Here's a cutiful card created for a friend's birthday!! Yes, save the TaTa's..save 2nd base, always check your puppies out and make sure they are taken care of!!
This is an image from Crafty Secrets, and I love their vintage flair! Have a great day and take care of your Tata's too!
I'm loving these Hero Arts stamps...I can hear them giggling..and shyly smiling. I made one and stuck her onto a paper fortune cookie..the fortune said...You my number 1 Dumpring...hahahaha love her!
I just love this stamp company!!! The Greeting Farm, which was formerly pink poison...I love that name too...these are the cutest stamps! So, of course I want them all...is that wrong?? Ha! oh well, who cares if I'm a stamp freak..vintage freak, gotta have everything I want freak?? I am so sure that there are others like me, right?
So, I made this super cute card for friends of our that gave us a wedding gift...I handmade every card...now that's something! I just can't stand the thought of the receivers throwing them away! Which I'm totally sure they are keeping them forever and love them as much as I do! I used an A Muse card and some origami paper..looks like they playing in a field with dragonflies...some bling and some ribbon and voila there ya go!
Wanna see what was literally dangling from the window by his tail from a spiders web? I think this little guy thought he was gonna get some lunch and ended up in bad spot...shoulda taken a pic of him dangling,but I had to get him inside and take a pic of him and get the webs off of him!! They were strong and tight too!! He super teeny tiny! No, he did not sell me any insurance!
I can't help but feel empowered 
...reading about Eunice Kennedy Shriver...Wow..what a woman! I was reading about her funeral today and what was spoken about her..
"Mummy wore men's pants, smoked Cuban cigars and she played tackle football," she said. "Our mother never rested, she never stopped. She was momentum on wheels."
Maria Shriver said her father never minded when her mother's hair was unkempt or she beat him in a game of tennis. "He let her rip and he let her roar, and he loved everything about her," she said.
I thought this last quote was especially wonderful...because I know that I too am loved like this. Thank you Dean
Now I'm off to craft something or mess something up...I am gonna do something I promise!
I've been playing for awhile with this picture...I took it in the South of France the first time Dean took me. Being a silly girl, I was amazed that all of the women were topless! And, even more amazed that no one seemed to care, this was how they did it!
What freedom! If you've ever been strangled nearly to death at the end of a HOT southern day by a bra, you'd really appreciate letting those puppies out! I know that I do!! HA...you're lying if you say you don't enjoy flinging that bra across the bedroom like you'd just had a day long wrestling match with it, and you WON!
Anyway...these two little girls are eating Popsicles...and they're about 6 or 8 years old I would guess...yes, they too are topless...the Mom was lying topless on her towel a few feet away...they just looked so cute, not a care in the world! So, I took the picture and when I got back home, I edited it, applied one of the many filters you get in your editing program and then framed it. It hung in my bathroom for more than a year..and then I decided I wanted to make it better. So, I put it on canvas paper..looks like art canvas...by Claudine Hellmuth, then I used another product over the top of the image, layed the canvas paper on top of it and smushed it down to let it dry. After if was dry, I used water and peeled off the printed image of the girls...wow, it stuck to the canvas! So, then I played with some paints from Golden...used some rub ons..some rubber stamps..and then topped the whole thing off with a layer of beeswax! I melted it with my heat gun and just let it drip all over the image..then I used my paintbrush and smoothed it all over the image, once that was done I used my heat gun one more time to remove some of the brush marks! super uber cool!! and it smells divine! So, I painted the mat to match, bought another chocolate mat and frame and WOW it looks like a pro did it! I'm as pleased as punch...whatever that means!!
I've been trying to make Thank you cards for all of the lovely people that gave us gifts for showers and for the wedding...so much fun! Really, it seems that I try and incorporate crafts into anything!! hee hee...And, at least Dean tolerates it and me for that matter!! I'm a lucky girl!!
And, We got married on 5/30/09!! Yes, I'm Mrs.Dean Marvin Dalton
I know, it's an awesome title, and comes with a boat load of fun, happiness and love...
I'm his princess...are you throwing up yet??
Anyway, we had a beautiful week at the beach and a beautiful wedding day.
So, I've gathered up some of my new Elzybell's stamps...and I'm making some cards to go with my thank you to the lady at Sojourn Coffee shop here in Charleston....some awesome coffee and desserts are here!! They made the groom's cake for Dean and mmmmm was it good!! So, I'm making her some coffee themed cards to boot!
Here they are! Now, I haveta get busy on my Daddy's Father's day card!! Enjoy!
So, I've been doing alot to get ready for the upcoming nuptials...me and the Deaner...
lots of invites and buying lots of pretties to have there at Folly Beach. But, this weekend we did manage to get away to Virginia..went to the Art and Soul retreat. That was so much fun. I made Dean take a class by none other than Sally Jean !! She totally rocks...she is awesome and so flippin' cute! I burned the T TOTAL PiSS out of my finger, but I think I can solder now...I'm not a virgin anymore...shhhh don't tell Dean, it'll ruin the honeymoon for him!! 
I'll post some pics soon...not of the burned flesh...
but other ones!
I can't believe how fast this week has flown,or for that matter the last weeks! Makes you feel old...and that totally sucks!! Anyway, I made a card for Dean's Aunt Donna, her husband Robert passed away after a long illness. I used papertreyink's quilt stamp set...I wanted it to look like a real quilt,not girly,hanging on a cabin wall,just plain and simple. I wish I had the patience to quilt, I love them! Especially old quilts..they remind me of my Grandma Russell, she never had anything expensive, but still, she had some sweet little quilts that we'd use when we stayed there. We'd bundle up, she'd make what she'd call "hot cake"..she'd whip up cake, throw it in the oven and as soon as it was done,she'd cut it up and serve it, no icing, just awesome cake! She was a simple woman...sweeter than sweet. I really miss her.
The next couple of cards I did for Valentine's Day...they're kinda cute...made them for a verve challenge over on splitcoaststampers...I didn't win any stamps, but it was fun playing along. That just means I'll make Dean buy me some! he rocks!!
and lastly, Dean bought me a deluxe soldering kit from
Simply Swank...awesome!! So, last night he helped me do my first little trinket, and It's so stinkin' cute...I'm using it for a bookmark...the sweet little image is from Crafty Secrets..I trimmed the image to fit my glass and taped and soldered it...yippee..it's cute!
and on the flip side I used a letter "D" and cut some words, come a courtin', out of the sheet music and a piece of the sheet music, I colored it with my sand copic marker to make it look more vintage-ish!!
