Thriving Art

So far behind in my posting and this is the last day of the year.....oh my! 2010 has just flown by. We have been blessed many times this year, and so thankful for each blessing, especially the two new additions to our family. This blog has been an artery for making new friends and a gift that has gotten me through the tougher times. I am so thankful for all of you that have visited my blog and have left kind comments. I am sorry if I didn't get to your blog or had time to leave a comment. I will try to do better in the new year. ( my ONLY resolution, as I don't normally make resolutions) The following 3 cards I did for Vicki Romaine's challenge Past Times. If you haven't entered yet NOW is the time. http://cheerfulstamppad.blogspot.com/ Stamp from Rubber Stampeded; w/ postage stamps, lace and a rhinestone to finish the hanging off. A picture of my Great-Grandfather and his two brothers: Stamped images from Inkadinkado This is a picture of my Grandmother's sister on...

Challenge 5, over at cherrfulstamppad is Deck the Halls. Don't ya just love Christmas and all the colors? Here is a simple card using Hero Arts holly and Sentiment from Stamping Up. The holly was colored and trimmed, then set onto a dotted embossed background paper. Below that is the sentiment on a double cut out from the Cricut machine. All was mounted onto a glossy red and then onto the card. A little red satin bow finished it off. This should have been a very quick and easy card to make, it took me all morning!!! I couldn't get a square piece of paper, then I couldn't get the sentiment centered and the....and then.... This is easily a 20 minute card!!!! LOL Some days I need to go back to bed and start over. That all aside you need to hop on over to the CheerfulStampPad and join the challenge!

That means one for Lori, she calls me LA-LA, ya know, the first two letters of our name, guess ya need to be here! She is the one person that got me back into stamping again, just a year ago, plus a couple of days. All she said was "Why don't you stamp anymore?" So I made her a funny little card, which she has on her desk at work. Just to show her I have come quite far this year ( thanks to all my blogger/stamper friends and their inspirations ).This card was created for her. A new stamp from, you guessed it INKADINKADO was the inspiration for this card. As it lay there, unopened, next to my elbow as I was finishing up the last two projects it kept saying "Use me with the old lady, use me with........well ya get the idea. LOL She is a stamp from Idlwild, and is very used and loved dearly. This card also holds my first grunge paper flowers. I just learned to make them yesterday! YEAH! Plus some lace and pearls were added and all layered onto a black and white...

NO time to clean it up I'm between swaps and challenges, and a full time job. Geeesh what a mess! Oh ain't it fun?

I'm not on the farm, but they are harvesting almonds right now, in this area; not nearly as pretty as the harvest in the back of this ole Ford truck. This stamp is from PSX, colored with markers then trimmed out and layered onto a tan a green check. The background is an embossed dot layered onto a dark brown, and down at the bottom, yep! you guessed it a scrapling!!! The scrapling was stamped with pumpkins, trimmed, layered onto the same dark brown, and then onto the gold paper the back ground is cut from. Raffia ribbons or green, tan and faded red tie at the end. Here is the inside view of the scrapling. Just a little Happy Harvest. I was asked what I had planned on doing with my scraplings. Most of them will be gift cards, but I thought I would try one as an embelishment. What do ya think?

I finally finished my birthday card for my DIL. There isn't any stamped images this go around, just textures and embellishments, but I like the way it turned out. The flowers and sentiment were cut out with my Cricut, then the flowers we layered and made 3-D. Pearls from the ribbon embellishment were added to the centers. The vine and leaves were from a ribbon shipment from Really Reasonable Ribbon. It all lays on an embossed piece of paper from Thomas Kinkade, then mounted onto a white card. Make a wish was cut from lavender glitter paper and layered onto a solid lavender cs. It was fun leave the stamps alone and just cut things with the Cricut, nice change.

Only Tuesday night here is California , but this picture isn't going to change before the morning. It has been a long day, and tomorrow I get to do it again!!! LOL. I am working on a couple of swaps and thinking about Halloween, should be working on DIL B-day card. The ideas are forming, maybe tomorrow night, when I know I don't have to get up early I'll stamp till midnight! Stay tuned..........................