do you feel lucky?

Tina of Mommy Scraps Alot is offering some blog candy simply 'cuz she feels happy ... now thru July 24th you can enter ... and the more who enter, the larger the pot grows! That's just before my wedding anniversary. Now wouldn't THAT be a nice present?!

sigh ... if it's Wednesday ...

Wanna guess what time my golf league tees off? sigh ...

a card ready EARLY?!

Whazzup w THAT?! You can just ask my family - I've been known to go scramblin' to wrap friends' presents when I spotted them pulling up in the driveway ... but no, this is to let you know that I've changed my ways, folkes! I made my sister's anniversary card this past weekend and last night made one for my own and it's more than a week away! This one's for my DH and is based on Clean & Simple's Sketchy Friday FTL50 sketch challenge. I love green and purple color combos and think SU's latest In Color Rich Razzleberry goes t'riffic with one of my fav greens, Kiwi Kiss!

stamps: A Muse Artstamps' My heart flips, SU's Basket Full of Fun, Hugs & Wishes (inside sentiments); paper: SU's Cottage Wall, Kiwi Kiss designer series paper patterns DPs, SU's Kiwi Kiss, Rich Razzleberry, Very Vanilla card stocks; ink: SU's Kiwi Kiss, Rich Razzleberry; accessories: SU's Kiwi Kiss / Very Vanilla satin ribbon; tools: ek success' scallop diamond edger and Marvy Uchida extra jumbo heart punches, Cuttlebug with birds and swirls embossing folder

win $1K at The Cuttlebut Spot!

While blog trolling this afternoon I learned from Jan at Paper Tango (and seriously ... go check out her July 11th E-Trade Roller Babies post - it's a crack up!) that The Cuttlebug Spot is having a contest - "The Journey to 1,000"!

They're trying to reach 1,000 followers by the end of July (... and methinks I was number 974 so it won't take them much longer!). To enter all you have to do is go to their site, sign up as follower, complete a few easy steps, and you could be the lucky winner of a $1K gift certificate to Custom Crops! Check it out at The Cuttlebug Spot!

just a note

My buddy Mary broke her wrist back in late May and I'm sending her this card to catch up on how her recovery's going - hopefully speedy! We used to work together at Generous Motors - pretty much started there about the same time, in Pontiac MI, but didn't know each other 'til we transferred to a new plant they were to open later that year in Belleville MI ... now THIS'll date me 'cuz it was back in 1971! I hired in late July and remember telling my Dad it was his birthday present - that I'd actually been hired in a "real" job, LOL! Up 'til then I'd worked part-time while going to high school and college, but the jobs were pretty much babysitting, selling popcorn and candy at a movie theater, and "part-time" at a local drug store (I say "part-time" 'cuz it sometimes was more than 40 hrs a week tho' I was attending college full-time by then ... call me crazy as I dunno how I did it back then?! Sometimes it felt as tho' all I did was eat, sleep, work, homework ... 'cuz sometimes that WAS all you did, Sue!). Enough reminiscing ... I've been picking up used stamp sets like a crazy woman and some have GOTTA get inked today! later, ' gators!

this card was from a card class last month at a LSS - CAM - with the lovely and talented Maria! I love playing with their dies and should do that more often!

6x6" scrapbook progress

I've started getting together with 3 other friends every other Saturday to go to a LSS make-'n-take where we're completing a 6x6" scrapbook page and 2 cards, then heading for eats afterwards. Our 2nd outing was today and this is my fav project! It'll make for a sweet mini scrapbook real soon!

no deets - all supplies provided

the friendliest flowers

"Daisies are the friendliest flowers!" Remember that line from You've Got Mail!? don't you agree? I LOVE them, so that's the first of last night's cards from our meeting with the lovely and talented Angie that I'm sharing w ya'll!

I messed up on the sentiment but liked the way it turned out so didn't re-do! And what do I spy? Is that some of the latest In Color, Melon Mambo? Yep - yesterday's class was all about playing with the latest In Colors!

no deets today - I've gotta get ready for work and they were all supplied in the class

edited to add: the inside's a digi from a cartoonist's couple that I like - Cathy Thorne of everyday people cartoons - and the card's now winging its way to my sis & her DH for their anniversary! The sentiment's from SU's Hugs & Wishes, one of my new gently-used sets.

hmmnn ... a paper share, you say?!

Do you suffer from Extreme Paper Fixation? Well, the lovely and talented geekgirl of geekgirl's random ramblings is offering a paper share - I'd discovered her site and digi365 photos only recently and if you don't visit regularly you really SHOULD! So, if you're interested in a good deal on a share, where you get 60 sheets of 6x6" of the newest DPs for $15 plus s&h, go visit! Her first group for the share sold out quickly and she's started a waiting list so another group will fill quickly!

cute as a bug

Here's another project from last month's SU club meeting led by the lovely and talented Mary - a cutie patootie lady bug card! We used a pencil eraser to make the dots, punches to make its body, and a border punch for the touch of green. Cute, eh?!

All SU supplies provided at class - want directions to create one of your own? Check out Dawn Griffith's post (and a thank-you shout out to Dawn - she's simply amazin'!)

happy b'day Kimmi!

My buddy Kim's b'day is Tuesday, and by the miracles of modern science - ok, well, that and timed entries - here's her card. She doesn't use Google's Reader (or other "reader" services) so my secret's safe for tonight!

She's a pink kinda gal so I went in search of pinks I had on hand and this is a DP I've not used ... so here you go, Kim! Happy Day! I happen to know that her DH bought her a Cricut for her b'day this past weekend, and asked whether she used her present yet when I saw her today. Nope - she's just perused the manual so far! Most of the gals I know who've picked up a die cut machine have gone w the Cricut. So many toys ... so little time, y'know?! Today's card is based on Clean & Simple Stamping's FTL49 sketch.


stamps: Stampendous' Everything Happy, SU's Heard from the Heart, Pocket Silhouette; paper: SU's DP from a paper share, SU's Old Olive, Ruby Red, and Whisper White card stock; ink: SU's Old Olive, Ruby Red and Cameo Coral; accessories: SU's Ruby Red grosgrain ribbon

WOWzer blog candy alert

Karen, of Charmed Cards & Crafts, has teamed up with Graphics Direct Ltd to offer a WOWzer blog candy opp! How would you like to WIN a 72-ct set of Copic Ciao markers? Picqued your interest, have I? Run ... don't walk ... to check out this post by August 4th! How am I possibly going to keep my fingers crossed that long?!

happy anniversary Robin & Chad

My cousin's wedding anniversary is tomorrow and this weekend I made this card for them utilizing two retired stamp sets I just bought gently used. (I LOVE this time of year, don't you? ... whenever a new catty's released I quickly scramble to see who's unloading retired stamps that I like but never got around to purchasing!) I've not seen my cousin Robin in ages ... MAYBE not since she got married, come to think of it - BAD cousins! My folkes took an extended vacation and I think drove to their wedding, but my sis' & I flew together - a quick in and out by ourselves - sans husbands & kids - and stayed at the same hotel as my folkes. How time flies, y'know?!

No sketch used for this one (I know, shocker, eh?!) - just a simple & elegant card to mark the occasion. I toyed with the idea of adding some small pearls, but to quote my DH, "less is less!" Here's the inside sentiment:

stamps: SU's Beautiful Borders, Congrats, Warm Words; paper: A1's Natural White, SU's Kiwi Kiss card stocks; ink: SU's Kiwi Kiss, StazOn's Jet Black; accessories: SU's kiwi / ivory 2-sided satin ribbon; tools: ek success' scallop diamond edger punch