January's Sketch

I apologize for the quality of the picture. This is the sketch for our January exchange. It was taken from the Scrapbook and Cards calendar for 2011, have you got yours?

A New Year Resolution

Happy New Year to all!!!! I believe all who read this blog from time to time hope that my New Year resolution is going to be.......wait for it................to blog more and post our creations more - sooner than later......hahahahaha! I hope that for myself too however I promise nothing

It has been a wonderful and busy year.....doing lots of classes, even teaching some, so lots of my time went to prepping and organizing for that....lots of knitting happened this year for me......a new baby girl happened into our lives here.....Now I can be called Gramma....so more knitting will be happening. Our card exchanges were lots of fun this year with the challenge of sketches and themes. Our little group welcomed new members this year, so all has been very good.


I have the last two exchanges to post; the first one is November's cards which was Hostess themed and the second picture is our December exchange which was Christmas themed, who doesn't like making Christmas cards!


I hope everyone has been having a wonderful and safe holiday and that the New Year brings all your dreams and wishes. Enjoy your New Year Eve! and I'll be posting to you next year....hopefully on a regular basis.

A little group meeting

Well I haven't post anything for over 4 months and today I have done 3.....almost like I am caught up...hahahahaha! Well here is October's card exchange cards, it was a sketch challenge....and I very much liked this sketch. We were a small group this month, only 3 of us from our group of 7 were able to make this exchange.......as I said before we have had a very busy past few months. Thanks again for visiting our blog and hope you enjoy our cards!

August -sketch theme and September's theme pictures

Halloween /Goth challenge

August's sketch challenge

Where or where has the blogger gone?

Hello All! Yes I am still living and crafting.....where have I been the whole summer and then some...well I have been here...no I have not been sick.....just been very lackadazical(if thats a word) in the blogging department. Yes we have been meeting every month and doing our cards...as you will see in this post with the oh sooooooo many pictures of the last four or five card exchanges....I might even make it into 2 or 3 post to get all the pictures up. Our group has been busy in the last few months.....with summer holidays, a wedding and a birth of a grandchild, designing and preparing for classes ..... so hopefully you all understand the tardiness of the blog person here. So on to the pictures....Our July exchange theme was humour, August was a sketch, September was Halloween/Goth, and October was a sketch. Enjoy the pictures, and hopefully I can now start keeping the blog up-to-date with postings. In this post I will show you the July card exchange....thanks for your patience and for visiting us here.

June's Card Exchange

Happy Long Weekend to All! Yes I have been neglecting my duties as a blogger again...I have no excuses, just been busy with everything and nothing. June's card exchange challenge/theme was a sketch, using a sketch from the pdf archives - June 2006 on the Pagemaps site; our card exchange group came up with some amzing cards again. Looking forward to our next exchange theme which is Humour. Here are our cards. Have a wonderful holiday weekend!

Long Weekend and Nice weather!

Hope everyone had a great Victoria Day weekend, the pictures are a couple from my family get-together where we do a pot luck dinner and let some fireworks off at night.The weather was the best we have had in such a long time....it was a great day.

Our next card exchange is a sketch challenge so I will be posting them after our next meet. Enjoy the nice weather, have a great week!

YEAH! YIPPEE!! YAHOOO!!!

Okay, so you can tell my title that I'm a little happy......."Little Man Russell" didn't get ONE vote(looks good on him) last night at final tribal council....he came third this time....thats even one worse then the last time he played its got to tell him something.....I was on the edge of my seat and my thoughts all night were if HE wins....never, ever again will I watch this show.....but alas the panel of jury came through....LOL

So onto the card-making part of this blog......the card exchange group met on Sunday May 2 and the theme for this month was GET WELL. I may say this everytime but I really mean it.....what a great set of cards we got this month. We had a new member join us which is really awesome, some fresh creativity and ideas for all of us to learn from. Welcome, Welcome!!!

Next months theme is a sketch challenge. Looking forward to all the cards!


Cardzgal and I were away at the Great Lakes Mega Meet in Novi, Michigan on May 5-8, had a wonderful busy time....saw lots of great ideas, even bought a few things for scrapping and cardmaking....can't wait to try them out. We watched "Survivor" in our hotel room, but didn't exchange cards that show.....but we do have 2 other card exchanges, one from an earlier show that I haven't posted yet and from last nights show. I guess when the next season of "Survivor" begins it will be our all Christmas card exchange.....looking forward to it!

So here are the card exchange group cards and the "Survivor" mini card exchange. Enjoy!

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Almost Forgot!!

We had our card exchange for April a little later in the month, due to Easter being at the beginning of the month. I almost forgot to post it til I was looking back at the blog. So the theme for April was a sketch challenge (the picture of the sketch is blurry), its from Pagemaps - pdf archives - June 2006 cardmaps. The cards are wonderful as usual and we all seem to like the sketch challenges. Our next theme/challenge is GET WELL for the month of May and we are back on schedule, the first Sunday of the month......only 2 weeks between the exchanges but we can do it....of course some were done before the last exchange....yes! you know who you are!....we are all so green and envious and wish we could be organized just like you, keep up the good work. Here is the sketch and the cards.

Keep Smiling!

Foolish Moves

Well I do believe this is the season of the most foolish moves I have seen in all of the "Survivor" episodes. J.T. giving the idol to "little man"Russell....anybody BUT him!; Russell giving Parvati the idol; the Heros not sticking with the orginal plan to vote Parvati off.......not that I want Parvati to win.....she has and is definitely been NOT a favorite of mine in all "Survivor" shows she has played......BUT she made a very wise decision to give both idols away at tribal council. Can't wait to see how Russell reacts back at camp with Parvati.

