Merry Christmas in July!!!!!!

For my followers you know I get crazy around this time. I love Christmas!! Soon I will be creating my Christmas cards for the 3 shows I have lined up so far. I can start adding them for you to get ideas for your cards. Every file I created this year, I am making a card out of. I hope they sell.

This is week one. Again, same as last year, I thought there was only 4 weeks, typical month, but I found out there were 5. So now I have to make another file when I thought I was done. lol Just my luck!

I found this clip art when a friend asked me to make Christmas lights. I thought this was different. Kinda old fashioned or Thomas Edison looking. Maybe you might have some "old time" paper that you could add.

I used my typical 5"x6.5" pre-made cards. I needed something to look like a cord. I found some ribbon which is black. I can't find the size but it's that small stuff that comes in a spool for about .33 cents on sale. I didn't have a dark green but that might look better. Here in America, the cords are green. I used the small, brass, one to keep the ribbon in place and two it just kinda looks neat. lol

One thing I need to warn you is they cut funny! Two or three would cut good out of five. So be careful and cut several. :)

Merry Christmas in July to all my friends!!!!
Hugs, Lisa
Christmas Lights 2
P.S. Sit back and listen to the music. I went a little "silly" this time! lol

Same Dog....New Idea

I have a craft table that is a mess. I am trying to create cards with the things left on my desk. I came across this dog and I have maybe 8 more of him. So I decided to play with him and this is what I did.

I glued the dog pieces and flipped him over. Then cut a 1/2" green strip as long as your card. I have these sliders from JoAnn Fabric's that are made of thick card stock that you see I used. Glue it to the dog.




Here the dog is flipped so you can see what he looks like. Make sure he slides before you glue it to your card.



Now I like the liquid glue but I dont think it will hold the green strip. So I do have double sided tape for special occasions. As you can see he is now on the card. This card is 5" high by 6.5" wide. They are pre-made, from Michael's, in a pack with envelops.



This is the final piece. I cut a 1 1/2" piece of different color green paper/strip. Cut slits in it so it looks like grass and bend, not crease, the grass so it looks ruffled. Since he is looking up, add anything you want to the sky. I used a sun rubber stamp and I used my Surka, clear, Stardust Gelly Roll to give the sun a sparkle. Then I rubber stamped, on a spare piece of paper, the bee and I colored it. Then I and attached it with 2 layers of foam tape to give depth.





I am attaching the original file from May 8th, 2009. There is text that says I Love You which you can use or not.

Hope you enjoy it!
Lisa
DogLookingUp

Class of........

Do you know some one who is graduating? Do you make cards like I do and sell them? Then your going to need my Class of 2010.

These words are welded together but the 2010 is separated so you can use the text on other years.

In the picture, I cut the text with black paper and I colored it with my silver Sharpie. The "celebrate" part was done with my Cuttle Bug and sanded down so you can see the text.

Have a wonderful 'time Graduates....

Lisa
Class Of

Happy Birthday ME!!!!!!

This is me on my 1st birthday! You gotta love the 70's kitchen we had! lol

Yup today's the big day. Number 38! Remember when you were a kid and you looked forward to the presents and the cake.... Well now I'm getting to the age where I look forward to menopause and I think I might be getting there!!! lol YEAH I am sweating like there is no tomorrow and people, of the streets and Curves, have been asking. Heck my dentist is even asking. I guess dry mouth is a sign. Of course my mouth is dry! My head took all the water and let it out! lol



Well as promised I finished my card and I'm sending it on to you. What I was thinking, and did, is put some acetate on the back of the card. Then I want to put "puffy paint", w/ glitter, to make it look like snow. So why would the windows open but the "glass" stays?! I guess you could call it a little Boo Boo. :) What I might do, for the next cuts, is NOT cut the window to open. I wanted to let you know my idea encase you liked it and I will let you "alter" my file. If you don't like the snow idea, then just leave the window like it is. Your choice.


