Palm Springs and warmer weather

Just a quick message to let everyone we are in Palm Springs away from the cold and snow, enjoying the warmer weather here in the Palm Springs area.

I don't have a very fast internet connection so it is hard to upload any pictures, I will try at the next camp ground we are at.

See you soon

Cara

A few more Birthday Cards

Just a few more cards I have been working on while resting!! These are all 3D cards just spending my time cutting and layering!!

I have also added photos of some of my items I have for sale at the For Sale Blog

I will be taking more photos to-morrow in the day light!

I will have photos of all the Stampin Up sets I have available and the prices hopefully up to-morrow afternoon

Thanks for stopping by

Have a great evening.

Cara

Sorry about the no posts for awhile

Sorry about the lack of posts lately, I have been going thru stress tests before my gall bladder surgery to-morrow.  I hope I will not be in too bad of shape to get some cards made and up here. And if all this is not emough it seems we have sold our house out from under us.....so we will be selling a whole lot of things including a lot of my craft tools and supplies so stay tuned for that list in about a week, I am going to be putting a lot of the bigger things on Kijiji.
Here are a few of the cards I had been working on before all this took place, I should have had them up before now!

In no perticular order!

Say a little prayer for me for to-morrow and I will see you in about a week

Thanks for having a look

Cara

Square Scalloped Card

Square card made with Spellbinder Nestibilites Square die, embossed Cuttlebug folder, digital image colored with pencils, sentiment computor generated, bow made with Bow Easy.

Thanks for having a look.

Please leave a comment

Cara

Color Challenge

A color challenge using real red, tempting turquoise and old olive, paper used Stampin Up, flowers punched with SU punch, embossed with Cuttlebug folder, background Stampin up emboss folder

Thanks for looking

Cara

Black and White Cards

I love black and white cards so I decided to do a few using a black and white paper pad I purchased at Michaels awhile ago, sentiments were computor generated. Bows were made using Bow Easy ....Fun!

MOJO Monday 147

This is the card I did following the MOJO Monday Sketch

I am on a roll..Maybe

Because I still had photos sitting here of my perfect subject I decided I should make another page,  so I did,  this is a black and white photo, paper used stamping up, large stars were cut out using my Craft Robo, small stars are punched.  Then I decided to take the pages upstairs to more light  ie daylight and see if I could get the colors better, here is the picture from my last post also,  I think the colors are much better...like I said I am a terrible picture taker.

 

That's it for to-day I will be back to-morrow with some cards I am working on.

Thanks for stopping by

Cara

20 Minute or Less Scrapbook Page Challenge

Well I thought I would give the Friday 20 minute Scrapbook page Challenge from Carole'Anne's blog Stampin Stress Away a try...you were to make a page using this template in 20 mins or less...haha took me a lot longer than that...I am not much good at doing pages. 

So here is my feable attempt...I tried to get the lettering higgly piggly and I see now I did not do that good of a job of that and the colors don't seem to be that great either in the picture...how do you take a picture of a 12 x 12 page anyway??? anyone got an answer for me???

All paper used was Stampin Up, the letters were cut out using my Craft Robo

Thanks for stopping by

Please leave a comment

Thanks

Cara

Added Slide Show

I added a little slide show to the bottom of the page....I will be adding more pictures here soon.


Cara

Cute Little Favor Boxes

Here is a couple of little favor boxes/baskets I made using a GSD cut file I designed and cut out with my Craft Robo.  If you would like the GSD file for the basket just e-mail me and I will send it to you. Paper used Stampin Up, the last of my Sweet Pea Flowers from Stampin Up, the green basket I put the handle in too far and of course glued it, so I was stuck with it there.  These were easy to make and would be great for wedding fovors done in the wedding colors.

And then I made what I call quilt block cards using left over paper from the Sweet Pea DSP from Stampin Up, homemade flowers and butterflies using the emboslit from Stampin UP

Hope you enjoyed my little post for this evening.

Thanks for stopping by.

 Please leave a comment

Cara

LNS Color Challenge #73 Edited

Did  another card for the Late Night Stampers Color Challenge 73

I decided I would try the LNS Color challenge #73 using Night of Navy, Bordering Blue and So Saffron.

I put a little glitter on the butterflies, it doesn't show up too well in the picture and I finally broke into my package of So Saffron DSP I have been hoarding, for what I don't know......use your paper Cara , then you can buy more!!!...I really must get using more of my DSP papers

And speaking of DSP, Cindy over at Cindy Lou - Stamping Guru, she got me using up my Sweet Pea DSP, I have hardly any left, I took her Sweet Pea Class she had, I have so many cards made with it .....Frantastic class!!  I have signed up for her next class which is coming up June 21st, have you signed up? Go check it out , tell her that I sent you...it will be fun..... I have my paper and I am ready to start.

To-morrow I will show you a coule of little boxes I made with a file I designed and cut with my Craft Robo.

Thanks for stopping by

Please leave a comment

Cara

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Digital Image Fred She Said

This is a card I made for My cousins Terry 65th Birthday which is to-day I used a pre colored digital image from Fred-She-Said...she has some really great images, some are colored and others you have to color yourself and and she has lots of free image too...go check it out!

