Monday, March 10, 2014

It's A Long Way To Tipperary.......





Another technique from my stencil class!  I created my own stencils using circle punches and used the colors from Watercolor Wonder DSP to create the design. The class suggested using colored pencils but I discovered the fine point of the SU Markers worked just fine and coordinated perfectly with the Watercolor Note Card!

We are celebrating today with a family luncheon because it is my parents' 69th wedding anniversary today.  My dad is no longer with us but my mom is so we still celebrate - grateful that they spent 59 years together.  My dad was a member of the Greatest Generation - drafted at 18 into the air force and trained to be an airplane mechanic. He spent most of the war stationed in England repairing planes that flew back from missions across the English channel.  And he must have spent some time in Yorkshire because he married my mother in Leeds, March 10, 1945.  He was 22 - she was 19....wow.....







Thursday, March 6, 2014

Gray Skies are Gonna Clear Up! PPA194






Being an optimist by nature I couldn't let the blues overwhelm me so I decided to celebrate the grayness of these colors!  I stamped Off the Grid in Smoky Slate, backed it with Wisteria Wonder designer paper and made a frame from Wisteria Wonder card stock.  But what to put in that frame???  And then I realized the SAB set See Ya Later wasn't just all about alligators.  Out came Night of Navy ink and the perfect sentiment appeared!  I did sneak in a silver heart clip and cord just as a reminder that there's always a silver lining........



Hope you join us at Pals Paper Arts!
Kerry Willard Bray's photo.




Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Thinking of You....FMS126





I am thinking that the Thinking of You sentiment here applies to that Sweet Sorbet Designer Series Paper! I just can't seem to put it away! When I started to make this card Sweet Sorbet was right there on the corner of my desk just daring me to ignore it.  Impossible!  


Amy has a fun sketch for us this week at Freshly Made Sketches....it is just slightly askew!

Saturday, March 1, 2014

Two for the Price of One - PPA193






Who doesn't love a good deal?  Pals Paper Arts had a perfect sketch this week to showcase that beautiful Sweet Sorbet DSP and accessory kit.  Spotlighting a favorite DSP was also one of the challenges for the Creative Crew at Splitcoast this month. Two for the price of one~!  

But my favorite "two for the price of one" deal is my son's two pups. He and his girlfriend went to buy a silver toy poodle and came home with two dogs - the silver one and a white one who didn't exactly belong at "The Poodle Palace." (Seriously it's called The Poodle Palace)  Somehow Silas wasn't turning out to be a "real" poodle so he wasn't wanted in the palace.  Here they are one year later:





Seems like Silas is a member of the Dachshund family as well as the Poodle family............and we are all so glad that he is also a member of the Callahan family......sweetest dog ever!



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