Dustin Pike Image

I love this elephant...I've already used this a bunch of times. Colored with pencils and gamsol.

Penny Black Dog

One of my favorite Penny Black Stamps - colored with pencils and gamsol. Had this paper in my stash and it was perfect. Used my nesties, added ribbon and buttons. Had some time to make a couple cards this weekend. Enjoy!

Alone Time

Angelina is at her dads and Mark is racing so I had some time to make some cards - still trying to get back "into the groove" of making cards. Struggling but I did get a few done...super cute Dustin Pike digital image....lots of flowers on this one!

On of my favorite Penny Black images....

Trying to make time...

I'm doing my best to try to make some time to get some cards done...it really does relax me and I so need that right now. Did get the news that Mark will be laid off the end of June....things are really, really, really yucky at work right now. I did go to NYC over the weekend and went to see Ellis Island (which made me cry) and the Statue of Liberty - climbed the stairs - holy cow could I be anymore out of shape!!! Anyhow - made this card with a Dustin Pike digital image so stinking cute although (sorry to those I offend) I am not fond of monkeys they scare me a lil bit! LOL. Enjoy.

Killer Chihuahua

Meet Dominic....1.7 lbs of sheer terror....our newest addition - he is 10 weeks old and super stinking cute!

Finally....

Finally (thanks Diane for the boost) picked up my pencils and made a few cards....


One of my new Dustin Pike rubber stamps - paper is all from Close to my Heart.

Penny Black hedgehog! Can't really see it but the flowers are colored with Twinling H2O's (which YAY is not going out of business!!!!).

Break From Stamping

I haven't made a thing in weeks.......both Mark and I work for the same municipality and it's budget season and well it has not been pretty. We are both union workers and there have rumors of layoffs going round for months. I have been there for much longer so my security is much better but Mark is another story. Hopefully next week we will find out what exactly will happen but I have been so sick with worry that I haven't touched anything. My best bud needed a sympathy card and I did manage to do that but I haven't wanted to do a darn thing. So in case you were wondering that's where I have been - stressed out of my mind!! I know in the end everything will work out but boy oh boy getting there isn't going to be fun. I hope everyone has a wonderful Memorial Day another baseball game today although the forecast is talking about pop up thunderstorms so we will see. Good news is my house is really clean because I can't sit still! Enjoy!

Mother's Day

I hope everyone had a fantastic Mother's Day - the first half of my day was spent freezing at Mark's baseball game!! Here is a pic of my daughter all bundled up!! It's a good thing they won!

Friday Night

I got to make some cards Friday night so I took advantage and made as many as I could!

The monkey and bear are both Dustin Pike images....I also made a "girl" bear card but I loved the color combo of this one.

These two are both High Hopes - the Koala just arrived the other day and this cute little girl was sent to me from Diane (aka djuseless) isn't she adorable? These colors are fantastic. All images were colored with pencils and OMS.

Dustin Pike Rubber!!!!

I don't know if you are all familiar with his work (which totally rocks by the way!) but he just started with rubber....he has digital images available on his blog Dustin Pike but now he has stamps available they may be seen at DRS Designs I ordered them all! So much for the May budget and it's only day two. GREAT.