You can follow me on Pinterest for lots of inspiration!

Link to my Boards  http://pinterest.com/time2live51/boards/

Little Ducky Card for my Grandaughter

BLOG CANDY WINNER!!!!

Thank you all so much for your support and kind wishes!!!

It really means a lot to me!

WOW, It feels like forever since I've been here.

I've missed my blogging and my blogging buddies!

Cheryl is our newest winner! How funny is the fact that I am neverenoughrubberstamps

and Cheryl is neverenoughstamps. I think Cheryl was around before me. We must be Soul Sisters!

CONGRATULATIONS CHERYL. Your surprise will arrive shortly once you email me your address

Good luck to the next surprise winner!

Hugs, Dorothy

Blog Candy Winner, A Card and YIPPY!....More Blog Candy!!!

Congratulations to Angie!!!

You are this weeks blog candy winner!

Please send me your name and address.

I will probably not send your package out for a few

weeks as I am having surgery tomorrow.

I promise not to forget you!

If I do....Please remind me!

Enter here for the next Blog Candy!

The weekly blog candy will continue!

I just need a little healing time before I

can get to your packages. Please be patient!

GOOD LUCK TO ALL!

Hugs,

Dorothy

P.S. I will also get back to regular posting soon!

A BUSY CARD and BLOG CANDY WINNERS

I think I got carried away with this card.

It's busy, but there's something about it that

speaks to me

SURPRISE BLOG CANDY
I have decided to have another bonus winner for week #4.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WEEK 4 WINNERS.....
BERTA and DENISE
Visit Berta's blog at http://happyberta.blogspot.com/

and the bonus draw winner is Denise at http://deniselovesstamps.blogspot.com


Please be sure to email me your addresses and enter for the next draw.


ATTENTION:
I ask that ALL WINNERS make
something with whatever they win,
post it on their blog and then send
the card or gift to a blog friend or
someone who is lonely.

Enter here for this week
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!


Hugs,



Dorothy

Blog Candy winner and more blog candy...

Sorry I'm late posting today!

This week I have decided to give away two candies.

THE LUCKY LADIES ARE......

CONGRATULATIONS to Beth Jaffe !
Beth is the winner of the Week 3 Blog Candy.


And the BONUS BLOG CANDY goes to......
Jenny V from Honolulu CONGRATULATIONS Jenny!

Don't forget to email me your addresses.



To enter this weeks blog candy, please leave a comment here.
In your comment, Please fill in the blank in the following statement.
My favorite craft items are____________.
(ie: vintage rubber stamps, embellishments, stickles, paper etc.)
see earlier post for a sampling of blog candy

Good Luck for week #4

Hugs,

Dorothy

A Sympathy Card

Don't forget....Wednesday is the Week 3 draw

for more blog candy surprises.

See Details in previous post

Blog Candy Winner....(week # 2)

CONGRATULATIONS to Sandie You are the week #2 winner!
Random # 32 http://sandiesspace.blogspot.com/


Please send me your address so I can send you a surprise in the mail.

Hugs,

Dorothy

P.S. To enter week #3, please post comments here.

DOG versus DINO........

Sorry for the sporadic posts as of late.

I hope you are all keeping well.

My Grandson Connor's Birthday is in 5 days.

He will be 4 years old. (Love him so much!)

First I made the Doggy Birthday card and

then wondered how friendly it looked for a 4 year old.

I think I'll give him the Happy Dino Card and

save the puppy one for next year! LOL

The Very Cool Doggy Stamp is from Rubbernecker.

Sweet Dino Stamp is from Paper Makeup.

All Star Kid Stamp is from Inky Antics

Grandson Stamp is from the Stamp Barn

Blog Candy Winner....(Week #1)

Week # 1 Winner!

Congratulations Eileen! (random #9)

Please send me your full address,

so I can send you your surprise.

http://ruralwisconsin.blogspot.com/

Don't forget, you can enter up to

5 times per draw.

Leave your comments under this

post for the next draw. (wk #2)

GOOD LUCK!

Dorothy's WEEKLY BLOG CANDY....

Please Read

Instead of giving away large blog candy gifts to

one winner, I will instead, be giving away one smaller

blog candy each week.

Small sample of some of the prizes below.

This way everyone has a better chance at winning.

It might be a single stamp, a sheet of stamps,

embellishments, a stamping related tool or a

stamping video or CD.

You will not know until it arrives at your door.

I just love surprises! I hope you do as well.

You may enter by leaving 1 - 5 comments each week.

Maximum of 5 entries per week per person.

You may win more than once!

I would really appreciate you posting this Candy on your blog.

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

PLEASE NOTE:

My postings will be very sporadic over the next few

months, due to some surgeries coming up..

I will do my best to get some cards posted.

Thank you for your patience.

Hugs,

Dorothy

Take Pride and Have Faith

Today is a gift

Masculine Card, A "Love Life" Card and a Tutorial

Lets Call This Technique "Manipulated"

There will be more cards using this

technique to come.

