Good Morning! Summer has certainly arrived in Nebraska. We have had temperatures in the high 90's for the last 2 days. Last night we even had thunder and lightening and rain! The boys come tonight for a week. Well until next Thursday anyway - close enough to a week to call it a week. I hope the weather is nice but not miserable. I don't know if I will even see the computer for the next few days. I think I am too old for this!!

Ok now on to the card of the day. The card I made for today was given to a friend in Iowa. The dresses were stamped on the paper and then stamped and colored with my Copics and then it was stamped again on PTI's white cardstock. After coloring them I went over them with my Versamark pen and sprinkled clear embossing powder on it and heat set. That allows you to go over it again and just wipe the card clean. So cool! So without further ado...

Have a great day - I guess I will see you when I see you!

Sheri

Good morning to you! It rained overnight - not a lot but just enough to make everything wet. It is still very cloudy but supposed to get very warm today when it clears up. Our two youngest grandsons are coming for almost a week. They live nearby but Mom and Dad are going on a vacation alone. We are looking forward to having them but I know I won't be here during that time. They are busy little guys. I am sure I will be exhausted by the time they leave. I am already planning on having them put me to bed instead of me putting them to bed.

Today's card is one I made for a friend. I can't remember whose paper that is but the stamp set is from Stampin' Up and is called Sage Advise. It is one of my favorite sets and I don't use it nearly enough. I used the oval Nestabilities or cut and emboss my saying.

Thanks for looking! Enjoy your day

Happy Anniversary

I made this card a couple of weeks ago but am just now getting it posted. I use this card for anniversaries and also for retirement. I just love this couple.

Today was a lazy day. Spent the morning with my Mom who is 92. We had brunch with her and then came home and lazed around on the deck for a couple of hours. Then we took our little Lucy to the dog park and now am just getting home.

I hope you had a wonderful weekend and a great start to the new week.

Sheri

My it has been a busy week. Des Moines was so much fun and we got home around 6:30 Tuesday night. Wednesday was a busy doctor day doing all that annual stuff and Thursday I was at the dentist and then went to lunch with a friend. Today I hope to catch up a bit around here. At least I can post a card I made. It is for a swap in one of my groups. I was pleased at how it turned out. I colored with Copics and the stamp set is from Stampendous and is an Archivers exclusive. The stickers are also from Stampendous.

Blog candy

My friend over at Cards Cards and More Cards is offering some wonderful blog candy. You can check it out HERE She is also a wonderful card maker - lots of inspiration from her blog all of the time.

Sheri

Lucy and Ricky

Here I am at 1:20 in the morning. Lucy and I were awakened by a noise outside so we went to investigate. Of course this means looking out the windows with the doors all locked and the alarm on! Anyway there was a huge raccoon eating away at the bird seed. After Lucy scared him off by her mean growl and bark, we thought we would wait for Bill to come home. I am almost all packed for my trip this weekend. At least my stamping stuff is. I am really looking forward to this mini trip. Today I am showing you a scrapbook page I made of Lucy. The pictures were taken on Easter Sunday. My mother who is 92 was here and absolutely adores Lucy and that is her you see holding her. I used my Just Rite stamper for the "pampered princess". The paper is from my stash. Nothing too exciting but I scanned several of the pages so thought I would share them. Have a great Friday!

Cookies and Banana Bread

What a weekend and Monday! I made 2 huge batches of oatmeal cookies, some lemon cookies on Sunday and 9 loaves of banana bread tonight. Ok, some of the oatmeal cookies are going to Iowa with me on Sunday. There are about 12 of us stampers who gather annually and have a couple of wonderful days. We stamp, we eat, we gossip, we eat, we exchange ideas, we eat, we share what we have learned in the last year and we eat. I will take cookies and some banana bread. The rest of the cookies are made for my two youngest grandsons who will be staying with us for a week in June while Mom and Dad go to Mexico to relax and celebrate their 10th anniversary. I figured while I was baking I should just get it all done with at once. I never bake anything anymore so my husband, Bill was extremely surprised and very happy! I had a bunch of bananas in the freezer and now they are finally gone.

Tomorrow is my last day of work for 8 whole weeks. Ahhh the joys of summer vacation. I do believe that the anticipation is better than the real thing. It goes so fast once it starts.

Ok, on to the card for today. I made this one quite some time ago and before I fell in love with Copics but I still like the card. The stamps are all from Eat Cake Graphics as is the chunky glitter. They are colored with SU markers. Pretty basic but a fun summer card.