We had dinner at my house for "Survivor" night, picked up "Swiss Chalet" on my way home from getting my nails done....we did the chicken and rib dinner thing tonight, with lemon pie for dessert......Yummy!

For our cards- Cardzgal used a Stampavie stamp, flowersoft, spellbinders and a Martha Stewart border punch; she coloured the image with Prismacolor pencil crayons. I used a Stampendous stamp, did lots of masking and chalked for the colour, the sentiment is from Hero Arts and added some stickles(may not see that in the picture).

Our card exchange group meets again on Sunday May 2nd; the theme is Get Well....so I will have lots to post after that and the next "Survivor" night. Heres our cards, til next time, Keep Smiling!

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What have we been up to?

Well it looks like I'm back from my blogging hiatus...not that I really was on one, just don't know where the time has gone and I really haven't been on the computer that much......which is bad of me since there has been 2 card exchange meetings and lots of "Survivor-Hero vs. Villians"- card exchange nights that cardzgal and I have done.

To summorize the feelings about "Survivor"....I am enjoying this season even though I really don't like a lot of the contestants.....all of the VILLIANS...... and UGH!!!!!!!!! why don't they see what Russell is doing, I dislike him the most and I guess JT has joined the group of most stupidest Survivors : Erik from season 16 who gave the fake idol away, James who had 2 idols and didn't play either aand got voted off and I'm sure there are many more stupid moments that I have forgotten about or too many to put here right now.

Okay onto our card exchanges; March's card exchange theme/challenge was to decorate a pre-cut take out food box....lots of great ideas and a very challenging challenge for us......really outside "the box" for our little group......hahahahaha, yes I meant to do that.
April's theme/challenge was to follow the sketch we had picked, which was from Pagemaps -cardmaps -June 2006....we are all enjoying the sketch months.


For our little exchange on "Survivor" night cardzgal and I are using stamps that we have but have never used before....EVER!...so the much have to have stamps that have been sitting in our little collection our now getting the ink and love they deserve.
Enjoy all the pictures!
This group of pictures is from the past 2 card exchanges.














These pictures are of the "Survivor" card exchange night.

Olympic related

Did you see the ice dancing at the Olympics. Virtue and Moir won GOLD. Absolutely beautiful skating. A great win for Canada and a great win for Ice Dance..woot...woot............

WUHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Just had to share this great moment in skating!

Enjoy the rest of the Olympics.

2 weeks into it

Is there anyone out there watching this season's "SURVIVOR" and yelling at the TV as loud as I am......I know cardzgal is....we watch it together and the first episode I was ready to throw something at the television every time the "Villians" came on.......Boo - Hiss - spit -spit - spit!!!!!

I forgot about Randy the wedding videographer being on that team, its bad enough there is Coach(yuck!), Boston Rob(pleck!), little man Russell(gag!), Tyson(eeewwww!)......okay I think you know how I feel.

Well 2 episodes in and cardzgal and I have not done one card.......I think we forgot that we were going to do that again, but I have to say we have been busy doing an album series at Scrapbooker's Dream on Thursdays(we have been taping the Survivor shows)- so that will be the excuse of the day. We haven't talked about it.....I just remembered as I was starting to blog this - I will have to discuss this with her. Maybe for this weeks episode we'll have one to share.

However our cards from the exchange were great and I will post them. As I said in the previous post it was a sketch challenge, the sketch is there. Our next exchange is going to be a little different, we are doing "take-out" boxes.......decorating, stamping them.....maybe getting angry at them and cutting them up into little pieces....oh wait that might just be me......my brain just doesn't want to work when thinking about what to do with these "darlin' little boxes"......I'm sure I'll come up with something --hopefully.

Lets keep our fingers crossed that the "Heros" will win the challenges....I don't like seeing them lose and seeing them become nasty....although I know its gonna happen.....and another thing.....I have never seen James so outspoken as he has been this time around. Well til after the next "SURVIVOR" episode, have a great cardmaking week!

For the Sketch challenge

Here is the sketch that the card exchange group from A Scrapbookers Dream is going to be using for the February exchange. The sketch is from PageMaps - June 2006 card maps- pdf archives. Sorry the picture is not all the best. Look for all the cards in a couple of weeks.

Cardzgal's Birthday

Its past the actual day and she has her card so its okay for me to post the birthday card I made for her special day. Lots of masking on this one but lots of fun to make.

The first post of the year!

Happy 2010. Its only been a week and a day past our first exchange of the year....and I'm posting ....yeah me!!!! Hmm, maybe I shouldn't praise myself just yet...lol. Well the theme to our card exchange was Penguins....I wonder how we came up with that? It wouldn't have anything to do with a trip a certain someone took to the Antarctica to see the penguins ....would it? Our dear proprietor of A Scrapbookers Dream went on such a trip and the pictures of all the penguins were fantastic, how could we not do a Penguin theme. So we are off to a great start of cardmaking this year. Just a point of interest for our little group....as I was organizing the pictures of all the cards we have made on my computer here, I couldn't help but notice we have been doing this exchange for almost four years now........how many cards is that? I might have to get a bigger box for all the cards....or maybe a bigger craft room to hold them in.....hahahahaha!