T is for Trail change

 "And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. ⁶ He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. ⁷ And go quickly and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you. Matthew 28:5-7"

I wish you all a wonderful Easter.

Good afternoon, peeps.  It is a beautiful Spring day here.  I walked this morning and enjoyed it so much!  Trees blooming, birds singing, and not too windy!  The lack of wind was the best!  I walked a different direction than I do usually.  One reason is there are more trees; another is less traveled.

Here are a couple of photos plus a selfie with me in the hat Elizabeth gave me.  I must say, though I had to hang on to it when a breeze would come up and also it got warm.  I am not used to wearing a hat but loved wearing it because of the big sun visor on it.  Then I didn't have to wear sunglasses.

I think Elizabeth would like this trail, because it isn't concrete going this direction.

I only passed a couple of people this morning.  I really enjoyed the cardinal but couldn't get a good photo of him. 

I was busy all weekend with making cards and hostessing VSN on Splitcoast.

Here are a few of my cards I made:

This was to use leftovers.  I had this leftover background made by using this technique:  Easy Glue Printing Tutorials at Splitcoaststampers.

Do you recognize this, Elizabeth?  This card was made with the background I made with oxides at Elizabeth's  I used one of her stamps on it; such a cool postage collage.  I just stamped the sentiment.  I think this was for mostly blue challenge.  I thought I would use it for a birthday card and on the inside say something like "Look whose 60?"  or something like Oooh-la-la-Look whose birthday it is.  

This was for two challenges, one for sweets and one to use patterned paper.

This was to use something cirtessy, and this is also for my ticket to TSFT!

That's it for another week!  Be sure and stop over at  Bleubeard & Elizabeth's at Altered Book Lover for our TSFT blog hop.

Thank you for stopping by.  See you next time.

T Stands for Busy Week-end!

 "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction." Proverbs 1:7 KJV

 Happy Day, everyone!  I had a busy week-end finishing up our VSN challenges on Splitcoaststampers.

I completed all 19 challenges with 8 birthday cards, a Christmas card, a 4th of July card and 1 thinking of you card.  The other 8 cards could be used for a choice of occasion.  I love doing these challenges as they make me used long forgotten items in my stash; like brads, or stickers, or just older stamp sets. One of my favorites was one I made with stencils.  I tried a new technique; a spinner card. 

Here is a photo of the fruits of my labor:

  This will be short today.  My ticket for the TSFT party over at Altered Book Lover hosted by Bleubeard & Elizabeth is below.  We did go out to eat last week at our very favorite restaurant (Angelo's) that has reopened in a new location since closing because of the pandemic.  We celebrated Father's Day early.

Of course I can't get the photos in the right order!  But the top photo is the delicious cheese cake they brought us for free as an apology because they ran out of garlic toast and had to bake more and it didn't come with the beginning of our meal.  The cheese cake was out of this world and came with little bowls of chocolate, and caramel, which we used liberally!   The garlic toast was worth waiting for ; the best we have every had anywhere.  Our manicotti was out of this world as well.  We even brought home a sleeve of it each for supper the next night!  The middle photo was a wall  painting by our table.  And, is last our water!  Best meal! 

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a great week!

T Stands for Crafty Weekend.

    ⁴ Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant ⁵ or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ⁶ it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸ Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV

Can you believe it?  It is time for another TSFT post!  The days go so quickly!  I don't know if I mentioned it or not, but I haven't been taking my daily walks because I have tendonitis.  I even wore a boot for a while.  I think I still have it, but I am tired of not walking!  I walked around the block today.  I am starting little but hope to work back up to my 4 miles again, especially with nicer weather coming!

I will show you what I have been working on all weekend as I zoomed with crafty friends.  We were doing the Virtual Stamp Night challenges on Splitcoaststampers.  It was so fun!  I made 14 cards over the weekend and 3 have already been mailed.  The photo is of the 14 plus the three I did for the mini VSN in February.

The frog and dog cards were mailed in a bundle with other cards to Cards for Cubs, a group that mails cards to kids in foster homes.  You might recognize three of the cards as I posted them on my blog in February after VSN mini.  I had to photograph and then address the ones to go out today and make a run to the post office.  

I hope you are having a great day.  Here is my ticket to the TSFT party over at Bleubeard & Elizabeth's.  Come check out the other blogs as we share what we are doing as we sip a drink of choice.

This happens to be what I am drinking today.  I am collecting these tags to use in junk journals.  This brand usually has some kind of saying on the tag.

Thank you for stopping by, and have a wonderful crafty week.

What's On Your Desk? Wednesday

  ⁴ Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant ⁵ or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ⁶ it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸ Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV

 It is time for us to share what is on our desks over at Miss Julia's Stamping Ground for WOYWW.  

I have been making a House Mouse card for House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge-Anything Goes.

As you can see, I stamped the House Mouse image of "Signing a Card -Muzzy."  I then colored with Copics.  I backed the image with red and cut out with my pinking shears to look like a postage stamp.  I ran my base through with an embossing folder then mounted the red panel with the image.  You see all of my tools and mess from making this card right there on my desk.  A few other things which I am not sure why they are out. LOL

So, here is the finished product.

