I Ran Away...

and I very well may go back---soon

 

The pic says it all....

grandson of very dear friends...

Liam and I was tempted-quite

to hot-wire his grandpa's mini mini

and go get Fuzzy Peach Yogurt...

Love him!!!

Until next time,

happy stamping and scrapping!

Blessings,

You're the Sweetest Thing...

I have a great friend

whose birthday I am always, always always

late for.

You see

it falls just a few days after

a craft show I do every year.

And every year

I am still late.

 

I may be going to visit her this week-end

and I am doing my happy dance

because I have her card

and her gift

ready to go with me---

WEEKS before her birthday!

 

 

When you open it--

those polka dot flaps move

to reveal the message hidden behind them!

LOVE IT!

I cannot take credit for this technique

as I spotted it on

Dawn's Stamping Studio.

 

I just made mine a little bit bigger.

 

 

I could not remember

if she glued that center panel

complete down

other than where the flaps are or not...

it was 2ish AM when I was doing this

as I couldn't sleep

and all earlier attempts failed

(I have this black cloud that has been following me lately--

after 2 weeks-I am ready for it to GO!

 

 I found it was  a wee bit easier

to get the flaps to move right

by scoring them  1/4" -- 1/2" from the end you tape down.

This will make more sense if you watch her tutorial.

Just score the ends and then lay them down and adhere them

as she tells you to.

The score line for me just made them open smoother.

 

 

I've been around the papercraft world a long, long time

so I love it when I find something new and different-

and this was!

I know I will be using it a lot!

 

That's it for now.

Until next time,

happy stamping and scrapping.

Blessings,

 

 



Halloween Hauntings...

Maybe it was working on the

TURBO KITTY COSTUME

Saturday...

I don't know

but something spooked me into

playing around with the

Cricut Artiste cartridge

last night--

and this is what I came up with...

That black cat looks a little familiar! Lol!

I cut the casket at 6"--leave off the real dial size

to make the lid and base of the casket fit together nicely.

A little trick the CTMH ladies shared with me.

The tombstone I cut at 3" (I think!)

I cut the outline layer and ran it through the embossing folder

and then inked it with some black

to make it look a little more like stone.

I popped up the front layer and backed the RIP with

a small piece of black.

Added purple gems in between the initials

and green ones made the purrrr-fect cat eyes.

(please excuse and ignore the white pop dot

peeking out from behind the back foot--

why is it you NEVER see these things

until you go to post the pics??!)

The grass is just hand-cut.

I found that if you cut really really narrow slits

it even gives it some curl!

The bats are a small punch I have

and I simply attached them to strips of transparency

so they look like they are flying.

 The roses...

I had on hand from my

before I crashed 3 Cricuts--days

(still think it's my Art Philosophy cartridge)

and the web is merely quilt batting

pulled thin.

Are you ready for the surprise?

BOO!

I cut out the skeleton at 5 1/2"

and backed the pieces on a piece of transparency

then trimmed around it.

Next I cut the casket at 5  3/4"

and set it upside down inside

to give the skeleton a lift.

To make him pop up even more...

I added a CTMH spring!

While this makes him kind of jump out at you--

it also created an issue with the lid staying on.

I solved that

by taking 3 quarters and taping them

to the underside of the lid

close to where the spring is centered

and then covering those with the center portion of the lid

with the flaps cut off.

If you wanted to include a treat---

you could simply lift out the base

the skeleton is on

and tuck it underneath!

I also thought it would be cute

to attach a note in his hand!

 

 

That's it for today!

I had fun just playing for a change

and am happy to say

I used things I already had on hand!

 

Until next time,

Happy haunting-

stamping and scrapping.

Blessings,

It's a bird---it's a plane---it's...

TURBO KITTY

Faster than a speeding bullet...

faster than a ray of light

 

or however that saying goes...!

 

This is Inky

aka the baby...

aka

TURBO KITTY

 

Every now and then

he goes into his hyper mode

or, as I call it

"turbo kitty mode"

and starts tearing around the house

bouncing off furniture and the walls.

One year

a camel in the nativity scene

needed EMS--

he got a broken nose

when TK landed in the middle

of the 50+ year old set.

(Thank God it was that old-

or he probably would have needed

the local funeral home instead!)

 

Anyway.

This little guy

jumps  from the top of our bar

to the top of the refrigerator.

Or from the other bar

to the top of the refrigerator

and back again.

His favorite thing to do

is to jump back and forth from one bar to the other

while I am trying to walk back and forth

to get dinner bowl preparation supplies together

(4 cats---2 on special diets...it takes work, people!)

and yes,

we have collided in mid-air.

I always said

I was going to make him a turbo kitty cape

and yesterday I did.

Our local paper

has a column called

Sidney's Space

which is written by a dog...

and tells of the various goings on in her world

with her and her feline siblings.

We've appeared often in Sidney's Space

and I suspect Turbo Kitty will, too.

Sidney was asking for others to send in

their Halloween costume photos.

Funny thing is

when I put his cape on

he scrunches down and slinks around

like it weighs 2 tons!

 

Off to write Sidney

and to work on more craft show stock prep.

 

Until next time--

be safe and never fear-

TK has your back!

Happy Halloween---

and stamping and scrapping!
Blessings,

CTMH ARTBOOKING = AMAZING!!!

It arrived today.

OHMYGOSHMYDEARGODINHEAVEN!

I don't think I need

any other Cricut cartridge!

 

I really wish

I could take you behind the scenes

to the consultants bulletin board posts

to see what this awesome cartridge does!

Books.

Entire books.

Just press a few keys!

Done.

As simple as that.

I will not--I simply refuse

to post Corp's canned sales videos

(they can hate me---but helmut hair with the fake smile

does not cut it for me--sorry! And I despise

blogs that rely simply on the advertising corp creates!)

 

Not here.

If you want to see it in action-do a Google search.

If you want one--let me know.

 

I may get to play with it this week-end

and I have other pics to post as well.

 

For now...

I am drooling over the booklet of what it can do---

while sipping a rum drink

and eating hot home-made blueberry cobbler

all in bed

with my laptop and heating pad

(I hate Fibromyalgia!!!)

 

Until next time,

happy stamping and scrapping.

Blessings,