I've Been Tagged!

Deb at Sharing my Obesssion has tagged me to list seven random things about myself.

So here goes:

1. I am a 63 year old wife, mother, and grandmother.

2. After 43 years of marriage, I have finally given up trying to manage the clutter that my dear hubby generates. Just accept it and go on with life is my new motto.

3. I do administrative work in the mortgage/real estate department of a bank.

4. I am so looking forward to one day being able to retire. When that will be, who knows.

5. I would like to learn how to quilt.

6. I wish that there were enough hours in the day for me to accomplish everything that I would like to do. Or maybe I should say I wish I had the energy that I had 20 years ago so maybe I could get more done.

7. I love to read -- mysteries are my favorite.

Now for tagging...I'm supposed to tag seven of you bloggers. Tag -- you're it if you are reading this blog!!!

Luck, love and laughter,
Judy

Get Well Card

I made this card today for a dear family friend who fell last week and broke her pelvis. I must admit that I lifted the idea for this card from one that was done for a Bitten by the Bug challenge recently. The grasshopper is on my new Stretch Your Imagination cartridge that came Friday and the flowers are on my Plantin SchoolBook cartridge. The sentiment was done on the computer.

I've got a lot to learn about cutting shapes on the Cricut -- I'll be having lots of trial and error efforts. However, I am going to check with my LSS and see if they are going to be offering any classes on using the Cricut. Hopefully they will.

Luck, love and laughter,

Judy

Monkey Card

I used a monkey stamp and the palm tree stamp from Autumn Leaves Mindy's Zoo collection on this card and colored with my Copics. Then I used a grass stamp that Robin gave me to finish it off. I think she is kinda cute.

Luck, love and laughter,

Judy

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Tool Man

I'm still playing with my new Cricut. But I'm limited as to what I can do with only the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge that came with the Cricut to work with. Anyway I cut the lettering, stars and the tag for this layout on the Cricut. Matthew was probably about three years old in these pictures. His Pawpaw picked out this Fisher Price tool bench for him and he loved it.

Luck, love and laughter,

Judy

Birthday Gift

Robin asked me to embroider two shirts for her mother-in-law who has a birthday this week. She asked that I embroidery "Gram" on one shirt - that's what Eileen's grandchildren call her. And she left the design for the second shirt up to me.


I embroidered "Gram" on the cream colored shirt that Robin purchased. I played with my Explorations Lettering software and came up with this design for the shirt.

The second shirt that she got is green. Eileen loves flowers -- she told me once that she would teach Addie how to plant flowers and I could teach her how to sew. And who doesn't love butterflies. So I selected one of my favorite designs from Designs by JuJu's Jacobean Flutters design set. I decided not to embellish the design with hot fix crystals -- that's not Eileen.

The colors are much richer than this pic shows. Let's face it, I am not the greatest photographer.

Luck, love and laughter,

Judy

2 of a Kind

I love this pic of Pawpaw and Jesse which was taken several years ago at one of Matthew's flag football games. I just loved watching the little guys play flag football but those days are long gone considering Matt is now 15 and going to be a sophmore in high school. Now it is high school football games!

For this layout I used solid color cardstock in brown, blue and beige and added a strip of grosgrain ribbon. I used my new Cricut to cut the lettering, flowers, and stars on a blue paper with a tone on tone stripe effect. I used a new corner punch on the matting that I got today at my LSS. They are having a 25% off sale on punches this weekend so naturally I had to stop and look when I went to the bank this morning (the store is only one block from the bank branch).

I already love using the Cricut. My DH got another buy on eBay today and got me the cartridge that I had first on my wish list -- Stretch Your Imagination. I selected it for my first cartridge to buy because it seems to have a wide variety on it.

Have a great rest of the weekend!

Luck, love and laughter,
Judy