Beautiful sunny day...no brellies needed yet!

Hi everyone!

We are enjoying some beautiful September weather on the coast! Love that sunshine!! Beautiful sunny days and cooler nights. Fall is in the air and it won't be long before we need the umbrellas, so we'll enjoy while we can.

I love this stamp set and the little pink rubber boots! I remember as a little girl, how much I loved putting on my own rubber boots, athough they weren't this cute...actually they were black gumboots, LOL!

I would hurry out into the rain, with my brellie and I loved to jump into every puddle on the way to school. There were deep puddles that I would wade through carefully, wondering how far I could get without the water running down into my boots to soak my feet. I loved those deep puddles, you could actually make waves with them! I liked the little ones too, if you stomped in them with just the right force, the puddle would fly everywhere! I have to confess that I love the rain!! I love the sunshine too, but when it rains, it's just so cozy and it makes everything fresh and green!

 

Card Recipe:
Cardstock: Tempting Turquiose and Whisper White
Stamp Sets: Branch Out, All Holidays
Ink: Tempting Turquoise, Close to Cocoa, Pixie Pink, Old Olive
Accessories: Eyelet Border Punch, 1 1/4" Circle Punch, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, Black Marker (for Polka Dots) Crystal Effects, Paper Piercer, Swiss Dots Embossing Folder.

I'm not sure where the orginal idea came from to put the polka dots on the little boots, but I loved it...they are so darling!

Hope you enjoy it!
Judy

Family Favourite Cookies

Hi everyone!

At my Card Buffet in August I made these cookies and lots of you asked me for the recipe. It's an old Family Favourite, I hope they become your favourites too! I usually make them into Chocolate Chips because those are the most popular around here But you can subsitute the chocolate chips for 1/2 cup of peanut butter, or you can add spices and raisens to them, or M & M's...really the sky's the limit! I think that's how these got their name, they are easy and so tasty and well...absolute favourites! If you come up with something different to add and it's yummalicious, let me know!!

 

Family Favourite Cookies

1/2 cup Butter
1/2 cup Shortening
3/4 cup Brown sugar
3/4 cup White sugar
2 Eggs
1 Tsp. Baking Soda in 1 tsp hot water
1 Tsp. Vanilla
2 1/4 cups Flour

Cream butters and sugars. (I always use Imperial Margarine squares instead of butter & shortening.) Add eggs, baking soda/hot water and vanilla. Stir in flour.
Bake @ 350 for 8 - 10 minutes on greased or parchment paper lined cookie sheets.

*For Chocolate Chips cookies add 1 cup chocolate chips(or more!)
*Same for Butterscotch Chips
*For Peanut Butter add 1/2 cup Peanut butter (chunky or smooth) and press with fork tines for decoration.

Hope you love them as much as we do! Enjoy!
Judy

Wishes for you!

Hi everyone!

Here's a pretty card share for you. I used the Forever Flowers Wheel, rolling it in Versamark ink, embossed it with clear embossing powder and dabbed a little glue pen here and there on the leaves and gave it a Wow with Dazzling Diamonds. It's a 4 1/4" square card. It`s so pretty and dainty. Love it!

 

Here's what I used:
Cardstock: Pretty in Pink, Whisper White
Stamps: Botanical Blooms (Sale-a-bration 2009), Short & Sweet
Ink: Versamark, Red Riding Hood (Retired)
Accessories: Pretty in Pink Tafetta Ribbon, Dazzling Diamonds, Tiny half back Pearls

Thanks for stopping by ~ Enjoy!
Judy

Top Note Purse

Isn't this the cutest little purse? This was one of our projects we did at one of my classes and it was so much fun to make! It is the perfect size to tuck in a few chocolates, and what girl doesn't like chocolates!! Or you could use it for a gift card holder.

I used Stampin'Up's Top Note Bigz Die, with the Big Shot (now this machine is really one of my favourite things!!) The two Top Notes Bigz dies are layered and trimmed at the top. They are adhered onto a little box and the top closure is the big Scallop Circle die cut, with a smaller circle inside. To close it I used a velcro dot, and added wide organza ribbon for the handle.

Isn't it cute?

 

What I used:
Patterned paper, Whisper white Cardstock
Top Note Bigz Die
Big Scallop Circle Die
Circle cutter
Paper Piercer
5 Petal Flower Punch
Pearl Brad
White Organza ribbon

Hope you like it!
Judy

Late Summer Rose

These are some of my favourite things! Roses!!

I love them and they always remind me of my Mom. My Dad always used to pick the first flower out of the garden for my Mom, the first snowdrop, the first sweet pea, the first rosebud, all for her. Each variety of flower in the garden was special, and there were many! The roses were one of her favourites. Now I have my first rose bush in my own garden and have been enjoying my own roses and as fall approaches, I hope it winters well...I'll have to do some research on that!

I coloured the rose on my card using a technique designed by Crystal French and generously shared by her. It's called Embossed Reinker Watercoloured Rose. It's a WOW technique!! You heavily spray (with water) your embossed image on Shimmery White Cardstock, then touch your aquapainter into a teensy bit of reinker and touch it to your cardstock. I used 3 different colours for my rose. The water and ink runs within the embossed parts and when it dries you cut it out and it looks beautiful!

 

What I used:

Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, God's Beauty (Hostess-Retired)
Cardstock: Regal Rose, Basic Black, Whisper White, Old Olive and Shimmery White
Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder
Regal Rose Grosgrain Ribbon
Inks: Old Olive for the leaves and sentiment
Reinkers: Pink Pirhouette (Retired) Pretty in Pink and Regal Rose
Aquapainter

Hope you enjoy it! Thanks for sharing your fantastic technique Crystal...I really had fun with this card!

Judy

Wingo Zingo at Summers End!

Hi everyone!

I can't believe that it's the end of August already! For many of you, that means back to school shopping, getting organized for lunches and routines and signing the kids up for the fall events, like Hockey, Karate, Dancing, Swimming...the list goes on. Although I miss those activities from when my kids were small, I'm really glad I don't have to face the crowds in the malls! LOL!

I have lots of things to share with you but for today I've got a little back to school card that I made. I love the colours!

 

I used:
The Numbers Cuttlebug folder
Round Tab Punch
Real Red & Whisper White Cardstock
The seeds were made from a cat's paw PaperShapers punch
ABC's were from Sizzix 'Wingo Zingo' Sizzlet decorator die, LOL..the name just cracks me up!!

Hope you like it!
Judy

A Vintage Card

Hi everyone!

We've gone from a heat wave to cooler temperatures and rain now. I actually don't mind the rain and the forests can sure use a healthy drink. Here's another card to share with you, I love the vintage look of it! Sponging and distressing are 2 of my favourite techniques.


 
The technique I've done is called Popping Pastels.
Here's the recipe:
Cardstock: Kraft and Whisper White
Stamp set: Friends 24-7, En Francais (Background), Itty Bitty Backgrounds
Ink: Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery, Close to Cocoa and Versamark

Accessories: SU Die Cut Butterflies, Cuttlebug Texture Folder, Leaf Punch, Branch from my garden(!), Half back Pearls, Fine Wire and SU Chalks (same colours as the inks above), Pretty in Pink Tafetta Ribbon, Distressing Tool and Sponges.

Hope you enjoy it!
Judy