Car Cards

 I have these dies from Marianne.

They are a lot of fun.

 The word dies are from Cheery Lynn Designs.

The map papers are from a Paper Studio mat stack.

Thank You Card

I began with a plain white card base.

The pink is polished stone, which always looks

better in person.  It is layered over black

and that is cut to a narrow border using my 

layering rulers. 

The thank you is cut from black card stock

using a Cheery Lynn Designs die.

Puppy Update

Now 9 weeks old and getting busier by the day.

They now prefer to do their business outside.

Available for adoption.

Have had their first parvo shot.

On puppy chow and relatively pad trained.

That means their nose might be over the pad 

but their rear ends may not.

But at least they have the general idea.

Things they have learned -

munching on the cats tail is dangerous

howling gets dad up

Pixie (the mother) can get very cranky if you chew on her tail

stairs are not as hard as we first thought

BUT the up part of stairs is way easier than the down part

snow is fun 

Male Birthday Card

It's perfect for my Harley riding brother-in-law.

The motorcycle die is from Marianne and the

phrase from Cheery Lynn Designs.

I love the Cheery Lynn word dies.

The happy and birthday have to be ordered separately,

BUT each word or phrase come in two sizes.

The words here are the small size.

The map paper is from Paper Studio's

Uncharted mat stack.

I did some heavy sponging around the edges.

Over Run

When I got up this  morning I happened to glance out

the sliding glass doors to the snow covered wheat field

that is about 1/2 mile south of our house.

It was covered with ELK.

They are vermin, rats of the hill country.

My estimated count it around 66 head, give or take a few.

These nasty creatures are devastating out wheat field.  

They paw through the snow and literally dig out the

wheat plants and eat them.

Deer will merely paw through the

snow and nibble off the top of the wheat plant.

We are in no way compensated for feeding these unwanted

elk through the winter and are not even given ONE

hunting permit so we at least have some meat.

They are Game and Parks elk so Game and Parks

should feed them.

OK, rant over.

Quick Birthday Card

 The card base was die cut using Sizzix Movers & Shapers L

Diamond Flip It.

This is a thick die, not the thin wafer that I usually use.

The finished card is 5 x 5 inches.

 Above is the card partially unfolded

using the front view.

This view (above) shows the flip side of the diamond

where I would write my greeting.