It's Timless Tuesday..flower, ribbon, tag

Well did you miss me last week when I went AWOL?? Bet you thought some strong, handsome, wonderful mountain man stole me into the wilds and showed me the time of my life....NOT! I took my fantasy pill this morning and I'm a little off as usual. I just said to myself...if you don't want to stamp you don't have to and so I didn't. So this week at Flourishes we are to follow the lead of that adorable Miss Cindy (you know that wild Canadian) and do a card which has a flower, tag, and ribbon on it. I used " Meet me Under the Mistletoe" ( wow would I ever love that) and stamped and colored the mistletoe with my faithful colored pencils. The sentiment is from " A Gift for You" and it fit the tag perfectly so that's why I chose it silly. Now I also know you are going to tell me that the berries on the branch are not red but rather white BUT I wanted to go with a red to match up my card nicely. I embossed my bg paper with a flowerly die and to my little flower added a little sparkly stone like thingy. Easy peasy with not much to do but measure our the mats. Hope you are off to a good week...I'm just off as usual.

Timeless Thursday...flag it

Timeless Tuesday@ Flourishes this week is to add a flag/banner to your card. Well hey I'm not so good at this but I recently got a little die cut of a flag from my order from LilInker's and it was a perfect way to cut out a flag. I chose the Christmas Classic stamp set and stamped out this bough of greenery and bells . This did not photo very well with the glittery  I added, but IRL it looks loverly. My glittery punched border was found over at Hobby Lobby and it's a bit pricey @ $2 a sheet but ...it was on sale so I let the moths out of my wallet and decided to pay the price, after all you have to splurge once in awhile. ( I even bought a sheet forDD...now that was really extravagant).  My BG is from Studio Paper . My card was made with a very dark green base.
Well it's almost turkey day and of course it's time to stuff the bird and of course yourselves too. Love this holiday but it's scary to realize Christmas is just around the corner and I better get busy starting my shopping. When you get old like me the best answer is gift cards...that way your gift can be used the way the receiver wants it to be. Anyway have a happy weekend and see you next time.

Timeless Tuesday Double Embossing...migraine headache

Well this was a real pain for me to accomplish but after at least 8 times...I got it. So migraine or not it's entered into the TT challenge over at Flourishes. I was so mad at my trying this over and over that I was ready to seek out Beate and literally do her harm...but since that seemed a bit drastic I took my computer to my craft room and followed step by step her directions and finally I got it. My big problem was my cardboard was not heavy enough and once I figured out what I needed ...it worked. I used my dotted swiss folder and my die is of course from Spellbinders and I'm not going to check out the number but say figure it out for yourselves. Mean spirited I know. I used this candle arrangement from one of the new sets called Christmas Candles. Tied a bow with the Bow Easy and slapped everything on a red card.  Put on some glitter and it's done. I looked at this just now and said to myself...That choice of colors is not the best but maybe I'll do another later and re-post...yeah right! Happy week fellow stampers.

Timeless Tuesday...out of the box

Well Timeless Tuesday was yesterday and I'm just getting out of my box to create this card for the "out of the box" challenge. Have to tell you, I had to study this one a bit in order to let's say...get it. Anyway I chose the set for Thanksgiving called A Season of Thanks or something like that. Love the Autumn images in this set and chose this vaase or vase or fancy bowl of veggies and berries to color up and use. My base card is that SU crumb cake color which is only peeping out about 1/8 " and I then went to a forrest green window like opened mat which is embossed with a fancy schmansy folder . Found some lovely damask type sleek paper to use behind my opening to set off the deep green and lovely autumn colors.Popped this up with some demensional dots. Added some soft willow green ( that's what we called it back in the day...willow) satin type ribbon and bowed it with the none other then Bow Easy. Used my Spellbinder's oval shape and to get me out of the box, I stamped and cut the bowl part and plastered it down. Fini!
Hope you are all off to a wonderful week and will soon have a happy weekend. Taking DGD to see Puss in Boots tomorrow as the kiddos are off school a few days for teacher's conferences. Fun times with the darling Ellie...love it. 

Timelss Tuesday...leaf or tree

Well today at TT over at Flourishes the challenge is to use a leaf or tree and try not to use a flower. Well I pulled out my set called Herbs and chose the geranium called Scented Geranium cause it's the only leafy type set I had from Flourishes and since it's fall time I think using leaves is wonderful. I got out my Kalidicolor ink called Royal Satin which has the rust, wine, and blue tones. My sentement is from the window set . I chose a card base of kraft color which SU calls crumb cake...just a second while I lick the crumbs off my fingers . I added a band of navy, and rust and then added a bit of twine for a rustic look. Easy peasy card and fits the challenge.
If you didn't see my craft room yet just droop or if you prefer drop your eyes down a bit and you can see it below.
Happy week fellow stampers.

