Just finished

Some more sample cards for After Midnight. I loved playing with the background stamp and colors. When I finished it up, I thought Egyptian. Just happened to have a new Egyptian stamp.

I just love this tree stamp! It looks great all by itself layered on this simple card. I used Spellbinders labels four dies. It would make a great guy card.

On these kitties, I used Memories Mists and masked the image. The cerdstock in the background is Black Magic Coredinations. I embossed it in the Wizard with the Impressabilities butterflies after spritzing it with Wonder Goo. Then I sanded the embossed area to show the pretty base color through.

I love fishies!!!

These great stamps are new from After Midnight. Are you ready for Christmas? Me neither, but I got these stamps too. So cute!

I got a little heavy with the glass glitter on the gingerbread house, but I love it.

Meet my new friend

This is the beautiful mermaid that Patrick Murillo sent to me. He also sent it framed. I love it....especially the starfish. I love starfish.

I have been spending a little time on metal projects this week. I decided to quit being such a chicken and make friends with my dremmel. Yay! Not so scary after all. Best of all, I was able to easily cut the opening in this piece of copper.

The dremmel also makes quick work of the filing. That makes me very happy because I hate the filing part, especially if I have alot of pieces to do.

Here is a necklace and earring set that I did as a gift for a friend.

I Won!

I almost forgot! Look at this beauty that is headed my way! Yayyyyyyy! http://mantasticarte.com/site/news/i-love-women-especially-wet-woman-with-fish-tailswin-me-as-a-print-if-you-can-help-name-me/comment-page-1#comment-57

Thanks to Patrick of Mantastic Crafts! For those not in the know, he is the awsome husband of the Crafty Chica. They are a real dynamic duo!And they produced some pretty amazing offspring too!

Zip!

There goes the time!  Lets see, my computer died and I haven't had access in awhyle. Sigh. I have been a buisy little bever whyle I was gone though.

I will start with my newest love. I took a Metal Smith workshop at my local stamp emporium called Mrs. O'Leary's. I had a great time and got to meet some wonderful people and a few old friends. I usually don't take classes but this one caught my eye and lust for all things metal. I wasn't sure what I could learn in a basics class, but learn I did! Apparently there is alot I don't know and haven't tried before. The scary torch thing wasn't as bad as I had thought and I think I have made a new friend...well, at least in the classroom. I don't think I should play with fire in our tiny appartment. The good news is, I can go there and play once a month in the open workshop and use their tools. I did take my camera with me but sadly. I didn't take any pictures. I am so bad! The one time I remember to take my camera and not one picture. On to my finished pieces. My first eva metal smith 101 is a domed disc ring. I used copper as the ring part because I couldn't afford to buy the silver, so I just used what I had been given for the class. I still think it turned out rather sweet.

I love the way it turned out. As you can see, the metal punches are not my friends. I kept getting double exposures as they would jump off the metal on me. I just need to practice ;) Still, not bad for a first piece. We got to look in the instructors books and choose our own ideas to work with. I love using the disc maker and the dapping tools. The next class I took was The Crown Jewel. This one was alot trickier than it looked.

I also took a class on Copper Etched Jewelry. I think the instructor bit off more than she could chew on this one. LOL It was packed and fun but very long. I was going to finish my piece this weekend, but got to playing around at home and the next thing I knew it was done!

Thats my Crazy Cowgirls Bracelet. I had a few near disasters and some of my pieces ended up crooked. I guess I realy should have used that template to place the holes. LOL. I dug through my stash and found the charms and I had alot of turquoise chips and beads to choose from. Plus I had wire from my other class that I hadn't used. I probably should have waited for this weekend to get some help wiring the charms on because I rather mangled some of the wire in my death grip on the pliers.

More blog candy
Mood:  lazy

Since I lost a bunch yesterday I thought I would go and see if I could find the others that I saw:

http://samanthashandmadecards.blogspot.com/

http://denisesstampingpage.blogspot.com/

http://www.kelliewinnell.com.au/?p=1817

http://ellephantasticcards.blogspot.com/

http://joyntaesaplacetobeme.blogspot.com/

 http://thenextlevelchallenge.blogspot.com/

http://www.toodlesandbinks.blogspot.com/ -cute stamps :)

http://desiref.blogspot.com/ 

 http://smellslikehomemade.blogspot.com/ 

I can't believe how much blog candy I found! Is it just this month or are there always this many? Maybe I just dont pay enough attention. LOL I sure will from now on. Maybe I will have to revisit my blogger account. It seems everyone uses it. Hmmmm, can I keep up with 2 blogs? Probably not, but I could give it a go, I guess. 

 

Blog candy
Mood:  don't ask

I keep crashing and I didn't have the post I was working on saved....of course :( I will try again. If I said I posted a link to your blog candy and it isn't there, please let me know. I am exhausted and going to bed now. Sigh.  I am posting a list of great blogs that are having giveaways. So dig in because many are ending soon:

http://cocoacards.blogspot.com/

http://crafty-moments.blogspot.com/

http://wilky-clare.blogspot.com/

http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.com/ 

http://auroradawn-ad.blogspot.com/2009/05/birthday-blog-candy.html#comments

http://passionforcrafts.blogspot.com/

http://craftycat957.blogspot.com/

 http://littlebirddesign.blogspot.com/ http://paperfuntastics.blogspot.com/2009/05/birthday-blog-candy.html#comments 

http://eisbaerentraeume.blogspot.com/

I know, I know
Mood:  caffeinated

I haven't been very good about posting lately. My computter has been having issues and to top it off, I got a couple new storage units and did more organizing. LOL I also got a Cricut and have been playing with that a bit. Made some party invites for a friends BD and a couple of notebooks using my new Rubicoil machine. I love it! They are soooo easy to do. I haven't had much time to play with the new toys that I have purchased and I haven't taken many new pictures, but here are some that I have taken....

A little late for Cinco De Mayo.

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It's never too early for Halloween! I love Halloween and these new stamps from After Midnight are awsome! No one else that I know of has southwest Halloween stamps, so I am super phsyched to get to use these.

Ah, Spring in Kansas
Mood:  cheeky

Yup there were tornado sirins goin off today. Yup thats spring in Kansas. Well, I thought I'd pop up a few pictures since I haven't posted in awhyle.

The stamps are from After Midnight Art Stamps.

Blog Candy
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