This is Jackson. He is easy to make. I made him in one day while I was doing other things.

Hi,
It is not that I am not making card's I just forget to post them. This is a habit I have failed to develop. Anyhow, here is the last few I have made.

This was a Father's Day flyer that we distributed for church. I made 75 of them. Not too bad for 2 day's notice.

This is a booklet that I made for my pastor's wife that had a poem in it. She wanted to give it to him for his birthday.

And this is the card I made for my Pastor's 70th birthday!

I have been crocheting and knitting.

This is the sweater I made for my "almost" finished bear. Poor bear. I need to finish his ears and put his nose and eyes on... at least she has clothes now.

And I knitted some anklets for my niece Regina. Lets see...what else...what else?

My Dad turned 80 and we had a great time with him and Mom.
And I knitted the doll outfit with out a pattern.....
So this is a small sample of what I have been doing the past year. Gosh I have got to post more often!

Birthday

So today is my birthday and I realized that I am closer to 60 than to 50. This is the first time age has ever gotten to me!
I did get to teach the youth Sunday School class this morning. They are a great bunch of kids.

Here is the card I made for my friend Robin yesterday.

John 1:1 In the begenning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.

Copic Certification

Last weekend I took the Copic Standard Certification and the Copic Intermediate Certification at Dallas, Texas. The instructor was Cindy Lawrence. She was an excellent teacher and a very sweet person. She was funny and very easy to understand.

Here are my certificates

 

 

5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;  Proverbs 3:5

Perhaps I could manage more than once a month?

Well here I am more than a month later. But I am going to have lots of things to show.
The first thing I am going to show is a Christmas in July card. This was for the July card exchange at Craft Crossing here in Gonzales Texas.

 Out of this idea I made 30 Christmas cards that I will be mailing to family at the end of November and they look like this:

This card is a folded card and will open and allow the reciving party to display the card sitting on a shelf. I always display the cards I receive at Christmas and so many of them just sort of sink in the middle and make a C shape on the shelf. So I end up having a shelf of cup shaped cards that you can's see anthing but the edges on.

And then in August we had a "male" themed birthday card. Less frilly yes? Hum... more masculine!!!! And I thought what can be more masculine than diamond plate steel?  My grandson John actually thought up the diamond plate steel look. John is 10 and he learned to like card making this past June after taking a class at Craft Crossing.  I took the diamond plate steel look and made the birthday card shown next.

The bottem lable says " the Squirrels at it before I could give it to you"

and the inside has a place for a gift card. After all the squirrels at the gift!
The Squirrel was colored with Copic Markers. Isn't he the cutest thing? I think I should have drawn the branch out to the edge of the picture.


In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.             John 1:1

Not Posting:
I am not as lazy as it appears because I have not posted in a month or so. I finally found my camera and I can post some cards that I have made.
Today I am simply going to post the two Father's day cards that I have made. The are using the same stamp but using two different card ideas. You can let me know which one you liked better and in a few days I will say which one I liked the best. I guess it is all about learning what works and what doesn't work. Thanks for looking.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.

This is what I made at the class at Craft Crossing last Sunday. Cute! Cute! Cute1