Simply Deneen

Just a quick card...

This card was made a few weeks ago when my prior foster daughter Lexie was here with us for a visit.  She wanted to make a card for her brother and sister for their birthdays and this is the card I came up with for her sister.  Lexie was so cute I would show her how to do part of the card and then she would do it on her's.  Wish I would have taken a picture of her's so you could see how it came out.  She is 9 1/2 years old and she did a great job I swear it really looked very close to this one of mine.  This was just fun and basis and actually very fast and everything was made with scraps now who wouldn't love that LOL.

If I get brave I will post the photo of myself that I asked my daughter to take this morning LOL but that is a big IF!!!!

Until next time!

Thank You Card

I have been spending some time over at the Hero Arts flicker group just looking through the many great card idea's and I kept noticing that several of the cards that I was drawn too were by Ashley Marcu.  While I was looking through her flicker card photo's I saw this card HERE and decided to base my next card on her design and here is what I came up with.

Tim Holtz Distress Inks by Ranger – Scattered Straw

    Broken China

Stamps by Hero Arts – Artistic Windows LP128

    Clear Design All Occasion Messages CL272

Flower, sparkle gems, gemstones and note cards all by Hero Arts

Until Next Time!

Blue Bird...

I have been playing with my new silhouette and some of the techniques I have learned from the very talented Jennifer McGuire's Thinking Inking Classes over at Two Peas In Bucket and the results of some of that playing you see below.  I cut the bird and the grass using the silhouette and white cardstock I then used Distress Ink's by Ranger to ink both the grass and the bird.  Once both were inked I used a paint brush to flick water onto the bird to get the results you see here.  I used a Hero Arts rubber stamp for the sentiment and also for the card base.

Until Next time! 

Gift Cards

I have seen some cute idea's for making gift card holders and really have wanted to try them since I seem to give a lot of gift cards for gifts these days.  Friday I started to make a card and didn't really like they way it was coming out and then I remembered an idea I had seen to cute your standard cards in half so I thought what the heck and ended up making two cards from one.  I also decided to try and make my own gift card holder type card out of one of them and this is what I came up with.

And here is the inside that holds the gift card.

And here is what I did with the other half of the card.  I love the way you can see cracks in the butterfly wings from the ultra thick embossing enamal, although they don't show up in the photo very well.

 

All stamps, gems and card bases are from Hero Arts. Ultra Thick Embossing Enamal is from Ranger.

I will be back in the next few days with some more card shares.

Until Next time...

Another Birthday

I feel bad that I didn't post this on the 18th because that's the day that my beautiful Kayley turned 18.  She is still just as crazy as when she was little and here is a perfect example of what I mean by that.

And here is a picture of her cake she made for her birthday (it's tradition in our house to bake your own cake).

I just love this kid LOL!  What did she want this year for her birthday you ask?  A trip to the beach and so she got her wish.  Here are just a few photo's from this fun filled day.

Kayley & her BFF Ashley

Holly, Amanda, Kayley, Ashley & Heather

Kayley & Amanda being brave and getting wet!

Kayley & boyfriend Aaron

The cool light house at the beach we went to

This is the hole that Aaron started and then after he had gotten it about 4 feet deep Little Ashley helped him out and they ended up making around 6 feet deep.

Around the top is Rachel, Kayley, Ashley, Joshua, Holly, Amanda & Heather.  In the hole is Aaron and Little Ashley (we call her little Ashley because we know so many Ashley's and she was the littlest when she first got the nickname from us.

This was one of my favorite photo's from the day.  I had to edit it a little so you could see her face.

And it's not too often I get a good picture of these two together so I just had to share it LOL.

his is little Ashley after she had been riding some waves.

And here is one of Holly, Little Ashley & Heather!

All in all we really had a fun time at the beach can't wait to go again there is just something about the fresh air and the smell of an ocean breeze.

Until Next time!

