue so it wasn't as good as it could've been.
Thought I'd share some cards I made last night. The usual suspects went to Scrap Mania at Archiver's - Julie, Sandy, Sayo and I were very productive. First up, a retirement card for a guy with whom I worked twice in my career - years ago, in both Eau Claire WI and Mankato MN. He retired from managing the St Cloud Social Security office.
I've had this little chair cut and stamped for quite awhile and finally thought of an idea for it. This Hero Arts digi cut for the Silhouette came to me when I was a Hero Hostess last year. It perfectly matches their clear set Wish You Were Here - so cute! Their Designer papers made great card bases too. The diamonds are from a Tim Holtz cling set called Boundless Flight and the sentiment I borrowed from a friend - it's an oldie from American Arts Stamps.
From there I worked on my Father's Day cards - needed 3 - one for Dad, one for a special uncle, and one for my brother-in-law. So, here are the cards:
I love using Hero Arts folded cards - such great quality and easy to use. I stamped each with a Hero Arts background stamp. A new fave is the Houndstooth Background, used on two of the cards, and I finally used the Formula Fun background from the HA/Basic Grey (Oxford) collaboration.
I was on a roll so moved on to making a set of cards for my friend Connie (the one who's more like a sister who also sings). She's part of planning a day for the chorus directors in our Region of Sweet Adelines International. She asked if anyone would donate a door prize for the event so I offered a card set. These are the first two I did and I will make a few more using the same set, Hero Arts Musical Clef.
That's it from here. Thanks for stopping by!
Thought I'd share some cards I made last night. The usual suspects went to Scrap Mania at Archiver's - Julie, Sandy, Sayo and I were very productive. First up, a retirement card for a guy with whom I worked twice in my career - years ago, in both Eau Claire WI and Mankato MN. He retired from managing the St Cloud Social Security office.
I've had this little chair cut and stamped for quite awhile and finally thought of an idea for it. This Hero Arts digi cut for the Silhouette came to me when I was a Hero Hostess last year. It perfectly matches their clear set Wish You Were Here - so cute! Their Designer papers made great card bases too. The diamonds are from a Tim Holtz cling set called Boundless Flight and the sentiment I borrowed from a friend - it's an oldie from American Arts Stamps.
From there I worked on my Father's Day cards - needed 3 - one for Dad, one for a special uncle, and one for my brother-in-law. So, here are the cards:
I love using Hero Arts folded cards - such great quality and easy to use. I stamped each with a Hero Arts background stamp. A new fave is the Houndstooth Background, used on two of the cards, and I finally used the Formula Fun background from the HA/Basic Grey (Oxford) collaboration.
I was on a roll so moved on to making a set of cards for my friend Connie (the one who's more like a sister who also sings). She's part of planning a day for the chorus directors in our Region of Sweet Adelines International. She asked if anyone would donate a door prize for the event so I offered a card set. These are the first two I did and I will make a few more using the same set, Hero Arts Musical Clef.
That's it from here. Thanks for stopping by!
Saturday, June 9, 2012
A "Summer" Scramble
Well, it's not quite summer on the calendar but we had a fun time with Janet today for a summer-themed Hero Arts Flickr Group Scramble (90 minutes to design, create, photograph & upload a card). I just loved Janet's inspiration photos which you can see on her Scramble thread. The other two options were emboss/resist and "summer"; her daughter wanted her to say flip flops so I complied and gave her some - LOL!
I did the flower background on this sandy colored paper from Authentique (their Genuine set) that has beautiful blues, whites and browns in it. Stamped the Flower Pops from Hero Arts with Versamark and white embossed, then rubbed Walnut Stain Distress Ink into the edges. The darling flip flops are a Hero Arts digi cut done on my Silhouette SD; I put an offset mat behind them to give them more definition against the background. I think most of my 90 minutes was spent waiting for those flip flops to cut!! The sentiment is from an older Hero Arts clear set called Thoughtful Messages.
Doing this Scramble really put me in the summer mood! I got my tree trimmings hauled off to the compost heap and mowed my front yard. Saved the back yard mowing for tomorrow since I'm crafting with some friends tonight and still have to organize my stuff (a challenge after a Scramble!!).
Hope you're enjoying the weekend and thanks for stopping by!
Doing this Scramble really put me in the summer mood! I got my tree trimmings hauled off to the compost heap and mowed my front yard. Saved the back yard mowing for tomorrow since I'm crafting with some friends tonight and still have to organize my stuff (a challenge after a Scramble!!).