This card is a shadow box card I made for a mingle I was in, I sent it off to South Africa,

I hope she got it Ok ......It cost a fortune to send cards to South Africa, so I hope she likes it.

This is the inside of the card I did the words on the computer, should have taken a picture of the whole thing so you could see it all it has little boxes so you can check the appropriate sentiment.

Thanks for taking a look

Please leave a comment

Cara

New Month New Start

Well with a new month upon us I am going to try to update my blog more often. I have so many new cards to share I don't even know where to begin. I may have to start one of those slide show thingies!

I will start with the cards that Fran and I made the other day....double embossing and reverse nestabilities

                                                 Fran's  Reverse Nestabilites Card                                                   

Fran's double embossed card

My Double Embossed card

My  Reverse Nestabilites Card

I sure wish I could figure this blogger out how to put the pictures side by side and get the wording under them correctly..guess I will just have to practise and try different things to get it right, I shall just continue the way I am for now.

Thanks for havin a peek at our afternoon of playing

Cara

I know I know it's about time!!

Its's been over a month now since I posted so I thought I better get some cards up that I have made recently.

First is my mother's day card...3d done with a print,  the layers do not show up very good.

Secondly are a couple of cards we did at my friend Fran's last week daisy flowers cut out using the Stampin Up Daisy punch with the Big Shot.

I have a lot more cards finished, I have been working on the cards from Cindy Lou's Stamping Extravganza and I just about have them all finished I will have about 60 cards when I am all done! I will post a few pictues.

I have signed up for her next Virtual class Cindy's Stamping Garden which starts in June, go and sign up tell her I sent you there...it will be fun!!

Just finishing up a couple of scrapbook pages that I got as a kit at my local Scrapbook Store I will try to take pictures and post them also.

Thanks for stopping by...please leave a comment and I promise I will have some more things in the next few days.

Cara

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRYAN!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRYAN!

The above card was made using a Free Meljens Designs image, colored with SU pencils

And now for the real  Birthday Card for Bryan

This card was made using a digital image from Bugaboo Digital Stamp Images 

I thought it was quite appropriate......Fran wants to know if you have any more dead batteries Bryan.

Have a great Birthday at work!

Glenn and I will eat the Birthday Cherry pie!

Cara

And still more Cards I have been playing around with.

This card the flowers were cut with the big shot and a Stampin up die, inked the edges and crumpled the petals, scalloped edge and sentiment from Stampin Up

This easel card was made using a digital image from Instant Printable Images, I cut it out and then did some tile printing on it , with versamark ink and clear embossing powder and then distressed it with Tim Holtz distress ink so the spaces would show up.

This is also a digital inage from the same sheet called Mothers Day. The background was embossed with The Cuttlebug using the Folder called Allegro

This next card was easy, patterned paper for the back ground, hand made flower and sentiment done on the computor.

Thats it for now  I have one more card to show you but I can't put it up till Monday, as it is Bryan's birthday card, he says he never comes here to look but I bet he does!!

Please leave a comment and tell me what you think.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cara

More Creations REcycle? Why not!

This is a card I made with a piece from the side of a kleenex box it was just too pretty to thow away.

The colors look a little washed out, it is actually much brighter in real.

Thanks for looking

Cara

Birthday Cards

Here is a couple of birthday cards that I have mailed off,  hope the recipants have gotten them before they see them on here!

Thanks for looking

Cara

Teddy Bear Picnic anyone?

My Friend Fran makes Teddy Bears from Old Fur Coats...who wears fur coats any more anyways, you might as well get it made into a Teddy Bear...here are the pictures of her most recent making.

They are soooo cute!

What do you think, I think she did a fantastic job...if you would like to have a special bear made from your old fur and or leather you can send Fran an email at bossefa@telusdotnet

Please leave a comment and tell Fran what you think of her creations.

Thanks for having a look I will be back later to show you some special Birthday cards I made.

Have a Great Day!

Cara

More Digital Image Designers Discovered!!

Just when I think I have enough digital image companies to choose images from I discover one more, This on is  Bugaboo Digital Stamp Images   she has the cutest images, they just crack me up, I got a couple of them so I will be making birthday cards.  She is also giving away some awesome blog candy on her blog go and check it out.
I will be back later with a couple of cards!

Cara

Cara's Mess

Well I finally finished the 3 cards I have been messing around with the last few days, my niece is getting married in Oct and my sister is wanting to make her cards so I was putting to-gether a few ideas for her...this is another take on the card I made before, it opens where the pink scalloped border is and you can put the invitation inside, I have some light pink paper that is perfect it looks sorta like parchment.

This card I was messing around with water color pencils on the flowers and thought I should do

something with them so here is my creation

This card is made with flower and butterfly stickers!  Spellbinders Nestabilities dies and cuttlebug embossing folder, piece of organdy ribbon I had here and computor generated sentiment.

Hope you like my messing around creations!

Please leave a comment and tell me what you think.

Thanks for stopping by!

Cara