Feeling Pretty Darned Lucky...

I have to admit I am feeling so very lucky right about now, I won a prize over on the Hero Arts new blog.  They are such and incredibly great company and the best part is all their stamps are made in the USA.  Love their products and really wish I was one of their designers LOL.  Such fun I will have to start posting some of the projects I end up doing with my fun new stamps.

Today is my oldest daughter's birthday, Misty turns 22 today.  Happy Birthday baby girl and yes you will always be my baby!

Until Next time...

Hey did you hear?

 

One of my very favorite companies Hero Arts is launching a new site on wednesday this week.  They have all sorts of fun planned for this week starting today so head on over and check them out.  You will get a ton of inspiration from their site and did I mention that their stamps are made in the USA!  And don't forget to join in the fun there are some fantastic prizes as well!  You can find the Hero Arts blog HERE.

Until next time!

 

Surprise....

On my Birthday I was surfing the internet and of course that meant a stop at the Making Memories Blog.  While I was there they had a little contest going on and all you had to do was leave a comment about why you deserved to win.  I left my comment although I said I didn't know if I deserved it or not but it was my birthday.  Well I was one of the lucky winners and my prize package arrived today.

 

There is a ton of great stuff for card making and then see over there on the left?  Those are the wall stickers so I can spell out pretty much what ever I want.  I still can't believe I won or how much stuff they sent me but then again that Making Memories is one great company!

Until next time

Photo Fun

I have been taking advantage of the Free class over at JessicaSprague.com and so far have been having a lot of fun with it.  I always enjoy learning new things and refreshing up on things I have learned before.  Here are a few photo's that I have been playing with during this class so far.  Today is day 4 of the class but I have not started on it yet.

 

Day one we learned to add a frame to our photo and also some word art!

 

Day two we learned a little about brushes and adding them to our photo's.

  

Day three we learned to add hand tinting to our photo's.  I added some color to my subjects cheeks and lips.  This was really a very cool technique.

 

As an added bonus to day three we were told to add a frame around our photo and then us the brush tool to create some fun stars on our picture.  If you look close you will see I added the stars behind my subjects head.

 

This is the original photo before I desaturated it and then hand tinted it just thought it would be fun to share so you can see the difference.  Hand tinting gives your photo's a very vintage feel and I think it will be cool to use occassionally although I don't know how often I would use it. But still glad I learned how.

Ok so I am off to go and view my lesson for day four.

I am back I know that was pretty quick right? 

 

Day four and you see that cool grunge border around my photo that was created with a clipping mask, so much fun and really easy too.  It doesn't get much better than that.

Until next time.

The Wait is over

That's right I finally received my birthday package from the UPS guy on July 2nd and I was so very excited to find out I am now the proud owner of the Quickutz Silhouette SD.

 

I have been so excited and couldn't wait to play with it but I had to get ready for our big annual 4th of July party so it had to wait.  I will post soon with some fun new creations. 

Until Next time....

Patiently waiting...

Ok maybe not so patiently LOL.  My birthday was monday June 29th and my sweet husband gave me a very nice card and told me to watch for the UPS man, well that was monday it is now Wednesday night and I am still waiting but I have been assured it will be worth the wait so maybe tomorrow.  I did get a package in the mail on monday from my mom Jeanne, she bought me my own i-pod touch it's the latest and greatest in the world of i-pods and might I add very addicting.

In other news a very good friend of mine is having some medical problems and needs prayers, I won't put her name on here because I have not asked her permission but God knows who she is and what she needs so please pray for her.

I have been really busy cleaning and getting ready for the big 4th of July celebration we are going to have here at the house.  My very sweet husband is painting the girls bathroom a very cool shade of green that I picked out. 

I have still been having fun learning stuff in photo shop.  Here is the before and after photo of Misty and to get the after photo I only have to do one simple click of the mouse how cool is that!

 

Until next time......I will be patiently waiting!