Guest post on Mashed Potatoes and Crafts

Hi everyone!

Today is my day to be guest blogger on

Mashed Potatoes and Crafts

So why don't you hop on over there and see what my tutorial is this month?!?!

Here is a little peak at what I've got posted over there:

Now hop on over and check it out, and while you're there

check out what other fun things are posted.

Leave a comment and let me know that you were there.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!



Bethlehem with Verse

I've been having a lot of fun with Distress Inks lately!

I made this card with Distress Inks and

"Bethlehem with Verse" (#22701)

from Eureka! Stamps

I started out with a piece of white card stock.

I pulled out any Distress Inks I had that were

 purple or blue and started inking it. 

I recently went to visit a friend

and we did a "bit" of shopping and

I found some great deals on Distress Ink,

so my collection of colors has gotten quite a bit bigger. 

 I am loving playing with them.

I started applying purples at the bottom

and then the blues at the top

and overlapped them a bit.

The Bethlehem with Verse image is one large stamp

with the silhouette , the sky and verse all in one stamp. 

Very easy to make a card, make a background and stamp it on.

I did layer mine onto a couple pieces of card stock,

purple and dark blue, before putting it onto the white card base.

I love how this turned out, I think it's quite striking.

 

Thanks for stopping by today. Leave a comment if you will

and come again soon.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Eureka! Stamps Blog Challenge

Hello!

Welcome to my blog challenge project for the

 Eureka! Stamps Blog.

This week our theme is

"Winter Wonderland"

I have used "Snow Scene Circle" (#17301)

from Eureka! Stamps for my card.

I stamped the image twice, once on white card stock,

 once on black card stock. 

I embossed the black one with white embossing powder

 and the white with black embossing powder.

It is very hard to see in the picture,

but I inked the sky with a bit of purple and blue

 Distress Inks as well as a bit of blue in the water.

The moon is colored with Distress Ink also.

I then fussy cut the inner circle

and adhered it to the black card stock

and added a bit of Stickles to give the snow a bit of sparkle.

I can just imagine coming upon this

peaceful snow scene on a night time stroll.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you have been inspired in some way.

All the particulars about the challenge are on the

Eureka! Stamps Blog.

I hope you'll join in the fun.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

 

15 things you probably don't know about me

One of the blogs that I follow religiously is

Older and Wisor

I enjoy her posts immensely, I don't know how I found it, but I'm glad I did. It was from this blog that I got the idea to write this post.

It occurs to me that most of the people who follow me have never met me and only know me by what they see posted here on my blog.

So here are 15 things you probably don't know about me.

1. When I was a kid I wanted to be a garbage man, I guess that would be a garbage woman, I don't have a clue why I thought that would be a good profession, but it's what I wanted.  I moved on though and wanted to be a Home Economics teacher (if you are under 50 you may not even know what that is.  My kids called it 'home and careers')  Once I gave that idea up I wanted to be a forensic pathologist. At the time I didn't know that's what it was called, I just knew I wanted to be the doctor that figured out why people died and how it happened.  Then I realized that I would have to go to medical school and since I really didn't like school all that much, and I didn't think I was smart enough to get through it, I gave it up.  My guidance counselor wanted me to be a dental hygienist, but I was grossed out at the idea of sticking my hands in peoples mouths!  So I became a registered nurse and stuck my hands in all kinds of other stuff.  I haven't been in nursing for almost 30 yrs. now.  But through all those things I ALWAYS wanted to be a Mom and that I am and will always be.
 It's the best job I've ever had!

 

2.  I took baton lessons for 10 years of my childhood. 
And you know what? 
I was pretty darn good at it.

 

3. I was the co-editor of the yearbook my senior year of nursing school and did most of the photography, other than the formal shots.

4.  My father was a portrait photographer and I married a photographer.  Dave, my hubby, doesn't do portraits though. 
If you are interested to see what he does, check out our website at www.lashotphotography.com

5.  I've always been a lover of crafts and when macrame was the craze, I did a ton of it.  I made a hanging lamp/table combination that hung in my parents living room for a very long time.
 Hmmmm, wonder where that ever went to!

6.  I taught myself to knit and crochet and when I was in my 20s I made a dozen or so sweaters and lots more afghans and don't have a single one of them for myself.

7.  You know how pregnant women's feet get bigger while they are pregnant?  Well, mine got bigger and they stayed that way. AND my teeth changed too. They started moving.  The dentist office staff laughed at me, but my OB said it's pretty common. I used to have perfect teeth, but now I have a big space between my 2 front teeth.  Isn't that strange?

8.  I took a water color class one time.  I drew a beautiful picture of a rose and painted it.  When I took it in, the teacher looked at it in dismay and said I should be in her drawing class, because I have real potential for drawing, but I ruined the rose with my painting. OH BROTHER!!!!  Isn't that what she was supposed to be teaching me?  How not to ruin it!