Hope you're enjoying the weekend and thanks for stopping by!
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Welcome Baby Lila Grace!
I can't believe I'm posting two days in a row - yay for me!
One of the fabulous Hero Arts designers, Jennifer McGuire, had a new baby girl on Mother's Day - congrats Jennifer and family!! A friend of hers, Jana Millen, organized an online card gallery to welcome Lila Grace and I finally had a chance to contribute something. I've met Jennifer at several ScrapFests (hosted annually by Archiver's) where she's done some delightful classes along with the amazing Shari Carroll. I've also taken quite a few of Jennifer's Online Card Classes. What a talented woman - I could go on forever...
Here's my card:
I used Hero Arts layering paper for the card base, stamped with the Chevron Background, a Hero Arts/Studio Calico collaboration, with HA's bubblegum mid-tone ink. This is a new stamp for me and I just loooove it! Lila's name is stamped with Hero Art's Fancy Letters and the sentiment is from Find Joy. The butterfly is Soft Wings from Penny Black; I stamped it with the custom stamp pad I made during Tim Holtz' Creative Chemistry 101 class.
So, welcome Lila Grace! May you have a long and wonderful life!!
Hope you're having a fun and crafty weekend - thanks for stopping by!
One of the fabulous Hero Arts designers, Jennifer McGuire, had a new baby girl on Mother's Day - congrats Jennifer and family!! A friend of hers, Jana Millen, organized an online card gallery to welcome Lila Grace and I finally had a chance to contribute something. I've met Jennifer at several ScrapFests (hosted annually by Archiver's) where she's done some delightful classes along with the amazing Shari Carroll. I've also taken quite a few of Jennifer's Online Card Classes. What a talented woman - I could go on forever...
Here's my card:
So, welcome Lila Grace! May you have a long and wonderful life!!
Hope you're having a fun and crafty weekend - thanks for stopping by!
Saturday, June 2, 2012
More singing and a BIG birthday
It's been a while since my last post - May just flew by! I've been busy singing and crafting so thought I'd share a bit of each.
The weekend after Mother's Day found the City of Lakes Chorus at our Regional convention and competition held at the Mystic Lake Casino complex. What a great facility and how amazing to be on the Showroom stage where fabulous entertainers like Jay Leno, Maroon 5 and Adam Lambert have performed. As outgoing chorus champions, we performed a show package and helped behind the scenes with the contest. Here are a couple of photos of me with some of my friends in our new costumes - just love all the metallic blues and silver!
Becky, another chorus friend, knows a woman from her mom's chorus in Iowa with a special birthday coming up. This sweet lady, Mary Ela, turns 106 years old on Monday! And she's still singing in shows with her chorus! I can't imagine making it to that age but, if I do, I hope I can still sing too!! Becky let us know about a card shower for Mary Ela so I made this card last night. I used Hero Arts fun clear set Wish Big and a great cling background Life of the Party Words. I cut the numbers on the balloons from a friend's Cricut - don't ask which cartridge cuz I don't remember :)
I used fun papers from Basic Grey's PB&J 6x6 paper pad.
Happy 106th, Mary Ela! And thanks to you for stopping. Have a great weekend!
The weekend after Mother's Day found the City of Lakes Chorus at our Regional convention and competition held at the Mystic Lake Casino complex. What a great facility and how amazing to be on the Showroom stage where fabulous entertainers like Jay Leno, Maroon 5 and Adam Lambert have performed. As outgoing chorus champions, we performed a show package and helped behind the scenes with the contest. Here are a couple of photos of me with some of my friends in our new costumes - just love all the metallic blues and silver!
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| Elaine, Lou & me |
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| Connie and me |
I used fun papers from Basic Grey's PB&J 6x6 paper pad.
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Happy Mother's Day!
It's Mother's Day and I was able to spend the day with my parents, two siblings and my sister-in-law. We had a fun day playing the card game Phase 10 (oops - Dad won, not Mom) and eating Culver's chicken (yummy!).
No craft projects to share today (I shared my Mother's Day card in an earlier post) - just a photo of me and my mammy.
