Update July 2016

Wow I can't believe that it's the middle of the year already. I have crafting a little bit. I got a kindle so I can get on the net, I have been taking some pics of cards with my phone.  I learned to use my stash. When only working a part-time job, so I can get medical help, you use what you have. I am still here. Hopefully I can post pictures soon..thanks for reading.

2015 the year of the cards.

Well I am so sorry that my blog was taken to the wayside. With losing the longtime job and trying to find a new one. My card making went to the back seat, and earning money was the goal.
The winter of 2014, had me getting published again in the issue of Just cards. It was a changito monkey Halloween card. It seems to me I can do Halloween cards alright.
Hoping that the mojo kicks in. With all the new stamp companies out there, the cards should just come to me.
I hope all will join me in stamping and hanging out.
Tanya

Birthday, fall and published

Hello all, its been awhile. It seems March has been roaring in. I can't believe its almost April. Well my birthday was on the 11th. Another year older, surprisingly i don't feel a year older. I got some nice cards and some money.  I hoping to do some model horse showing next month. I get to do some judging and hanging out with some friends.

I was helping to do some cleaning yesterday and i had a oh no moment. I just finished putting something in my Jeep. I was bringing in the mail, i fell in the driveway. Me being stupid and not having my boots on. Walking around with my sneakers on. My right foot slipped out from under me and the left locked up and tried to dislocate. At that moment i just decided not to try to save myself. I went down in the snow. i laid there for a second or two seeing if i was hurt. Nope just my pride! i laid on my back wondering how was i getting up. With my knees its not easy. Actually i got on my knees to lever myself up. The snow was okay on my knees. So when i went inside i told people, i didn't fall i made snow angels!!!!

I was alittle sore later but am fine now.

I Got a nice surprise in the mail today. I just got back from getting my nephew's Easter present. And checked the mail.  I got Published again. I am so happy. I did another card that was good enough to print.

Its Called Spooktacular. I used K & Company paper and Heidi grace rub-ons. Its super cute. Its a nice Halloween card. Its in the newest issue of Just Cards.  i have to do some more soon.

Almost March

Well it seems time flies, Since i posted last. OMG it goes so fast.

I have been looking for work, i still dont know what i want to do.

I was cleaning my room since it looks like a tornado hit it, its that messy.
I relized how much stamping and card items i had.

I took fairly big tote and purged my stash. There is all sorts of things i decided that didnt need any more. Cardstock, pattern paper, odds and ends.

I am donating it all to the local VA center. i fiquire all the Vets would use it for crafts.

i did card when i had some time. The image and sentiment is from Cat's Pajamas. Its from the set Oh Chute. I colored this with copics and i paper pieced the parachute.
I wanted this to be a bright card.

Have a great week.

Loving Winter......NOT!!

Hello all. Sorry i have been absent in blogging. i have been busy doing things with my nephew, looking for work and watching it snow.

Today we got snow. From 3 am until now, i would say 30 inches. Yay i said right. 30 INCHES! it was snowing it so hard we couldnt see 2 feet in front of you.  i had to clean off my Jeep three times. we finally got plowed out at five o'clock.

i was playing with the camera that i got for christmas. i am getting some great shots. it stopped for a half an hour so i got some snow on the trees and back rails of the deck.

i love how technology has done with cameras. i love getting some snow shots.

so i am so ready for spring to come. But alas i am in the lake snow belt so i still have a ways to go with the season.

I would love to go to a nice sunny warm spot, will someone let me stay with them????
just kidding. thanks for listening me vent.

Happy New Year And News

Hello Everyone. Happy New Year. I know i am late in posting. With the holidays and everything in my life.
I got some distressing news in November. I was laid off from my job of 12 yrs on Novermber 29. Happy holidays to me. Lets just say it was a shock. Never thought i would be let go. But you never know. So have been doing abit of job hunting. I just dont know what kind of work i want to do. With my RA its going to be fun looking for something i can do. Right now its going pretty good with my meds and pain.

With all this, my mojo for making cards went with this worry to find a job. I am getting some good ideas. i just need to get them down on paper. I think this weekend i will start doing some marathon stamping so i can color images will watching tv.

But have so many supportive people in my life is my greatest gift this holiday season and the new year. I have some good feelings for this year. Hoping that it will be better.

thanks for reading.

Happy Holidays

Hello. long time no hear. Sorry i haven't been creative lately. I have been looking for work. I got let go from my job after 12 yrs. It was quite a shock. So i was upset so making any cards was not a option. I am starting to get mojo back.  Still looking for work.
And with the holidays its harder. At least i get to be with friends and family.

