Friday, June 5, 2009

My Favorite Gardener

My power went out just as I was finishing this card so I’m typing in the dark.  I’m sure glad I’m not a hunt and peck typist but I’m making quite a few mistakes anyway.  Thank goodness for Live Writer because I can type the post and then upload it when the power comes back on.  Hopefully soon!

My Favorite Gardner

 

Since one of my favorite things is gardening, when I got this stamp in the mail today I had to use it right away.  I made this card to send to a friend who also likes gardening and hasn’t been able to so I hope she likes it.

 

 

My Favorite Gradener inside

 

I also decorated the inside with the same papers and the seed packages again.  The power went off exactly at the same time as I was reaching for the camera to take pictures of my card.

 

The stamps are from My Favorite Things and I colored her with Prismas and gamsol.  The DP is the DCWV Green stack.

I used the sketch from Inspirational Card Sketches.  The Lili of the Valley and the Cafe Mojo challenge is summer fun (gardening is definitely one of the fun things I like to do in the summer) and the Double Dutch Dare challenge is to decorate the inside.

Now that I’ve said all that, I’m sitting here in the dark wondering what to do next!  I went to Joanns today and bought a pattern and fabric to make a dress for my niece’s wedding.  I wanted something in cotton that would be cool and comfortable and they didn’t have much.  However, I did find the perfect fabric but it was expensive.  It has embroidery on it so it was $12.99 a yard (the dollar sign was really hard to find in the dark hehe).  It was on sale for 50% off but I need over 5 yards.  Oh well, I really love it.

My puppy doesn’t have any problem seeing in the dark.  She’s chasing the cat around scaring me to death ‘cause I can’t see her.  We had a big thunderstorm today with a lot of power outages.  I guess that’s what is going on but the weather is great now!  I don’t know what could have happened.  I guess I’ll play a computer game for a while and if it doesn’t come back on, I’ll go to bed.  I’m having a hard time seeing the screen since my laptop is running on battery and it’s dark in the house.

I guess I’ve bored you enough with my bored ramblings.  It almost feels like I have company here in my dark home when I’m typing this.  I’ll try really hard not to edit this too much before I post it so you all can see what I’m like when I’m in the dark and bored. (I just fixed a few typos and I’m publishing my ramblings from last night – hehe.)

Talk to ya later!

Blessings,

Christine

3 comments:

Danni said...

Goodness! Hope that the power is on and stays on!
Love what you did with this card. I've had this set for a while but haven't used it as I just didn't have any ideas for it!
Great job!

Kitty said...

Your cards are soooooo cool! you are one crafty, cool chick!

Nicola said...

Ooh this is a beautiful image Christine and your colouring is super. Love those papers and pretty ribbon.
Hugs,
Nicola -x-