excited,sleepy, sad, and stressed...

right now..

Excited... that I am commissioned to make 13 cards for $10 each...

Sleepy... because I woke up at 1:30 am and couldn't go back to sleep...

Sad... for my good friends Mark and Sally Richter and Germaine Hobelman, families who lost their mother Monday and Tuesday...

Stressed... because I have to go to two funerals, go to the store to get and make food for them and gets these cards done by Fri..plus I did want to get some exercise in and I need to pick up Mom.....

Well on with a card for today...

This is a very beautiful card I receive in a card swap...I feel it is very appropriate for the day..
The main color is Baja Breeze, the flowers are embossed on vellum and colored with a Baja Breeze marker, then cut out and the centers are glittered.

Have a lovely day, I must be off now.

HS,
Wanda

kinda down today...

but I know you didn't come here to hear my sad stories...("new" used car is not fixable...waaah.)

So let's change the subject and see what kind of cards I have on file.  I made about 8 or 9 the other day, but haven't photographed them yet.  If you would see my house, you might could figure out why.

The is one with a really cool fold that we will be doing in Dec class...you'll have to wait a couple of days to see that one.  It's called the twisted card...hummm

Well here is one for today....

How about a nice snowy card for the 75 degree weather we are having here today....?

The card base is Crumb Cake, it doesn't show up here too much.  The mittens were punched with the new mitten punch in the Holiday Catty.

Well, I'll go now and get started cooking supper.

HS,
Wanda

things are moving along but...

it's still quite messy around here.  But the finished product will be well worth it!

You won't know it. unless you read my blog, cause I'm not telling anyone else, but I will have a remodeled bathroom (at least to some extent).  Yeah!

Well stamping around here is still pretty much at a stand still, but I think I am going to my great stampin' buddy, Barbara P's house and then we will play our hearts away.. at least for a few hours, if it all works out.

I have been asked to design and make 9 elegant cards......I hope we can work on that today.

Well until then here's a little something....

 

 

Barbara made part of this with mds (my digital studio).. it very pretty.. Me, I don't much about it, though one day I will....

 

Well have a lovely day and know I am "thinking of you"!

 

Happy Stampin' (HS)

 

Wanda

just got home...

from a visit to the Smoky Mountains.

Last year we started, what we hope is a tradition of going with a few of our friends, Mark, Sally, Markie and Rhonda to stay together for a few days in Oct in the Smoky's.
We had a wonderful time, one I hope of many.

While I was gone my sister asked me, what two projects I'd like done in my house........I won't go into details but.......things are quite topsy turvy around here.  I don't think I have any room to stamp at ALL.  I even had to cancel my classes this month, which is sad cause I have so many great things.

Well here something that I downloaded before I left.  I wanted to post while I was gone, but can you believe it, I had no internet while there!  Talk about primitive.....:0)

 

Here is a card we did in class last month.  I cased it from Dawn O.  I don't send Halloween cards, but some of my girls (stamping ones) do, so they had an option to do this one....

 

It uses a spotlighting technique that is fast and easy..you could do this with a lot of different stamps.

 

Well I have a mess here, so I guess I'll go for now.

 

HS,

Wanda

for some reason, I don't feel like....

blogging, and I'm not sure why.

However I shall do it anyway.....

Actually I am starting to feel better already...I want to experiment today with some different techniques to make some really pretty leaves I saw online.

I hope I can get to them.  First of (I keep getting phone calls to interupt me and I can't remeber what I was going to say).....

Well anyway after that interuption I will just move on to a card.....

This is a card we made at a resent down line meeting, designed by none other that the famous Mary Brown....We used the new Evergreen stamp set found in the Holiday Mini catalog..

Well I get on with my day which includes swimming..

See you soon.

HS,
Wanda

what a week......

talk about emotionally draining......

Some details I can't mention because of the serious nature of them....but wow what a week... I feel like I have lived 2 weeks in just 2 days.

Seems like everyone I know is having some real hard problems and situations..
But the phases of a song that keeps running though my head is..Does Jesus care, Oh yes He cares, He cares and He understands...When the days are dreay and I am weary, I know my Jesus cares.
I am so glad He does care and when it seems like we can't take any more, He's there to help lift our load when we take it to Him and trust Him to work out His will, maybe not our way, but His way...

My visit with my sister was wonderful and very eye opening.  She works at Echo Hills, and adult care facility for physically and mentally handicapped adults.  I wasn't there 5 minutes before I couldn't hold the tears back....They are so sweet and special.  I count it a privilege to stamp with them and visit with them.  Mom went too and we really enjoyed our selves.  It gave me a new appreciation for what my sister, Raeschell does and is doing to help others.

I took a camera to take pictures of what we made with them, but left it in my car, which I didn't have with me at the time, so no pictures, but they were very proud of what they did.

Here' s a picture though of a card...

I love this card..Barbara P got this in a swap she did at our down line meeting last month...and we are going to be doing this in class this month...

It uses the embossed resist technique, one I have used before.

Well I am off to wash my hair, them swimming, and going to Rachel's to help her work on a quilt she wants to make.. I am cutting out squares for her to sew with my Big Shot. (and you thought it was just to make cards with...)

Have a lovely day.

HS,
Wanda