Here is a couple of cards i did for the holidays last year or so.

I hope you all have a great Christmas and Happy New Year.

WarmWinterWishes

Hello all. I guess i have to face the fact that its early winter here in NY. We have about three inches on the ground. I am so not ready for Winter. At least my meds are constant and i don't have to worry that the cold would really bother me.

I have been doing alot of winter/christmas cards at work during break and lunch.
I haven't got a lot of ones ready to send to friends yet.

It did this one a few days ago. I kinda wanted this guy to hold the sign but couldn't see how it would look right. I love the winter wishes set i got . Its by Fiskars. Its a fun set.
I had the background paper from The Paper Studio. You can't see in the pic, the scarf and boots are colored with glitter markers.

 Are you getting your cards done? I am hoping to get mine done soon. I know i have to do the presents for co-workers soon. I have to design the card for them. I am leaning towards using a House Mouse stamp for it. I  have a couple to choose from.

Can't believe to me time flies.

Hello all. I can't believe that its almost Thanksgiving. That means i better get work on my Christmas cards for family and friends. I am still playing with designs. I tries this one.

I just got these chipboard stickers from Basic Grey. They were on sale! I forgot that JoAnns carries Basic Grey, they have at least two sets by them. They have the accessoires too. I thought that the Papers from My Minds eye and DCWV made this card.

This is a A2 sized card. The tree layer is 4 x 5 1/4 . i cut the snow 4 x 2 1/2 and rounded the top to make hills. stamped the snowman and colored his hat and arms. cut him out and put him on the hill. put the stickers in the upper left hand corner.

this is a fun card to make and super easy.

Brrrrr

Well the title says it all. Its gotten to the low 30s at night. Just makes me go Brrrr......
I have really busy with my other hobby.
I don't know if i said it or not. I collect and show Model horses. Yes i play with Plastic horses LOL. This past weekend was our Regional show for Region 10. Two days of showing and hanging out with friends.
I must say that our region is one of the hardest regions to show in because everyone brings their A game. I keep telling myself that i am learning more and more by showing.
I got numerous ribbons, And Two Top Fives this weekend. One was in performance, doing my fave class: OF Games. My set-up is the rubber ducky ring toss. Everyone loves seeing those ducks. And my other was in Halter AR Other Pony, with my Pony resin called Edelweiss,
I was hoping to do more but the competition was really tough. I had a couple of people ask if i brought cards, I was so exicited to show i forgot to pack them. I will make some to put in with my show stuff next time.

Here is example of a class in a live model horse show. this was the last time i showed at Regionals.

I am hoping to get more horses qualified for Nationals. We will see.

Since it was really chilly outside i made a card saying that.

I made this before work this morning while i warmed up from coming in from my Jeep.
I have paper stashed at work. I just recently got this cute set from Fiskars. Its called Winter Wishes, As you can see the penquins are so cute.  I love to color the scarfs and clothing on them. I love the sentiment, i think i will be using it alot. I have to get my Xmas card samples for people at work setup. I am not leaving myself time. I want to do some that i can mass produce. research is in order,.

Well everyone keep warm, and try not to say Brrr......

Halloween goodies

Hello all. I can;t believe its October already. Where has the year gone. It seems just like yesterday it was spring. I have been doing some things with my other hobby. Model horse collecting and showing, I went to a show beginning of the month. I did well. I haven't shown my models in a year. I got some Nationals qualifed cards and lots of ribbons.

I also have been making cards in spurts. When my mojo lets me. LOL

I had black cardstock so i had to use some. I have had this paper in my stash for awhile. It looks like monsters peeking out. I had dcwv paper from last year that matched well. i love using my white gel pen to embellish.

I love using this paper, its so cute. I had to use the monkey treater. Maybe a kid will like this card.

I had to use heidi grace rub-ons for this card. I combined sayings for it. Oh i love the drippy goo punch, its my go to punch for Halloween.
Will start getting Occasion cards ready for submission to Just Cards soon.
Hopefully i will get Published again.

