Cyber Monday

Black Friday has already past and today is Cyber Monday. Christmas shopping has begun and it looked like the past weekend was pretty good for retailers. Sometimes I think that I liked the slower days of days gone by when Christmas decorations didn't come out until after Thanksgiving.

This card has that vintage feel to it. The stamp is from the Stampin Up set Winter Post. Would you believe there is an ice rink set up in downtown Tampa through all of the holidays? I will not be testing my skating abilities though.

Happy Thanksgiving

I bet you think this is one wreath stamp. It isn't though. Look really close and you will see a single leaf and then the other long stuff. I drew a circle on the paper in very light pencil. Stamped the leaf all around the circle and then filled in with the longer stuff. Then I stamped the greeting and took that layer outside. I sprayed it with a gold mist with glitter in it. If you enlarge the picture you can see spots on the white paper. IRL that is the glitter and it really sparkles. Happy Thanksgiving to all my family and friends.

Tri-shutter Wedding

This is a tri-shutter album that I made using Neill's wedding pictures. The picture to the left is the front cover.

You untie the bow and open the two flaps. When you open the flaps, this is what you see first.

Then open it completely to see the far left, middle and then right side. It is difficult to fit the entire album into a picture because you can't see the details. The last picture is my attempt at showing the entire lay out of the album. Since the window is behind it you can see part of the porch. Click on the pictures to enlarge them and see the details better.

Bluebird of Happiness

One of my SILs has a bunch of blue bird glass statues. She loves stained glass too so she would like this blue bird and her babies which will be posted another day. She will never see this post though as she avoids using the computer, although I understand she has skyped recently.

Talking Like a Turtle

Do turtles talk? I don't know about you, but I have never heard one talking to me. For some reason when Jim's oldest nieces were young he pretended to talk to them like what he thinks a turtle sounds like. Yes it was English. I guess I just don't have the imagination that he does. Remember if you go to the beach and there is a turtle nest, stay away from it.

Some Thanksgiving Cards

I love this little chef. I put him on the cards I sent to my family last year for Thanksgiving. I won't be posting the cards I send my family this year since they are just for family to see.

Frog Collection

When Jim was young, he had a volkswagon beetle car that he painted green and decorated with frogs. All his family and friends started buying him frogs. Even as part of our wedding gift, we received a couple of frogs. He still has most of them and a few others that my family added to the collection. So of course he had to make himself a stained glass frog.

A New Home

Our niece and her family are buying a new home. They have had so many hassles with inspections and closing. Hopefully, they will be settled in their new home soon. I haven't been able to send many welcome to your new home cards with home sales the way they have been. I am anxious to send them a card.

Thanksgiving Nears

It is hard to believe that Thanksgiving is just two weeks away. Sometimes I wonder where the time goes. This is a stained glass turkey that will hang in our kitchen window for the next two weeks.

Veteran's Day

My dad grew rose bushes and his roses were beautiful. One year for father's day one of my brothers bought him a rose bush that was cultivated in honor of veterans. The rose bush is now growing in my brother's yard having been moved from our childhood home. He also has some of my dad's other rose bushes and takes roses to our parents grave. He took this picture on memorial day. It shows the flag that the boy scouts place at the grave on holidays along with the veteran's rose that my brother grows.

Happy Birthday

I know I am a little late but I have been busy making cards. I make most of my cards flowery and girly. I try to make more masculine cards but it just doesn't seem to work out and I don't like them when I make them. I hope some of these are a little bit male looking. Happy Birthday Skip.

Get Well Patty

One of my SILs fell the other night and broke her shoulder. She had surgery and is all fixed up now with metal. Of course she is still in pain and has a long road of rehab ahead of her after it heals. Hope she heals quickly.

Belated Halloween Cards

I just realized that I never posted any Halloween cards. So before I post any Thanksgiving cards, I thought I would post some Halloween just a few days late. These are not the cards I sent to my family. Only they get to see them. I was in a swap about a month ago and received a lot of these die cuts as part of the swap so those cards are one of a kind.

Stained Glass Nativity

This still isn't a good picture of the glass nativity set Jim made for Neill. At least it is a little closer than the earlier one I posted. The pieces are made to be placed on a table. Unlike his other pieces, they are not hung in a window.

Asian Influence

I am a tea drinker so of course I was drawn to the tea pot in this stamp set. The detail on the girl's outfit sold me on the set. The third card with the flowers is from a different set but I thought it went well in the picture of the other two cards.

Craft Season is Here

Now that the weather has cooled down a little, it is craft show time. I made so many motorcycle cards for Sunday's show. I put a lot of metal on them. The silver is foil that was run through my Big Kick using some textured plates that I have had for about ten years. They were so hard to use without the big guy but now it is so easy. The copper is metalic cardstock.

Can you see a map on some of these cards? I had doubles of some maps so I cut it up and used it like designer paper.

Summer Returns

First I need to apologize to my Northern family for rubbing it in that cold temps were headed their way. I had mentioned that the humidity was down and 90 degrees didn't seem as bad. The humidity is back. Worse than that, have you looked at the Gulf of Mexico recently? Trouble is on the way in the form of Matthew and possibly Nicole. Since summer has returned, I thought these cards from the SU summer mini and Andrea Walford that I CASED would be a good post for the day.

Fall Holidays

It is hard to believe that it is time for the fall holidays. Fall is in the air even here in Florida where the temperature has dropped to the low 90s. How I know fall is close is the humidity has dropped too and that makes a big difference.

It is hard for me to photograph stained glass, but this give you an idea of what our October pumpkin looks like.

One Sheet Wonder

When the SU catalog retired this past summer, I bought a lot of retired sets and paper from demos. When I saw this paper, I loved it. It is so me; burgundy, flowers, and vintage. These cards are called one sheet wonders because they can be made with one 12 X 12 sheet of designer paper. After cutting the designer paper, it is attached to the card base and then embellished. The paper reminds me of old wallpaper.

Back to School

It used to be that school started the Tuesday after Labor Day. For most students, that is no longer the case and most are back to school by now. Where I taught, we were always back weeks before Labor Day. I no longer go back to school. Yeah! This card is for all my friends and relatives that did go back.