FInishing up my girlfriend's valentines... Delivery tomorrow afternoon!

   

I love giving Valentines to my husband, as well as close friends. I have fun playing with old stuff too, like the pompoms, and chuncky old glitter, as well as ribbon! These were fun to think of, and my husband is getting this new card, since he saw the one with the funky shorts! LOL--- I sewed the cards on the circle, as well as the matting, and used some fancy ribbon left over from Christmas--- I got to use my new crown border embossed with sparkly gold embossing powder, to set the stage for this "royalty" inspired KING OF MY HEART card! I used a flocked heart button, that I hand lovingly, sewed into place for the man of my life, my Danny-bear!

I love challenging my mind to think outside of my common boxes of creativity! Isn't it fun to see where our imaginations take us. I thought of this, last night, before falling asleep! The other colorful creations are for my favorite friends here in DFW... Happy Valentines ladies!

So, king of my heart, Happy Valentines! and Love to all who make my life so much nicer! 

Shelley

Snowing in Dallas, 12 hours straight!!!

 Forney Texas--- snowfall!!! 

02-11-2010

It's been snowing since about 4 a.m. I am loving each snowflake, and each little pile on our rooftop! It doesn't snow like this, except for about every 30 years, so this is special. A few hours ago, my husband measured 6 inches! I am loving it!!!

Here is a photo of the front of my abode... Isn't it pretty? Look at the flakes falling down! Big and fluffy! I love it!

Take that you stay-puf marshmallow man!

50% OFF scrapping supplies... Oh, WOW!!!

Tonight, my husband took me to find stamp foam for some new unmounteds I got at the recent stamp trade days... We went to Michael's, but they didn't know what I was talking about... Then we  hit Hobby Lobby! OMG!!! 

They were having a scrapbook supplies 50% OFF SALE!!! My dear and overly understanding prince started looking at papers while I was looking at a few stamps... before I knew what hit me, we spent over $200 in cardstock and paper supplies. Nine new stamps, two punches, 3 sets of buttons, brads, etc and TONS (aka 12 PADS) of pads of papers!!! TONS! I don't even know HOW I will sort all these fantastic bargains! I guess I better start bringing in the $$$ from my cards!

Would it (still) be (too) greedy of me to expect flowers for Valentines? (Snicker) Oh, how I love my country boy! Thank you my precious!!!

My husband's Valentine's Card... I love it!

Honey bear Country Boy... if you see this, you better fake it on the 14th! LOL, this is my husband's simplistic Valentines' card for 2010~ I love simple cards! The front is embossed, and stickled in Really red glitter, colored with Copic markers. The inside is printed on clear vellum. Simple card. I made several for the men in my life; my brother, my daddy, my uncle, my man-friends. Only my husband, of course, gets this message.

Huff, the gnarly Dragon UNLEASHED...

Here is my dragon... I don't think the photo picks up the color scheme well and I didn't have time to edit it! It looks worse than the actual production, but I wanted to show you all this DRAGON that tortured me so much last night...The colors are off, cause the background is a deeper red, and green paper blends well with my Adirondack Alcohol ink'd background!  He is foiled and stickle'd... He is one fancy fiery guy! 

Anyway, this is "HUFF", the gnarly dragon: 

I am going to post my husband's Valentine's Card... He doesn't know about it yet, so I hope he doesn't read my post... see next post! LOL

TO ALL THE BROKEN HEARTED THIS VALENTINES...

My friend "J" recently lost his life-mate to ANOTHER. He has been heart broken by this turn of events. Wanting to cheer him up, I bought this voodoo doll, and made this "He loves me NOT!" card. Albeit my faith does not believe in this, I just had to make my friend laugh! Isn't this cute?

The flower has a crocheted mirror middle on it. I sewed him his own Voodoo doll (FILLED WITH RICE) to play with during tense moments. 

I don't know, this just kind of cracked me up--- for all the broken heart'eds this Valentines day:

 

I love my friend, "J"--- Shelley

Dragon Torture... in time for Valentines.

Today, I was working on this card order... I had bought this new very detailed dragon stamp and soooo looked forward to playing with it. Then, I stamped it. It smudged. I stamped it a dozen times and the belly of this dragon just won't come out clear! What is wrong with this dragon... Then I pondered how to make his image crystalize into a nice scaley dragon without smudges. I finally had a fairly decent image, and I colored him in with my copic markers and he lost detail. Then I stickled him. Then I foiled him. Suddenly this smeared up piece of art came to life and I left him alone. Drying. On a shelf in a room by himself. I added ribbon behind him with double mats, and then stamped inside a cherry blossom limb, added FIREY red stickles to his tongue and eyes, and my dragon awoke from his sleep, and quite frankly roared! I am glad I am finished with the dragon--- I hope my customer likes him. I will take a picture and insert him when he is fully dried out!