Thank you

I want to thank you for the wonderful, uplifting cards, comments and calls since I got home. It is so fun to get them. Don't worry that it takes me so long to thank you. My neighbor is bringing in my mail and she has been sick, so didn't come over with it right away. 

I have had four doctor visits, four more blood draws and a CT scan since I got home and I am wiped out. Getting in the car to go someplace is so tiring and a new wrinkle is low hemoglobin. Well Duh. When you take blood several times a week and every day in the hospital what did you expect! I am glad to know the reason for me being so tired all the time. 

This coming week I have nothing going on and I can't wait. Maybe even get to make a card. I hope it comes back to me.

Daisy was thrown out of the casino. She totally misunderstood the meaning of the craps table!

Be kind to one another.

Update

Hi to all my sweet friends. I am having an OK day and want to tell you I have been in the hospital. My sodium dropped below acceptable levels and we couldn't seem to get it up and they wouldn't let me go home. They gave me the wrong medicine, didn't have a kidney doctor treating me and no one came to walk me around for exercise. My bed was alarmed for chance of fall so I couldn't even get up without someone being there. Of course, Daisy, my dog was here by herself with people coming in and out to let her out and feed her and put her back in her crate. She was in there all day and night by herself for several days. My son came down to get her and take her to his house to keep her until I got out. She escaped from him and was in a place she had never been before. She was alone in the 90 plus degree heat for five and a half days and had walked four miles before a man cutting his property found her curled up in the very back of his lot. any longer and she would have been gone. He had to force her to drink, then took her in his house and gave her more water. He took her to the Humane Society and they called my daughter in law and sent a picture. Everyone in their community was looking for her. I had gone to stay with my son and daughter in law when I got out of the hospital so we could go look for her. I truly never thought I'd see her again and the trauma on top of everything else was terrible. We are both home now and she is back in her routine after sleeping non stop for four straight days. I am starting to recover but so tired all the time. Due to a miscue with hospital meds I was taking three steroids and two antibiotics and my heart was hammering all the time and I couldn't even walk. Now that is straightened out and I hope to be back to myself soon. Making no cards with four family birthdays this month! Hardly any computer time either but I will join you all as soon as I can. 

Be kind to one another.

Vellum

There are so many ways to use vellum and this month's Group of Seven Cardmakers are showing their cards using it. 

My first card uses a panel of vellum embossed with a Spellbinders embossing folder over a panel of three different greens of Distress Oxide Inks. The vellum softens the colors under it so I wish I had made them darker. I added a Simon Says die in green mirror cardstock.

Going back a long time, I used a metal stencil pumpkin from Lasting Impressions from 2000. Gosh I've been doing this a long time! This is done by putting the vellum over the stencil and following through the openings with a stylus. This makes the image raised on the other side of the vellum. That panel was added over orange cardstock. That is only two ways to use it by dry embossing and stenciling. I hope you will check out the other cards and ways of using it.

No one told me when you get a husband the ears are sold separately.

Be kind to one another.

Finally

I got busy and made a card. It took me three days but I got it done! After being idle so long my brain didn't want to create so I had to start simple. I smooshed three inks on a watercolor panel and embossed it with a Spellbinders die on day one. Day two found me using die cut feathers new from Paper Rose and day three I got the sentiment done. 

Then came getting to post. Since I still can't just upload from phone or camera that takes some doing. It's amazing what patience can do and I did manage. I'm using the inking for Darnell's I.D.E.A.S this Monday. I'm also playing at NBUS with Paper Rose feathers.

Marriage is grand. Divorce is one hundred grand.

Be kind to one another.

Kaleidoscope

I haven't been away for the last few months. My computer has been having fits and still isn't fixed.  I have jerry rigged a way to download pictures from my phone in a very indirect way that only works sometimes. So, here we go.

This months Group of Seven Cardmakers are creating Kaleidoscope cards. The cards have the look that we used to see in a Kaleidoscope when we were kids. It's exciting to see how they come out. 

My first card used a pattern paper with white flowers. I was able to find a very old Hero Arts stamp that looked just like those flowers so I stamped it in Versamark and embossed with gold embossing powder.  After cutting into half inch strips I added them to a card front. Then I stamped the same stamp with a matching color and added a sentiment.

My second card was made using a Simon Says background stamp and embossed it in gold embossing powder. Then I lightly water colored the background in a soft green and cut into strips. I glued half of the strips to the top and half to the bottom. I added a leaf stem die from Poppy Stamps cut from gold cardstock along with a greeting. 

I accidently drank invisible ink and now I'm at the hospital waiting to be seen. 

Be kind to one another.

Monochromatic

It's Group of Seven Cardmakers for June with Monochromatic as the theme. Our ladies have posted some great cards for you on the website and I hope you can stop in.

On the first card I stamped in dark brown ink using an Altenew stamp over a card panel. Then I cut the same image with the matching die and dark brown cardstock and added it over the panel. I embossed the Hello in white embossing powder over the same brown cardstock and cut it out with a Poppy Stamps die. The panel was added to a dark brown card base.

The second card used a Paper Rose die that I sponged over with two blue inks and added to a panel. I added a Mama Elephant scalloped frame sponged in the same two color of blues. The thanks die is a sizzix die and done in the same two inks, making it darker at the bottom.

Should I call you or should we resolve this in 200 texts?

Be kind to one another.

An exciting time

for my grandson. He turns twenty one this month, the age all teenagers look forward to. I thought since he is in the Marines I would make a camouflage card. Now I can't make those funny little shapes camo has so I tried to make it with colors. There are quite a few different looks and colors but I think this is close to what he wears. Just a simple card since he is a guy!

In other news, I have been working around the mess in my house and trying to tidy up other rooms. It takes me so long to do anything, then I have to rest so the days aren't long enough to do everything. I try to do one big thing a day. Some days getting up is that thing! Signed contract to get started with kitchen but won't be until at least second week of this month.

My favorite thing about humans may be our ability to drench potatoes in mayo and call it salad with a straight face.

Be kind to one another.