Back from Mexico

I am back and had a good time except for the cold. I just found out that there was snow there yesterday. We left just in time. I know they didn't get much snow but with no heater they are always cold. The snow never stays long. Today we got some snow, the storm from Mexico made its way to Kansas. Really no snow to write about, weather man says less then an inch is going to fall.

Here are some of the pictures that my kids took, they just love taking the pictures. First photo is where we stayed and it looks over the houses on the side of a mountain. The second is the view looking up from the street. The next couple are just looking over the houses.  This last one everyone should enjoy, hubby getting drunk, for the first time in our 10 yr marriage, and seeing his cousin after. Hubby had not seen cousin for about 6 yrs so he started to cry. Never seen hubby drunk let alone see him cry. You know men just don't cry.

I hope this shows just how high the ledge is and the house sits on top of this hill. You know when you are old and fat it is a long hard haul up the hill. I just about didn't want to go any where just because of the climb up the walk to the house. But I did it and the kids just loved the vacation.

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Patriotic kaleidoscopes

This one represents the Navy. I don't know anyone in the Navy just playing around and thought the colors went together wonderfully. Please enjoy the freebie. Wouldn't this look wonderful with a soldiers photo in the center of it. It is for an 8 x 8 layout. http://www.4shared.com/file/149695607/a4326735/US_Navy1.html

My next one is just the flag, hope you like it. This is a jpeg file and with soft overcast. The picture will look a little fuzzy, that is the way I made it.http://www.4shared.com/file/149695237/88169c2a/US_Flag1.html

This next one is png file and the black will not be there when you open it up in your photo editing program. I don't understand why it is here. http://www.4shared.com/file/149695237/88169c2a/US_Flag1.html

This one I was playing around with the different colors and background. I hope this is to your liking.http://www.4shared.com/file/149692389/104f3a68/USA_paper.html

If the links do not match the layout please let me know. I put this post together differently today. Can't seem to get all my thoughts together and do it correctly.

Enjoy!

More kaleidoscopes

Download here

Download here.

Download snowflake here.

http://www.4shared.com/file/149070232/a6cbc5eb/pink_sun.html

Here are some more Kaleidoscopes that I have been working on. The black background should be gone when opened up in you paint or photshop program (which ever one you use). Not sure why it is black. Please leave some love, and thank you for visiting.

More christmas cards

Ok I have changed the card. I didn't like the first one so I removed the circle and put some different background color. I think this looks much better.

I told you I love this stamp. I found this paper from Martha Stewart and I don't know how come I was so lucky to be able to get the stamp just in the right place. I think this one turned out great also.

I decided to change things up and found something new to work on. I dry embossed the lattern and then I have some colored stencil paste and added the color. Then because the paste was still wet I added some glitter. You really can't see the glitter.

This is the last card. I have made this from fonts I have and I will share. You can download it from here.

http://www.4shared.com/file/147947512/3cf5d910/FLOWER_WITH_RIBBON_CARD.html

This is a SCUT file.

Love this stamp

Today I started making my Christmas cards. I came across this idea of only have the important part of the stamp colored. So with this being my favorite stamp I wondered if this would look good. I am not sure I really like it, but it will do for now. I am going to work on more over the weekend. As soon as I get more done I will begin to post them. Please if you can leave me a post and let me know what you think. And thank you for stoping by.

DigiFree

Just received notice that I will in the DigiFree today. I am so happy. I am doing good work. Never thought anyone important in the outside world would notice my work. Thank you.
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Some of my recent projects

These are some photo albums I came up with.  On the right side you put you photo and on the left side you can put post-it notes and a pen.

I have gotten rave reviews for these.  They are really simple to make also.  My style of making things.

Then I had to try something new.  I just 2 trifold cards and made another album.  With is album you can hold just about as many pics as you can find space.

Five photos will fit for sure and more if you have small ones.  Then there is also room for the journaling.

Obessed with Kaleidoscope

Ok, now I am getting obsessed with this kaleidoscope.  Here are the new ones I have created. I am going to let you see all of the ones I made.  Each one is the next step in my final kaleidoscope.  A spider web is the first png I started with. So the first one looks like this:

Then I opened this up again in the program and came up with this one.

Again opened this one up in the program and came with with this final png.  I think they turned out wonderful.

