Timeless Tuesday...Christmas in July

Well it's Timeless Tuesday Tuesday at Flourishes and we are asked to make a Christmas card here in July. If you're in the same boat as most of the country we are all wishing for some cool down weather so it's fun to think snow and Christmas. Wish I could bring this image to life as he looks so warm and fuzzy and I'll bet his disposition would match that beautiful smile and happy twinkle in his eyes. He's the kind of guy any gal would be happy to latch on to. This sweet image is from the set I Believe and it is my favorite Christmas set...why you ask??? Well it's so easy to create with,which is just great when you want to mass produce cards for the mailing list. I stamped the image with distress ink and just added a touch of color to it and then some glitter to the fur on his cap.Used a punch for my holly leaf and added a bright red blinger for the berry look.Now how easy is that! Hope you're all off to a good week. Things here are good other then it's too darn hot for us old folks. I'm going to the beach tomorrow with my DGD who wants to first go to K-Mart and get a couple noodles.You know those styrofoam long stick thingys you just throw your arms over and attempt to float on? Well they do work and it's an easy way to get around in the water so I guess we'll call that a plan. Happy week and talk soon.

Timeless Tuesday...get inspired

Well for Timeless Tuesday at Flourishes, Silke is asking us to get inspired by her picture from Crate & Barrell. The colors are bright and cheerful...magenta/fushia which makes me think of a raincoat I once owned. Yes, it was the exact color of my card believe it or not but I suggest you believe it. I was at the University of Detroit at the time and walked into the cafeteria one rainy evening wearing my snazzy coat and the cutest guy I ever saw ( well maybe not the very cutest, but to me he was) gave me a huge smile and said..."Nice coat". Well, that was the beginning of a very beautiful and meaningful realationship with the darling who ended up being my Mr. Only...my husband. Soooo, this is an awesome color as far as I'm concerned. So glad to make a card out of this color and chose to use some dotted swiss on the bottom to make it kind of dainty. This is a new set from Flourishes and I love it so much that I stamped off some of the images that DD's set. It's called Be my Honey I think, and done up with my favy colored pencils. Just used my Spellbinders circle cuts and slapped it all together and added a bit of glitter, as in here a glitter, there a glitter, everywhere I feel like glitter. My picture is not the best and I do so apologize but the lighting was crappy so I used my kitchen counter and that's not too cool.
Anyway DD is at the CHA which I think stands for Crafty Hoarders Assembly or something like that and I'm sure she is having a blast with all the other Hoarders. Hope your week is good fellow bloggers. It's hot here almost 100 today and tomorrow I'm hitting a only beach in the area as I need to soak my feet in some mountain cool water. See you all soon.
Pat

Timeless Tuesday July 12th.....emboss it

Well today at Timeless Tuesday we are to emboss it, either dry embossing or whatever else kind there is...guess that means with powder and a heat gun. Hey it's so hot here I'm not about to heat up a gun and go crazy so I'm using this awesome embossing folder I got at a Stampin Up party. Isn't it a cutie??
Nice border of tulips and so now you need to take off your shoes and smelly or not  bare your feet so you can tip toe through the tulips with me. I'm playing my uke and if you listen really closely you can probably hear Tiny Tim singing in his off  key voice. Crazy old guy and crazy old gal but so much fun to do a little dance..sing a little song, get down tonight. Hey, where the heck am I ??? I'm in a whole new era now but let's blame it on the hot weather. Easy peasy card with just using my folder and a Spellbinder's die for my red background cut and then for the white I just corner punched a little decorative edge. Added a little bling which turned my fingers red with permanent red marker cause the blingers were more pink then red. Used one of the tulips from Flourishes thank-you set. Colored pencils as I just don't know how to be copicsetic. Too hard for me. Hope you're all off ( I don't mean mentally off) to a great week. See you again soon.
Pat

