I'm never satisfied

I was to do a new technique and use it on a card.
Sponge three colors of ink onto white cardstock, then clear heat emboss whole piece.  I'm ok to this point. When I applied heat, it looked nice until I noticed several spots that were missed with the powder. I fix this little problem using my VersaMark pen, more EP and heat.  I am  not loving this technique. Surfing the net, I found the perfect embellishments to make for my card. A shirt. I found a card that was really nice and  loved the idea of using a shirt on the front of my card. She gave wonderful directions using Simply Charmed cartridge and the Cricut. But my shirt didn't look at nice as her shirt Anyway I put it on my newly made heat embossed paper, applied everything and had a complete card. My card looked horrible!

No, this isn't the first or even the second card I made, and tho I played around with the Cricut shirt for a long time,  I ended up making an origami shirt for my card. In fact, I made several before I got one that I liked, then proceeded to misplace it so I had to make another. I love the little origami shirt and  I like the background I made but  being super critical of my work, I just don't like this card. Sorry Terry, but I'm sending it anyway.
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Its been a while since I have entered into a challenge and color challenges are my nemesis. I have entered this card in the Hiding in my Craft Room  HIMCR #48 which is to use red, kraft and white. The red that I chose along with the kraft made me think of Autumn. I also had the gold leaves that are above and below the sentiment that I needed to use on a card. The lines on the border leaves is clear heat embossed. It didn't turn out very embossed, but it shows, which is what I wanted. This card is also my card for the mystery swap at SSSD. They mystery item being the four gold leaves. I also put a larger gold leaf on the inside of the card. 
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Bald Eagles

Isn't he beautiful? Don't really know if this is mom or dad, but both parents are equally beautiful. I have been watching this nest, which is in Decorah, Iowa, via live webcam. The eaglets are developing nicely, and at eight weeks, they are nearly as big as their parents, soon they will begin flight instruction. It is so cute to see them spread their wings and hop up and down in the nest.
I belong to a computer club and someone brought in the address for this webcam. I am so glad they did, it has been very interesting watching the eaglets and learning about the American Bald Eagle.  If you would like to see these eaglets in action, you can see them here.
I wanted to post about the eaglets and I wanted a picture of an adult eagle, but hesitated using any pictures I found on the internet, and there are some beautiful ones. So I got out my camera, and took a picture of my monitor  (during upstream) while a parent eagle was on the nest. Go on over and see them for yourself and then come back and let me know what you think. Thank you for stopping by.

May color of the month

The colors for May are: Riding hood red, Wild wasabi, So saffron and Soft suede.

Someday I am going to figure out how to put a link in so that I can offer this challenge to anyone that may stop by. I don't sell anything, I can't give away any prizes, I just think it would be fun to throw out the challenge and let things fall where they may.

Anyway, this is my card for the color of the May month challenge/swap. I'm not happy with these buttons, but they are the only ones I have. I may hold the card and check with my rep, to see if she can "loan" me buttons. I think I'm gonna have to stock up on SU buttons. Especially in the Brights and Regals. So to the lady that gets this card, it may be a little late just because of the buttons.

The sketch for this is from another swap which is always challenging to me. We are told the sizes and shapes of the layers and we build a sketch using those layers. This, however, isn't the card that gets sent in that swap. It is the same, except the other one has red buttons.

I hope the two ladies that get these cards like them.
Take care

Oh me oh my

I am very frustrated at blogger and google. I can visit blogs, but I can't leave a comment on them. It wants me to "sign in" but it won't let me. If I try to comment using my name and url, it deletes my comment. I even tried using anonymous. Poor Lisa, if she is screening them, she may have a dozen from me.
Not a happy camper

PS  I can post to my blog from my laptop, but I can't make a comment on anyone's blog from my laptop.
Anyone have any ideas?

April Colors of the Month

Colors for April were Night of Navy, Daffodil Delight, Cherry Cobbler and Old Olive. I know most of you would never put these colors together, but I found that they can be very pretty together.

Have you ever had something in your head and you have to do it no matter what? When I started planning this card, I had something in mind and the focal point was to be the doily. I wanted the yellow on the blue. I then needed to figure out how to put the green and red on it and make it attractive. I liked what I had before I added the butterflies, but...
As I sit here looking at this card, I see my mistake. I should have made the card smaller.
In case you can't tell, I still haven't found my creativity, so any suggestions for future reference would be greatly appreciated.  I like the doily and the butterflies and I want to use them again.
The doily is cut with the SU Large Paper Doily sizzlit and the print on the butterflies is also cut from the doily sizzlit. I saw the butterflies done like this in one of the catalogs I think. In any case, it wasn't my idea originally.

I have been very lazy lately. Actually I lost my mojo, whatever that is. When people can't seem to create, they say they lost their mojo. Well, I have been in a non-creative place for a couple of months now. Since I haven't been here for quite a while, I will fill you in on some things. In March I took a vacation; no housework, no cooking, no kids, no responsibilities except for myself.

We drove down to Galveston, TX twice and spent the better part of both days there. Went shopping along the Strand, visited the exhibit "The Body Revealed" at Moody Gardens and had lunch at a little place called Eatcetra. food was delicious.

I went to Galveston with my camera and took pictures of ab-so-lutely nothing!! Oh, the pictures you see, well I took them a couple of years ago with my phone. That time I didn't take my camera to Galveston and I really should have.

In September 2008, Hurricane Ike roared through Galvestion and left so much devastation. The salt water from the storm surge killed thousands of trees.The pictures on the left are tree sculptures that were carved out of some of the dead trees. My pictures do not do them justice.

The woman in the bottom picture had a note on her requesting donations. I don't remember what the donation request was for..  

 We didn't take time to drive around Galveston this year, so I didn't get any new pictures. I'm putting that on my list of things to do next year.

I hope you enjoy the pictures I took. At the web address below, you can see more of these sculptures, including the three I have posted here. It also gives the addresses of the carvings.

http://www.slideshare.net/rangatang/galveston-tree-carving