Monday, July 25, 2011

Friday, July 22, 2011

Way Too Hot...

OMG, so hot!

To stay cool my daughters and I stayed inside for part of the day. They really like making the stamped cards, so that's what we did.

I drew these poppies on the computer and printed them out for us to color. Turned out well! Looking forward to sending this to someone special.


This postcard is for my neighbor's little boy. He's very sick with a high temperature. Poor tiger, no one likes to be sick during the summer... especially a really active kid. I wrote the words on the computer and printed them out on the front of the postcard. The other side of the postcard is also created on the mac, and back-printed. Stamp is from Penny Black.



Hope you all are staying cool! Thank you for stopping by. Please come again.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Pheeeu! It's hot.

And Friday is supposed to be the worst. What would we do without AC?!!?

Friday, July 15, 2011

Sympathy Card

Hello.
Sadly, my cousin's husband lost a dear aunt recently. She was such a sweet lady. My daughter and I thought it so inappropriate to buy 'just any old card' and instead we made this 3D one. That fun accent is also on the envelope (shown underneath everything).

The tire-tree stamp and saying are new, just for this occasion. We didn't have any sympathy supplies and so a wonderful Mother-Daughter Day was had, buying what we needed.

Been a while (aaarg decades) since I've stamped. Dragging out all the old stamps and playing with the fun papers really brought back some old crafty memories! Nice break from all the note card studying. (Maybe I'll "pimp" my note cards with some stamping!)





When I was buying the supplies for the first card, I saw a stamp with a sandcastle on it. The stamp was nice but not exactly what I was looking for. Online I saw some others but decided to draw my sandcastle by hand and then scan into the computer and redraw with Photoshop. Then after printing, I hand color (just like with stamps) and adhere the image to a card. The neat thing is, I can print the image out at any size! As for the inside message, anything works, but I think the message above goes so well inside this card, too.


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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Rummikub Returns!

When I was growing up, my parents were big game players and played several games over and over. They played this game all the time. When my father died, I would play it with my mother and had such good times. Now my younger daughter enjoys playing it and she's not bad, either!!!

Fun passing on some traditions.

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Yeah Amherst!

Amherst NH was on the front page of The New York Times!!!!!

Our 4th of July is really popular with politicians and it's getting noticed.