It's All N the Cards

Did you know?

2011-03-09T11:52:00.000-06:00

Yesterday was a rainy day here in Wichita, so hubby and I went to get a new Social Security card for him, since he is now a citizen of the US. I was told that SS office didn't automaticaly change his status until we had requested the new card. I thought that it would have been automaticaly done when he received the citizenship certificate. So if you ever know anyone who changes their status remember that it is very important to get to the SS office and update the card. There is so much red tape, and hoops to jump. But I guess that is what makes us a great nation.

Naturalization

2010-10-27T11:07:00.000-05:00

Today we received our letter from INS that my DH is going to get his citizenship, finally. Now we never have to worry about him getting sent back to Mexico. We have been married for 10 1/2 yrs and are doing good. November 19, 2010 he will become a naturalizied citizen and we look forward to no more worries. The kids are happy to get out of school for the day, not understanding any thing else, but they will in time.

I've been online just busy. I am finally updating blog.

2010-07-25T12:40:00.000-05:00

With summer here and kids home I just can't get into my crafts. The kids went to summer camp for 4 days so I got in my craft room and made boxes. Next week we are going to try to have a garage sale so I decided to put my stuff in the sale. Want to share what I have been up to.

In a group I am in SCALhints someone shared a link for boxes. I really loved this sample so I came up with this one.

Since I got started making these boxes I dug out my matchboxs and but together some more boxes. My son thought the mushroom box was great. He is 30 and still likes my creations.

Here is another pattern I found on the web and created my own design. The drawer pullies are charms for jewerly. I personally have never thought about using charms. They look beautiful on here.

This is a different paper and the drawer handles are make with dimentional stickers. On the topper this sticker reads "Just Because".

This is the last of this kind of box I have to share. The paper is christmas paper I bought from WalMart about 2 yrs ago on clearance. The paper is gold and silver. I just love this one.

My daugher made a box and I promised her I would share it also. She is 7 and loves to to craft things with me, so while the older 4 were at camp she was busy with me creating. Here is her drawers.

Now for a personal side of me. About 3 months ago we were given a wonderful dog. She is about 6 yrs old and very well behaved. The reason her "Momma" had to get rid of her was because her can not be left alone. I thought that would be ok because with 7 people in this family someone is almost always home. Yesterday B98FM radio here in Wichita, had a listener appreition day and I wanted the kids to go. So, I decided to put the dog in the basement where she could not destroy anything. I forgot about the cat door we made so the kitty could go in and out for her food. Here is what the dog did to here door. The door started out at 10x10 inches. Just big enough for the cat and the dog could only get here head through the door. Now the door is big enough for the dog to fit through. She really worked on the door. I don't have a pic of the door before but I have also shared a pic of the dog. I hate to get rid of her and I just could stand leaving her in the car with the weather being as hot as it has been. Temps are around 100 now so it would have been 110 or more in the car.

This dog is part boxer and about 60 lbs. So she is not a small dog.

I have one more post for the day and it is a vinyl I did for my front door and trying to work up the courage to sell these. If anyone is interested in the SVG for this send me an email and I will send you one.

This reads "Welcome to our home". Husband is Hispanic and decided to make something for his friends and family when the come to visit.

Ok, I have rambled on long enough so thank you stopping by and please feel free to leave a comment. I love to see what others think of my work.

Birth announcements

2010-03-22T11:06:00.000-05:00

I have not been around much since yahoo messed with my account. I up dated my yahoo messenger and then be problem started, I could no longer sign onto yahoo. So for about 3 weeks I kept calling yahoo and asking why. Finally they resolved the issue, after I had already decided that I would loose the account, I started another account. Now I have 2 accounts and yahoo still is all messed up. I am moderator in SCALHINTS and for what ever reason part of my emails are going to the first account and some emails are going to the new account. Go figure.

Any way I have finally almost finished making some cards and wanted to share them with everyone. I love the design, they are simple but say alot. Hope you enjoy them as much as I have making them. There are a gift to my income tax preparer and then I am going to see if I can make money at selling them. I am trying to make the lettering in SCAL so there is not so much glueing. My fingers just about didn't want to let go of the paper, I had so much glue on the.

Next week after I learn to weld my letters together I am also going to make this in spanish. I think they will be just as beautiful.

I am going to make a frame for the photo of the baby above the name. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think.

Thank you for looking.

