Ink Resist Bears

I chose this card to show because of the brayer technique I used for the white bears. The paper is actually what is white. I used a Verse mark pad to stamp the bears and used a brayer to roll blue ink on to the paper. The Verse mark resisted the ink showing the bears in the original white.

Bought Card 3D Pop-Up

This is such a simple idea and all you need is three to four of the same bought card, scissors and dimensional foam glue squares. Layer one is the original card. Layer two is (in the card) the lighthouse, sand and water. Layer three is the lighthouse and sand. Layer four is just the lighthouse. There is a dimensional square in between each layer.

Milk Carton

A milk carton. I saw a die cut for this paper craft in a catalog and figured out how to do it myself. This is just my rough draft with no embellishments on it, in fact I took it apart for future copies. If anyone wants the dimensions, leave a comment and I'll post them in a later post.

Booklets

So here is picture #1. These aren't cards but they are a paper craft. Books made from one large paper, cut and folded to make little booklets. I made the blue one first in NC and the yellow in MN a few years later.

New Direction

I will continue to post updates of our family happenings but I am going to start going in a new direction in general with this blog of mine. I have looked at many other ladies blogs of their cards and ideas and I have decided that over the next few days I'm going to post some of my better card designs on my blog.

Now a short family update. Not much has been going on over the last month and a half. J is finishing up with this years ASYMCA class and he and O are both signed up for a summer class. I and J's teacher have been working slowly with him on doing things with out Mommy right beside him. So far he's doing well with it. The hope is to make going to kindergarten an easier transition. Yes, in just two short years he will be off to kindergarten. It's too bad that he'll start here in the desert and we'll have to move that summer but at least it'll be summer and only kindergarten. O is showing her independence more and more. It is nice since she spends and hour and a half in day care four days a week and loves it. She could walk her self there if it were allowed for a two year old to do. As for E, she's just doing what babies do, grow and watch the world go round. She and J have their usual check ups in a few weeks, shots too, ick. As for Big E and myself. We're just going with the flow. Nothing too new with either of us, just the day to day life that we all now and love.

That's all for now, hope everyone out there is safe and sound. Love to you all, God bless.

J

Updates in Picture

A March Update

Sorry it's been so long since I've last posted. Here is a quick over view of March 2011.

It started out with a birthday party for O at the park. It went great and everyone had a bunch of fun even though it was windy and J popped her balloons before anyone else got there. We made an emergency family visit to GA. E's mother past away, it was sudden and although she has been ill it was still unexpected. Two days after we returned my parents came down for a weeks visit. They had hoped to see E baptized but because of airline problems missed it. It's been a busy March but the rest of the summer looks to be uneventful.

Everyone is doing well. E is growing and becoming a vocal little baby while O and J are being great older siblings. So far the only big issue we've come across is getting out the door on time for things and O doesn't want to give up the crib just yet. But we are working on it.

Pictures to come...if I can get to them soon.