Snow Birds and Pigs

Hi everyone. I didn't get a post up yesterday because the weekend got away from me. I told you we went to pick out carpet for our bedroom on Friday. Well, we picked it out and paid for it and arranged for installation on Thursday. We decided on Saturday to go ahead and get the furniture (except for the bed) out of the room. Then we thought as long as the bedroom was empty of furniture and new carpet was coming, it would be the perfect time to go ahead and give the room a fresh coat of paint. So, we spent the rest of Saturday painting the room! I think we may have all the painting in this house done for a couple years now, at least I hope so!
So, with all of that work on Saturday I didn't make it to my stamp desk at all and had nothing to show you yesterday!

However, today I have TWO cards to show you!

My first card was made for the DareU2DigiStamp challenge to make a card with pink and black, and also for 365 cards challenge to make a funny card.



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I used the Piggy Love image from Squigglefly and colored it with copic markers. I faux stitched in two corners and computer generated my sentiment. Here's the inside of my card



I almost put "We use oinkment" on the inside but I liked the "cured" aspect better. Maybe I was hungry at the time and cured bacon sounded yummy! LOL!

Last Monday I told you I was going to start showing you a Christmas card every Monday in an effort to get some Christmas cards done, so here is this week's Christmas card


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I used my old favorite Feathered Friend image and colored it red this time. I chalked the sky in a darker blue and then stamped some Hero Arts snowflakes and embossed them with a glitter embossing powder. Here's the copic colors I used




and another shot of the card at an angle so you can see the glitter better





Today is Squigglefly's challenge and you can see what the challenge is at the Squigglefly blog. I hope to have a card for that challenge finished this afternoon. I'd love to see you play along! If you do, don't forget to upload your card to Mr. Linky! Plus I have heard that Rhonda is offering up some prizes for the challenge! Head over to her blog to find out the details!
Also I saw that Squiggledfly is going to be having a Digi Day event at Card Universe on the 18th of July. I don't know all what's going to be happening, but I'm sure there will be challenges and that we'll have some fun, so I'd love you join us for that!
Several ladies on the yahoo group have difficulty navigating Card Universe, but they still want to join in on the digi day fun so I've decided that I'm going to report all digi day events to the yahoo group and everyone there can take part. I'll upload cards for the yahoo people to Card Universe. So, if you're more comfortable with the yahoo group come join us there!

Have a great day, and thanks for looking!

How Much Is That Doxie In The Cage?

I apologize to those of you who only like to see stamping stuff on this blog, but I got Riley back from the groomers and decided to share pictures with you. She doesn't look this neat and clean that often so I gotta snap 'em while I can!
Here she is right after we got in the car. She's ready to go home!



Here are some more after we got home and she was able to check to see what the squirrels had been up to while she was gone




At the groomers they had some darling little puppies for sale and there were three dauschounds that I just couldn't resist taking pictures of. Two of them were dappled which I'd never seen in a dauschound before. The one in the middle with the extra long ears just stole my heart!

Okay, I'll leave ya alone until tomorrow!

Meet Hoola Hoopin' Hannah

Hi everyone! This is going to be a rather quick post today because I've got to get Riley to the groomers in about an hour and half and I want to get her out for a walk before she has to go.
I made a card using one of Squigglefly's latest additions. Meet Hoola Hoopin' Hannah


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Doesn't she look like someone you would have wanted to be friends with as a kid? I colored her with copic markers and chalked the sky and grass and then used my trusty grass sprigs stamp to over stamp the grass. Here are the colors I used



I could not come up with anything clever to say with this image! I still think it's a cute card though.
Well I have to go wake up Riley and get moving before we run out of time and before the sun heats things up too much! Sorry for the short post (well, maybe some of you are grateful I'm not running my mouth!) Have a great day and I'll see you tomorrow!

This Lion Won't Be Bobbled

Hi everyone and Happy Friday to you! I have a card to show you today that while I think it's cute, it didn't really turn out like I envisioned it. Have you ever seen cards that have something on them that is popped up on a little spring and whatever it is on the spring kind of bobbles like a bobble head? Well that's what I wanted to do. I tried several things; even the little springs inside ball point pens but nothing worked right.
Someone told me about this product called Pig Tails which is made by a company called Piggy Tales. I found some of the Pig Tails on e-bay and tried one for my card but the spring didn't really have any bounce to it.



I folded little strips of paper together to make my own spring thinking it wouldn't be as stiff, but it still didn't give me the bounce I wanted. So, if any of you know of a way to make what I'm talking about please let me know! Now, here is the card I made


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I used the Blinky Lion from Squigglefly and colored him with copic markers. I freehand cut the oval mat around him to look like a mane, but I think I failed at that too. It looks more like a weird sun! Here are the copic colors I used for the lion



Here's a close up of my paper spring



The "fur" on his main is from some yarn I have that has lots of different little balls of fur on it.



I pulled some of the yellow balls off and pulled them out a little and glued them to the mane.



and here he is closer just so you can see his mane better



I sent this card to Crystal since she's the one who drew this cute lion, and even though it didn't turn out like I envisioned I hope she likes it! Wouldn't it have been cute though if his head bobbled?

Well, we are going to pick out carpet for our bedroom after work today. I'm not looking forward to moving all of our furniture out this weekend, but I do know it will be nice to have new carpet! Enjoy your day, and thanks for looking!

Morning Bird & Stamp Care Share

Hi everyone! I finally got a card made for the 9th Squigglefly challenge which is to make a one layer card with one embellishment. One layer cards are tough for me. It's funny too because one layer cards is all I used to make! Designer paper was something that intimidated me. Now almost every card I make has it on there! Isn't it funny how our art changes?

