T Stands For Taking A Walk

One of my favorite Bible verses KJV Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

 I had another interesting adventure last week when I mailed my ATCs to Spyder and Elizabeth.  I decided that I would just leave my car at the post office and take a walk from there.  It was noon and hot, but since I was out anyway, I wanted to get my steps in for the day. I found a dilapidated fitness trail and decided to walk it.  Here are some photos.

 A rotted fitness station

There was a overgrown street in back on the trail and pond that went nowhere.

There was life on this large pond  that the trail circled.

Not only has the trail been overgrown and let go, but this bridge on one part of the trail is dangerous looking, but I went out on it and took a photo of the water both ways.  No one is taking care of anything.

Stairs to nowhere.  A deserted road to nowhere above, but don't know why these went up to it.  They are made of stone.  

This is where I ended up from my walk, which had been  in back of the Marriott.    Any way, I like to walk in new places, and this was a hot but interesting walk!  LOL  I just wonder who owns the land and why they have let it go to pot.  You couldn't see the pond from the trail except in a place or two, because the trees and bushes, and weeds were so overgrown. It would be such a lovely place to walk if upkept properly.

I have to show my gift from our wonderful hostess, Elizabeth.  Her friend Sally was downsizing her craft supplies, and getting out of scrapbooking, altogether.  I guess she was going to send these to Goodwill or throw them out, and dear Elizabeth thought of me and rescued them!  She ask Sally if she could take them and give them to me?  Wow!  Thank you Sally and thank you Elizabeth!  I will definitely be using these.  The one in the box is so pretty and I plan on doing a heritage scrapbook for my sister and gift it to her in the box at Christmas.  I had never seen any scrapbooks like this in a matching box and there are three of them in boxes. One of the boxes not only had the album, but also matching papers.  The one I have slated for my sister is the one with the bows.

Here is one card I made this week.  It was for several challenges on SplitcoastStampers.  The stamp set was an old one from SU!, Nature's Sketchbook  I stamped and heat embossed with Versafine black ink and black embossing powder.  The heat embossing was for the heat challenge for the Ways To Use It.  I water colored the flowers, and the background is color bursts with water for the Free4All to use water.  This is also for the color challenge for Coastal Cabana, pink, and silver. I added silver stickers to the die cut butterflies, (Beautiful Wings emboslit for Su!)  Also, this is for Alpha Challenge to do journaling for J, and lastly for the Teapot Challenge to do a Summer card.  This has already been mailed to the Teapot destination of someone who needed encouragement.  Every week the teapotters on Splitcoast have a tea party for someone who needs encouragement.  They had one for me when I broke both my wrists, and last month  they had one for my husband to encourage him after falling and breaking his hip and having surgery. I will take a photo for next week of all the cards he received from all over the world. Today, he just got one from Germany.

It is about time for my ticket to the party, my drink related post.  That is what we do, have a drink related post and link up over at Bleubeard & Elizabeth's at Altered Book Lover as they host T Stands for Tuesday.  Then we visit each other and find out what we are each doing. 

One of the first cards I ever made about 12 years ago.  I don't have this stamp any longer.  I still have quite a few tea stamps, thought.  I think I collect them, but did part with a few of them.  Just like my teapots, a person doesn't have room room for all of them.  

Happy T Day to the T Gang!  Thanks for all who stop by, and especially for commenting.  I read everyone of them.  

Happy 8th Anniversary TSFT!

One of my favorite Bible verses KJV Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Good evening! I hope this finds you cool.  It has been so hot everywhere it seems.  Except, I guess in Australia where I am told it is cold.   I am posting today to say Happy Anniversary to Bleubeard & Elizabeth over at Altered Book Lover for 8 years of T Stands For Tuesday!  Thank you Elizabeth for having TSFT.  I have only attended the T parties since January 23rd, 2018.  I had to look back and find it, and the warm welcome I received from Elizabeth and everyone else for my first post.  What is it all about?  Mostly just sharing a beverage and catching up with each other.  We link up over at Altered Book Lover where Bleubeard & Elizabeth are our host and hostess. We then blog hop and visit each other to see who is reading what, or watching what, or drinking what, or even crafting what?  We invite you to join us.

This week some of us are celebrating by swapping ATCs.  I have mine made and will put an asterisk by my name, so I will be included in the swap.  In the future, when everyone has theirs, we will have a reveal post.  Just something fun that Elizabeth has thought of us for the celebration. 

