A delivery was made

By the Get Well Fairy! And be danged if I didn't get her picture...

She brought laughs, and goodies and cookies....AND she brought This:

This beautiful out pouring of hopes, prayers, and love from my blog friends and new blog friends. This wonderful window of tags, there are over 50 tags on this. Jan fixed up the window frame to hold them all and it covers it completely!

Thank you all who sent in, Thank you Jan for making this and doing all this for me! Thank You! The blog and altered art community is a wonderful place full of big hearts and outreaching hands! I'm glad to be a part of it!

Been feeling ok, proud to say, I didn't have a 'crash' day after the latest treatment, so maybe the eating better has helped. Feeling half normal does have it's up sides..lol..

Have a great Wednesday!

tina

Another Wonderful book in the mail

Our 'other child' sent me this Wonderful book in the mail.

Tina and Scott lived across the street from us when in College Station. They became like our 'other' kids..in and out at all hours, borrowing something, eating with us, hanging out, motorcycle riding...We all had great fun. Tina made me this great little tag book with photos from things we had done at their and our house! She such a sweetie! Thank you!

This week I have another treatment. They are starting me on another med. so we'll see how that treats me come Thursday. My BFF Cee is coming to sit with me on Wed. as I take the treatment...Hope we can discuss some of our Paper Cowgirl ideas and get the June retreat going.

Looking forward to a Halloween Party at Ann-Denise's' house on Sat. We are just playing it by ear to see how I feel that day..

Hope God's blessed your day the way he's Blessed me today!

Hugs, t

Happy Monday!!

Here's what's on the work table:
ideas are flowing with this paint fan I had leftover when they changed the names and colors at a paint company..




My bag of old papers was calling my name, and I wanted to use them in a cool way..

I was feeling the need to be inspired , so I hopped over to Tim Holtz site and viewed a few of his demo videos for some ideas..I just love that wings and heart thing he's always doing..so I knew these old papers would look very cool..

Then I pulled out the grunge board I've had for ages and ran some of it thru my cutter and made some hearts..one is just plain chipboard the other is the GB...

I'm not too impressed with TH's line of crackle paints..I don't seem to get big cracks, I've applied it thick and thin and get the same small crazing..and it leaves the brush strokes, which sometimes is a good thing..but I really don't always want them to show..

Now all this mess is waiting for me to do something with it...I'll be sure to show you the finished project!

The solder class went well over at The Craft Scrapper this past Saturday! I was too busy to take photos..so maybe Carolyn will have hers posted on TCS blog. Thanks again to all those who attended and for TCS for having me there! We scheduled more classes!!

Paper Cowgirl is filling up nicely and we are having alot of questions and such! Cindy and I are looking forward to meeting all the new gals and seeing the returning Cowgirls from last year!!

Happy Monday!

t

Quick and easy

Last year my fren posted some similar on her blog about this time of year..This year, I decided to whip some up and add to packages and hang in those bare spots that appear in the tree after you've looked at it awhile.

Just using cardstock I cut my wing pattern to my liking, I did several and several styles...then traced it onto the papers of choice, old hymn book pages..then roughly cut around them. Using a glue stick, then mounted that onto more cardstock. Let dry, then cut it all out...the cardstock gives it some weight.

Using a large print stamp, I stamped my words onto the wings, running them off of the edges, for I like that look...with a glaze pen I added swirls and twirls around some of the letters..Inked the edges with soft colors... Now's the fun~ GLITTER...I just used cheepy cheep clear glitter on this, glue sticked the whole thing good then glittered away...let it all dry out good then took and rubbed my had over to get that loose stuff off.. Punched a hole(s) threaded seambinding for hanging and that's It~

Thanks for the etsy orders this week, I hope they have arrived and you enjoy them!!

Have a great weekend~ Christmas is getting near...We have girls at our house now, and things are going to be fun!!

hugs,t

Sunday was busy around the shop shack

We played outside:

We were on the 'hunt':
We picked flowers:
After swimming and lunch, we loaded up the stuff hub needed to go Dove Hunting, and Sage's goodies. Then they headed out take her back home and he to go hunting tomorrow, I was left alone...

I went into the studio..with a plan..Halloween was on my brain..and a technique I had read about here. And just as I got started my heat gun went and pooped out..I'd only had it about 8 years..go figure..So, loaded myself up to make an emergency run into town to Michael's. Did I just buy a heat gun? NoOooOOO..ended up bringing home some new pens, a flower punch, a good deal on a sketch book with 2 free Bristol board pads, and some quote stickers.

Had to stop at Starbucks too on the way home..was very disappointed..My Frapp was not very slushy at all it was just cold and very fluid..not what I had my taste buds set for..and low and behold, I was chosen to do a survey..I did that as soon as I got home, so maybe those Starbucks people will listen. I'll let you know if they do~

Back to the studio...I didn't follow all the directions Tim had there on his post..for I have NO Adirondack inks..so I used some dauber's I got at WM awhile back..spritzed the tag with water then inked them up after doing the embossing with the clear..I used a some stamps I picked up on super deep discount last year AFTER Halloween!

But isn't that what it's all about? Doing your own thing with what you have? Who has to follow the directions to a T ? Where are the direction Police?? That's what I love about creating things!!

Here's my little tip: Use one of those 'taste spoons' you get at the ice cream shop, in your embossing powder to control the amounts you need..doesn't make quite the mess as pouring it out over your work...

This is one of my hand cut stamps with the embossing ink on a tag:

Here is the batch I did...


This one is my fav:

I'm glad I got a new heat gun, this one works so good, I even had the paper smokin'~ not good..but didn't hurt anything!

This was a good afternoon.

I have to work tomorrow on some cabs for a client. So you have a good day off and hope you make something fun!

Later gator!

t

I've Been RAK'ed

Yep! found this in the big black mail box yesterday!





Look at this tag! Is it not cute? She did a good job didn't she?

There were some playing cards like this one, and super cute magnet in the box too..

And to top it all off Paula Clare put candy in that cute box ! Thanks so much Paula Clare, that was a nice surprise! Your Halloween mood was all plugged in for this one and you did good!

Random Acts of Kindness make you feel good when you give one and when you receive one~

Have a great day! I'm going to :)

t