Hello!! Happy Summer....

Wow...where do I start?  I've been away from blogging for over a month....but I'm back!  First I want to say thank you so much to everyone who has subscribed and left messages on my blog and to give a warm welcoming hug to all the newcomers!  I love having you here with me!

My summer has been crazy busy so far, but lots of fun.  We've had two sets of company come to stay with us which was fun in spite of the weather not really cooperating.  We've also been away to Whistler for a mini holiday and had some birthdays to celebrate too.

This is what summer is like for my darling LilyBean!  She's found a new spot, the little padded bench on my stairway landing.  She's so sweet and happy all the time!  Life is wonderful,  all a girl has to do is tuck up in the cushions and keep a lazy eye on what everyone's doing!  Oh and to check on her own pot of catnip on the balcony...that's important too!

I finally got a new camera and I love it!  It's a Canon Power Shot Elph 300and it's super easy to use and takes great pictures.  I  have a video setting on it too, so I'll have to give that a whirl and see what I can do with it.  I've taken some pictures of some cards I've been making so I'll have to share those in the next day or two. 

Here's a little share for you....I ran out of my Stamping Mist between orders ages ago, so I found this recipe online for stamp cleaner.  It works great and what I really like it for, is to refresh the baby wipes I use to clean my stamps...sometimes the baby wipes dry out on me as I haven't closed the latch properly! I keep it in a spray bottle and it works great.  I'm not sure who the created the original recipe, if anyone knows, I'd love to give proper credit!  I bought all the ingredients at my grocery store.

Homemade Stamp Cleaner

1 cup Distilled Water
1 1/2 Teaspoons Baby Wash
1 Tablespoon Glycerine and Rose Water

ETA...ooops....so sorry, I just changed the above... that should be 1 Tablespoon of Glycerin and Rose Water!!  Thanks so much Angie for catching that for me!!  You are so sweet and I really appreciate your email!! Big hugs!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and sharing your time with me! 
Hugs ~ Judy

Daffodil Delight....so easy!

Hi everyone...wow, it's been so busy around here! I have lots of cards to show you but my camera is broken! 

The lens will only come out a tiny bit so it doesn't even focus.  I took it to the camera shop, thinking maybe they could fix the little lens thingie and no, they said it would be cheaper to buy a new one...sigh...it seems everything is disposable these days. 

So tomorrow we're going camera shopping...my new one has to be super easy to use, I don't like reading instructions, in fact I use them as a last resort!

My card today is such a quick and easy one to do.  I used the retired set Easter Blossoms from the last mini, but you could use the same design with lots of stamp sets. 

I stamped the blossoms in Daffodil Delight on Daffodil Delight cardstock and then stamped a whole sheet of blossoms on white, then cut it into strips for future cards. Then the blossoms are coloured with the Daffodil Delight marker.  Added a bit of ribbon and a sentiment and it's done!

Thanks for stopping by! 

Hugs ~ Judy

Pretty Butterfly

Happy June everyone...I can't believe how fast the time flies by!   It seems that I'm on the go all the time!  We've finally had some nice sunny weather on the west coast although it's been cloudy in between....it just makes me enjoy the beautiful days even more when we have to wait for them!

Here's a quick share for today, it's one of my favourite new sets in the Summer Mini, it's called Strength and Hope...isn't it pretty?  I love it!! 

 

The colours are Tempting Turquoise and Very Vanilla.  I stamped the Very Vanilla with the En Francais background in Crumb Cake and then over stamped the swirls in Tempting Turquoise. 

I addded Turquoise glitter to the butterfly as well as fine wire antenae's.  The label is stamped with the new stamp set from the upcoming catalogue called Four Frames and the sentiment is from Clearly for You...I just love this pretty little set and the little roses and leaves are from the Baby Blossoms stamp set....I can't believe it's now retired.  Love this little set...it's a keeper!

Thanks for stopping by to share your time with me!  Hopefully I'll be blogging more often in the coming weeks! 

Hugs ~ Judy



My Flower Fairy

Hi everyone....wow...it's been ages since I last posted to my blog!  It's been a super busy month and I've had some computer issues which my computer guy fixed, then the printer bit the dust and I'm not really a printing maniac but seriously...when you have no printer it's just awful!

Then we got a new wireless printer and of course, our laptops were having a bonding issue with the printer, it worked fine when the computer guy was here...Murphy's Law!  Thank goodness for my son who is a computer whiz and has managed to get them to recognize each other...now the router is pouting and doesn't want to play nicely so I have to run downstairs, unplug everything, say a few words (#%#@*&), plug everything back in and we're able to print...until tomorrow anyway! 

