Technique Night

Well here are the cards we made at the last technique class. The card on the right is what I made as a sample and the card on the left, I made as I taught the class. Same technique, but look very different visually. I love them both! This technique is called "Bargello". You want to use striped DSP and cut different width strips of DSP. I then glued the strips onto a piece of Whisper White and layered it onto Basic Black. A bit early for Halloween, but this was the only stripped DSP I had!



This next technique is called "Antique Wallpaper". I had to use a few things I just got from the new catty! There is this awesome distress kit. I used the inks from that, our new paper daisies, and one of the new embossing folders. Isn't it antique y looking!? The last technique was really quite easy. It's called "Eyelet Border Flower". Another simple technique, but packs a lot of punch! Well I hope you enjoyed the latest projects.

I'll have to get another post out soon. I won tickets to the Octoberfest in July at Shawnee Ski in PA. We had a good time and saw a clown we haven't seen since the kids were small! Hope you enjoyed the samples. See you soon! Cyndy

Happy Fourth!

Well the 4th of July has come and gone! I can't believe it! I bought a new camera in May because our old one just died. It has several features I haven't even attempted yet, but we were at our local fireworks display and thought I'd give this feature a shot. Not bad! I didn't even use a tripod! Imagine how it would turn out if I had a tripod and a remote to snap the picture?! I did crop them before uploading. I did get a bunch of black pictures too, but with digital, who cares, just delete them!





















I've been trying to catch up with stuff at home. Finally getting some energy back. Got a bunch of yard work done and the outside is starting to really come together. I'll post some pictures next time of all the flowers and my vegetable garden. These next 2 pictures are from Matthew's graduation party we had. Jess wanted this cupcake cookbook we saw in the local craft store. So here are some cupcakes she made for the party. She put a lot of work into them. They looked so professional and they tasted great too! I don't know why I was so amazed, she IS very talented! Can you tell how proud I am? I have 2 great kids (yes they do drive me crazy too) and am very proud of both. Matt will be starting college in the fall and Jess will be finishing high school in June of 2011! Boy how time flies!

I've also finally had a chance to get down in my stamp room and get some stamping done! Oh, how I miss that. My friend Debbie came over and we played a bit and came up with some samples for us to do at our next technique class. One of them, I'm going to have to save and send to my friend Chris, she is just going to love it! Now I know that gives none of you a hint as to what it could be, but Chris will know and if Edna, Eileen or Maddy reads this, they may figure it out too. Hmm, maybe I should do a prize for who figures out what one of the projects is. How about a stamp set? Yes, that's what I'll do. So if you're the first to comment or send me an email as to what one of my projects is you'll win a stamp set. Now to figure out what set! Now don't fault me, this is my first time and I'm just getting back into the swing of things. Hope you're enjoying the summer! Cyndy

June Happenings!

Well let's hope I'm back on track or at least close to it. Matthew graduated earlier this week. That was a big relief off my chest. I noticed in my posts in March and April I didn't mention about Matthew in a car accident. Well between me not feeling well and then his injuries, I just haven't been able to keep up with things. I'm feeling much better and Matthew is doing better but still is restricted as to what he can do. We go to another doctor on Monday in hopes of some help and answers. It has been very stressful around here to say the least.
To the left is the card I made for Matthew (a day late) but got it done. The school colors are red, white and blue, so that's why the card is such. I used Brilliant Blue, which is retiring, but am happy with the outcome of the card. Hope you enjoy it too.

This next project is a paper bag album I made for Matthew to take to a friend of his that is having her graduation party today. Of course, this was last minute as everything seems to be these days. This is just the front cover. I used a lot of retired DSP, card stock, and accessories for this as I seem to have so much of it now! I put a few pictures inside, but left mostly blank pages for her to put in pictures of school or whatever. I did have a few of her and Matt from when she was over our place horse back riding and when I had set up a table for one of the Relay for Life events to make cards for cancer patients. Then I also had a few from graduation itself. Tara was Valedictorian for their class. She had a nice speech and I must say she is such a nice person too!

