Another Nature story

No stamping accomplished today but I did find this fella in my driveway this morning.

My daughter had a softball game last night and this moth was flying around there.  When they left at about 10pm they must of hit him with the car.  He was walking earlier today but is not any longer.

My daughter used to claim to be a tom girl but she is afraid of this fella.  I guess she is moving past that tom girl phase.

Isn’t he/she cute

The mother and father Carolina wren where teaching their children to fly today.  This is just one that I captured on film. 

There was another one in the pine tree and then my dog Nikita got one.

 This is a picture of Nikita sleeping on the deck this morning.  You can tell we live in North Carolina by the red belly of Nikita.  The red clay here makes it very hard to keep a white dog white.

That is my nature story for today.

My Cosmic Flower

I call this my cosmic flower because I sprinkled a little bit of Adirondack pearl mixative over it and the little white spots that it created look like stars.  That was also the reason for the word choice of Peace, Love and Joy from All Holidays. 

I started this card by stamping the Floral background stamp from Stampin Up!with regal rose ink on whisper white paper.  Then I the big flower from Fabulous Flowers and stamped it with versa-mark and embossed with clear embossing powder. 

My next step was to ink up my brayer with rose red and brayer over the flower.  Then I rubbed off the excess ink.  I then played with putting some highlights around the petals with my white gell pen and my gold glitter pen. 

The next part was to stamp the swirls from Stitched Exotics around and over the flower and rub off the excess ink. 

The last part is to sponge with chocolate chip and sprinkle the pearl mixative.

I guess you can say I have been playing and experimenting  recently.

RAK from Janine

This card was sent to me by Janine another one of my Stamping Blogger Sisters.

This card looks so elegant and inspired my use of black and white recently. 

You can find Janine at http://www.2bkrafty.blogspot.com

More of my far out designs tomorrow.  And the far out is a hint.

Inspiration from Bela’s card

This is the card that I mentioned yesterday in RAK from Bela.  I was inspired by the paisley background paper that was on her card.

Once again this card did not come out like I wanted. 

The background was made with Stampin Up!’s paisley background stamp.  I stamped it with Versa-mark and then soft sky and then embossed with clear embossing powder.  Then I brayered over it with Not Quite Navy and rubbed off the excess ink.  I was really trying to get some black and white lines drawn on but of course it would not stay on the embossed parts of the card.  So that will be an experiment for another day.

Then I rubbed the edges with chocolate chip and embossed the berries from Always in silver.  The background is mounted on blue bayou.  I had started a card with Simple Delights so that became the card base.

I made my scallop edge with the slit punch and a 1/8 circle punch.  The saying is from All Holidays.

PIFs and Bog Candy

Hi there,

I will do PIFs for Misty, Lay and Janine.  Please send me your address, just in case I don’t have it.  sue@stampndaly.com

Jennifer Love over at http://ohmycuppycake.blogspot.com is having an awesome blog candy contest.  Please stop by and visit her.

Beate’s Challenge WSC46

This is not truly how I had envisioned this card to turn out. 

I started out with whisper white card-stock and stamped the StampinUp! background Stitched on it in black.  I then added the black card-stock to mat the designer paper.  The designer paper was stamped with red ink with Stitched.  Then I added the swirl from the Stamp set Stitched Exotics by stamping in versa-mark and in black and stamping the whole thing on the designer paper.  Finally embossing in clear embossing powder.  The red flower was made in the same way except with red ink , of course.

I really did not like the edges so I sponged with red ink and then still did not like it so added the black.  Once sponged together, I decided it looked OK.

The saying Delight in Simple things came from The simply sent card kit Simple Delights.

RAK from Bela

This beautiful card is from Bela one of my blogging sisters.  You can find her web site at http://belascreatingplace.blogspot.com .

She not only made my day but got me out of my creative block.   You see I looked at the background paper and it gave me an idea of something to try with Stampin Up’s Paisley background stamp.  I will show that to you a bit later.

I photographed this card on my window sill.  I was trying to take advantage of the beautiful sunlight coming in.  This card is so perfect for me since I have been enjoying listening to the birds sing as well as seeing the chick-a-dee nesting, the gold finches eating the thistle seed and the Carolina wren hop around.

Bloggers are you ready…

I received this handmade card and some paper craft goodies from Lay Hoon from Malaysia.  She can be found at http://mescrap.blogspot.com .

If you go to her on March 29th you can see the process of how she made this card.

I believe that I am suppose to pass on a handmade project to another crafter and since I can’t decide on who I am going to let you leave a comment and then pick then name randomly.

Rules to participate: You must have a web site that you can post the project on, and you must leave a comment here telling me why you should get a handmade project.  When I send you the handmade project and some goodies to make something with you make a project, e-mail me a photo and I will post on my site.  Comments will be accepted up until Sunday , May 4th at 5pm EST.  The winner will be announced at 7pm that evening.

Have fun and creative reasons count double.

So Much to say….

Ok, I am ready to try to keep up with my blog again.  I have so much to say.

Let’s start out with this beautiful basket that I received from my in-laws.  It was just the right thing to send me because I love to garden and my parents were farmers.  The basket is full of plants that are in individual pots that I can plant in my garden.  There is a little sign to go in the garden and the little birds will probably be used on my light blocks.

Thank you so much to all those whom sent cards, posted comments and e-mailed prayers.  It means so much to me.

I have learned so much through this experience.  My sorrow for my father is selfish sorrow because I am thinking about how I will miss him.  I thought it would be easier for me because I knew that he was ready go to be in heaven and be with my mother.  But I and so many others will miss him dearly.

Some of the things I have learned:  1). Pictures are so very important.  They bring back memories.  Make sure if you don’t scrapbook to write names and dates on the back of them so future generations will know who they are.

2.) Stay organized with all your important papers and your address book so that your loved ones can find everything that they need.

It was nice to go home and realise so many people love you and think a great deal of your family.

My rekindled project to keep me busy is to work on the family genealogy.  So far I have over 500 people listed on my family tree but I am always searching for more.  So if anyone out there that sees my blog and knows of any of these last names, feel free to contact me : Bulkeley, Redder, Weaver , Paul, Morris.  It is mostly my mother’s side of the family I am having trouble with.

I will try to be back later today to show you a handmade project sent to me from Malaysia and tell you about a PIF.