Not only is this an entry in the House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge, it is also my submission for the VSN Mini One Word Blank challenge, and the CAS Challenge for no sentiment, both over at SplitcoastStampers.

I hope you check out the other deskers and these challenges.  Very fun to see what others are doing and to get inspiration.

Thank you so much for stopping by.  Have a great week!

T Stands for Terrific Weekend!

  ⁴ Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant ⁵ or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ⁶ it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸ Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV

I did have a terrific weekend! I took part in the four-day Card Maker Success Summit!  A friend had sent me the info, and link to sign up for it.  Then, every morning I received an email for watching videos at certain times, and live stream presentations from people like Ellen Hutson.  I learned new alcohol ink techniques, and was reminded of techniques I had forgotten, like stacking die cut sentiments for depth.  I got freebies, like color charts, or handouts from the hostesses' with the measurements to make cards such as shaker cards or pop-up cards and slider cards. I saw new to me demonstrators such as Daniel West.  He demonstrated Copic techniques. I did all of this from home, sometimes in my pjs!  LOL This was my first summit.  I am already planning on the next one July 28thru the 31st!  Did I say it was free?  And did I say they drew for over 100 giveaways?

Here are a couple of the cards I made while watching a demonstrator.

For this card I used a technique I learned from watching Tiffany Solorio.  I applied drops of alcohol ink and 91 % isopropyl alcohol to a yupo panel.  After it dried, I ran it through with the SU! embossing panel, then sanded the color off the raised parts.  I just added a flower die cut to finish the card.  This is being submitted for the Flowers VSN Challenge on Splitcoaststampers, which was this weekend, also.

This is a card I made by blending Distress inks with a brush, and then spritzed with drops of water and after dry, spritzed with Shimmer.  

I didn't want to cover the background up too much, but went with this House Mouse panel I had colored.  this card is being submitted for our VSN Rainbow Challenge on Splitcoaststampers, also.  This is also being submitted for the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge, anything goes.   Check these challenges out.

So, it was a busy weekend!  But fun!

My ticket for today's TSFT (over at Altered Book Lover with Bleubeard & Elizabeth), will be a photo from Valentine's night.   We had a delightful time at a Sweetheart Dinner.

I don't know why, but with this formal dinner, they served my hot herbal tea in a Styrofoam cup. LOL We had a great dinner, grilled filet topped with stuffed mushrooms, twice baked potatoes, and mixed vegetable medley.  I had already eaten the mushroom and vegetables, before I remembered to take the photo.  For dessert we had Crème Brulee.  It was a great evening with great companions. And, can you see the roses on the table?

Today we had 70s for our temperature, so I was able to walk on the trail.  

Crazy weather, snow on the ground and 70s.  Tomorrow we start a week of cold, tomorrow 31, and Wednesday highs in the 20s!

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you have a wonderful crafty week!

T Stands For Time For VSN!

"And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. ¹¹ For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." Luke 2:10-11

Welcome to my blog today!  I had a crafty week-end, Zooming with craft buddies and participating in SplitcoastStampers' Virtual Stamp Night, or VSN for short!  We Zoomed while we were making our cards for the challenges.  I will show you a few I completed.  I tried to do Christmas cards because I still needed them.  As of today, I hopefully sent out my last three!

Our theme was Let The TV Be Your Guide.  Each challenge was tied into remembering something about a tv show or just tv.  For example the cardingal card to use a bird, was remembering Barretta.  remember, he had a cockatoo on his shoulder sometimes and the theme song was "Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow".  Do you remember that?  I had forgotten about that show!  "McGuyver It" was the one to use the Washi tape.  Fun ideas for challenges.  Check out VSN on SplitcoastStamers if you are interestted in doing the challenges.  You have until December 29th to do them and post them.

Our challenge here was to use Washi tape.

Our challenge here was to use snow.  This was inspired by Gilmore Girls- "I smell snow."

Our challenge here was to have a scarf, or hat, or mittens on our card.  I had them all. We were inspired by the iconic opening scene of The Mary Tyler Moore Show where she tosses her hat up in the air. 

Our challenge was to have a bird on our card.

We were to use houses for the Mr. Rogers Neighborhood  Challenge,

This card was inspired by the TV show, "The Golden Girls"

This was inspired by the fact that the first TVs were black and white. I plan on using this for an anniversary card for some friends the last of this month.

That is what I have been doing.  Now for my beverage tie in for the T party or TSFT over at Altered Book Lover.  Elizabeth and Bleubeard hosts it every Tuesday, or late Monday, because it is already Tuesday for some of our bloggers.  So, sit down and have a sip of your favorite beverage and join us.

Wewent to Copper Oven again recently, one of our favorite local Mom & Pop places.  I forgot to take photos of the food but got one of our waters and a couple of their decor. 

I like this little man on their wall.

Thank you for stopping by.  I want to wish you a Happy T Day.  Also, I will wish you a Merry Christmas!

