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

Why would you be mean to this face?

Friends,

I have some news that I MUST send on to you. Now this is really not like me but this just boiled my bottom and I think you need to be aware.

During August of 2009 a dear friend of mine, Julie, wanted to purchase some digi scraps for a son, Connor, she just had. He is the first child for her and her husband and boy were they proud. I have even became an Aunt. Well there is no relation but I am known as "Aunt Lisa from Over the Pond". Remember I live in Michigan and she, Julie, lives in England.

Julie asked Robyn, from Scrapper Girl Design, http://scrappergirldesigns.com/blog/ to create some "boy" patterns. Robyn agreed and over $52.00 dollars was sent to her. What Robyn sent to Julie was very girlie and Julie was not happy. I don't blame her. When your a baby, you really need boy/girl embellishments. To make a long story short, Robyn stopped ALL contact with Julie and kept the money. That's not right. I would try to make one happy and I would feel bad that you didn't like my creations.

On happier news......Julie, from Pretty Scrappy, http://prettyscrappy.com/xcart/home.php and Valerie from Valerie N Design http://valeriendesigns.blogspot.com/ saved the day when they didn't have too. They created some beautiful pages for Julie and they did it for free. What a kind heart they have! I would like to say thank you to you both!

Please, for me, do your research. Know who you are buying from and maybe ask for a quick layout, including embellishment, before you send money.

To get the full story, from Julie, please go to her blog at http://juliescreations1.blogspot.com/2009/12/robyn-from-scrappergirl-designs-took.html

Thanks again Valerie and Julie for helping my friend at a time of need.

Lisa

Happy Holidays!!

First I would like to wish you all a safe and happy holiday. I hope Santa brings you all that you wish for.

For my last file of the year I thought I would do something different. How about a tag? I saw this done by someone, sorry I do not know who, and I thought it was gorgeous. Mine is no where near her excellence, but I tried. :) Please do not go by the picture. lol When I put the tag together I noticed it was reversed and now that I look at it I see I left no hole at the top. OOPS! haha Use a cute punch. I have a small heart that would look good. See where it is blank on the left side? I tried to cut snowflakes but they were just to small. Maybe you could draw some ot use a small punch. I think I might have laser stickers that would look good. :)

So I hope you like my first attempt at these tags. I was wondering if I made several of these to sell would you buy them? How many do you think I should place in a bag and for how much? I would really like your import. Please email me or leave a comment.

Again, I hope you all have a safe and wonderful holiday and I will see you next year. lol
Remember, I am looking for ideas. If you have one, pass it on!

Hugs and kisses
Lisa
Snowman Tag

Let it Snow..........

Hi ya all,

As we get closer to X-mas I am wondering where the snow is. Now mind you I will complain in a few months to you. haha

Hope you have all your shopping, baking, and wrapping done. I am almost done with the wrapping and I think I might finish on Thursday. I did all the baking over the weekend with no help. I feel like that story "The Little Red Hen.". Do you remember that one? http://www.enchantedlearning.com/stories/fairytale/littleredhen/story/

Any who I know that I have this one as Let it Snow card, but you don't get the card. :( It's just the title. The card I placed it on was 6"x6" so you know the title is very small. Oh I don't know if you all received my note on the Yahoo Groups but DO NOT send 6"x6" cards/envelopes. As of the Summer, the post office raised their rates! They told me that the machines do not recognize this size and they have to be moved by hand. So I paid double of a normal stamp. It's the holidays and I should not care, but I think I will never do that mistake again.

I will see you next week, which is when you get my X-mas present to you. As you can tell, Im very excited. :) So you all be good. Santa is still watching you and he know's you just bought more paper that you didn't need! Oh that's right, that was me!!! hahaha

Have a wonderful week,
Lisa
Let it Snow