You can also put a vellum or mesh over these.

The picture below looks terrible!!! I couldn't get

a good photo for some reason. The photos above

look a little more like real life.

For the Background You Will Need:

You will need to know that you will be wasting some ink.

White glossy card stock

Alcohol inks (several colors/lights and darker colors)

StazOn or Memories ink

Very important: non stick craft mat

something to cover your work surface.

A few folded pieces of paper towel

TUTORIAL:

Try to visualize what your scene will look like.

Now realize that it will never come out exactly

like you imagined. LOL

You can do an abstract design or scenery.

I prefer scenery.

Always apply lightest color first, as in most art!

Hold card stock (over some folded paper towel) -

on an angle and apply the first color of your

alcohol inks.

***Touch the edge or corner of card stock on the

paper towel to allow the excess ink to be absorbed.

You want the ink to flow down your card,

while you manipulate where the flow goes,

by tilting your card stock to different angles.

ie: if you are doing a nature setting then you

might want to start with the sky. I would start with

Yellow and manipulate your card so that the yellow

ink only flows where you want it. Then incorporate

your different sky colors. I always use yellows, orange,

reds, purples a few different

blues, and I always use some metallic pearl mixed with

the blues. Then for the middle ground you may

want earth colors. Maybe flat or maybe you might create

some mountains.

For the foreground you might want some hilly areas.

Just use your creative imagination and see

what you come up with.

Stamp your choice of images over this background -

using memories or stazon ink.

Some will turn out better than others.

If one turns out bad then use your spellbinders

to frame the good part of it or just make butterflies out of it. lol

JUST HAVE FUN and

BE FEARLESS WHEN CREATING ART!

Hugs,

Dorothy

P.S. one day I might learn how to make a video and upload it.

Be patient!

Dorothy's Been Playing......

These are some fun backgrounds I did today....

I will try to post at least one finished card

tomorrow, along with the instructions for these backgrounds.

These are so much fun to do, and you never know

what you will come up with.

Cheers,

Dorothy

Thinking of You in Copper

Cuttlebug Embossed Copper SheetsI embossed the metal sheet with cuttlebug embossing

folders, Inked the edges with StazOn.

Theses cards are really easy to make.

HAVE FUN!
Happy Victoria Day Weekend!

HELP!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPLIES!

I appreciate it!

For some reason, my blog won't let me upload

my photos. Has this happened to anyone else?

Can anyone help me out?

Thank you!

Thinking of You / Funky Background

Finally!
You get so many different looks with

different backgrounds

Take a Ziploc bag and place a piece of heavy

CS inside. Make your CS just slightly

smaller to fit snug in a the Ziploc.

Now take white glue and randomly draw

a design onto the Ziploc bag.

Set aside for approx. one hour.

Then cover with different embossing

powders and heat until melted.

cut any remaining plastic away.

Have Fun! xo

For someone very special...

A Mother's Day Card I did for my

Daughter-In-Law.

Sorry I couldn't post these earlier.

Janis gets email updates of this blog.

Below is the card my 7yr old
Granddaughter Jazzy did for her Mom.

All Jazzy's design!

I always have some backgrounds embossed,

some die cuts done and lots of punched out

goodies hanging around. Jazzy came over with

a glass stone from her back yard. Within 5 minutes,

I turned around and this card was layed out.

Often, Jazzy leaves me scratching my head!

Beauty.....

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

TO ALL THE BEAUTIFUL MOTHERS

OUT IN BLOG LAND!

xo

For the background I first sprayed it with a few

color wash colors. Then I painted over it with Sheer

Gold Glaze by Delta and immediately wiped it off

leaving just a fine coating. Once dry, I gave it a

couple of squirts of spray webbing by Krylon.

The Butterfly and flower center were

explained in an earlier post

Flying.......

Emboss with Cuttlebug, swipe with versa mark

and emboss with sparkly powder.

Bought the flowers in the wedding section at Micheals

I spray painted the flowers with 18K gold plate krylon.

(spray outdoors!)

Butterfly and lettering is QuicKutz

More to follow later

My Mojo is Back....

Here is a sneak peak at a couple of things I've been playing with.

Tomorrow I will be posting a couple of cards.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

No MoJo = Easy cards.....

I haven't been feeling very creative lately.

However......I am working on some fun stuff now.

Hugs,

Dorothy

The Stamp is from The Stamp Pad Company

The Earth is starting to laugh!

This is a cute little bouquet of flowers that my

Granddaughter Jazzy picked for me.

This time of year it's like the Earth is waking up

from a long winter's nap. So much life all around us!

Buds on the trees and cute little baby sprouts everywhere!

Flowers are blooming and Children are out playing!

I know it puts a smile on my face.

The inspiration for this card came from the flowers

Jazzy picked or me. Thanks Jazz! xo

This is a real cut and paste card. All I did is glue
everything together and distress.

Super Easy Masculine Card