Before I share photos for my TSFT post, I want to do a plug for our Dare To Get Dirty Challenges at Splitcoaststampers.  On my sidebar, you will see that I am on the Dirty Dozen Design Team, and we are hosting the best challenges of the year from August 7th to the 13th.  I have always loved these challenges.  There will be 5 to 7 challenges a day for the whole week, including great technique challenges, sketch, color, who knows!  You do have to be a Fan Club member at Splitcoaststampers to participate, but well worth it, because there are prizes!  It is like Christmas in August!  LOL  I invite you to check it out.  I am one of the hostesses and am buy making samples, so can't show you what I am doing this week.

  I remembered to take a couple of photos at Cracker Barrel last week.

I had the turkey & dressing & sweet potatoes &  apples.

  Comfort food!  Hubby had the chicken strips, and apples.  Of course, we love the biscuits and honey, and our lemon water. 

 

They have such interesting decor, and this was right above our table.

  

I also wanted to show you that hubby is doing well, barely needs a cane anymore.  He is even grilling again.  I really missed that while he was laid up.

I wish the T Gang Happy T Day!  Thank you all  for stopping by.
  

T Stands For Late To The Party!

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

So, it is still Tuesday in the U.S.  I will show you the latest technique I have learned for junk journaling.  This is called Shape Shifting technique by Julie, Dear Julie. Another name is Stack and Cut Quilt Cards.

 I die cut five of these with Spellbinder labels dies out of printed or patterned papers.  I also die cut 5 blank pieces for the backs.  Stack the five pieces of printed paper die cuts.  Hold them firmly together and cut through all five layers, cutting off  sections diagonally.  Keep the layers of the cut pieces in order and set aside.  Then, on yours bases put together like a puzzle.

I really like this technique and I can use these in a junk journal for pockets or page decorations.  This technique could be used also on cards or art journal pages. Just remember, if you use five die cuts, cut into five sections.  If you use 6, cut into 6 sections.  You can use any die cut, or just a square, anything you can cut into and then put back together like a puzzle or quilt.

Hope you can understand this technique and hope you will try it, too.  

I am here for TSFT over at Bleubeard & Elizabeth's Altered Book Lover.  Come join us!  We share a drink related post and see what everyone is doing. 

And here is my drink related post!  Here is a card I made back in 2018.  The teapot is heat embossed in white.  I did one of my favorite embossing folders.  I used favorite colors Sage Shadow and Night of

Navy.

 

You all warm my heart!  Thank you for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week!  

Second on the 2nd & Tag Tuesday

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

Hello Dear Readers.  I thought I would join Bleubeard & Elizabeth  for the  Second on the 2nd today over at Altered Book Lover.  I will show you  a past  post for a second time. But, first I will show you my Tag for the Tag Tuesday Challenge.  Valerie challenged us to do a vintage tag.

Mine started with this treated tag  from Artful Illusions/Mrs. O'Leary's.  Then I tore and inked up a digital image from Scrapbooking With ME.  I have watched her on you tube, and like her style.  I then added words and butterfly from Tim Holtz, inking both.  I added a scrap of lace, Nuvo dots, and some inked up canvass ribbon.

I haven't done a Second on the 2nd for a while, and am not sure how to do it.  Copy and paste?  I will try that here goes:

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Butterflies Are Free

A few weeks ago on my WOYWW post I indicated a box  on my craft area that had butterflies in it.  My Blogger friend Brandy sent them  to me.  It included about 40 butterflies of different colors and different cuts. I thought I would show you today two more cards that I made with the butterflies.   I thought they were all so lovely and lacy, I just love using them on my cards. They made these cards easy! Thanks Brandy! :)

Submitted to QFTD184 & AOCC13 Challenges

    I needed this card unfortunately for a friend this week.   I used SU! Thoughts & Prayers set.  I used Spellbinders oval and lacy oval dies.  I made clouds by punching a scalloped circle and sponging around it, a trick I learned from one of SCS friends. :)  The cardstock is SU! Baja Breeze & Close to Cocoa, & Whisper White.   The ink is VersaFine Vintage Sepia, ( my favorite go to ink pad).  I sponged with Baja Breeze.  Then I  used pearls on one of the butterflies that Brandy so wonderfully cut and sent me! :)

Submitted  for QFTD182 & AOCC13 Challenges

I made this birthday card for a dear friend.  Just gave it to her this week.  I ran the white through with a EF, and layered on Tempting Turquoise.  I stamped it with sentiment from Elegant Greetings from SU!  I just happened to have ribbon that matched the butterflies! :)  Really, the four butterflies are the stars here!



I wish you all a great week-end!  Hope you get to craft some.  Thank you for stopping by and for your comments!
Hugs!

Well it sort of worked.  I picked a short one from the year I first began a blog.  Here is the link to the real thing if you care to go back and see what my blog looked like back then.  Side bar is different.

Thank you for stopping by today.  Have a wonderful 4th of July if you are in the USA.  

