Still Crazy

My best friend Pat is celebrating her 22nd Wedding Anniversary in a few days. We've known each other since we were in strollers. Our mothers used to walk us together. She lived across the street from me. We've remained the best of friends through all these years. I love both her and her husband, John. They are great people.
I wanted to make something funny for them. I had an idea in my head, but it didn't execute like I imagined it.
The back ground paper is glossy white paper. I sponged it with 3 different blues, and then stamped the trees with craft ink and them embossed the trees with clear ep.
I used SU neighborhood wheel and cut out 2 houses, colored them in and attached them with dimensionals. Mr. Billingsworth has lasooed Edna Yells and is taking her away. They're still crazy about each other after all these years!
Enjoy
Smiles :)
Lorraine



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An uninvited guest

My husband and I got an invitation in the mail, but it's not really an invitation to a party. Very strange! LOL! ok, here's the story. We get this invitation informing us of our friends 5oth birthday, and how they are going on vaka with friends and relatives to celebrate his birthday, and while we are not invited to attend the festivities, we are asked to please send a card so that we can be there in spirit. This came from our friends wife, and i don't think our friend knows anything about this request because I'm supposed to send the card to a third party. I think it's very odd, don't you? or am I taking this the wrong way??? But hey, everyone needs a birthday card, and since it is for his 50th I decided to participate!
I immediately thought of Mr. Billingsworth from Eat Cake Graphics. And since i'm still in the patriotic mood he's red, white and blue. ON the inside of the card i used a sentiment from ECG. It reads...It's important to keep an open mind. But not so open that your brains fall out.... and then in very small print i wrote happy birthday. I thought that that was perfect! LOL.
My janome sew mini still had red thread in it so I went to town. However I did discover that you cannot sew through 9 layers of card stock. who knew? lol! It will jam the machine.
See you around!
Smiles :)
Lorraine
PS...don't forget about the blog candy in my previous post. Your going to love it!

Granny Gertz & Edna Yells

Granny Gertz went to the beauty salon today and had her hair done. You know the senior special....the infamous "Blue Rinse". She is all dolled up and on a roll. be careful if you bump into her, even though she's all dolled up she is still one cranky old broad....She came home from the Salon and just had to check herself out in the bathroom mirror. Well, Edna was not too thrilled with Granny...Granny kept saying one minute and Edna was kept waiting...hopefully they'll make up and be friends again!

Falling in love with a cranky granny!

wow, I finally discovered Eat Cake Graphics and just love the images and sayings. I've been playing a litte today with Granny Gertz. She is a cranky old broad! LOL! Thanks for looking!

The first card is for my friend Pat, who is about to have a birthday. the outside of the card says... don't go getting your panties in a wad.... and the inside says,... so have a happy birthday. I wanted to make her a little wild so I used some animal print ribbon, from M's and stamped the close to cocoa cs with chocolate chip and used a leopard print. then i used my brand new stickles and stickled her purse and buttons.

the second card was created using some unknown dp paper that i have had for a very long time. i think it came from hsn or qvc on one of the midnight madness scrapbooking events, and well i just had to have it, even though i have never scraped! lol

Granny dressed up for the second time out today. she has on her glitter socks, glitter glasses, feather boa around her neck and reached for her crystal purse before setting out. She could care less about wrinkles. Maybe we should all be a little more like Granny Gertz!