It's Been A Long Time!

So I bet you have been wondering just where I've been. Right?
Life has been rough.
Lost the internet again last week
It reminded me of the South Park episode when the whole country
lost internet and Stan's family went to CA to search for some.
Funny episode!!!
Anway.....Hubby decided to reformat the computer and
everything crashed and was lost.
So it's been a long road to get it fixed
Still working out some bugs but at least I have
my basic programs back so I update my blog again!
Family issues have also been dragging me down. Mom seems to be getting worse.
My daughter Sarah came home on Mother's day and went with me
to visit mom. After we said good bye to her and left the room, half way
down the hallway Sarah stopped and went back to her room to
give her another hug. It's really sad
Since Sarah moved to MI she doesn't see grandma much so
I think she was a little shocked to see her condition.
I haven't been stamping much. Pretty much
just focusing on work. Don't know
what is really wrong with me.
I haven't got the desire to do much of anything
I go to work, come home and zone out.
Really need to shake myself out of this funk I've been in.

The wedding card was made for a co worker Scott. He's getting
married this weekend.
The large cake stamp I got at Pat Catan's for .50 cents. The
wedding couple on top is from Viola accessories.
Didn't really show well in the scan but I did use my new long
rectangle Nesstibilites. Those are fun to use!

I have to work all day tomorrow from 8:30 to 5. They
trusted me with the keys to the campus, and showed
me how to disarm the alarm.
I'm hoping not to set off the alarm tomorrow morning!
Wish me luck!
The extra money in overtime will be great but I really don't like to lose my Saturday.
I'm just thinking about the three day weekend coming up.
The campus is closed for Memorial Day. YAY!
I was going to go to our family reunion, but I think I won't
Gas prices here are at 3.89 and I'm sure by next weekend it will be over 4.00 a
gallon. The reunion is in VA about 8 hours from here. Even
though my car gets good gas mileage it's still going to be
expensive.
Okay I've rambled on long enough for one post.
Glad to be able to post again.
TGIF!!

RIBBON! Techno #16 Challenge

Can you believe I got all this cool ribbon for .50 cents?! It's true. See the ribbon still in the package, well all the ribbon in the pile came out of the bag. Just love walking into a great deal!!! Of course Pat Catan's only had two bags left. For that price I would have picked up more!

Time for another Monday Techno

Challenge. Thanks MaryJo for a very simple layout. After my busy weekend I can only think in very simple terms!

Set used: Pretty Amazing, Riot of Petals background.

Colors: Purely Pomegranate, Soft Sky, Basic Black.

I stamped the butterfly twice, cut out just the wings and layered them with a pop dot over the the stamped image on the flower. Just love these colors together. I had scraps left over from the splitcoast color challenge, and since the scraps were still on my desk I decided to use them.

Till tomorrow!

Stamping Trails!

Happy Monday

NOT!!! Why does the weekend go by at a blink of an eye? This one sure went by fast. Been busy both days, but I did have a great weekend. I gotta run to work but I wanted to share with you cards that I found in my house from Kat. She left me these great thank you cards when her and Lisa left last Monday. Thanks Kat!

Stamping Trails

Karen

Color Challenge

I took the splitcoast color challenge. You needed to use Purely Pomegranate, Soft Sky, and Black.

Stamp sets used: Pretty Amazing, French Flair, and French Script Background. The humming bird is attached the the card hidden inside front layer. The card is attached using only the brad. The Soft Sky/black layer is attached to the card front only at the top. The bottom part of the panel

free so the card underneath can slide out. You can view other cards using these color here

I have a funny story to share with you. Skip younger sister called us a few days ago and wanted us to meet her for dinner today. She wanted to celebrate our wedding anniversary that we had last week. Anyway......we met her and Skip's mom at the Chinese Buffet. We had a nice dinner, then chatted to get caught up on all the family. Well......they both gave us gift bags with anniversary gifts, and really nice cards (I'll forgive them as they don't stamp, cards from Hallmark) Inside the cards were notes reading happy 25th. I'm just busted out laughing. Our 25th was last year this was the 26th. The gift bags were silver. I thought it was really sweet of them. We all got a good laugh. I wish I would have got a pic of Lisa's face when I told her is the the 26th. Priceless!!!! I'm going to make them both thank you cards. They made our day

Yesterday was a great day also! We took our nephews Corbet, and Neil, and our son John out to see Iron Man. OMG that was the best Marvel Comic movie made!!! Just loved it. They are making more. I wanted to stay and watch the movie again. After that we went to Quaker Steak and Lube for dinner. What a cool place that is! Great food and the inside has Corvettes hanging from the the ceiling, and on lifts just like the ones they use to raise up cars when they are being worked on. We sat under one. Pretty darn cool!!!

Till tomorrow

Stamping Trails

Karen

Spring Solitude

Still having fun making gate fold cards. I really like the belly bands!

Stamp set: Spring Solitude and matching wheel. Level 2 Hostess set from Stampin'Up!

Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Groovy Guava, River Rock, Very Vanilla

Ink: Jet Black StazOn, Groovy Guava

Accessories: pop dots, white gel pen, scallop punch, 1 3/8 circle punch.

Happy to say it's the weekend!!! YAY been a long week. Tomorrow I'm going to take my son John, and my nephew Corbet to see Iron Man, then after I'm taking them to dinner. It's Corbet's birthday and that is what he wanted to do. I can't believe the boys who were born 3 months apart are 20 years old. John will be in July. Don't know where the time goes. Seems like it was just yesterday that I gave birth to him in Washington state.

Gate Fold

I had fun making this simple gate fold card. See how to make your own gate fold by visiting splitcoaststampers

Tea pot and cup stamp from See-D's other stamps: Circle of Friendship, Paisley and Sanded Background. Cardstock: River Rock, Purely Pomegranate, Very Vanilla, Bayou Blue, Black

First I stamped paisley on River Rock cs, then I overstamped that with Sanded using Blasic Black ink. Broke out the crafter's took kit and punched the holes around the stamped images and

background layers. The inside stamp Lisa found for me when she was visiting. It's one of the .50 stamps in the bins at Pat Catan.

I went to visit my mom this evening. She is doing well. She got a little teary eyed when I left. I think I'll stop by again tomorrow after work and check on her again. Nothing worse than your mom crying. The cleaning staff had moved her photos around, and mom gets upset when they do that. I had to put them back in order.

After that I needed to go to Fashion Bug and pick up a new pair of jeans. I managed to rip my favorite jeans last week, and there is no way to mend them this time. Don't you just hate losing your favorite pair of jeans? Every other Friday we are able to wear jeans to work, and I wasn't going to miss out on that. I really dislike dressing up for work everyday.

Till tomorrow

Stamping Trails!!!

Karen

Roses

I came home to a dozen red roses yesterday. Hubby got them for me for our anniversary.
He also surprised me with a little poem.
And I'll forgive him for giving me a Hallmark card:)

The card where made by friends. I didn't have time to stamp last night like I thought I would. I met Skip at a Ponderosa for dinner. He works second shift but we met there on his lunch break.

I happy that the week is going by quick. It's already Thursday. My training class for this week is also over. YAY. Payday is tomorrow and we get to dress down and wear jeans. That's always a treat. Don't like getting dressed up for work each day. Hoping to have a nice easy weekend. Not planning on doing any housework. I'm going to get some stamping done, and work on some submission cards.

Stamping trails.