Grrr....realised this post never posted on Tuesday. **waving my fist at blogger**
Okay, so I do get it.This is a spring image. Those are dogwoods. But what the heck! I hadn't inked up these chickadees in a long while and I just felt like it :) So I made the flowers red, added snow with a little of the Flower Soft (see yesterday's post), layered some of the flowers and all the birds, popping them up with a lil dimensional adhesive...and it'll be a sweet little winter card.
(I'm in a mood, so that's whatcha get...I want no grief about whether or not chickadees come out in the snow! lol....)
And now....for something that's just a little nuts. I've been obsessing about using brown lately, not sure what's up with that. But this is a new little stamp set sent to me by a cardmaker for the OWH 1year birthday, and I finally got around to inking it up. Love the rodent's 'tude....kinda like mine lately :) Though I hope his will be interpreted as love!
Trying to think about what to do for a theme this week....Punchinello decided to put in his opinion.
Ever since the weather cooled down, he's been insisting on getting in the middle of things! He likes to sit under the lamp, meow, demand petting time...and eventually he crawls onto the chair behind my back and snuggles in for a nap. Til he's nap-ready, there's not much at all I can create with him being such a pain!
So in honor of Punch, this week's theme will be: Critters! I probably have a month's worth, but I'll be picking some of my faves - or at least ones I haven't inked up in a while. Or at all, maybe! By the way if you want to join me, leave me links to your critter cards posted this week. I'd love to see what you do too!
So here is the first critter, a new little polar bear stamp I picked up at Impress few weeks ago. Probably the simplest card I've made in ages!
I stamped him first on the blue cardstock (nice thick quality cardstock; cards this simple need at least the beefiness of good paper!), and then on white cardstock - and cut him out. I stamped him on a red patterned paper scrap too, and cut out his scarf to add. He's got glitter glue on his ice cream cone scoops, and this cool stuff for the snow - called Flower Soft, it comes in a nice range of colors. I attached it with a little bit of Scotch Quick Dry Glue. So this bear is perfect for a wintry card for OWH; we're sending out the very very very last of the holiday cards today, but I'm trying to put some wintry cards in my next few boxes in case they travel fast and can be used for Christmas.
As a bonus, here's a little tutorial on FlowerSoft...not critter-related, but it shows you what the stuff is. I have the white and red....may need to get some more after seeing what this gal does with flowers! But just ignore her tip to add glitter if you use this for OWH cards...lol :)
It's about time I gave a little update and praise report after last week's moaning about this kidney stone!
I saw the specialist this past Thursday. And guess what? NO STONE! It's gone! (Which was my best friend's suggestion for a name, lol!) So though this little bugger doesn't get saved in a jar labeled with his little name, he's disappeared.....whether passing with no pain or just disintegrating from all the namecalling!!!! :)
A heads up for anyone who wants to AVOID kidney stones: first off, they don't hurt UNLESS they get stuck. Thousands of stones are passed with no pain and no knowledge of their existence - it's only when they get lodged somewhere that the pain happens. And how to avoid them - of course keep well hydrated, cut down on soda and meat - but the cool thing I learned - Lemonade PREVENTS kidney stones! Fortunately I love lemonade....I'm adding it to my daily regimen (and keeping my Cocacola, for those who know me, I neeeeed it since I don't drink coffee or tea!) and staving off future bouts of this!
On to some fun then.....it's finally time to pick a winner for my OWH Bloghop prize!
Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:
48
Timestamp: 2009-11-21 17:24:00 UTC
And that means Holly's the winner:
November 15, 2009 8:09 AM < Holly @ InkPaperStamps said...
Oh my goodness, what a story! Good job on getting those ER folks writing cards, Sandy. Your cards are all the more special because of what you've gone through. . . .hang in there!
Congrats Holly, I'll be in touch!!!
And a big thank you to Dawn and Nancy...you two made my day!!!! Thanks for the beauuuuutiful get well cards!!!!!
And last but not least is another image I picked up from Pollycraft as a freebie...I don't usually buy images like this that need the sky colored....coz I don't like coloring skies! lol. I also did a really weird color combo for a Christmas card....bah. Whatevah. lol :)
So that's my week of digi...there would be a 7th if I had a 7th image....anyone have one to add to my collection? And did you like having a theme to the week? I'm considering a week of dry embossing....a week of nesties....hmmm. Ideas? I blog more regularly if I have a "goal" to post something!