Boo to you

Hello everyone. I hope all are doing fine out there. I have been doing well. I recently got another Issue of Just Cards. That means i got published again!!!!! I feel so good when i do. That means i get the bug to do more cards. I fiqured out that its late September so i should work on my Halloween cards.

i had this paper from Heidi Grace designs , isn't it stinkin cute? i thought it would make a cute card. I had some rub-ons from Heidi Grace too. So it took longer to do the layers on this card than anything. I love Halloween, its such a fun Holiday. Hope i can do another post soon, i am going to do another challenge card. so be on the lookout.

brainstorms and hole punchs

Hello all. I got this really cool idea last night as i went to bed. It had to do with hole punching, But only problem my good hole punch is at work.
So i got to do my ideas at work during break.
Why is it that alot of ideas come when you are not doing any cards?

i punched holes from cardstock and pattern paper. glued then to the base, drew lines for strings, and used the craft tape i got from Micheals. easy birthday card.

i punched holes then put colored cardstock behind to show thru. and put craft tape on for another quick b-day card.

I love these ideas, i hope i get more of them.

VLVS Design team

Hello all. I am trying to audition for Viva LasVegas Stamps design team. I have pulled some of my cards that use their stamps for this blog post.

here is a christmas type and a halloween type of cards. I love how the stamps come alive with tons of color from colored pencils and markers.

what do you think?

Paperplaytime challenge

Hello doing another challenge here,
PaperPlaytime is doing another sentiment challenge. You had to use a sentiment and to use polka dots. I love using polka dots, its a neat theme to use.

i wanted to use a simple setup. I used a color purple theme to my card. My papers are from Paper Studio.  the flower is from making memories(was white) and i put polka dots with a purple Marvy marker to tie in the polka dots. The sentiment is from Paper Smooches. I am hooked on their stamps right now. I cut a banner from a white scrap and stamped the sentiment on it , then ran a purple marker round the edge of banner.
I loved how the card turned out. I think this one will go in the pile for Operation Write Home. What do you think?

HMFMC126 5x birthday

Hello all. I am trying to do another challenge. I love the House Mouse site and challenge blog. They come up with some good challenges.

I decided to try my hand at this one. It was to use a stamp with two or more animals( house mouse) for your project.

i wanted to use black cardstock for my card base. The orange pattern layer is by DCWV. The yellow and the striped is from Basic grey.
the orange layer is 4 x 5 1/4. i cut the others on a diagonal to layer over. I stamped the image with memento tuxedo black. colored with faber castell and distress marker. i layered the image with black cardstock and blue cardstock. I stamped birthday from Paper Smooches on the yellow triangle. i added the line of dot stickers from stampendous. on the striped layer.

What do you think? did i do good for this challenge?

Cardztv challenge 12

Hi I wanted to do a card for the challenge. only thing is i don't have any Cardztv stamps. So i use a different stamps on this card.

i cut a 8 x 11 sheet of Georgia Pacific paper to make a a2 sized card. i used a corner rounder by Fiskars to round all four corners. I cut the pattern paper to just under what was needed and rounded all corners. I stamped this cute image with Memento tuxedo black and colored with copic markers. i also rounded the corners on this image. I stamped the sentiment on the top and bottom of the stamped image. I think i came out nice.

hugs

I just wanted to share a card on one the hottest days so far this summer. It was brutal today. i was lucky that i work in air conditioning. I did this card today during break and lunch. i had the image mostly colored already.

I really like the Stamping bella line of stamps. i can do so many cards with this line. I colored the poppies a different color this time. This is just a cheery card.

i had to use Paper Smooches hugs sentiment on this card. It just makes you want to hug. LOL. Thanks for looking.

July ramblings

Hello to a Sunny July. I am so glad its summer now. I love the warm weather. it makes the RA livable. just going from air conditioned to outside takes me getting used to.
I am so glad that i got some cards done for the troops. i did 18 so far. I am getting another batch done.

i had some cardstock from Core d'nations. i thought grey would go really well with this pattern paper. this base is a A2 sized cardbase.

I got this pattern paper from Heidi Grace. its double-sized. It makes some really nice cards.  I had some adhesive pearls. I used sentiment sampler from Paper smooches. I love this set.  I hope to send this card with the others to the troops. 

thanks for stopping today.

warm thoughts on being published

Hello all. i just wanted to share a card with you and share good news.

I was published in the recent Just Cards Summer issue.  My card is in the first section called Just Because. I think the World of you. I used Stampendous stamps. I love the Changito stamps. The kneehugger is so cute. you can color it so many ways.
I did direct to paper method to the mat. its a fun way to make background paper.

I would like to share this card with you today

I used red cardstock from Core d'nations to make a 5 inch square card.

Basic grey papers for the pattern papers. I got some craft tape from Micheals.

The stamps are Paper Smooches- healthy vibes set. I colored the cups with Distress Ink Markers.

I love how this card came out. Its so colorful and cheery.

Thanks for stopping today.