WOW!!!............Has it really been a month

Since my last post???? I'm trying to post at least once a week(doesn't look like a very good track record to me) So to keep me on track...I decided to show my cards in some type of order......like Thank you, Birthdays and so on............. just to keep me busy with this blog(sometimes I don't know why I get myself into these things)

But first I like to show a couple of pics I took on a road trip I did with my mom (89 and she did GREAT) and my youngest sister...we drove up north,  stopping at Gilroy (no joke when you take a breath you smell garlic(for sure!)for a late lunch then drove to Fremont(cute little town/city??) stayed at a convent  a couple of nights My dad's sister(who passed away last yr) and cousin are nuns.......   

the grounds are beautiful!!!!! and the sisters are so precious!!!!

the pic below is the famous bridge

We had a great time, we had dinner on fisherman's wharf  and the weather was good that we were able to take a stroll too .....so glad that my mom was able to take the trip and to see sister B........Thanks sis for including me to tag along.........so


Here are a couple of thank you cards I made for the Sisters of the Holy Family....

hummm.... a card short...one for my aunt (really 2nd cousin) and one for sister Ruth (Director and who made arrangement for us to stay in the convent) and one for sister Carole (who gave us(just me and my sister, since my mom had been there many times before) a tour of the convent and shared the history).....so where is her card????? .....and that means up late again tonight....
anyway.............until then

Where.........Oh Where.......Have I Been??????

Hello cyber world.......wondering what happen to me???   Well  let me tell you whats going on..........
first of all.........
DON'T (and I really mean "DON'T) work around your laptop when its not properly placed in a safe place (and you already have guessed how I know this) yes that right!!!!! !!!
I tripped over the cord of my laptop (I was watching...... actually listening to a movie) while I was cooking dinner ****NOTICE*******COOKING IS HAZARDOUS to laptop!!!  pulling my laptop off the kitchen table which went crashing down on stone tile flooring (I have dropped so many glass lids.....oh! hubby has dropped a few too, which also went crashing down in a million tiny pieces...... I really think COOKING is over RATED!! 

Anyway......I killed my hard drive....losing everything all my pics of my grand kids,  pics and instructions of the cards I made.......... surprisingly I took it very well .....hubby still teases me about getting to close to his laptop . So off to Best Buy (since we needed to replace the drive we went bigger -500GB) and we picked up a external hard drive-500 .....Thank goodness for family members in the computer field!!!! he was able to retrieve all my pics but lost my documents ..... and to add to my problems something is wrong with my blog (which I let my fingers do some buton pushing and made a mess), I took a pic of the problem and hopefully someone in the cyber world can walk me through to repair it  

and that's my story and I'm sticking to it......
anyway......until then
       

Well...........I decided to return ....

Why???....now that's a good question!!! (I'll have to get back to you on that one....even I don't know why).......just sitting here watching a movie - The commitments..great movie (did I mention..this is about the tenth time...luv the music....anyway.....on to some pics.......how about birthday cards???? OK

just a simple one using happy birthday folder and some stickles and the next one

is using the number folder....was thinking more for a male no ribbons or bling....

the truck is a SU stamp and the candles with the sentiment is a M's 1.00 stamp colored with markers
lets see..........what else ....... I made  kiddie ones too

this was made for my niece's baby 1st b-day and this time I remembered to post the inside...only thing wrong....... is that I forgot to take a pic before I wrote in it  (oh well)   :( .....
 the next one was for my grandson's 2nd

 next one was also for my niece's second lil one (yes.....some time did go by).....

you can't see it,,,but I did cut layers from cereal boxes then glued my cs on and pop dotted the images

this one I stamped the flower image cut them out, colored them with marker and coated with glitter, used the word as the stems.......there's more but its now 12:26 and I've been up since 6:00am and gone ALL day....I'm getting sleepy........
ANYWAY.......until then..

I'm......Back!!!

Well I got the hint.......GOT THE HINT  (letting my baby girl know I got her hint to post more ofen).......so I thought I would share some of my beginner cards...

and as you can see....no die cuts.. I was into buttons and flowers....

this one was made using large (and I mean large) stamp from SU.... (which a sweet friend gave to me...Thanks Lori) I embossed it and cut it out... cutting off the second flower and pop-dotting it to a script embossed base and of course I added the so called "famous" skittles..I colored with a red tombow marker.....I was into stamping (which my DD got my into)

see more stamping, beads and ribbon and the card below is stamped (CTMH) and I used oil pastals 

that you would rub on wax paper then use a q-tip and color the image..

Anyway....it is now 11:45 and I got to get to bed...going to visit the little guys tomorrow

and its a 2hr drive and I have to be there BEFORE  11:00 (my son-dada has a dentist appt) and I'm going to watch the two boys :)                                                                                     

   So til then................                                                                                                           

Boy......Oh Boy......

What a blogger I am......luv visiting other blogs...but do I visit my own???? ( can you tell by the date how often I do) ............

Well here I am.....just thought I would stop by and post a few pics of baby cards I did (some time ago..I must add)

and of course had to do one for a boy too......

and the next two  I thought came out pretty cute (if I do say so myself).....

here is one I made for my beautiful daughter, she needed a card for a baby shower and wanted me to use this ribbon....

 the ribbon is cloth and much more colorful then the pic shows...(does that make sense?)
who knows.....
And now that I'm ready to publish this post I noticed in the preview I didn't post pic of the insides of the cards (see what happens when I try to do something after midnite)
anyway.....  until then.................. 

