Life is better...

Hi guys,
      I hope that you all had a great weekend.  We had a full, but very fun weekend.  Madison and I babysat on Saturday and then we all went 'Midnight Bowling' with some friends of ours.  I swear I haven't done that since 1988 and even though I am soooo much better when I am bowling on  the WII, we all had a great time and can not wait until we go again.
     So, before I get to my card I just wanted to let everyone know that Jerry has once again decided to try out a new company for our Internet and do to billing and timing I might not have any Internet for the whole week starting Wednesday.  booo hoooo.... lol,  you'd think I was the teenager. :O)
      Ok, with my bad news out of the way let me get to my card for today.  Last week AmyY was giving away some of her Sweet November Stamps from this months new release and I was one of the very lucky winners. Yay for me!!!  I was fortunate enough to win this cutey and a bunch of goodies along with her.   This is  Mermaid Nalu and I think she is just adorable!  I have to wait until payday and then I am going to go over to 'All That Scraps' and pick up her two sisters as they are adorable as well and I don't want her to be missing them.  :O)   I am sure that you all know this anyway, but Amy always gives away some awesome candy as well as her stamps and so I such a great time using some of the papers and embellishments that she sent along as well.  In fact everything on this card was made from my winnings with the exception of the little seashells and the hemp.
     Thanks again Amy, you are always so sweet and so generous with us all.  I had so much fun coloring her up and then using these papers.  I have not seen these before and I loved each and everyone of them.
     Ok guys, it is getting late and I have work early, so I will bid you all a great week and hopefully catch up with you all soon.
Hugs, Lisa G

Awesome papers.   I just loved this little whale friend.  She was sweet enough to make my inside of my card sentiment for me.  

I used some of the dp to paper piece her tail and then I used my Spicas to give it that
scale/fin look to it. I wish that the picture would show all the shiny as well as real life, but you get the idea. 

 Supplies:
stamp-Nalu-Sweet November Stamps-Amy Young
cs-Neenah & Bazzil
dp-Uncharted Waters-Glitz
computer font-ParkAve D @ 28
gems-Kaiserscrapbook
hemp cord-craftersquare
seashells-stash
tiny attacher-Tim Holtz
inks-Tuxedo Black, Desert Sand & Cantaloupe-Memento
Copics:
skin-E50-E51-R20
hair-E50-E51-E53-YR30
eyes-E35-E37 & Sakura gel pen-Glaze
lips-R24
tail & fins-17 mint, 08 turquoise & 18 baby blue-atyouSpica

Hi...

Hi guys, I hope you are all having a great week.
     Once again I have missed my posting a card that I made for a challenge...  lol... Oh well, I was just having some fun on Wednesday night and decided that I wanted to color up WS-Charlotte Chic from TGF.  I think she is so cute and with her hair the way it is and those earrings I just could not let her go on just a simple modern day kind of card.  hehe... You'll see what I mean in a moment.
     Anyway, my friend from work had just given me some papers that she had in her stash and I ran across these awesome 70's kind of papers.  We'll as you can see when I came across these papers and stickers along with Charlotte's hair I just couldn't help myself.
     So, without more going on about her.... Here is my card with Charlotte.  I had some great little teardrop stickers that I also used as her earrings and I have to tell you I really loved how they worked for her.  I also  felt that being from the 70's fashion era she just had to have some eyeshadow on, so I pulled out my atYou Spicas and gave her a little hint of it.  :O)
     Hope you all have a great day.
Hugs, Lisa G

I really don't like how she is just hanging here, but I thought what the heck put her on
my blog anyway as she is a very cute stamp.  

Soft Kitty...