Timeless Tuesday ...card for friend

Well it's Timeless Tuesday at Flourishes and today we are to make a card that has "friend" on it. Well now that's an easy one as I have some fabbie friends that I love to send cards to. This one will go to my BFF Lindy, who is back in Michigan where so many days, so is my heart. This "wild and wooly West" is a tough place for this "mild, mellow & musty old lady" at times. Anyway tell you more about that a bit later. This Zinnia set is just becoming one of my favorite sets as it's just perfect for any kind of card. I used it along with Butterflies and Blossoms or Blossoms & Butterflies ( not sure of all the names) where I got the little phrase. I chose soft pink for my base and added just a bit of patterned paper I picked out of my scrap bin along with an ivory bit which I tore the edge of and then rubbed a bit of pink chalk on. Tied a pink bit of ribbon and well let's face it I'm finished here. It's a pale card but every now and then that's Ok with me...don't always have to be bright and perky. So let me tell you about my wild time, it was so fun and different. First of all we started the night with a great meal out and then headed out to the pig races...yep you read right, the PIG races. Little Porky, Shakin Bacon, and so many more little piglets were running there hearts out in a sizzling race. Let's face it,you'd run like blue blazes too if you didn't want to become some body's pork roast.  Go little piggy was the shout for the night.You can bet on the races but the money goes to the high school for a fund for schlorships. It was pretty crowded but so much fun and since we wanted to take a different route home because that's where the ice-cream was ...we headed into a little village called Red Lodge. Well the rodeo was in town and everywhere you looked we saw Cowboys! I didn't have my camera but I've been told seeing all the cowboys is not all that unusual so maybe next time I can get some pictures of these cute guys in there hats, boots, and even spurs. Wahoo!!! So off to a good week after the wonderful 4th. with fireworks and all. See you soon.
Pat

Timeless Tuesday...Sketch by Tammy

Well it's time for Timeless Tuesday and it's a sketch challenge that Miss Tammy has designed for us to follow. I love sketch challenges but this one had me really challenged. I wanted to do a good job as this is my last week as the design team's guest...where did the time go??? I was having so much fun being in the spot light and now it's time for the curtain to come down. I have to tell you.. along the way I've met some new friends and have some new places to visit and delight in some wonderful blogs that offer up some great stuff. Enough blubbering...where's the dang Kleenex? On to the card.

Here's a peek at the sketch...

And, here's my card...

There are two cutie patootie papers on it,one is Basic Gray/Grey (the plaid) and the other (flourish) is K & Company. My image  of course is Flourishes  from the Strawberries set and then my little word "Smile" is from the Tag Lines set. I used the Spellbinder's Classic Circle and Eyelet Circle Nestabilities dies. My matching ribbon is from Mike and my little scalloped like border is from a Stampin' Up punch. Not my normal every day card but decided to get a bit funky and fun with these cute papers. Added some glitter glue and some white gel pen was used to make the seedy look on the berries, cause I'm a seedy kind of broad and I thought I should have that shown a bit.

If you want to see all the details of today's challenge, just head on over to the Flourishes Blog. And, be sure to hop on over to see the rest of the FTTC designers....

Betty
Maki
Silke
Cindy
Heather
Tammy

So there you go fellow stampers...off to a good week and hope to see you all soon again.

Pat   

Timeless Tuesday...It's in the bag!

Well today at Timeless Tuesday at Flourishes Betty wants us to use  brown grocery bag paper on the card/project. Fun huh? Well I went all out and made some paper flowers out of my brown bag with a Sizzix's die. Decided to go as DD calls it shabby chic. Me shabby?? Me chic?? To clarify that's chic (not sheikh as in Rudy Valentino's sheikh).Don't know if  I'm  either but  I can do a card that way if I want to and so I did.

My card base is kraft, with a mat of ivory, and then some "chic" dp bought at Mike's pad. Didn't show who put it out because I used part of it previously and so the name is gone..sorry people. It's a soft denim colored blue and ivory so I wanted to bring that out in my flower. After cutting the different size flowers I brushed them with denim colored ink that Adirondack puts out. Now for some fun I used the Scor-Pal and did a bit of pleating out of the ivory card stock and then added some crocheted ribbon stuff to give it that vintage look. Guess I need to use some of that on myself to add to my vintage look (mine is wrinkled skin and old age spots) not so  classy, me thinks. After I slapped it together I added the little flag sentiment "thank-you" found in the Hello Hyacinth set. Put a few blingers on and I'm through here.So now it's your turn to get a bag (not a live one like me) and see what you can come up with. There's lots of ideas out there, just tune into one of them and give it a go. Oh, and be sure to check out the design team's work...they are listed and linked below. For a look at the official challenge and all the rules, feel free to click HERE. 

Betty
Maki
Silke
Cindy
Heather
Tammy

Hope your week will be a goody one. See you again soon.

