Back In The Saddle Again

     This is the weekend.  No kids, no pressing urgency to clean, no real gardening where I HAVE to get something out and put away for the winter.  I will begin my Christmas cards!  I will finish the journaling for 2014!  I will start it all right here:

     I am refreshed!  I opened a drawer in my filing cabinet last night and saw paper that needed to be used.  I saw doodads and geegaws that begged to be used, at least once, so I could decide whether I liked them or not.  I saw the photo of my beloved cat AJ and her eyes were saying “Girl, you need to do something for you!  Grab some tea and scrap with me!”  Her photo often talks to me.  In my head, not out loud.  She’s been gone two years now, don’t judge me!  When she was alive we would hold conversations.  They sounded like this:

“What are you doing AJ?”

“Meow”

“Meow?”

“Mew”

“I love you baby girl”

“Puuurrrrrrrr”

     I still miss her so much.

     I did a page for her.  I should do another one.

     I’m looking forward to using the new products I ordered from HSN several months ago at the insistence of my boyfriend.  You heard that correctly.  Months.  I’m getting back in the saddle again. Here, take a listen!

https://youtu.be/E5F-O_19lSI

     He has such a nice face!

     Maybe I'll even have time to catch up on a few episodes of Mad Men!  Love that show!  I just started watching it on Netflix and I can't get enough of it!

I LOVE Don Draper!

DCWV January Stack-a-holic Challenge

   First, this is not the project I was going to try to get to today.  The first project I wanted to do was to sand and paint this great bird feeder we have - except I can't find the sand paper and my boyfriend has the flu, so I am out of luck on that one til I get to the store or he gets better.

   I've been wanting to get to the DCWV challenge so this evening seemed like the best time.  Although I'm not sure if I will be asked to drive said boyfriend to the ER.  He should have gone earlier but he thought he'd be ok.  He's got a temp of 101.2.  And he's a man.  And he's sick.  So I'm basically living with an oversized child right now.  I just hope he feels better soon.

   Anyhoo, I got down to business and took the card challenge.  Here is the challenge drawing:

   Here is my interpretation:

   I used plain cardstock, patterned paper (Switchboard)  from Pinkpaislee, burlap paper from DCWV, and dimensional hearts by Pebbles.
   
   The notebook border was made by using my Creative Memories border maker and the tag was made with the Creative Memories Shape Maker Circle Tag.  I used my Fiskars 3-in-1 Tag Maker that I won several months ago.  I do love that little piece of equipment!  Actually, I love everything I have or I wouldn't have it!

   We just received Christmas gifts from my bf's sister this past week and I thought this would be a great opportunity to tell her thank you!  I will be writing her a personal note and then sending this out and I hope she likes it as much as I do!

Birthday Card For My Bro

Yesterday I made a birthday card for my brother.  It wasn’t his birthday, but we were celebrating it at my mom’s apartment.  I looked to Pinterest for my card making inspiration.  I knew I wanted to do a fold-in card - possibly called a tri-fold.  I can never remember as I am not big on making cards.  I like doing them, but my first love is scrapbooking.  You can imagine my delight when I came across a tri-fold that looked like a good “man” card! 

I have an 8.5”x11” Colorbok stack that has only blue and brown patterned paper and I just love it but the only time I use it is for “man” or sympathy cards, so I was really glad to take it out and use it.

I put little banners on the front – two on one side, one on the other – and they keep the card closed!  I stamped “Happy Birthday” on the middle banner with a Fiskars stamp and dropped a silver star on it for some “pop”.  I made an envelope using my Cricut and the card was good to go!

My brother loved it and actually asked me if I made it!  Yeah bro – I did!  Let me know what you think!