I'm Finally Back Making Cards

I've been making some cards this week for the Michael Strong Yahoo Group and thought I would share them here

Thanks for stopping by.....the background on the first card is from the Gina K - StampTV video http://stamptv.ning.com/video/pillow-top-background, the Lily stamp is from Michael Strong collection and the greeting stamp is from Club Scrap's "Because We Care" kit.

The middle card uses the coffee cup stamps from Michael Strong - the coffee beans and greeting from my stash.  Papers for all cards are out of my stash.

The Vase on the bottom card is from Michael Strong and the greeting is from the Club Scrap "Because we Care" kit.  Flowers from stash.

A Fun Afternoon of Crafting

On Wednesdays I have a couple of friends that I get together with and "play" with different crafts.  Today it was just two of us.  I ended up practicing with making some paper Rosette's.  I don't have any of the dies for making them, so I just cut strips of paper and used my score board from Martha Stewart.  The three small ones are made with some vellum from Club Scraps Bandanarama kit, the other two were made with some paper I had in my stash.  Buttons from my friend's stash :).

Hope you enjoyed these - they are fun to make and there are so many possibilities for use.  Thanks for stopping by.

Diana

Info on the previous cards

someone wanted to know how I did the butterfly on one of the cards from an earlier post today:
The butterfly and dragonfly are both stamps from Michael Strong http://www.strongstamps.com/.
I stamped, embossed and cut each one out and then used foam pop dots to adhere to the card.

Thank you for the great comments.  These are very quick and easy to make.

Diana

Cards from the latest TJ Newsletter

These are some cards I meant to post in January when I got the latest edition of the Technique Junkies Newsletter.  I also saw a tutorial just prior to getting that newsletter from Tricia Morris of Club Scrap.  It's a very simple technique with watercolors and you can make some very pretty cards with it.

 Thanks for stopping by and I'll get some more later
Diana

Catching up

I just thought maybe I'd better get back into updating my blog.  Have been very busy here in our community since the first of the year and the last 7 weeks was really creating in the Annual PSL - ProScrappers League challenges at Club Scrap.  WOW!!! what a challenge - 4 scrapbook teams, 2 cards teams, and 2 digi teams and 1 non-compete team.  I did a total of 193 cards and 27 digitals.  Thought I'd start adding some digital pages and then I'll add on some cards that I did - I won't do all but just a sampling.

Hopefully I'll get back into a regular habit of posting.

Thanks for checking it out

 Had to do this page using a photo my daughter sent me of a picture that my 5 year old granddaughter did for me

Some Moose we saw in Colorado

Snow on the Superstions on March 18,2012

This was a view from one of the River side Campgrounds when we were in the Poudre Canyon

Photos from a trip to Mustang Island Sand Sulpture Fest back in 2006

One of our favorite stopping places when we rode the Texas Hill country back in 2006

I'll try to get some of the cards I did posted soon.

Thanks for stopping by.

Michael Strong Blog Hop

Welcome to the Michael Strong Tag Blog Hop.We hope to give you some Holiday inspiration for the Season of 2011. 13 blogs have joined together to make sure you see lots of creativety with some of Michael Strongs favourite stamps.
Not only do you get lots of inspiration, but there is also a prize to win: Michael Strong stamps!
While you are hopping, you also collect 13 letters and make a sentiment out of it. This sentiment you mail to: Hetty (buzzy4you@hotmail.com) and on the 7th of December the prize winner will be announced.

This is my entry - I created the tag with the background stamps from Club Scrap and of course the tree from Michael Strong collection and then ran a piece of card stock through my Cuttlebug with the "Dotted Swiss" embossing folder and attached the tag to the car.

 I also made a cute card with his Snowman stamp on some red card stock that I also ran through the cuttlebut with the Dotted Swiss embossing folder - the Merry Christms stamp from Club Scrap and then did a faux stiching .  I really like this Snowm Friend stamp from Michael Strong.

Thanks for stopping by....my letter for the Scaventer hunt is the letter "I" (i).  Once you get all the letters and the quote solved - don't forget to send your reply in an email to Hetty (buzzy4you@hotmail.com  Your next stop on the list is Dorly

Mind you: people from all over the world are taking part, so it can happen that their blog is not in the air yet.
Go back at some later moment in time and see what beautiful artwork they have made.  If you get lost go back to Hetty's blog and get the links for all the rest. 

I hope you have a great time on this fun hop and don't forget - if you find one that isn't loaded yet, please come back later.

New Cards

I have been making "Get Well" and "Sympathy" Cards to send out when necessary to members of our 55+ Community here in Arizona.  These are some that I've made recently.