Well I have returned.....

maybe not as soon as I thought I should have (but at least  in the same month)... so I'll show a few cards I made.....  for kids cards, I like to use Everyday Paper Dolls cart.....

and of course....I remembered to take a photo of the inside of the card...

The paw print is a single small stamp that someone gave me (and you were going to give it away!) the base card is a pre-made 5 1/2 x 7 1/4 and so I made the puppy at 5 1/2 to fill most of the base, using pattern paper for the puppy, I  creased the knees and inked the puppy,added ribbon for a collar then placed down with pop ups.. her eyes is what makes her so cute........
May was my youngest grandson's B-day
....here is his  card..

I didn't want to use the puppy because I used it for his 1st b-day and didn't want to do a repeat....I'm not sure if I posted a pic of that one already..so excuse me for the repeat......

This puppy is so cute in any size or type of paper...... for some reason I can't find the inside of the card...but I cut a fire hydrate in red and inked it (did you take a pic of the inside???)
So.....there you go..did alittle posting, showed some pics...And I call this complete!.....
Anyway  .....  Until next time.........

    

Oh My! .....there has been a Change....
I been gone so long that blogger has changed its style??  is that the word I want to use???..no that's not the right word.....because it only took me forever to figure out and post and the preview does not show the whole blog like it use to (it help to read"new changes ") 
 Anyway I have decided I don't like blogging (really???...what gave it away) I enjoy making cards and thought this would be a great place to display them which it is.......
So I think I will just post pic of my cards....what do you think??? (and how long will that last??)
Now I have a new problem...hummmmmmm
I'm not on my laptop to access my pics (didn't last long...did it)

 I'll be back......really I will (don't hold your breath people)
Anyway.......until then....

My younger sister's invite and B-Day card.....

 I thought I would share the invite and B-day card I (excuse me)...my daughter and I made for my Younger sister...first of all my niece wanted to celebrate her mom's 50th with her(my sister's) siblings (there are 5 brothers and 5 living sisters which all are married now,
and includes inlaws and children and grandkids..yikes!!!) my niece had big ideas..and they were great ones...but you know how it is with a huge family.....time and location and mainly space is hard to do...since we all live so spread out..... she picked a restaurant and we showed up......fun fun fun!!!!    here's the invite...

and here is her B-day card that I made (and I can claim this one)

and a  pic of the gang

this is only the middle of the group (the waiter cut off the ends :( the end that I'm in..LOL)  

this is the birthday girl.....my baby sis...... hard to believe how time is flying by.....

ok! ok!...I'll show you what a soon-to-be 62 year old looks like........ME
here I am with my son-in law....who I luv and is precious to me.....here we are...

so I don't look to bad........right????    LOL

Oh yeah!  did I mention that this all happen in Nov (late posting...but whats new )

so......... I guess this is called back tracking and I might as well show my Oct birthday card I made for my beautiful granddaughter...she turned 19

I think this is more then plenty to post (you think??)

anyway....until next time.......

WOW!!!......is it really 2012??????

Well so much for my  so called "weekly posting" (really?)  you know these blogs, do take time and care (blah-blah-blah)  anyhoo.... going for the resolution thing (hahaha) and since I go to bed late, I thought I would actually start posting at night (we'll see) .....and show the Christmas cards I made.......(so lets see)

I did have a hard time photographing this card..the navitiviy image was cut from copper metallic paper which caused the glare and its hard to see the swiss dots on the base card...

the gift boxes were just scraps cut into different sizes using paper raffia



the two lower cards were made using the same folder one embossed  



and this one de-bossed

and I made a few gift card/money holders

these were a big hit......or was it the gift card or the money in it?????????

sooooo how was this for a post???  or this is enough for now

anyway......until next time

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..