Happy Valentine's Day

Today is Valentines day, but Wayne and I are more excited about the new episode of the Walking Dead!!!
With that in mind, here is the Valentines Day card I made my honey ;)

Wayne surprised me this morning with some flowers and chocolate.
He isn't big on flowers...jewellery, yes, flowers not so much.
I was pretty surprised when I saw him come in with flowers today.
He told me, I figured it has been about 28 years since I last gave you flowers, I thought it was due time, lol.
Actually the first time he had given me flowers was when he proposed and the ring was in one of the roses.
He has got me flowers a couple of times in our 33 yrs together, but today's flowers surprised me more then when he proposed to me, lol.

I hope you all have a wonderful and creative Valentines Day :)
We are having a Walking Dead marathon before the new episode starts....perfect day!!

Tracy :)

Blogger Out of Order, due to Zombies

This blogger has given herself up to the Walking Dead tonight ;)

I have been so excited for tonight…..I can hardly contain myself.
Tonight is the new season of The Walking Dead!!!!
I have been watching the marathon (I can probably recite this show word for word, lol) the last few days and can't wait to see the new episode tonight.
Every Sunday night I watch the new episode, then I watch the Talking Dead, then I re-watch the episode I had just watched…once or sometimes even twice.

Some (like my daughters) may think I'm obsessed….others just get me ;)

I hope you all had a very creative day today :)

Tracy :)

Trick or Treat Banner

I finished the "Trick or Treat" banner I was working on yesterday :)
I love the colours and how fun it is :)

It was from a kit I had purchased at Hobby Lobby when I was in the States.
One thing with working from a kit…Nothing is perfect…or to my standards, lol.
But in the end, it looks great.

I hate to admit this but Heather had to help me with this part.
I have made my own rosette flowers or accordion medallions for years, so when I had to make these ones they confused me.
The strip of paper they supplied was already scored…and not perfectly I might add ;)
But when I fanned it out, it only was 1/2 a rosette?!
So I thought I would cut the paper in half lengthwise and attach them to make the strip longer, then it would make a full circle.
Then Heather came and read the instructions and explained it better.
I had to accordion fold it, pinch the middle (so it looks like a bow tie) then adhere the top edges together and then the bottom 2 edges together.
See a circle :)

After that is complete, then add adhesive (I used my hot glue gun) and adhere the folds in the centre.
I have never made one like this before….see old dogs can learn new tricks ;)

I am really happy with how it turned out.
Now I just have to figure out where to display it ;)
Ashley was also working on a banner today.
She actually hand cut all of her letters out and then came by to use some of my pattern paper to make the base of her banner.
I will share hers on another post as it deserves a post all of its own ;)

Today is Season #3 of the Walking Dead for us.
And here is my attire for today's Season ;)
I think I have run out of Walking Dead shirts now.
We plan on watching Season #4 this week. A little bit each day, until the new Season starts soon.

I hope you all had a very Creative Sunday :)

Tracy :)

A Cup Cake card

Did you know today was World Card Making Day?
I didn't.
Until I went on Facebook and Jennifer from Just Jingle posted it.

Funny thing was I was working on a project…but it wasn't a card, it was a banner.
But I thought to myself, what kind of crafter would I be Not to post a card on my blog on World Card Making Day ;)
So off I went to make a card…..actually I didn't go anywhere as my honey and I are on a Walking Dead marathon kick…so I crafted it in the living room ;)

I used this Penny Black image that I had coloured when Sharon and I went away on our little crafty shopping getaway.
As you can see the paper I used wasn't really meant for Copic markers.
The face colours didn't blend very well, but it is still usable ;)

Sharon had bought me these cupcake brads for my Birthday this year and I wanted to use them on this card.
I thought they would go perfectly with this image and the cupcake paper.
I had first added the strip with the cupcake brads on the left side of the card, but thought it still looked plain.
I then added 3 banners and the cupcake brad, the banner cluster looked a bit weak, so I just kept adding banners and actually like how it looks :)

Here is the inside of the card.
Look, I even used my new stamp that I bought on our creative shopping getaway…Look at me go, using my new supplies!!!

It is day 2 of our Walking Dead marathon.
We have completed Season 2 today:)

Todays outfit consisted of this awesome t-shirt with Daryl Dixon on it and a pair of red and black plaid jammy bottoms.
I got it keep it stylin' you know ;)

I hope you all had a very Creative Saturday :)
I sure did.

Tracy :)