Mammy worked hard all her life for us kids and still can't resist helping us out whenever she can. Caribou Coffee had a buy one, get one free coffee deal for Mother's Day. So I take her there to get her free coffee (Caramel High Rise) and she insists on paying for mine! I tell her - it's Mother's Day, can't I buy? Oh no - she wants to do it. She also insisted on buying the Culver's chicken. I know you mothers out there can relate.
Wishing all my dear blogging friends a Happy Mother's Day! Hope you had a wonderful day, whatever you did! Thanks for stopping....
No craft projects to share today (I shared my Mother's Day card in an earlier post) - just a photo of me and my mammy.
Mammy worked hard all her life for us kids and still can't resist helping us out whenever she can. Caribou Coffee had a buy one, get one free coffee deal for Mother's Day. So I take her there to get her free coffee (Caramel High Rise) and she insists on paying for mine! I tell her - it's Mother's Day, can't I buy? Oh no - she wants to do it. She also insisted on buying the Culver's chicken. I know you mothers out there can relate.
Wishing all my dear blogging friends a Happy Mother's Day! Hope you had a wonderful day, whatever you did! Thanks for stopping....
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Showtime and A Cut Above class homework
It's been a while again - oh well, I try... Thought I'd do a post including some of the Singin' part of my blog!
Since I last posted, my chorus, City of Lakes Chorus, had a successful 60th Anniversary show "60Carat Harmony" (April 14th) at Bethel University. Yes, the chorus (not me!) has been around for 60 years!! What a great history of camaraderie and harmony!
We sang 12 songs, including "How We Sang Today" with any past members from the past 60 years who wanted to come onstage. It was so fun to see some familiar faces! My former quartet, Chord Company which retired about a year + 1/2 ago, got to sing at the after show party we call an Afterglow. Here we are in the dressing room wearing our chorus costume. That's a lot of glitter there!
Here's a photo of the whole chorus, courtesy of Annette our videographer. Can you find the 4 of us? Hint - two are in the front row and two are in the center section.
And if you'd like to see a clip of the chorus singing "So Long Dearie", go here.
Speaking of anniversaries, here's card I made today for my parents' anniversary next Monday. I'm taking the latest Online Card Class - A Cut Above so I brought out a Tim Holtz die cut "Bird on a Branch". Since it was an anniversary card, I thought it should have 2 birds so I cut a mirror image & cut that bird off its branch. Added part of cut branch going down on the card. The inked background used the Distress Stain with Rock Candy Distress Stickles technique I learned in Tim's Creative Chemistry 101 online class. Very shimmery in real life. Stamps are from my favorite company, Hero Arts. The grey bird is stamped with the Newspaper Background; the blue bird is patterned paper from My Mind's Eye. I doodled a bit on the branch using my new Distress Markers. (Yes - they came into my LSS finally - the entire set!!) I am NOT a good doodler - oh well, my parents will love it anyway :)
Since I last posted, my chorus, City of Lakes Chorus, had a successful 60th Anniversary show "60Carat Harmony" (April 14th) at Bethel University. Yes, the chorus (not me!) has been around for 60 years!! What a great history of camaraderie and harmony!
We sang 12 songs, including "How We Sang Today" with any past members from the past 60 years who wanted to come onstage. It was so fun to see some familiar faces! My former quartet, Chord Company which retired about a year + 1/2 ago, got to sing at the after show party we call an Afterglow. Here we are in the dressing room wearing our chorus costume. That's a lot of glitter there!
Here's a photo of the whole chorus, courtesy of Annette our videographer. Can you find the 4 of us? Hint - two are in the front row and two are in the center section.
And if you'd like to see a clip of the chorus singing "So Long Dearie", go here.
Speaking of anniversaries, here's card I made today for my parents' anniversary next Monday. I'm taking the latest Online Card Class - A Cut Above so I brought out a Tim Holtz die cut "Bird on a Branch". Since it was an anniversary card, I thought it should have 2 birds so I cut a mirror image & cut that bird off its branch. Added part of cut branch going down on the card. The inked background used the Distress Stain with Rock Candy Distress Stickles technique I learned in Tim's Creative Chemistry 101 online class. Very shimmery in real life. Stamps are from my favorite company, Hero Arts. The grey bird is stamped with the Newspaper Background; the blue bird is patterned paper from My Mind's Eye. I doodled a bit on the branch using my new Distress Markers. (Yes - they came into my LSS finally - the entire set!!) I am NOT a good doodler - oh well, my parents will love it anyway :)
Hope you had a fun and crafty weekend! Thanks for stopping by!!
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