Yahoo problems again

2010-03-04T08:01:00.000-06:00

I have been unable to sign onto Yahoo for this being the second day! I have called yahoo and they are aware of the problem and trying to resolve it. Today I read they have fixed the problem with messenger but I still can not get on there either. I am so tried of yahoo. If I was smart enough I would love to start another web site. Not that smart and never could do it. I am honest with myself, I just have to blow some steam. I am still around, hopefully I am not missing out on anything good.

Take care and will jump in when able.

2010-01-28T15:00:00.000-06:00

Here is a new card I just made. I am in a group SCALhints and Penny the owner of the group sent me an email saying she couldn't wait for me to make this card with a pocket watch on it. So, I emailed and said don't hold you breath, her response was she was turning red at that point. So, I thought I should get this done ASAP before riga. set in. Here is the results.

This last photo is the inside of the card.

Hope you enjoyed it. Please leave a comment and let me know. Thanks for looking.

Another SVG

2010-01-22T14:08:00.001-06:00

Ok, I have finally finished making a wonderful SVG. I have tried different methods to convert this into an SVG and I think I finally figured out how to do it. Any way, I am sharing. I have not cut this so I make no promises has to how fast or slow it is. Please enjoy and refer your friends to my site to get their own copy. Here is the color photo I took the image from.

Get the SVG from

http://www.4shared.com/file/204376452/8bf36052/mexican_bird.html

Back from Mexico

2009-12-30T13:38:00.000-06:00

I am back and had a good time except for the cold. I just found out that there was snow there yesterday. We left just in time. I know they didn't get much snow but with no heater they are always cold. The snow never stays long. Today we got some snow, the storm from Mexico made its way to Kansas. Really no snow to write about, weather man says less then an inch is going to fall.

Here are some of the pictures that my kids took, they just love taking the pictures. First photo is where we stayed and it looks over the houses on the side of a mountain. The second is the view looking up from the street. The next couple are just looking over the houses. This last one everyone should enjoy, hubby getting drunk, for the first time in our 10 yr marriage, and seeing his cousin after. Hubby had not seen cousin for about 6 yrs so he started to cry. Never seen hubby drunk let alone see him cry. You know men just don't cry.

I hope this shows just how high the ledge is and the house sits on top of this hill. You know when you are old and fat it is a long hard haul up the hill. I just about didn't want to go any where just because of the climb up the walk to the house. But I did it and the kids just loved the vacation.

Enter to win a Gypsy

2009-11-30T07:42:00.000-06:00

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2009-11-12T18:15:00.000-06:00

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Patriotic kaleidoscopes

2009-11-10T11:53:00.002-06:00

This one represents the Navy. I don't know anyone in the Navy just playing around and thought the colors went together wonderfully. Please enjoy the freebie. Wouldn't this look wonderful with a soldiers photo in the center of it. It is for an 8 x 8 layout. http://www.4shared.com/file/149695607/a4326735/US_Navy1.html

My next one is just the flag, hope you like it. This is a jpeg file and with soft overcast. The picture will look a little fuzzy, that is the way I made it.http://www.4shared.com/file/149695237/88169c2a/US_Flag1.html

This next one is png file and the black will not be there when you open it up in your photo editing program. I don't understand why it is here. http://www.4shared.com/file/149695237/88169c2a/US_Flag1.html

This one I was playing around with the different colors and background. I hope this is to your liking.http://www.4shared.com/file/149692389/104f3a68/USA_paper.html

If the links do not match the layout please let me know. I put this post together differently today. Can't seem to get all my thoughts together and do it correctly.

Enjoy!

More kaleidoscopes

2009-11-09T10:58:00.000-06:00

Download here

Download here.

Download snowflake here.

http://www.4shared.com/file/149070232/a6cbc5eb/pink_sun.html

Here are some more Kaleidoscopes that I have been working on. The black background should be gone when opened up in you paint or photshop program (which ever one you use). Not sure why it is black. Please leave some love, and thank you for visiting.

More christmas cards

2009-11-07T09:51:00.000-06:00

Ok I have changed the card. I didn't like the first one so I removed the circle and put some different background color. I think this looks much better.

I told you I love this stamp. I found this paper from Martha Stewart and I don't know how come I was so lucky to be able to get the stamp just in the right place. I think this one turned out great also.

I decided to change things up and found something new to work on. I dry embossed the lattern and then I have some colored stencil paste and added the color. Then because the paste was still wet I added some glitter. You really can't see the glitter.

This is the last card. I have made this from fonts I have and I will share. You can download it from here.

http://www.4shared.com/file/147947512/3cf5d910/FLOWER_WITH_RIBBON_CARD.html

This is a SCUT file.

