Thriving Art

  Happy Tuesday!  Here I am rolling in to link up with Elizabeth and the T-gang with photos of Hannah's 10th birthday.  I'm not sure how I feel about having a GK that now has double digits in their age!    Most everybody that visits my blog know my GDs.............not that I'm continually bragging on them.....oh wait.......yes I am!!! She had her party at Rush Air Sports.  It is something new here and I was amazed at this place.  It is an old warehouse that has been converted into a  Trampoline Parks , Kids Activities , Venues & Event Spaces .  I didn't take anything to take photos with when I went to walk around and gather up the birthday group for pizza and cake, but you can check out some of their photos HERE  It is worth a look at what they have made for kids to get physical and have fun....   I did get a snap of her opening the card I made her....... I posted it HERE  if you missed it this week. She l

  ....or why I was so slow in doing this!     At the beginning of summer I ordered a bundle of stamp and die sets, this is just one of them.These are from Scrapbooking Made Simple and Stacy has a video every Saturday on You Tube.   They are mostly flowers, stems and leaves.  I originally bought them to use together....stamp and die.  But I was wanting to try these stamps DTP.   Now, layered stamps have always been a nemesis of mine, you have to get them lined up "just right" or they don't turn out well.  I had heard of a MISTI stamp positioner, but they are a little too pricy for me........just one of those priority things...LOL!  I did see that there is a video on how to make your own. I had bought the items quite sometime ago, but never could get it figured out how to make it work right, using DTP stamping. (It all almost hit the trash can) Well, after watching a video See it HERE , I figured out that I needed TWO layers of fun foam!!  So I pulled ou

  Our oldest GD, Hannah, just turned 10 on Friday and this evening we are joining in the celebration. Since she is a cheerleader for a youth football team I thought this card was appropriate.......and she is a sparkly type of girl.   The front consists of all Cricut images and fonts........the background panel is the last snippet of that color of glitter paper.......which happens to be her favorite color.  It is an aqua glitter paper....but the scanner didn't pick up the color very well.   It feels good to be blogging a little more regularly again.  My summer just swoooooshed by, being kept busy with the GDs four days a week.......Now the house sits quiet    ......BUT, on the other hand G-ma now has more time to play with her stash and get back into visiting blog friends, joining some challenges and posting again....;)   Can you believe summer vacation is over and all the kid-os are back in school???  You know that means that ALL the holidays are just around t

Over at the  Art Impressions Blog they are running a challenge for cute Halloween cards. Yep! Halloween already......but then all the craft stores have their Christmas stuff on display, so why not Halloween now?  But I digress......I'm here to share a post card I made. The witches hat, from TH Crazy Bird set, just seemed to fit the AI stamp from the Hot Java Mama set.....and that is how this post card got it's start....LOL! It is all colored using a water color technique using markers.......I've become so addicted to this technique!  I'm not going to list all the other stamp companies, cause I used so many little ones to finish up the PC.  I just thought it was a fun post card and I really enjoyed making it. There is only a short time left to join this challenge so I better get linked up!  

Hello Bloggers, it's time to link up with Elizabeth and the T-gang again. Even though I am running late this week......more about that later.....     Two weeks ago DH and I made a wine run over to Paso Robles to pick up our wine club shipment. We are club members of two wineries, and Le Cuvier was having their "Pick Up" party for club members only.  It consists of wine tasting and food (small bites) pared with the wine.  We go over twice a year for this..........that is when they release their new wines.  We kept our wine tasting to a minimum at Le Cuvier because we had one more destination that day.   Over at the Croad winery we were attending a wine and BBQ event.  This was the first of any of their events we have attended.........and most likely not the Last!   This was the menu   Looking down onto the patio all set up for the evening DH drinks water, since he is the designated driver.......but he did do some tasting. During din

  Time, once again, to link up with the Elizabeth and the T-gang !  I wish I HAD this coffee cup and not just a photo borrowed from Pinterest.  But I keep using this photo because I am drinking my coffee from the same boring coffee mug the T-gang has seen many times.    As some of you already know, our son turned 40 last week, and we got together Saturday night to celebrate.  They chose Chuy's Mesquite Broiler to meet and have dinner.  Chuy's is a very casual dinning place, and we chose to be out on the patio.  It was a little warm, but they had the misters on and the sun was going down and it became a little more comfortable.  Around 8P.M. the band started...very loud, as it is not a large place.....but we had fun.   Their menu consist of things with a Tex-Mex flavor and the items are reasonable for this area.  It is a chain style place.  I looked them up on the internet and was surprised to see that they are only CA and AZ locations.      Brian (our son)

  My oldest son turned 40 yesterday and his card has been sitting here for nearly a week waiting for a sentiment to be added to the inside.  I had both his girls here for two days making gifts and cards for him.  We even made a "fruit" cake with candles. ( their fruit cake was a jello fruit salad in a mold.. they are all on a clean eating diet, so it was all fresh fruit and homemade jello....LOL)  We were so busy I didn't get a chance for photos of them.  We were all ready when he came to pick them up, after work........all but Mom.  I had completely forgotten about his card....BAD MOM!!! LOL!   Everything was cut with the Cricut, and a little white gel pen stitching.  Luckily I had set it aside ( so girls could make their cards) as I came in to put things away and finish the card this morning and knocked over a FULL cup of coffee all over my desk....ugh!  So Betsy got a good cleaning....unplanned, but desperately needed cleaning! The card is still sitting here w

  Today,is the 2nd of August and means it time to take a look back, or a second look at something, anything and the link it up with Elizabeth, the Altered Book Lover.     I've been sitting here wondering around Blogland visiting and wondering what I would share. Then I thought I'd take a look at what was going on on this day in 2013 .   I did not copy the whole post, only the art, as we were at a BBQ competition that day.   Friday, August 2, 2013 Missing You Mail Art       This was a post card, made with a decorator paper and a rubber stamp from Red Rouge Rubber Stamps......back when I was a DT member......now sadly they are no longer in business.    Hope you enjoyed a second look at this post card.   Inky Hugs Krisha

  Back from the beach......out of the cool.......and into the heat!!! LOL!  It was a fantastic 5 days at the beach, but now it is time to link up with Elizabeth and the T-gang.     My drink photo has three drinks containers this week......why?? The JIB cup was my coffee this morning after having to fast for two different tests.  One was an artery scan.......absolutely no caffeine for 12 hours and the second was a lab panel.........fasting for 12 hours.  Thank goodness the scan was  at 7:40 a.m. and the lab is a walk-in......so I did them back to back.  I don't normally eat fast food, but my first choice is Jack in the Box when I do.  It is about the only place I can handle for a breakfast sandwich on grilled sour dough bread.........and then I have to be at the starving point for that! Now I am home and drinking my first bottle of water......I just keep refilling this bottle, it holds 33.8 FL.OZ. or 1L, and I try to get at least three down each day.   The other paper