Hello again,
     Well, we are almost halfway through this week and I am just praying that also means half way through this heat wave that we have going on right now.  We have one air conditioner (I feel very blessed to have it) and then we use fans in the bedrooms.  The problem is that with it getting into the  100's the last two days the bedrooms just don't ever cool down.  I have never had a problem getting to sleep, but I will tell you that  last night I was so HOT and even though it was after 1:00 am  it was still in the high 80's.  Needless to say I didn't even fall asleep until after 2:30 am .  :O)
    So, with all the complaining  and what not I felt this would be the perfect post to show my 'Soft Kitty' card to you all.  :O)  Just after I finished up all the Wedding Invitations (which they absolutely LOVED!) I was in the mood to make a card, so I printed off this adorable little picture.  Sorry I don't know were on  the net I found it, but I loved it, and as it is from 'The Big Bang Theory' and we all love it, I just had to make a card out of it.  
     What you see it the sentiment and pictures cut out along with an embossing folder that I cut up and highlighted with some momento ink and then added a few little gems to look like stars from the beautiful night.  lol... It sounds weird and I will admit it is a funky little card, but I really just made it for fun and to give it to my Hubby as he is so good to me about all the crafty supplies that I just can't live without.
     Thanks so much for stopping by.   I have put up a post on my Kidscreatetwo  blog and on the Pawpawrazzie as well.  Hope you have a moment to check those out.  Have a great day everyone and I will talk at you later.
Hugs, Lisa G

I just loved the little kittens on this and I really wish
I knew who drew this.  To whomever did I just wanted to let '
you know it is ADORABLE, and I am sorry that I don't remember where I found this at.

Farm Fresh Friday challenge...

Hello again.
     As I didn't manage to get my card posted in time for last week's challenge over at The Greeting Farm I thought that I would make sure to upload and post this one before my week starts.
     The Greeting Farm has so many new stamps and now dies as well that I want to be sure and get in on all of the challenges.  lol... After all it's fun and you have a chance to win something totally AWESOME!
     So for my card entry into the Farm Fresh Friday challenge I decided to us Creeper Crew 'Saturday'.  He is so handsome,  and I just think he looks like he is totally ready to head off to school with his new clothes on.  The challenge is to make something school related and even though we are celebrating the ending on another school year it will soon be the start of a new one, so I felt this would be a great card to send to someone just getting started.  :O)
     I really had a great time with this card and I even pulled out some of my 'summer sunrise' card stock from PTI as it really reminds me of the pee-chee's that we all used to use and doodle on in school.  I also had the 6x6 paper pad 'For the Record' from WRMK.  It isn't a school type of paper pad, but for some reason the papers just really looked like they fit perfectly for what I was going for.
I think all in all it turned out cute and I am going to have a fun time giving it to certain person come September. 
     I hope that no matter were you are that you have a great start to your week and that the weather isn't too mean to you.  Talk at you later.
Hugs, Lisa G

I think he looks like he waiting for his Mom to take that first day of school picture.  :O)

Supplies:
stamp-CC-Saturday-TGF
cs-Neenah solair white & Summer Sunrise-PTI
dp-For the Record-WRMK
flair-WRMK
washi tape-Allison Kreft
staple-Tim Holtz-tiny attacher
die-Spellbinders-page/maps-On the Edge -(Love this set! It's like 9 boarder punches in 1 small set of dies.)
ink-Momento-Tuxedo Black & Fluid Chalk-Chestnut Roan-ColorBox
rub-on-my stash
Copics:
skin-E53-E50-51
eyes-B37-B34
hair-YR20-E31-E35
dress shirt-BG18
shirt-Y28-Y26
pants-E71-E74
shoes-E19-C7-C5

Soakin' up the sun...