T Stands For Two Topics

"Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honor all the day." Ps. 71:8

Good Afternoon!  It is lovely here today; we even had the house opened up.  It is a wonderful second day of Summer.  Yesterday, and last week with heat indexes sometimes in the hundreds, today is a welcome change!  We even got a little rain.  I don't think it is going to last long, though.

First today, I will show you some VSN (Virtual Stamp Night) cards I did over the week-end.  Our theme this time on Splitoaststampers is Fantasy Worlds.  Some of the challenges were:  Floral Fantasy, Shimmery Wings, Fantasy Island, Narnia, Futuristic.  Here are a few cards I made.  A couple have already been sent.

We were challenged to have shimmery wings on our cards, could have been dragonfly, butterfly or I chose Angel wings. I die cut them out of glitter paper.

This was a fun challenge to make a futuristic card from when we were born.  They never heard of internet or laptops or email when I was born.  This is a C Designs image, and sentiment.  I colored with Copics, fussy cut her and put her on a die cut oval then on Cuttlebug Divine Design Embossed pane.  Then I added washi tape and the sentiment on a punched Large lable, & word window, both SU! punches.

This was our floral challenge.  I just happened to have this printed paper on my desk, so distressed it and mounted on the Blackberry Bliss and added the punched heart.

This is a gel print background that I had made with a stencil.  I die cut a fairy and wings & the sentiment, then added glitter and gold thread.

Our fantasy island card.  The background was done to be like Faux Tearing technique.  I tore paper and then sponged over it to make the scene.  Makes a flatter card to mail.

This was inspired by the Narnia Challenge.  I decided that this Hampton Art Graphic 45 image was perfect to depict the children reading the Chronicles of Narnia.  I stamped the image and background with the new oxide color Salvaged Patina.  I stamped the background with a dictionary page stamp.

Secondly, I have to post this for our hostess Elizabeth of our TSFT over at Altered Book Lover.  I got lost again, like when I found the pianos, but this time I found a little memorial garden.  It is in front of the Bob Dole VA Hospital.  I was looking for the Tag office. LOL  I find the most fun things when I get lost.  I am just like my mom.  We all used to love going somewhere with her, because we always got to go somewhere other than where we were supposed to be going. LOL Here are photos of the memorial garden.  It was difficult to get photos without people in them.

I hope you liked my VSN cards and my walk through the little garden.  Did you see my drink reference?  If you want to visit our hostess and our other  TSFT bloggers click on the link above, and if you want to take part in the VSN challenges, you can click on that link above, also.

Hope you are having a nice day.  Thanks for stopping by. 

Happy 6th Anniversary/Birthday to TSFT

Can you hear me singing?  I hope not!  We are celebrating Bleubeard & Elizabeth's 6th year of doing T Stands For Tuesday!  I have had such fun since I started linking over to Altered Book Lover  to celebrate T Day!  I have gotten to know so many bloggers from all over the world!  If you ever want to join in our T Days, just post to your blog a drink related post, and then link up on her blog.  Elizabeth has been so gracious to hostess us each week!  Thank you,  Elizabeth & Bleubeard of course, too!  Some of us will even swap ATCs this week to celebrate!

So,  here is my drink related post.  I am sitting here doing this post drinking my Twinings Lady Grey!  The reason it is sitting on my Big Shot is because I have been going through my stash of cards looking for one to send a friend.

The reason I wasn't here last week, was because I was busy hosting our Virtual Scrapbook Challenges on SplitcoastStampers,  and also participating in the Virtual Stamp Night for cards. I posted 6 scrap challenges, and also did  16 card  challenges!  I have a photo for you for all the cards and a rock, and separate ones I already put in the mail.
I was using them almost faster than I was making them! LOL

One challenge was to paint a rock!  LOL  Another was a slider card. ( the one with the fairy on the robin)  I used alcohol ink backgrounds I had made one day when playing, on several of the cards.  On the snail mail card, we used a Fossilized Rock Technique.  I will have to demonstrate that on one of my future posts!

This was a sketch challenge.  

I hope you enjoyed looking at these cards.  I really had fun doing the card  challenges!  Our theme was Rock Star.

My scrapbook challenges had a theme of Scrap Fireworks.  We just got our inspiration from different scenarios surrounding 4th of July.  I gave them a color challenge for red, white & blue, for example
You can play these challenges for the whole month of July if you are a scrapper. Just click on the link above.

Lastly a few photos of my walk I take every morning.  Not along the Rhine, or a lake even!  And bad photos too, as I am having problems with my camera, or the operator!  The best photos were the ones my camera wouldn't take! LOL  First the batteries weren't working, but I jiggled it.  Then my memory card was full!  LOL

a cemetery

the funeral home of the cemetery

The path no longer overlooks the cemetery here.  The path is actually an up and down, and curvy.  So not only do I get my steps, I get some exercise, too.

Sometimes, I actually go over and walk in the cemetery; it is so pretty and peaceful.

That is my post for our Celebration Tea Party!  I am scheduling this, so hope it works!
Thanks for stopping by!  I will probably be late! But I hope I remember to link this after it posts, and to put my asterisk by my name!  I do want to exchange ATCs.
Have a great week!