A Valentine Tag

I made this tag for a Valentine swap I am in…and I must admit I really do like it. I love the colors..I used soft browns and blues over the red and pink. I love this saying…I have it in my Arthaven displayed and love it.

Altered Frame and Card

I made this altered frame and card for a very special lady. It will be on its way in tomorrows mail. I usually make the shadow box frames, but decided on this one I wanted to just alter it as it was…and no shadow box. I must admit it was really fun to work with and I love the way it turned out. I used my stamping set I bought from Our Daily Bread Designs. I love this blog and their stamps are just awesome. I also used some flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts. Two of my very favorite sites to order from. I use to make the flowers from Penny Duncan’s files, but sometimes with my hands hurting, I find it hard to work the flowers like they should be.

I am off to start working on another special project.  Hubby is working this weekend…as usual…so this is my time to play with paper…my very favorite thing to do.

A Valentine Art Day

I created these for a few swaps I am in…The first one was a Valentine card with a coordinating envelope…I love pink..and hope my recipient does too….although I know her favorite color is blue.

This is the Valentine Hangie I made for a swap. I was to use red, gold and lace…and I did all of this. This is headed out to my recipient also. I love the little borders I found at Hobby Lobby…they seem to just set the card off.

And this is for the ATC swap…We had to use a heart somewhere on the ATC…and I did this also. I truly do love making ATC’s….at first I didn’t care for them, but I really like them now.

On another note…Romeo is now chicken soup…he attacked my Jacob for the second time and this was not going to happen again. So Gary shot the bugger. I have little holes in my patio screen where he tried to get in after me. No one knows what it is like to go check your mail carrying a broom unless you have been attacked by a mad white rooster…and it wasn’t a fun moment. Jacob says Poppy shot the feathers off the bad chicken. We feel a little more comfy around the farm now. And he isn’t missed one bit.

Romeo the Rooster

I live on a farm…45 acres of God’s country. Or so I thought until this Rooster came upon us one day while my husband was working in the barn. He just appeared. We do have some distant neighbors who have chickens…so we thought he would wander back their way later that afternoon. NOT…he has been around for about three weeks. In my opinion…three weeks too long. I was outside a few days ago and was attacked by this rooster…he chased me down and I barely got in the patio door before he was jumping at the door trying to get at me. I hit my elbow and bruised it…hit my head on the side of the door…not to mention the near heart attack I nearly had.  I am being held captive in my own home…due to fear of getting out and Romeo running after me. My dear friends have named him Romeo..since one of my friends decided Romeo only wants to make me his woman…NOT!!! I can’t get wood for the fireplace because he keeps watch for me to come out so he can chase me down again and hang on to my pant leg. He has hit the patio door several times trying to get at me. One of my friends sent links to how to get rid of this critter. I share these links with my husband – Gary and he only giggled. He thinks this is funny. I don’t. I want the dang rooster gone. This big mean bird has it out for me. Sooo…today my son Brandon ( who by the way has been attacked by this rooster also ) has decided he will catch him in a trap and and and…we don’t know after that….Gary doesn’t want to kill him….( I do ) chicken soup sounds pretty good right now. I told my son to take him back down the road to the place where the hens are…he can choose a woman from them….not me. So we will see if we can catch him and move him to another farm.

So if you have been wondering about me…this is why I haven’t been around..I have been on the run…or held captive in my own home.

New Blog Layout

I am starting the New Year off with a new blog layout. With blue being my favorite color..this one really suits me to a T.
Happy New Year to all my blogging friends and those who just stop by for a quick visit.

An Altered Frame

My son asked me to make an altered frame for one of his co-workers in a Christmas gift exchange. I struggled with this for days. I wanted to use her name in this and decided after lots of thinking on it, that I would use her name. I looked the name up and it said “who resembles God”. I thought this would be perfect.

My son came today to pick it up and just loved it. It always means so much to me when one of my sons admires the art I created. Matthew is taking this tomorrow for his exchange and will let me know how his co-worker liked it.

So what do you think of this altered frame I made?

 

Christmas once again….

I made four more cards…to share with you. I really like using the embossing folders. I have had these for quite some time and had rarely used them. I am also loving the color white with my cards. The poinsettia is made from svg file from Penny’s blog. Ih ave had these little christmas tree brads and used them also.

The trees I used on this card is a graphic I had and printed it on Shrinky Dink and then added it to this card.