To those who have sacrificed so much ......

Happy Mother's Day to all ....

Also did these

they are for mingles in online groups I am in ....

These backgrounds are made with Washi tapes ... it's quick easy and I think gives a real bang for the buck ... click photo to enlarge

Finally got to do some art .....

ok I saw a card made like this on another blog Kreativ Scrapping (http://tinyurl.com/ceak968) and just had to try to make one ... click to photo enlarge 

Google Reader News

Google Reader News

Here's a bit of important news regarding Google Reader. They are shutting it down as of July 1, 2013! You can read the announcement on the Google Reader blog here.  What that means to those 122 special people who follow my blog via Google Reader, you will no longer receive my news feed and may lose my blog information. I don't want to lose you!!

I have been hearing lots of good reviews about Bloglovin (and there are many more readers out there if you want to research them). I just signed up for Bloglovin and am impressed at how easy it was. I just created an account (FREE) by filling in a few blanks and I was done. 

The best part of Bloglovin was they imported all the blogs I follow personally by my clicking one button! So very easy. And I like the default format the blog reads appear in - a long list with a photo and a portion of the beginning of the post. You can manage the format as well as how often you want it to be sent to you.

So, be forewarned, as of July 1st you will no longer receive any blog postings of any blogs you follow in Google Reader! Either research the many readers out there or go with Bloglovin. Whatever your choice, I hope you will continue to read and follow my blog!

Happy Easter everyone .........

may the promise of Spring and the wonders of Easter be your today and every day ........ sorry I haven't been able to make anything to wish you Easter but the grand-babies have taken presidents ...

Well our last miracle for 2013 has arrived

miracle number 3 this year and 4 since 2009 ..... yes Baine has arrived a couple of weeks early but all is good with Mom and baby .... he is soooooo sweet and we are so happy ... arrived on 3-19-2013 @ 8:03am ... 20" long, 7lbs, 13 3/4" head ...

we have been taking care of big sister ever since mommy went into the hospital and that is why I am late in getting his photo and stats out to everyone ..... we are NOT use to an active 3 1/2 year old and she has been wearing us out ... today everyone went home so GG and Grandpa are getting some much needed rest ..... lol .... hugs to all from the proud grandparents  

Happy St. Patrick's Day

our NEW Grand babies - twins

I am in CA and have been having so much fun since yesterday with the arrival of our new grand babies ....

This morning

I woke up early and decided to make my DH a Valentine Card and an Anniversary card (44 years) ... this is the results ....... click to enlarge ....

oh my it's been awhile

January is already gone and Feb. has a good start .... what have I been up to ... well I went to CA to help get the twins nursery ready and get moved into their new house ... then I came back to help give our daughter a baby shower for "little boy", get the house files ready for doing income tax, doing Dr. visits (mostly checkups) and now I can't get my mind off the fact the twins are due REAL soon .... I did get a couple of Valentine things made but that has been it in the art department ... so here are photo's and IF I don't get back to you before I wish everyone a Happy Loving Valentines ........ the bag is going to hold things for my little sweet granddaughter ......

Happy 2013 may it bring all your wishes

Almost thru

with tags for blocks for our daughters Baby Shower .... still need upholstery tacks and ribbon/string to hang them from .... maybe tomorrow, yep it's a boy

look what Santa left

Happy Holidays

I want to wish everyone a wonderful Holiday Season ... good wishes to all this season and all of 2013 ....

Went to see Santa

ok this has nothing to do with art but I just had to share .... next year we will have 4 to visit Santa ....

Happy Thanksgiving

Remember our Veterans

thank each of you for serving in the years past and in the present ... we salute you on Veterans Day and every day

a little more Christmas

Alcohol ink on foil tape die cut on
embossing folder cardstock

embossing folder on foil tape over embossing folder
on metallic cardstock

a little Thanksgiving - a little Christmas

well I was kind of productive today in between chores ... hope you like them ....

 

Inspired by Paper Fairytale

Debrina Pratt is Paper Fairytale and she does such lovely things ... the idea of using some of my extra wooden blocks on their side and making them look like to Vintage pull toys was just so exciting to me I had to do some ... I sure had fun making these .... click image to enlarge

so for my DD I did this one



for my DDIL I did this one



for myself I did this one

Got a couple of things done today

working on catching up on some mingle commitments ... next will be doing some 7 swans a swimming ...

OMG ... we have more baby news

Our Daughter and Son-in-law just found out they are having a little boy in the spring .... it's going to be raining babies for this GG and Grandpa .... 3 little blessings in 2013 how lucky are we ....

Getting my Halloween on ....

well I got a couple of things done towards my Halloween decorations ... what do you think ......

Twin news

got a phone call late yesterday from our CA kids and the twins are growing at a good rate and looking super ... it also (not 100%) looks like we will be having a boy and a girl .... is that not perfect ... with a father that is 6'6" and a mother that's 5'2" wonder what the outcome will be ...... it really doesn't matter cause they will be prefect no matter what .... one happy GG

In Memory of the victims of 9-11

to me the waterfall fountains symbolize the many tears shed on this day, the park of green trees that life will go on, and the underground museum so we will never forget the ones that die that day ........

STAMPtember with Tim

I was doing a little playing and decided to work with Tim's stuff on STAMPtember ... it's been fun and I like doing some of this stuff just most of the time I want to "get her done" so I don't take the time to go thru all these steps ...... go on over and watch his video then have fun ..... the metallic doesn't shine like it does in real life but you can see it there it just look white ...

"Olde Curiosity Shoppe" journal

This is what I have been working on for several weeks, not that it's that complicated to make just that life kept happening and wouldn't let me work as often as I wanted to .... I will use this as a photo/journal of some future event, therefore so many blank spots and mats/tags to add things to .... I enjoyed using the G45 metal butterflies by embossing them and using the Vintaj Patina system to color and age them ... of course Tim Holtz dies makes it easy to cut interesting things on the edges of pockets to add lots of visual interest ....  if you like the construction of this book you can easily make one just follow this link to my online classes for full instructions ... http://abonlineclasses.blogspot.com/p/free-workshop2.html .... hope you enjoy

GREAT news!!!!

our California kids are expecting TWINS .... they are due end of Feb. to mid March 2013 ... so you may be seeing some baby art ... I know for sure I am going to have to get busy making burp clothes and such ... we are so excited 2 little blessing at one time, just wish they were going to be closer to us but totally understand their parents have to be where the work is ... after all my DH and I took our kids half way around the world when they were little because that is where the work was .... this is their close up ... ;-)

LIFE ...

yep it's kind of getting in the way of art again but I am working on something ever so often that hopefully I will be able to finish and post soon .... hope everyone else is having lots of art fun ... later Linda

Christmas in July - nothing like it

Came back from a super art retreat where we made this Christmas book ... had such a great time, laughed so much my side still hurt and I have been home 2 days .......

Click to enlarge .... hope you enjoy