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I am trying to figure out how to move some of my pictures from my Webshots to various places.  Picture is of my sister Annie and myself at my 60th BD party.  Happy times.

Annie and Becki

Getting it together!

Hello everyone!  It has been a long time between posts.  I am finally getting back to my card making but it has been a long road. 

In mid June my husband was finally able to get in and get an MRI done to find out why he was not able to see out of his right eye, even though he had cataract surgery.  The news was not good, he was diagnosed with a tumor in his head.  He had surgery on June 29 and after an agonizing LONG wait the results of the pathology were in and the tumor is BENIGN!!! To God be the Glory!!!

The tumor is benign but still not good.  He is almost done with 6 weeks radiation treatments and the hope is that it will kill the tumor and stop it from growing, but it will not shrink it therefore. he has lost most of the sight in that eye permanently.  We pray for a good outcome, in that it truly does kill the tumor for good,  and Praise the Lord that it is benign.

Now on to stamping.  I have been stamping a bit lately and here is a card I made for one of my Pen Pals.  I did another BD card using the same DP which, by the way, came as a gift from my Secret Sistah!  Thank you Marcine!

I found this really cool ribbon at Michaels and made a nice flower for the front. the card was simple, just cut the DP into 3 panels, stamped with the sentiment and there you go.

Happy 30th Anniversary!!!

My wonderful husband Bill and I have been married for 30 years today.  I started making him the usual funny masculine card, but then I thought, this one is special.  30 years.  So I proceeded to make one for US instead of just for him.  He doesn't really care, he loves everything I do, so he says. 

I love Blush blossom and will be sorry to see it go.  I used a vanilla base for all, and sponged blush blossom  on the flowers.  I found I had some blush shaded pearls to go with everything which was a plus. The corner swirls are done on the Cricut Expression Home Accent Cart.

An 'udder Birthday Card.

This little cow by TAC is sooooo cute!  My sisters went to Arizona recently to visit a cousin of ours, without me I might add, as my DH was ill and I couldn't leave him, they had the joy of visiting the local Hobby Lobby there.  My cousin was kind enough to think of me, and sent me some DP and vellum papers she purchased there.  As her birthday is at the end of this month, I made her a card using some of the DP she sent me, even tho it was difficult to overcome my hoarding tendencies.  The DP happily matches with Razzleberry and Bashful blue and I had already made a few flowers using the Razzleberry so that worked out well.  I hope she likes it.

Purpleabella!

I made a few roses and ribbon flowers for one of my Pen Pal friends and I am making some for my Secret Sistah swap coming up soon, different colors of course.  Hope she likes them.

Stamp Simply #139

Our Grandson has a birthday coming up and I needed to get an idea of what to do.  I choose the Stamp Simply sketch #139, and that took the hard part out of the equation.  I am still loving my new K&Company Life's Journey DP.   It came together very quickly so thanks Sharon for the inspiration.

New DP in the House!

We went to Michaels on Sunday because I had a 40% coupon burning a hole in my pocket.  I did buy some stuff for my Pen Pal SS swap, but also found some yummy ribbon on sale for $1 and of course couldn't pass it up.  I also found this wonderful DP by K&Company called Life's Journey.  I really really like it.

I am not real happy with the bow but it will do.  I really like the rose on the second card and Ruby Red just happened to go really well with this DP.   TFL!

Boxed set Scallop

Several people have asked how I did the oval for the boxed set.  This is what is it looks like when it is cut using the George Cartride oval cut using the silhouette mode. 


I pulled the two pieces off the sticky sheet, stamped the inner oval, adhered it to the base of the card, then adhered the outer oval which I left white around it.

Aveeno Inspired

Just a simple card but it was fun to put together.  I saw an Aveeno ad on TV and really liked the colors so this is the result.  Easy Peasy.

Daisy, Daisy!!

This card is a part of a gift set I made for one of my sisters and for a friend.  The box matches this card for one set and the other set has a Razzleberry box.  I totally forgot to take a picture of the Crushed curry before I gave it away but I will try to photograph the Razzleberry one before I give that one away.  Here is what the entire set looks like.  I used all the SU "IN" colors because I had the textured cardstock, the pens and the ribbon to match.  The stamp set is from Cornish Heritage farms and I absolutely love it!!! I will be making some bookmarks with this stamps set.

Sketch & 3 D flower Challenge card

Double Challenge Card!

Clean and simple sketch challenge FTL87 Love the look of this sketch and No Time to Stamps SS137 challenge for a 3D flower. 

SCS Challenge card

I was especially impressed with how fast this card came together because I am not a fast stamper.  The hardest part was getting the scallop edge punch and the corner punch to line up right.  I wasted about four different squares of CS and it STILL came out a little off.  I don't have this problem with the other punches I have.  Hmmmm.  I was wondering where I could possibly use this green Prima with and lo and behold this DP matches.  Unbelievable.

Blue Vase with Daisies

Love these daisies.  I found both the daisy and the vase on the Walk in My Garden Cricut cartridge.  What I love about it is that I can make soooooo many different sizes of daisies.  This is a one inch daisy and the vase is 2 inch.  The butterfly was cut using a MS punch and I used my new SU punch for the sentiment.  Woohoo.  TFL!

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Computer Problems, GRRRRRRRR

I think computers are a wonderful invention.  Someones idea of torturing us. LOL  I purchased a Portable Media Device which can also be used as an external drive to safeguard my photos and my cards.  So, what happens?  The silly thing goes bonkers on me.  Not only have I lost ALL the pictures and cards that I didn't have the good sense to upload to an additional place, but now I have to figure out another way of uploading to my blog.  I dislike intensly figuring new things out!!  Ok nuff said, I finally figured out where on my computer this picture lurked and how to get it here.  This is still using the Vintage Vogue set.  (as an added bonus, my blog has changed the method it used to upload so I have to figure that out too.  Sometimes it doesn't pay to get up!)