Day of My Birth

Thank you all for your encouraging words on getting better. My Littler, Little Man is better (he got over things pretty quickly)... but, alas, it is my birthday today and I have a cold. Good day to just take it easy anyway, so I will. Back to posting soon!

Break Time

Well, Littler, Little Man is now sick with tummy flu... and I am not feeling all that hot either. A busy weekend approaches (hubby is already partaking in some of that action today as his dad retires today with a bit of a ceremony at work) so... I am going to lay low for a week or so (not that I have posted much here recently anyway) to try and keep everyone healthy. You all take care! I will be back soon!

I guess today I should have said, "Arrgh! I'm a bit under the weather, me heartys!!! Sit tight while me gets my sails in order and I will be back to share a swig with you once again!"

Okay, okay... Not my best Pirate talk for "Talk Like a Pirate Day." But I tried! (You should have heard me read this aloud.... much better spoken than written!)

Thanks, Barry at Pike Speak, for the holiday reminder!

Here it comes!

What is coming is a wave of creativity! (It had better hit me before the weekend! Hee hee!)

I have a slew of birthdays just around the bend to make cards for. I will be sure to post my creations soon! (I have not done so for a while... and just wanted you to know not to give up on me yet!)

Let me leave you with this... a postcard I made to help out iPost and her family collecting postcards from around the U.S. (and the world!) with Iowa as it's theme. (Not a great photo of it... I took it quickly before I sent it out in the mail.) I listed Iowa Facts on the other side and was so glad to help them with their quest to get postcards from all 50 states!

More Inspiration

The above photo shows a card made by my friend, Jaimie. She is also the greatly-mentioned-in-this-blog Stampin' Up! demonstrator that I know. From this card, I came up with the following cards.

My hand is in the photo here to hold the card flat. Otheriwse it would tip over because of the unique front "cover" of the card. (It is smaller than the back of the card... made by cutting off most of the original base and replacing it with a matted/layered piece.)

Here is another version of the same idea... but the flap of the card opens up (as you can see).

Sweet Stamp Set

Sweet in its design... and sweet for its price! I got it on a used stamp sale for more than half the price. Gotta like that!
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Made this with dye ink so that I could try out some old Heat 'n' Stick powder I had buried in amongst my glitters, re-inkers, and flocking. It did not work the best, but I kind of liked the antiqued effect I got with the leafing only sticking in certain areas. (Maybe you can see the leafing better by clicking on the image to "embiggen" it. ("Embiggen" is a term I adopted from Carmi.)
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My mom and pop should soon recognize this card (sent them a note in it!)
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Everyone have a wonderful weekend!

Post for Today...

This is one I put together for my stamping group at church.

This one was for my niece for her birthday. I liked having fun with this glistening zebra print. I am almost out of it now. It is one of those papers that I got 1 sheet of and now wish I had gotten 20... oh well!!!

Variation

Variation on the color from THIS CARD.