So this sweet little card is an escape to my little Fairy Garden, where there are no printers, laptops or anything techie at all!  I just love this card, I used the Flowers Awash stamp set and the sweet little face, legs and arms are from All in the Family. 

The ink I used for the outline stamping was Marina Mist and the fill colour of her dress is Bashful Blue, the flowers are filled with Pretty in Pink and Bashful Blue ink and the leaves are Certainly Celery.  I coloured her shoes with a Bashful Blue marker and added rhinestones to her toes. 

The embossing on the card is done with the Tulip Frame Embossing Folder and the scrunchy ribbon is from my stash. 

Thanks so much for stopping by to visit me in Fairyland and being so patient while I've been busy!  I hope you're all having a wonderful week!

Big hugs ~ Judy

Strawberry Ice Cream anyone?

Wow...I have been so busy this month...I can't believe that tomorrow's the last day of April and I've only blogged a couple of times!  Tomorrow is my card buffet so I'll have lots of goodies to share with you really soon! 

As soon as I got my Petal cone die, I wanted to make an Ice Cream Cone card with it and I found this card when I was 'Googling' around and I thought it was absolutely darling so I cased it...isn't it sweet? I love how Holly used the trim from the Tasteful Trims die for the Ice Cream base.  Mmmmm...I just want to give it a big slurp, strawberry ice cream is one of my favourite things!!

I used the Petal cone die (of course!) and Crumb Cake carstock, first I ran it through the die and then I ran it through the Big Shot again with the Perfect Details Texture plate.  Then I sponged the cone in my old fave retired ink...Close to Cocoa.

I used Pretty in Pink for the strawberry ice cream, trim and banner and sponged it with Melon Mambo.  For the banner I used Happy Birthday from Something to Celebrate (Level 2 hostess set in the outgoing Occasions Mini)

The ribbon is a bow de fourchette using ribbon from my stash of ribbons.  Hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by to share your time with me!
Hugs ~ Judy

Cottage Rose

Hi everyone...I hope you had a great weekend!

Here's another one of my cards...I really liked how it turned out!  I watched Valita's video on how to make a rose with the 2 step Owl punch...such a great idea. I love it when I can use my punches for lots of things.  And roses are one of my favorite flowers, my Dad used to grow all kinds of roses and had them planted in all of the gardens.  So many colours and varieties!

Each petal is the body of the owl, trim off the feet, shape the petal with your bone folder, sponge the edges and then slit about 1" into the head side, overlap and glue the flaps together with Tombow glue.  Each rose takes 8 owl bodies and then the center is the XLarge Scallop Circle, cut into a spiral and rolled up to fit into the middle.

I used my seed packet template again (last time I used it, I did Sweet Peas and Pansies) and changed the wording to Cottage Rose and printed it on Sahara Sand Cardstock. If you'd like the template, I'd be happy to send it to you, just shoot me an email (the link is on the right hand side of my blog), I still can't figure out how to actually  put it on my blog!  I used Autumn Splendor for the leaves and stamped the image on Old Olive with Old Olive Ink.  The cardstock base is Rose Red, embossed with the Tulip Frame Embossing folder.

I  hope you like my card!  Thanks so much for stopping by and sharing your time with me!  Have a great week.! 

PS...Just a little reminder....there's a Full Moon tomorrow (Monday) so don't forget to make a wish for your heart's desire while you're admiring it's beauty in the night sky!  I always wish on the Full Moon...it's definitely one of my favourite things!

~ Bye

Queen for a Day!

I found this card from Lee Ann Greff and fell in love with it... I love the technique of outline watercolouring and the soft daintiness of her card...so I cased it! 

I used Baja Breeze and Very Vanilla Cardstock, I ruffled the Baja Breeze Seam binding by pulling a center thread at each cut end of the ribbon and gathered both ends towards the middle.  The stamps I used were En Francais Background, Growing Green and You're a Gem.  The inks I used were Crumb Cake, Baja Breeze and Pear Pizzaz.

I also used the fabulous Tulip Frame embossing folder...when I first saw it in the Occasions Mini, I wondered how much I'd use it, but being an embossing folder maniac {g} I had to have it and I use it soooo much!  I absolutely love it and it makes any card just pop!

For the Watercolouring Outline, I used reinkers and dipped my aqua painter in the puddle of ink and then coloured inside the stamped outline...isn't it pretty?  It's really a quick and easy card to make and so much fun to see it take shape with the painting...try it...you'll love it!!

Thanks for stopping by, I love it when you spend a few minutes of your precious time with me!

Hugs ~ Judy