Here's my card


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I used the Feathered Friend image from squgglefly and colored it with copic markers and then chalked the background. I wanted it to look like the morning sun was rising and the bird is there to greet the day. I looked around for quotations I could use thinking something along the lines of "the promise of a new day" type of thing, but in the end I chose this one by Donna Roberts.

Last month I went to a stamp camp and I still haven't shared the photos of the cards we made there, so today I'm showing you three of them.








I've had a lot of people ask me about the wedding photos. No, I'm not keeping them from you! I told you I'd share and I will when I get them. Can you believe my daughter still hasn't gotten them from the photographer yet? I'm wishing now I had brought my camera and taken some myself.

Well, enjoy your day and I'll see you tomorrow which is FRIDAY - Yay!

Sandy Toes

Happy hump day everyone! Today is even a happier day for one of my commenters because I never heard from my blog hop candy winner Luverlie so I had to have random.org pick another number. This time it's #15 so that makes Lisa the winner of my blog hop candy! Lisa, your comment does take me to your profile page where there is an e mail address for you so I'll be contacting you for your address.
Folks, please take note - if you don't have a profile that lets me see an e mail address for you, leave it in your comment. Otherwise I have no way to contact you to let you know you've won a prize and posting it on my blog hoping you'll see it and contact me is the only way I know to do it.

I still have the one surprise I was giving to my 100th follower who hasn't responded to me either, so I've set it aside and will surprise someone else with it sometime soon, but you never know when! I know, I get my kicks rather easily don't I?

Yesterday I asked if anyone knew what the Longhorns symbol had to do with rock and roll. Well my cousin looked it up on Wikepedia and found some interesting stuff! here's an exerpt I'll share with those of you who were as clueless as me.

The horns became famous in metal concerts very soon after Black Sabbath's first tour with Dio.
From an interview with Ronnie James Dio on Metal-Rules.com:
Metal-Rules.com – "I want to ask you about something people have asked you about before but will no doubt continue to talk about, and that is the sign created by raising your index and little finger. Some call it the "devils hand" or the "evil eye." I would like to know if you were the first one to introduce this to the metal world and what this symbol represents to you?"
R.J. Dio – "I doubt very much if I would be the first one who ever did that. That's like saying I invented the wheel, I'm sure someone did that at some other point. I think you'd have to say that I made it fashionable. I used it so much and all the time and it had become my trademark until the Britney Spears audience decided to do it as well. So it kind of lost its meaning with that. But it was…I was in Sabbath at the time. It was symbol that I thought was reflective of what that band was supposed to be all about. It's NOT the devil's sign like we're here with the devil. It's a n Italian thing I got from my Grandmother called the "Malocchio". It's to ward off the Evil Eye or to give the Evil Eye, depending on which way you do it. It's just a symbol but it had magical incantations and attitudes to it and I felt it worked very well with Sabbath. So I became very noted for it and then everybody else started to pick up on it and away it went. But I would never say I take credit for being the first to do it. I say because I did it so much that it became the symbol of rock and roll of some kind."


Well today I have a fun card to show you! I used the Beach Baby image from Squigglefly and made this


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I colored it with copic markers but since I colored part of it at work and part of it at home I wasn't able to get a picture of the markers I used. I chalked the sky and then rubbed glue all over the sand areas and sprinkled on some real sand. After it dried, I applied more glue to the castle and sprinkled on some more sand so it would look built up like a real sand castle.

I had to use a black pen to make some of the lines darker and I used a brown copic marker to shade the sand in areas. I think it turned out cool though, don't you?
Here's a close up of the sand




The cute rhyme at the top is some freebie word art I got at a blog I found called
Lazy Daisy Designs. she has a lot of really neat and different ones she has made. If you want any of them though, you need to hurry over there because she posted yesterday that she's going to be pulling them down soon and will start selling them.

Several people have asked me how my sister is doing since her hip replacement, and she's doing great! She is getting around better and better every day and she is really thankful to have that hip pain gone. Thanks to everyone for their prayers and well wishes.

I've decided to get the yahoo squigglefly group more active by taking a more active roll in it myself and I'm now the owner of it! So, I'd love to have you all come join me there. We have a lot of fun talking about the new images, what images we'd like to see, and helping each other out with tips and suggestions.

Whatever is on your agenda today, I hope you enjoy it and thanks for spending a little time with me here!

Are You Ready To Rock?

Hi everyone! Ever since I did the challenge at 365 cards blog to make a silhouette from an image (see this card) I've been looking at the images as silhouettes and this was something I wanted to do as soon as I saw the new Rock It Out image.

I created some paper for the background using the Disco Daze image from squigglefly.

I opened the Disco Daze girl up in my photo program and used the paint bucket to fill her in solid black. Then I shrunk her WAY down and used that to fill up a whole piece of paper. I think it looks really cool and is the perfect backdrop fo this dude! What do you think?



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I did the background with chalk and wanted it to look like a spot light was shining down on him.
The words were computer generated with the Rockit font (available here free).

Here are the copic colors I used for this image



I hope this inspires you to look at your images a little closer and imagine how you could use them if they were silhouettes! It sure expands your image library at no cost! By the way, does anyone know what it means when they make this hand signal at rock concerts? I know it's the longhorns sign, but what do longhorns have to do with rock n roll?

I want to remind you all about the new rewards program that Squigglefly has now. For every $15.00 you spend you get to pick a free image and your freebie can be ANY image; even sets! Also, if you've already purchased something in July, when you sign up for the reward program you will have those purchases credited toward your $15.00! How great is that? It doesn't cost you anything to sign up, so what's stopping you? Head over to squigglefly and sign up to start saving.
Also, remember that they are donating 50% of all sales of any image in their "animals" category to the ASPCA, so check them out while you're there. I saw that even more new images have been added too! The Squigglefly artists are rocking!
I hope you have a great day, and thanks for looking!