Hi guys,
     Yes, I know that once again I promised a wonderful week of cards and whatnot, but the fact is I did make a few cards and even uploaded them.  My problem is that once again, I have had a verrrrrry long week and I haven't had five minutes to even get to my computer let alone time to check out everyone's blogs and play along on any of the challenges that I wanted to.  (Yes, I would consider this whining, but hey it's my blog and I'll whine  if I want to,  lol)
     So with that being said I will get to one of this week's favorite cards that I made.  I wanted to enter it into The Greeting Farm's Farm Fresh Challenge for last week, but I just checked and it was until yesterday that I had the chance to play along.  hump!!
     I pulled out Yoga Anya and decided I wanted her to look like she was relaxing at the beach while eating a yummy Popsicle.  I used a few of my dies and added the sun as well as some awesome rub-ons from 'ep'.  I realize that the sky is usually blue, but all in all I like how this turned out.  I think the paper pad from MME and the rub-ons from ep worked really well together.
     Ok, time for me to head to bed as we are getting up at 6:00 to go for our walk before the 100 degree weather decides to show up for the day.  I hope you are all well.
     I do want to thank everyone that is still hanging in there with me and I soooooo hope to get back to blogging everyday very very soon.
     Talk at you later.
Hugs, Lisa G

Supplies:
cs-Neenah- solar white and desert storm
dp-my girl-MME
rub-ons-ep
copic markers:
skin-E53-E51-E50-R20
hair-E51-E31-E53
shirt-R27-R24
capris-Y38
Sharpie extra fine point -white

You totally ROCK!

Hi guys,
     Yes, it's me again.  No, I haven't quite gotten back into the swing of making a wonderful card a day, (as if that ever was the case)  but I did manage to get a few minutes today to make a couple of cards.  I have been wanting to get my Copics warmed up so bad this last week, but as you all know it was a very full week.  I am pleased to say that it turned out to be a good week even with all the busy.  lol..
     However today  I was finally able to grab a little me time and while listening to my iPod  (that has some awesome music from 'Pink' and a couple of the songs from Rhianna.  Oh, and let's not forget the wonderful music of  'Glee')  I had a great time coloring away and putting together the cards for different challenges.  Ahh the fun of music and coloring!!!
     So, the first thing I did was head over to The Greeting Farm Blog and decided to work on the latest challenge.  It was so fun to grab one of my favorite Creeper Crew members none other than Tyler.  He is so awesome and he really just made my "You totally Rock" card ROCK!  hehe...
     Check out The Greeting Farm blog here. You too can join in the "Garden Variety Tuesday Challenge"

Thanks for stopping bye.  Talk at you later.
Hugs, Lisa G

Supplies:
stamps-Tyler & sentiment-Creeper Crew Collection #1-TGF
cs-Neenah & WRMK
dp-Toboggan-winter frost-WRMK
ribbon-stash
twine-Pearle #828-DMC
enamel dots-The Sweetest Things-Honey"Love"-MME
Spellbinders-page/mags-On the Edge
Copics
skin-E53-E51-E50
eyes-E37-E33
hair-E33-YR21-E97-E99
shirt & shoes-G94
guitar-E59-E57-110 & Smooch pearlized top coat
Sepia-multi liner .03

Hello

Hi guys.
     I hope you all had a great Father's Day weekend.  We all went over to my Mom and Dad's for a Bar-b-q, and boy did I fill up on my Sister's pasta salad!  :O)  It was soooo good, I just couldn't help myself!  lol.
     So, once again we are at the start of another week and as you all know I no longer have invitations to work on so I was just playing around with a bit of Washi tape and my brand new 'Hello' die from The Greeting Farm.  Yay!  I was finally able to purchase it..  Every time I wanted to purchase this one they are out of stock.  So when it came in the mail today I just had to use it. 
     I just had to use the 'Hello' sentiment,  a wonderful stamp that my friend Amanda sent to me and a very adorable button flower that my friend Amy sent to me,  last year I believe for Christmas.  Thank you both!  I love them and it is hard for me to not hoard them and to use them.  You know how that is....  lol.. I pulled out a little Washi tape and put it all together to make this simple but fun card. 
     This is my very first Lily of the Valley stamp and I have to tell you I love it!  I just think they are so whimsical and fun to color up. 
     Well guys, I really just wanted to check in and say "Hi" to everyone.  I have an uber busy week ahead of me at work, but I am going to try and put up a few cards this week.   Again, thank you everyone that has hung in there with me.  I can't tell you how much that means to me. 
     Have a great day and I will talk to you all later.
Hugs, Lisa G

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