Be Careful What You Wish For....

Is this not funny or what!!  

I found the image of the woman stripping off the good looking parts on the internet. 

    This was a birthday card for one of our sons.  

I can't wait to hear what he thought about it!!

have a great day!

Manetta

A "What Ever" Card

Impression Obsession rubber stamp image colored, glittered, cut and glued on cardstock to create a generic card...sitting....waiting... to go to the appropriate home!!

hugs

Manetta

Mothers N Others Day

30 Mothers N Others Day cards....all done!!

My husband puts on a Mothers Day Event for the Alzheimer Patients at the nursing home.  It is for the Mothers and "Others" (Care-givers).  It is a big event...everyone dresses up in their best...there is a wonderful meal, lots of memories and tears.  It started out with me volunteering to make the invitations several years ago and now has turned into a yearly event.  Many look forward to the hand-made invites that are sent.  

It is the only time I make so many cards alike and not something I enjoy doing but it sure feels good to know that they are going to those who really appreciate them!

This Beautiful Alzheimer poem was added inside the invite

When I was lost, you showed the way.

When I was frightened, you calmed fear away.

You made me laugh, when I wanted to cry.

I fail so often and you tell me; “Just try.”

You are my friend, and I forgot your name.

I called for help and it was you; who came…

by Tim Brennan

thank you for stopping by!

Manetta

Sesame Street is coming to the Party

In June one of my granddaughters will be 2.  For her birthday, she is having a Sesame Street Birthday.  I made these characters as part of the decorations.  I made patterns out of cardboard and cut out all the pieces with scrap paper to try to match the characters as much as possible.  If you click on each picture, it will open up larger.

Here is some of the mess that was on my desk from the pieces of paper!

Every thing was cut from a piece of paper from eyes, noses, arms, stripes, shoelace etc!  After all the pieces were put together, I backed them all with black cardstock, cut the edge leaving a trim.   It was time consuming but I had a lot of fun.  I am sure even granddaughter at only 2 will enjoy them!

Manetta

Digital Birthdays

My brother-in-law had a birthday last week so I made him a couple of cards!  Both are digital downloads from Bugaboo Digi Stamps colored by Twin Touch Markers.

Thank you for stopping by!

Manetta

Stamping Up Class

I had not been to a stamping class in many months so I decided to set time aside and join  Lisa Reber-Gulfcoast Stamper once again.  These are two of the cards we made that night.  I have fallen in love with the flower stamps and punch on the birthday card.  I can't wait for my order to come in so that I can start using it!!

~hugs~

Manetta

Teddy Bear Cutie

A colorful cute birthday card!!

What can I say...*S*

Have a great day!

Manetta

So Serene

I discovered if I used Core'dinations Black Magic Collection cardstock and an embossing folder with my cuttlebug, the color on the backside popped through the front.  It is the cardstock that you can sand or tear it and the secondary color will show through but this way I did not have to sand it. The Stamping Up Elegant Lines Textured Impressions Embossing folder is what I used is to create my background. I used three colors with a sponge to create the sunset and a rubber stamp from the Stamping Up set Inspired by Nature for the cattails.  To make the cattails, I used a punch (I believe has been retired from Stamping Up) to punch out the cattails and glued them down. 

A nice serene card!

Manetta 

Sympathy and Daisy

My husband is after me again to make more sympathy cards so I made him a couple the other night.  I used my  Touch Twin markers to color the flowers and used a white pencil to highlight.  Same technique but each card a little different.

thank you for stopping by and looking!

Manetta

My New Toy-Sew Stamper

I ordered a new tool and got it in the other day.  It is from We R Memory Keepers and it is to create faux stitches on your creations.  It came with several attachments to change the type of stitch.  I only tried the straight stitch so far.  It is black self-inking stamper and is suppose to get over 1,000 impressions with it. I practiced on scrap paper first.  I was pleased to see I did not have any issues keeping it straight nor did it skip.  The black ink went on very smooth and even.  I am already thinking they need to come out with white ink for darker cardstock!

Along the top and along the bottom of the main image, you can see where I used the tool.  In the sentiment area, I hand drew them on.  You can definitely see a difference!

thank you for stopping by!

Manetta

Happy "Late" Valentines!

