Christmas Pear

    Okay!  I got one Christmas card done this week.  When I looked at my Christmas stamps, my eye caught my Hero Arts Holiday Florals Prints Stamp.  This stamp is huge - 6 x 6 inches.  I bought it last year, but didn't have time to use it.  So it was about time.  In …

Gone to the Beach

It looks as if I've gone beach crazy!  Well, I DO love Flordia where we lived for 25 years, and I miss it very much.  But my craziness has been the Nautical Challenge at Simon Says Stamp.  Here's my final card for the challenge.  Kassidy reminded me that I HAD to make a Christmas card …

Holiday Florals

Hey, Here I am with another Christmas card (in July!!!).  Christmas in July is one of my favorite things.  For years when I taught school, every summer I would watch old Christmas movies while it was scorching hot outside (Florida).  One year, we moved across town after school was out for the summer.  I started …

A Tropical Christmas

Here I am again, making another tropical Christmas card with the gorgeous Birds & Berries 6 x 6 Paper Pack by Wild Rose Studio Ltd.  When I started the card, I didn't know it was going to be a shaker card.  As things progressed, that was its destiny.  Follow the flow and things just happen.  This …

Warmest Wishes

Hey there, Phew!  Now that holidays and birthdays have passed for now, maybe I can get some Christmas cards made.  My goal was to make one Christmas card a week starting in January.  I sure have a lot of catching up to do.  I think I've made six, counting this one!  I wanted to do …

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year Any Day I Dabble in Ink!

Hello, hello! Boy, have I been busy!  That's a fact, not a question.  🙂  It's been hard to keep up with The Daily Marker's March 30 Day Challenge, especially when most of the days I've made a complete card.  I didn't even have time to meet my Sunday blog deadline yesterday.  Besides making a card or other sample, …

Winter Birthday

Happy Sunday, Our best friends visited us from Florida between Christmas and New Year's.  In Florida they live in a housing development.  We live in a woodsy area in Georgia.  Patz was fascinated by the variety of birds in our yard , so she spent enjoyable times birdwatching from our kitchen windows.  Patz' birthday is tomorrow, so I decided to make …

Vellum Overlay

Hi there, January is a big birthday month for people in my life.  It includes my mom's birthday, my husband's, my best friend's and our daughter's birthday, plus many friends whom I think of this month.  I made this card for my mom who turned 88 this month.  We are so blessed to still enjoy her presence.  On the …

A Hug in a Mug

Hello Everyone, I haven't done Sunday Sample since the first Sunday in December.  I gave top billing to Kassidy, who as some of you know, was in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Designer Spotlight for the month of December 2016.  I need to learn how to "bump" the most significant posts to the top of …

Simon Says Stamp Designer Spotlight, Make It Sparkle

Hello Everyone, It's Wednesday again and time for another Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.  It sure is cold where we are, and I know that many are you are experiencing the same, some worse than us for sure.  We live in the southeastern part of the U.S.A., so our winters are mild.  However, it is still …