Perpetual Playtime

This is Lisa, my little sister, in this video. I love this explosion box she made and thought I would share her video with everyone. I ordered this cartridge through Lisa a few weeks back but just have not opened it (much less used it yet), but this video makes me want to get finished with what I already have on today's "To Do" list so I can go play with this cartridge! Cute cute cute! If you don't have a personal CTMH consultant, please consider ordering through my sister, not only because she is my little sister but also because she is a truly wonderful person.  Here is her CTMH link:   http://lisamoore.ctmh.com/

My little sister sent me this award for my blog and I am so happy to add it to my blog and share it with others. Thank you Lisa ( CricketCrazyLisa ) Okay, so to use and to share this award, here are the rules: Thank the Award giver  [check] copy award to your blog  [check] list three things you love about yourself  [check] I am a strong lady and I know this because of all the things I have been through and managed to stay true to myself throughout. I have tried hard to be kind, friendly and helpful to others. And yes, even my enemies although as much as I have tried, sometimes the best I can manage is to be cordial. Before I retired I gave more than 100% effort to be successful in my job. Of course the true motive behind that was to better my position within the corporation, but none-the-less, I gave more than 100% while watching others who gave less than 50%. So I am proud of myself for maintaining my goal in spite of the frustration that came with wat...

My little sister made me a handy little booklet to keep my Copic color combinations in and to say Thank You I made her a card (I mean, aren't we always looking for a chance to make a new card?). I was so excited to have finished my card that I put it in the mail to her before I took a picture and had to ask her to snap it and e-mail me some shots! Okay, maybe it wasn't so much my excitement as it was my rememberer not being as good as it  once was, but that's beside the point!  On this card I knew Lisa liked red so I had to make red the predominant color. And, since I like pinks & purples, I thought it was pretty neat to find a paper with a pink & red pattern. By far, the hardest part of making this card was pleating the ribbon to frame the stamped image. That ribbon is a 1/4" gossamer like ribbon with a think satin border on each side. And along with my rememberer getting older, my fingers have too. But it was a labor of love so I plugged away and finally g...

Yesterday I spent part of my day working on a couple of cards and spent the rest of the day working organizing my supplies in my craft room. First I want to post a card a made to go with the baby gift for my step-granddaughter, Jennifer. This is my first attempt at an easel design and I am pretty pleased with it. It doesn't exactly match the wrapping paper for the gift, which is mostly ecru with little rabbits at play, but I wanted it to be specifically blue for boy so that it made better sense if she chooses to set it out to look at and show others. Angled view to show the easel This card is made with a digi-stamp from Squigglefly.com . And the diaper pins were just a free clip-art image from some random place on the web. I cut the pins out & raised them with foam tape to give more support to the image front. Front view You can't really tell in these images, but if you click on the front image it should open to a larger view and you can see the Cutt...

I get to share another post with crafty work I did not do! This time it is some wonderful craftiness from my little sister, Lisa. During a recent telephone conversation I mentioned needing to come up with a small notebook I could store my favorite Copic color combinations in for reference. I said that if I had a Bind It All I would just make one, but since I don't have a BIA I guess I will just see what I could find at the local target. Well, being the sweet sister she is, she said she had a BIA and would make a booklet for me. Other than suggesting the pages be something in the neighborhood of 1/4 sheet size to keep the cutting & measuring simple I told her I would leave color & design up to her. Well, my package arrived today and I was sooo happy with my booklet! She did a wonderful job and I just love it! I have already pasted some of my color samples in it. When I have a stamp that doesn't stamp up well I save it to do test color & techniques. When I like the co...