How Awesome.....

I had visitors....how nice of you to stop by to check out my place...(I have to visit more often too :)  after all it is my place)  .....

Oh....... I went to the scrapbook expo with my niece on Friday...we had a great time and we got to pick up some of those Promarkers, thats buzzing around a few blogs...also picked some Japanese vellum paper(beautiful!) and bling of all colors shapes and sizes can you believe it for only ,99cents each, rolls of adhesive tape...also the sizzix booth demo Tim Holtz new toy...an electric die and embossing machine (meaning like the big shot/cuttlebug)...it even cuts and embosses metal!!! like butter...just with a touch of your finger (well... you had to hold down the button til it passes through).....

Did I mentioned I had a B-day??? (why would I....just to let you know I'm getting deeper into the senior citizen bracket...but not close enough to collect SS :( still have to wait another year).... but I did receive phone calls from my beautiful children, big hugs from my grandchildren...just luving it..is all I can say....
anyway......until  then

With a little guidance from my friends........

I think I'll be able  to get the hang of  uploading some pics (need to show I do, do something besides blog hop all day...hehehe)....so I'll start with a few valentine cards I made.......

this was made using ACY pop dotted on heart embossed white paper layered on pattern paper from my stash (sounds good huh?...just because I don't remember where I got the paper from) next one...

and this is the one I thought resembled  shelly's card(which she is hosting BBTB this week) but really it was just kinda the same design...... the hearts were from the large and small marvy punches and the stamped heart from a single wooden stamp heart.......and you know where the pp came from.....so on to the next one...

isn't this one the cutest.....I used the sweetheat cart for the hearts at one inch and the stamps are CTMH and the pp is from the same stash...
(so how am I doing on the pics??? I'm having fun here :).....

this one I used the neg of the heart cuts from the above card and just sponged brillance ink in the heart, the globe is from doodlecharm b/o and I added the center part from the gum machine and love are  from the sweetheart cart..you can't see it but I also layered transparency film on globe to look like glass......there is more...but I stop here (big pout just b/c I finally got it)....

OK!!!!! last two....awwww you got the picture of what I did to these two and where the pp came from

Now that I know (somewhat) of what I'm doing I'll be back to add more pics(and oh boy...... do I have pics)......
anyway...until next time

OOOh My Goodness!!!!

Are we seriously in February already?? (isn't that the silliest question we always ask?) It will be my beautiful daughter's B-Day this Sunday....but she will be catering to her boys (hubby and son..of course) cause its Superbowl time......

Did you see I have one follower (sitting here..saying "how sweet Shelly is") she makes the most beautiful cards...(I'll come back and post her blog)
I was looking at BBTB (Bitten By The Bug) and Shelly had posted her card....and it happen to be kind of same design as mine :) just different color scheme and it surprised me...(now if I could only get the hang of posting my cards???????  BUT I will...just wait and see (but don't hold your breath)
Anyway....until then....

Had some spare Time.....

Watching  my precious sweeties again :) (that makes grandma... soooo happy)..and bed time has come around....8:00pm is late for them (did I mention their ages?? 2 and a 7mos old..Boy does granny need her Gerotal!) and of course that is way too early for me (since you can see what time I do my posting)...... Well, I'm still trying to figure out how do I get into my blog without going into someone 's blog first???? then click on sign in (jump in anytime)....
anyway.....back to the drawing board ( or should I say...back to the instructions)
until then....

And as time goes by,,,,

I still haven't even tried to upload some of my work(so what new?? did I think I would :|  Maybe I'll just play around with the background scheme and the gadgets...and get serious some other time...
Anyway til then...

And here I sit..........

Well,  its Sunday already and what have I done here.....................................right nothing, nada.  This is where I'm suppose to hang around and post my crafting...well I'm crafting...just not posting...what was I thinking????? oh yeah!!! nothing...just jumbed in and did it.......So off to a birthday party for a 1yr that does not have a clue of what is going on....but a bunch of people (should have posted strangers) invading her space!!!!! the things we do to our babies.....
I'm sure I'll be back to post a bunch of nothings...but when is the question
Until then............

What am I'm doing!!!!!

That was not a question....I really don't even know how to get in my own blog :{   such a sad day for the crazy lady, that she thought she knew what she was doing...(hubby told her that she lost it a long time ago...but she wouldn't listen, now she's learning the hard way)....

Guess I'll go back and read the long help list and maybe get some where hahaha!!!!! but it seems like I start looking into this at a late hour (like it is now 12:15am....really?) you decide to try and post now?

Has anyone deleted their blog before???   now thats a real question.....anyway
until the next time I able to figure out this blog thing...I might be able to show something HA!

Entering the Blogger World!!!!

Well I have now combined my world into the bloggers world.  Here I sit (in the dark I must add) reading my Email.....Going buggy to be exact and she has on her blog "create a blog" so what do I do??? Thats right ... clicked on it and here I am.....Do check her out   Going buggy.blogspot.com (she has a party going on!!!)

Give a granny (which my son calls me) a laptop and let her venture out in the cyber world and trouble has began......

So, as you can see this is totally new to me and must learn how to interwine my blog world with my cardmaking world, which will have to be another day because I'm not home right now (and wait til my daughter finds out what I did, not to mention my hubby too...OH BOY)
I'm busy playing the grandma roll (and luving it I must add) which I better get to bed.... cause  these little guys are early risers (did I mention the time....6:00am)
sooo...... good nite for now