I finally made it back!

About every three or four years, I get this urge to re-organize and clean out things. My hubby says I'm relentless until I get done or get exhausted. Well exhaustion is winning this time. The garage is killing me!

But I have had time to work and play some in between ravageing closets, draws and cabinets. The first card I'm sharing with you is "cased" from my up-line, Margie Anderson. Thanks Margie - I owe you lunch. A great punch art class.

    

The second card is a technique that I saw on someone's blog and can't remember whose (and probably threw out the sheet on it, knowing me). It's a simple technique: fold a handi-wipe a couple of times and place it in a non-porous item - I used a cheap pie tin. Next you drop the re-inker colors of your choice for your project onto the handi-wipe. I used More Mustard, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive and a touch of Chocolate Chip. Then you stamp directly onto the handi-wipe and onto your card stock. I made about 15 cards without reinking so it is very cost effective. After the handi-wipe dried out, I tried to add water to remoisten it but it wasn't very successful. Maybe if I had added some glycerin, it might work. Anyway here's the card. Hope you like it.

 

My last two are Christmas cards. The first one I won a WOW! award at our Spaghetti Factory meeting in September. That's Sandy Hancock's downline meeting and I'm lucky enough to be in her group. Great lady!

The first card is very vintage, which was fun. Definitely not a workshop card. Neither is the second one. Actually, it was a mistake but I liked most of it anyway, so sharing it with you. I think it has possibilites, but needs some work.

 

And the mistake  . . . .

   Front of card - fine - the inside flap - fine but what the heck was I doing that I added a second inside? Not very successfully at that. Not to mention that it's stamped crocked. Darn gremlins around here anyway. They are next on my list of things to get rid of!

 
Hopefully, it won't be so long before I'm back. Oh and if you get a chance to hope over to Facebook, you can see some pics from the Halloween Party we had a the ranch. Great spook house. Heard grown men squeal like little girls! (I was pretty scary so that helped.)

                                                  

 

 

 

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It's entirely possible that one or more of these ideas could have been a big success had we given it the college try. Instead, these ideas died on the vine -- usually in one minute of a 1:1, a couple minutes before a different meeting got a quorum, or in a hallway conversation on the way to lunch. Generating good ideas is only as important as getting buy in for them. If you come up with ideas no one wants to act on, you're about as useful as someone who doesn't come up with any ideas (but you'll be a lot more frustrated and bitter).