Saturday, August 24, 2013

SATURDAY CRAFTING

Marcia brought her new SU pumpkin stamp, washi tape, patterns and ideas for a delightful day of Halloween card making.

 Like how Marcia used washi tape on these two cards.


 The braided cut work on this card was very easy to do using the pattern that Marcia brought.
These are Marcia's cards, she was cranking them out!


On my card I used the braided pattern too but added ribbon.

I embossed the web pattern and once again did the braiding inserting a contrasting color behind it.



Thanks Marcia for coming out to stamp.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

BARRY AND JEROME

Last Sunday Barry and Jerome hosted an Inky Fingers' craft afternoon.   I unfortunately missed it
however, Christine and Dawn sent me pictures of the whimsical cards they made.  ADORABLE!






Thursday, June 13, 2013

WEDDING CONGRATULATIONS


Marcia made 75 wedding invitations for her son's upcoming nuptials in Hawaii -a beautiful labor of love.

Congratulations to Angela, Thomas and their families.

Sunday, June 9, 2013

ALCOHOL INKS

In the process of  straightening the craft room and taking a break from reading I found previously stamped dominoes and added color using the alcohol inks.

A quick satisfying creative break.



Saturday, May 11, 2013

SPRING HAT DAY

Every girl should have a fancy Spring hat.


  With lots of beautiful flowers, ribbons, "bling", hat pins and a variety of hats we celebrated Spring decorating hats at Dawn's house on Friday evening.   Even the boys...


  In my opinion one has to have the right face for hats- Britany and Caryl do.





 Dawn's hat

Monique's hat

Cary's hat

Caryl's hat

Thank you Dawn for a fun evening.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

THE KING...no, not Elvis

  KING FELIPE
Just had to post this great photo of Christine's cat Felipe.

APRIL SHOWERS

bring May flowers.  These are April's beautiful daffodils.


Heavy showers started our day on Sunday but that didn't stop the Inky Fingers from their appointed rendezvous at my place.
I should start with why I have no pictures of the get together.  My birthday was on Monday April 1st and  Easter was the Sunday before.  Plans for an Easter brunch and birthday celebration on Easter Sunday had to be cancelled due to the Fieldings, except for Quentin, spending the day attached to a "barf bucket".  So last Sunday was the follow up to Easter and birthday.  With umbrella in hand Christine and I searched for the Easter eggs the kids hid and after a great brunch, Cory made Mormon Funeral Balls  from a Sunset magazine recipe, I opened presents.  A new camera was one of the presents.
Jump now to the Inky Fingers get together and all the pictures I took with my new camera of the fabulous cards everyone made.  After most of the friends had left I ran into a little problem with the camera, it was not letting me take a photo, so after messing around with the settings it worked again.  Little did I know that whatever setting it was on before had erased all the photos.  So there is the story of why you only get to see my cards and one from Christine and Caryl.
So on we go with the photos.  Using punches we made several cards.  This is the never ending card and everyone made their own owl to match their theme.  Jerome made an owl holding a baseball bat and ball, sorry no photo available.  Here is my sample.


I had kits already cut for everyone to choose their card and make the owl.  I have a picture of Christine's card because I took a picture after solving the camera issue.



I also have one of Caryl's cards.


Punches was the theme so making  a dog and fish were the other cards.



I have two boards on Pinterest full of punch art ideas and I had a blast making these cards.



This one I made for my granddaughter Cooper who turns 9 today April 6th.  Happy Birthday to my little Aries girl.


A little store bought Washi tape on this card.