Getting in SHAPE!!!

For this weeks challenge over at Just Magnolia is to make a shaped card...."its not for squares". So here is my card - I made a wine bottle shaped card and I used Bartender Edwin, coloured him in with prismacolor pencil and cut him out with my nesties, popped him on the bigger label(which is also popped) which is edge in gold krylon pen, the bottom layer is embossed with the script embossing cuttlebug folder and also edged with the gold Krylon pen, to give it that wine label look. I punched a circle again edged in krylon gold and added a grape button, added some flowers with Bella baubles and some spiralled wire, added ribbon and a sentiment; on the drinks added some glossy accents to make them look like glass. Cheers to all.

Almost Forgot...3rd post of the day!

How could I have forgotten this post, the reason for the blog in the first place.....our card exchange. This is for the May card exchange that took place on Sunday, May 3. Our theme/challenge was colouring using pencil crayons or markers. I wonder if all that colouring took us back to our younger years? Again it was a great exchange and a fun get-together with the group. Nice job everyone!

Just Magnolia-challenge #5

I was busy last week to play along with the stitching challenge for Just Magnolia challenge blog, but here I am for this weeks sketch challenge....what a great sketch it is, I'm sure I will use it many times. For my card I used Tilda with a bunch of Roses from the "Chasing Butterflies" collection that I got at "Scrapbookers Dream" in Bolton(they just started carrying them---yeah!), I coloured her with prismacolor pencils, added text to the tag on the bunch of roses, used the swiss dot cuttlebug embossing folder, added some flowers with American tag nailheads and some Quickutz vine diecuts, the sentiment is from a Stampendous stamp set; the pattern paper is DCWV-vines and flowers blue and the blue dotted paper is from my stash, along with the micro-sized pearls.

Catch-up time!!

Where do I begin....okay sorry I haven't been the best blogger of late.....just been too busy. So of course I haven't blogged about our "Survivor"nights....and its over now....but yeah!!!!!! Coach didn't win....I'm even happier that he didn't get down to the final three. So three episodes ago on "Survivor" night (May 7) I watched it alone and so there was no card exchange for us..Cardzgal was away at the Mega Meet in Novi Michigan (yes I normally go too, but with an upcoming wedding I have to watch the spending on non-wedding stuff).....that must have been the beginning of my lack of blogging. The next Thursday which was last week we did dinner at cardzgal's place - Chinese food and for dessert was pineapple upside down cake with strawberries on the side - YUMMY! For our cards, cardzgal made a wedding card and I did a birthday card. Cardzgal used a stamp she had ordered online from H&M stamps, she coloured with prismacolor pencils, cut the image out with nestabilities,used a Martha Stewart border punch, added some glitter and some beads and Bella Baubles. On my card I used a High Hopes stamp, coloured with prismacolor pencils, added Shimmerz and some glossy accent, I also used some Bella Baubles





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So coach gets voted off--YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and there is one more night for "Survivor" and it happens to take place on the Sunday of our long weekend and I have a family pot-luck and fireworks that night, so I was going to record it and I do believe we were going to watch it together HOWEVER after a day(Friday,May15) of doing some shopping and visiting "Scrapbookers Dream" to pick up some Magnolia stamps....YEAH!!!! they just started to carry them; and then out for dinner and sharing a Midnight Truffle blizzard on the way home.....I called her later that night to see if she was playing with her new stamps and thats when she told me she wasn't feeling well....well by the next morning she was in the hospital being operated on for a hernia....I do believe those stamps are just too heavy for her and she should give them to me. So cardzgal spent the long weekend in the hopital and had to watch "Survivor" on a little hospital TV......so No card for the final of "Survivor" but I am very happy that J.T. won the money....I do believe he played the game the best. I can't wait for the next season.

Just Magnolia - challenge #3

This week is a sketch challenge at Just Magnolia challenge blog, its a great sketch that I'm sure I will use over and over again. When I saw the sketch I knew immediately which Tilda I was going to use, Tilda as Skating Princess, coloured her with prismacolor pencils and added stickles to her wings, I cut her out using the nestabilities oval and scalloped oval for the mat. I embossed with D'vine swirls folder from cuttlebug, used some Diamond Bling Bazzil paper and used a Fiskars border punch on the Basic Grey - wisteria pond dp, punched a bosskuts swirl and glittered it and used Bella baubles, the crossed roses are from Jolee's Boutique. This is my card, thanks for looking!

"Survivor" night - week 12

My turn again for dinner and on that rainy day I did some b-b-qing. I did steaks and baked potatoes with a salad, and for dessert did pineapple upside down cakes with strawberries and whipped cream. Then it was time to watch "Survivor", it was nice to see coach not win the reward challenge, but alas he won immunity - how "cocky" can one person be; I'd like to slap that smirk off his face. In some way I think the game is fixed because its always the one person that no one likes stays on in the game....for ratings or to keep you watching? I really don't know, but I do know is that coach has to go and very soon; oh please let it be on the next show! I do hope they show his lying ways on the reunion show and question him on that...yeah he is soooooooooooooooooo HONEST!!!!!!!

Now onto our cards - cardzgal used a Magnolia stamp, Tilda under Fall Leaf, coloured with prismacolor pencil crayons and blended with gamsol, cut and popped some parts of the stamp, used a Martha Stewart border punch, cut and paper pieced some dp(unknown origins) and hand wrote the sentiment. For my card I used a Bella stamp-Daisybella, coloured with prismacolor pencils, used ScenicRoute pattern paper, a Hero Arts sentiment , the flower embellishments were a quickutz dies with added bella baubles. Heres hoping coach will be voted off soon!




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