Aubrey's fish

Hi, Aubrey was born on grandpa Jeff's birthday 12 years ago and loves sports and she was out on the lake with both grandpas, brother, uncle, and mom. Me, I was not willing to go out on the ice, I have already had one knee replaced,  anyway we were suppose to stay the night but the bad weather was coming in over night around midnight...I'm so glad we went home, come morning the weather had changed for the worse and it would have been a horrible drive home.

dozens of cards

good morning to all, while I was making my grandsons card, I realized that I have not made cards for the kiddos to give away to their friends, and since they all live a distance away they don't call up grandma to make a card for a special friend.   I used boys will be boys and campin' critters. These went together nicely, I used my design studio to size all of the projects before I cut them out. after that I figured out what background I wanted for each, it went together like an assembly line.

these will be going to Braeden and Miss Aubrey (she is a little tom boy so she will be fine with these until I can make her some flowers and butterflies)
boys will be boys

campin critters

for Eli and Jacob    boys will be boys

campin critters

more card to show you

good morning to all, I have been falling behind on posting, but with it being summer I would rather be outside. here is what I have been up to while it rains...

                                                           Jason's bd card

                                                just because cart

                                               love this rooster

                                                                 Elli turned 6

                            Alex asked me to make him a wedding card, so I made 2

campin' critters

hello to all,  this  cute moose has the right idea with the weather we are having, cold and lots of snow. Not as much as the north-east though. I did cut out the shadow, but it took away from the look I was going for so I popped it up on foam tape, looks like he is gliding on the snow. It will be going to a nephew next month.
I added a slight smile with a pen to him and white dots in the eyes.

card for Jason

Hello to all, it has been sometime since I have made a card, but it has been crazy around here. My mother in law has been in the hospital with fungal meningitis and has not been doing well. I had all of my June cards done before she got this nasty disease, she had won that battle then had 3 strokes. Is now in a nursing home (not liking it one bit).
I needed a break so I made this for my son-in-law, next I have one to make for my grandson.
Jason's title is, deputy forest supervisor of the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest.
I thought this card would be just right for him,  we are very proud of Jason!!!!

Sarah's bd card

Hi all, it is late Saturday night and my husband is still in the field because of the late spring. Last year they were done planting and started to fill silos by now....oh the weather!
So I stayed up to and made this card for Sarah.  she will be turning 33 this year. WOW! my baby is 33...
last year I made her a shaped card of a car packed for camping, this year I thought a nice fire would be nice, it was stinking cold this morning....

                                            cannot forget the s'more

Braeden turned 9 and Noah turns 7

good morning to all, It has been a while since I last post a card and with good reason!  we have been remodeling our bath room  (pictures to come). I now have a walk in shower and don't have to climb over a tub!
But about the card...My grandson turned 9 the end of April and he loves his sports, baseball the season we are in now....

 Made and oops on Noah's, much to my surprise, he turned 7 (I put 6 on the card)
Noah got a red 3wheeler for his bd,      I love when the background paper is a big part of the card!

Dad is turning 84

Hi all,  thought I would make a fun card for my dad this year. I know  he would get a kick out of this cute bear.  When we went camping years and years ago, dad would take us to the dump at dusk and we would watch the bears along with other on lookers. Sometimes we would see as many as 6or 7 eating what  they could find.

Paper Playtime #2, Jeff's bd card

good morning to all, yesterday I found this over at PPT where Janis has a simple challenge this time
Ch# 2 Use some BROWN

I had this card on my DS ready to be made for a man, I had already planned on having brown in it!
this is going to Aubreys' other grandpa whom she shares a birthday with...

cute story with this card

good morning to all,,    a bat flying?  for your vacation theme you might be asking yourself????
we don't get away much on a dairy farm, it is more getting off for a milking here and there.
For our grandson Eli's birthday I do manage to get my husband to take a little time off, My daughter and s-i-l. drive about half way between Coleraine MN and Wausau WI  and go camping  the week of Eli"s bd, and we meet up with them there,,getting to the bat, my husband wanted to use the GPS to get us there, well the darn thing took us the back roads through small towns and 20miles out of the way, good thing I printed out the direction Sarah sent us....and then when we got to a sign saying Chippewa campgrounds this way, he wanted me to go straight (I was driving)   but I turned anyway because I did not want to go another mile out of the way, plus I knew there would be outhouses there.    I was right on both count, they were there with a outhouse close by.
I think a bat with a compass would have gotten us there just as good....
I can laugh at it now but at the time I was not too happy!
 I used campin' critters for the bat,  PAF for the tree tops, and bat is on a wobble

Over at BBTB 2 Carole has this challenge
  Since we are in the summer months, I thought that a good theme for our challenge to be a vacation time.

and over at Paper Playtime...
 Our current challenge is:
For Ch # 82
Theme: Use POLKA DOTS
PLUS add a SENTIMENT

2 challenges in one

Hi all,
 over at My Craft spot

Monday Challenge #66 - Under the Stars, camping theme

 and over at cardztv....

Cricut Cardz Challenge #114 "Critter Cuties"

 what would camping be without the little critters that live in the great outdoors....it seems like we could never go camping without a skunk showing up, and the trip the the outhouse could always hear hoo, hoo

I used stretch you imagination for the tree,
camp out for the skunk
create a critter for the owl and branch and stars
campin critters for the tent

gone fishn'

good morning to all, this is a quick card for my b-i-l , I have to get it into the mail soon, so I kept it simple.

 for those of you who are new to my blog, I keep the inside blank  so that the receiver can reuse the card, my family likes it that way, also.

Monday Challenge #45 - Birthday Shape cards

wow!! 2 cards today, 

I saw this car with camping gear and thought it was great for the challenge over at 

My Craft spot,,,

 

 This weeks Challenge:  Birthday Shape cards!

(Make a birthday shape card that is anything but a square, circle or rectangle!)

 

My Daughter loves camping, and for most of her birthdays, that is where she will be,

I thought this would be just right for her, she also loves the shaped cards I make....

 

 

Challenge #44 - Stair Step/Center Step/Side Step Birthday Cards!

Hi all, over at birthday sundaes they want side step cards this week,,,this is for my day, since he does not go fishing any more, I thought I would make it easy for him...He also likes cards, he will look at every detail and comment on it
pop dotted, some doodling and inking....

 I added plastic over the fish bowl to look like glass, see the shine!!!

for Aubrey's Birthday

Hi all, I have worked on these for the last few days,,, Aubrey loves making her own cards, so I made a bunch of figures for her,,,for a 5 year old she knows what she likes.
I used up a lot scraps, but it looks like I did not even put a dent into the pile...

Mojo Monday 221

Hello to all, once again I did not look at the sample cards the dream team made over at MJM.  I may have stretched it a bit, but I like the out come, this is for a boy at church, not sure if he likes ice fishing, but it is what I saw with this sketch!

off to see what others have made!

Ben's BD card

good morning to all, Ben is a Christmas Eve baby and I wanted to make him something non-Christmas for his BD,   he plays his guitar at church, so I hope he understands where I got the idea from.....
lots of inking doodling, the notes are from SYI

Joy's card

Hi all, I loved Joy's birthday card to Dan, that I had to make one.....I did not add the sun, thought it would look silly with the snow falling in the background.   lots of inking!
you will find Joy's here
http://joy-purttypaperz.blogspot.com/2011/11/dans-birthday-card.html

CRICUT 360º - Challenge # 11 - For a Hero

I think this card speaks for it self,,,,God Bless America

inking, pop dotted