Paper Expressions

4x4 Friend Card Tutorial

 Stamps

• One Smart Cookie
  (set of 12; 111506; $19.95)

Paper

• Whisper White card stock: 2-1/2" x 5/8"
• Pumpkin Pie textured card stock: 2-1/2" x 1"
• Real Red textured card stock: 4" x 4" (finished size)
• Summer Picnic Designer Series paper
  • Old Olive stripes: 2-1/2" x 1/2"
  • Bashful Blue polka dot: 2-1/2" x 3/4"
  • Real Red polka dot/apple: 1" x 1"

Ink

• Bashful Blue Classic Stampin’ Pad
• Old Olive Classic Stampin’ Pad
• Real Red Classic Stampin’ Pad

Accessories & Tools

• A Perfect Day Rub-Ons
• Stampin' Dimensionals

Instructions

1. Stamp "Sweeter than apple pie" in Bashful Blue ink on Bashful Blue polka dot paper. Adhere to Real Red textured card.
2. Apply curlicue Rub-On to Old Olive stripes paper using wood stick included with Rub-Ons assortment. Adhere to card.
3. Stamp three apple images in Old Olive ink and one in Real Red ink on Whisper White card stock. Stamp apple image in Real Red ink on Real Red polka dot/apple paper, and cut out. Adhere over Real Red apple on Whisper White card stock using Stampin’ Dimensionals. Adhere Whisper White card stock to card.
4. Apply "Friend" portion of "Friendship" Rub-On to Pumpkin Pie textured card stock using wood stick included with Rub-Ons assortment. Adhere to card.

Cucumbers, Cucumbers and more Cucumbers!

It's a lovely day here (now)- after rain storm starting at 3:45 am I have not been back to sleep since laying there trying to sleep with the lightening, thunder and rain crashing down! lol

We weeded the last strawberry bed- its in a grow box and is covered with chicken wire to keep the nasty bad squirrels out!  I see some more blooms....  yippee!

I will be using cucumber sticks for the Three different dip tastings at my 4 meals in 4 minutes presentation tomorrow here at the house. We are also tasting Chicken Enchilada soup, cornbread and pecan muffins all using Homemade Gourmet mixes! the dips?  Garlic basil, tropical and mock spinach- are you coming over about 3?

Here is the bounty of the morning!  

  I am also going to make the remaining cucs into cuc chips using my honeys "special recipe". (equal amounts of water and vinegar, then some salt and pepper) and I like to add sliced onion too!

 We pick about this many every 2-3 days!  I have to admit that I have one of Katie's friends coming over every couple days to hunt squirrels (yes it is squirrel season here in Missouri) they are horrid at sabotaging the garden and for me its them or my food and well........ it's them!   I will be out taking some photos of the garden after posting this and I will load them to the garden photo album so be sure to check that and see what is new!

 

hmm battery in camera is dead- when I take kasey to work this evening I will stop and get a new battery so check back tomorrow for the garden photos in the gardening photo album.

 

Wisdom from Grampa

As a scrapbooker, I am constantly on the look out for sayings, quotes etc to add to my pages- here are a few that were emailed to me this week and I knew I just had to share them with you too!

 

 

Whether a man winds up with a nest egg, or a goose egg, depends a lot on the kind of chick he marries.

 

Trouble in marriage often starts when a man gets so busy earnin' his salt that he forgets his sugar.

 

Too many couples marry for better, or for worse, but not for good.

 

When a man marries a woman, they become one; but the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.

 

If a man has enough horse sense to treat his wife like a thoroughbred, she will never turn into an old nag.

 

On anniversaries, the wise husband always forgets the past - but never the present.

 

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know 'why' I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved.

 

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

 

You know you are getting old, when everything either

dries up or leaks.

 

Old age is when former classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald, they don't recognize you.

 

Have a GREAT day.......and keep Laughing!

Decor Elements

Email me your address and I will send you the New brochure! And be sure to check my stamp room photo album for photos added weekly of what I am doing with these amazing vinyl rub ons!

Launching "BRING A SMILE TO A CHILD" Campaign

We are launching the “Bring a Smile to a Child” campaign to support the children and their families who stay at the Ronald McDonald house of the Ozarks.

 

We are asking paper crafters everywhere to make and donate birthday cards and envelopes. They will be distributed to our local Ronald McDonald house in

Springfield

,

Missouri

.  Our goal is to ensure that each Ronald McDonald house of the Ozarks Child, or their family members, receive a card from RM staff on their birthday.

 

Please join us by sending birthday cards with envelopes to:

 

RM Card Campaign

C/o Gwen Mangelson

323 Autumn Circle

Rogersville

,

MO

65742

Feel Free to pas this post along to your other email friends.  Let's light up the lives of these children and their families!