Brrr!

Making some cards to give away, and dug out an old Stampin' Up set. It's a favorite, and I've done it in purple and green before. But this time, I used my Big Shot and a Cuttlebug embossing folder of snowflakes to add a little something. It came together well, although the color on the scan is not true to life.

The Journey is the Reward

Just a couple of cards finished tonight. I like the kimono stamp, but haven't used it before tonight. I'll make some similar cards using different color schemes, since I'll probably be giving this card away in a card set.

The background of this card is Hero Arts, as is the kimono, from the clear set "K." The sentiment is Amuse Art Stamps. It's hard to distinguish the Chinese characters in the background; I'm blaming my scanner. It is supposed to be a watermark-type background, but is stamped with Distress Ink in Fired Brick.

The second card uses the same kimono image. I stamped it as a background with watermark ink. The sentiment on this card is Stampin'Up. On both cards, the image of the kimono is slightly raised from the card surface with foam tape.

Ghost Town

Saturday we made a wide loop through Lewistown and the Judith Mountains. I wanted to show Morgan a ghost town, and Kendall filled the bill, at least according to on-line descriptions.

We ate lunch at a cafe in Lewistown, and then took off to find Kendall. The road is in good repair, as it was used by the gold mine at the old town site before they lost the ability to mine with cyannide leaching and closed down.

There are a few stone walls remaining at the town site, and some holes where the buildings were. The old bandstand is intact. We took pictures, naturally, and Morgan took a video of the cows grazing there. She was as excited by the cows as anything.

On the way, we passed the "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" house that was built last week for a local family. The house is on the Roundup Road. It's said to be 3,400+ sq. ft., and it's nearest neighbors are trailer houses and sheds. The house the family formerly lived in was a converted chicken hatchery, which was likely a good match for the neighbor hood. The new "castle" looks a little out of place.

Wikimeme

The rules:

Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday month and day only. Then post 3 events, 2 births and one holiday that occurred on your birthday.

December 12:
3 Events
1787 - Pennsylvania becomes the 2nd state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1901 - Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
2000 - The United States Supreme Court released its decision in Bush v. Gore
2 Births
1745 - John Jay, 1st Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1829)
1863 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (d. 1944)
1 Holiday
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

People think of more ways to waste time on the internet . . .

It was a little break, I guess.

Hmmm. Almost 2 years since the last posting? I wish I could attribute the lapse to something spectacularly exciting which took over my time -- but no such luck. Perhaps it's just the constant sameness of my life that has me so un-inspired. Ah well, I'll try again.

I have decided to "convert" this blog to more of a hobby blog -- still with some personal, silly stuff, but with more focusing on my hobbies of papercrafting, rubberstamping and knitting.

Here's a sample:
This is an ATC (Artist Trading Card) I made recently for a swap. I used the "seredipity squares" technique, except instead of an inch square, I cut the background to 2.5" x 3.5", standard ATC size.

The images are all Stampington & Co. The raven is stamped on a darker purple, and cut out. I like this stamp set, and I love how this card turned out.