Love this stamp

2009-11-06T21:29:00.001-06:00

Today I started making my Christmas cards. I came across this idea of only have the important part of the stamp colored. So with this being my favorite stamp I wondered if this would look good. I am not sure I really like it, but it will do for now. I am going to work on more over the weekend. As soon as I get more done I will begin to post them. Please if you can leave me a post and let me know what you think. And thank you for stoping by.

DigiFree

2009-10-27T07:43:00.001-05:00

Just received notice that I will in the DigiFree today. I am so happy. I am doing good work. Never thought anyone important in the outside world would notice my work. Thank you.
http://digifree-blogs.blogspot.com/

Some of my recent projects

2009-10-19T14:58:00.002-05:00

These are some photo albums I came up with. On the right side you put you photo and on the left side you can put post-it notes and a pen.

I have gotten rave reviews for these. They are really simple to make also. My style of making things.

Then I had to try something new. I just 2 trifold cards and made another album. With is album you can hold just about as many pics as you can find space.

Five photos will fit for sure and more if you have small ones. Then there is also room for the journaling.

Obessed with Kaleidoscope

2009-10-16T11:02:00.000-05:00

Ok, now I am getting obsessed with this kaleidoscope. Here are the new ones I have created. I am going to let you see all of the ones I made. Each one is the next step in my final kaleidoscope. A spider web is the first png I started with. So the first one looks like this:

Then I opened this up again in the program and came up with this one.

Again opened this one up in the program and came with with this final png. I think they turned out wonderful.

Then I took this one and clicked an icon that gave it the kaleidoscope look.

I hope you enjoy this as much as I do. Thank you visiting my blog and have a wonderful day.

First Christmas card

2009-10-15T15:03:00.000-05:00

Here is a card I put together today. I found this in a magazine and just loved the stamp. The magazine had the stamp in front of bible paper. I just love the paper and even called the company the magazine listed a the seller and the company no longer makes the paper. Man does that suck. So I just found this book of hymns and copied one page. This is the first Christmas card I have made.

Thank you for looking and have a wonderful day. I will not be around for the next 4 days. Kids will be home for the next 4 days so not much time to play. Take care and will see you next week.

Been playing around

2009-10-14T16:43:00.000-05:00

Today while the little ones were taking a nap I thought I would try my hand at creating something svg. Here is what I came up with. It takes a while to cut and needs some work but for 2 hrs I think it is good.
http://www.4shared.com/file/140927167/4e30d8aa/circle_of_flowers.html

Forgot one more file

2009-10-14T09:13:00.000-05:00

http://www.4shared.com/file/140840386/7dfb0f60/broom_stick1.html

http://www.4shared.com/file/140840941/42bd5019/broom_stick.html

Some free kaleidoscope photos.

2009-10-14T08:14:00.000-05:00

http://www.4shared.com/file/140825832/2da9f8c1/crows_in_flight.html
I wanted to share some jpg photos that I created using my Kaleidoscope program. Thought they might be fun to see what different things that could be created with these. If you send me the photo of your work I would love to post it or a link to you blog.

http://www.4shared.com/file/140825428/dd7dd9fa/vintage_post_card.html

http://www.4shared.com/file/140825595/41fa16bb/vintage_star.html

Please remember if this doesn't work let me know. This is my first time trying to do this. Hopefully I did it correctly. Enjoy and thank you for visiting my blog.

More Blog Candy

2009-10-14T07:45:00.000-05:00

Today I found more blog candy. You really need to check this out, she is giving to lucky winners. First prize is worth $300 http://twinklesglow-glowbug.blogspot.com/.

Blog candy

2009-10-13T13:17:00.001-05:00

Please everyone please check out the blog candy that is being offered at http://amkscrap.blogspot.com/. She has some Flower Soft. I have never tried using it before.

Trying to get better at blogging

2009-10-09T13:25:00.000-05:00

I am trying to get this done right. I have added some of the sites I follow. I also want to tell you about the wonderful things happening with a couple of groups I am in. You really need to join in our fun. I am in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scalhints/ and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCALSocialConnection/, These groups are over seen by Penny Duncan the most wonderful women I have known since my Grandmother was alive. She can do so many things and still have a life. Please join us in the fun, even if you don't want to join in on the conversations you can get enjoyment out of just reading the special connection all of the women have. Hope to see you soon.

I have updated

2009-10-05T08:36:00.002-05:00

I have added WebRing today, now let's see if this works. I belong to Scalhints a yahoo group and we are trying to tie all of our websites together. I hope this really does work.