My Craftroom...

 These are not the best pictures ; however, it gives you an idea of my work area and the place I call my little hole in the wall. This was taken from the door of the room and gives you a sort of complete view.

 On this side of the room I have some organizers that have cubbie holes in which I have put some steel boxes that hold my different supplies. My walls are sage green and my desk etc. is black so my steel boxes are both sage and black. Neat huh???

The top picture shows my arty candle decor and my flower holder. Looks great over desk # 2 on which I keep my die cutter and paper cutter. The bottom picture is my closet which holds my colored papers all organized in marked shelves.
Hope you have a pleasant weekend fellow bloggers. It's kind of cool here but the sun did come out so how can you complain!

Timeless Tuesday...make an ornament

Happy TT fellow bloggers and today we are asked to make an ornament for the Tuesday challenge. Well I didn't have any real ornament stamps by Flourishes so I improvised and used my angel from the Alleluia set and made her into an ornament. I have named her Hazel as I think she looks like an old angel and needed an old name. I colored her hair with tons of silver ( just like my own) and added a bit of glitter pen to everything cause angels are glittery I think. Have you seen an angel??? Well me neither so I'm just guessing on most of this. This is probably as close to me ever  seeing an angel so, hello Hazel. She is placed on two circle die cuts from Spellbinders and colored in very softly with just a touch of soft blue. Easy ornament and I'll have to set her aside to adorn my Christmas tree. Hope you are all off to a good start of a good week. It's cold here but I'm not complainig as the heat was getting me down. Take care and talk soon.

Timeless Tuesday ...get inspired

Today at TT at Flourishes we are to get inspired by the top photo. Wow it's autumn looking and so very colorful so I chose to use the new set A Season of Thanks which has some beautiful images which have to remind us of Thanksgiving. My card done in the purple tones actually was the first one I did with this image but while surfing the web after I made the card I found Beate had made one almost identical so I redid and came up with the green one. I don't know how it happens when I make a card and then find another designer ( I know I'm not a real designer but let's pretend) has done a card just like mine. Once again I'm being "corny" and using this Indian corn image and my water colored pencils to do it up. Used my Spellbinders oval both regular and scalloped to set this off. Found some nice BG papers and added some bling and done. Both cards will be used for Thanksgiving to wish happiness to friends. The purple one is already in the mail to my cousin in Canada since their Thanksgiving is  next Monday.
We are still having hot weather and I'm getting sick of it....come on let's have a cool down please.
Happy week fellow stampers and see you next time.

Timeless Tusday ...holiday something or other

Well I don't know about you but I call Halloween a holiday cause it certainly is for all those little trick or treaters. Now can you ever be too corny?? I don't think so and neither do my grand kids. I fill the jar, they empty the jar. Anyway I took the easy way out on Flourishes TT challenge and just made a bag topper with one of my Spellbinder's labels I think it's # 8 but I now have so many I can't keep track or them all. Used the Halloween set Witching you a Happy Halloween and kept this very simple as I'm pretty pooped from having company. Stamp, color, make a bow to attach the topper but first you have to fill it with candy corn and I did just that. Now that the picture is up, it's time to rip that little sucker open and chow down on some sweet candy corn. Want a few?? Get your own ! I will give this to my little GD who is coming for her piano lesson today. Gosh I can't get over her skill at the piano. She took to it so quickly and when I introduced her to classical she wasn't too happy BUT we went to a concert last Sunday and they had a terrific pianist and she said...I want to learn that kind of music too...of course it was classical and she came back to my place and sat down and started to play a tune by Edvard Grieg called Morning. The old lady wins...hip hip hooray! Have a great week fellow bloggers. 

Timeless Tuesday...all dolled up!

Well once upon a time there was a young very cute gal who loved to get "all dolled " up and she wore shoes that were super high heeled because they were necessary being she was so short. Bet you thought I was going to tell you she wore them to attract the opposite sex and they made her legs look just too terrific for words. Well that... and she was very short and in order to be face to face with those hunky men, she needed those high heeled shoes. Now she wears the chubby kind of high heeled shoes so she doesn't kill herself when walking or trying to make herself look taller. Did you think I was telling you MY story??? Well I was and believe it or not I was kinda cute back in the day. Anyhow for this challenge which is the Timeless Tuesday one ( yep, I'm slow and late this week) you are to doll it up so...I chose this spikey shoe from the new set called Feminine Charm. I used some paper from my stash and just used my circle dies and then colored with the pencils and cut and added a bit of dimention to the fancy schmancy on the silver shoe. Added some blingers on my dotted paper to bring some pizazz to the whole affair. Now all I need is a little bit of charm and a cutie patootie guy and I'm all set for some dancing fun. Who am I kidding??? Have a fun rest of the week and great weekend friends and fellow high heeled wearers.