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Hallo,
  I am going to pre-post for this am in hopes of sleeping late :) - DS wants me to go with him to the Bass Pro shop so he can buy a himself a compound bow (he's not 18 yet :) - it will give me a good excuse to pop into Micheals which is almost next door.....I think DH will be out  riding on the Harley today (I go with sometimes but somehow the wind on my face today is not going to work - the puffiness in my face has mostly gone away but....nah I think not).
   I did this card for the current challenge over at Cornish Heritage Farms which is for a 'birthday card or tag' - Now I know at first glance this doesn't look like a birthday card but it is for a friend of a friend who is coming home this week from being deployed and its also his birthday so it does say Happy Birthday also - just on the inside (and I rarely take pics of the inside of the card so I forgot this time too.) Check out the challenge here - www.cornishheritagefarms.blogspot.com

Cornish Heritage Farms has started releaseing the Thomas Kinkade images and this is one of them just release (I had it already from old CHF) it is colored with copics - one of the first ones I have tried with the copics as I usually like the softer look with the pencils.
   I tried for a more masculine look with the wood grain background - I don't know how well the masculine part turned out as this woodgrain DP had a lace edge and flowers on it but I like how it turned out.
   All for today
         Take Care
               Tera

Sip Sip Hooray!!

Hallo,
  Well I am almost human again today - I didn't go to bed as early as I planned - the DH talked me into going out to the driveway and he and DS  blew up some fireworks. (I really hadn't been out of the house except for the ER visit and my Dr. app. in about 3 days - the heat just made the rash and itch way worse.)
  But I did get some decent sleep - almost 6 hours worth - which is not enough for me usually but that's more sleep than I had gotten in the 3 days prior so I am happy!!!! I am not itching near as much but I still look like a bad sunburn gone nuclear!!! 
   So today's card is for the current challenge over at Flourishes for their Timeless Tuesday challenge for 'summer' What says summer better than lemonade?? And I decided to make pink lemonade :)
The stamp is from the 'On the porch' set and colored with copics. I fiddled for about 20 minutes or so trying different papers for behind the lemonade - longer than I usually fiddle....I wanted some of each - pink, yellow and turquoise in it and I wanted something bright and cheery too. I have no idea who this paper is from - it has been in my stash probably for 6/7 years now.....
   I paper punched a bit of a tag punch at the top and stamped the phrase in the blank spot - saw that somewhere recently but cannot remember where.... and then added a few rhinestones, including a tiny pink one on the top of the stir thingy in the lemonade jar :) (yup, my brain is still a bit on da loopy side....).
   Check out the challenge over at Flourishes - www.flourishes.org/blog/
    Have a great weekend!!!!
          Tera

Discover

Hallo,
  Well I can finally say that I think this allergic reaction thing has turned a corner - 8pm thusday night - 3 days of wanting to claw my skin off (now I am just itchy-and parts of the rash are starting to have tiny blisters and dry out like a peeling
sunburn - very attractive - is that all that a bit TMI??)
I called this am for a clinic appointment but couldn't get one till about 1 in the afternoon - by the time I got there there my face was swollen, red and I was very red on my neck and arms too - the P.A. took one look and just said 'WOW' - so needless to say she put me on a round of steroids and I can already feel a difference - although I am still taking both the anti-itch medicines and therefore still groggy/loopy - so if this post gets silly you know why. :)

OK  - lucky I had a few images colored  and  saved up because I  haven't been able to focus on anything very long .
  I used an image from Mo's Digital pencil - colored with prismacolor pencils.  A really simple layout - main image and the next layer both cut with a Spellbinders label die - the second layer is the same red as on the pail and there is a touch of that red on the sailboats on his hat too.
  I am entering him in this weeks challenge over at Mo's which is anything goes...  www.mosdigitalchallenge.blogspot.com

   All for today!!! I am off to bed as I can feel the benadryl kicking in and maybe it will last long enough for me to get more than an hour sleep tonight :)
   Take Care
         Tera

