SO THIS IS WHAT I MADE OUT OF THE PAPER.....

I was busy making 28 recipe cards for the BBQ swap on Two Peas ran by Kim! My category was a drink and it was "Absolut Blue Pearl"
I had a ton of fun working with the red, white and blue. On the edge of the cardstock I used white acrilyic paint put on with my fingers and red acrylic paint on the edges of the Blue Hawaiian shirt paper from Karen Foster (yep finger painting! My mom helped me cut the Hibiscus (qk) flowers from the white glittered Doodlebug paper, and after I cut the stamens I used glitter glue and put a small red confetti star in the center. I tried out my new treading water punch from Fiskers. I must sau I really like the quality of Martha Stewert border punches better. MS punches cut carstock no problem and Fiskers seems to have a harder time with cardstock. Just a personal opinion, but I love the scallop for this particular recipe!

I hope the girls in the swap enjoy them and I cannot wait to get all the recipes and maybe make a cover for the book! I got some paper the other day that i am hoping will be great for a BBQ recipe book cover.

Well stay tuned, next I am going to post pics of a few things that I splured on, you're gonna love them!

take care all and hugs to you all

A little update on the puppies

Just thought I would update about my girls :) It's been 12 days since their surgeries and they are doing well. They actually played today for the first time since they got spayed. Here are some pics of them while they were resting one day after surgerie. My chevy girl remained asleep when I took her pick, but my wolf Sunshine woke up and her look is priceless! Enjoy! Also here is a pic of some paper I am working with and I will post a pic of the finished project tomorrow.

CHEVY aka "LOVEBUG"

SUNSHINE aka "The Beast"

blue hawaain shirt paper by Karen Foster

As promised... My Mommy's flowers

Ok, My Mommy just kills me with her talant!!!! These flowers were inspired by Sue Roddis in the 4th anniversary edition of "Paper Creations" on page 45. They do have a website: http://www.papercreationsmag.com/

Ok so anyways back to my mom's talant..... she has so much. She always adds a flair that makes it her own, always beautiful...like her.

ENJOY!

ATC Swap I have been working on...

So I finally finished all those buggers! I had three catagoriesX 20 EACH, why do I do this to myself?). I had July, December, and St. Patty's day. My friends over on Two Peas and I did this swap and now we are embarking on a disney ATC swap!!! Ok here are some pics of my cards:

December

St. Patty's

I meant to tell you all that the St. Patty's cards are hybrid. All the pattern paper and graphics anyways. I will update with the artist names when I can open that folder again on my computer, I'm having a little trouble this morning. Anyways they were all free downloads!

July
My very talanted mom did the water color on the suns and shorts of the penguins. Can i just say these make me happy!!!! Just look at them! thanx for all the help mom!
oky doky, stay tuned tomorrow for some wonderful pictures of hand crafted paper flowers made by my mom. You are gonna love them!! SERIOUSLEY!!!!!!

It's been 3 years.......

since I lost my wolf Duna (Dune - a). I can not begin to express how much I still miss her. She was our baby! She was the most loyal companion and friend that anyone could ever have. Here is a picture of her. stay tuned tomorrow for an update on the stuff that I have been working on, but today is her day. also my pups are recovering nicely from their surgery although my wolf is taking a little longer because of the size of her incision I beleive - it's huge!

MEMORIAL DAY

Happy Memorial Day! Please take a moment of silence and be thankful.

Today I am still homebound with my puppies. they got spayed on Friday and are moving around much better today, but they want to lick their huge ass incisions and they are not wearing cones so I have to make sure they don't lick. They are sleeping quite a bit still and on pain meds so we plan on hanging out together this week!

today I will be finishing up some swap projects I hope! I am anxious to start on my disney ATC's. My catagories are Monster's Inc and Tink. I can hardly wait to start those! for your viewing pleasure I have posted a picture of me and Sully. Oh and can you believe that I absolutely heart sully and had not seen the movie until yesterday!!!!! What an adorable movie and character that sully portrays! And the little girl calls him "KITTY" in that sweet little innocent voice!



Well I am going to get started on my projects and I will post pictures of the projects either later or tomorrow!

Make it a wonderful day!

Mother's Day

I've been sorta busy lately making things. I worked on some Mother's day cards and a wall hanging for my swapping pal on Two Peas. I also made a card for my mom, but I have to get the photo from her, then I will post it :) so here are a few things that I worked on last weekend:) the bottom 3 pics were for Mi'chel. she was my swap partner for 2peas Mother's Day swap. the top 2 was a card for My Mom-in-law. I had great fun using my new border punches from Martha Stewart!

I hope you all had a terrific Mother's day! If you're not a Mom, I hope you spent some time with your Mom. It's important to spend time with the best woman in our life! I spent the day scrapbooking with my Mom. It's always so much fun to create with her as she is a far better artist than I, and I can always rely on her to help me get my stuff just right! THANKS MOM! I LOVE YOU!