Timeless Tuesday...circles & squares

Hey it's that time of week again and the challenge over at Flourishes  is to use circles and squares on your card/project, use as many as you want but be sure to use both shapes. Well I know it's hip to be square, just ask Huey Lewis and the News (wow that takes me back in time quite a bit) and as Diana Ross might say..round and round you turn me sooo... let's do it people. Dang, I'll have those tunes floating in my lame brain all day now.

I decided to be square first by making a totally square card and adding a few more squares before turning myself into the round. Card base is the cute polka (shall we dance for awhile here) dotted fun colored green and we move on from there by adding green, white, and then a fancy schmancy square compliments of my Spellbinder Die Eyelet Squares. Then, I changed my tactic and started using some circle shapes. I stamped the new Zinnia flower and colored with my ...yep you guessed it my favorite water colored pencils and my faithful blender. I tried some new pencils put out by Derwent called Inktense and I like them. They're pretty vibrant. Not much to this card other then following the challenge and using my circles and squares and then adding a wee bow. So get to work and join the fun why don't you? Quit reading start stamping and then link up on the Timeless Tuesday post for today. Be sure and check out the design teams card/projects.....

Betty
Cindy
Silke
Maki
Heather
Tammy

Timeless Tuesday ...Father's Day card

Well it's time for Timeless Tuesday over at Flourishes and yours truly is sitting in for the entire month of June as a guest designer! Pretty exciting for this ole lady, I tell ya! This week Silke is asking for a Father's Day card ..easy peasy.. especially when you have Flourishes' What a Catch set.  So, here goes! I used gray/grey for my card base and went to work adding some manish type background papers. I love the hat and equipment this image shows, but I wondered where's the can of worms??? I like to thread them on the hook and lure the fish that way. I'm not big on phony flies, but to each his own. I stamped and colored with my faithful water colored pencils and used the blender to get the shadowy effects. Then around my phrase I did the Hokey Pokey and I turned myself around...oops! Once again, I got off track . What I meant to say was I did a bit of piercing (not on myself cause I'm too old for that foolishness) but on the phrase. I made a pretend like ribbon and made it manly by putting some of those nailhead thingys, and guess what??? I'm done here.

Be sure to hop on over and see the other Timeless Tuesday gals....

Betty Wright
Cindy Haffner
Maki Jones
Silke Ledlow
Tammy Hershberger -- she's taking the week off!
Iwona Palmountain -- she's joining us a guest this week!
Heather Jensen - she's one of the new team members!

Thanks for stopping by, and I'll see you all next week for another round of Timeless Tuesday! Be sure to click HERE for all the challenge details!

Front door is on...finally

Here is what my darling cottage looks like now that it is all painted and my door is back on. Too bad my grass is not in yet but it is what it is. I decided if I don't get some grass before the summer really rolls in I will go to Lowe's and buy some by the yard and throw it down...phony is better then none.

Timeless Tuesday...color challenge

Well it's Timeless Tuesday over at Flourishes and today's challenge comes from that Canadian power house Cindy who said..let's use cranberry, caramel, dark grey (a.k.a. gray) or dark brown. Well hey who doesn't love cranberries and caramel (syrup all over a heaping bowl of ice-cream)? I don't think that was what she had in mind!

I thought this would be a hard one but put the feeble mind and body in action and found out it wasn't so bad after all. My card base is using the dark brown and my buddy Mike provided me with the BG paper which I found in my stash. Do you see the cranberry colored writing on it? Perfect. I chose the set "What a Catch", which is wonderful for Father's Day cards. I picked out the bag ( not my cup of tea as I prefer leather). This is the one that houses those pretend flies etc. Used my faithful water colored pencils and a blender and went to work doing my thing which is coloring..love that being a kid part. My small background mat is cranberry, next is the caramel one which is embossed and sanded a bit to make it more manly, then did a dark brown mat with my Spellbinder Labels Three die and then my image, which I also die-cutted..is that a word?? To finish it off I did a bit of sponging with one of those old antique inks, slapped it all together and I'm almost done. For my final touch, I put on some gold nail heads and I'm done here.

So since most men think they are all that and a bag of chips the phrase was perfect. Haven't heard that here in Montana but it was a popular one back in the big D (Detroit area) and was used in a most happy fashion. Well fellow bloggers here's hoping your week is "fly". It's sunny today and wow no rain. See you soon.