Eye Monster

This is the second card for Hambos Hoedown. When I found this free digi in my inbox this morning I smiled BIG! I love monsters an this Eye Monster is adorable. I got busy right away this morning so I could get this card in the mail.

The base of the card I have had put together a couple of weeks. When my Sammy was here she told me how much she liked the combination so I used it. I printed the image out on some Prima patterned paper that I love and then cut the image out. Because the words printed next to the image I chunked them up into small pieces. I placed the words inside a Sizzix die heart. For the image I colored in just a few places with my Copic markers and then added some Spica glitter pen. The heart eyelets are Creative Impressions.

Here is a link to  Hambos. You can get to the blog via the button on my sidebar. They have great digis and also rubber stamps.

Valentines

Since my friends received their valentines it is time to add the cards here. I got busy with other cards this year and made very few valentines. Such is life.

The card with the animal was made with a freebie digi. I glossed up the balloons with Diamond Glaze. The tag was made with a Sizzix die. The heart is a fuzzy little brad that my friend Peggy sent me. Thanks Peggy. The paper is from Basic Grey. Ribbon from my stash.

The card with the cupcakes has a digi image by Hope Jacare. I love her artwork. I colored with Copics. Added Diamond Glaze on the cakes icing. Mounted it on my newest Nestability die cut. The heart paper is older than the hills. No idea who makes it.

The card with the topiary tree is an image from Inky Antics. Also colored it with Copics. Used Diamond Glaze on the hearts. (Do I love Diamond Glaze? Oh yes!) The chipboard V is from my stash. I covered it with paper, painted with Twinkling H2Os and then put through my Cuttlebug.

OWH-Red and white

Several of the papers that my Angela gave me were round with scallops or square with fancy edges. You get the idea. I decided I would challenge myself to use these papers. The paper for these cards was a big scalloped edge circle. I started by chopping it up into the sizes I needed for OWH cards. I have already shipped these cards off. I am thinking I made about 2 of each design. After I did the cards with scallops I still had some chunks left so I just had to use those too. I stamped the birds and glossed up with Diamond Glaze. The middle card I cut the bird out after it dried. It always tickles me how rubbery these cut out images feel. The butterflies I think are a Nestability die. Not sure about that but I got them from a play day with my friend Teresa. I kept the backgrounds on white because I liked the clean look.

Hambos Hoedown-Football!

I love Hambo Stamps. They tickle my funny bone. A couple of weeks ago I bought 5 more digis  to add to my previous ones. For a few days more they have a special sale going on. I think I will take advantage and get a couple more. They also have rubber stamps but I do not have any of them.

They just started a new blog and you can find it here. They have a fun challenge they will be offering each week. The opening challenge was a free digi of Football Girl and the theme was football.

My football card is using the school colors of my 9 year old great granddaughter. The colors are blue, yellow, and white. She goes to a small elementary school that goes through 8th grade. She is a junior cheerleader. The older girls are teaching her and being very kind to her. Somewhere down the road, maybe in the Fall, I will send her this card.

OWH-barnyard midweek throwdown #3

Another image from my stash. The word art is from Create With TLC. I can't say enough kind things about this site. Freebies everyday and good images and sentiments to buy at very good prices.

This will be my last barnyard image for this OWH throwdown. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Lots of fun entries. A nice prize also from Bugaboo Stamps

OWH-Barnyard mid week throwdown #2

Here is another cow image. This one was also in the box that I mailed 2 days ago. I have no idea who makes the stamp. Just another image from my stash. I colored with Copic markers. Bugaboostamps  is sponsoring this challenge for OWH.

OWH-Barnyard challenge

I have been coloring a lot of images from my stash. This is one of them. I won't swear to it but I think it is a Penny Black image from a friends collection of stamps. Colored with Copics. The word art is from Create With TLC. The sentiment says "I've got happy feet".

I have some more images for this challenge at Operation Write Home. The sponser is Bugaboostamps and the winner will get some free images. I have lots of Bugaboo images and I love them. Last month they had 60% off all images and I dropped a good amount of money there.

Be my Valentine

I just finished scanning what felt like a million cards. This is the only one I have watermarked so this is the one I will post.

 I went to the Dr on Friday and got a prescription for Sudafed. In Oregon you can't buy it over the counter. Oregon decided it wanted to stop the little homegrown guys from cooking meth. Instead all the dopers get the stuff that is made by the gangs in Mexico. Some trade off. Anyway, my ears are still stuffed up. Sounds like I am listening through water. Still feeling crummy even though I am not technically sick.

This is a card made with a piece of clip art. I glossed up the berries with Diamond Glaze and they look real tasty. Very simple but it works for me.

OWH-Happy frosting day.

I made 4 each of these versions of this card. The image was a freebie digital image I got from Paper Craft Planet. It was called Winter Cake but I didn't save the name of the group offering it. The sentiment was from Create With TLC.  I colored the image with Copic Markers using the same colors for all 3 images. The background paper is the icing design for DCWV 12" Snack pad. I love this pad  and I have several cards in mind to make with it. It has ice cream, berries, truffles, all kinds of yummy vivid food images.

I have been a little under the weather the last few days. Both of my ears are stuffed up. I started taking an OTC decongestant last night and I hope that helps. If not I will call Dr. on Monday.

I need to get a card ready for an upcoming blog hop. I have also been working on some Valentines cards.

Three blind mice

I made this card for my grand daughter Erica. She will be 18 in a few days. I still enjoy talking about when I took care of her everyday up until she started kindergarten. I feel very close to her. She is a senior in high school and will be starting school in the Fall at the community college. Because her mother works there her tuition will be free. She will transfer her credits to a 4 year school later. Need I say, she is smart and excels at school. Very active in Girl Scouts and does a lot of community service with them. And she is also beautiful of course.  lol

I have been wanting to use this very bold paper that my Angie gave me. Erica loves black so it works well for her card. The digital image is from Hambo stamps. I bought several of their fun images a few days ago. I colored with Copics. Added Diamond Glaze to the cupcake and Spica glitter pens to the hats. I fastened the ribbon with my Tim Holtz tiny stapler.