I need to tell you about the Farmers Market. My first day was last Tuesday, May 4th, and boy did I do good! It was a windy day so I really could not display anything. But about an hour in I decided to put one of my holders out and put my Mother's Day cards out. I sold them ALL!! WOW. We paid $110 dollars for the 10'x10' spot and I made $38 dollars on Tuesday. I made $13 on the "unofficial" opening at the Senior Center. So I have mad $51 dollars so far and this market goes until October. Pretty cool! I need to make some Father's Day cards. I still have a few weeks for that.

I think I might be going now. I hope you all have a wonderful day!
Hugs and Kisses

Window Card

Mother's Day

I got excepted to work st the Farmers Market in downtown Ypsilanti. Im so excited. Last Tuesday was the kick off at the Senior Center. I didn't take pictures but I thought you might like to see some Mother's Day cards I have been doing.



These are some Easel Cards I have made. No I did not make the pattern but if you would like it, here is the link.....http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/easelcard/
I have also made these for other types of cards too. The blue one is made of letters I cut with the Robo. The dark blue strip I used these cool border punches from Fiskas. The butterflies are stickers from Hallmark and the flowers are made by Flora Doodles. The orange one has a yellow strip that I embossed through my Cuttle Bug adding glitter glue to the flowers. Flowers come in a cute bottle from Prima. Don't forget the brads.





These are called Step Cards. Here's the link......http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/stairstepfold
Both are made with the same text die cut with the Robo. The pink one has flowers that I got from the Novi Mega Meet years ago but the BIG yellow one I got from Hobby Lobby. They are huge plastic confetti! The big brads would have secured it on the paper but those little flowers shimmer. Now for the little girl. She is a rubber stamp from Hero Arts # CL381. http://www.stampintreasures.com/Hero_Arts_2010_Clear-Sweet_Wonderful_You_4x6_Poly_CLEAR.html
I stamp them on white cardstock and color them while I get my IV drip or up on the coffee table.

I did others too but I thought you would like to see the neat ones with tutorials. :)

I know this seems far off but I am working on card that has a window where you can see the rubber stamped image through it. I have this X-mas tree and kids in jammies that I thought I could color and it would be so cute. As soon as I cut this card I will send it along.

Hope you send your Mom a beautiful card in Easel or Step form. :)

Hugs

Almost March

WOW am I happy that February is over!!!! Now I know I live no where near the East Coast but I too got slammed with snow. You know they NEVER talk about Michigan on the non local news. This place is so bad that they don't even want to talk about it.

Anywho this means that Summer is knocking on the door. Yes when you have 4 seasons this is what you do! :)

This weekend I have been doing something called an E-crop. I cropped with gals from all over. Heck I don't even know where 1/2 of them are from. So there are challenges and prizes. The prizes look like books. If I win, I bet I will win one of those stupid "how to" books for your Cricut. I don't even own one. What the heck am I going to do? Maybe I'll give it to the gal down the street.

So this was one of my challenges. Creat a card using buttons. So this is what I did. Do you like? So I whipped up a gumball machine really quick and I thought you might like it. You could use buttons or just punch out circles for the gumballs.

Now I still am NOT using Roland but I tried a program with Microsoft Paint and Vectoring to make the WPC file. Please let me know if the WPC DOES NOT work. Im dying to know.

Enough for now,
Hugs
Gumball Machine

Where have I been?

Alright, I've been gone, lost, out of it.....what ever you would like to call it. :) I have been busy creating cards and just plain living. I am on Facebook and I have been finding friends I have not seen since I was 12 and younger.

I have created a Valentines GSD for you. Now I say GSD because Santa bought me a laptop with Windows 7 64bit and nobody knows how to convert GSD's into WPC's like we did before. :( What am I going to do? If anybody has ANY idea, I would love to hear it. I used to use Roland to convert and now Roland is not compatible with Windows 7 64bit. :( Very sad news.

So I am very sad and sorry to all of you that used my WPC files. Hopefully we will find a way....soon.

Hugs, Lisa
Kissing

As of Feb.11th, I have good news. My good Friend, Mima, was creating the same file I was and I beat her to the punch on posting it first. haha Sorry Mima! :) So she was nice to give me her WPC file and I am allowed to post it. Thanks Mima. Please, don't forget to go to her blog too!

http://mima328.blogspot.com/

Love you Mima and here is her WPC file........
Mima's WPC