T Stands For Tuesday Again!

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

Good afternoon!  It is time for another TSFT post.  I look forward to seeing what everyone is doing every T Day Tuesdays. I know it is Monday, but for a lot of our bloggers who come to the T Party at Altered Book Lover with Bleubeard and Elizabeth, it is already Tuesday!  So, that is why some of us post on Monday afternoon/evening.  Unlike other times, I have a lot to share today; so let's get to it! :)

Today, I have been playing with a free grafic from The Graphic Fairy.  If you sign up for their Friday emails, you get a free digi every week.  This past week, I also got a free instructions to make these tiny envelopes along with the free digi of them.  She gold foiled the envelopes but I used a gold gelato instead.  I am not going to get into the expense of foiling. Her instructions were to spray the paper before starting to cut, but I sponged inks on instead.  I know, I don't follow directions, do I?  Then we  were to cut the squares out, draw lines across the back like an X, then we would know where to fold the envelopes.  That was a great tip.  Then I fussy cut the roses and the sayings.  I inked up some cheese cloth, then glued all into the envelopes.  Besides the gold gelato around the edges, I also sprayed with shimmer spray.  I am working on a rose theme junk journal and bet these will go in it.  Hers are gorgeous!  I was just playing.  I plan on making more and doing them more gorgeous. :)

I didn't think to take a photo before I had already begin to cut the squares.  This is what the square looked like before cut and folded.

I really think I will use these.  If you want the correct instructions go to The Graphic Fairy. This was called DIY Vintage French Gold Foil Papercraft.

This post would be way too long if I shared everything I had planned to share, so I will save some for next time.  But I did remember to take photos when we went out to eat this week, something we haven't done for a long time, with what has been going on the last year and a half!  Besides the pandemic, my hubby had hip replacement surgery a little over a month ago, yet, he already was able to go out to eat with only the help of a cane.  I praise the Lord for this!  

It is difficult to get out of there without giving in to some of their yummy looking deserts, but we managed!  Mainly, because their daily specials were so filling.  We each even took home half!  So, yummy!

This was a great salad with chicken, cranberries, sunflower seeds, & mandarin oranges served with a wonderful creamy walnut vinaigrette.  Maybe almonds or walnuts, too, can't remember, now.  But, delicious!!!!

Thank you for stopping by.  Be sure and check out Altered Book Lover TSFT to see what others are doing this T Day Tuesday. Have a wonderful crafty week!

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. 

T Stands For Thank You

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

Hello!  It is time for TSFT and for Tag Tuesday.

First things first: I just read Elizabeth's post for TSFT and she said she had happy mail and was excited about it, but I had a happier sack from her!  It was full of goodies! I am overwhelmed with her generosity.  I will put these to good use.  In fact, I made Elizabeth's thank you card and today's tag out of one of the card bases.  She gave me five packages of  beautiful cards with envelopes.  The envelopes I will definitely use for all my handmade cards, and the bases have printed design on both sides of the card, so that will be a lot of backgrounds.  Or, I can always use as is!  Also there was an opened package of Michaels larger bases and envelopes. I think I will be sharing some of this, too, as that is more than I will ever use.  Now you can see her happy mail was small compared to my sack of goodies!  Thank you Elizabeth for your thoughtfulness.  Now, if we could just do something about the postal system!  I might not walk over with your next card, but I will drive it over!

Here is my tag for Tag Tuesday.  The theme is tag on a tag. I punched both tags with my SU! Punch.  I used a scrap left over from cutting the card for Elizabeth.  I mounted it on a scrap from my scrap drawer.  I punched the leaves from a scrap on my desk, and added a flower and gem.  I punched the butterfly from a scrap and used a gel pen around the edges.  Also, I attached a scrap of ribbon to the tag.  You sense  I have a theme, too, using scraps?  I will probably use this in one of my Junk Journals.

Here are some photos of my walk yesterday at the facility where I take my husband for his Physical Therapy after his hip replacement.  FYI, my husband is doing fabulous!  Just a month ago yesterday he fell, and had the surgery, and he is already working with a cane at PT!  Lots of prayers and answered prayer is responsible.  So, I do praise the Lord.

As you drive into the facility, this is what you see.

I walked the parking lot which is huge, then in back where there are a couple of ponds.

There are several of these bird houses around the ponds, not sure which kind they are for.

This is the sign you see as you drive out.

The above is my ticket to the tea party.  I have my tea, but also my water, as I have already had my walk today, and even though I went early, it was already hot, hot, hot!  :)

I hope you have a wonderful week.  Thanks for letting me join in even thought I am a tad late , but it is Tuesday morning here!  Thanks for stopping by.