Showing posts with label swap. Show all posts
Showing posts with label swap. Show all posts

Friday, March 12, 2010

Spring Has Sprung...

well sorta...lol

Here in North Florida we have had a pretty nice week. Temps hovered around the low to mid 70's and it has been breezy. I actually worked in my yard a bit, weeding the weed beds...er I mean flower beds. Why is it that freezing temps don't kill weeds???

When the temps crawled out of the 30's and 4o's the grandkids were able to get outside for a bit. They are like most little ones, they enjoy being outside. Be-Pa (Seth could not say Grandpa, now the name has stuck) got the 4-wheeler out and rode the kids around and around and around the yard. They loved it!! Neither one was ready to get off when it was time to put it away.
Here are a couple of pics of the boys I took in Feb. They are growing up so fast! Seth decided he wanted to try and take some pics with Nana's camera...we had alot of feet, butts, legs...of course this is his eye level, but he did manage to get a good picture of Jasper our Shih tzu. He is my constant companion.
I did manage to photograph a card that I made and also a puzzle that I worked on for a swap. It was so much fun. Twelve ladies participated and each in turn received a completed 12 piece puzzle. Each gal picked a theme and colors. This pic is what I made for the other gals. I haven't got a pic of mine yet, will do that later and post it. I also finally started a book of me (BOM). I handmade the cover out of chipboard and decorated it. I am slowly working on the inside. I'll make sure I post some pics. I have been going through some old slides that we inherited from my uncle. Some of these I will make into pics for this book. They are pics of me when I was a baby and we lived in Michigan.

Well, that is all for now, but I will be back soon to update you on what is going on and what I am up to.

TTYL

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Boy has July flown...

I can't believe that it has been almost a month since I have posted here. I've had some sorta flu bug that has been like a boomerang...it keeps coming back. After the 2nd week of this I finally went to the Dr. and he told me basically that it is viral and you get better, feel bad again, get better, feel bad again, and it will last 4 to 6 weeks! So far he has been right...I am into week 4 and haven't felt the best in the world this weekend. Anyway, that is why I have been silent.

I have managed to do a couple of things, mostly a few cards and some ATC's for an upcoming swap. The first one here is an ATC that I made using a stamp from Unity Stamp Co. I do love these stamps.

Then I took one of the ATC's and used it on a card for a "white-space" challenge. So if you are wondering what to do with ATC's other than just collecting them like I do, you can always incorporate them into a layout as an embellishment or use them on a card front.

As many of you know I am a member of ScrapbookingCraftingfriends and I am participating in an ATC swap. The theme is sunshine, so for this I am using two of the stamps from Unity Stamp Companies kit of the month. I colored these with my Prismacolor Pencils and OMS. A touch of Star Dust Stickles add just a bit of bling to the ATC's. I finished them off with some tiny yellow brads in the corners.

Here is my first try at a digi stamp. It is from www.MyGrafico.com. I think I could really get to liking these. They come in jpg and png files and you can adjust the size which I think is really cool. This is my ATC for another challenge at Scrapbookingcraftingfriends.ning.com. Again I used my Prismacolor pencils on this.

This one here I am killing 2 birds with one stone, so to speak. I am in a card swap, yes, at www.Scrapbookingcraftingfriends.ning.com and also doing a color challenge in another group there. The colors for this week are lime green and red. The butterfly is also a digi stamp from MyGrafico.com. It has been colored with Prismacolor pencils and you can't tell it real well from the pics, but the butterfly has been "stickled" with Star Dust. The papers are Basic Grey from my stash.
Hopefully this "bug" will leave this house real soon, so I can get back to some serious paper-crafting. So until next time...

TTYL