Well I hope you've enjoyed my latest projects. I'm in the process of reorganizing my stamp room. It's a bit of a mess, but getting there. Have to get rid of some stuff so I can get around! I'll try and get some pics up of how things are moving along. It's been hard to get things accomplished, I seem to be on the road taking Matthew to his appointments and school. Now that school is out I'm hoping to have a bit more time. I've also been getting my garden in and mulching some areas that didn't get done last year. I'll have to get some of that loaded too! Hope you have a great weekend and stop by soon. Cyndy

April Update

Well April is here and the weather is finally beginning to change! I love the spring and all the new growth. Things are starting to turn green, my daffodils are blooming, the hyacinths I bought smell beautiful. What could be better? Well the ENT (ear, nose & throat) doctor I went to thinks I have allergies! Oh good grief! I've never had allergies before and I've been feeling miserable for about 2 months now! Today I finally felt like I could do something. I've had migraines, then congestion, nose leaking uncontrollable. Well the migraines don't seem to be a problem and my nose leaking like someone turned on the faucet has finally stopped, but I'm still so stuffed up I can hardly breath! I'm on some medication that is finally helping and I finally slept somewhat last night and I laid down! Before if I even bent over my head would throb! So I am making progress finally! I'm so glad. My temporary filling fell out and need to get the tooth fixed from when I had my root canal. That's tomorrow, so wish me luck. I also want to go to a stamp show on Saturday, so hopefully the dentist won't make me feel worse. I also finally feel like stamping! I felt so bad I didn't feel like doing anything, including stamping! So now I have to catch up on some cards I owe some people. I also have an open house to do on Sunday. In case you didn't know, I'm also a Realtor and this weekend the National Association of Realtors is promoting an open house weekend across the country to promote the ending of the $8,000 tax credit to first time home buyers. So I thought it would be a good idea to have an open house for my new listing. So if you're in the Blairstown area and would like to stop in on Sunday, I'd love to see you! Or of course if you know anyone that is looking to buy, send them over. The address is 2 Spring Valley Rd, Hardwick, NJ. The open house is this Sunday, April 11, from 1pm to 4pm.

March Technique

I had technique class last week, but have been sick all week and just getting my samples posted. Being Easter is right around the corner, I had to do an Easter basket. Don't remember where I got the pattern, I think I got it off the SU site. I also used the scalloped oval frame. The next technique was basically like a resist technique. The base was glossy cs, stamp your detailed image, then brayer over using your lightest ink, then stamp the next medium color, then the darkest ink all using the same detailed image. Finally I stamped the image again and heated embossed with white embossing powder.

This last technique was using metal and double embossing. Love the way this came out. You take a piece of metal and place in an embossing folder, run it through the Sizzix, sand the embossed pieces, then you need to flatten it out by running it through the machine again. Once it's flattened you place it in another embossing folder and run it through the Sizzix, sand again. You can then use sharpies to color the raised areas.

Scrap pages

The spread on the left is a kit I purchased at a CKC in Valley Forge last year. It's from Camp Hoover's 50th Reunion. Deb Hooker is the current camp director and she organized this fabulous event. She also had the path to the Ropes Course named after my mother. That meant a lot to me.

Here's another spread from the reunion. I did this one using the technique used by Tami Potter. I purchased her book at CKC in Valley Forge. Maybe this year, I'll get a chance to take her class.

These next 2 layouts are pictures from a reception for my cousin's son. He got married in Korea last year. The reception was for our family here in the states.

This last layout was also done at CKC, I just finally put in the pictures. It's done on canvas with another smaller canvas on top. Makes it a bit thick to put in a book, so I got a frame for it and going to hang it on the wall.

Life Update

Well I've been trying to find some time to get another post up, but there just hasn't been enough time. I guess that could be a good thing. Was having major headaches and needed to have root canal done and that went fine (much better then expected) but got another headache so back to the doctor! Also had to take my elderly cousin (86 years old!) to the dentist and get her taxes done and shopping. In between all this doing my real estate. This is a picture of my most recent listing. It's a nice 3 bedroom, 2 bath ranch in Hardwick. It needs some updating, but a nice home in a nice area. After I got the listing we had 2 feet of snow! Which certainly didn't help to get showings. Now that all the rain has melted most of it, we're swamped with mud! Spring is certainly about here! at least the rain wasn't snow, because we would probably have another 3 feet of it! I did manage to get a few scrapbook pages completed but my camera broke and haven't been able to try and get pictures taken with the old camera. Hopefully this week. Looking forward to getting OUTSIDE to do some yard work, at least it's warmer! Until next time. Cyndy