I tell ya, if my head wasn't attached...

*sigh* It's been one of those weeks, ya know?  I've got a few projects that I've been trying to finish up before I go back to work.  It seems like all of a sudden, the days started picking up speed!!  Plus-- and I know this never happens to anyone else-- it's one of those weeks where it seems like just when you thought you did the dumbest thing you could possibly do, you do something else that's just... dumber. Haha... oh geez.  I read this quote online and it seems to be my life motto:

""He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at."

~ Epictetus

That old greek guy had some pretty good insights.  I'm grateful that I have that sense of humor that allows me to laugh at myself.  If not in the moment, then at least in retrospect :-)

All that to say, here is my DT project for 365 Cards:

 Today we're making Artist Trading Cards!  I've seen them, but I've never made one before.  The beauty of ATC's is that they can be any style, use any medium, as long as it fits onto a 2.5" x 3.5" canvas!  I can't wait to see what everyone else has up their sleeves. I hope you'll play along-- someone's gonna be getting some fabulous goodies from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps at the end of the week, so check it out! :-)

Cookin' Up Some Punny Stuff

*If you're looking for my card for 365 Cards, it's down toward the bottom!*

Hey there blogger-friends!  It's been a while since I've done a regular ol' "hey, look at this!" post.  This summer has been shaping up to be a pretty fun one so far.  I had a couple of goals that I made for myself, and I'm well on my way to meeting those!  The first one was to make cards to send in to Operation Write Home.  I picked up a medium-sized box at the post office the other day to see how close I was to actually filling it-- and I'm about half way there!

Oh, and speaking of cards (ummm... duh, what else would we be speaking about on here?), I added a couple of links over there on the sidebar.  Take a second and check out Susie's blog, where I was a featured stamper.  She has some great stuff to share! ---->>

My other goal was to see every show at the Muny this season.  Three down, four to go.  I've seen Beauty and the Beast, Titanic: The Musical and Damn Yankees.  I don't know if there's any other place like the Muny, but it's definitely one of my favorite attractions during the summer.  Because it's an outdoor theater (and because St. Louis weather is kind of ridiculous) it's a bit of a hit-or-miss situation with the rain.  This is the first year that I've gone and a show actually got rained out.  My whole family went to see Titanic a couple of weeks ago. They were predicting storms for that particular night, but we decided to go anyway, in hopes that any rain would be over with before the show was supposed to start.  Besides, we always do the free seats, so it's not like we were gonna lose money on tickets or anything.  No such luck.  It rained from the time we arrived until well into the evening when they finally canceled the show at 9:30.  Oh well :-) We had fun anyway-- This was our view from the free seats:

I ended up going a few nights later with a friend.
She had tickets.
They were really close.
It was awesome.
"Cats" is showing this week... I've never seen the show before, so I'm looking forward to it.

SO... finally, I've got a card to share with you.  This one is for today's challenge over at 365 Cards.  The challenge is to create a card with something related to the cooking of food. Well, it just so happens that I recently picked up some super cute stickers at Archivers for exactly this purpose.  I was fishing through the "hot spot" corner and I said to myself, "There's always some kind of food-related challenge and I never have anything for it... I'll buy these."  And whaddya know! Hehe.

HAHA.  I love puns. When I started making this, my original idea was that it could be used as a belated birthday card.  But it kinda works as any kind of apology card.

Also, I made this card LAST week, but never got around to posting it to the challenge...

This one was for 365 Cards' "Imagine This: Chalkboard" challenge.  It's almost back-to-school time!  I'll be back at work in almost exactly one month. *sigh* It's gonna go so fast.

Hope y'all are having a fabulous week!! Thanks for stopping by :-)

Kid Quotes

It's 1:38 a.m. as I begin to type this. My Facebook status says I was "going to bed" about an hour ago. So why am I still up? Because I just HAD to come back and see if there was anything new on Blogger. And there was. Pam had posted the challenge for 365 Cards. It called to me.

At first, when I saw the colors we were supposed to use, I was like "HUH?" (I'm not very articulate at this hour. lol) It seemed like a strange combination, but after a couple minutes of head scratching, I had an idea. I think it was that weird orange-ish color that was throwing me off-- so you'll notice that I used it very sparingly. But it worked perfectly into my plan. Haha.

How 'bout these quote stamps-- are they cute or what? I love them. But enough yakkin'. Here's my card. I'm really going to bed now.

Thanks for looking! Goodnight y'all.

Shamrocks and "Rainbrellas"

Okay, last post for today! Hehe.

I hadn't tried a "Mojo Monday" sketch yet, so that's what I used for this St. Patrick's Day card...

This was one of those "use it up" cards... made mostly from scraps that I've had laying around for a while.

And just for fun, here's my "rainbrella" card...


I really like the quote on this card... "Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain." So true :-) Only a couple weeks away from those April showers!

Come on Spring, you can do it!

It's so close I can taste it!! I can't wait for spring! The weather has been absolutely GORGEOUS this weekend. As Pooh might say, "It's a rather blustery day today." Leaving church this morning, we were practically blown to the car.

Anyway, the other day I found another card challenge blog. Card Patterns had a sketch challenge that I wanted to try. I pretty much knew right off the bat that I wanted to do something with trees, and the rest just kind of worked itself out! Hope you like what I came up with...

Materials: paper (bazzill basics); rubber stamp (inkadinkadoo)

Tools: sm. circle punch; sm. star punch; circle punch (creative memories); lg. oval punch (paper shapers); sm. heart punch; decorative trimmer (creative memories)

Caardvarks Kraft Paper Challenge

Here is a card I created for Caardvarks' challenge to use kraft paper. I don't usually use kraft paper, so this was a bit of a stretch for me.


I like to use bright colors, but I didn't care for the look of the colored cardstock against the brown paper. So I smeared black, red and green ink pads directly on the paper and cut my pieces from that. I like the end result.

I'd love to get some feedback on this!

Materials: kraft paper; Crimson and Emerald Green (Rubber Stampede), rubber stamp (Inkadinkado)

Tools: sm. circle punch, sm. swirl punch, 1/8" hole punch, scalloped scissors