Weekend of Hurrican Irene!!

Hi all,
Just me, popping in on my own Blog, have to do it once in a while!! Hope to do it more often soon, guess I am just destined to be one of those once in a while bloggers.
Anyway, was supposed to be off to my dear Brothers wedding tomorrow, but thanks to Hurricane Irene, my butt is staying home. Very unhappily staying home. Would rather be sharing the day with my brother and his new wife to be Margaret, but all things aside I did not want to chance driving home on Sunday with Irene roaring her ugly head. Not with 6-12 inches of rain forecast and the gusting winds. So will just have to stay home and create!!!
So anyway, attached today you will see the card that I made for my dear brother. Picture is above.

I am going to try and provide a link to my photostream where you can see the picture better and also an envelope that I made to send it in. You can also take a peak at some of my other creations if you like. Also there you will see what I used to make this lovely card.

Here is the link, Donnas Photo Stream.
Thanks for looking and Stay Safe during the storm!!!
Donna

Monthly Update back full time come Fall.

Hi All,
Sorry have been low key lately, doing monthly updates till the fall right now, maybe will start posting daily once the fall comes, will see how my health is.
The card I made and that I am posting today is the one I made for the card exchange over at Lily Pad Cards, I have been doing this card exchange for well over a year and half and it is very enjoyable, have met some WONDERFUL ladies and gotten cards from all over the world, so if you have the time, click on the blinkie on my web site and take a gander over!! Will be enjoyable I promise!!
See you soon,
Hugs
Donna

June Update

Sorry I have not been around much, hope to start to be able to get back into motion this week, so look for me to return, have had a rough couple of weeks. May explain some day, for now I won't depress you or me.

I am now taking the Summer Card Camp Class's by Jennifer McGuire and Kristina, and so looking forward to that, will be making my first card tomorrow. A few others have also caught my eye, so lets see how much energy I have this week, plus it is supposed to be quite warm here, so that will be keeping me indoors.

Right now trying to catch up on blog reading and emails!! So many to read, as today was my birthday and I have so many great Birthday wishes!! Have to read them all, they all warm my heart!! My dear husband and I went to a lovely lunch, we were going to the movies, but my back is hurting so bad I could not stand the thought of sitting in those chairs for 2 and a half hours, so maybe over the weekend. Then the family came and we had birthday cake, so all and all it was a very nice day.

Just visited Lily pad cards, whom I have followed since their grand opening and they are having a give a way of some Hero Art Stamps, and I am just doing as requested to be able to participate.

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So, come on over to Lily Pad Cards, great place to play, learn, make friends and just have a great time.

See you all soon,
Hugs
Donna

And the Week Rolls on!!

Hi All,
Well the week is progressing and trying to get ready for taking a trip to see my Brother, so there is always something to do. The card I am posting today I did a few days ago, as a favor for our local Stamp store, it is a Penny Black stamp, love their stamps. And I had seen this stamp used and a card made over at Lily Pad Cards and just fell in love with it, so I changed it around a little bit and added a few Hero Arts little stamps to it, and made it my own version!! Enjoy and if you get time, hop on over to my friends blog here, Dana and give her some love as she helped me figure out a few of my dear Computer and Blogger issues!! Hopefully now I can post without issues.
See you soon,
Donna

Latest Endeavors

Just thought I would add two of my latest creations, I made the Hydrangea card just as an experiment, I had done this one previously and colored it with my copics, this one I used my colored pencils and I thought I would like the copic colored one better but I actually like the colored pencil one better, the small flowers on the big flower are more brilliant looking. And I can't show you the copic one as I had made that and given it to someone and forgot to photo it. OH well, such is life.

My other card is one that I made for our lovely local Stamp and craft Store The Cove, in Milltown, NJ, and we are going to the Expo in Somerset NJ this weekend and they had asked me to make some cards showing some of their products they sell and this one was showing Tim Holtz's Pen Nibs, and this was the best I could come up with, what else do you use an old fashioned ink pen tip for other than writing a letter?

Well, hope you enjoy, thanks for stopping by.

Donna

Glorious Day for ME!!!

Well folks, lousy weather here in Old NJ, but has been a good day for me, a dear friend and co crafter went on a cruise recently and she is big into the Cricut machine, and this was a Gypsy cruise to better learn how to use her Gypsy. Well my dear husband had built a stand for our dryers for embossing so we could emboss hands free, so he built a few and they are for sale in our local store. Pat bought one and has a different dryer than what the stand was built for and we have been going back and forth trying to do adjustments to her stand so she can use her old dryer until it dies and then she will buy the correct one, anyway, while she was on this cruise my husband had her dryer and stand and came up with an easy fix (second one) and she came to pick it up and she had a little gift bag with her, and she said it was for me,f or all we have done for her, well I almost fell over when I opened it, inside was a brand new with two cartridges installed on it already GYPSY.!! She had won it on the cruise and obviously they all have one already, so Pat thought kindly of me, so glad she did, I am tickled pink!!
Totally made my day!!! Now I have another thing to learn how to use!!! But will enjoy it none the less!! Thank YOU PAT.

Then my dear Flickr friend Dana has helped me finally figure out how to put the gadgets on my side bar and how to post links in my postings, something I have been trying to SELF learn by myself for months now and got so frustrated that I did not want to Blog anymore, so now hopefully that I can do these things I will be posting more.

But first off, I am going aways for a week to upper New York state to visit with my dear brother Skip, we will be staying in a house on Lake Keuhka NY, and it is gorgeous up there, so will pick up my blogging upon my return and will start it off with some beautiful pictures (I hope).

Thanks for stopping by and see you all soon!!!

Donna

Here is one more Penny Black Card, Made this for my dear Mother in law for Mothers day. I don't have my Mom around any more, and my Mother in Law is great, so I hope she does not mind being my Mom now!!!
Enjoy

And wishing all of you Mothers out the very Best of a Happy Mothers Day.