It's been a while

I seem to go in spurts now. I'll be doing so well, then boom, life pops up and sets me back! It seems to be my new normal. Pick yourself and go again. These last few weeks have been fun, miserable and confusing. My granddaughter flew in for a visit to surprise me. She rang the doorbell at ten in the morning and I was shocked and thrilled. We had the most wonderful visit. Another week was spent in my six month doctor check ups and a dentist appointment for my crown. Turns out he put it in my mouth, not on my head. Bummer! Then the confusion when I was locked out of my blog. It wanted a password. I created my blog so long ago I had no idea what the password was. Since I am so untechy that was a battle too. Also, haven't been making any cards so there was nothing to post. Now I'm back on track, I hope, and I made a card. 

In keeping with Christmas cards I made another one. I used a new Unity stamp, colored it with Copics and added a foam heart. It felt so good to do. I am adding it to the https://caschristmascardchallenge.blogspot.com/

I signed up for a gym membership. My bank called to see if my credit card was stolen.

Be kind to one another.

Ho Ho Ho

I made another Christmas card! Look at me go. While going through all my Christmas goodies I discovered another sleigh stamp. That is the theme for CAS Christmas Challenge so I had to make this card. It is a Lawn Fawn stamp colored with Copics. It is hard to get a good picture because of the darkness. This is the eighth day of dark, cloudy skies here.

Dogs can't operate MRI scanners. But cats can.

Be kind to one another.

Thank you

I want to thank you all for checking on me. My family and I are safe but our state is flooding in so many places as the rain continues. This is our sixth straight day of rain, storms and flooding. The damage is so wide spread and people have lost so much. The coverage on TV keeps people informed but heartbreaking to see. Please pray for Indiana. My prayers reach out across the world now with all the flooding, fires, earthquakes, tornados, and hurricanes. Not to mention places without water.  Mother Nature is so angry. 

This is a quick card I made a while ago just as a reminder to take time to be happy. 

I may look fine but inside I don't remember any of my passwords.

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Brace yourselves

I made another Christmas card! I don't know how long this will last but once I went through my Christmas "stuff" and saw things I had forgotten about, I was so inspired. The theme this month at CAS Christmas Card Challenge is Santa's Sleigh and I used this Penny Black sleigh die. I cut it in red cardstock and silver cardstock and trimmed around the silver to put the  runners on the sleigh. Since I needed a "special delivery" as mentioned in the sentiment from Unity I stamped a sweet dog from Lawn Fawn. I hope this is clean enough.This is week two using die cuts so I am also going to play at I.D.E.A.S.

When chameleons can't change color anymore, it's called reptile dysfunction. 

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It never made it

This is a card I made for a dear friend that has never arrived. I do hope it finds its way there at some point because she never got a birthday card from me and that makes me sad.

I used my new Altenew window sphere die with some flowers to decorate around it. The flower centers are from my embellishment drawer and the sentiment is from a Waffle Flower set.

I made a chicken salad yesterday. It turns out they would rather have grains.

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Let the paper talk

That's what is happening on this card. I love Paper Rose and I used paper from Bees & Butterflies Basics and a butterfly from the Quick Cards Die Cuts added to a green scalloped circle. It is an easy card to make and on days when I can't get going I feel good about just being able to make a card. It makes me happy to create.

I will pop over to NBUS and add this card.

My dentist said I needed a crown. And I was like I know, right?

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Another new to me technique

I recently saw this online and wanted to try it. I love the way it turned out and wanted to share. I'm always so far behind new things so you probably already do this but here goes.

I used kraft cardstock and swiped white Apple Barrel white acrylic paint over the cardstock with a dry sponge. Then, the same thing with red Avery Elle pigment ink. That leaves you with stripes of ink and paint over the cardstock. I used a Crafter's Companion embossing folder to emboss the panel. The next step was rubbing over the raised design with my finger using gold metallic ink. Then, again with copper metallic ink. By using the red pigment ink and rubbing over it with copper, I lost the red color but the shine is beautiful. I saw this on Eastwicks paper and ink.

I would like to add this card to I.D.E.A.S.

If you're happy and you know it, it's your meds.

Be kind to one another.