Steam punk vase

 Hallo,
   Coming to you live today from the ITCH factory!!! I am obviously allergic to a medication I took yesterday - I  feel like just clawing my skin off!!! I was up most of the night and finally about 4 am took myself to the ER on base. So far not much luck, still itching like crazy, the anti-itch drugs make me spacey but are not enough to let me sleep - I guess I will ride out the night and try to get an appointment at the clinic in the am - or maybe it will clear up by then!!!
  Meanwhile  lets see if I can sit still long enough to tell you about this cool vase. This is the steam punk version of the one earlier in the week. I used a red satin table runner with some pretty stitching and flowers on it and covered the vase with it.
   The image is a stamp from Sweet Pea Stamps - colored with copics and glued on with gel medium ( drys nice and clear).
   Next I sprayed it with several coats of acrylic sealer to make it more durable.
   The part that took me the longest was the chain. I had found the chain at Micheals about a month ago and the gears last week at A.C. Moore - so I strung gear and bead charm combinations all along the chain and then wrapped it around the vase - glueing it in place with chrystal laquer(also dries clear).
   I plan to enter her in this months challenge over at 'One Sweet Challenge' - www.onesweetchallenge.blogspot.com

Well all for me right now - look for the pirate version of this vase to come .....
  Take Care
       Tera

Redneck Birdhouse

 Hallo,
    Posting just real quick today - trying to get in some serious time in the craft room!!! :)
   Todays project is a decorative birdhouse made from a book and foam board.
  For this one I used a redneck joke book - the cover is the roof and I used pages from the book to decorate the sides and bottom .
   I inked the edges with red ink as it was looking a bit more white than I wanted. I then trimmed the sides and edges with a thin twine and used the twine to make the 'hole' for the bird.
   I did some yard work this am so the 'perch' is a piece of a stick from my yard. I used more twine for the hanger part and added a little grasshopper to the roof.

All for today - Take Care and have a greath 4th of July (I am thinking of going to the beach for a bit but I have to work tomorrow night so it won't be for but a couple hours)
   Tera

Mermaid Vase

 Hallo,
   Just a fun little project for you today. I took a plain vase and covered it with material cut from a red satin table runner (it was long enough to do 3 so you will see 2 more versions eventually).
   I colored up this sweet mermaid from Sweet Pea Stamps and framed her with gold mettalic paper using a Spellbinders die.
   I then added some sticky beads and beaded trim and then sealed it all with about 4 coats of acrylic sealer just to make it a bit more durable.
  I am going to entere her in the current challenge over at 'One Sweet Challenge' which is to use stitching - the material I used had some great embroidery just to the one side of the satin flowers. Check out the challenge here - www.onesweetchallenge.blogspot.com

   All for today - Take Care
        Tera

Come home soon!!!

Hallo,
   Showing you a card today made for a challenge from one of my Favoritist stamp companies - My Favorite Things.
   This sketch was for their current Guest Design Team challenge so if I win I would get to play with all the crazy talented ladies of the My Favorite Things Design Team for a month - not to mention the lovely stash of goodies too!!!
  I just got this set from MFT recently - called 'Godspeed' I had the idea to layer him onto some DP with flags on it but would you believe in all my stash I had none!!!!
      So I stamped him and colored him with copics and then made the stripes by hand behind him, and then edged that layer with gold mettalic pen.
  I layered the main piece to a texture patterned blue and then to the red card base - I had origionally envisioned some big gold stars down the left side but alas, another thing lacking in my stash (at least where I could get to them.....can you say thrift store/garage sale addict with found treasure stacked in front of 2 sets of drawers.....)Sooooo - I used a texture folder of bricks for the base cardstock and then sponged on a bit of walnut stained ink to show off the texture a bit more.

On to my banner - again my stash is lacking - the banner dies from MFT are on my wish list but I seem to always have a long list of stamps I want first.....BUT  I did have some postage stamps with flags on them and found some brads shaped like stars (which were copper so I used a gold mettalic pen on them) and I think it made a rather cool banner!!!
  Last but not least I used a phrase from the same set, and 2 more stars. My kiddos would always tell my hubby to come home soon so when I saw that phrase it made me smile :)
   Alrighty I had best take myself away from the computer now and get a nap in before heading off to work tonight.
   Have  great weekend!!!!
      Tera