9. I don't have hardly any favorites. 
I do have a favorite singer - Johnny Mathis (I know! I'm old)
 and a favorite book - Christy by Catherine Marshall
 and a favorite movie - To Sir, With Love
but I don't have a favorite food, or color, or scent or anything like that.  So if you ask me for a favorite, be prepared to hear "I don't have one"

10.  When I was in my 20s I decided that I should learn to ride a motorcycle, so my brother was teaching me.  BUT I crashed it, landed on my face on a sidewalk. (You didn't think I was born with a face that looked like this did you? LOL!   Luckily, I didn't run into the house
that was a matter of a foot or two away.

11.  I have never broken a single bone in my body, but I do have a fake hip, so there's that.

12.  I can recite "This Little Piggy" in Swedish.
Both my Dad's parents were from Sweden and he must have taught me when I was a kid, the funny thing is that I don't remember ever having it done on my toes.

13.  I think moose are one of the coolest animals on the planet!
 Every time I go to Vermont I say "I'm gonna see a moose" and I say it a lot, but I never see one.  Last time we were in New Hampshire we even asked about local places to spot them, but no moose for me. 
One day I'm going to see one in the wild.

14.  I have a bucket list.

15. I sleep with a teddy bear.  I know you think it's strange that a 57 yr old woman would sleep with a teddy bear, but I bet you sleep holding a pillow or some bunched up covers.  And I don't really care if people think I'm strange, there are stranger things about me, but I'm not tellin'

So there are my 15 things.
Now leave me a comment and tell me something I don't know about you, or which thing you think is strangest, or funniest, or that you already knew about me, or just anything.

Thanks for stopping by and reading my ramblings today.
 Next post I'll be back to some thing crafty.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

QKR Blog Challenge for November 30th

Hi everyone and welcome to my post for the

QKR Stampede Blog Challenge for this week.

Our theme is

"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"

I decided to use

"Med. Winter Moose" (#22302) and

"Tree" (#14501)

from QKR Stampede.

Both of these I have in rubber,

but they are available in digital format,

so you could make them whatever size you would like.

Each Christmas I receive some kind of moose

 from my husband.

I think moose are the cutest ever

and one day I will see one

when we are traveling in New England. 

 I say I will see one every time we are there

and it hasn't happened yet. 

So I will have to be satisfied, for now, with this cutie.

For the background I stamped

"Tree" randomly on a piece of white card stock.

I then used a blending tool and Distress inks

 to color the sky and trees.

A little Liquid Pearls was added as snow.

For my moose friend,

I stamped him onto white card stock

and colored him with FlexMarkers,

fussy cut him and adhered him with foam tape.

I hope you will take the time

to visit the other design team members,

 leave a little love along the way

and be inspired to create something for the challenge.

For all the particulars pop on over to the

QKR Stampede blog.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I'd love to hear what you think of this little cutie,

so feel free to leave me a comment. 

Then come again soon.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Joy and Holly

"There are no mistakes in crafting,

just opportunities to be more creative."

You can ask my crafting friends,

they'll tell you, this is my motto.

This card is a prefect example of that motto.

I made it with

"Joy" (#15703) and

"Holly" (#15701)

from QKR Stampede

I stamped both images onto white card stock.  

The Holly is not a background image,

 I stamped it several times randomly over the card stock.

Then I colored them with FlexMarkers.

 Once I had this done,

they were just boring,

they just weren't right,

so I got out my blending tool and my Distress Inks

and added a bit of color around the edges

of the background piece.

Absolutely hated it! 

 The color was all wrong,

but I stuck with my motto

and kept playing with it and adding different colors

and I ended up with a card that I really like. 

It isn't what I was going for when I started out,

but that's okay.  I like it now!

So next time something isn't looking right,

 remember my motto and just mess around with it. 

I know, sometimes there is just no cure,

 but it sure can't hurt to try.

Thanks for stopping in to see what I have been up to,

I hope you'll stop back again soon.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Holly Background & noel

Hello blog friends!

Today I have a Christmas card I made with

"Holly Background" (#26701)

from Eureka! Stamps and

noel from the "friends" word set(#46202)

from QKR Stampede

I stamped the Holly Background onto white card stock with VersaMark ink and embossed with black embossing powder.

I then used Distress Ink and a blending tool and applied it over the entire surface.

I did this twice with the background stamp and used the same technique with the noel stamp.

I also inked the white card base, then layered the holly onto red card stock and layered them all onto the card. 

This was one of those cards that I started out not having a clue what I was going to do, but I love the results.

I hope you do to and maybe you're inspired to do some

embossing or inking or layering.

I hope you'll come again soon.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!