How long ago was my last post?.....I'm a bad post-er!!!

Well I do believe this posting thing should be taken away from me......we are coming up to our next card exchange and I haven't even posted the picture of last month's.......until today that is.

What was our last month's exchange theme?....oh yeah, I remember now! It was Chalking and what great cards everyone made too.

I have been so bad; I haven't even done the last two or is it three challenges for the Just Magnolia challenge blog.....will have to remember what they are and do them for myself , since the challenges are over for the past weeks. I will just have to get myself a little more organized and back on track. I have no excuse or reason why I have been so lack in my duties as post-er or doing the challenges......just time has gotten away from me....but hopefully I will get back on track here. So without any further delay.....here are the cards from last month's exchange.

Sketch at Just Magnolia - week 8

Wedding invitations are done, the card exchange cards are done...what else was there to do but do the Just Magnolia challenge for this week......I'm way ahead of the game....and posting too...WOW-I'm amazed at myself.....Okay so enough praising myself. This weeks challenge was a sketch challenge and its going to be another that I use over again.....I really enjoyed making this card. I thought with school almost being finished that this would be a good "Thank you" card for a teacher, although I personally have no kids in school anymore, someone may need one and I can offer this one to them. I coloured Tilda in with prismacolor pencils, on the desk I used distress inks to give it that wood feel, the pattern paper was from my stash(I have no idea how long I have had this), the sentiment is from Quickutz "thank-you" bundle, I also added some Quickutz photo corners and flowers. I cut the desk out with nestabilities. Thanks for looking and have a good week.

Animals and Insects - Just Magnolia

The challenge for this week over at Just Magnolia is to use animals or insects on the card. Here is mine, a sitting Tilda coloured with prismacolor pencils, I stamped a dragonfly on her t-shirt; the stamp is a Judith's stubby which I coloured in with a Sakura pen to give the dragonfly some glitter effect, used stickles on her wings.The dragonflies are from Quickutz and are popped.Used my nestabilities to cut the ovals and then I cut out the Tilda and popped everything. The sentiment is from Inkadinkado and the DP is from a DCWV stack - "the Pocket full of POSIES". It's a simple but fun card.

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.