Then I took this one and clicked an icon that gave it the kaleidoscope look.

I hope you enjoy this as much as I do.  Thank you visiting my blog and have a wonderful day.

First Christmas card

Here is a card I put together today.  I found this in a magazine and just loved the stamp. The magazine had the stamp in front of bible paper. I just love the paper and even called the company the magazine listed a the seller and the company no longer makes the paper.  Man does that suck.  So I just found this book of hymns and copied one page.  This is the first Christmas card I have made. 

Thank you for looking and have a wonderful day.  I will not be around for the next 4 days. Kids will be home for the next 4 days so not much time to play.  Take care and will see you next week.

Been playing around

Today while the little ones were taking a nap I thought I would try my hand at creating something svg.  Here is what I came up with.  It takes a while to cut and needs some work but for 2 hrs I think it is good.
http://www.4shared.com/file/140927167/4e30d8aa/circle_of_flowers.html

Forgot one more file

http://www.4shared.com/file/140840386/7dfb0f60/broom_stick1.html

http://www.4shared.com/file/140840941/42bd5019/broom_stick.html

Some free kaleidoscope photos.

http://www.4shared.com/file/140825832/2da9f8c1/crows_in_flight.html
I wanted to share some jpg photos that I created using my Kaleidoscope program.  Thought they might be fun to see what different things that could be created with these.  If you send me the photo of your work I would love to post it or a link to you blog.

http://www.4shared.com/file/140825428/dd7dd9fa/vintage_post_card.html

http://www.4shared.com/file/140825595/41fa16bb/vintage_star.html

Please remember if this doesn't work let me know.  This is my first time trying to do this.  Hopefully I did it correctly.  Enjoy and thank you for visiting my blog.

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Trying to get better at blogging

I am trying to get this done right. I have added some of the sites I follow. I also want to tell you about the wonderful things happening with a couple of groups I am in. You really need to join in our fun. I am in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scalhints/ and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCALSocialConnection/, These groups are over seen by Penny Duncan the most wonderful women I have known since my Grandmother was alive. She can do so many things and still have a life. Please join us in the fun, even if you don't want to join in on the conversations you can get enjoyment out of just reading the special connection all of the women have. Hope to see you soon.

I have updated

I have added WebRing today, now let's see if this works. I belong to Scalhints a yahoo group and we are trying to tie all of our websites together. I hope this really does work.

Yahoo has issues

For the last 2 days I have tried to post pics on yahoo group Scalhints. And only part of the group could see them. So this morning I went in and tried to post to the photo sections of the group and after 6 attempts I decided to post my pics to my blog. I guess I will have to visit this more often and post the pics here since yahoo.com seems to have lots of problems.

New svg

I have decided to share with you an svg I made. This is only the second one I've made, and the first one to share. Hope everyone enjoys it.

I guess this blog is getting the best of me, if you will email me I will be glad to send you the svg. I can't figure out how to add the download to my blog. I can email it to you upon request.

Another "SPECIAL" day

Saturday is another birthday. I am so depressed not I am over 50. Never thought I would get there. At 20 you think man are they old now I am here and I don't feel old. My kids tell me I look old. But they are kids. Let's see if the husband does anything special for me. Don't think so, he will tell me to take the money and go and get what I want.

Beautiful box

This is a box I made. I am so proud of this one. I think I really like making boxes.

Tea bag folds

These are the tea bag fold cards I tried. The out come was beautiful but the did take me time. I guess I have to pratice more to get good at them.

Late again

Ok, so I haven't been very good about keeping up with this blog. Every day I look at the page and think ok today will be the day I put in an entry. The day passes and still I haven't written anything.

Over the week-end a friends grandmother passed away and this is the card that I made for them. Inside the card I found a stamp from stampin up and used it. I reads SO VERY SORRY. That this the only sympathy words I could find. I had all the kids sign the card and will mail it out today.

Last week a purchased the Provo Yourstory for $26 on Ebay. It is due to be delivered today and I am so excited. I also found on HSN they have a kit of 6 binders for the Yourstory at a small charge. I don't remember right now, but seems like $30. Now I can create my own books, and laminate what ever I want.

The two following pictures are post-it notebooks that I made. I guess you really could call them covers instead of notebooks. I am still learning how to take good pictures, so please hang in there with me until I figure this all out.