This will be a quick post.  I have been so busy with tax season for the past two weeks I have not even been in my craft room hardly!  I did manage to make a couple of cards to mail to my grandchildren.  Wanted to post them yesterday but I came down sick =(...so here they are!!  The images came from coloring book digital images online.  

Ok...back to sorting paperwork!! ugh..

Manetta

Happy Birthday Chelsea

My granddaughters birthday today!!

Happy Birthday Sweetheart!!

love you

Grammy K

Stamping on Sunset Photos!

Easy...Pretty...Quick

I love it!  

To review how to stamp on photos...please go to this post Photo Stamping

*S*

Manetta

Valentine Jasmine

Valentine Jasmine...perfect Valentine card for my granddaughter who LOVES the Disney princesses.  

I got this image from a coloring page online.  I used my new Touch Markers to color the image.

The inside of the card has lots of sparkles!

Manetta

Jan 13th Stamping Up Class

Two weeks ago, Jan 13th,  I went to a local Stamping Up Class held by Lisa (Gulf Coast Stampers and Scrappers).  I had not been in a loooong time.  It was good to see old crafting friends again!

Here are the cards we made that night!

I waited to stamp this flower card until I got home.  I wanted it to be a card I could use for a thank you type card.

thanks for stopping by!

Manetta

#187 Flutter By Wed-Embossing & #222 Mojo Mon

I am trying to build up my supply of cards in my stash.  Last year I had 4 shoulder surgeries and my husband & I hit my stash hard.  It actually has been fun to begin creating again!  

To get my stash full again, I have decided to try many of the challenges out there.  They certainly help get the creative juices flowing again!

My first challenge was to combine Danni's Flutter By Wednesday challenge and Mojo Monday.  

Every Wednesday Danni creates a challenge and the challenge always includes a Angel, Fairy or Butterfly.  This week we must use any type of embossing as long as one of the three images are on the card.

I used my Cuttlebug and dry embossed an image on the circle portion of the card.  My Fairy sits to the right of my Hello.

Mojo Monday always gives a sketch to follow.  Here is the sketch I used that Mojo Monday Blog put out for January 2nd.  You can use it upside down, rightside up or sideways.  I decided to use it exactly as the image is.

This card will go into my "Everything" Box.  

Happy Crafting!!

Manetta

Hello Friend

A little Liquid Leaf Gold painted on cardstock, Black Opal embossing powder, nestabilities and cardstock and you have a Hello Card for a Friend to let them know you are thinking of them!!

*smiling*

Manetta

Sunset Postcards

I was able to create 7 of this A2 size postcards in one evening. They were to be attached to the top of 7 baskets of cookies to hand out for a business. 

I used a piece of scrap cardstock to protect the sky area while I sponged on the water section. I flipped the scrap cardstock over to protect the water section and sponged on the sky.  After I just stamped the Impression Obsession boat scene on top with black ink.

I may make more and use them on top of a regular card!

Manetta

From Christmas to Everyday

I wanted to show you how one simple change can totally change the look of a rubber stamp. The image is actually a Poinsettia. To change the look of the flower…all I did was color the image purple with highlight of pink, added some purple glittered and added colorful leaves. I now have an image I can use at Christmas time and any other time I need a big flower!

January 21st is “Send a Hug Day”. I may just have someone in mind who would love to get a hug card from me!!

Thanks for visiting me!  Have a wonderful crafty day

Manetta

Butterfly Card and Bookmark in One

I wanted to make a card for a co-worker and include a bookmark as she reads a lot. I combined the card and bookmark together. It is a tri-fold card and after it is folded, it fits into an A2 envelope.

The cardstock was cut at 10 x 5 1/4

I scored at 4 1/4 and again at 8 1/2. You can use a tool to perforate at the 8 1/2 score line or you can bend the cardstock back and forth several times. This will break the paper threads and allow the recipient to remove the bookmark very easy.

The rest was decorating the card the way you choose. I made sure the ribbon on the front was placed exactly where the ribbon on the bookmark would be placed so they lined up evenly. For the bookmark, I used only one word from the sentiment on the front…Smile. I made sure my sentiment stamp was cleaned so it would stamp just the word smile. To color it black, I used my black marker to color in only the word Smile.

Thank you for visiting today!

Manetta